14 My Valkyrie's Back!

On its carcass, a faint black aura still remained. 'It seems that I'm lucky, most of its will is still here.' Monster carcasses that have auras are a sign that over 85% of their soul remains in their bodies. This would mean that he would receive a great amount of inheritance. He felt happy too that thanks to Eternal Death, its remaining will is already controlled by the sword. He does not need to fight any remaining will to absorb its soul.

According to the books he read, for one to absorb a soul, one must be not more than a meter away from the target's carcass. He walked closer to the carcass and sat down crosslegged two feet away from the monster's black form. As he sat down, the black aura started rushing towards him like a river. The black aura dissappeared into his body upon contact and power started to flow inside of him. His mind is suddenly filled with clips of memories coming from the beast. Millions of pictures and clips of memory flooded his mind. His once clear mind is filled with a surge of memories.

He learned from the memories that the monster has almost broken through triple mutation but failed due to the lack of energy from its surroundings to absorb. It explained why it was so oddly powerful because Sebastian is a powerhouse capable of defeating Immortal-10 rank beings. He should only be subpar compared to Eternal-1 ranked beings but not easily overwhelmed. Even with double mutation, it shouldn't be that powerful.

The memories also gave him an insight of all the things that it had witnessed and controlled in the Regarus forest. Treasures, resources and even hidden locations are covered in its memories. The process of memory addition and power absorption took only five minutes of his time. His compatibility with it is unexpectedly high. 'Well that's unexpected.' He thought. He originally guessed that it should take around twenty minutes or more to fully absorb its soul. 'I think it might be Death's Origin.' He looked down at the black sword on his right hand with curiosity.

'This sword appears to have hidden functions. I should use it more often. Who knows what I'll find.' When the black aura has been fully absorbed, a brilliant golden glow appeared from his chest, brightening the dark, silent night. The glow quickly disappeared and 4 prompts appear in his head.

Congratiulations! You have received the skill, "Corruption Thunder"

• Corruption Thunder

Effect: Coats the user's weapon(s) with red lightning, every time the user blocks an attack, 1-3 bolts of red lightning will strike out from the blade and attack the enemy. Lightning bolts deal 120% lightning and dark damage, 25% chance to spread to other enemies within a 3m range.

Channeling Time: None

Cooldown: 3 minutes

Active Period: 1 minute

Congratulations! You have received the skill, "Earthquake Stomp"

• Earthquake Stomp

Effect: User stomps the ground to deal 70% damage to all enemies within a 3 mile radius. All targets hit have a 35% chance to being disoriented for 3 seconds.

Channeling Time: 1 second

Cooldown: 4 minutes

Active Period: 3 seconds

Congratulations! You have received the skill, "Tyrant Thunder Frenzy"

• Tyrant Thunder Frenzy

Effect: Summons 7-14 red lightning bolts from the user every second for 5-8 seconds to strike targets and cause 60% lightning and darkness damage for every lightning bolt.

Channeling Time: 4 seconds

Cooldown: 9 minutes

Active Period: 5-8 seconds

Congratulations! You have received the skill, "Slaughtering Rush"

• Slaughtering Rush

Effect: User dashes for up to 60m at any direction within a split second, hitting all enemies that are up to 4m away from the user. All enemies hit will receive 200% damage and be knocked back by at least 1m.

Channeling Time: None

Cooldown: 6 minutes

Active Period: 0.5 seconds

He checked out the skills and felt rather happy of the skills he got. They would be useful against any enemy he faced that would use zerg tactics or numbers to overwhelm him. After he closed the skill prompt, another prompt appears.

Congratulations! You have elevated your rank for the first time. Services by your Valkyrie will now be available.

'Services by my Valkyrie?' He had only dirty thoughts of Hirani giving him certain "services" to him for a few seconds before a familiar voice echoed in his head, 'Hey pervert, did you forget that I can read minds?' He is startled and managed to laugh nervously before asking, 'Hirani, that's you right?' The voice replied with an annoyed tone, 'Yes its me pervert.' He is more afraid as she might set a trap to get revenge.

'Oh Crap, she saw my thoughts. Is there any way to keep her from reading all of my mind. I hope she doesn't plan revenge.' The voice chuckled in his head and replied in an amused tone, "Relax, I won't plan any revenge. It's against the rules for Valkyries to plot revenge or traps against their hosts no matter how much of an as*hole they are. Also, since you are one of the people with common sense, yes you can block some parts of your brain from my access.' He felt a slight relief hearing that and instantly asked her to block most parts of his mind from her access.

'So how's your city?' She asked. 'It's about to finish soon in about 3 hours. I'll be back before then.' He replied. Due to his duties as the city's ruler, he is to attend its opening and give a few remarks to the new citizens. He jogged back towards the city, but since he's a vampire and also the first one, his jogging easily matched the speed of cars. In an hour, he had jogged back to the cliffs separating the forest and the city.

He jumped down and entered the city, he walked his way towards the city hall and found all of his servants waiting there. "Hello Master, you've finally arrived." Theresa greeted. The other servants turned to look at him and said their simple greetings before Gusion approached him and explained, "Since you're the city's ruler, you will have to do an opening remark to the people. Just something simple, I, Skadia and Theresa will be doing the rest for you."

He nodded and Gusion left back to the group to continue the discussion. Theresa invited him to join but he politely declined to see how his city turned out to be, he had only 2 hours to do sightseeing undisturbed. He walked around the city in a slow manner, admiring all the buildings within the city. The city still had thousands of empty plots, he had told Hirani to save them so he could sell them to organizations, nobles or kings from within or beyond the country.

He planned to make this city as the starting point of his kingdom, so he planned to attract as much attention as possible because attention meant profits. Since the city is still a part of the Agareth kingdom, 20% of its profit went to the royal family of the kingdom. If the city becomes highly profitable, he would earn much money and favorability with the royal family. With their favorability towards him, he would easily be elevated to a Duke, a status only second to the royal family's members.

With the title of Duke, he would be able to establish a large city that could support up to 1 million people. A big upgrade from the current 500,000 people limit. As a Duke, he could upgrade the current Bloodthorn city to twice its size and earn at least 4 times more profit. With this, accumulating enough money to form a kingdom won't take much time. After 2 hours of sightseeing and formulating his long term plans, Gusion alerted him that it's time for the city's opening and he told him to head to the entrance.

Sebastian used his vampiric speed and arrived in the entrance in just a few seconds. His servants arrived one by one three seconds later. As the sun rises from the horizon, three stone gates, tens of yards away, glowing blue runes started appearing on the gates. The surrounding mana rushed in between the arched gates and a tear in space expanded until it touched the inner surface of the arched stone gates. As the tear faded to near transparency, various people started to emerge. The first citizens of his city and soon, his kingdom.