Ch.166 Inheritor of the Sin of Pride?

*FLASH*

As the Abomination continued to grow, the giant Blue Tribulation Circle above gave its first pulse, signifying the start of its energy gathering. 2 more pulses and the Abomination would be forced to withstand the attack of the first Tribulation Light or die.

30 seconds later

*FLASH*

The energy gathering speed for the Slime Abomination’s Tribulation was multiple times faster than what Eridel had experienced in his own Tribulation, but that was to be expected. His Tribulation Circle had been more than double the size of his planetary body in order to be capable of dealing with him, the amount of energy it needed to reach saturation was too high, which was much to Eridel’s benefit. Who knows if he would even still be standing here without such long intervals.

Unfortunately, the Slime Abomination would not enjoy such benefits.

40 seconds later

*FLASH*

“...!” Eridel.

“GAOOOOOOOO!” The Slime Abomination let out a roar of fury and disdain as it instinctively sensed the judgement coming from the Tribulation above. But before it could even make sense of what it was feeling and why it was feeling that.

BAAAAAAAAAAAANG!

A blue blinding ray of light descended from the ceiling of the cave as if it were an illusion, and then slammed into the Slime Abomination with the impact of a shooting star.

“EIIIYAAAAAAHGHHHH!!!!!” The Slime Abomination let out a terrified scream of pain as chunks of its slime evaporated in an instant. This was without a doubt, the most damage that the Slime Abomination had ever suffered in its entire life. After all, even before it became an Abomination, it had been ridiculously lucky enough to never encounter a being that could contend with it, and that was why it had even managed to rise to the 3rd Stage of the First Realm in the first place.

But it was this exact blind luck that was putting it in this predicament in the first place. The harvesting of Fortune was something that would always end up in suffering, and now was Fate’s time to collect.

Meanwhile, Eridel was looking on with amusement. Despite the terrific damage that was done, it wasn’t something that the Slime Abomination’s grotesque physique couldn't recover from, especially since it was still being flooded with Magical Energy. He was having high hopes. But he couldn’t help but idly wonder what would happen if the Slime Abomination also had a Soul to be targeted as well.

Perhaps, in that scenario… This would have been the end of the Abomination of the North.

The fact that the Slime Abomination didn’t have a Soul was actually the reason that Eridel originally didn’t give up all hopes of having an Anomaly Abomination. After all, other than Gaia who had her own Soul Cultivation technique, and the Phoenix of Envy whose Soul was unfairly upgraded alongside his body and energy by the Essences of Envy, nobody else on the Planet (other than a few special people like Ciera who had obtained memories from Eridel) even knew what a Soul was, talk less of having the ability to train it.

The minute upgrades to the Soul that they received in every of their Essence Cultivation breakthroughs was absolutely not enough. A Blue Tribulation light would have dissipated their defenceless Souls so quickly that they wouldn’t even know it when they died.

Luckily, the Slime Abomination didn’t even have a Soul to be attacked.

Eridel raised his right hand and then clenched his first as if he was squeezing something. In the next moment, something in his hand seemed to explode and golden light engulfed the entire cave. When the light had gone, he along with the Slime Abomination were nowhere to be found.

However, not even a blink later, both Eridel and the Abomination had reappeared on the land above the cave with another flash of light. They had teleported.

Having noticed that sooner or later the Abomination would become too big to fit inside of the cave, Eridel had taken the first opportunity to relocate the Abomination to the outside world, allowing them both to directly witness the terrific beauty of the Blue Tribulation Circle and the peerlessly white Tribulation Cloud that surrounded it.

Another benefit to this was that the Abomination could now see what was attacking it and do its best to defend itself. This was the most that Eridel could do to help the Abomination, and it was only possible because the Tribulation Light had just been fired and it was currently on cooldown. If he so much as pushed the Abomination even if the Tribulation Circle was just in its pulsing phase, then he would have been in deep trouble.

Eridel sighed as a mild feeling of helplessness took hold of him for the first time in a long while. But he wasn’t going to dwell on that. For now, he was going to take this short moment of reprieve to focus on a few other things. The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse for example.

They were doing quite well and thanks to his connection to them, he could monitor whatever they were doing at all times. Currently, the Creature of Conquest had already developed a Soul and it had been fully confirmed that she was female. But this was to be expected, her personality was built on the foundations of the memories she had absorbed and it seemed that the first meal that she had ever had (the purple skinned Eonixian girl), had left the biggest imprint.

The other Horsemen were doing pretty well and they were increasing their strengths very quickly, but it would take them a longer while before they could catch up with their Eldest sister and form their own Souls.

Eridel also gave cursory glances to people like the girls he had marked in the Yamelon High World and other creatures in his own World who he had high hopes for. He already had guesses for the entities who he thought might be taking 5 of the 6 remaining deadly sins, but he couldn’t find anyone on the planet that was worthy of inheriting the Sin of Pride. The High Human Empress had mellowed the more knowledgeable she became of the world, and people like the Crying Ghost had critical flaws that barred them from the Sin of Pride.

Eridel himself wouldn’t be able to inherit Pride even if he was capable of bearing a Sin. After all, it was very hard to be as intelligent as he was, and genuinely think that he was the number 1 unparalleled being in existence, greater than the Universe itself. But It was that kind of… retarded thinking, that was just 1 of the requirements of inheriting the Sin of Pride. Which was why he and the High Human Empress would never be eligible.

Eridel rolled his eyes. Whether or not an inheritor of Pride would be born, he already had his hands full with other things and didn’t need to think about it. Especially not right now.

1.5 minutes later

*FLASH*

The Second Tribulation Light had begun to charge.