Chapter 207: Continuous Improvement

Darcel looked around his current scenery with mild surprise nestling in his soul from body eyes. He was now in Leader Kyrha's soulscape space, and there were immediate, surprising changes here.

Darcel had expected his Darkness Essence nearly taking over her whole soulscape, drowning out most of Leader Kyrha's blue Ice essence. 

But what he hadn't expected were shimmering light spots of a green hue.

When invading Leader Karis and Zillah's soulscape space simultaneously, there weren't any green hue spots soling their soulscape space. The only green hue was within their eyes.

Darcel wanted to continue thinking about this, but his mind got quickly diverted.

A feeling streaked through Darcel'ls soul body then. His eyes began to twinkle as he instinctively whipped his body around to stare at the person he came for. 

Leader Kyrha's soul core body was on her feet, but a single Darkness tendril wrapped around her waist.

Compared to his previous targets, Leader Kyrha didn't need to be wrapped up in numerous Darkness tendrils.

And there was another key difference compared to all other times Darcel performed his conversion. 

Shrouding Leader Kyrha's body was a faint green hue aura that resembled the shimmering green spots in her soulscape space.

Even when Darcel went into Karis and Zillah's soulscape, they were still wrapped in numerous Darkness tendrils. And around their soul's core bodies, there wasn't any green hue aura. 

'So it's already improving this much, huh?' Darcel nodded to himself as he didn't even expect his green shade Divine Property to grow this rapidly. 

Everything was already made completely easy because Darcel was simply stronger than all of his targets during their conversion. His soul could dominate them all.

But with targets stronger than him, Darcel knew the conversion process wouldn't be nearly as easy. 

If it was the past before the hell trials, Darcel would need to heavily weaken the woman's soul before the conversion, just like he did with Ninu.

However, now Darcel felt absolute assured confidence in making women stronger than him, his Darkness Servants. 

And it's all because of his green shade Divine Property. 

Just with how fast this ability is growing with each breakthrough, Darcel had an assured feeling he would be able to convert even half-step Grand Sages! 

Suddenly, Darcel was taken out of his thoughts as he heard,

'So-so warm….mnnn….so warm….' 

Leader Kyrha's hypnotic voice smoothly slinked into Darcel's mind. 

He began broadly smiling, and he as gazed over Kyrha's face, he saw her mouth slowly moving, uttering in a quiet voice,

"So warm….mnnn….so warm…."

Outside and inside, Leader Kyrha could only focus on an overwhelming warmth sensation. In simplest terms, it was absolutely the best sensation Kyrha ever had in her long life.

And as Darcel's gaze peered over her, Leader Kyrha instinctively snapped her heads up towards him. 

Nestling within her eyes, Darcel didn't see any frustration, dread, fear, or hatred. There was only a mix of confusion and pleasure.

"You-you….Ahhh~" A low moan escaped from Leader Kyrha's lips. 

With each passing second, she stared at Darcel, the stronger of a connection she felt towards him. 

Leader Kyrha stared right into Darcel's black and white mask as she tried to ask, "What-what is this? I feel so…."

"Empowered?"

Darcel asked as he started walking up to Leader Kyrha. 

In response to Darcel's answer, Kyrha paused for a moment. Indeed, this warmth mixed with pleasure sensation was making her feel like she was on top of the world.

Leader Kyrha couldn't understand what was going on. But her mind was quickly beginning to believe that this masked man won't hurt her. 

Slowly, Kyrha nodded her head at Darcel's question.

As he walked up to her, Darcel's presence was so warm that it was becoming an addicting sensation for Leader Kyrha. There wasn't anything that Kyrha could legitimately hate about Darcel or these sensations.

Darcel made it within a few inches of Leader Kyrha. 

Staring up close in her face, he appreciated the fairy-like beauty Kyrha naturally radiated. And her beauty was enhanced by expressions being warped with pleasure and warmth.

Darcel didn't say anything, raised a single finger, and at the tip of his finger, his green shade Divine Property began shrouding it. 

Leader Kyrha's eyes became entirely focused on the luminous green aura encasing the tip of Darcel's finger.

It was too beautifully mesmerizing to simply look away. 

None of Leader Kyrha's high headstrongness or stubborn pride showed up here. She was entirely under the whims of Darcel's power.

Seeing how entranced Leader Kyrha already is, Darcel began to talk in a hypnotic, soothing tone. "You know….I don't compliment others often. But, it's quite admirable you have the drive to lift people who've been in weak positions like you had once been in. And under me? Nobody will be weak."

"We-weak….mn…." Kyrha quietly muttered as Darcel's words struck her to the core. 

Everything Darcel said in just that instance made Kyrha briefly recall some deep and personal memories that she keeps nestled in her mind.

Although Darcel is really just a complete stranger to her, his presence is heavily affecting her. 

It was all a combination of Yin Pleasure, the green shade Divine Property and Darcel himself that helped quickly from that connection with Kyrha.

Her mind was still in a frantic loop. But one thing that was becoming more assured in her mind by every nanosecond that passes with Darcel. 

It is that he is a warmth that she didn't even know that she needed.

Kyrha's jumbled state of mind was plainly evident on her face. Darcel strikes while the iron is hot and poked his green aura finger on Kyrha's forehead. 

Immediately Kyrha stiffens up for a split second but quickly relaxed the next second.

Kyrha was drowned in her desire to empower weak people that she thinks; they're worth it. The desire for support, power, and protection courses throughout Kyrha's entire being. 

Only a few seconds went by.

But Kyrha already saw the path she needed to take now. The mysterious masked figure in front of her….no, her Master is showing her the way! 

Under her Master, they'll never let undeserving people suffer!

'Chi!' 

A Darkness glow suddenly burst from within the center of Kyrha's soul core body! Her Darkness soul link swiftly formed and solidified all in a span of a couple of seconds.

Darcel kept his finger in place as the conversion was almost finished.

Kyrha had closed her eyes for a few moments. After a short bit of silence, she suddenly said without opening her eyes, 

"Master~...." 

Darcel felt a small jolt of surprise as Kyrha's voice was almost like a cute purr. For a woman described as headstrong as her, he certainly didn't expect that out of her personality. 

Kyrha opened her eyes the next second; a determined yet soft expression quickly dawned on her face. 

She continued to say, "Master….let's lift the spirits of those are worth it!" 

Darcel appreciated the sudden bright enthusiasm Kyrha suddenly gained. And he found that soft determined expression on her surprisingly cute.

With the conversion completed, Darcel began to take his finger away from Kyrha's forehead. Upon doing so, Darcel got further surprised when, for the briefest of seconds, he spotted a flash of disappointment popping up in Kyrha's clear eyes.

A pleased smirk etched on Darcel's lips as his conversion abilities are gaining significant advancement each time. 

Even though it was only a brief flash of emotion, it still told plenty enough to Darcel about Kyrha's loyalty. The more addicted she is to his overall presence, the more eager she will be to please him. 

Darcel snapped his finger, causing the Darkness tendril around Kyhra's waist to vanish. 

Now free, Kyrha had regained complete control over her body.

And the first thought that came into her mind was showing her Master her gratitude. Kyrha promptly bowed her head in front of Darcel and said in an unmistakable respectful voice, 

"Master, shall we get back to the others."

Darcel tilted his head a bit, finding Kyrha's words a bit curious considering he hadn't even mentioned anything about the others. But he also realized she must've already guessed the other Snow Angel Leaders were here since they intentionally lured her here. 

Darcel nodded at Kyhra, telling her, "Indeed and accurate guess you got there."

….

At the entrance of the Crystalline small cave, Aniela was the only one standing out here. 

Though Aniela didn't have as many problems with Darcel's Darkness Servants like Masami does. She still prefers to not interact much with them. 

As bright and welcoming she was, Aniela felt more of a slight sense of superiority to the Darkness Servants than Masami's overt jealousy. 

When the rule is that all of their Darkness Servants will unhesitatingly listen to whatever command she has. And the fact that none of them can ever disrespect her, it would be inevitable for Aniela to feel a bit above them. 

Aniela never really had control for most of her life, even during the starting moments of her journey.

So having this much absolute control over very prideful people was an absolute delight to Aniela. 

Currently, though, Aniela's mind was focused on other things. She mainly had her mind on the topic of revenge.

Aniela already has a complete assurance that they would be able to prove Masami is now the best talent in her sect, and nobody in her younger generations will be able to catch up to her. 

What she was more focused on was the part where Darcel mentions they're going to take on even Grand Sages. 

And it wasn't that Aniela feared them, but she wondered how far are they're going to go when cutting down those enemies.

Being raised inside the cruel and inhumane Parasol Organization, Aniela is already utterly indifferent to killing. She has already killed numerous times on their journey so far.

However, she had never really entertained the thought of killing a sizable amount of people before.

And Aniela knows when they go to 'clear out' all of Masami's enemies, there will be bloodshed. 

In their kind of world, talks will never be enough to get one's point across. Everyone can wield highly destructive power, and very few want to be entirely subservient to one person. Especially if they don't respect them.

As she thought more on this subject, Aniela began to furrow her eyebrows. 

'Mnnn….nope! I just don't feel any different about this. Actually….' Her expression began to brighten behind her mask.

'I know I'll feel extremely happy about doing this! Masami will get the respect she deserved!' At the thought of putting a genuine loving smile on Masami's face, all other things didn't matter to Aniela.

Even if killing a sizable chunk of people may seem cruel and demonic to others, Aniela simply couldn't care about it. 

The bonded soul link between her, Darcel, and Masami can never be broken, and Aniela would do anything for them.

All because they're a team and will always stick together. At this line of thought, Aniela felt her mind just become a bit clearer and more focused on anything that will come to challenge their unbreakable team.

Suddenly then, Aniela felt her Spirit Sense prick, and she turned her gaze to the sky. 

A broad smile curved her lips as she watched a bright blue figure swiftly float down towards her. "Sami! You sure did get Darcy down there fast."

"Hm. Of course." Masami began boasting, having arms crossed under her chest as she floated down within a few inches apart from Aniela. "No matter how fast a mere ninth level Heavenly King is, it's still snail pace to any one of us."

"Ahh….always so boastful. Oh! By the way, do you still have some energy left in your dantian? Like some of that Crystalline Qi energy is still slowly getting absorbed inside you?" Aniela suddenly asked.

Masami looked down at her body, putting her hand on the lower half of her stomach, and said, "Yea….a bit. I thought it was normal that the Crystalline didn't enhance as much because of our special cultivation. But….maybe we slightly underestimate that crystal."

Aniela was about to speak again when suddenly, her and Masami's gazes shot forward. They both picked on two signatures walking towards them.