Chapter 1631 Venerables Are Weird

1631 Venerables Are Weird

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When I woke up, my body had fully regenerated again, and I was resting above the snow. Everything I experienced in that fight felt like a really bad dream, but it was real, all of it, wasn't it?

Yeah...

"You're finally awake."

The Ice Queen's voice greeted me, she was sitting right to my left side, she had a rather pleasant smile in her often serious and expressionless face.

"Ah... I lost pretty badly again, seems like I passed out."

She chuckled at my words.

"No, no, I would say you won in a way. You were able to develop something incredible, something that might have even surpassed a Venerable's Enlightened Senses, in a way. Something only you with your body could accomplish properly."

Memories of what I had done quickly reached my mind, of feeling my soul and body melt and become like water, quite figuratively and literally.

Not only were my senses expanded as I released my Soul Ether everywhere, but also my own body, and my Divinities, and everything. My flesh could instantly regenerate wherever my consciousness reached.

It was as if I had reached some sort of unity between soul and body.

"That's... I did that?" I asked. "It feels terrifying whenever I remember it. I can't believe I was so desperate I started using my torn apart body in such a way."

"Don't feel ashamed." She said. "This is your power; this is who you are. I told you before that without it, you wouldn't have been able to get this far, right? You must embrace this power, because it is the key for you to accomplish what you want."

"So what did I exactly accomplish?" I asked her.

"You did a lot. For a moment, you overwhelmed a being such as me! And you forced me to use one of my Venerable Techniques, something that Pandemonium definitely does not possess as he's not a Venerable, but an otherworldly soul that possess a Unique Skill that grants him all his powers," she said. "I was honestly scared... For a moment, I panicked, and you forced my hand. You had truly become something terrifying, but in a good way."

"A good way you say..."

I looked at my own hands, I was already on my humanoid form, mostly to preserve energies after what I did. I felt rather exhausted, mostly an exhaustion in the soul rather than the body. I spent a lot of Soul Ether Essence to get there.

I quickly drank more Soul Potions to recover, and let the Demonic Energy flow through my soul, hastening its recovery until I finally felt better.

"Do you remember how it felt?" She asked.

"What?" I wondered.

"How it felt to activate that power? It'll be the key for you to use it again in the future." She explained to me. "You must remember that feeling and never let go of it, channel it within you and release it."

"That feeling..."

It was a feeling of dread.

"You reject the advances of every female that approaches you, so I never thought you would do the opposite for me anyways." She shrugged. "But you're perhaps one of the few men that could actually make me fall in love, how are. You should be proud of that. Now let's go, you invited me to a meal, right?"

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"Haha, but of course. We'll be allies even when the rest of the Venerables revive, what made you think otherwise?" I laughed.

"Maybe I'm paranoid I suppose. Just to make sure things go well." She crossed her arms. "Now, return with your family."

"Fine, fine..." I said. "Come with me, let's have a meal together with them."

"Oh?" She blushed for a bit. "A-Ah, well... They're not really my family so... Wouldn't it be odd?"

"Not at all, you're a friend, come with me." I laughed, holding her hand and dragging her to the castle.

"Drake..." She sighed, looking at me with a calm smile. "Thank you, I suppose... I never had a family myself, nor a husband, or children. I never found the time, maybe I also didn't want to. Hah, now I regret that! I wish you were single, maybe we could make a good couple."

"What?!"

That just came out of nowhere...

"Sorry, sorry, not interested at the moment... Three is enough." I said, apologizing.

"Don't worry, I wasn't really planning on doing anything or asking for anything." She smiled, caressing my head. "I know you're a man loyal to your family. But at the very least, could you let this old woman have her way?"

She suddenly kissed my cheek.

Her soft lips were very cold, yet her kiss alone felt very nice.

"Huh?"

"Fufu, this might be the first time I kiss a man. It might have not been the lips but, it felt nice."

"A-Ah... Okay."

It was in the cheek, so I suppose it was okay. I didn't mind it I suppose, like friends.

"You reject the advances of every female that approaches you, so I never thought you would do the opposite for me anyways." She shrugged. "But you're perhaps one of the few men that could actually make me fall in love, how are. You should be proud of that. Now let's go, you invited me to a meal, right?"

"Ah, yes, sure." I nodded.

Did she confess her love or something?

Seriously, Venerables are so strange in the way they convey their feelings.

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