Chapter 98: Bear Witness To My Racially Superior Form!

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"Though a few mountains were destroyed in the process of fighting this sneaky bastard, at least the loot is nice."

SHING!

Putting his sword back in its sheath, Lucifer watched both the falling masculine figure and the incoming system notifications.

BLING!

[Ding! You have killed a Peak Nascent Soul Realm Fire Brigadier of the Fire Nation. The reward is 890,000,000 CE2]

[Ding! Your total Clone Essence Bank storage has surpassed 2 Billion. Would you like to buy 2 Clones in the Peak Nascent Soul Realm?]

"Hmm... Exactly how much do I have?"

[Ding! The host currently has 2,789,000,865 CE2]

"Alrighty, you can go ahead and purchase 2 highest-level clones!"

Figuring that he had enough to be a little thrifty, Lucifer confirmed the request made by the system. Then, with two bright flashes of light, two clones just as strong as him formed on the top of the mountain he was on.

"You two, please head on over to the Nature Nation and secure the safety of my cultivation speed-boosting midget. Oh, and make sure to go in disguise and kill anyone that could give some nice loot! Don't worry about the consequences!"

After giving out these extremely concise orders, Lucifer watched the two clones vanish from the airspace before focusing back on his own tasks.

"Time to reap some more delicious loot bags! They came all this way from my dear parents place, so I would be doing them a great injustice if I didn't treat them with the utmost hospitality!"

From the numerous memories of the two fallen Fire Brigadiers, Lucifer was able to learn many things about the curtains that hid behind the Fire Nation. And from what he had learned thus far, the Fire Nation was not actually ruled by the Fire Emperor. Instead, it was completely controlled by the 'Ancestors' or as Lucifer knew them—his parents!

"Those bastards actually had the gall to set up their clones in the Devilduke Family, and they were even plotting to kill every single other member of their family... All to practice a forbidden demonic technique!? I must say... They have my respect, umu!"

To go so far for power was something that Lucifer looked up to. But unfortunately for those like-minded parents of his, he didn't like when someone else had him in their plans...

BOOM! BOOM!

Flying through sonic booms that could barely keep up with his speed, Lucifer's smirk widened to its usual length. "If those parents of mine want to make use of a demonic technique where they can't directly kill their family members, then I will make use of that restriction! Breaking through to the Soul Transformation Realm!? Ha! The closest you will ever get to that goal is in your dreams!"

Blazing through the sky like a fiery ball of fire, Lucifer located his next target. Then, with his maximum speed, he dipped from the high heavens and crashed toward Fire Brigadier #3!

"!!!"

Noticing the meteor of death just in the nick of time, Fire Brigadier #3 utilized her Qi in the best format for the limited time frame presented before her.

Encasing her well-endowed body with the Qi, she formed a defensive Qi shield around herself. But not yet done with her moves, she stacked that same barrier hundreds of times on top of each other!

[Ding! You have killed a Peak Nascent Soul Realm Fire Brigadier of the Fire Nation. The reward is 1.5 Billion CE2]

"Well, damn! That's quite the sizable amount of Clone Essence!"

Lucifer never would've expected the gaps between Clone Essence acquisition rates to be so large within the same minor realm. But regardless of this information, there were still two more Loot Bags that needed to be reaped.

FWIP!

Vanishing from his position, he also made sure to buy another Peak Nascent Soul Realm Clone. He had this clone go find and ultimately kill Fire Brigadier #2.

"While good ol clony boy is working on that with a few dozen Late Nascent Soul Realm Clones, I can go and catch up with Fire Brigadier #1!"

With this objective as the driving force for his actions, Lucifer bounced away from a mountain peak and phased into the Speed Stream. Already abundantly aware of the location of the strongest aura signature among his hunters, his evanescent figure traveled in a beeline direction.

By the time that he neared Fire Brigadier #1's location, Lucifer realized that his opponent was actually...

"Waiting for me?" Looking directly in front of him, a confused look formed on his face as he stared at a man sitting on an illusory rocking chair. "What da hell are you doing?" Lucifer asked.

"Hmm..." Turning around to look at his target, Fire Brigadier #1's neutral expression didn't change and he didn't move a muscle. However, after a second of verifying that who he was looking at was the main body, he said, "It was only after a few minutes of searching that I realized you were likely splitting us up on purpose.

And with so much time having passed, it was highly implausible that anything I could do would have a chance of changing the outcome. Therefore, I figured it was best to just wait where I knew you'd find me."

"..."

Blankly staring at the lounging man in the rocking chair, Lucifer asked, "Are you an idiot? I mean, you kinda just revealed everything to the person you're supposed to kill... If that's not idiotic, then I don't know what is..."

Abruptly taking the rocking chair to a halt, a slightly embarrassed look emerged from Fire Brigadier #1's face. "I guess you're right... But it's not like that really matters," he said.

"Ho? And what do you mean by that?"

Even though Lucifer already knew the answer to his own question, he liked to play around with these little plays. Call it a hobby of his.

Slowly turning his head around once more, Fire Brigadier #1's face morphed into something evil and far more demonic.

Transforming into something truly out of a children's bedtime story, his body followed the trend and became something far from human...

Red spiked body, large 8-foot frame, spiraling black horns, and a menacing face—he had become the mirror image of a devil!

Mildly surprised by this complete change in race, Lucifer muttered, "A demon...? Or rather, you're some form of hybrid? Hmm... How interesting..."

"That is all you have to say upon bearing witness to my racially superior form!?"

"I mean, yeah... Don't get me wrong, it's cool and stuff. But if I'm being honest with you, it's a low-key tacky appearance. Maybe you should-"

BOOM!!!

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