Chapter 137 Back To The Planet.

|The System has just restarted. |

|All the features of the System are now available. |

By the time Alvine and Sylvia had crossed Sabrina's portal, the system send him this notification.

Here we are again. The famous system is back.' He says to himself with a ridiculous smile.

|Additional mission announced. |

|The system requests access to the host's memories to know the cause of its hacking. |

|Reward: Affinity of time, A set of divine grade armor. |

'Hehe, then you suddenly became a chicken with golden eggs? Tsk, it's useless.' Seeing the attractive rewards, Alvine's ridiculous smile became more and more ridiculous. Just by seeing this notification, he could guess the reasons behind these rewards.

*I refuse! * He said in a cold tone devoid of emotion.

|...|

|Are you sure? This will affect you and the progress of -your- system. |

|If the mission fails, you will not be able to use your magical energy or affinities for a week. Are you sure to refuse the mission? |

*Enough talk about that. My decision is irrevocable. In short, so what about Helene? Is she still not awake? *

Not wanting the being who is hidden behind the acts of the system not to be suspicious of him, he asked for Helene's state, as usual, to pass his refusal for a whim on his part.

|No, she is still not awake. It is better to update the system to accelerate her healing. |

|the host must at least absorb the essence of the stone of void, three Odin stones, and a philosopher's stone. |

*Hmm, the essence of the stone of void? I know Odin's stone, the philosopher's stone, but I've never heard of a stone of void. * He asked in a monotonous tone looking at his environment, which was a dark forest with large trees several meters high thick.

|... |

*Forget, we'll talk about it once you feel one nearby. As for the philosopher's stone, I have already asked Sabrina to bring me one. And I already have an Odin stone in my possession, I only need two more. So no rush, we will settle things one at a time. * He continued briefly. Of course, even if he had all the objects that the System requested, he was definitely not going to consume them to allow the system to update itself. It's like wanting to commit suicide by giving a sharp weapon to your enemy.

|Entended. |

"Master, I think Lady Rina missed the destination." Sylvia's voice, who was in the same state of contemplation, suddenly resounded in the vicinity.

"No, I don't think, I feel a battle close to us, about hundreds of kilometers from our position. There are many cries of despair and death." Alvine replied nonchalantly as if nothing was. He didn't think his words were strange even though Sylvia had an increased perception. "I think, whether intentional or not, Sabrina sent us to the right place and at the right time." He continued as he approached Sylvia who was ten meters from him.

'Since when has anyone been able to feel the aura of despair and death at such a distance?!' She wondered while watching Alvine come to her.

Once with her, he reached out to Sylvia who wondered about his strange acts. "Hold my hand." He ordered briefly.

Without saying anything more, Sylvia put her thin and delicate fingers in his palm. As Sylvia's hand landed in his palm, he pulled her towards him and embraced her waist while his soft and imperturbable breath caressed Sylvia's neck.

"What is...

"Shhh, I already know the location so don't distract myself, it's the first time I've used this spell so I don't have the guarantee of these effects." He said by reassuring Sylvia who was beginning to blush despite her efforts.

Then he murmured, "Shadow Raven, transport me to my destination, [dimensional jump]."

-Plop, plop, plop,

Shadow Ravens began to come out under their feet as they rushed underground until they disappeared for good leaving behind two shadow silhouettes that wavered before disappearing like black ashes.

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-Caw, Caw, Caw,

Five hundred kilometers from their beginning locations, a black circle appeared from nowhere near a tree on the edge of the forest, where a military camp was attacked by magical beasts of all kinds of four-legged species; the shadow circle wavered once again like a black veil and began to rise to let out two black silhouettes that are becoming lighter and lighter. Alvine and Sylvia began to go out like two dolphins rising above the water.

"Um, it's rather a good start. This is a rather practical skill. In addition to that, it does not consume magic energy. So this system will not be able to do anything against it." He says in a placid tone looking around him. Sylvia, who was always nestled in his arms, listened to his words and looked around with a doubtful look.

"Master, are you saying that you can use a magic spell without needing magic energy for it?" She asked once again for confirmation as if she no longer believed in her ears.

"Not quite, it's not a magic spell. I feel more that affinity of darkness is actually a class than anything else for me. Look around you instead, it looks like we took longer than expected, didn't we?" Briefly said Alvine when he saw the scene taking place in front of him and Sylvia.

A hundred meters from them, he had a fierce battle that took place between magical beasts and members of alliances that brought together the Kelspies, ice elves, and a few dozen vampires. Just by seeing the aggressiveness of the ongoing battle, the two could instinctively guess who would be the victors and who would be the defeated. The horde of beasts counted several hundred beasts against a thousand members of the alliance.

But despite everything, the battle was at their disadvantage. Unlike the Elves who could only cast spells with the deviant affinity of ice and the Klespies who could only use soul spells and their contracted beasts, magic beasts were powerful with ferocious elementary affinities.

The ice elves were powerless against fire-type beasts, the same for the Klespies who could not cope with all kinds of magical attacks. Especially against winged tigers spitting fires and wind wolves who assisted them by making the fire more ferocious and destructive with their wind affinities. Only vampires did better against them, but their numbers were too low to change the disfavor of the battle.

"We must help them!" Sylvia said coldly while still stuck to Alvine who had released her since his spell had finished taking effect. She was too focused on the massacre taking place in front of her to see her ambiguous position.

"You are right. But take a closer look before rushing headlong. Don't you think their strategies are too advanced for a horde with average intelligence? From what I have seen so far, the power of these magical beasts is not really threatening to the alliance camp but it is their cooperation that helps them win this battle. If the beasts with wind affinities did not help fire-type beasts, they could not defeat the ice elves and it is the same for vampires and Kelspies who fall under their claws."

"Indeed, there is necessarily a commander behind them who leads them. But it's too complicated to find it in this horde and all this disorder." Sylvia replied with calm and placid eyes like the water of the lake.

"It's simple, in general, the strategist commander is always behind the troops. Just find it." He said nonchalantly.

Then, before Sylvia asked how, he could feel Alvine's breath weigh down behind her neck and heard him whisper a name unknown to her: "Darka!"

-Vwooo!!

His shadow wavered and Darka, who was none other than his faithful shadow knight, suddenly emerged in his shadow, kneeling in front of him. "My lord?" He greeted in a thunderous voice that even surprised Sylvia.

Before she could understand correctly, she could see an entity dressed in heavy armor with her long sword kneeling in front of her and calling her "my lord"?

It was only after hearing Alvine's voice behind her that she finally understood that the shadow called Darka was not addressing her, but at Alvine who was standing behind her.

"Have you mastered the competence of the third Elder?"

"Yes, my lord. I was also able to improve it to another level." He replied in a thunderous but respectful voice.

"Very well, in this case, bring so many magical beasts into the dimension and get rid of them without playing with them. Repeat this procedure until the battle is over." He ordered.

"It will be done according to your desires, my lord." When he had finished saying these words, he sat on the floor, his legs crossed. He joined his hands and his shadow body began to disintegrate into dozens of black crows and dispersed towards the hordes of beasts that persisted on the members of the covenant.

-Caw! Caw! Caw!!

"Hm? Still crows? Is it because of the sphere I had absorbed? Even if I can partially control my shadow as if it were a part of me by gaining new skills, it's still strange to see that my shadow manifests itself to crows."

Hearing their cawing like Banshees, Alvine slightly raised his eyebrows and waited with Sylvia to see the first magic attack launched by Darka.

Unlike the third Elder who needed about a minute and thirty seconds to launch his attack, Darka obviously did not have this problem, nor the recharge time of twenty-four hours to launch its attack again. But the scariest thing with shadow crows was that they were invulnerable in the face of physical attacks and magical attacks, as long as Alvine had enough dark energy in him, Darka's crows were immortal!

-ROARRR!!

By the time the first raven hit a tiger, he did not attack it head-on, but he had directly attacked its shadow by diving directly into it!

And it took only a thousandth of a second before the black raven came out in the shadow of the tiger who had just uttered its last cry before attacking another!

Whether it was the Chimeras, the Guivres (a kind of snake with bat wings and pig's feet), the Behemoths, the Wyverns, and other flying creatures that seemed to be the mutation of a Snake but with bat wings on their back and thick scales that cover his whole body... the crows did not spare any of them! They didn't need to attack them physically, but they only attacked their shadows!

"What is...?!" Sylvia, who was attending this scene, had her eyes wide open.

"Hmm, Darka, how many times will you be able to cast this spell?" Alvine asked Darka without paying attention to Sylvia’s shock

"My lord, I need 10 hours after using this spell for twenty minutes to have to reuse it."

"Hmm, it's already good. In this case, what will happen if you cancel the spell before twenty minutes pass?" He asked once again.

To become strong, he also needed to know his weaknesses. Since he could invoke Darka by simple thought and he was currently deprived of all his affinities except the affinity of darkness, Alvine could only count on this affinity to fight now, but also in the future.

"In this case, it would be impossible for me to reactivate it once again before 10 a.m." Darka responded briefly with her metallic voice.

"Good." He hunched his head with a subtle but admiring smile. The reason was that he could also control Darka's crows, he had just confirmed his hypothesis by focusing on a raven that had suddenly changed his trajectory and attacked the shadow of a winged tiger flying in the sky. As he had ordered.

'This skill is really practical.' He said to Himself with a satisfying smile. 'In the future, as long as my shadows can learn a skill by absorbing the souls of my victims, could I also use the same skill as them? This means that I would not need the assistance of the system to fight even if it locks all my skills and magical energy. Hehe, how interesting it is!' He continued while looking at the massacre in front of him. What made her more joyful, was he could see the souls who were victims of crow attacks being sucked into his shadow like magnets!

He did not need to ask why this happened, it was one of the shadow skills he had unlocked during his awakening: [Chains of souls] to purify them and let his shadow soldiers suck them to acquire their skills!

"Sylvia, I think I just found the commander. Stay here, I'll take care of it personally. I hope it's tough enough to help me evacuate all the frustrations I had acquired during these twenty-four hours!" He said in a monotonous tone as his shadow began to waver and shaped a shadow scythe like a crescent moon!