Chapter 31: I Will Give You Opportunities, But I Will Not Be Your Support

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Chapter 31: I Will Give You Opportunities, But I Will Not Be Your Support

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Ding!

[You have slain thousands of Evil Cult Members.]

[You used {Extraction} on the corpses of your foes, gaining additional EXP!]

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[Your Level has increased from Level 864 to Level 887/999!]

[All your Stats have increased. You gained bonus Stat Points and Skill Points.]

[Several Skills have Leveled Up! Some Skills have reached Max Level.]

[After having massacred the Evil Cult of the {Lord Of Deep Darkness}, you have acquired the [Destroyer of the Evil Cult Of Deep Darkness] Title!]

[Your ruthless and monstrous massacre of countless lives has earned you the Classless Skill: [Bloodthirsty Warlord of the Battlefield: Lv1]!]

A new Title and a new skill—interesting, I suppose? I haven’t checked the new Titles in a long while, and I have an ever-growing disinterest in doing so. They feel more like dumb achievements. Though sometimes, they’ll carry incredible abilities, nonetheless.

And about Skills, this one seems rather long named, though if it’ll help me slay more foes more easily, it won’t really be of use because I can already do that, won't it?

As always, the system is such a hit-and-miss, most of the time giving me redundant abilities I already have.

Nonetheless, my special Class at least never disappoints.

[The Skill: [God Predator (SSS): Lv6] Skill effects have been activated. You have devoured the Divinity Fragments of five Avatars of the {Lord Of Deep Darkness}!]

[All your Stats have increased by +15.000]

[You gained +8.000 Divinity.]

[You learned the Magic Skill: [Demonic Abyssal Grimoire Of Deadly Curses (SS): Lv1]!]

[The Skill: [Divine Class Absorption: Lv5 (SSS)] Skill effects have been activated. You have devoured the Divine Classes of the Avatars of the {Lord Of Deep Darkness}!]

[You devoured the [Evil Cult Supreme Leader] Divine Class!]

Unfortunately, my priority is protecting my own world. That means that, although I will free these worlds from their insane gods, I will not work towards guiding them, saving them, or helping them. I might give them some passive protection and some resources, so they start well enough, but the rest of their future will be left in their own hands. This is how I mostly handled mortals back in Murim as well.

It was a gigantic world, and to care for every single mortal in existence was insanity. As much as I wanted justice to prevail, evil would always brew somewhere, and it would emerge again. I can’t endlessly protect everyone, even if I can live endlessly. If I babysit them for eternity, there will never be space for these mortals to grow on their own.

I might sound selfish with such words, but that’s what I chose to do. And I’ve already decided to live as I please and do whatever I want. Whether my decisions are wrong or not, it doesn’t really matter.

“I’m back.” I smiled faintly as I descended towards the village once more.

Well, this was, of course, an outliner. Because it was the village of the people connected to my lovers, I was giving them some extra privileges. Maybe if that Queen had become one of my lovers, perhaps I would have put more effort into helping her Queendom. And maybe that’s why I decided to leave quickly before a beauty like her were to seduce me...

Although her words were honest and filled with gratitude, I also felt a slight sense of cunningness. She didn’t have malicious intentions, but she clearly wanted me to stay with her to protect her and was willing to do things to get to that point.

Unfortunately for her, I left before she could do anything.

I can’t blame her for that; people in any world will do anything to survive. I have to admit, I also did many things I am ashamed of to survive back in Murim.

Although I never went to the extent of selling my own body, I did steal and kill from those more unfortunate than me at the beginning of my journey.

Yes, it was the darkest years of my life, when I had become nothing but a thief and a bandit.

“Katherine! Welcome back.”

“You’re here! It didn't take that long, actually.”

My train of thoughts was quickly interrupted. To not thread into darker territories, the adorable twins greeted me with happy expressions on their faces.

“Ah, yes, I’m back.” I smiled. “Sorry for taking a bit too long, though; I was busy dealing with things. With this, both the Church of Light and the Cult of Darkness are gone. The gods should be in their weakest state.”

“Did you really do that?” Urbosa asked as we walked inside their house.

“I am shocked...” Merkite muttered. “W-Will the Umbral continent be alright?”

“It should; I left them some help. If they end up wasting what I gave them, then it’ll be their fault that they perish.” I sighed. “I won’t help them anymore. I already found a second home here anyway.” I caressed their heads as I hugged them both. “With you at my side.”

“Bing Xue...” Urbosa felt slightly embarrassed. “Well, if that’s what you want, then I will make sure to not leave your side.”

“You’re acting so corny after having done something insane...” Merkite laughed. “I guess it is hard to even guess what’s happening inside of your head.”

“My head is a bit damaged; you see. My mind, my thoughts, and my emotions. They’re a mess after having lived for so long in such a hostile world.” I sighed. “But slowly, I feel like it is healing. And I owe a lot of that to my mother and sister, as well as to you two. Thank you for showing me love for the first time.” I kissed their foreheads.

“It’s fine... Really.” Urbosa smiled. “Come on, let’s go rest; you must be very tired.”

“Yeah, let me prepare you some herbal tea from my grandma’s recipes for fatigue.” Merkite wagged her tail happily.

“Fufu, thank you.” I walked inside their house as Urbosa spoiled me by letting me rest over her thighs on our bed, and Merkite brought me a delicious herbal concoction, which calmed me down slightly.

I ended up spending the rest of the day chatting and then napping, trying to simply not worry about things for once. I talked more about my past life to the twins as they learned about the hardships I went through. At some point, they started to cry, pitying the things I had to do to survive.

When the night came, there was nothing lewd, they only hugged and kissed me, embracing me with their innocent love. I felt so loved and happy that I fell asleep instantly. I don’t remember ever sleeping so calmly and comfortably as tonight.

It also helped that they were very fluffy~!

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