gratutions!Experience earowards milestone achieved!

  For embrag your iance you are awarded [1] level.

  Skill unlocked:-Dragonic Eyes.-Seven series drago.--Gluttony's Maw

  [Further skills locked till requirements are unlocked.]

  And so the world started to make sense, she uood why this was happening, what was happening, and she could even feel her ow starting to beat at a more sedated pace.

  She didn't o be worried, it all made sense, she could feel something within her awaken as the title settled in her [Core], and she felt her e towards [Nyx] streself even more than ever, she only needed but to will it and she could awaken him.

  He would awaken weakened yes, but she could call upon him and she was sure he would respond.

  And more importantly, "Eli-Eli?" Rossalina Singh, the Saint of Healing. "Are you okay?"

  Rossie, her lover, her parthe one who brandished the title of a [Paramour].

  She was looking mighty worried for her, no...Not for her, for Elizabeth. For Eli-Eli...

  But who was she? She was Elizabeth, of that there was no doubt, but she also was [More], so much [MORE]. She was the one who once was an [Ior of the Akashik Record], in another life she was the [Ior] to a who strived to collect all the records in the world to make a library.

  And right now, at this very moment. She was an [Ior] once more, but to what? Her own [Bloodline] had awakehe [Vestiges] of what made her who she was.

  Half of it was what her Father had left for her, the geic material of the most powerful hero ever, one whose skill allowed him to adapt to anything and everything. That was embedded into her very [Soul], it was the reason she had survived so far with so many ges doo both her mind and soul.

  The other half was of her Mother, a [Soul] capable of surviving in the most direst of situations, capable of produg the most pure [Mana], backed by geions upon geions of talents bred to produce [Genius].

  The [Saintsworths] didn't produce average people, and she was the reination of the biggest [Talent] they had ever produced. She may have lost the [Knowledge] since Alexanders didn't deem to leave her his knowledge, but she had kept his talent.

  But all of that was in the soul and mind, what about her body?

  Her body's tempte roduced by a woman whose only mission was to create the perfect body for the perfect soul crafted by the most powerful man in the world. Then wheook it after [Chloe] gave it to her, it ged to aodate her.

  But even after that, the base was there, the perfect body to manipute the purest amount of mana ever, backed by the talent of the greatest minds this world ever saw.

  She was born from two of the top powerhouses this pne had for over two hundred years, and then the ot she had, her body. Was ged to ohat could brialent to the fullest.

  "Never felt better in my life." Even her voice had an uone of raw [Power] to it, it thrummed with the power of [Mana].

  "Are you sure?" Asked Rossie, worry tinged on her face. "Because your eyes turned into one simir to those of your [Shadows]."

  Her eyes had transformed?

  It took but a flick of will for one of the shadows in the wall to open an [Eye] a her see herself.

  She was sitting in the bed, blouse wide open showing her chest, but she didn't feel ashamed of that, not anymore. Why would she?

  She was beautiful, she should be looked upon, and adored, and she should be desired by all who gazed upon her bare body.

  But that wasn't the main issue, so she focused on her [Eyes], and Rossie was right. Her eyes had turned reptilian-like, they were tinged azure blue as if they would burst into fmes at the barest hint of mana.

  She tried to focus some mana into her eyes and they indeed did just so.

  But that wasn't the only thing that ged, for a new blue s showed up. Only...she saw the moment the mana coalesced in front of her, she saw the making of the thing and how the words were formed guided by a golden mana inscribed into an azure ste.

  ...Are you okay?Eli-Eli, it's mom...

  Are you feeling all right?

  We are getting all weird types of signals ing from you, mostly about something [Awakening] and it being tied to... some subroutihe World] had wao use to kickstart the [System].

  She is....I will be ho, I don't know what she is thinking half the time, but I think she is...happy?

  Either way, most of what I'm reading says this isn't bad, not like what happened with the [Gluttony] thing you had lying around (Sorry about that, didn't though it would be [THAT] bad!)

  But Papa is....NO I'M WRITTING!!!!!!!

  ..........................................

  Elizabeth, it's your Father.

  What you have awakened seems to be based upon the most primal aspect of your spirit, it is actively ging your mana signature to something closer to your [in].

  What this means is that while your [Shadows] will be easier to use, you will be more intrinsically tied tons], temper your will Elizabeth.

  For those that walk the path of a [Dragoo be aware of their [Desire].

  While the one you got first isn't the worst to have, you may o collect yourself and examine closer what you earned.

  PD: You may want to tune down the use of the skill, yirlfriend is thinking of using her [Oracle] skill to ask for help, and she does not have [Piety] tods, so a [Demon] may ahe call.

  We will do our best to hijack the call, but not even [Gods] force piety upon mortals.

  Rossie was thinking of what?

  She turned her sight to the pink-haired girl, in her eyes it reflected the [Delicious] figure of her girlfriend, her curves, her lips, her chest...Her [Core] bare to her eyes, a of golden mana decorated with azure dragon script on each link...

  And at the end of it, a spell taking form, one of [Divine] mana searg for something to call upon, frayed e towards the celestial pnes. Not all were destroyed, but most of them.

  And downwards? A multitude of different [Demonic] links ready to pounce upon [HER ROSSIE]. It made her sick, they [DARE COVET] what is [RIGHTFULLY HERS?].

  Her shadows reacted to it, all of them looking downwards to the demonies, a low growl starting f ihroat, or at least it was till "Eli-Eli?" Rossie's voice brought her back.

  The skill seemed ready to use, waiting to be used, waiting to be called upon.

  That made her realize, that the girl who didn't want anything to do with [Gods] was ready to pull the trigger in something she hadn't touched not even at her lowest.

  Why?

  Because she was ag differently. She looked back at herself, and didn't reize the girl sitting there, so she searched for the metaphorical switch upon her soul and turned off the [Title].

  Her mana suddenly turned from a raging river into a more calm flow, and the most important ge, or, at least the more obvious one was her eyes.

  The windows to the soul.

  They turned back to her normal sky blue color, and she suddenly felt...blind, no longer could she see the mana waves, or the signals of a skill about to activate.

  She wasn't even aware of the skill at the back ready to be used, so silently she grabbed her b and covered herself (She also was extremely embarrassed about showing the goods, even if Rossie had seen her with fewer clothes, and even nude, a few times).

  "So...Did you get any iing readouts while I activated that?" Asked Elizabeth trying to not think too much about if her face was red or not.

  "...You are okay, health-wise, your beed stamina and mana faster than it should be able to. It seems to have been nourished as most of the remnants of malnutrition you had are gone." Rossie said while materializing a graphic of her body with after and before information. "But you seemed...detached, different. Not like someone uhe influence of the [Taint], nor anything like that. But more...Prideful?"

  Prideful? She didn't have that much pride in her, she knew herself the best, if she was to be described using a word like that, she would say she was closer to [Sloth].

  No actually, hadn't she unlocked something?

  "Would it be this then?" Said Elizabeth while summoning one of her previous blue ss and showing the relevant information to the pink-haired girl.

  Notice:Skill unlocked:-Dragonic Eyes.-Seven series drago.--Gluttony's Maw"Hmm....Never read about those skills, I know most of the skills that affee's behavior since I o pensate some of those effects as a [Healer], but these..." Rossie said while reading the new skills she had. "These are unknown, but Eli-Eli...to think you would bee a dragon of all things..."

  ...She what? She wasn't a dragon!

  Her skill may be [Dragon] themed...And she may use those...And like to sleep as much as a dragon...And may have the [Hunger] of one...

  And...Oh god "I'm a dragon..."

  The realization wasn't as direct as what she would have thought it could be, mostly because after saying that Rossie started ughing. It was a blown-out ugh at that, she almost feared the irl would start coughing at some point.

  "Oh sorry, it's only that you said it so seriously...." Rossie apologized while sitting down at her side. "No skill ge what we are Eli-Eli, even if you now have a skill that says it gives you a drago, it is mostly flourish from the [System]."

  She wao believe that too, she so wao believe that. But then she remembered the feeling she got while the [Title] was active, the [Desire] for power, and more importantly... the [Huhat came with it.

  "Trust me on this Eli-Eli, why you don't try to [Identify] the skill then," Rossie said, should she even try?

  She didn't want to, but nothing would move if she didn't, so steeling her heart she focused her mana and activated the skill "[Appraisal]", of course she didn't try to use what she didn't have, and instead used her current go to for information gathering.

  And so, the new segment of her skills showed up.

  Appraisal:-Dragonic Eyes.

  Peer into the unknown, observe the true tapestry of the world for what it is, but beware, for those that stare into the abyss, should they not be ready. The Abyss may stare back.

  [Allows seeing the true nature of Mana]

  [Allows uanding of the ws mana has upon the world.]

  [Grants the user's innate uanding of the hidden formu behind skill application and magic application.]

  [Allows the user innate uandings of the true nature of the in of those it peers into.]

  -Seven series drago.

  Built-in the fe of a world using the beati of a p’s soul, this core was created by the talent of a mad stist, desigo ie the duality of mana as aeriergy and a normal energy. It was meant to be used by the s of a dying world, but both the world and the owner died before it was finished, currently it is beating once more after having been asleep in the soul of its [Ior]. Strive to plete it, or let it sleep for eternity, the choice is yours.

  [Grants Mana purification so that nn mana will ihe owner.]

  [Grants mana regeion.]

  [Increased ma.]

  [Grants the ability to transform mana into flesh and flesh into mana.]

  [ assimite others' energies into the heart.]

  [Note: Heart is currently assimiting 1/7 Sin mana.]

  --Gluttony's Maw:

  Devour and e everything in your path, whatever stands in your way transform it into your nourishment, the world is your food, and you were born to eat it. Feast upon your enemies, your allies, and yourself, anything and everything is for you to feast on.

  [ assimite fn energies into yourself.]

  [Assimite energies be used to fuel mana regeion or tee wounds.]

  [So long the soul hold it, anything assimites into the owner for ter use.]

  [ improve whatever is devoured so long you have enough souls to fuel the evolution.]

  [So long you are the oo kill a target, and then e something of them, you will bee the sole owner of that soul.]

  [inal Owner of this Sin: Samuel Cravix, The Hydra’s Fang Gluttony monster (Nyctophagia)]

  *bleeeeeergh*

  Was it a reflex? Was she already expeg this somehow? Had a subscious part of her already known this would happen?

  She wasn't sure, of what she was sure is that she owed one of her shadons for the quick rea, since as soon as she was about to start puking a shadon was at her side with a trash ready, at the other side was another oh a gss of water.

  And of course "Eli-Eli?!?" Rossie was there, already giving her back pats to help calm her down. "Are you okay?"

  With each back pat the pink-haired gave, she could feel her mana flooding into her, seeking whatever was wrong and trying to fix it, of course. It ointless, there was no fixing [This].

  She...she...she was [Tainted], not iraditional meaning of the word.

  "Here-" Elizabeth did a flick with her hand sending the atus s she got, she didn't even bother trying to hide nor ge the information, and only gave Rossie the results she got. "-the [Bastard] left me something."

  Rossie tinued giving her back pats as she tried to calm herself down, she had already dowhe gss of water and another one was at the ready, her trash had beeied when she wasn't paying attention.

  These Shadons were quite industrious, she could even feel some worry from them too, or was she giving them extra emotions they didn't have?

  It was soothiher way, to think of them as that, fog inwardly she searched for the dragohat she suspected was [Beato], and that ooo, was giving the soothing mana, and unlike before it wasn't draining mana from Rossie, it was actually feeding mana bato her.

  "It's okay...you don't have to." She whispered into the tai chamber, but that didn't stop the effort from the dragon egg.

  That was cute in its own way too.

  "Hmm... How does the [System] know Nyctophagia's name?" Rossie asked.

  "Why does it matter?" Elizabeth answered, "The bastard is there, then it means he must be somewhere within the [Shadow Haven] waiting..."

  Oh..."Oh no..." Elizabeth's face drained of color at that, "HE IS WAITING!"

  She couldn't, not again, she couldn't do that again, she WOULDN'T DO THAT AGAIN.

  SHE WOULD NOT GH THAT AGAIN!

  "[HEED MY CALL DWELLERS OF THE DARK, RISE. RISE AGAIN AND AGAIN, SEARD DESTROY, FIND THAT WHICH SHOULDN'T BE THERE AND DEVOUR IT WHOLE!]" She activated her [Title] once more ahe righteous fury of someone whose demesne was vioted.

  She felt the mana start to drain but her [Heart] started beating faster and faster, each beat giving her a new flood of mana to work with.

  From within the [Shadow Haven], she saw in the sky an azure blue moon rise in the sky, and from within a thousand eyes opened, from within one by one a shadon flew down to the city.

  "CALM DOWN ELIZABETH, YOU WILL SUFFER MANA BACKLASH AGAIN!" And then she felt something disturb the mana circuit within her [Soulscape].

  "KGH!" Ahe o puke again as the azure moon in the [Shadow Haven] faded away.

  Only this time, instead of puking bile and the remains of her dinner, she puked a blue liquid. Her [Eyes] identified that as liquefied mana, she wasn't even aware mana could look like that.

  What had happened? "That shouldn't be possible." Elizabeth said as she posed herself, had [Nyctophagia]'s attack start?

  How had he disrupted her mana?

  She had bonus upon bonus for mana manipution, prote from soul and mind tampering, and even prote from [Fate]'s tampering. Nothing he had should even allow him to move her like that.

  Granted he could probably kill her with the differen power they had, but this? This was too precise.

  "Calm down Elizabeth, Nyctophagia's dead." Rossie said again, did she not see the signals?

  Or was this another case of a problem because of the memory tampering?

  She would o address this, maybe if she accepted Mother's peeking? It would be annoying to allow Mother to see her kissing and living with Rossie, but her safety aramount, she couldn't allow Nyctophagia from getting close to Rossie...

  Could they live within her [Shadow Haven]? That tion, both Alexanders and Alexa had lived there for 16 years, so it should be doable.

  Actually, could she bribe Alexa? She hadn't seen her after the whole thing had e down, was she within her [Soulscape] still? Actually the burned meadow looked awfully simir to what the Meadow she lived in...

  "NYCTOPHAGIA IS DEAD ELIZABETH!" Rossie screamed at her side while shoving her cell phoo her face.

  "What?" Elizabeth said while fog her attention on the s, there icture of the deceased [Vilin], they identified him from his clothing and some witness ats. "He is dead?"

  How?

  "It was reported that he died in the scuffle before the [Advent of the System], killed by [The Stygian Bane] before [Framework] and [Odyssey] asded." The article detailed how he had indeed died at the hands of the [Stygian Bane], a grainy photo of a bck armor that gave her a headache as she couldn't focus on it for some reason.

  "No one perceive the figure in the picture, but every witness at refers to that as [The Stygian Bane], we think [Odyssey] is s it for some reason...I didn't know why before, but now..." Rossie said as it suddenly that made seo her.

  [Ethan] had stolen her body, then killed Nyctophagia?

  As she read the article she felt herself calm down, Nyctophagia was dead.

  Then whatever [Ethan] had doo him, had affected her [Soul], somehow she had mao keep part of his [Skill], and that had served to awaken a part of her [Iance]?

  "You are safe Eli-Eli, Nyctophagia 't hurt you, so please...Calm down." Rossie pleaded with her, she felt Rossie's finger interp with hers as the irl was trying to make her drop something.

  What was she holding?

  Did she want the gss of water?

  She didn't mind holding hands, so she allowed herself to drop whatever she was holding, it wasn't till she heard the sound of metal hitting the floor that she looked down.

  "Stabby?" It was her loyal spear, only..."What happeo you?"

  It had a serrated edge, the usually simplistic design was gone, instead its edge was serrated, it looked damaged, and the spear seemed to scream for violence.

  ...That wasn't her stabby.

  She willed it to sink into the shadows away from her perception, whatever had goo her it seemed to have affected her loyal minion.

  "[Report, nn maies within core sector of the city.]" She heard a report in her head.

  "[Report, neing maies within....]" And another.

  "[Report, neing maies within....]" And other after that.

  One by one she heard a detailed report of a sector of the ruined city, then after the tenth ohey moved to the area around her [Soul], then towards the immediate area around their apartment.

  Then around the school...

  "...Report number of Avaible Shadon Scouts." She spoke to her shadow.

  The number of reports was too big for her ten dragons to have managed.

  "[Rep, currently 66 shadon scouts have been successfully summoo this p is advised to promote some to other specialties, do you wish to proceed Mistress?]" A voice spoke back at her from within the shadow.

  "Oh, that is a cute voice, when did your minions start talking?" Rossie asked back at her.

  But she was too busy thinking about what she had heard, the first time she summoned five her soul was strained almost to the brink of colpse, the sed time she somehow mao do it without danger.

  And now...

  She had apparently summoned 56 extra minions...And while she almost suffered from mana backsh from her panic attack, as she almost emptied her mana pool.

  The mana was already ing back, slowly yes, but it was ing back.

  And...She had now 56 extra minions.

  "...How many of you have souls?" She asked unsure if she wao know that.

  "[All of them, do you wish to strip any of them of their soul Mistress?]" The same voice spoke back.

  "I feel like I know that voice, did you model it after someone?" Rossie asked, not horrified by the fact that she not only had summoned 56 liviies with its own indepe soul, but also could apparently strip them of it.

  "...Oh yeah, you have heard that one before. She is [Beatrice, The Head Maid]. She is also our daughter." Elizabeth finished saying and ehe face Rossie put.

  First, her eyes pletely dited open, then her face blushed a deep red that made her wonder if all the blood in her body had moved there, and finally, she fell backward into the bed, unscious.

  Yeah, that had been fun...

  Now...What to do with [That].

  Notice:

  Minion Summoning Skill 10>66

  Level 18 > 20