Chapter 140: Rank 2

“Oh… it’s the White Abyss.”

After the dark entity snapped his fingers, Dante found himself alongside Ruby in the White Abyss, in the same wide tunnel he had been in before entering Greed’s hidden room.

When he shifted his gaze to the gate, he found that it was broken and the ceiling seemed to have crumbled over the entrance, sealing it completely.

“He really attacked this place.”

Dante sighed and checked his ring. He noticed that now it had the spatial pocket inside, which was weird considering that it was a spatial storage like his ring.

How was spatial storage stored inside another spatial storage? Was that normal or did Greed and the relic maker design the ring and the pouch in a way that allowed this?

Regardless, Dante ignored that and checked his runes.

’Appraisal…’

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Name: Dante

Age: 16

Race: Demonic Dragon (Dragon Bloodline 16%, Demon Bloodline 20%)

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❖ Classes:

[Abyssal Doombringer] (Extraordinary)

Existence Essence ⟨0/1500⟩

✧ Passive Abilities:

⟨Shadowbirth⟩

⤷Your shadow rises as an independent abyssal existence. He gains 60% of your stats and becomes a sentient being, a loyal servant, and a good listener who has access to your relics.

⟨Luck Seer⟩

⤷Your left eye perceives the invisible Wheel of Luck within all living beings and can see minor misfortune spikes.

✧ Active Abilities:

⟨Shadow Swap⟩

⤷Swap your place with your shadow. Can be activated only once every 12 hours.

⟨Misfortune Burst⟩

⤷Your misfortune explodes into the surroundings. The result is unknown.

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❖ Stats:

• Vitality: 62 → 93

• Spirit: 54 → 81

• Mind: 42 → 63

• Demonic Energy: 62 → 93

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❖ Domains & Aspects:

✧ Abyss Domain — Attunement: Greater

⤷ Aspect: Shadow [Comprehension:65%→90]

✧ Destiny Domain — Attunement: Greater

⤷ Aspect: Misfortune [Comprehension:60→80%]

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❖ Innate Traits:

[Demonic Dragon]

⤷Your bloodlines clash, slowing each other’s growth, but gradually fusing into something greater.

• Draconic Mutation: Right Eye, Lungs, Left Arm

• Demonic Mutation: Right Arm, Left Eye, Heart, Liver.

[Regression Marks (6/30)]

[Silver Ether Bond]

[Silver Ether Eye]

[Sorcerer’s Gift]

[Fateless Soul]

[Unfortunate Aura]

[Misfortune Attraction]

[Demon of Temptation]

⤷A soul that embodies both desire and denial. You wield charm as a weapon, yet remain untouched by it.

✧ Passive Abilities:

⟨Demonic Charm⟩

⤷Your presence and voice weaken fragile minds and draw attention. Works better on females.

⟨Abyssal Mind⟩

⤷Your mind has high resistance to fear, charm, and mind magic.

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❖ Relics:

[ᚷᚱᛖṠ̷̺̪̬̱͛̒͠Ḯ̶̢͎̟̲̀̍̓N̸̖̩̤͑̈́̿͝ᛖᛞ]

✧ Passive Abilities:

⟨Dance of Greed⟩

⤷Your Greed Knows No Bounds. If one strike isn’t enough, starve for more and more!

⟨Greedy Soul⟩

⤷Your Greed Knows No Bounds. When you slay an opponent directly with ᚷᚱᛖṠ̷̺̪̬̱͛̒͠Ḯ̶̢͎̟̲̀̍̓N̸̖̩̤͑̈́̿͝ᛖᛞ, you absorb a small part of their soul. The absorbed soul’s spirit value must be no less than 91% of yours. The unworthy aren’t accepted by your greed.

⟨Soul Weapon⟩

⤷ᚷᚱᛖṠ̷̺̪̬̱͛̒͠Ḯ̶̢͎̟̲̀̍̓N̸̖̩̤͑̈́̿͝ᛖᛞ grows stronger with your soul.

✧ Active Abilities:

⟨Abyssal Slash⟩

⤷ᚷᚱᛖṠ̷̺̪̬̱͛̒͠Ḯ̶̢͎̟̲̀̍̓N̸̖̩̤͑̈́̿͝ᛖᛞ absorbs 25% of your demonic energy and spiritual energy, fusing them with your Abyss Aspects to unleash a deadly abyssal slash.

[Ring of Greed]

[Ritual Dagger]

[ᛃᚱᛖᛖᛞ]

⤷I’m nobody’s enemy, nobody’s friend,

I’m nobody’s family, beginning or end,

I’m nobody’s lover, I’m nobody’s dear,

I’m just a passing shadow that nobody sees here. I have no self, and I might be anyone or anything. Who are you to judge me when I have no sins?

✧ Passive Abilities:

⟨Nobody⟩

⤷Even without wearing the mask, you’re nobody in everyone’s eyes. Any special physical or spiritual traits can’t be seen unless with the permeations of the relic’s owner.

⟨A Passing Shadow⟩

⤷Upon wearing the mask, your presence becomes hard to notice when you don’t do anything noticeable unless you allowed yourself to be noticed.

✧ Active Abilities:

⟨No Self⟩

⤷You have no self, therefore you might be anyone or anything. Once a month, you can steal the identity of anyone or anything so long as they have Fate. The duration depends on the weight of fate and the Mind stat of the user. Requires having no Fate.

⟨No Sins⟩

⤷Twice a year, you can erase your existence from one event you performed recently.

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Reading the runes, Dante couldn’t help but let out a hollow laugh.

A lot of things had changed.

His stats had surpassed anything he had ever imagined himself to have. If he now fought Baron Ash, the demon who wasn’t affected even by Dante’s ether attacks, he’d be able to kill Baron Ash himself.

Of course, there were some factors like the experience and relics, but Dante didn’t lack any of them with his talent.

His trait, Demon of Temptation, changed as well. It now included his voice in the charming ability, and even though he couldn’t be sure of it, he felt that his mental resistance improved and his facial features sharpened.

Next was Sin of Greed himself.

He became stronger, significantly stronger.

’The spiritual link between us improved…’

He could feel that the boost in strength Greed received whenever Dante boosted his Spirit stat increased.

In other words, every point of Spirit stat now gave a higher boost to the relic.

Additionally, the Greedy Soul effect seemed to be more greedy. It now required the strength of the absorbed soul to be no less than 91% of Dante’s instead of 90%.

The Abyssal Slash now absorbed 25% of Dante’s demonic energy and spiritual energy, becoming stronger than before but could be used fewer times.

And for the Dance of Greed, Dante had just received more knowledge about it.

Apparently, it was an incomplete technique even with the new surge of knowledge he got.

’I should have known that. A real technique wouldn’t be a simple sword technique, but one that required a type of energy like Shadowstep and Chaotic Impact.’

If Dante wanted to release the full potential of this technique, he’d have to either get more parts of Sin of Greed or complete it in his own way.

And unfortunately, one of them was the last thing Dante would ever do, and the other wasn’t possible currently.

The next change was his comprehension. For the Shadow Aspect specifically, he needed only 10% more to reach complete understanding of the aspect.

For this one, Dante knew what he was supposed to learn next, but the Misfortune Aspect was the problem.

Dante didn’t know everything about it. He didn’t have any books giving a complete guide to it. He would have to rely on self-learning to understand it completely.

As for his abilities, Fafnir, who had been panicking since Dante awoke, now had 60% of Dante’s stats instead of only 10%. And apparently, he also shared Dante’s relics as well.

’Fafnir, can you see if you can summon my relics?’ Dante asked plainly.

Fafnir, despite his concern, went to a hidden spot and tried.

Surprisingly, the only item he was able to summon was the dagger. Everything related to Greed was untouchable. Even the Ring of Greed.

’I think it’s because these things are linked directly to me in a different way from normal relics, or maybe Greed has something to do with this.’ Dante felt a sense of disgust when he thought about that parasite.

The next ability, which allowed him to perceive luck, was also affected. It now gave him the ability to see “Misfortune Spikes”, which he didn’t understand currently.

And lastly…

’My core changed…’ Dante thought while looking at the Existence Essence: ’I can now absorb 1500 Existence Essence instead of 1000, and I can no longer absorb the Rank 1 Cores of Existence unless I get the method that Greed talked about.’

Those were all the changes in Dante’s runes.

However, those were only the changes, not the additions.

The first thing that Dante saw was obviously his abilities. He had gained two abilities, one was related to misfortune, and the other was related to Fafnir.

’Shadow Swap allows me to swap places with Fafnir.’

Wasn’t this ability just so perfect?

It might look normal and simple, but for Dante and Fafnir’s current position, it was a heavenly ability.

If someone were to attack Dante and he had nothing he could do to defend himself, he could use this ability to leave the entire region, leaving Fafnir with the attacker.

Ignoring that, he could also visit Elizabeth and her camp!

He could provide them with food using her ring before returning to gather more. That way, the giants’ efforts would be meaningless without them noticing.

As for his misfortune…

’The second ability can remove all the misfortune I have, though I don’t have so much to begin with.’

It was ironic how he got such an ability after draining almost all his misfortune, but that didn’t mean it was useless.

When the dark entity attacked Silverwood Town, Dante’s misfortune skyrocketed immediately. If he had this ability back then, he could have used it to cause all his misfortune to explode, though the result of that explosion was unknown.

These two abilities were truly what he needed the most now, but he wouldn’t have gotten them if he didn’t enter this place.

He became significantly stronger.

He obtained the ability to get rid of his misfortune.

He obtained the ability to save Elizabeth and her camp.

He got several benefits from that place.

And the price?

“Your freedom, Ruby…” Dante whispered to the woman on his lap, his face twisting in sadness and self-disgust.

“Ruby, you are my slave now.”

“You are the only loser here. I got everything… including you.”

“I… I’m truly sorry…”

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