"The cure worked, Natalia. He'll be fine" Healer Adele gently brushed Natalia's head. The three ladies had seated themselves on Andrews's bed, surrounding him.
It took Michael ten minutes to brew the Basilisk venom antidote as well as the Phoenix potion. He intentionally brewed the potion in front of the guards and maids to amass more badass points. As he expected, his plan worked too well as he earned a whooping 10k points by impressing the crowd.
He now had 22,000 badass points. With interest, he had to pay 13,000 badass points to the system.
"Give these to him when he wakes up" Michael placed a healing potion on the small cupboard beside the bed.
"Excuse me" He then gave a short nod at everyone in the room before leaving Andrews's room.
They all showed Michael a smile filled with gratitude. He knew they would soon come to thank him one by one but for now, he gave them the privacy they needed.
He left Andrews' room with Gaya and Nightmare. After reaching the room given to him, Michael jumped on his bed with Gaya. She placed her head on Michael's chest as Nightmare cuddled between them.
"Are you still mad at me?" Nightmare asked in a meek voice. For a moment, he sounded like a scared cat rather than a scary dragon. Looking at the pet dragon giving him puppy eyes, he smoothed the dragon's warm body.
"I was" Nightmare uncurled himself and stood on Michael's chest on four legs, staring at Michael.
"But I just wanted to help that human girl. Just like you helped me in the Nether Realm"
"This time, your choice to help her didn't have a dire consequence. What if Alden still had a powerful family behind him? What if Sabrina really deserved to get killed? What if Alden didn't deserve to get killed? What if Alden was stronger than us? what if Alden escaped and decided to kill everyone at the sect as an act of revenge?" Michael continued to raise questions slowly making Nightmare realize what could have happened because of his actions.
"Helping others isn't a problem but helping without knowing everything is. If I only want to increase my own power, I could easily roam around this world, helping people, killing bad guys, and being a goody-two-shoes. But I don't want that, I want to build a government, a government that rules everything under my leadership. That's why I take every step carefully, thinking about every possible outcome" Michael explained.
Aside from the prophecy of him being the dark lord, Michael really wanted to control this world because of the novels he had read in his previous life and his life experience.
The main characters in those novels would triumph over everything to become the peak existence but if they turned back and look at their life path, they would have nothing but a harem of beauties, if they didn't die somehow.IF he acted like those main characters, he could have a fun-filled life with the system. Yet he knew the world would eventually forget about him and move on unless he often showed them who's the boss. What's the best way to do that than ruling them.
A god is only a god until he has worshippers right?
If Michael didn't rule this world, he would just be a character in the history books. Besides, organizations like the Great CLans would eventually become strong enough to challenge him and if he was alone, his fun-filled life would definitely come to an end unless Michael built his own Great Clan, powerful enough to face all the others while uprooting his enemies on his behalf, he would be a god forever.
"You helped me without even knowing my name" Gaya rolled on his chest to take her eyes away from the ceiling to him.
"That was need not help"
"What do you mean?" she raised her brows. Clearly, it was not the answer she was hoping for.
"I just came to this world knowing basically nothing. Hence I needed someone to tell me everything I wanted to know. You were a crippled girl and looked kinda okay too, so I rescued you"
Her eyes twitched like she was controlling her urge to punch him in the face.
"What do you mean kinda okay?"
"My mistake, you're not kinda okay. You're fugly"
"What's fugly?" Nightmare asked while she was clenching her fist.
"Fucking ugly"
"Bastard!" she started to headbutt his chest furiously as Michael and Nightmare laughed out loud. Soon, he grabbed her by her hands, stopping her from wiggle. Their eyes locked in, entering a staring contest. Little by little, Gaya's anger dissipated as she began to breathe heavily. He moved closer and closer until she could feel his warm breath on her face.
"You're the prettiest girl in my heart"
Nightmare immediately closed his eyes with his wings when Michael locked his lips with hers. The tender kiss made him almost forget about the existence of Nightmare near them. Until they tie the knot, Gaya didnt want to have sex with him and Michael respected her decision. Although he had the prettiest girl lying beside him on a warm bed on a cold night like this, the only thing he could get was a tender kiss. Michael savored every second of the kiss.
"Lesson learned" Nightmare wiggled himself in between them, breaking the kiss with his little body.
"good" Michael moved his head away from Gaya's. He then licked his lips, a wry smile was plastered on his face.
"Let's see what's happening around" A tablet-sized mirror appeared in Michael's hand from his space ring. A bright light flickered inside the mirror a few times before it showed the Winston family hall.
They saw a few guards standing in the corners and a group of guards patrolling, nothing caught Michael's interest until the mirror showed three guards standing around a campfire at the garden outside.
"My cousin Lamar just came back from Flamefair and you're not going to believe what I heard from him" Nightmare hopped on Michael's shoulder to get a good view of the mirror.
"He said the whole town is under lockdown, he said that he had to pay his way out"
"No surprise there, Flamefair and Icefair always get the worst of the winter" the guard replied in a thick accent while warming his hands above the fire.
"It was not the winter that made those Flamefairers piss their pants, Trent. Someone is killing the wealthy cultivators in their own home and Duke Avon put the entire Flamefair in lockdown"
"Good Lord, do you think it's Lucifer?" The guard's voice stuttered in fear. The mere mention of the name Lucifer made his legs turn into jelly.
"I don't know but he said the guardians were swarming the place, so it's possible"
"Then Lucifer should kill that bastard Avon and end this fucking war" The third guard replied.
"That's not all, a few days ago, someone killed a few soldiers of Duke Avon at the slave mines"
"Slave mines? Why?" the guard with a thick accent asked.
"Who knows"
"Did they catch the one who attacked?"
"Lamar said he heard the one who attacked used a teleportation scroll to escape. I guess it must be some rich brat who loves the thrill "
"So she used the teleportation scroll," Michael said. Bugging Noah's home had already started to pay off. He never expected to find out what happened at FLamefair without even going or sending someone to Flamefair.
"It seems the guardians left the Royal land to come to Flamefair or we have another copycat"
"Either way, I have to go to Flamefair"
"You mean we have to go to Flamefair right?"
Michael shook his head, "No, you go to Abyssal and make sure Aria put her heart into serving us"
"But-" she was about to protest when Michael put his finger on her lips
"No buts. We can't be at two places at the same time. You go to Abyssal and I go to the Flamefair"
"What about the auction at Icefair?" Nightmare asked.
"We'll leave tomorrow morning and if you can, you meet us at the auction"
"Alright" Gaya sighed.
"Where is that Diana lady? We cannot leave without getting those free permits"
"Speaking of Diana, is it me or that human seemed to be treating Ghosty differently?" Nightmare asked them. Gaya nodded at Nightmare as she noticed the way Diana acted too.
"She does look like a textbook mother but yeah, I did notice how she treated a total stranger like her own son. I mean you did save her and her daughter but still, she was way too much caring"
"What if she was way too caring? There are many good people in this world and she is one of them. I just hope Noah doesn't get in my way, I'd really hate to make her cry"
"The way I see it, that guy is really pushing his luck. One day, he's gonna get himself killed for pissing off the powerful people in Elon" Gaya dismissed Michael's thought of killing Noah with a wave.
Knock!
Knock!
Just as they were speaking and cuddling each other on the bed, someone knocked on the door.
"Coming"
Just by the gentleness of the knock, he could tell it's either one of the three ladies who knocked on the door. When he opened the door, he was proven right as Diana stood outside.
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Hi
This is me your author and I'm looking at you, readers of my novel in ranobs.net and novelgate.
First, I'm happy to see you reading my novel but I'd greatly appreciate it if you read it on the official platform, NovelFull. The coins you spend unlocking is my income and although money is not the motivation for my writing, it does keep the lights on. So, if you can come to webnovel and read it here, it means a lot to me. Please do not encourage and enable piracy.
Enough of the nittybitty stuff. I've been reading your comments and realized you guys and gals have many questions for me. Some of you seemed to be wanting to know more about omegas, the background of the dark lord, and the system. Let me tell you this, I can dump all the information in a single chapter and be done with it but I won't do it because it would spoil the mystery touch around the novel. However, I can tell that I will drop more clues in the upcoming chapters that will shed some light, answering a few of your questions. Next, a few of you wondered why did Ghost turn soft?
Yeah right, a cold and ruthless person like him suddenly helps strangers, it does sound contradicting to his character.Yet, you have to remember that Michael is not the Michael back on earth, his soul was merged with Abras's, slightly changing his personality. These changes wouldn't be visible until Michael face the things related to Abras. You will know the answer to your question in the upcoming chapters, nothing is simple when it comes to the Dark Lord and this world. You will begin to see the bigger picture soon. Let me finish with this, everything you expect from a ruthless cold mc will happen.
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