SWNOVELXO Chapter 297: Hypocrite
Experience tales at empire
This time, the creature could not get back up; it was completely defeated. Silva crouched beside it and looked at it with a smirk on his face.
"You fought well, but you never stood a chance. But I can offer you strength ten times what you have already.
Imagine it, you'll be more powerful, able to rival those you would have never been able to, but you have to become my summon."
[You have subdued the Abyssal creature. Do you wish to begin the summoning process?]
"Yes, start," Silva replied, and immediately, a magical circle appeared under him and the creature.
"Hub? This is different from before," Silva said, looking at the circle. The circle started with a soft, low purple glow, and then instantly shot up into a raging shine, covering him and the creature.
A mark appeared on the head of the creature, and then it faded slowly. With it faded away, the limbs and damaged parts of the creature started fixing up.
It kept going until it was completely healed, good as new, like there had been no fight in the first place. The creature rose on its feet, looked at Silva with respect, and slowly bowed to him.
[You have successfully contracted your first Abyssal summon. Do you wish to give it a name?]
Silva took a look at the summon, not knowing what name to give him. It's not like he paid attention to the name, because there would be tons of other summons in the future. He didn't want to bother remembering even if he could.
"Sigh, alright, your name will be Eclipse," Silva said.
[You have named your summon Eclipse. All stats are multiplied by ten due to the 10x buff. Congratulations.]
Eclipse felt his power rise; he could tell that he was way stronger now, as Silva had promised. He leaped into the air, shooting up so high and then came down with a powerful stomp that sent shockwaves throughout the whole city, leaving a massive crater.
"You like your new power, I'm guessing? Well, stick with me and you'll do far, far more," Silva said.
He decided that now that he had tamed this otherworldly creature, he would finally check the stats, so he used Dragon Eyes to see.
Name: Eclipse
Race: Abyssal Creature
Strength: 1,000,000
Defense: 1,000,000
Speed: 1,500,000
Agility: 1,500,000
Intelligence: 500,000
"Seems this is all I can get, no levels, no direct race, just the general. Could it be that they don't use levels in the Abyss? I wonder what they use," he wondered out loud.
"I'll look into that later. Now for this place to fix up," he said while looking around at the chaos he caused. As soon as he said that, the city started fixing up.
Since the fight was finished, the ten clones flew to the location.
"That was a nice fight, could have ended it faster, but it was nice," one clone said.
"Wait, before you start talking, let me ask you all numbers. Now that I know each one of you is a fixed entity, I have to know who and who I am talking to," Silva said.
"Alright then, that's fine with us," the clone said.
"Good, now," Silva looked at them and started pointing at them one by one, giving them numbers, from one all the way to ten.
He wasn't going to be able to tell the difference, but the clones would know who they were based on their numbers.
"I've spent quite a while here, I should head back. Take care of Eclipse for me," Silva said and vanished from the summoning plane.
His eyes opened in his room, he looked around and saw Lily standing at the door. She let out a tired sigh when he woke up.
"Even if you want to sleep, you have multiple minds, how can you not notice me until now?" she asked.
"Ugh, I was in some sort of deep sleep. I was testing out something," Silva said.
"Whatever, you have your clones attend the wedding. At least I can look at that as you came, so it's good enough. Everyone was happy that you came, honestly," Lily said and walked in. She sat on the bed.
"I've been seeing futures every day now, especially when I come in contact with you. I can't control them; they just come, and sadly, it's all terrible," she said. She looked at Silva and then looked away.
"How bad are they?" Silva asked, standing up and walking to the window.
"Well, losing the entire kingdom in flames of war could be considered terrible," Lily said.
"You have seen that happening?" Silva asked.
"Yes, every day. That particular future repeats, and when I try to look into it for parallels, I'm blocked out," Lily responded.
"I see. I can actually say that I have grown attached to this kingdom, but like I've said before, it is entirely disposable. They're just a few lives, after all.
I want to feel bad for them, but I've long lost the ability to care for lesser races that are not close to me. I'm becoming more and more of a villain with every day that goes by," Silva said as he let out a chuckle.
"Not a villain. The war might be inevitable, and you can't save them. You aren't doing anything wrong. At least you gave them a good yoke before it all went to ashes," Lily said.
"Indeed. In the coming day, the day of the blessings and curses will come, and I'll become a demon king. But before that happens, I have to settle some things.
I doubt that this place will hold meaning to us, so I'll hand it over to someone, and the rest of us can leave here, only being the rulers in name.
That way, they might avoid the terrible future for them, and even if they can't, that's their business. I tried to build a home, but I guess my mission is too unstable for that," Silva said.
"For someone who killed a whole kingdom because they touched your people, you easily let them go towards their death now," Lily said with a teasing smile.
"I'm a hypocrite, remember?" Silva said.