Chapter 7: | Love Is Truly Absolute
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The weather was quite nice today.
My body moved in synchronization as red lines appeared everywhere in the currents.
Then, in the next second, it exploded, stirring the currents.
Hmm, perhaps this is my limitation with this amount of knowledge.
I asked Samantha a few days ago if perhaps she knew about any type of martial arts, but she just gave me a thumbs up as she said.
"Martial arts? I didn't learn it, nor do I want to move my body like a savage."
I was shocked by her comments about martial arts, but well, it's understandable, as I could pretty much see some belly fat on her stomach.
And, I can't help it, since I've pretty much fallen in love with such a person.
Or maybe I'm the odd one?
But do I have the time to care about it?
Well, of course not.
Samantha's gaze pierced my bare body as she sighed.
"You need some clothes, Alister, or else you will flash your 'breeding tool' to everyone."
I glanced at her, confused, as an idea came to me.
"Are you perhaps jealous of others seeing it?"
Samantha's face flushed as she fidgeted.
"Well, not exactly... but since we're in this relationship, I... I would like to be the only one to see it."
I smiled.
While Samantha was reserved and kind of tomboyish, she was still a woman at heart, and I couldn't help but tease her.
"But what's wrong with me flashing it? There's nothing wrong with it, right? Since it's not like they'll be touching it?"
Samantha got up, then raised her hand above as she slapped my back really hard.
"You... you already know it! But you still remain clueless, you jerk!"
I chuckled.
"Hahaha."
As I hugged her, I then whispered straight to her ear.
"I can't help it since you're just too cute to tease."
Samantha's head turned as red as a tomato as she burrowed her face on my chest.
I couldn't help but chuckle at her reaction.
Slowly grabbing her waist, I raised her up, then let her sit on one of my arms as I slowly closed my lips on her forehead, then gently kissed it.
"There, there, no need to be embarrassed, my beautiful lady."
Samantha's face reddened further as she cursed in her mind.
This guy is truly improving at a rapid rate.
At this rate, perhaps... he would truly win my heart.
But how can I reject his advances?
When he's truly my type?
His hair was as white as snow, just exactly like mine, with raven-like eyes and jet-black eyelashes that contrasted his hair.
Then there were his lips, which were as red as my own irises, and his body that was truly perfect.
Just looking at his body would send chills through my lower half.
Samantha admitted it, she couldn't hide it anymore.
"Just because you're beautiful and muscular, don't think that you will win my heart with just that, Alister. Humph."
I chuckled lightheartedly after hearing her.
So, my body wasn't the problem.
Perhaps, given enough time, I, Alister, would truly succeed in my advance with this tomboyish, girly, conservative lady.
"Perhaps you could taste my body right now, since I don't really mind, dear."
Samantha wiped her mouth as she straightened her posture cutely.
"Humph. Don't even think of tempting me with that lewd body of yours!"
I sighed.
That didn't work, huh?
Well, it's just as I expected.
Looking below me, I smiled as I raised my left foot.
"Let's see what the next floor will give me."
Boom!
The ground crumbled.
Samantha giggled as she recovered from my teasing.
"You should try to be careful of the opponent down below."
I smiled and kissed her cheeks.
"It seems that my efforts have finally paid off."
Samantha whispered at me mischievously.
"Well, how can I resist such a handsome man?"
My face reddened as I leaped again and again.
Then, pushing my face toward her, I couldn't help but tease her.
"Then if I'm handsome, perhaps giving me a kiss would work?"
Samantha didn't shy away from my advance this time, but perhaps it was too early, since Samantha dominated me again.
Seconds passed as Samantha wiped her lips.
"It seems that you need to train your kissing technique, dear."
I couldn't help but nod as I was yet again overwhelmed this time.
"Yeah, I need to work on that if I want to win against you."
Samantha giggled, then gently rested her head on my shoulder.
"You should work on that, perhaps if you trained for a year..."
She couldn't complete her sentence as she gorgeously fell asleep on my shoulder.
I smiled as I stroked her hair with my other palm, and I couldn't help but feel at peace when I'm with her.
"Perhaps, me falling in love with you is destiny itself. How can I, a man, not fall for such a beauty as yourself?"
I felt defenseless and weak when I'm with her.
Perhaps the effect of love is truly too much for an insane person such as me to handle.
Then, killing intent burst hundreds of meters away from me, but it wasn't directed at me, but at her.
My brows furrowed into a frown.
Slowly tidying her hair, I smiled softly as I knelt, then gently laid her body on the seabed.
"Sleep for now."
Then a chilling killing intent exploded from my body.
I took a step forward, then another, as I appeared behind the bastard that dared to show a hint of killing intent at her.
My hand disappeared in a heartbeat and grasped the neck of the man before me.
I slowly exerted some pressure on my palm, and I couldn't help but snort.
"You bastard! How dare you bare your teeth at her!"
His body trembled from fear as he gasped for air.
"What do you mean, you bastard? Isn't that bitch... kugh... ahk... damnit, stop, you bastard..."
I cracked my neck as I threw his body up.
"Damned bastard! Now you dare to insult her?"
But he never repented, as he shouted.
"You're finished now, bastard..."
Veins popped out of my forehead as I felt anger bubbling inside of me.
I closed my eyes as I calmed myself.
I felt it.
His claws slowly came at me.
They were refined and intricate, but it was futile.
I raised a nail, then slashed everywhere.
Then, in a heartbeat, red lines spiderwebbed across the currents and into his body.
"Primeval Emperor – First form: Ruined Fury"
He laughed cluelessly and shouted.
"What do you mean, bastard? Take this..."
Then pain struck his body, and in the next second, he saw it, his body being mutilated, blood and flesh splattered everywhere as his screams echoed.
"Your existence itself was futilely useless."
Slowly, I lifted her and let her sit on my left arm, then placed her head on my shoulder as I smiled.
"You're truly too precious, my lovely Samantha."
My body flickered again and again as I took my steps.
I couldn't help but sigh as tentacles sprouted behind my back, devouring the remains of the distasteful bastard.
Then I gazed at the hologram before me as I couldn't help but sigh at its pitiful skills.
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[You have slain the Overseer of this floor]
• [Scornhide Ravager 5★]
[Flawless Victory achieved.]
[You have gained 10 levels.]
[Access to the next floor unlocked.]
[You have successfully devoured]
• [Scornhide Ravager 5★]
[You may devour one of the following.]
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• Stats
• Random Skills
• Select a Skill
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[You may now ascend.]
[Yes] / [No]
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Monster Core
• Bloodfray Surge
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Passive Skills
• Flesh-Twister Instinct
• Razorhide Adaptation
• Predator's Wrath Threading
• Pain-Fueled Reflex
• Scornborn Defiance
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Active Skills
• Cripple Fang Laceration
• Spinebreaker Drive
• Vicious Pounce Rend
• Hemocleave Pulse
• Warhowl Disruption
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Ascension Skills
• Wrathclaw Discipline (Ascension I)
• Carnage Spiral (Ascension II)
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So all I got from that bastard was 10 levels?
Truly, I should torture that bastard and let it feel a fate worse than death, but sadly, it was already dead.
Then I gazed at its pitiful skills.
"Haaaa."
Perhaps Wrathclaw Discipline is the best option here, since it seems to be the only skill that will give me any form of knowledge.
I sighed as I pressed the skill and confirmed it.
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[You have successfully devoured a Skill.]
[You have gained.]
• Wrathclaw Discipline [Ascension I]
[Aberrant Emperor Vessel would like to devour the skill]
[Yes] / [No]
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Perhaps I should use the benefits that I've got from my Ascension, but the question was, I have no Skills to acquire nor a Skill to tier up.
Maybe saving it right now is the best option.
I sighed as I've finally gathered three skills that I needed right now.
My finger moved, then dragged the skills into an interface as I confirmed.
This should do.
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[Would you like to combine these skills?]
• † Naiad War Discipline + † Bloodscript Claw Memory + † Wrathclaw Discipline
[Yes] / [No]
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[Your skills have successfully fused]
[You have gained:]
• † Abyssal Flow Doctrine [Ascension I – Passive]
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† Abyssal Flow Doctrine (Ascension II – Passive)
This doctrine is not a technique—it is ancestral memory distilled into perfect control. Born from claw-born instinct, fluid spearcraft, and the engraved scars of a thousand warriors, it grants profound somatic awareness. You move not with strength, but with knowing—each strike calibrated by buried lessons in anatomy, momentum, and death. Your body becomes the exact answer to every threat, adapting in real time through inherited reflexes. You don't just recall how to kill—you recall how to be the body that kills best.
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