Mixed Blessing System

As it was running towards one of the dark pools in that area, the demon suddenly took a blow to the head and fell unconscious to the ground.

A red tongue returned to the mouth of the creature that had attacked that little blue being, a 3-meter-tall toad.

'Stay calm, demon. The boss will obtain your Soul Bone in no time. There is no need for you to despair.' This creature smiled, pleased to be able to help its leader observe this being's belongings.

While the demon felt its head slowly regenerating from the toad's relentless attack, Lothur was already inside one of the dark pools in the area.

After being hit by the thing that was chasing him earlier, this young man felt a strange urge to enter that place of dark water.

But after jumping into it, he felt as if he had been tricked by something, feeling as if his body had fallen into a bottomless can, not into the pool he had seen.

As he suffered from these effects, the strange liquid in that cavity, filled with a dark substance, began to form what looked like hands, pulling him down.

Grunts were coming from inside that pool as if creatures from the underworld were trying to pull him down, making this young man feel like he was falling.

'Damn, what's happening?' He wondered as he felt the world spinning, with the surroundings becoming darker and darker, and he felt the dark aura in his body getting stronger.

'What an urge... What an urge to vomit!' He clenched his belly and made a fetal position.

"You covet our power..." A whispering voice, sounding like the mixture of several voices, declared in one of Lothur's ears.

"You defile our land, you damned freak..."

"You are not worthy..."

Lothur felt his body being held by many hands, which increasingly pressed down on him as they took him down.

Meanwhile, he suddenly began to lose consciousness, slowly passing out.

'Damn it...'

'I can't... Keep... awake...' He tried to force himself, but his mental characteristics had to improve for a long stretch for him to be able to endure such a thing.

Meanwhile, the system was active, as always, working to direct its host.

[Intense darkness detected in the host's surroundings...]

[Detected strange aura trying to invade the host's consciousness...]

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After some time, Lothur fell unconscious, returning to a dream world, where he met with a voice he had heard before.

'Your strength is still insignificant...' The voice that sounded old and nostalgic said this in a tone that indicated it was slowly fading away.

'If you keep delaying your progress, you will die next time!'

'All our work will be wasted!' He shouted a little louder, again showing Lothur a red world covered in blood and terrible things.

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Suddenly, Lothur felt something extreme in his subconscious, and his heart beat strongly. It makes him open his eyes suddenly, almost entirely at the bottom of that pool of dark liquid.

As he did so, the darkness trying to lead Lothur to his death suddenly released him, as if he was trying to escape from something deadly dangerous.

But it was too late. When this silver-haired young man awoke, his Mortal Aura, combined with his resistance to the dark element, began to suck in all the darkness in his surroundings.

[Bronze-grade resistance to the element of darkness.]

[Progress: 30%]

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[Progress: 33%]

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[Mortal Aura] [Rank: Iron]

[Progress: 75%]

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[Progress: 77%]

Suddenly, the system warnings appeared in Lothur's vision, showing how much these two characteristics of his had evolved while he was unconscious.

But as he sucked in the darkness in his surroundings, Lothur felt these two characteristics rapidly increasing in level, as if he had found the best nutrient to nourish himself.

He realized this and pushed even harder, becoming 100% focused on this action he had started without really understanding what was happening.

'That was the second and last time you were saved...' He thought about those words that had popped into his mind out of nowhere, even if he had not heard them earlier.

Feeling a bad feeling, that of being helpless and weak, Lothur clenched his fists but did not let it get in the way of his opportunity.

As he sucked all the darkness from that area into his body, the grunting sounds from that pool diminished. At the same time, the remaining spirits there seemed to be slowly fading away.

As this happened, the dark surroundings became more and more transparent as the strange liquid there turned into something like water.

Feeling his breathing beginning to be negatively affected by being submerged for so long, Lothur stopped focusing on that thing and swam to the top of the pool.

"Hah... Hah..." He popped his head out of the water, surprising all the beasts watching him.

But he was not bothered by those beings nor the demon tied up on a toad's tongue.

Lothur just checked his progress.

He was no longer feeling the bad sensation from earlier, coming from the dark aura that had entered his body. At the same time, his Mortal Aura reached 90% progress, while his resistance to the dark element stopped at 53%.

[Name: Lothur Ritter]

[Physique: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger]

[Lineage: Life Devourer]

[Cultivation: level 12]

[STR: 60.6] [CON: 271.8] [DEX: 54.1] [AGI: 71]

[INT: 93.4]

[PER: 111.5 -> 119.6]

[WIL: 91.4 -> 92.1]

[EVF: 0]

'Hey, what happened to that pool? Why did it become transparent?' One of those creatures wondered.

They used these pools to remove the impure negative energies from their bodies, which entered them during their training. In doing so, they not only got rid of the dark energy that invaded their bodies but also got promotions for enduring the whole process there.

They were beings with an affinity for elements opposed to darkness. So when training with such a thing, they suffered a lot, something beneficial for their physical training.

By getting rid of those energies, their physical progress was much more intense than someone like Lothur.

Since their training mode involved returning the darkness they had absorbed into the area, these beasts could not help but find it strange that Lothur had absorbed such a thing.

But the demon had understood everything Lothur was doing and began to feel increasingly afraid of this being.

'If this continues, he will be able to kill me even without help!' This creature trembled with fear as it thought of one of the few ways to kill a demon!

These were creatures based on negative Natural Laws, with a great affinity for elements geared towards that nature. So, to eliminate them, there were only two methods!

Use negative Natural Laws to absorb the very Laws present in the bodies and souls of these beings, or use positive Laws, such as the light element, to disintegrate its negative Laws.

Considering what Lothur had just done, this demon pondered the possibility that this person would eventually develop an ability capable of killing it!

That would be the worst of all scenarios for it, and soon it was much timider than before, choosing to keep quiet and avoid irritating Lothur.

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