BXBX NOVEL Chapter 88 Aftermath And Gains
After Samiel cursed enough, he went to the corpse of the Drider before using the [Soul Devour] Ultimate Ability as he threw the small whisp of light which was, in fact, the soul of the Drider Ilztrar, into his mouth.
This was the first time he was eating the Silver-Tier Soul, so he planned to enjoy it, for him appropriately, a partial Eldritch Creature; the more powerful the soul was, the tastier it would be.
[Profficiency with the Ultimate Ability Soul Devour has been increased by 3%]
[Mana has been increased.]
[You have devoured the soul of Level 51 Silver-Tier Drider Ilztrar.]
[Your Level has been increased to 21.]
Samiel suddenly felt a warm feeling inside him as he felt that Mana in his body increased significantly from devouring the soul of the Level 51 Silver-Tier Drider Ilztrar, feeling that his strength had greatly improved.
For him, every single increasement in his Level was a great increase in his power, mainly because of the tremendous purity and density of his Mana.
"Hmm... this is good; increasement of one Level in my current state is a feat on its own."
He muttered while looking at the corpse of the Drider Ilztrar before strong his corpse, knowing that this would be the perfect material for the next special Undead. A Silver-Tier base would for sure create a Silver-Tier Higher Undead.
After he ate the soul of Drider Ilztrar, he started searching for the memories which were available to him; because Samiel still didn't have high proficiency with the [Soul Devour], he couldn't access all memories of the target, and only some of them.
The rest of the memories were very chaotic, though, unfortunately for Samiel, most of the Drider's memories were absolutely useless. Aside from all the hiding spots, they had on the 3rd Floor and where the breeding lairs for the Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps were located, there was nothing.
Ilztrar was not allowed to know any sensitive information about the Underdark's dealings and other things; originally, he was just a small-scale fish in the Underdark City on the 89th Floor, where he lived as a standard Drow Warrior.
Until one day, he offended one of the Lolth's Priests because of some internal shit and politics, and he was turned by Drider. Then one day, he was approached by the Priests of the Dark Selderine Church, and they gave him a divine mission of kidnapping the Crown Princess of the Nesser Dynasty.
Samiel knew that it was a load of dragon dung, but evidently, the Drider Ilztrar was stupid enough to believe that he was chosen for the divine mission by the Spider Queen Lolth. And thus that way, he ended on the 3rd Floor with this mission, though the true one was always to get information on a new generation of Mana Cannons.
"Ah, whatever... at least I have locations of the breeding lairs of Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps that the Drows brought to the 3rd Floor, and we can destroy them later on."
Samiel muttered as he started walking away, returning back to Zephystrand City in a very good mood. He managed to kill the Drider on its own and even managed to banish the Avatar of Lolth back to the Abyss.
Highly probable that this would come back him back into ass because it was common knowledge that Lolths was a spiteful and vengeful Goddess that never forgot and never forgave any kind of transgression against her godly majesty.
***
The Abyss, Unknown Layer, Territory of the Spider Queen Lolth.
Abyss was a dark place, filled with death, dread, despair and destruction, where there was only one thing, a war. Mainly war for pure survival, as every single minute, countless Demons, Fiends, Monsters, Demonic Beasts and other countless lifeforms fought for their survival and supremacy.
It ranged from the lowliest mortals of the Silver-Tier and Gold-Tier to the Legendaries who were common as clouds in the Higher Dimensional World like The Abyss, and even up to the Transcendents who either schemed against each other or fought and waged war on their neighbors for the resources and better social standing.
After Lolth returned to her Territory in the Abyss, all of her servants shivered in fear. All of the servants in the Lolth's Palace were minimally at the Legendary Level, while some of them were even at the Transcendent Level.
There were hundreds of them just at her palace, signifying the overall strength of the Dark Seldarine Pantheon and even the Abyss as a whole. Her servants were not only drows but also some Demons, Monsters, Fiends and even some Daemons who were her lovers.
"Insolent mortal!"
She screamed while she crushed the head of the peak Legendary Level Drow Male, who was, in fact, one of her concubines, as it exploded like a watermelon, while her rage just seated from her. Other servants and attendants, especially the weaker ones, instantly hid where they could, not like that would help them, but they felt tremendous fear when they saw in what state their Goddess was.
"Please calm down, Your Majesty."
Stated one of Lolth's attendants, who was one of the Transcendent Level Drows, not Goddes but from the other Path of the Transcendence, probably from the Immortal Path, which was, in fact, one of the weakest Transcendence Paths out there in terms of combat prowess and destructive abilities.
Lolth looked at the attendant dangerously before she punched her in her stomach, sending her crashing into the walls. At the same time, her Transcendent Level attendant coughed a mouthful of blood and was barely alive as Lolth took her anger on her.
"Dammed Outer Gods! Dammed Eluria! I curse them for burning in the deepest parts of the Baator and Abyss combined."
Screamed Lolth as she sat on her throne in her palace. It was a bad day today; at first, she was summoned to the body of the Drider, and then she encountered the Holy Son of the Outer God, not any Outer God, but instead the strongest one.
Of course, she was immediately banished from the material plane, and on top of that, she could sense that her Soul and Divinity sustained considerable injuries from the attack from the Nuclear Chaos, who was one of the 'them'.
***
Tower, 3rd Floor, Zephystrand City
Samiel walked back to Zephystrand City relatively slowly; his injuries were already being slowly healed as he took his time to arrive back at Zephystrad City. When he returned close to the City, he saw that the City Guards and Silvermoon Knights were slowly killing the last Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps.
There were also scorched places here and there, mainly due to Estrid, who, when turned into her dragon, transformed into an unstoppable killing machine, burning down every enemy she could see. Samiel could see that Estrid wreaked havoc on the battlefield, especially when she fought against the Draegloths, who were all killed by her or turned to ash, some of whom were probably even eaten.
Obviously, Dragons liked to eat their more powerful enemies. In this way, they gained strength, because consuming the flesh of the high Leveled lifeforms was always beneficial for those of the lower Level. Though this applied universally to countless species,
Though for the elves, this won't be much problem, as one Druid would be able to restore nature to its former glory within a few months of treatment.
He could also see some clearer already taking away the corpses of the Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps for the dissection because the corpse of any Magical Beast or Monster was a priceless alchemical ingredient.
After each major battle, there were also cleaner coming up, who would clean the battlefield, so this menial task didn't fall onto the average soldiers or city guards. These people were typically very proficient in things like dissections of the Magical Beast and Monsters and would take care of all of them.
Samiel then saw Ashimer, who came up to him and knelt before him as a form of greeting. Ashimer, as the Frost Death Knight, was the epitome of the all knightly attributes, as they were engraved into him during the process of his creation, when Samiel was "uploading" some memories onto his newly formed consciousness.
"My Lord, you are back."
He stated emotionlessly, as Samiel nodded; while Ashimer stood up, Samiel saw some stains of blood on Ashimer's armor, belonging to the Monstrous Spiders or Ettercaps. Clearly, he was fighting as hell when the defenders of the Zephystrand went to finish the Magical Beast horde.
"How are your loses?"
I asked him, seeing that his Skeleton Knight Brigade was relatively incomplete, probably suffering various degrees of losses when fighting the Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps; that for sure was understandable, as most of them were just Steel-Tiers.
Even if they were clad in excellent armor and armed with the best weapons he could procure for them, they would suffer some significant losses in a fight such as this. Indeed, it was nothing irreversible, as Samiel could just provide Ashimer with new suitable corpses to create Skeleton Knights from them.
"Approximately half of the brigade is lost."
Ashimer answered indifferently, not bothered by the losses or anything, though I would be surprised if he would; he was Undead. Not even Necromancers would be bothered by it, though; it is different if you lose strong Undeads and if you lose weak ones.
"Better than my initial expectations."
Samiel noted as he went to find Yvraine to inform her of my feats, while Ashimer was following me two steps behind me, as my most loyal bodyguard, while Nefertari was flying high in the air, which he just now noticed.
'Are you still killing?'
He asked her through the telepathic connection that they had between them.
'Yes, hooman. I await more treats.'
She stated as she went back to the hunt; while Samiel just smiled at this, apparently, she was still fearing that her treats would be taken away.
Samiel found Yvraine on the battlefield as she was organizing the squads of the Silvermoon Knight recruits who were in charge of hunting down all of the remaining Magical Beasts and Monsters.
"I take it that you were successful in your endeavors of putting down the Drider?"
Yvraine came in front of him and said the question or just stated the obvious, seeing that he was relatively healthy, with only a few superficial injuries on his body, which were already being healed as they were speaking.
"Indeed I was... the Drider Ilztrar proved to be a tricky enemy, but in the end, the result was the same as always."
He stated while Yvriane smiled at him.
Normally, she would immediately run to hug him because deep inside, she was worried about this, thinking that the disparity in the power was too huge between Samiel and the Drider; she chose to believe that he would be okey.
And Yvraine had a rule that is no showing affection while they were in public, so no kisses or hugs in public places where people could see them doing so.
"I also obtained the places where the breeding lairs of the Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps are located on the 3rd Floor."
Samiel then said while walking with Yvraine side by side, as they went back to the City, meet with the Sarun Daragan so that they could organize the clean-up operations for the breeding lairs. If they were left as they were, these spiders would soon infest the entirety of the 3rd Floor, and then it would be practically impossible to get rid of them.
All spider-like species of Magical Beasts were resilient, good at hiding, and could live off even with minimal prey and food. Due to that, they need to be done as soon as possible before they create new breeding lairs on their own, and those would really be a pain in the ass finding.
Especially considering the fact that the forest on the 3rd Floor was one of the best natural environments for these species. Fortunately, it was not so for the Ettercaps, who preferred to live underground in wet and gloomy places without too much light.
"I can see that the Daragan Family will once again strike a goldmine with the Magical Beast horde when they sell all of these carcasses and other ingredients obtained from them... especially the poison glands of the Monstrous Spiders would fetch a nice sum of Gold Coins or Mana Crystals."
He commented as he saw the cleaners already dissecting some of the carcasses.
"Of course, you would get your share of 10% at a later date, and we will also forget the Estrid's reparations towards the Zephystrnad's facilities that she destroyed or damaged during her stay here."
Yvraine said, knowing exactly where her ???, really it was tricky, boyfriend?, maybe, wanted to say. Samiel was money grubber as hell, and he knew that Estrid, who was under his command, killed a lot of enemies, she disposed of Draegloths, and he himself killed the Drider and slaughtered thousands of Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps.
"Excellent, and, please don't say anything to that dunderhead... at least something good came out of my duty to take care of her."
Samiel laughed a bit as they continued their walk towards the Citadel of the Zephystrand City.