Hero of Darkness

In the middle of the deep and muddy marshlands filled with algae and grass, a gigantic body of a legendary rank monster lay with lifeless eyes as the opponent Basilisk gave it a horrifying death by literally melting its head and neck in magma. 

And now, its charred body from the upper region lay on the ground while a river of green blood spread across the waters of the battlefield. If this was a mountainous area, many cliffs and large amounts of trees would have been destroyed. 

Rudra, the victor of this deathmatch looked at the corpse of the opponent with his burning yellow eyes that had red cracks at the border as if a stream of magma was running through them. 

His new evolution had completely overthrown the Bjormngandur after his sudden transformation with the Draconian bloodline and took away every advantage it had at the beginning of their match. And then… the mythical rank Rudra had closed off the vast difference between their levels and strength and displayed who was the superior among them. 

Even with 70 levels of difference, he evenly matched against the opponent and again showed Kahn how much Ranks and Bloodlines mattered in this world. 

And now with the winner of the match was decided… Kahn appeared close to the ginormous corpse after the yellow cloud of neurotoxin venom vanished. 

Obviously… he was there to eat the free meal after Rudra barbecued the Bjormngandur by himself. 

"Shamelessness is in your blood." spoke Rudra as he scoffed at Kahn, feeling like he was wronged. 

"Shut up, freeloader! This is the only thing you've killed in a year. And I'm only absorbing the abilities. Not stealing its body or the core. Haven't you heard… 

Sharing is caring." retorted Kahn and put his hand on the ginormous figure. Compared to him, the corpse itself was 25 times taller. 

"Absorb!" commanded Kahn and activated the Ability Absorption divine ability. 

And it took Kahn full 3 hours to completely absorb the abilities and skills from this legendary rank monster that could've killed him as soon as he appeared in the 100 meters radius. But now, it was going to give him another set of amazing abilities. 

[Congratulations to the host for acquiring the following abilities & skills :

Illusion Gaze (SS Rank) (Active) :

Allows the host to temporarily distort all the senses of a target within 100 meter radius. The target will experience being in an illusion world for 1 minute. 

Note : This ability does not work on any being of higher levels or rank above the host. 

The host must make direct eye contact with the target for this ability to work. 

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Neurotoxin Venom (SSS Rank) (Active) : 

Allows the host to secrete a venom effective in destroying the nervous system from hands and mouth. 

The host can throw a direct stream of this venom up to 50 meters. 

Note : Host can control the effectiveness and potency of the venom as per his will

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Congratulations to the host! 

Poison Immunity raised to Legendary Rank! 

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30% Basilisk Bloodline absorbed! 

Current Bloodline purity : 80%

Note : There are no abilities or skills suitable to merge with the new abilities.] reported the system as soon as he was done. 

"Oliver, how did it feel like when this guy used that skill on you through the eyes?" asked Kahn to the flying jet subordinate. 

"Master… when I looked into the eyes of the Bjormngandur, suddenly the world around me broke apart into thousands of pieces and everything looked out of place. 

It felt as if I was in a completely different world. And I couldn't even control a single finger of my body. 

If not for me taking my true form, I would've fallen down and maybe get killed by this monster." expressed Oliver. 

"Ha ha! Amazing!" 

However, instead of consoling the subordinate, Kahn laughed in excitement as if he got his hands on invaluable treasure. 

"Now… reality bends to my will." spoke Kahn after hearing the effects of the Illusion Gaze skill. 

This ability was literally one of the best abilities one could ask for in a life-and-death battle. 

Unlike the Subterfuge skill Kahn had before which affected the sense of direction like the target sensing left as right side… Illusion Gaze completely messed with the mind of the target and one would not only lose the sense of all directions but also be pulled into an illusion realm where they'd also lose control over their body. 

So in simple words… this was even a terrifying skill than Executioner's Gaze which paralyzed the opponent on the spot. 

And the range of this ability was 100 meters which was already 10 times more than the former. This ability was indeed worthy of being SSS Rank. 

"Illusion Gaze is too mundane of a name. What should I call it instead?" asked Kahn to himself. 

"How about Mangekyou Sharingan…" 

"Ah, no! We will be sued for copyrights again." spoke Kahn with a dejected face. 

"Let's call it… Lucid Reality." he asked. 

Because this ability would put the target in an illusion while they were still awake and completely aware. 

[The name has been registered.] reported the system. 

Apart from the bloodline gains, the rise in poison immunity rank and the neurotoxin venom were already a plus. 

The latter being a skill that was many times more useful than the Lucid Reality because it wasn't limited an effective area range or number of targets. 

And Kahn already planned to maximize the outputs he could gain from this skill. 

"Human.. I will some time to eat the body and core." spoke the gigantic Rudra who appeared to be salivating as big blobs of magma dropped from his mouth. 

Since Rudra still hadn't become 100% loyal to Kahn, he couldn't directly mix the body of Bjormngandur with him. So it'd be good old-fashioned eating and absorbing method like the basilisk did with the Magma Drake before. 

And in front of Kahn and the generals, Rudra started eating the body by tearing through it with his steel-like teeth. While Kahn told the generals and rest of the legion subordinates to bring the dead bodies and put them in half a kilometer radius around him. 

For the next 5 hours, Kahn used the King of the Dead skill and started creating hundreds of new subordinates at once. 

Thanks to the millions of high rank mana cores and ores, he made up for the loss of all the foot soldiers he lost and added more numbers in the legion by mixing and evolving the red snake monsters that once worked under the orders of the Bjormngandur monster. 

By the next morning, Rudra was finished eating the entire body of the fallen enemy while they collected the remaining bones for making some use of them. 

"Human, I will need a few months to completely absorb the bloodline and abilities. I will be able to raise my levels by a lot as well. 

So I'll be in a great slumber. Do not call for me or expect me to come out until I'm done." spoke Rudra. 

"Airshhh… whatever. We'll make do without you even if there was a bigger monster next time. Go enjoy your vacation, you ungrateful snake." spoke Kahn in an exasperated tone. 

If they needed a big gun next time… they'd have to look for other ways because Rudra was going in the Odin Sleep again as he did after eating the Magma Drake a year ago. 

This seemed like an inevitable situation to Kahn but it was acceptable since it was the only way Rudra actually mastered and rose in strength unlike the other subordinates. 

But he knew that the next time he summoned Rudra… the basilisk would be even more powerful and bigger. 

As for Kahn, the total number of the legion subordinates rose to 3,20,000 after he was done with creating new subordinates yesterday evening. 

And now… he was a walking talking army himself. 

Kahn wondered if any of the other semi-saint, not only in Rakos Empire but the whole world of Vantrea could even rival him at this point given the number of OP and incredibly powerful skills he had. 

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After completing their expedition, Kahn and the generals returned to Hiranya and he met with the Stark brothers again. 

He informed that their venture was a success and the root cause of the yearly monster tides was taken care of by them. 

This made not only the two peak grandmasters but also all the other military officers worship Kahn to the point his figure appeared like a God to them. 

Because Kahn had directly saved millions of lives by taking care of the regional boss of their borders that caused these tides every year. 

Although Kahn wanted to find more about the true cause and why these legendary rank monsters did so, this was the best he could do for now. 

On that very evening, Kahn returned to Aesir and held an important meeting in his main throne room. 

He offered all the bones and whatever Rudra left of the Bjormngandur's body to Albestros for making new high grade weapons. 

After overlooking the reports handed by Sirius about their management of money and Seven Deadly Sins, he then talked with Armin. 

"So what can you make out of it?" asked Kahn as he showed the alchemist subordinate several large barrels filled with a green liquid. 

Armin was completely rooted on the spot but shouted in an exhilarated tone… 

"A weapon of mass destruction!"