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Partner was rubbing on me cutely. Her lovely and cold embrace calmed my agitated non-existent heart.
“Phew… Thank you, sweetheart. I think I feel a bit better now.”
“Better? I’m glad!”
Partner suddenly rubbed her nose with my own.
“Fweh?”
This is so cute!
“Partner, you’re way too precious!”
I hugged her back as Lucifer looked at us with a tired expression.
“What’s wrong? Feel excluded? Fueheh…”
“I-I am fine by my own!” said Lucifer while crossing his arms.
“Come here, grumpy dragon!”
I rushed over to him and hugged him. He seemed angry as he pouted at me. But he was getting embarrassed and as red as a tomato, which was even funnier because of how pale his skin originally was.
“S-Stop! I don’t require any affection! I am an Undead. WE are Undead! Don’t you understand? W-We are beings born from death! We must embrace the darkness and- Uagh!”
I began to rub his beautiful black horns; they were very hard, and I could feel like they could make an excellent crafting material.
“S-Stop touching my horns!” He cried.
“I am your master, so I can do whatever I please!” I laughed.
“Ungh…!”
Lucifer’s lips trembled cutely as he looked at the floor, embarrassed.
Partner got jealous, though…
“Gggrrr…” She began to show off her sharp fangs at Lucifer.
“Stop looking at me like that! S-Seriously, what kind of fate worse than death is this? Ugh, I should have just asked you to kill me….” Lucifer sighed.
“Oh, these pointy ears are pretty cute too!”
I began to touch his cute elf-like pointy ears. They were soft and cold as ice.
“T-This is sexual harassment!” He cried out.
“Fuehehe… There’s no law for the dead!”
…
After teasing the prideful dragon for a bit, I decided to evolve. Well, Partner evolved first.
“Evolve!”
Partner raised her arms upwards, and as soon as she shouted, phantasmal energies gathered around her as her body was “upgraded”.
FLAAAASSSHHH!
Her skin turned less dry and gained a bit more youthfulness, her hair was also less dry, and her eyes shone with crimson-red light.
Her aura emanated something off, though, as if she was imbued with darkness and evilness.
Her skin was made pale white, and I could now see her eyes better beneath her messy black hair.
“I have evolved!” She cried out, with a more articulated way of speaking.
She had clearly grown stronger!
“T-This can’t be…! D-Rank already?! And is that… Ah! I’ve never seen one of them evolve naturally… And you said she used to be a skeleton? What are the odds?!” Lucifer pondered out loud due to his disbelief, though I didn’t know what he was even talking about.
I checked her status on my own.
…
[Name: [Partner]
[Race: [Dark Dhampir Knightess]
[Level: [1/30]
[Rank: [D+]
[Status: [Strengthened]
[HP: [530/530]
[MP: [230/230]
[Attack: [480]
[Defense: [350]
[Magic: [105]
[Agility: [280]
Characteristic Skills:
[Undead: Lv--]
[Dark Element: Lv--]
[Blood Element: Lv--]
[Dhampir: Lv--]
[Fiend Language: Lv4]
[Black Steel Bones: Lv6]
[Morphed Body: Lv4]
[Self-Regeneration: Lv4]
[Flesh Consumption: Lv4]
[Bloodsucking: Lv1]
Resistance Skills:
[Status Effect Immunity: Lv--]
[Physical Damage Resistance: Lv5]
[Magical Damage Resistance: Lv4]
Normal Skills:
[Life Drain: Lv5]
[Bone Claw: Lv6]
[Intimidation: Lv5]
[Spear Thrust: Lv5]
[Triple Thrust: Lv3]
[Dark Bullet: Lv2]
[Dark Spear Thrust: Lv3]
[Steady Fighter: Lv4]
[Spear Mastery: Lv1]
[Armor Mastery: Lv1]
[Acrobatics: Lv1]
[Phantasmal Hand: Lv1]
[Bloodwork: Lv1]
[Blood Arts: Lv1]
Title Skills:
[Servant of the Dark Witch: Lv--]
[Death Knight: Lv--]
[Blood Race: Lv--]
…
When I checked her stats, I was left a bit speechless.
I can see why Lucifer would grow scared; she had gotten stronger than him!
Well, after he leveled up, he got a ton of stats, so they are almost even, but she’s still stronger.
Her stats had increased by quite a lot, and she got an enormous quantity of new Skills too! Her race also changed into a Dark Dhampir Knightess! What?!
“Blood… I crave blood!”
Partner moved towards me and bit me in the neck, but no blood came out.
“Partner, I don’t have blood.”
“Oohh… Sniff…”
Damn, she really wanted to drink my blood.
Anyways, it seems that she had stepped into a lower race of the evolution tree that god damn Vampires have, for some reason.
I don’t know how she really did it, but she did it. Maybe being my subordinate really expanded her evolution options, and she chose the strongest, which was her current form.
I asked her about this too, as she was now able to talk more eloquently.
“When… I was a skeleton… I think there were more options… Like… Big skeleton… But I chose the other so I could have flesh… And this evolution… it was the strongest,” She explained to me.
So that’s why! It seems that Dhampirs have their weaknesses as Vampires lessened because she clearly does not have such weaknesses. She can also control blood, and her Spear Technique had become quite powerful. And, of course, she got cuter.
So overall… 10/10.
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Thanks for the chapter
Pertner is too cute to this world
The world better learn to deal then cause Partner isn't going anywhere!
Truly. Let’s start a cult miss apostle of the outer ones!
@EthanPeh The cult's first mission: Find a satisfactory way to grant our Lady's current wish. The little cutie so desperately wants to taste her beloved master's blood but since she was raised from Maria's corpse the blood she's craving is technically her own right? I don't want to see Partner mutilate herself to get what she wants. Any ideas?
@AnimeFreak1982 hummmmm? That's kinda hard, maybe Maria could make a homunculus, or more like body to herself, to infiltrate on the city or something, well not that she need it, but she already said that she would like to feel flavor again, and then with this body Partner would have her blood
@Jpcvb I seem to recall that some ghosts can manifest in a solid form. Do those sorts of spirits bleed? If so maybe Maria could evolve into one?
@AnimeFreak1982
@PancakesWitch Vampire Song o,..,o https://youtu.be/eiuVIcoV6bY
@AnimeFreak1982 aren't spirits basically the souls of nature
@Hunterx123 people also call spirits to people's souls
@PancakesWitch it is only a human evolution creating a body of ectoplasm and abandoning the form of flesh there is no death if there is a will to exist.
to strengthen the soul it is only necessary to condense energy in the soul through understanding, unconsolidated knowledge is lost and forgotten, memories of strong emotions remain after reincarnation for a reason. Also gestures and manias of individual personality remain after reincarnation.
souls are not eternal souls degrade until they die but ectoplasm remains, in a world with excess death, magic is possible thanks to ectoplasm, while in a world in decline there is no magic due to overpopulation and lack of ectoplasm released into the air. ownerless ectoplasm is absorbed by babies to create new souls and the death of souls creates more ectoplasm a cycle that only the dark matter above our heads in the dark sky breaks by erasing the ectoplasm and making it empty darkMatter again.
souls are only seeds of the tree of the universe and of 99.9% of souls only one of them will evolve and create a new universe.
energy is neither created nor destroyed, it only transforms at the beginning it was dark matter and at the end of everything it will be the same.
the system that governs the real world you don't need to be a god to understand it
@Dreckons what the heck are you talking about
@PancakesWitch very complicated, very complicated but I speak of my study of existence and souls in interaction with atoms and dark matter. I am a rather fragmatic scientist in search of the truth
@Dreckons you sound like a schizo
@Dreckons ok, I understand the idea, but any way. What the f*ck, this thing get from 1 to 100 way to fast