The Rise Of A Porter

Back in the domain...

"At least you're functioning as usual." Arnold smiled. 

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The creature is absorbing the nutrients from the blood... 

Hunger diminishes...

The creature isn't hungry anymore.

The creature has successfully absorbed the nutrients from the blood of Cosmic A ranked mutated monster.

Attributes Increased!

HP: +5000

Strength (STR): +60

Defense (DEF): +45

Agility (AGI): +48

Intelligence (INT): +33

The blood of the monster contains 4 compatible ability. 

The creature can learn a new ability from 'Tiamut's blood'!

<Allow the creature to learn new ability?>

• Yes or •No

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"Just four? I thought there would be more... Either way, let's do this." Arnold mumbled, "Yes."

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The creature is learning the abilities... 

Abilities learnt successfully!

• [Corrosive Breath] : (Active ability) upon use, shrouds the area in thick mist having corrosive properties. This skill is especially effective while fighting against heavily armoured opponents. Its corrosive nature can destroy any armour apart from the <Divine> class armours. Can affect friends and foes alike. 

[ Rank: Cosmic C ]

[Mana cost: 1000/per use]

[Cooldown: 1 day]

• [Arctic Breath]: (Active ability) Summons the power of Jotunheim and releases a cold burst of ice. Upon coming in contact, the target's lose their mobility and agility is reduced by up to 50%. Can affect multiple targets at once. 

[ Rank: A ]

[Mana cost: 100/per use]

[Cooldown: 10 minutes]

• [Dragon's Will]: (Passive ability) When the HP is down to 30%, the skin of the user hardens, gaining 50% damage reduction and 45% increase in defence. Lasts for 2 minutes. 

[ Rank: Cosmic D ]

[Mana cost: 200/per use]

[Cooldown: 7 minutes]

• [Halahala]: (Active ability) Unleashed the most potent and venomous poison in the universe. Upon contact, paralyses the target. If the target is not detoxified within 5 seconds, their insides get burnt beyond repair. Once the five seconds pass, not even the goddess of healing can bring back their doomed souls. Due to prior consumption, the Higher God's have some resistance to this poison, but even they are not immune to its effects. 

[ Rank: Cosmic A]

[Mana cost: 10000/per use]

[Cooldown: 6 months]

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"At least, the egg got one of the abilities I wanted it to have." Arnold sighed in relief, "Those overpowered abilities are a pain in the butt. Still, it sucks Talos can't resurrect the self-proclaimed goddess. She would've been a great addition to my army. Well, I think he can try it again, once I've ascended."

A few minutes ago... 

The moment Arnold got back into, he had wanted to start working on making a relic. But there were some issues. One, the construction of the new forge inside his void (inside the Avalon to be precise) wasn't complete yet. Talos and the other automatons were diligently working on it now as they had been interrupted due to the commotion at the black estate. So it might take a couple of more days to finish it up. 

Second, Arnold wanted to resurrect Tiamut and have her as his summon. She was stronger than anyone on earth at the moment and Arnold didn't want to waste the opportunity. Thus he and Talos went to resurrect Tiamut's human body. Arnold didn't want to resurrect the dragon's body as he was planning on using that body to upgrade and build new weapons and gear. The fight with the demigod had proved that although his gears could be considered the best of the best, they weren't enough to take down higher beings.

Arnold was fairly sure more higher beings would start popping up soon. At least, that's the pattern had been so far. Tiamut's dying words also backed up what Arnold was thinking. She had warned him that the demigods would target him now and if their powers were anywhere near Tiamut's power, Arnold didn't know how he would be able to handle them alone because the others, including his summons, have proved to be useless against them. At least for now. That's why he needed stronger gears. 

Arnold was also thinking about upgrading Talos. He wasn't planning on doing anything extraordinary, but something simple enough to let him have a fighting chance on his own. So far all of his transformations have long ranged damaging abilities. Even though the Demon Orc form has a pretty sturdy defence, it can't deal much damage if Talos isn't able to use the spikes on its back. Another point that came out in the open while fighting against Tiamut. Either way, back to Tiamut. 

Talos and Arnold tried resurrecting the Goddess but couldn't do it. Initially, Arnold thought Talos couldn't do it because the corpse wasn't 'intact', as Arnold had beheaded her. The reality, however, was far from that. Earlier whenever Talos had tried resurrecting someone who had been mutilated or whose body wasn't intact, his system notified him about the issue. However, now that the system was on standby till he completed the ascension quest, he had no way of knowing what was happening wrong.

Arnold thought it was happening because the body wasn't intact. Thus he wanted to use that corpse as material to forge as well. But Talos expressed his doubts, stating, "It doesn't feel to be that case..."

"What do you mean?" Arnold asked the automaton, he was intrigued by how Talos used the word 'feel'. After all, he wasn't capable of feeling anything.

Talos then proceeded to explain what he thought was happening. As unlike Arnold, Talos didn't have a system but he had a theory.

"It could be that the rules for resurrection applied to mortal beings not higher ones. I think the elder mentioned it once but I could be wrong. I know it sounds absurd, but what isn't absurd in this world?"

"It is an interesting theory. But even if it's true, we can't wait to see if it's right or not. Remember we still need to prepare ourselves for the swamps. And believe me when I tell you, it will be one hell of a war." Arnold smiled, squatting next to Tiamut's corpse, "Even if we can't resurrect her, we can still use her."

Saying so, Arnold took some of her blood and smeared it on Talos' transformation rune. But unlike before, nothing happened. Talos looked kind of confused and so did Arnold until... 

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Caution! 

A lesser being cannot take the form of a higher being. For transformation to be complete, the being should be either of the same categories as the one transforming or lower. 

Your summon, <Talos> cannot take the form of a Demigod until you have ascended to the same level and upgrade your summons. 

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"What happened, master?" Talos inquired. 

"Looks like your theory might be correct." Arnold scratched the back of his head, "It's all related to my ascension quest. But I could try to feed the blood to the egg. I just hope it works. After that, just store the bodies. It's good that bodies don't decay in the domain."

Back to now... 

Arnold turned around to leave. The golems were busy disassembling the dragon's corpse outside so he needed to head back and supervise them. But as he turned around, he heard something crack. 

'No freaking way... It still had a week left before hatching. Then why?'

Arnold thought and slowly turned back to face the egg and as he did, another message popped up in front of his eyes. 

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The wyvern egg has reached its maximum potential. The egg will hatch now. 

<It is recommended you move the egg to an open area. Any structure above or below the egg might get destroyed or damaged.>

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"DUKE, TALOS, EVERYONE! DROP WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING AND GET YOUR ASS IN HERE BEFORE THE EGG HATCHES!" Arnold roared through the radio.