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Chapter 1096: Devil Vicente’s first territory
Vicente didn’t have to go far. As soon as he spotted the opportunity indicated by Minos, it didn’t even take him 20 minutes to find the first Reincarnation Wheel in the territory formerly belonging to Devil Abby, free for anyone to challenge.
Minos had specifically brought Vicente to the Hell inside Abby’s former territory. Consequently, he was close to a number of areas available for challenge.
Taking advantage of not having anyone around to compete with him, Vicente would soon stop for his first challenge.
Even though he knew almost nothing about the Hell, his Infernal Crown made him feel more or less what he should do and where it would lead him.
Dominating territory and building his macabre influence seemed the only way to grow one’s darkness in this dimension. The way to do this was to integrate with the negative laws of the area and connect deeply with the hell dimension.
In Vicente’s view, the crown he had received earlier was nothing more than an element connecting living beings to this infernal reality, to the elements and rules of this region of space. Through it, he had the minimum to master zones and Reincarnation Wheels, which would naturally lead him to become stronger and more in tune with the dimension.
Vicente didn’t need to hear an explanation about the Hell from anyone to understand that if he achieved over 50% mastery over this space, he would become the supreme and absolute being of the Hell. Naturally, this would give him powers over the dead and their souls.
As he revealed his crown in front of the first Reincarnation Wheel he intended to master, he made his Throne of Darkness appear along with his violet, indigo, and cyan essences.
The surrounding mana vibrated, and the glow of that Reincarnation Wheel dimmed, quickly losing its threatening characteristic for those not connected to it, while a flow of power brought it closer to Vicente.
Vicente felt the flow of souls through that essence, noticing that, in the midst of the infernal darkness, there was also light. From death came life, with the legendary wheel in front of him transforming dead creatures into shooting stars, flying through time and space, going to new universes and worlds to rise again.
Seeing the process of reincarnation taking shape, he understood the workings of that primordial structure, but also weaknesses in its entirety.
’This wheel seems weakened, slow... Almost as if something were stopping its flow.’ Vicente’s eyes narrowed, unable to see what exactly was limiting that structure, but still perceiving the problem. ’Something is behind it... but is it related to just this wheel or is it something more general?’
His process of dominating his first territory in Hell came with an ease that Minos and his women had never encountered. If they had been watching the boy with the long black hair begin his infernal journey, the four of them would have been shocked by the natural affinity Vicente had, able to disregard tests that could be deadly to the unaccustomed.
His crown grew stronger and the black liquid in his being increased in density and volume, also increasing his power in qualitative and quantitative terms.
It wasn’t enough for Vicente to progress to the next level and obtain his stage advancement. But he improved a little more and was also able to formulate a local growth strategy.
Vicente immediately set his sights on hunting territories and Reincarnation Wheels, but also on gaining a better understanding of the Hell.
Looking at his surroundings after finishing his first conquest, he gained some new senses-similar to those that Devils would have after starting their journey of power and domination in the Hell. He realized the position of enemy territory, as well as gaining the benefits of having his own territory.
Vicente felt a black creature begin to form in front of him, which he identified as his first infernal guardian, similar to Minos’ diabolical dogs.
At the same time, he felt a better connection with the dead that made up the soil of the Hell, realizing that he could summon a group of them whenever he wanted from now on.
It also made him realize that, just as he was already wishing to expand his domains, the Hell creatures older and probably more powerful than him were going to do the same.
’I’m guessing that something has happened to Lady Abby and her territories are now free for anyone to take over. Being as powerful as she was, I’m sure many individuals I can’t challenge will be coming towards that territory. Vicente’s eyes flashed in caution, sensing what might happen next.
’I have to be careful. I’ll hurry up and get a few more territories around here before I move to one of the borders of this domain. The competition here is going to be too fierce for someone of my cultivation.’
With this plan of action, Vicente set off, not bothering to go after the core of his domain to learn from the tools and materials available. He sensed the position of this place and what he would gain by going to it, but he didn’t want to be near the chaos of the disputes when they began.
Remembering how Minos had warned him about beings even stronger than the enemy earlier, Vicente didn’t want to risk it.
With a cautious smile on his face, he knew of the challenges, but also of the great opportunity in his path. A single Reincarnation Wheel had already strengthened him enough, and he was sure that two or three more would take him to the next stage: Sorcerer!
He hurried to achieve this level before continuing his escape from the grandiose territory of Devil Abby. Luckily for him, the Hell was very large indeed and it would take hours, days or weeks-depending on the enemies’ cultivation-for the first Devils to reach the area!
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In the blink of an eye, two days had passed since Vicente had entered the Hell. He hadn’t yet witnessed any combat or movement from high-level Devils, but after conquering his 13th Reincarnation Wheel, Vicente was already making his way away from Abby’s territory.
Having reached the peak of the 1-Star Sorcerer stage, he could now go back to hunting pentagrams-which he couldn’t do for the time being, however. As far as he understood, the rules of the dimension he was in didn’t allow pentagrams to form. But once he returned to Anicane, something he wanted to do as soon as he reached 5-Star, he could hunt again.
But for the moment, he didn’t know how to escape the Hell and had only one immediate goal in mind: to reach one of the Hell’s uncontested areas!
From what he already knew, there were several such places, many of them still ownerless and uncoveted in the same way that Abby’s territory now was!
