Odyssey of the Blind God

It took a while for Nial to prepare everything to activate the Awakening of the Prymal ability.

The power of his abilities had increased drastically after he advanced to the Keltia rank. Each of his linked abilities grew stronger, including Awakening of the Prymal.

It was a little easier to control the ability now, though on the flipside the consumption of energy had increased exponentially. This was only obvious since he would be able to summon Mythician-ranked beings through the Awakening of Prymal ability.

Nial was not sure which rank the Shadowmancer would be, let alone where Dexter was sealed in the first place, but Kaeldur mentioned that there was no need to worry as long as he set aside more than enough Origin crystals.

Nial had collected millions of Origin crystals during the last few years. He didn't really need to use them, which was more than enough reason to put some of them aside.

Furthermore, the Origin crystals he had put aside were of decent quality as well. Thus, Nial was pretty sure that there wouldn't be a problem.

[This much mana is not enough. Should we conquer a few dungeons and exchange everything we can get our hands on with Origin crystals?] Kaeldur asked, bursting Nial's bubble once again. He was not sure how many millions of Origin crystals with decent quality and enough stored mana were required to refill the Mana Sea of a Deux Original but it was quite obvious that Kaeldur knew what he was doing.

'Were you Damian's secretary or something like that?' Nial couldn't help but ask.

[I managed his treasury and acted as one of the supervisors in Shelta, which is, or was, one of the biggest stellar systems under the God of Darkness' control. I know a bit since I was an Appraiser of all kinds of treasures before I was devilized.]

Kaeldur's answers astonished Nial a little. Usually, the devils didn't really like exposing personal information since most of it was directly related to their life before Damian devilized them.

Nial knew some things about a bunch of his Devils since he was slowly unsealing Damian's memories but there were still many things he was oblivious to. Otherwise, he would have known about Dexter's existence!

'You guys can conquer a bunch of dungeons and collect everything neatly while I talk to our lovely friends,' Nial told his Devils in his mind before he turned to Ryu.

"Bring me back to the shelter. We need to return to the Forest of Life to beg a little. You know what that means…" He told Ryu while patting him in pity.

Ryu was a big fluffy beast. It was not difficult to use him as a means of distraction since everyone liked to pet him.

Who would be able to escape a fluffy Ryu who loved pats and cuddles? Nial didn't know anyone!

Ryu stared at Nial in misery but he followed his master's command nonetheless. Nial was always busy and it was rare for Ryu to get to spend some time with him, so Ryu might as well make use of that.

Ryu missed spending time with Nial but knew better than to annoy him so he had found himself a group of kids that were willing to play with him all day but it was not as if Ryu didn't have any work to complete either. He had to lead a small army of subdued dungeon beasts to conquer a bunch of dungeons before.

With everyone's schedule being so packed under normal circumstances, it was great to spend some time with Nial. They may only be traveling to the Forest of Life via the teleportation circles in the Orion Shelter but Ryu was still quite happy and found it quite enjoyable.

After returning to the Forest of Life, Nial found himself surrounded by a bunch of High Elves and Sacred Elves. Everyone stared at him as his lifeless and milky white eyes stared unfocused in the general direction of the Royal Princess. She had returned to the Forest of Life with the Greater Forest Dragon youngling not too long ago.

The Greater Forest Dragon had voiced out its desire to return to the Forest of Life, which the Royal Princess agreed to without hesitation. Denying the requests of the Greater Forest Dragon would only lead to further problems in their future relationship. At least, that was what the Royal Princess and most other Elves thought.

However, Nial couldn't help but think that they acted like servants in front of the Greater Forest Dragon youngling. Raising the Greater Forest Dragon youngling like this would only end up creating a Master-Servant relationship…the opposite way of what the Elves wanted their relationship to be.

"I will break your tail if you hurt Ryu," Nial warned sternly when he visualized the excitement of the Greater Forest Dragon youngling. The little girl wanted to play around with Ryu but she was too afraid of Nial who was currently patting Ryu.

Nial was pretty sure that the instinctive fear of the dragon youngling hailed from its exceptional senses. She could tell that Nial possessed the power to devilize her and turn her into his subordinate if he wanted to. Nial wouldn't do that even if it could be pretty interesting to have a Devilized Greater Dragon as his subordinate since he promised not to snatch the Elves' dragon from them.

It would be a little bit different if the Greater Forest Dragon was interested in becoming his subordinate but that was not the case.

Thus, he told Ryu to play around with the little dragon youngling. Ryu was unwilling to leave Nial's side but he followed the command he was given. It was not as if he didn't want to play with the dragon youngling but Nial was more important to him.

Once Ryu and the dragon youngling started to play, Nial garnered even more attention than before.

"Your body doesn't hold any mana anymore, or did you improve in hiding your mana?" The Royal Princess asked after a few seconds of silence.

Nial smiled in response before he nodded his head once.

"It doesn't really matter whether I have mana or Divine energy surging through my body. I am here to ask for my payment plus interest since you conveniently forgot to pay me earlier!" Nial said calmly as if it was only obvious that he was supposed to get paid by the Elves.

The Royal Princess stared at him for a few seconds and he could feel the glares of the High Elves and Sacred Elves around him as well. Nial, however, didn't really mind their stares.

"What payment are you talking about?" The Royal Princess asked in return. She could roughly gauge what Nial was trying to do but she didn't really know what Nial might need. It was not as if he was lacking anything, to begin with.

"You threw me under the bus when you told me to fight Michael Ignis from the Draco family. I want a bunch of Origin crystals as payment for that, nothing more," Nial replied, which confused the Royal Princess even more.

"From what I heard, you don't even use Origin crystals…why would you ne–..." The Royal Princess started her question, just for one of the High Elves next to her to step forward while releasing some of his Mana. The High Elf was one of the Mythician-ranked High Elves and he didn't really like the way Nial talked, or acted.

"How about you get nothing?" He asked threateningly while taking a step forward.

"If I get nothing, I will take the dragon youngling with me…just saying," Nial responded calmly. There was no need to show that Ryu and the dragon youngling had bonded together and were playing around happily. Ryu could kill the dragon youngling the moment something was to happen to Nial, and the Darkness Gryphon would certainly do that.

"Though, I don't really think that I need to resort to petty tricks against the likes of you. You seem like a pushover if I were to be honest. Nothing but empty talk behind your little talent, old geezer."

Nial didn't really feel like wasting his time in the Forest of Life but it looked like the High Elf at the Mythician rank had other plans. As Nial provoked him, the High Elf took another step forward. More Mana was surging from his body, which caused the other Elves to tense up as they looked up in the sky.

However, nothing happened to the dragon youngling who continued to play around with Ryu. It was almost as if the two beasts didn't even take note of the trouble brewing around them.

At this moment, Nial disappeared inside his own Shadow. He appeared behind the Royal Princess with a faint smile on his face.

"I think your subordinate doesn't know how to act properly. You should give him a lecture in etiquettes when you have some time to spare!"