NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1482: Great Growth
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"Incredible…" the King said. "But such a power… Should a Summoner even have this?"
"Should I?" Blake wondered. "Does it matter?"
"A-Ah! No, no, I didn't mean to be rude," the King coughed. "Anyway, I suppose you're allowed to do it, if that could help us."
"Very well, thank you," Blake nodded.
He did just that, feeding the worms to the unconscious cultists, as the worms quickly traveled around their bodies and then reached their brains.
In that moment, Blake was able to quickly receive a lot of information from their heads, about the Cult of Belphegor and how they set up everything.
Using that information, Blake told the King and the Queen everything he learned, and a lot of things were finally understood, especially about how things happened to begin with.
Apparently the Demonic Cultists had placed a formation through many months, working in the shadows around the city.
They came from the Human Continent as well, commanded by Lady Sathan, the current Leader of the Demonic Cult.
Apparently, she believed that this place was the ideal ground for Belphegor to devour a lot of souls and get stronger to confront Blake and the heroes.
However, it seemed like she was quite desperate and barely sent a few cultists.
"Is it my idea or are the cultists… low on resources? And people?" Erdrich asked.
"It seems that our continuous victories have made them lose a large quantity of their members and resources, they're barely scraping by now," Elfriedden smiled.
"And it seems that Lucifer had completely lost faith in them, as Sathan complained he had not contacted them at all for months, and it seems he isn't even sharing resources or anything either," Blake specified with a smile. "Hah, so they're ready to be taken down… Cattalina, it's about time you have your revenge against her."
"…Yeah," Cattalina nodded. "I suppose that's what we'll do once we get back to the Central Continent…"
"Well, you have our utmost support," the King said. "We've decided to employ even more golems for the frontlines, as well as sharing our resources and knowledge much more to the Continental Alliance."
"It could be said we were being rather stingy before…" the Queen sighed. "We apologize… we believed we could never be affected, our grave mistake. And well, our daughter here convinced us…"
"Hah, well, that's good," Blake smiled. "Now, shall we enjoy something to eat?"
"Ah right! Where are my manners?! We'll quickly ask the chefs to prepare something!" the King nodded. "We should have a feast to celebrate! A city-wide feast, a festival! We've been freed from the nightmare! Everyone must know your names and your feats, young heroes!"
"Indeed! We shall call this day from now on as the Day of Awakening, where we woke up from the Nightmares tormenting us, which almost led to our deaths!" the Queen nodded.
Like that, a huge celebration started, both rulers informed the people through the city about what had happened, and everyone started celebrating and calling the names of Blake and the heroes.
Because the people were all healed as well, there wasn't any need for them to be nursed nor were they exhausted, and festivities started immediately, with hundreds of chefs and cooks beginning to prepare an incredible feast of Dwarven Cuisine.
Alberta's uncle, the dwarven nobles, and Evelyn joined them, coming from the coastal city after hearing the good news, and the feast and celebrations went on through the whole day until the night, as the King and Queen made sure to praise Blake and his friends as great heroes.
Now, he found himself sitting over a large seat inside of the castle's gardens, surrounded by his friends and many nobles that asked him about his life and many feats, wondering just who this mysterious young man could be.
However, as Blake told them about his early life and how plain boring it was as a mere farmer boy, it became clear that he wasn't some sort of grand noble with a great history behind him… of course, he kept most of the things that actually happened to him a secret.
Most nobles quickly lost interest on him and his friends, and they were able to enjoy a pretty normal and peaceful feast… as for the cultists, they were actually left alive and told to act "like always and naturally" by Blake, who sent them back to their hideout in the Central Continent as spies.
As this happened, Blake also admired his gains, defeating Belphegor and his gigantic army of nightmares had netted him a bountiful quantity of EXP, allowing him to finally…
Ding!
[You and your allies have slain the [Archdemon of Sloth, Belphegor (??? Rank)] and his Army of Nightmares!]
[Level Up!]
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[Your Level has increased from Level 402 to Level 500/500]
[All of your Stats have increased!]
[You gained Skill Points and Stat Points!]
[Several of your Skills have Leveled Up!]
[You learned the Title Skill: [Hero of the Dwarves: Lv1]!]
[You learned the Title Skill: [Archdemons' Greatest Enemy: Lv1]!]
[You have reached Max Level! You can now Rank Up by undergoing a special Rank Up Trial in the Tower of Trials located northeast of the Capital of Hellburn.]
[Your Spirit Orb is overflowing with Spiritual Energy, by absorbing enough Spirit Materials, you can Rank Up to the next Realm.]
"Good," Blake nodded, feeling quite satisfied with his gains so far. "With this, I am finally Level 500… I can go through another Trial, which seems a bit tiring, hopefully this one won't be as long… As for the Demonic Powers, I should absorb Belphegor's Archdemon Core elsewhere, his Soul was destroyed and Gluttony ate most of it, but as long as I absorb the Core I should get a lot of what he had."
As Blake nodded to himself and seemed ready, his thoughts were quickly interrumpted by Erika and Elizabeth, who called after him.
"Blake! Blake, they're doing a dance party!" Erika said.
"Let's go dance!" Elizabeth said.
"Dance?" Blake was left perplexed. "Wait, I am not good at-"
But before he could speak another word, both girls dragged him into the stage…
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