Chapter 49: Vulture
Cert's dead body sprawled on the ground his lower end gaping as its flesh had been grinded to mince by the sadistic Lilith. As she heaved a sigh, she felt good.
'Ahh, what a nice day this is.' She felt good about violating the pride of the man he didn't even know. She stretched her back and wiped her sweat after using too much MP.
'Summoning Vines and Thorns is still more exhausting than manipulating nature directly. Lilith sighed. She now has 700 MAG stats. Her current stats are oddly filled out as if it was trying to get the max stats of this form.
[Lilith Qurenara]
Tri Horn Apostle
STR: 117 + 83 = 200
DEF: 122 + 28 = 150
VIT: 500
AGT: 122 + 78 = 200
MAG: 487 + 213 = 700
PER: 142 + 58 = 200
Lilith's Mag had already reached 700 points, which is not surprising as she had been pouring her free points on MAG ever since she was a One Horn. Her MAG stats reaching 700 points is her reward.
The Tri Horn Apostle is not a natural evolution process, it is a variant of a variant.
It's an evolution inception.
Lilith was growing stronger, and it is not only her stats that is gradually becoming stronger but also her attributes and skills.
Attribute: Blaze (A), Storm (A), Greater Earth (A), Nature Creation (SS), Solar (A)
Passive Skills: Strong Vitality (A), Mana Manipulation (A), Spell Casting (A), Penta Elementalist (S), Blaze Manipulation (A), Storm Manipulation (A), Greater Earth Manipulation (A), Nature Creatopm Manipulation (SS), Nature's Blessing (S), Solar Manipulation (A)
Active Skills: Blaze Blitz (400 MP) (A), StormShield (200 MP) (D), Steal (500 MP) (A), Titan Weight (1000 MP) (A), Greater Earth Wall (700 MP) (A), Thorn Whip (600 MP) (S), Nature's Beauty (100,000 MP) (SSS), Earth's Grace (500 MP) (A), Solar Healing (1500 MP) (A)
This is just her Tri Horn Apostle form alone, and if the idea of her stats being imbalanced, it doesn't matter because her efforts are bearing fruit.
Tribulation Leopard
STR: 183 + 117 = 400
DEF: 93 + 107 = 200
VIT: 500
AGT: 223 + 277 = 500
MAG: 143 + 67 = 200
PER: 98 + 102 = 200
Cursed Purgatory Dragon
STR: 103 + 47 = 150
DEF: 333 + 267 = 600
VIT: 500
AGT:129 + 71 = 200
MAG: 164 + 36 = 200
PER: 139 + 61 = 200
Just like the Tri Horn Apostle, every other form has its own specialty. The Tri Horn Apostle specializes in magic, Tribulation Leopard in physical ability, and the Cursed Purgatory Dragon has its defense.
Back then, Lilith couldn't hold her head high in front of her followers, but now, she can. She's the leader but her followers are more terrifying than her, she's the support while the other two are her spearhead.
The other controls death, while the other controls space. Those two has an even more backstory than her. The other has a complicated revenge story while the other Lilith doesn't even know. It was a mess in terms of who is the leader. But like always, one could only sigh at such a thing and live one's own life instead of getting envied at others.
She wants them to grow stronger, and she knows they will surpass her soon enough, but, Lilith wish that her pride as a leader will be spared once that happens. She's currently standing on the top of their hierarchy, but, if there's a chance that it will be flipped.
'Well, those things would happen sooner or later. We'll see how it turns out.'
She's growing stronger by the day, and when the time comes when she marches to the mainland of human society, and take her own revenge, Lilith would have achieved her goals.
'Oh hey, I also have a revenge story. And considering how Dhampy shows signs of being a human before this…' Lilith realized that even her own so-called unique characteristics overlaps with her followers.
They mirrored one another.
As Lilith lamented the beauty of her character in the world of daemons, Eve's reverence echoed inside the cave.
"He talked real clearly, after what you did Priestess, what is that called?"
Lilith turned to Eve and in a serious expression she spoke.
"It's called the Fifth Base. It's the fifth-tier of my nine-tiered interrogation techniques!"
"You mean to say there's something even more amazing than the Fifth Base?"
"Yes, the sixth tier, for men it is known as the Purger and for the women it is the Crawler."
"It's even designated by gender? How amazing."
Lilith talked some more and Eve was in awe of her prowess of interrogation. Eve was impressed, as she should be.
Lilith walked away from the unnamed cave with valuable information at hand. She shook her head and stopped thinking about her current social status and began looking at the big picture.
According to the Continental Hunter who was really cooperative on giving out information, Lilith managed to extract most of the Hunter Association's Agenda and secrets.
There are three things he mentioned that attracted Lilith's attention.
First: They are trying to find a Vampire-Lord named Ecrastia.
Second: They are trying to find the lost hunter Kristina.
Third: They are trying to take over the Forest of Beast, to get to the unclaimed middle-section; what's in the middle section? Lilith doesn't know.
'In the end, their agendas boil down to finding something one way or the other. They could've just head to the middle-section, without warring with the other daemons, but they chose to build a base on the Neutral Area of Section 6 and Section 7. That means, two things, either there's something in the Neutral Area or they are preparing for something huge.'
However, Lilith does not their whole plan yet so, she will focus on the conquest of the Hunters.
Thankfully, she has now a way to fight them.
In her hands is a Hunter Network Phone or otherwise known as HNP.
It's an impressive piece of technology that connects directly to the Hunter's data base and considering Cert is a member of the operation, he obviously receives information from them.
In simpler terms, she can spy on them without having to lift a finger.
At the moment, Section 8 which is beside Section 4 is the next in line to be destroyed.
Lilith laughed as she turned to Eve.
"Eve, go with Chief and half of the Epic-tiers to the Neutral Area of Section 8 and 4. There should be daemons taking refuge."
Eve nodded her head.
"What about you Priestess, are you going somewhere?"
"Yes, I'm going to create the strongest army in this Forest."
Lilith transformed into a Tribulation Leopard and disappeared through the night. She already has the ability to spy on them, planning will come for later, her main problem lies on forming an even stronger force.
However, she will not use that force to save the Forest of Beast, oh no, her plans is not to be a magnificent war hero but to become a scavenger.
She plans on letting the humans take over everything other than her territory.
In short, borrowing the blade of her enemy to slay her competitor to domination.
'Let them kill each other.'
Lilith is not a fair ruler; she is the ruler of the underworld and this is how the poisonous snake of underworld fights — she fights by poisoning others before swooping in to reap all the benefits like a vulture.