A Serpent's Tale-Chapter 382: Bloody Marsh

I was still going to continue putting three thousand points into each descending stat, but then I thought about it and calculated that it would probably be better to lower it to two thousand five hundred instead.

Doint the math, it works out to about three more stats upgraded, minus [Charm] and leaving me with around six hundred and sixty-one [Stat Points] left over. Which I guess I can just put into [Charm] for the hell of it.

That now decided, it was time to finish of spending all my points.

[Ding!]

[+6,250,000 Agility]

[Agility: 6,285,600 (+14,500)]

As Soon as I increased my agility, I felt my body become a lot more flexible, like my movements were a lot smoother now too. It felt like my every move would never be hampered again.

I smiled, as this change merely caused a faint rippling shock to flow throughout my body. Maybe I should’ve started with my [Strength] and [Defence] stats first since that could’ve saved me some pain and bloodshed. But it was too late to turn back now. I had to keep going.

[Ding!]

[+249,900 Speed]

[Speed: 252,165 (+2,100)]

I felt no change this time, which was a little odd, yet at the same time it wasn’t odd. I’d expected something to have happened no matter how minor it was but no, I felt no different after that. Oh well, not a bad thing. Could’ve been worse.

[Ding!]

[+13,750,000 Stamina]

[Stamina: 100% (+15,324,150)]

This change was, like the rest, immediate, and unlike with my [Speed], I could actually tell what had changed as I felt so much more energy within me. It was as if my body had been invigorated with near endless energy. It basically had been considering how much stamina I just gained from that.

I could probably survive for days or maybe even weeks with this new energy alone. I’d still get hungry in that time, but I for sure could keep going with my maximum effort at anything physically demanding. Like sex for example.

’Oh dear Goddess, the sex I could have with this much stamina, holy shit.’

With this newfound and quite frankly unholy level of stamina... Now, just simply all of my newfound power I would be basically unstoppable. I think.

There was the power that killed my mother even despite my father being who he is. I don’t think I could contend with that kind of power, but I could definitely fend for myself now.

Oh right, there was one last one I wanted to do.

[Ding!]

[+1,155,000 Charm]

[Charm: 1,158,500 (+20,000)]

I felt my body compress slightly in on itself for a few seconds before the feeling suddenly went away. When I looked over my body, I couldn’t feel anything different. There was a little bit of dried blood splattered all over me here and there, though not quite dried enough to crumble away, but sticky and tacking to my-

’Hang on... Did my boobs get bigger or am I imagining it?’ I reached up and cupped my breasts, squishing them lightly.

They felt... Heavier? No that’s not quite it. It was more like they had been completely filled up...

’Right, they must be full of milk now, given how long I’ve left them for. I may be able to control my lactation, but not my production.’

With that realisation out of the way, I prepared to burn all of my expunged flesh and blood when a voice suddenly called out to me.

"Wait." It was calm and caring, yet it held a hint of authority with its smooth and sexy masculine tone.

"Father?" I called back, looking up to the giant tear in the sky.

"Leave it. No one, not a single living being will touch a single drop besides you."

That confused the ever-living shit out of me. Why the fuck would he want me to not burn it? "Why? Why shouldn’t I burn it? Isn’t it bad to leave so much of myself around like this?"

He explained, "Normally yes, but in this case, it could potentially be used to alter the realm itself if left alone for long enough. And I don’t want to use you like this, but it would be beneficial to Hell’s forces to do so. Still, I understand if you don’t want to do that. I’m not trying to force you into anything you don’t want."

"How though? How is this helpful?" I asked, trying to get a solid answer.

"It will eventually transform this land into a place full of rich, natural Hellish energies full of the [Space] attribute, which will give us an affinity to finally use the [Space] element. Again, if you don’t want to do this, that’s completely fine, I won’t stop you." He said in a calm yet patient and regal tone that didn’t put any real pressure onto me, and ultimately left it to me to decide.

I sat there for a minute, thinking of what I wanted to do. I looked at the bloody marsh that I created from my own flesh and blood.

A big part of me wanted to just burn the fleshy remnants of my insides, leaving all of the blood. But if I did that, then I don’t think that it will have as much impact as father’s hoping it will.

Before I made a decision though, I wanted to ask just one more question.

"How long will this transformation take exactly?"

When I asked that, I didn’t get an immediate response. He was likely calculating the time needed to achieve whatever amount of time was needed to have this change to happen.

A minute passed and he still hadn’t responded, and I was about call back out to him when he finally replied.

"If we let it happen naturally, several dozens of millennia. But, if we manipulate the time inside the realm, then it would still take somewhere between ten to twenty thousand years."

I nodded and decided to think on it as I slowly made my way outwards, since being in this massive and expansive puddle of blood was start to smell and make me nauseated.

When I was finally able to see the edge of the blood pool, I saw many demons just standing there, all looking like they wanted a taste of the power held within my blood. Which was irritating because I suffered immensely creating all of this, and here they were, wanting to try and use it to increase their own power.

This might be hypocritical, but I don’t care. I wasn’t going to let any of them have a single drop.

And it was clear that my presence scared them as I saw them recoil from just a minor ounce of my Aura being unleashed. Some of them even fell on their asses out of fear.

They all backed away as I finally came to a decision. Though, I guess since I started moving away from the centre where all of the flesh I originally intended to burn, I had already decided. I was just trying to internalise it for myself.

Once I slithered out of the red marsh, I burned all of the remaining blood that coated my body and gave my response.

"You can Do what you want. Just don’t let anyone or anything touch it." I said with a sigh.

The reason I decided to let them do what they wanted, was because my father never really requested me for things. The only that he’s every really asked of me was that I continue living my life freely, not giving it up for anyone or anything.

He’s helped me achieve that also by teaching me how to use magic and fight. All for the purpose of living.

He’s also the only reason I’m alive. I don’t remember much about my mother. Not her voice or her face. I only remember her love and that she was eternally grateful to my father for allowing me to be born.

I basically owe my everything to him. But all he asks of me is to keep living. Never asking for anything else ever.

And because of that, I’ve always wanted to do something else for him. And this is that chance. But I also don’t want it to be used against me or him in any way, so I added one condition.

"But it can only be used by people you approve of when it’s finished. And you have to watch them when they do whatever it is that they do here. Oh, and also only one person can come in here at a time."

That last condition was something I just thoughts of as a safety measure since demons are inherently untrustworthy, even when faced with someone more powerful than them like my father. Regardless, if there was anyone I would do anything for, it was my father.

And even though he wasn’t directly asking nor forcing me, I still wanted to do this because it was something I could do for him. And I wanted to make him happy through more than just living, to help him through more than just simply going about my life.

And this was how. Allowing him to use my flesh and blood to soak into and empower this realm.