Empress' Evolution
Chapter 69: Dead but still alive

In the multiverse, there is one constant thing and that is death. The ending that comes as one breathes their last.

It can be caused by many reasons but the end result is always the same, one's breath would stop and the mind would cease to function, the soul will disappear, and one will become a meat bag.

However, there are beings who do not breathe but their brain functions as intended. Their heartbeats, and their blood flow.

These beings are undead.

Unlike the living, these beings challenge the preconceived train of thought that death is the end for these beings are the bringer of truths. They are a testament that death is not the end.

It was dead of the night, a being cloaked with darkness weaved through the trees of a scarlet forest. Her heart was beating, yet she does not breathe. Her mind functions, and yet she is not alive.

Dhampy moved around the forest, with a collection blood trailing behind. Every minute, her mana would be drained, but that is good.

On her tail was a wave of mindless daemons, they are beasts who seek flesh and blood to sustain their bodies and lives. Resembling that of a dog whose body had been set ablaze from the inside, these daemons are Fire Hounds.

Every being lives, they need to eat, and even someone like Dhampy who's neither dead nor alive also needs to eat and her sustenance is quite simple, the elixir of life. The blood of a living being, the one thing that enables on to live.

"Let me end this in one fell swoop."

Dhampy continued moving forth and the took a little portion of the blood ball she had collected and activated her self-made skill, Multiple Blood Bullets. Simple in name and simple in its job.

She twisted her body, as she fired the Multiple Blood Bullets to her pursuer. Her aim was astute, hitting the parts where she needed to hit. The opened mouth, the opened eyes, and the unguarded nostrils, that is the targets that must be assaulted.

Kuwaa! The Beasts wailed in pain, they fell to the ground one by one and as they did, Dhampy simply gave the command, and three dark portals opened leading to the world she controls.

Skeleton Soldiers came out of the portals, their bones as white pearl and as sturdy as steel. These skeletons are of higher level, they belonged to daemons who had been previously slain by Dhampy.

'Beasts are mindless creatures, they are unlike 'True Daemons' who think of their own, they are beings who act on their instincts and that instinct is telling them to kill me to survive. How pitiful.'

A life without a mind, that's not considered as being alive, it is closer to being cattle or a puppet. As such, Dhampy used the sword on her right hand to draw an arc of blood as she joined in on the fray.

With a sword as elegant as the crane and oppressive as the universe's vastness, Dhampy moved forth and slew her enemy.

She was unhesitant in doing so. Cruel and fierce had never left her name, she was a battle goddess who sought after the death of her opponent so she herself could live. In other words, she is someone that is no different than beasts.

However, she had been reborn two times and found a way twice as well. Now, she wields her sword as she found another reason to fight, to fight for her leader and the ones who follow and believe her just like before.

Not being someone who is chained to a room waiting for orders. She is now living not for the sake of others she does not know; she now lives because once again, she found a reason.

As she did so, Dhampy smiled as she took the head of the enemy. A final howl of death echoed before anything else. She drew out the blood of the daemons and turned them to husks.

'This is a good haul.' She said as she drank the blood she had collected, 'My MP remained at 50%, that is nice. I am getting used to moving more and more. Also, these hounds will become good rations for the explorers.'

These daemons will be turned to dried rations later after it is prepared by the Praeries. The Explorers are daemons like her, those who wander the forest clearing up hordes of daemons in order to replace food and gather some intel.

Even she knows not of this place other than it being a place of fire and blaze. Currently, their base cannot move as one of them sleeps and cannot be disturbed so in a place where they know not of the enemies, these daemons are slowly moving forward, trying to map seek if they'll be able to map out the area.

It was annoying to do, yes, but it is also necessary for them to do so. Securing the perimeter, ensuring they will survive any and every possible attack, an escape route, and a functioning society.

Currently, Dhampy was the one leading the daemons together with Chief for she was the oldest follower. But only now did she understood as to how much pressure Lilith was in when she was leading their group.

'If only the HNP didn't break when the [Phoenix's Breath] descended.' She cursed the shitty event that happened three months prior when Lilith was injured as she was forced to protect them all and when she became nothing but a useless bystander, 'Humans, are you trying to take someone away from me again?'

Dhampy's past may have been connected to humans where she acted as their protector from harm. But since they did the experiment months ago, she had already wavered from her duties.

But after what happened to Lilith, she can no longer turn a blind eye to them, and she vowed to end the accursed race. And one day when she tells Lilith of the truth, when she decides to reveal that she is not what she seems, and Lilith decides her death is the compensation for lying, Dhampy would gladly take her life.

But for now, she will offer her sword to Lilith, the leader of the daemons and the only one she will ever call Boss.

~Bis sis, we are having trouble harvesting a Meat Core here, a Boss at LVL 60 appeared, we need backup.~

~Luna, where is your sister? They should have arrived by now, correct?~

~She and Brother Killa seems to be interrogating a human, she used a lot of MP but in turn, managed to collect an HNP.~

Dhampy suddenly had a headache.

~At least they managed to get an HNP, unlike last time. Alright, I'm heading over, oh yeah, if you have MP left, inform Sylva I'll be talking with her later.~

~I understand.~

Thus, Dhampy left. Her conviction to end the humans had been nailed. Even though her time is limited, she is willing to give it to Lilith.

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The world is not cruel nor is it unfair. That's not its job.

Fate is the one that fucks you up.

In a world of darkness where everything is dark stood a little daemon. She carried a soft smile as she looked ahead into the infinite darkness.

"When am I going to wake up?"

Her voice was soft, almost imperceivably as it was devoured by the void. The darkness rumbled as she spoke, and as she did so, she heard an answer.

"You are dead~" the words echoed, "You can never go back~"

Lilith raised her head and asked, "Really?"

"Nah, I'm just fucking with you."

Letza descended from the Divine Realm again, proving that her words about meeting again were true and she being busy is pure bullshit.