Chapter 310: Immortals
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Benladann had suggested I just eat at Rose's soul now that she was of no use. She seemed to not know anything more than what we already wanted to know, but she was getting a bit too extreme there. Rose had already died after all and was enslaved and charmed by both of us, it was enough to let her be at our side as a servant, and she held important information and power that could be of use.
It's not like I was charmed by her beauty or something cliché like that, but it was useful to have someone so resourceful in the area of knowledge available with us, after all, by eating souls I do not always get all the information they have, even less Benladann whose soul-eating is an even inferior version. Keeping her soul "alive" while having her enslaved and charmed is for the best.
"No, I have a better usage for her. I think her soul alone is very strong, we can use her as an undead, and also a guide to the Vampire's Hideout… Ah, it wouldn't be good to go now, that Tyrannical Lady is an Immortal, isn't she? She could kill all of us with ease…" I said.
"But if that's the case, why doesn't she bring herself here and find Ruby?" asked Benladann.
"It's a sin for Immortals to attack Mortals… The World's Will punish them. However, as long as these mortals are inside of their divine realms, they can ignore the will of the world and do whatever they want to us… But as long as she doesn't through strange motives, she cannot come directly to catch Ruby or she'll be suppressed by the world… although that wouldn't even make my lady falter as she's very strong, but it would alert of all the other Immortals living here about her!" said Rose.
Immortals…
What are Immortals? I had asked this question to those that knew something about it. They always said they were beings comparable to Gods.
When a mortal breaks through Rank 7, they become officially an Immortal Magus. Their Mana Cores evolve into completely new and powerful cores of power, and they harbor immense quantities of energy within it, which is refined into divine mana.
The mana cores merge with the user's soul too, creating divine mana veins, and their power is boosted a lot. Well, and that's all I know.
But Rose here spoke as if she knew a lot about them, and also implied that the Tyrannical Lady she served as a strong immortal. However, all immortals were restrained by some kind of Oath or whatever, which didn't let them interfere with mortals directly, they could still try to kill us indirectly by sending more troops at us, but she couldn't just come out here and slaughter us.
Is the Greenwood guy an immortal by any chance? Perhaps he uses technology and robots because it is an indirect way of fighting against mortals and does as he pleases even with that stupid restriction of the world, which, to be honest, I am glad is there. It feels like the right type of plot armor to have, one that actually covers all mortals.
But Rose also mentioned something else, someone within his entire continent, or well, many of them. They were a bunch of Immortals. Apparently, if her Tyrannical Lady tries to get us and travel across the skies leisurely, the other Immortals around this entire place, which seem to be guarding the entire continent, will find her quickly and try to suppress her or fight against her for getting into their territories.
Although I've never seen an immortal before, they don't have anything against showing themselves before mortals, but even that is very secretive, they would never do such a thing unless it was something very important, they had to do, sometimes being that of helping mortals who were in a dire situation who also belonged to their territories or families.
"Do you know more about the immortals from this continent? And anything else regarding your lady as an immortal?" I asked.
"M-My lady's power is superb! She is a powerful Rank 8 Immortal… at Upper Stage! She had revealed this truth to us… her power is unparalleled. If she can get a mortal inside of her divine realm, then the laws of the world won't apply to them, and she can destroy them as much as she pleases… She has already captured many immortals from the Vampire Family, traitors that swore allegiance to the other faction… she has them restrained in her divine realm where she governs everything… and tortures them while extracting every inch of information she can…!" said
"What…?!" asked Benladann in disbelief and anger.
"SO the World's Will affects immortals that try to take mortals and kill them, but if they capture them into their divine realms, the world's will cannot interfere?" I asked.
"Indeed… my lady has told us that the will of the world is also weakening… more loopholes to abuse mortals are forming, but even then, it's dangerous because the skies of every continent are being watched over by many Sects of Immortal Magus and they're being overseen by the Aesir's Descendants Heavenly Sect…" said Rose.
She knew a lot! It was good to not kill her.
"You mean that even here…?" I asked.
"Indeed, the skies of this continent, even in here, there are Immortals roaming constantly…" said Rose.
So the immortals we saw with Fuyu probably found us incredibly strange, but because we were not immortals, they didn't dare to attack us or asks us what the fuck were we.
So… this also means that whenever we stop being mortals, our Immortal-Free Pass will expire, and Immortals of every Rank can come to kill us if they want?! That's dangerous as fuck.
If we ever become Immortals in the future, we have to be careful, by reaching the pinnacle of mortal hood, we would be back into becoming the weakest against these monsters…
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