Inside the treasure vault of the Edolas Kingdom, Lu Minghao was sitting on a magic crystal that had been completely drained of its magical power. His round body held a pair of bewildered, large eyes. Just as Lu Minghao was sleeping soundly, he suddenly felt something spying on him and instinctively glared over.
After that, there was nothing. Lu Minghao woke up from his slumber and found the treasure vault empty, filled with the power of gluttony.
"Minghao."
Just as Lu Minghao was surveying the surroundings, wondering how the treasure vault had become so empty, Sally, who was lying next to him, suddenly rubbed her eyes and sat up. Instinctively, she hugged Lu Minghao and took a deep breath, then a satisfied smile appeared on her small face.
"Sally, how do you feel?"
Lu Minghao raised his head and looked at Sally, who was holding him in her arms. At this moment, in Lu Minghao's perception, the amount of magic essence in Sally's body had increased more than tenfold. The enormous magic essence was wrapped around Sally's body like a tangible substance in his magic perception.
After hearing Lu Minghao's words, Sally closed her eyes and sensed her condition. After a few seconds, she opened her big eyes and looked at Lu Minghao, blinking. At this moment, Sally only felt the surging magic essence in her body like a sea. Power gushed out of her body continuously, and the voice of the world resounded in her mind.
'Individual, Oni Sally, magic essence increased, successfully evolved into a Demon Lord Seed.'
'Gained unique skill [Slayer]: In a combat state, the desire for combat and slaughter continuously increases. Each increase enhances all abilities, up to a maximum of 30%, and does not affect rationality.'
'Gained skill [Adaptive Evolution]: Evolves corresponding resistance after being attacked. Currently has resistances [Poison Resistance], [Physical Resistance], [Fire Resistance].'
'Gained skill [Demon Lord's Aura]: Forms a substantial pressure with powerful magic essence and aura, causing deterrence and fear to enemies.'
'Gained skill [Flight]: Flight speed depends on the amount of magic essence.'
".....Minghao... Sally... Sally.... seems to have become a Demon Lord Seed!"
After the voice of the world in her mind disappeared, Sally opened her big eyes and looked at Lu Minghao, blinking. Her small face was full of a bewildered expression. How did she become a Demon Lord Seed after waking up from a nap?
"A Demon Lord Seed, huh..."
Lu Minghao gently moved his body and flew out of Sally's arms. He activated his magic perception and carefully observed Sally. Originally, Sally's power and physical strength, which were comparable to a Demon Lord Seed during her time as a High-Rank Monster, had undergone a qualitative improvement. Moreover, it seemed that after evolving into a Demon Lord Seed, she had also gained many skills, but her magic essence was only around 200,000.
That was about the same as the Pig Head Emperor who successfully evolved into a Demon Lord Seed when he led the Pig-Man tribe to invade the Jura Forest not long after. However, with the same amount of magic essence, Sally's unimaginable power and physical strength could completely smash the Pig Head Emperor into minced meat with punch after punch.
"Minghao! Minghao! Have you awakened and become a True Demon Lord yet?"
At this time, Sally, who had finally recovered from the fact that she had become a Demon Lord Seed, jumped up and hugged Lu Minghao, who was floating in mid-air. Her big eyes were full of anticipation as she asked.
In Sally's opinion, since she had become a Demon Lord Seed, then Lu Minghao, who was originally a Demon Lord Seed, must have awakened and become a True Demon Lord by now.
"Not yet, almost there."
Lu Minghao reached out and touched Sally's small head, looking at the talent panel in his sight. In fact, Lu Minghao had already reached the limit of a Demon Lord Seed, and with so many souls, he could awaken at any time.
However, Lu Minghao instinctively stopped his awakening process. He was similar to the Scum Demon Lord Clayman, an incomplete evolution. As for why Lu Minghao wanted to stop the awakening halfway, of course, it was because he didn't want to awaken with only a mere 20,000 human souls and less than 60,000 monster souls.
Leaving aside whether such a small number of souls as nourishment for awakening would ultimately lead to failure like Clayman, after all, Lu Minghao didn't have Great Sage, which could allow him to succeed in awakening with only a very small probability.
Furthermore, apart from his own kind, who was not only cheating but was actually the reincarnation of the Creator God Star Dragon King, the more souls that other monsters had as nourishment when they awakened, the higher the probability of successful awakening and the stronger the strength after awakening.
Therefore, Lu Minghao planned to absorb all the souls collected by the Gluttonous Monster during this period and see if there was a chance to find a few neighbors down below, so that these good neighbors could gather some more human souls for him, and directly awaken after reaching the perfect state.
However, even if he had not yet awakened, Lu Minghao's strength had undergone a qualitative improvement compared to before his slumber.
Name: Lu Minghao
Rank: Demon Lord Seed (Magic Essence: 900,000)
Race: Slime
Talent: [Encounter in Another World] (Red): You, who came from another world, possess truly infinite potential.
Ability 1: Plunder the origin of the world. When a certain level is accumulated, consume the origin of the world as a price to travel to other worlds.
Ability 2: When traveling to a new world, you will randomly gain a new purple talent.
[Gluttony] (Dark Purple): You possess a bottomless stomach and digestive ability. Due to racial characteristics, you can devour both living beings and inanimate objects, and you will completely absorb the nutrients of the devoured substances to speed up growth, and there is a chance to gain a part of their abilities.
Ability 1: Impart the endless hunger of gluttony to the enemy.
Ability 2: Active: Convert subordinate, give the power of gluttony, and have absolute dominance over the subordinate.
Passive: Automatically transform all living beings around you, endowing them with the original sin of gluttony. The eternally unsatisfying hunger will make them devour everything in front of them, and have absolute dominance over the transformer (can be actively turned on and off).
Passive: Cannot be looked at directly. When intelligent life looks directly at it in any way, it will be contaminated from the soul and body. Those whose will and soul are not strong enough will be completely polluted and eroded. (Can be actively turned on and off)
Ability 3: Gluttony's power is released, which can devour part of the conceptual existence, similar to souls, bloodlines, unique skills, and talents.
[Slime Physique] (Light Purple): As a Slime, you are born with a liquid-like body, terrifying physical strength, and can freely manipulate your body to change shape. You do not need to breathe or sleep, and you can eat with any part of your body, and you have asexual reproduction ability.
Branch Skills: [Acid Resistance], [Physical Immunity], [Pain Immunity], [Temperature Immunity], [Fire Resistance], [Extreme Cold Resistance], [Mental Resistance]
[Magic Essence] (Light Purple): This is the symbol of the power of monsters. The qualitative change of the essence of magic essence marks the starting point for you to step into a new level, waiting for hatching.
Branch Skills: [Shadow Escape]: Use magic essence to transform the body's attributes, possessing the ability to freely manipulate shadows.
[Dream Bait]: Emits an irresistible seductive scent to those weaker than yourself, and makes them fall into madness.
[Water Control]: Integrated and evolved from skills such as water flow propulsion, water blade, water flow movement, water mist, and water bubble, possessing the ability to control water.
[Fire Control]: Integrated and evolved from skills such as fireball, explosive flame dance, fire chain, and fire ring, possessing the ability to freely manipulate and control flames.
[Demon Blood Flame]: A unique ability of the demon race. Viscosity and coldness are its symbols. It has the characteristic of constantly growing by absorbing life force, and it is a curse-like characteristic.
[Super-Speed Regeneration]: After the body is injured, it passively absorbs magic essence or nutrients in the body to recover. As long as the soul is not destroyed or the magic essence and nutrients are exhausted, the body can be restored infinitely.
[Skill Enhancement]: Passively enhances all abilities and skills.
[Flight]: The ability to fly freely in the sky. The flying speed is determined by the amount of magic essence.
[Space Teleportation]: Using magic essence as power, you can freely teleport to places you have been to, and you can also create space coordinates to teleport to the location of the coordinates.
[Demon Lord's Aura]: Forms a substantial pressure with powerful magic essence and aura, causing deterrence and fear to enemies.
Unique Skill: [Physical Super-Enhancement]: Passively absorbs magic essence to greatly enhance the body's strength, toughness, and power in all aspects.
[Magic Power Dominator] Freely controls one's own magic power, perfectly exerts all power, and can freely dominate the helpless magic power in nature to enhance skill power and quickly restore magic power, and can also freely dominate the magic power of the weak.
"Soon, the days of awakening to become a True Demon Lord."
Lu Minghao looked at the information on the talent panel, and a smile appeared on his round body. After reaching the limit of the Demon Lord Seed, the [Gluttony] talent directly turned dark purple, and another passive that could not be looked at directly was added. Moreover, Lu Minghao had a hunch that when he truly awakened, [Gluttony] would become his first red talent.
As for the other additional skills, such as [Space Teleportation] and [Demon Lord's Aura], they were automatically awakened after waking up from his slumber. It is worth mentioning that Lu Minghao finally had his own unique skill. In this slumber, Lu Minghao completely digested the soul of the hero he devoured in the Yst Kingdom.
It's just that the unique skills Lu Minghao obtained were different from Sally's. [Physical Enhancement] evolved into the unique skill [Physical Super-Enhancement], and the other [Magic Power Dominator] was evolved from the previous [Magic Power Control] skill.
Lu Minghao guessed that it should have been influenced by the hero's former unique skill [Magic Weaver], evolving into the unique skill.
"Lord Sally, Lord Edolas has arrived."
Just as Lu Minghao and Sally were adapting to their new powers, the voice of the Oni Flora suddenly came from outside the treasure vault door. When he heard her voice, Lu Minghao was stunned for a moment, and then a strange smile appeared on his round body.
The 'tool' he was looking forward to had been born, an existence that had completely adapted to the original sin of gluttony, and still retained its self-awareness.
