Chapter 394: [ Gift ]

Warm energy penetrates his entire body. This warm energy cleared every spiritual and mental pathway inside of him. It was like he had become very dizzy due to the extremity of the summer heat. But then, he had suddenly dived into a pool of cool water.

He felt elated to his very bones...

Then, Allen realized that the threshold of the Mid God realm seemed to be already in front of him. But no matter what he does, he couldn’t breach it yet. So close yet so far.

It was like he had the meaning in his hands, but was unable to grasp it properly. His eyes revealed how perplexed he was.

Even still, he felt as if, he only needed some small thing and then he would be able to breakthrough Mid God realm! As for what that was, he still didn’t know…

For now, instead of being called a Lesser Deity or Mid God Realm, he should be called as, a pseudo Mid God!

Finally, Allen awoke from this state.

When he opened his eyes, he immediately began to check his body from top to bottom. Then he realized, for some unknown reason, he felt a relaxation which couldn’t be described in words.

Allen even felt like soaring high in the sky, and couldn’t help but feel a sense of exultation.

What…!?

This is…??!

Allen discovered that his ears and eyes already seemed a lot sharper than before.

In the past he could only see clearly for a couple hundred meters, but now his clarity had more than doubled, and he even seemed to hear traces of the motions of ants crawling beneath his feet. He can feel everything around him, as if he was part of the world…

So this was the feeling of being a Mid God…?!

“Sol!!!”

““““Master!!!””””

As Allen was contemplating in the new changes of his body, he was suddenly hit by a tackle from all direction. The time he had noticed it, Asmodeus and the others had already crashed towards his body. if not for his Godly Physique, he would have been flattened already!

“Master, are you okay!!?”

“Master, you’re fine aren’t you!?”

… …

… And so on. They actually became a bit annoying about it. However, since they were just worried for his sake, Allen couldn’t say anything and ended up accepting the sweet moments of being questioned with a bit of fluff fluff.

Obviously, he didn’t answer anything regarding ‘Allen’s involvement as well as that [ Frostmourne ] who disappeared along with that idiotic brother. He played it off and answered that he hadn’t remembered anything prior to losing consciousness.

As for the [ Frostmourne ] he doesn’t know anything about where it disappeared as well. Well, this wasn’t a lie anyway because, he really doesn’t know it.

The interrogation went for a quite a long time. A few hours, probably before Allen acted like he was dizzy and exhausted.

Thus, finally, he was left alone.

*** ***

“…Mh?”

Allen suddenly regained consciousness. The moment the others finally left, he closed his eyes and unknowingly fell asleep. Although his body was brimming with energy but fighting the other ‘Allen’ might have been quite taxing spiritually and mentally.

Still, he suddenly felt some movements. Thus, he couldn’t help but open his eyes.

“…Oh? You’re up?”

When he opened his eyes, Allen found Eerika looking at him.

“Are you okay?” With a somewhat settled appearance, Eerika looked into Allen’s face.

She seemed to be extremely worried about him.

“Pretty much,” Allen smiled faintly as he tried getting up the bed.

“Need anything?”

“What? Can I only see you when I needed something?” Eerika responded with a bitter smile.

“Fair enough… still, it was certainly a surprise for me to see you here. How are you since the last time we met?” Allen's voice was extremely gentle. His gaze even soft.

“… …” Eerika sighed. She stood up from her chair and move towards the edge of the bed, sitting closely towards Allen. Putting a hand on his forehead, she seemed to be checking his temperature.

“Truthfully, the moment I realized that you were here, I wanted to run towards you and smack you immediately but…” the hand touching his forehead went downward, cupping his cheeks gently.

“It seems like you really love going into troubles, huh… I heard that you even picked a fight with the Mummy Lord and was still recuperating since then.”

“… …” Allen responded with a smile as he leaned a bit slightly as if trying to feel Eerika’s warmth. His smile was gentle and the dark red pupils were as crystal clear as they had been their last meeting.

“Seriously, what a handful of a man you are. Are you okay?”

“N, yeah, I’m okay. But I still seem a little light headed.”

When Allen says so, the worried Eerika finally breaths a large sigh of relief.

Allen felt deeply moved while watching her. He gently smelled the faint alluring body scent transmitting from in front of him.

“Still… are you happy that we met each other again…?”

Eerika stared at Allen for a moment before pulling her hand back. Her confident expression returned as the warmth and affectionate little wife had disappeared into somewhere. “You silly guy… I still haven’t made you pay for suddenly leaving without any proper farewell so don’t act affectionately with me.”

“Was I not allowed to?” Allen smiled mischievously.

“… …” Eerika glared at him before snorting to show her dissatisfaction. Her expression was so cute that Allen had the urge for a sudden laugh and embraced her. But then he realized that this expression was turning more and more to his liking.

A beautiful woman. She was wearing a bright blue colored tight dress.

The elegant dress was gorgeously and meticulously made, precisely and perfectly outlining her beautiful curves. Under the dress was her snow-white dazzling long legs, causing people to feel a fiery impulse in their hearts to touch it.

This was a soul-stirring image…but Allen only felt awkward.

Truthfully, Allen doesn’t know what kind of relationship he and she have. It was ambiguous and really vague. However, Allen wasn’t in a hurry or in a haste to clarify it.

He liked their current status; less than lover yet more than friends.

“These past few weeks, have you been well?” After a long silence, Allen finally managed to force out this rather blunt and graceless phrase.

Eerika turned her head, glancing at Allen. She actually let out a chuckle. “Well, it would certainly be better if not for a certain someone."

"... ..." Allen smiled bitterly.

"Still, it’s pretty good. Probably what the Olympian Goddess had said right, the Demon Mammon was planning something big because the demons right now seemed to have turned silent. I had my share of peaceful days~”

“… …” After hearing Eerika’s words, Allen felt slightly more relaxed.

“What have you been up to these days?” Eerika said softly.

“Not too much.” Allen seemed to once again think back to what had happened ever since he had left the Norse Clan.

They talked for a whole night. Narrating things that had happened.

Eerika stopped acting irritated as she intently listened to every single word Allen had said.

Right now, Allen spoke in a very calm, simple manner, as though he were very relaxed. But Eerika could totally imagine what Allen’s experiences had been like, especially when he had fought against Demon Beelzebub, Mastema and even the infamous Mummy Lord.

Although it seemed like it was all sailing without storms when he talked about it but she knew in her heart that he must have endured hardships that others would have difficulty even imagining.

After listening to Allen’s narration, “Sol.” Eerika suddenly reached out to take Allen by the hand, gripping it tightly!

Instead of Allen, Eerika liked calling Allen ‘Sol’ as that was the name he had first given her, making it somewhat has a special meaning.

Allen raised his head to stare at Eerika, bewildered.

“Sol, I don’t know what was compelling you to do all these things. What had driven you to run crazily like this but… please don’t tire your life like this and endanger yourself. You’ve done very well already."

"Besides, you’re not alone right…? You had friends too…”

“… …”

“You had me as well…” Eerika smiled lovingly as she started caressing Allen’s cheeks. “Learn to value your life… Cause if not, it will hurt the people who carde for you... including me...”

As Allen was caught surprised by her sudden intimate action, Eerika pulled back her hand and took off the ring on her index finger, giving it to Allen.

“This is…? Proposal?” Allen muttered in shock. He stared at the ring on his palm in a daze.

When Eerika raised her head, she coincidentally saw Allen’s face appearing somewhat red. At that moment, amusement and shock flashed across her exquisite and pretty face.

She then covered her mouth immediately and laughed in a tender voice, “Sol, after not seeing you for a few weeks, you surprisingly become much more shy compared to before.”

“I have always been very shy.” Allen nodded his head and said seriously. Allen awkwardly scratched the back of his head and continued, “... You might have forgotten it but I had a fragile heart and a timid youth personality,”

“Hehe, if you can be considered a timid person then all the people in the world must be chicken…” Eerika snorted with a playful expression.

“Anyway, you weren’t like this back at the Clan. Did you forget? You already remained calm and indifferent, as if nothing in this world concerns you.” A smile flashed across Erika’s beautiful peach blossom eyes as she said.

Eyeing Eerika who was emitting an enchanting temptation between her smile and frown, Allen felt somewhat helpless. After a few days of not seeing each other, this little naïve girl appeared to have become increasingly enchanting and matured.

Perhaps it was because of her different status now, but when she spoke to him, she did not have the cautiousness back then. Instead, having met as old friends, their relationship became somewhat more affectionate.

There were no walls between them… of course, probably still has, but it was already unlike before when both of them were extremely cautious, as if trying to catch each other’s tail. But now, all of them were already swept by the wind.

They can now reveal what they are without any pretense or falsity.

“That’s not a normal ring…” The smile on Eerika’s smile was slowly withdrawn as she stared at Allen in front of her and explained softly.

“… It was one of those precious, Storage Rings.”

"... what?"

Storage Ring!

Allen’s pupils dilated a bit.

A Storage Ring was a legendary treasure for normal people, but it was a basic necessity for high ranking Elites.

There was a large amount of space in the ring and could store anything from gold, medicines, plants, clothes to even weapons. The user would not feel any weight other than the ring itself.

Allen didn’t have it. In any case, even if he had it, it was useless for him. He had the Grimoire!

Why is she giving him a Storage Ring…?

As she glanced at Allen, Eerika quickly smiled and said, “Use it. I don’t know if it could be much of help but, I know you will certainly like the things within that ring.”

Allen stared at her for a moment before doing what she said. Taking a deep breath, Allen started accumulating his mana and slowly push it into the storage ring.

*Ding!*

The storage ring shook slightly, lit up and Allen’s sensitive magic power sensed a subtle air flow spreading out.

Then after a few moments, Allen was able to see the space inside the storage ring.

It was a standard cube, with both height and weight of six meters which made it even bigger than normal people’s living rooms, its crystal-like body had a dim glow around it, it seemed like it came from a different dimension.

Inside the cube, were different clothes and weapons and Allen could see that these clothes were already made for him beforehand as most of it were male clothes; black and dark red in color. Only a small part was that for females.

There were also foods and pastries as well as confectionaries.

Other than that were books and coin looking things… God’s Blood or GB. According to Allen’s estimate, it was at most over 50 gold Black Coins.

However, amidst these things, what caught Allen’s attention was none other than… the silver Crystal he found extremely familiar!

A red dot tinted Silver Crystal he had seen in the Auction a while ago; the named [ Sharingan ] and even the black and snow white rose were there!

Looking at these things, Allen could not stay calm anymore. He hurriedly took back his consciousness from the ring and stared at Eerika who was looking at with a faint smile.

“You…!!” Allen was struck dumb to the point that he didn’t what to say anymore.