Chapter 1108: Above the Grandmaster. 2
Chapter 1108: Above the Grandmaster. 2
Victor let out an innocent smile, sneakily pulling her waist towards him and gave this obstinate woman a long and loving kiss.
Scathach released her spear to float beside her, and wrapped both arms around Victor's neck.
The battle between the two lasted for two long minutes, and when they separated, a bridge connecting the two was seen. Victor smiled gently and mischievously and then kissed her neck while using his tongue to tease her weak points.
"Hmm~."
"Remember what I told you in the past?"
"... Being independent doesn't mean having to be lonely."
"That's right, I love how you position yourself as my companion and my Wife, but that doesn't mean you should do everything alone. Over the millennia with our Family, you have naturally accepted this fact, and I'm glad you count on me." Victor stepped back and looked into Scathach's eyes seriously.
"You are my Master, the Mother of my children, my Wife, my best friend, the companion I can always count on, and most importantly, you are my Body and Soul, Scathach Elderblood."
She noticed the familiar possessive look made her insides tingle with desire. She always loved seeing that possessive yet loving side of her Husband.
With his eyes returning to normal, he continued: "This fact is what makes me confident that even if I disappear for some reason in the future, you will be able to handle everything."
Scathach narrowed her eyes hostilely at those words. "What do those words mean? Is something happening?"
Victor laughed. "Nothing is happening."
"Continuing from the previous topic, when you want to train with this Energy, you will train with me from now on. With someone who is more proficient than you, the training will be safer."
Seeing the obvious change of subject, Scathach's eyes narrowed even more, but she decided to trust her Husband. He didn't do things he knew would make his Family sad. "Very well, I'll only train this Energy with you."
"Good, come to this place..." Victor sent the location to Scathach's head. "I'm there with Kaguya and our newborn Daughter."
"...Split consciousness. Honestly, how do you even do that?"
"You can do it too. All Dragon Gods can, although it's very difficult. After all, you have to have multiple simultaneous thoughts and precise control of Energy to make your own clone and not waste Energy. If you're like me and have a little control over Souls, you can make your clone even more real by using your Soul to shape the clone, like I do."
"...You're splitting your Soul to do that?"
"Yes, but my Soul is ridiculously large, robust, powerful, and malleable like a slime," Victor explained. "Because of this trait, I can do this easily. I can make up to 7 clones that can utilize most of my Power, although it would require great mental focus." ṚãꞐŐᛒÈş
This feat was proof of the fact that Victor had such monstrous control. He was capable of doing several difficult things at the same time as if everything were easy.
Just imagining controlling seven different points of view gave Scathach a colossal headache.
'No wonder he was able to learn about attributeless Energy after having a reference.' Scathach sighed. Many times, Victor's talent did not blossom through training but through interactions that gave him the inspiration to work even harder.
She didn't miss the unspoken words. If he didn't want to make clones that were too powerful, he could divide himself even further, although she didn't know the limit of how many bodies he could control with his mind.
'Or if it's necessary to use his mind… I don't doubt that Victor can make infinite clones if he so wishes, but these clones may have their own consciousness and independent thoughts, something he doesn't want. Darling is too possessive to do something like that.' Scathach thought.
Stepping away from Victor when he finished healing her hand, she controlled her excitement due to the previous loving kiss. She was already full of Victor's seed due to what happened previously. Even if it was... tempting to be pampered by her Husband again for several years, she had things to do, not to mention that her desires for love and affection were satisfied... for now...
'Honestly, getting all loved and pampered by my Husband feels so good that I wouldn't mind staying like that for eternity.' Despite thinking about it, she wouldn't do it since anything in excess was bad. Everything needed a balance so as not to become boring or tedious.
Looking at her hand, she thought again about what happened before:
"... Darling, what are the characteristics of Energy without attributes?"
"There aren't any. We're the ones who give it characteristics."
"...So why did my hand almost disappear from existence?"
"Because its nature, in and of itself, is destructive, my love. The 'return' of Characterized Energy to Energy without attributes is just a consequence, not the property of that Energy."
"What? Did my nature influence the Energy?"
"Of course it did. I told you, right? You weren't using the Energy without attributes effectively. To use it, you need absurd control. You need to go against everything that makes you who you are; your nature, your Powers, your ideologies, nothing can interfere with your control."
"...How are you managing to do it then?" Scathach highly doubted that Victor would do what he described because that would essentially be abandoning everything that made Victor... Well, Victor.
"I'm using a large portion of my parallel thoughts to control it. Thanks to that, my entire head is in constant use now." Victor laughed. He'd lost a lot of his ability to process information, but he didn't care. The return on just controlling this Energy was much more rewarding.
"...Isn't that contradictory?" Scathach highly doubted that this Energy would work with such a simple method to deceive the control requirements.
"I told you, right? I am a living contradiction, I am an Eldritch God, and not just any. I am the Primordial Chaos of my Pantheon, the 'Painter' of all. My position gives me more freedom in how I approach all of this."
The Energy without attributes was basically the tools of an old painter who had found a new owner, which was why it was so 'obedient' to Victor. But the same did not apply to others.
Scathach sighed and said: "So even if I train, I won't be able to control this Energy?"
"That's not what I said. I just explained the requirements to use it EFFECTIVELY like I do. You don't need to do that. No one does. In fact, I honestly doubt that anyone can use this Energy effectively since it is difficult to abandon oneself."
Victor himself wouldn't do this. If he didn't possess the privileges to control this Energy, he would have used this Energy only as support for his Techniques and wouldn't have made it his second main Energy, like the Eldritch God's Energy that he keeps hidden and sealed so that no Primordial could see it.
"But you can train it to use as support to make your Powers stronger, for example." Victor raised his finger and made a tiny Ice sphere 3 cm in circumference.
"By using the Energy without attributes to amplify or give attributes to what you already have, the effects become much more destructive, and you will save a lot of Energy."
Victor raised his arm towards the training dummy, and when the Ice sphere disappeared and flew towards the dummy, a vast Ice mountain was immediately created.
"...That was quite effective. To make a mountain that size, I would need to use much more Energy... I understand the benefits now."
"Exactly, and because of that, I will teach it to everyone, but only those who are responsible enough and have excellent control." Not just anyone could use it; the prerequisite for using it like Victor did now was still immense.
Not to mention that it required a lot of responsibility to use this Power too. If one was too greedy, they would end up destroying themselves.
"I agree. Should we make it one of the Highest-Level Techniques in The Empire?" Scathach spoke.
"We can classify it as Grandmaster Tier in Energy Control or something, like Martial Arts," Victor spoke casually.
"That's… Quite ingenious, actually… So it's a secret of The Empire?"
"Nah, a Family Secret is more appropriate."
"Hmm… Let's call it a Higher Level Technique, one level above our Grandmaster Martial Arts and the Martial Art Technique you created."
"Agreed." Victor nodded.
Most of the Techniques and discoveries that Victor and his Wives made would become part of the Family and would never leave it. Only those that they deemed to be necessary or useful for The Empire would they share it with, and in most of those cases, only someone with enough authority could learn them.
After all, Power should be kept close and not spread everywhere.
"Who do you think has the prerequisites to learn this attributeless Energy?"
"To start the training, all my Wives, except Ariel and Hilda," Victor spoke. With him and Scathach in the Family, it was very difficult for the lazy Wives to be lazy, and because of that, most of the Family were monsters in their own right compared to the others.
"So the new Wives aren't qualified yet, huh."
"They need more training." Victor nodded.
"...To use this Energy like you do, who in our Empire can imitate you?"
"Probably just Azathoth, but since that's an Energy that's part of this Universe, I don't know if she can use it or not. After all, she's basically an invader in this Universe, not a native Eldritch God like me."
"Jeanne also has the potential to do it, but she'll need to abandon everything to reach my level. Since I know she won't do that, she'll probably be the one with the most control over the supplemental aspects of the Energy."
"…I think we should divide this Technique into two parts. Your part that requires even stricter requirements, and the other part that's easier." Scathach pointed out.
"Hmm, I don't think that's necessary. Remember, it's ridiculously difficult to even use the basic supplementation of that Energy. Instead of dividing it into two different Techniques, we can just divide it like the levels of Martial Arts."
"For example: a Beginner is someone who's just learning about the Energy. To even begin this state, the individual needs almost perfect control of their own Powers.
"At the Proficient Level, the individual can use the Energy without attributes to enhance their attacks and feats. They need to go through the complete Beginner Level with a suitable Master to avoid a possible disaster before reaching this level."
"And the Master Level, which is my level. The requirements to use it are that you are a Primordial Chaos [one who creates an entire Universe] to be able to use it without consequences."
"Hmm, that's very good. You can just make the first two available and explain the dangers of the Master Level, how it will only be our Daughters and future Daughters who will learn it, and how we will always be around. I think that will be enough." Scathach spoke.
"My paranoia will not allow that. After all, it is our Daughters we are dealing with here. I will place a Binding Protection on the books that will prevent them from going too far, and if they go too far, I will be notified."
"Safety is essential, I agree." Scathach wasn't against it, she knew how disobedient her Daughters could be when they were excited.
"Anyway, let's go to where Kaguya is, I'll teach you the ways to become stronger, my Disciple."
"...The roles have reversed, huh?"
"Is there a problem?"
"No... I was just asking if I'm going to be sparring with my Master to the point where I'm exhausted, and he takes me to the bathroom… like I did in the past with my student." She displayed a small, sexy, predatory smile.
"Hmm~, if the Disciple is obedient, we can make that wish come true in the near future."
"I'll be waiting for that, M-a-ster~."
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