Odyssey of the Blind God

The human poachers saw only one person and figured that Nial wouldn't be that difficult to take care of.

He may be young and already at the Keltia rank indicating that his talent was exceptional but cultivation talent was not enough to fight against a hundred people at the same rank.

All human poachers were at the Keltia rank and in the possession of exceptional runic armaments that had been customized for the poachers.

Under normal circumstances, the Tier-3 runic armaments were used to catch a wild beast but it was also possible to catch a fellow human being. Killing Nial once he was caught shouldn't be much of an issue for the large group.

Releasing their Mana and activating their runic armaments, the human poachers charged at Nial whose body turned into black fog the moment a whip was about to hit him. The whip went through him and Nial appeared behind the old human poacher with a small smile on his face.

"You shouldn't underestimate me," He said lightly before adding the most important point, "...nor my little friend who came with me to take revenge!"

When Nial finished his words the darkness around him expanded. A mass of darkness formed next to him, materializing a darkness portal through which a humongous black-furred Lion emerged. Ink-black flames exuded from the Lion's mane as it roared out loudly.

Erio's killing intent was fully unleashed and black Eclipse Flames spread all over its body before a few fell over to the grass of the Savannah, burning down everything they touched.

The Eclipse Flames expanded quickly and they were only restricted under the influence of Nial who expanded his domain of darkness rapidly. He made sure that the Eclipse Flames wouldn't expand beyond the boundary of his domain and spill over while releasing vines of darkness in all directions.

Nial attacked the human poachers and he restricted their movements to give Erio the opportunity to unleash his pent-up anger. It wouldn't relieve the newborn Devil of his grief but Nial's support was enough to allow the Eclipse Fire Lion to take revenge.

Erio's maw opened widely and he closed it down onto the old man who stood less than two meters away from Nial. He chomped on the bones and flesh of the old man's body as if he was a plaything that was about to get destroyed.

Only a single desperate scream escaped the old man's mouth before the sound of bones cracking and flesh being minced resounded on the battlefield that had been created through the appearance of Nial and Erio.

Erio spat out the minced body of the old man before he stomped on it in disgust. Nial visualized this clearly and bits of flesh and blood spurted on his body when Erio continued stomping on the corpse viciously, which caused his expression to distort in disgust.

'Well…it's a one-time thing…you can let loose, Erio…' Nial told himself while shaking his head. Erio did exactly as Nial suggested. He let loose and reduced everything in his surrounding area to a cinder.

The entire domain of darkness turned into a field of Eclipse flames that caused pain and desperation. Everyone was trying to escape the flames and the domain of darkness but darkness vines shot out of the ground that was just like the amount of mana in their surroundings that was extremely dense and pure.

Nial's consumption of dark energy was minimalistic since he used the Vortex of Abyss cultivation technique to create dozens of suctioning forces all over his domain of darkness. The mana around them was pulled inside the darkness domain, converted to dark energy and consumed to create more and stronger darkness vines. Nobody at the Low and Mid Keltia rank was able to escape his darkness vines before tens of new darkness vines had been created to replace one of their kind.

While Nial was having an easy time controlling his domain of darkness and utilizing the Vortex of Abyss cultivation technique, Erio was wreaking havoc, killing every single human poacher. He didn't leave a single human alive and obliterated them in the worst possible ways, leaving them half-crippled on the ground where they burned to death while bound to the domain of darkness by the darkness vines.

Nial visualized all of that but he didn't show any pity to the human poachers. He was tired of paying attention to things that weren't actually worth it.

"Good job, Erio. Do you feel better now?" He asked when the Eclipse Fire Lion had massacred the poachers and calmed down a little. The Lion looked down at the small figure of Nial and released a sound that was similar to the purring of a cat.

A chuckle escaped his lips at that.

"I take that as a yes," Nial could only say as he jumped on Erio's back. They returned to the soon-to-be shelter where Erio reunited with his cubs that had regained their bits of power.

The cubs were trying to snuggle up to Erio but quickly noticed that something about their father had changed. His scent was different even though they could clearly tell that it was their father. It was weird but not something they had the power, let alone the intellect to think about. Their entire body and mind was not yet fully developed or healed, so they simply accepted everything as if it was perfectly normal.

"Did you collect your mate's flame?" Nial asked at this moment. Erio looked over to Nial before he nodded his huge head.

[If you want me to release her flame, you better prepare a proper vessel. The little ones won't be able to control her potent flames and I am not in possession of the Phoenix Fire anymore. I could only store the flame only temporarily.]

Erio spoke in his mind using a crude version of the universal language. Nial turned over to Ophelia who was staring at the Phoenix-Fire Lions with greed in her eyes.

"Do you want the Phoenix Fire?" He asked her, taking Ophelia by surprise.

"Of course, I want it. We, Dracos, are known for being excellent at devouring flames and making them ours. The Phoenix Fire is one of the strongest type of flames. The fire of the Pheonix-Fire Lions is only the most basic type of Phoenix Fire since they cannot endure fires of higher potency but their flames are still several times stronger than the elemental affinity of the Draco.

I would love to fuse one of those fires with my body in the future!" She explained with an exhilarated expression on her face.

"I…didn't mean that, but we can do that as well…" Nial just said before turning back to Erio.

"Release your mate's Phoenix Fire. Ophelia is the most talented Draco in the last 10,000 years. She will take care of your mate's fire and nurture it like no other being can!"

He was just muttering gibberish since he didn't expect the Dracos to actually be able to devour other flames and make them theirs. It was quite a surprise, but also something that could be made use of.

If he provided the Phoenix Fire of a Mythician Pheonix Fire Lioness to the most talented Draco in the last 10,000 years, the entire Draco race might feel thankful to him, maybe even burdened with gratitude since they had planned to make use of the current period to gain his favor.

Now that he was ready to give Ophelia a fully matured Phoenix Fire, something that was far more valuable than the Dragon Crystal they had prepared, not even their help to construct his new shelter might be enough make up for that.

'Let's finish everything up first and wait for their reaction…hahaha!'