Rise of Baba Yaga ( a Highschool DXD fanfic )

Chapter 7

[ SOUL DEVOURED ]

Nikolai spent a few seconds in silent confusion at what had just transpired, ' Soul devoured? ' he let those words sink in. For the mist to be able to devour souls was a very scary thing. ' Just what kind of things this mist not devour.

As far as the experiments he had conducted, he found out that the items the mist can devour are categorised into the following:
1. Weapons
2. Shields.
3. Armour.
4. Accessories.
5. Magic creatures, and lastly
6. Souls.

He did not know what items are regarded as accessories as he had not found one yet. The above items gave him just what their names indicate, except for Magic creatures: they gave Skills, spells and passives, but it was their downgrade version. But this was not really a problem as it could be improved and strengthened by regularly using them.

It was like learning to write. Take this for example, consider the teacher teaching you to write the alphabets. You would learn the alphabets, but your handwriting is shit at best, your lines would be crooked, some alphabets would be too large and some too small. It was obvious that the teacher had better handwriting than yours. But given enough time, your handwriting would get better, you would soon reach the level of your teacher maybe even better than your teacher.

Now back to the Sould devouring mist.

[ DEVOUR MORE SOULS TO STRENGTHEN THE MIST ]

He felt something empty inside him, it was like there was a water cup that wants to be filled. The was the fire of the grasshopper that was in liquid form inside the cup. It was like a drop of water, so less that it did not even matter.

With UNDEAD VISION still active, he looked for the nearest soul. The ability of the mist to devour souls was very eerie, but the reward of improving the mist was too good to ignore. So he decided to go for a walk in the woods.

{ Three Hours later }

An adult buck was lazily grazing the foliage that had overgrown near a stream. It was already mating season, it was always a good idea to have a good meal and plenty of water before he take part in the act of reproduction. But before that, he had to compete with many other bucks for a mate, but he was not really bothered by those youngsters as he was the biggest buck in the forest. It was going to be the same as the previous years.

But fate has other plans for the adult buck, as a black arrow went through his hind leg. It happened so fast that it was not even aware that its life was in danger and another arrow went through its other hind leg, rendering it unable to escape.

Nikolai approached the injured buck with his black knife in hand. ' I hope I'm not messing with the ecosystem here. ' He grimaced, killing too many of these animals would lead to an imbalance in the ecosystem, if these animals do not have the numbers to reproduce it would lead to no meat for his high protein-reliant diet.

He slit the buck's throat and let the blood flow like a running water tap. the dying animal was trembling, proving that it was near's death gate.

" UNDEAD VISION. " his vision turned black and white as he cast the spell. There was the dying flame of the animal flickering and slowly dimming to oblivion.

[ SOUL DEVOURED ]
[ SUFFICIENT SOULS HAVE BEEN DEVOURED ]

' Finally! ' Nikolai sighed, he had to kill six of these animals to fill that fucking water cup he dubbed, " SOUL CUP ". Sure he was getting more meat after this, so he was getting rewarded handsomely.

Now it was time to see what improvements the mist will get after all the hard work he had done for the past three hours.

The souls that he had worked hard to collect were getting drained and it was spreading across his entire body, the warmth was soothing, it was like taking a warm bath. The warmth was most intense at his chest, where his soul was located... he watched as his soul was absorbing the other souls.