Kaiser of the New World (Ch 200+)

Blush (244)

Kai cursed his shitty luck.

He thought that he had struck gold after finding out he could steal the stats of the Forgotten Husks he killed. The possibility of being able to absorb hundreds of stats was nearly enough to make his mouth water.

But when he eventually found another invisible corpse on the ground he was greeted by a new message, one that was much less pleasant.

User has already used Soul Memorial on this species. Cooldown of 1 hour.

An hour wasn't that bad, but it was still time that Kai didn't want to waste.

However, it wasn't that bad. They would be setting up in the tent soon anyway, so they would be staying here, meaning he could just come and use the skill whenever the cooldown ended.

Kai was fine with sacrificing a little sleep, considering that he had to repair his soul and choose his brand new skill in the mean time.

So, it wasn't all bad, just a little annoying.

Successfully managing to kick the invisible corpse of the beast he had to wait an hour to fight again, Kai made his way back out of the cave.

Being greeted by the cold embrace of the blizzard once more, Kai smiled grimly. This really was setting up to be a torturous few months, especially if he would have to blow himself up at every encounter.

Even though fighting like that did not seem sustainable, at all. Maybe if he only done small explosions as a way to disorient his enemies. A few cracks probably wouldn't make that big of a difference.

It was when he would charge his soul for longer that things would really begin to get dangerous.

If he were to build the flames up inside himself for a few hours and somehow managed to endure the excrutiating pain that accompanied it, who knew how big the explosion would be?

Glancing down the mountain to his left, Kai saw the tops of two heads peeking out over a small outcrop of rock.

Cecilia and Petunia were pretty bad at hiding. They must not have known what to expect, considering that the last things they must have heard was him roaring followed by an explosion.

Feeling a sly grin start crawling it's way onto his face, Kai began creeping to the rock they were hidden behind.

Better yet, he resummoned Esurient and used the Veiled of the Dark Side's stored soul to take himself invisible. He had to move pretty quickly though, otherwise the snow would start clinging to him and give him an outline.

Cecilia clung softly to Petunia, her delicate hand placed over the child's mouth. She had no idea what had happened, all that she hoped was that Kai was alright and-

Her blood suddenly turned cold when she felt a finger tap her shoulder.

"Aaaaaahhh!"

Not even wasting a second, Cecilia let go of Petunia, squeezed her eyes shut and began swinging her arms at whatever was behind her. If she was going to die today, she was at least going to put up a fight.

However, the next thing she knew, her hands had been pinned to her sides and the sound of soft laughter was flowing into her ears.

Slowly opening her eyes, she saw that Kai was softly holding onto her, his body pressed up against hers.

Even though Kai felt a little bitter about it and would much rather be a few inches taller than the ex-Queen, they were looking at each other eye to eye.

"Well, at least you tried to fight back."

Cecilia's jaw dropped as she tried, and failed, to pull herself away from Kai. Instead, she settled for hitting his chest over and over again while he continued to hold onto her wrists.