Spidergwen: I have a system?!

Chapter 119: Land of Darkness

[3rd POV]

Turns out making pancakes for Nora was a mistake, a very very big one. Why? Because the girl would not stop asking for more! Turns out her pancakes were a "Gift from Oum" whatever that meant, and were better than Ren's, who was at one point, the "Best pancakes ever".

So now she had Nora asking for pancakes, and Ruby asking for cookies, after she made a batch once and the girl got a bite of one of her chocolate chip cookies. And she hadn't even made fish yet, and once she did, she'd have Blake coming after her as well, her being a cat faunus and all.

Gwen was pretty bored at the moment, so she decided to do something actually interesting for once, in this case, she was in the Land of Darkness, where Salem was located, and where the Grimm were born from. The surroundings were dark and eerie, and she had already consumed hundreds of grimm that had constantly been attacking her.

There were all sorts of dark crystals littering the surroundings, sprouted from the ground, so much so that the very surroundings were tinted in the same color. The crystals themselves almost seemed to be a form of dust, but more dark in nature, and not something Gwen had seen before, so she ended up taking quite a bit of it just to see what it was.

None of the grimm in the area were all that impressive, with most of them being quite weak. Well, to her they were. To the rest of the world? They were some of the strongest grimm out there, alpha's and such. But a single swing from Gwen's blade and their heads flew.

Walking the land, Gwen was surveying the surroundings, while also killing any grimm she came across. She planned on absorbing a grimm pool, but she had yet to come across any. She wanted to do it mainly to see what sort of effect it would have on her, considering the grimm pools could produce thousands, if not tens of thousands of grimm, and there were, from her estimation, over a thousand of these pools in the land of darkness.

The pools were created by the God of Darkness himself, so she wasn't sure what sort of effect it would have, but she assumed it would be a good one. Either way, it wouldn't be harming her in any way. Not in any meaningful ones that she wouldn't instantly adapt to, at least.

After walking for a bit longer, Gwen finally found her target, and the first grimm pool that she had found so far. Walking up to what looked like a small hole in the ground full of pitch black ooze, Gwen leaned down and placed her hand inside of it, as she rapidly began to absorb it into her.

A soft sigh escaped her lips as her veins glowed a dark purple, as a notification appeared in front of her.

Grimm Pool? More like...nevermind

Details - Absorb your first grimm pool

Reward - 10 NL tickets

Gwen raised an eyebrow at the reward, as she felt the darkness fill her. The power was...mediocre, but still noticeable. She found that her semblance had gotten stronger...for some reason. She suspected that grimm weren't as "Soulless" as people thought they were. And that is why they were strengthening her soul/spark.

She could feel the power from the grimm, and her connection to her dark and shadow based powers increasing a decent bit. Which was saying a lot with how powerful her dark based powers were at the moment. She was far beyond someone like Salem in the area, so the idea that something like a grimm pool could give her a genuine increase in power, was pretty impressive on the God of Darkness's end.

Deciding that one wasn't enough for her, Gwen decided to continue traveling through the Land of Darkness, absorbing as many grimm and grimm pools as she could. By the time an hour had passed, she had completed even more quests.