Chapter 220: 220
Draco was understandably surprised by Loving Aunt's assertion . "Any external source of energy can be used? So, electricity, kinetic, potential, light, heat, and others?"
Loving Aunt nodded . "Even life energy . However, as I stated, the cost of this is almost a thousand times greater than what would be needed for bloodline energy . "
"Not only that, but this also depends - once again - on your Serpentine Familiar . Mine is a Blue Underwater Adder, the embryonic form of the Leviathan, which is a God Serpent . "
"As such, the price I had to pay was really high, but I still managed to gather enough external energy for it . "
Draco remained quiet for a few seconds before he asked the most prudent question . "What type of energy did you use for the technique?"
The serious and amiable aura around Loving Aunt froze, becoming something sinister and evil in a split second . The change was so fast that even Draco and Riveting Night were slightly startled .
"Among them all, the quickest I could gather was that of life energy . " Loving Aunt answered with a mirthless smile and a cold glint in her eyes .
It wasn't directed at Draco, but he still sighed deep down . It seemed as if his aunt had done something truly horrific in the past .
'Hm . . . no, wait!' Draco's eyes glinted with sharpness as he made some connections .
With a heavy expression, he gazed at Loving Aunt and asked a question with an unbearably heavy weight . "When did you activate the technique?"
Loving Aunt wasn't bothered by her nephew's questioning . After all, she was callous to any normal life in the world because of her bloodline and her age, but to Draco, she would never even harm a hair on her beloved nephew's head .
That was why Draco was unbothered by his Aunt's change . However, her answer did make him pause for a second as his hunch was answered .
"Around 1945 . "
If Aunt Fyre was 139 years old and it was currently 2065, it meant that she was born in 1926 . In 1945, she should've been 19 years old, which made sense why she would still be so easily moved by his father and love in general .
Draco closed this train of thought . He didn't want to dig into the matter too deeply, because it involved topics that were extremely taboo . He also didn't want his perception of his aunt to change .
Even though he himself had carried out brutal slaughters and done vile evils, if Draco was correct, then her deeds must have been way worse than the Evil Duo's actions put together .
Loving Aunt seemed to notice her nephew's thoughts, and was heartened by the fact that his gaze towards her didn't change .
There was no true evil or true good . Most people just favored one side more than the other, but unless one was a deranged entity, they would need to seek out a balance .
Depending on the amount of morality a person favors, they would need some of the opposing faction to maintain their general sanity, otherwise they would devolve to become wild beasts .
Loving Aunt had committed a vile sin in her past in order to gather enough power to impress the target of her affection, but it turned out that this target had already been won over by her own blood sister .
Left adrift with her goal unachievable, she settled down and became a trainer, raising many of the young generation with fervor . She had brought up the battle power of the Serpent God Inheritance extremely high in this generation, and had become one of the central pillars of the clan .
Atonement? Not really . For one to atone for something, one had to first feel remorse for their actions . As could be imagined, Loving Aunt did not feel any such things .
It was simply this very same sub-conscious desire for moral balance described earlier that had led her to go so far, and now that had carried over to her nephew .
Loving Aunt had a very awkward relationship with her younger sister, something which made Draco's mother feel very bitter about over the years .
On the fateful day that the Lucifer Lineage had allied with the Amaterasu Lineage to resist the Pangu Alliance - formed of the Pangu Lineage and the other 6 Lineages - the result had been a destructive stalemate .
Riveting Night had shared the basic details of the events during their years as babies with him, and it was part of the reason why Draco hadn't stormed his 'family home' after unlocking his bloodline .
When he mixed this knowledge with his insight gained from dominating the world in his previous timeline, he was able to see through Loving Aunt like she was a piece of white paper .
However, this did not bother him . As far as he was concerned, she was his only true family from the Lucifer Lineage . The rest were weak dogs who had caved in to compromise with the enemy over his life .
"However, you don't need to follow the same path I did . You can substitute life energy in this game world with the various other types like Worldly Energy or whatever else there is . "
"In the real world, you are even luckier . In my time, electricity wasn't so plentiful and the world wasn't as developed as it is now . You can easily use Nuclear Energy to achieve your goals, but it should be harder to acquire than killing a nation . "
Loving Aunt said this with a true expression of envy, making Draco rub his head with awkwardness . It was true that he was born in a good time . The real world had nuclear energy aplenty and even anti-matter energy was being researched after World War 3 .
'It seems like I'll have to work with Eva to raid CERN after the members of Umbra reach the Central Country and we deal with those troublesome mafias . ' Draco pondered thoughtfully .
He shelved that plan for later . He had some dealings with the noble institute of science in his past life, but it seemed like their relationship in this life would be very sour .
'As for Boundless, I'll have to use either Divine or Origin Energy . Forget about Worldly Energy, I might as well use bloodline energy instead of that . '
'Aetheric Energy is a good option, but lord knows how many Aether Crystals I'd need . Even if I gathered enough of them, why would I punish my Black Dragon by limiting it?'
'It is clear from my usage of Aether Crystals so far that Aetheric Energy is synonymous with the Legendary Rank . This is a blessing and a curse, because it allows anything it touches to jump to the Legendary Rank, but I have the feeling things made using it are also constrained at the Legendary Rank . '
It could be said that through his insight as a reincarnator and his continued use of the energy, Draco understood Aetheric Energy pretty well .
It also helped that he 'excreted' the stuff every quarter-hour .
From a normal point of view, Aetheric Energy was absolutely godly, because it could jump ranks and bring anything it touched to the Legendary Rank .
This Rank was something that players who had reached Rank 6 in his past life didn't even have . Its actual value seemed diminished because Draco acquired them like cabbage, but it was still there .
The value of Aether Crystals was so high for a reason . Its greatest secret was right there, its ability to improve anything .
However, what many might not realize was that it also limited items . For example, the wands he made for Jada and Jade would never become Divine, at most reaching Legendary .
The same went for anything he made with Aetheric Energy through Enchanting, Alchemy, or whatnot .
However, who gave a damn? Would someone who had been gifted premium brand shoes complain that those weren't the limited one of a kind edition, when they could see everyone else going around in dirty sandals?
Look at what those wands had been able to allow Jada and Jade to do! They could even solo a dungeon on their own, and it was currently only Semi-Legendary!
Rina's staff could even clear out a whole AREA ZONE . How many lives existed in an area zone? Hundreds, if not thousands, yet she could wipe them out in one hit .
This was the power of a Legendary item . Only an insatiable beast like Draco would feel dissatisfied, because he was eyeing Origin Energy itself, completely skipping over Divine .
To summon his Black Dragon with Aetheric Energy would confine it to Legendary - or in this case, Supreme - Rank . Why would he do that when he himself had a natural path to become a Primogenitor Dragon?
As such, only the purest Divine Energy would suffice . Draco even pondered if he could get his grimy hands on Origin Energy, but that was unlikely . It might perhaps be possible when he reached Rank 5 or 6 .
As such, Draco put away any thoughts about the energy source and moved onto the other stuff .
"What about the splitting of the soul? How does that work?"
Loving Aunt smiled and explained warmly, her aura returned to its calm state . "Things like the soul and the spirit are extremely esoteric, being very hard to explain or discover . "
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