Warlock of War: My Ares System

“Some place. I’ll be back in about an hour or so,”

“Okay! Stay safe!” Bella shouted from down the hall, and just as I was about to continue my way down, I turned back around to see Bella glancing from her curry to me.

“If you want to come that badly then I could wait. No need to force it down your throat,” I chuckled before walking back to our little group of friends.

Bella was in desperate need of a napkin, so I tossed her one before she spoke up once again, her face much tidier than before.

“What about them? Are we just going to leave them here? Shouldn’t one of us protect them?” Bella asked, pointing at the seemingly defenseless Cy and Aisa.

Disappointed, I let out a long sigh before taking my spear out of my storage ring and slashing it towards Cy, who instantly reacted in his almost unconscious state.

His head ducked out of the way, and even though I wasn’t using my full power or speed, it was still impressive nevertheless.

“He’ll defend them if necessary, but I don’t think any monster would dare to approach them with such a monstrous aura,”

Bella stood there, mouth agape, it slowly opening and closing like she wanted to say something but just couldn’t force the words out.

“You look, you’re gonna cry… Come on, let’s go,” I said before patting her back, and she swiftly followed after me, her eyes still glued to the seemingly defenseless duo.

We walked for quite a while, maybe about an hour, before we reached the entrance to the tomb, which seemed more like a cave in my eyes.

There wasn’t much entrance to be seen unless you had to press a secret button, and it opened a secret passageway into the place.

“Woah, what the hell is this?” Bella gasped as she looked at the slaughtered corpse of the tomb guardian, who we easily disposed of.

“It’s a monster we slayed a while back. Don’t be scared to tred on it, it’s completely dead,” I muttered before looking at the splattered blue blood and letting out a long sigh of relief.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing, I’m just glad the blood is still here. Most monster blood evaporates upon coming in contact with oxygen, but it seems there isn’t much oxygen to be touched down here,” I chuckled before activating my new skill.

[Egg of the Progenitor]

All of a sudden, the splattered blue blood began to swirl around me, but it seemed a bit chafed by the corpse I was standing on, so I moved to the expansive cavern floor just beside it.

The blood followed after me, moving like a dancing wave or a free ocean current trying to entangle itself with my mana.

But, the system protected me from any risk to my mana and forced the dancing wave to flow into my hand, creating a dark blue egg with white splotches dotted around.

“Geez, you sucked the thing dry,” Bella smirked before hopping over to me and lightly flicking the much sturdier egg.

Though it had just been created, I could already feel a heartbeat pulsing against the palm of my hand, unlike the goblin blood egg, which felt lifeless and very empty.

“I wonder if I can add more blood to the egg even after forming it,” I muttered to myself but shoved that idea away for now until we encountered another goblin.

On our way back, we ran into yet another little green monster which cackled despite stepping back in fear.

“Does goblin meat taste good?” Bella asked as she took out a regular metal spear from her storage ring and twirled it around.

She was a bit sloppy with it, but at least her strike to the goblin’s heart was clean.

There weren’t any signs of her serrating the meat, and her pull out of the flesh was exceptionally clean.

“I thought you gave up on spearmanship?” I commented as I tore the thing in half with my own spear, allowing me full access to all of its blood.

“Well, I find it relaxing to practice sometimes. I might pick it back up seriously in the future, but for now, I have no intentions of reaching Cy or your level,”

“Why it might be fun,” I muttered before activating the skill yet again, and to my surprise, the thick green blood created an outer shell to the dark blue egg but then sank in, mixing with the already present shell.

Its complexion turned a dark purple, and the splotches of pink really made it stand out in this bone-dry labyrinth.

“I don’t practice it to have fun but to relax. But, once I start training seriously, that is when I lose all relaxation, and yeah, I guess fun,” Bella shrugged as we made our way back to the “defenseless” duo.

…

We were only about halfway to our destination, according to the map I had created in my mind before we were stopped by a pair of humans dashing towards us.

They weren’t very familiar, but the one thing that really caught my eye was the woman’s dark purple hair, a signature color for the Bonebloom family.

Orme was an anomaly who had selected a class that focused on metal in general rather than just the sword, a type of blacksmith, if you will.

It might’ve been part of his plan to make money through blacksmithing once he had escaped the family, but those decisions soon changed with myself stepping into the planner.

“They don’t seem to recognize us,” Bella muttered as they kept waving their hand, signaling for us to run.

All of a sudden, from the corner they turned, was a massive horde of skeletons and goblins attempting to climb over each other like it was Black Friday.

They all desperately chased after the duo of Bonebloom Miss and her servant, who was a knight in a full ass suit of armor… a bit extra, I must say.