The lifeless golden eyes of the young Saintess seemed to stare in Nial''s direction as he sat on the ground near her lifeless body.


    He didn''t hesitate to tear Be apart. There was no trace of remorse nor was there any self-satisfaction when he seeded in taking revenge on the woman who had dared to take his mother''s life. At the end of the day, killing Be Morningstar, the Saintess of the Angels, wouldn''t bring his mother back to life.


    That was a fact and something Nial had to ept. Nheless, the emotions that coursed through his entire being made it quite obvious that he felt a little better knowing that the Saintess hadn''t been granted a happy ending.


    For Nial, that was more than enough, though he was not too sure what he was supposed to do. Leaving behind Be''s body was the best option since he was not willing to give her any kind of funeral. Her body had been torn apart into pieces, with parts of her body scattered all over the flourishing grass in the proximity.


    Nial could still perceive her body parts but he ignored them. He hoped that Be had suffered a lot in thosest moments and had felt the pain that his mother has gone through before the light dimmed in her eyes. He genuinely hoped that she had the worst end even though he knew that this was probably not the case.


    Be had been desperate but her end had been rather quick. It didn''t even require five minutes before the vigor in her eyes began to disperse. Thest bits of vigor was wiped out from her eyes not long after and her body went rigid once until everything was finally over and her head lolled to the side.


    Nial had terminated the Ancient Devilization with the Devil Roc who was now sitting on Nial''s shoulder in his smallest form. The Devil Roc looked like an ordinary eagle, just that he had ck plumage. Nial had to tend to his wounds with bandages or some vials that could prevent ailments from taking up a residence in his body, or give them some time to regenerate, at least.


    He took a deep breath and sent the Devil Roc into the air after an hour or two.


    "Scout the while I''m healing," Nial ordered and the Devil Rocplied. He transformed back into his original form as a Devil Roc and began his trip all over the.


    Nial was pretty sure that the was not toorge, which meant that the Devil Roc wouldn''t have too many problems encountering foreign races and wild beasts. The Devil Roc would be strong enough to defeat them.


    Furthermore, Nial didn''t really think that this attracted anyone''s interest. There was not a trace of mana in the soil and the nature of this, or his proximity to be precise. While the mana in space was extremely pure and high in terms of quantity, the he hadnded upon didn''t seem to be able to hold mana. That was something Nial didn''t encounter often since even the hibernating Jundra was capable of holding Mana.


    As for other unawakeneds, Nial had never been to any. It was the first time for him, and it couldn''t be at a worse time.


    "In exchange for killing this bitch, I am now stranded in the middle of nowhere?" Nia grumbled to himself while continuing to spread out his range of perception and Mana Sense. He was trying to find some foreign race or at least some beasts in the surrounding area. Unfortunately, it was not exactly easy for Nial to sense anything since the didn''t hold any mana. Not even the animals he heard were in possession of mana for him tomunicate in the universalnguage.


    It was almost as if they didn''t even know about the existence of mana, in the first ce. Nial felt that this was hard to believe but it was the truth and a fact. The only thing he was able to sense with his expanded range of perception was the mana in space. He was trying to control it and lead strands of it toward him, just to realize that the mana was not able to get through the stratosphere.<novelnext></novelnext>


    Nial had to give up in the end but that was still eptable. It was already great that he was not lost in space and that he could breathe some fresh air. It was not necessary for him to breathe, eat, drink or sleep anymore as long as his body held some mana or dark energy but it made his journey a bit bearable.


    It was just natural for him to breathe with the oxygen in his surroundings, not the mana inside his body.


    A week passed in the blink of an eye, and the Devil Roc returned from his third time traveling across the entire. The was rather small in size and the Devil Roc didn''t find any beings that could be considered a foreign race. ording to the Devil Roc, there were a bunch of hairy existences living in ratherrge tribe-likemunities but that was already it.


    They wouldn''t be able to tell Nial where he was in the Universe, or if there was a Worldbridge or something simr to that nearby. With that in mind, Nial chose to leave this. His wounds had already healed and both his crimson moonlight and Essence of Darkness were slowly being refilled as well.


    The Essence of Darkness was created by extracting the purest Essence out of his dark energy. With that in mind, Nial''s dark energy was about to get depleted as well. It was time for him to leave, which Nial did without hesitation. He got on the Devil Roc''s back who shot into the air with a shocking velocity.


    Within the following minutes, they reached space where the Devil Roc used his dark energybined with the wind affinity, which he possessed before he had been devilized, to fly toward the closest.


    While the Devil Roc turned into a living rocket, Nial focused on replenishing his dark energy. Because he couldn''t be sure whether there would be any intelligent races in the entire ster system, or if one of the fews in this ster system were capable of holding mana in the first ce, Nial made enough preparations for the worst case.


    Traveling to the next closest took two days. Nial''s mood improved gradually when he realized that quite a bit of mana passed through the''s stratosphere and that the was able to hold mana. It didn''t have an awakenedary mana core but that was still fine. He was already quite satisfied with the improvement he made inparison to the manaless first he encountered.


    Nial gave the Devil Roc some time to recuperate. In the meantime, he spread his range of perception, reinforced through his Mana Sense to take a look at his surrounding area. The smells, sounds, and vibrations he felt through the ground were already pretty good indicators to determine everything he had to know about his immediate surroundings but Nial liked to be as detailed as possible.


    That way, he wouldn''t miss out on something that other senses may not be able to perceive.


    However, even on this, Nial didn''t encounter a foreign race. The was filled with beasts and other things that attracted his interest quite a bit!


    "This might be useful forter!"