Chapter 138: B2: C38: Prioritizing
Zarian hadn’t done much of anything for a week. Sometimes he would lie in his big and comfortable bed for hours. Other times, he would look out his grand and tall windows and observe the village activity down below.
Things were fine now with Metatron gone. There were fewer paladins than before, many having left after the hostilities and the destruction of a revered angel figure.
The summoning of a Tier 4 Arch Cherub had cost them plenty of powerful paladins back in their home kingdom, apparently. It took a heavy sacrifice of quality humans who were willing, and those didn’t grow on trees.
It was safe to say the Stalwart Paladin Kingdom had taken their shot at Zarian and failed royally. Maybe they might try again with another enormous round of human self-sacrifices, but Zarian doubted they would get another high tier angel figure after losing Metatron forever.
Well, that mattered little to Zarian. His mind was fixed on his experience of being unraveled and held in the hungering jaws of Para’s consciousness.
Most people would find that horrifying. But not Zarian. He looked back at the moment with Wonder.
Despite how nice Para could be to those who weren’t her food, she was still a monstrous entity summoned by a high quality and evil skill. So Para had done great at protecting him from herself.
But Zarian still remembered the sensations of being at the mercy of that insatiable hunger. He remembered the central pillar of Para’s inner nature, which wanted to eat him up and then eat more and more.
It felt like he’d gone on a spiritual journey that reached beyond the mechanical system runes attached to his profile. It had been a journey that delve into the essence of the Parasite Cloak +2 skill.