Awakened: Evolving to Godhood

He immediately realized that the fools who had taken the fruits and consumed them were witnessing a nightmare while still awake. Fearing that they might end up swinging their swords at each other, Elliot rushed out of the house.

"Arthur, what the hell are you doing?!"

"He had gone crazy."

"Lucy, hurry up and step out of the way before he stabs away."

"You damned fools!

Arthur's eyes were bloodshot. He seemed to be seeing several corpses of his companions, although none of them were here. Julian had given him a fruit, and he had eaten it thinking it was harmless. But right after eating it, the ones who died in this place came to haunt him, accused him of their death, taunted him, and tarnished his honor, even going as far as trying to take him to the depths of hell. Know this, it was all in his mind, but it was enough to make him go crazy.

Whoosh!

Arthur brandished his heavy sword, swinging it at the bastards that were trying to take him to hell with them when in actuality, he was swinging it at Lucy.

Lucy stood still, seemingly having no fear of death that was approaching her. She had also eaten a nightmare fruit, and she was experiencing her worst memory, the worst time of her life, just like Julian and the others. Only Tia, who had no appetite, and Oliver, who chose not to eat something unfamiliar as he feared for the worst were fine.

Tia was currently restraining Julian, whose head was filled with blood. She had been bashing it on the tree, trying to kill herself, when Tia chanced upon her and immediately restrained her. Oliver, on the other hand, was stopping the four magicians from the Regis family from swinging their swords at each other by doing what he was the best at, beating others senseless.

They both had their hands full and were not able to help Lucy! By the time they saw Arthur's sword coming towards her petite figure, it was already too late!

Just as it looked like the sword would crush her to death, a blue flashed, and a spiritual energy beam crashed on the heavy sword, causing it to tilt away from Lucy's direction. Another one yanked the sword out of Arthur's hand, and it stabbed into the tree nearest to them as a shrill sound spread out.

Swoosh!

Elliot didn't get any time to breathe as right at that very moment, Lucy pulled out a dagger from her white gown. Her long, slender legs with skin as smooth as jade and as white as snow in complete contrast to the icy, cold dagger of a grey color. There was a sharp but low sound of it cutting through the air, but it sounded well in Elliot's ears. Quickly, it approached the pit of Arthur's figure.

Bam!

A strong wind blast approached them, though, and crashed on the spot three steps away from them. Elliot had just used Wind Blast, a skill of his artifact, Gauntlet of Wind. The impact generated shockwaves that crashed on them both and sent them hurling away from each other.

"Go and grab her." A golden rope charged out of Elliot's hand with such speed that it reached the girl before she could fall to the ground, then it wrapped around her lithe waist and pulled her back to Elliot. At the same time, Arthur dropped to the ground with a dull thud, seemingly hitting his head and losing his consciousness. 

Lucy came hurtling towards Elliot, and he extended his hand to grab her in his embrace. She was unconscious and out of her mind. Her soft flesh pressed against his warm hands and her ample-sized mounds hanged over his arm. Her slender, swan-like neck attracted his gaze so did the stuff down below disappearing into her clothes. Not to mention, her sweet scent reached his nostrils, telling him that she had taken a bath not too long ago to clean herself from head to toe, probably by using the water from the pond.

Elliot was a young and healthy man, but he had no intention of taking advantage of an unconscious beauty so he ignored her enticing state, hot enough to make many men enter heat, and looked away from her, his face appearing cold and rigid. 

"Hey! We're having a hard time! Do you mind lending us a hand?!"

"Please Help Us!"

Oliver and Tia shouted from the sides.

"They are dumbasses, not deserving of my help."

Although Elliot had no intention of helping them and wouldn't even blink his eyes if they killed each other or committed suicide, he still made a move to help them. Why? He had invested too much in them already, from saving their lives to using a magic contract to bind them to himself, and couldn't let them die.

"Art of Creation: Imprisonment!" Elliot exclaimed in his mind, and immediately several waves of golden energy surged out of his palm, charging towards the ones who had gone retarded from the nightmare they were experiencing, reaching them and wrapping around him, immobilizing them.

"What now?" Oliver wondered.

"Just what happened to them?" Tia asked.

"It's the aftereffect of the fruit they ate. It causes others to experience a nightmare that lasts for ten or twenty minutes. Just leave them be, and they will be fine after a while."

Leaving those words behind, Elliot entered the treehouse with Lucy. He placed her on the bed made out of twigs and leaves before walking away towards the crates of fruits, finally doing what he was about to do before all the mess.

"Time to eat," Elliot said with a smile, and then he stuffed one spiritual fruit after another into his mouth.

[Your Strength has increased by 1.1 points]

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[Your Speed has increased to 1.1pointst]

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[Your Agility has increased by 1.2 points]

After devouring all of the fruits, Elliot looked at his status screen.

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[Champion: Elliot Vincent]

[Race: Demi-Human & Semi-God]

[Evolutionary Stage: Celestial Channel Creation Stage]

[Level 11: 0/10000 essence of life]

[Essence of life: 22780 units]

[Maximum Energy Capacity: 1600 units] [Magic energy: 0 units] [Spiritual Energy: 930 units [God's Qi: 0/110 units] [Nourishing Qi: 1 unit]

[HP: 100/100]

[Strength: 55]

[Stamina: 60]

[Agility: 100]

Skills & Ability: [Wing Spirit] [Godly Creation Matrix] [God's Right Eye of Wisdom] [Stab of Growth] [Healing Slash] [Wind Blast] [Super God Mode] [Spiritual Energy Nuke] [Energy Discharge] [Body of Prey]

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He had become fast enough to match a peak-level magic grandmaster. His strength and stamina had also increased considerably. He then stood up from his spot, picked up the crate with fruits in it, opened his subspace, and put it inside of it.