David didn't pay attention to what happened next. After they handed over the evidence they'd found to Fernandes, they left the church.

Fernandes would probably need a long time to digest those real cult leads.

The arm the Shattered Church cultist had was successfully obtained. The future cooperation with the Shattered Church was a long-term plan, but the urgent priority was still to keep improving his own strength.

The target Efnathis wanted to "frame"—the Mother of Flesh—her followers were a really dangerous bunch. He'd already felt that evil god's malice from those fish monsters this time.

If one day he needed to directly stand against that evil god, he absolutely didn't want to see himself being devoured by endless flesh.

Only by continuing to advance his tier could he become truly invincible.

At least he needed the strength to defeat legendary creations...

After witnessing the power of the steam knight, that towering metal figure had become David's goal to chase.

Back home, David pulled out the paper with the second-tier ritual materials written on it. After glancing at the material names, he already had his next move planned.

He thought for a moment, then casually walked toward the kitchen where the maids were.

"Zoe, Yui, I'm planning to take a trip tomorrow..."

The two maids, who seemed to be secretly discussing something, looked startled by their young master's sudden return. They stiffened like frightened rabbits, nervously showing David their smiles.

"Young master, welcome home... You—you just said, where are you going?" Zoe asked carefully.

David didn't really care about the maids' reaction. Instead, he showed a meaningful smile.

"I'm going to a town near the imperial capital. I'll probably be back within two days. You two just wait at home, you don't need to come with me."

Hearing the young master was going out, a flash of delight seemed to cross both maids' eyes, though they hid it well by lowering their heads.

"Have a safe trip, young master."

The twins' sweet voices made David nod with satisfaction. He took off his clothes stained with blood and fish smell and turned to leave.

"The young master's leaving, so we can take the chance to..."

"Shh!" Zoe cut off Yui's words and quietly peeked out of the kitchen. Seeing David had already gone upstairs, she said in a low voice:

"Don't rush, Yui. Until you figure out what the 'Fool Angel' ability does, we'd better not rashly do anything dangerous..."

Yui wrinkled her nose in frustration. Sister was right. They'd tried all day today at home. Zoe had already figured out her ritual power, but she herself was totally confused.

What the heck was Fool Angel?

She couldn't understand it at all.

Activating the ability just made her stand there like an idiot, like she'd even lost the right to think. She didn't even have memories of when the ability was active...

What was the difference between this and some drunk who blacked out!?

Was this supernatural power supposed to be a joke!?

Where was the "super" in supernatural!?

Compared to that, sister's "Enchantress Nightmare" ability looked way more useful. Though it was kind of embarrassing to talk about, at least it could actually affect enemies and be useful!

The only comfort for Yui was discovering that while her body was getting softer, her strength had actually increased a bit.

And throughout the day, this feeling kept getting stronger and stronger. She seemed to be growing.

Actually it wasn't just Yui—Zoe also had this feeling of constant growth. That strange gray mist inside them was rapidly fusing with their souls. Even if they did nothing, this fusion continued every single moment.

In less than a day, that gray mist had been almost completely consumed.

The mysterious power was fully absorbed by the twins' souls. During this process, their psychic energy limits kept rising too.

If David could see the sisters' psychic energy values right now, his jaw would probably drop.

Zoe's psychic energy had reached an astounding 10,000 points, and Yui had 5,000 psychic energy. Both far exceeded the limit that normal first-tier supernatural beings could obtain (excluding monsters like David).

Their life energy had also grown to over 400 points in one day—more than double what they'd had right after completing the ritual.

This was because they'd already completed full fusion with the ritual power in just one day.

Now, both twins vaguely felt a fact in their hearts—their bodies were already prepared to advance to second-tier...

At this speed, they weren't far behind David, that cheater.

Perhaps this was what real god-blessed ones looked like.

...

That night, David sat at the dining table with the two maids, eating the dinner the twins had carefully prepared.

The maids' cooking skills had improved a lot over the past year of practice. David, no longer tormented by the Devourer evil spirit, recently had the mood to leisurely savor his food.

As for eating at the same table as the young master, the two maids were already used to it. Originally this would be impossible in any noble household—servants never had the right to sit at the table with their master.

But David insisted on it. He required the twins to eat with him, sleep with... ahem, he treated them like family and never deliberately exploited them to show off his status as master.

He didn't need to. In the two maids' eyes, David Frank's authority had never diminished.

Of course, David himself didn't think too much about it. He just felt that eating alone would be really lonely.

Right now, while eating, he read the evening paper by lamplight and noticed an interesting news item:

Thanks to the emergence of "Liquid Thunder," the Empire's steel battleships sailing toward the Vortex Sea had come into being. All of this was thanks to the great master alchemist, Lord Julius...

Looked like that crazy alchemist had really created something pretty incredible.

David chuckled and casually tossed the paper aside.

After dinner, once all three had finished washing up, David called the maids to his room.

Tonight's program was naturally to properly test what exactly the two maids' supernatural powers were...

David was still pretty curious about this.

"Zoe, you go first." David sat behind his desk with his arms folded, smiling.

Zoe blushed a bit in embarrassment and said quietly, "Young master, my ability 'Enchantress Nightmare' is kind of special. It seems like it can affect other people's minds, making them..."

The maid's voice got quieter and quieter until it seemed to turn into a mosquito's murmur. David couldn't hear a single word.

"Making them what??"

He narrowed his eyes. An ability that could affect the mind—now that was interesting...

"Making... them... l-love me..."

Zoe lowered her head and said the words with embarrassment.

"Uh..."

David froze for a second. Actually, when he saw the ritual name "Enchantress Nightmare," he'd already been guessing in this direction, but he noticed Zoe didn't say "charm"—she said "love."

"L-love... what does that mean?" David thought for a moment and stood up. "Is it permanent?"

"N-no, it's not permanent. It only works while I'm activating the ability, and it continuously consumes psychic energy." Zoe shook her head.

"Mm, how long can you keep using the ability?"

Zoe blinked. With her over 10,000 psychic energy, she could actually maintain this ability for a really long time. She looked up and used her limited math skills to calculate for ages without getting the right number.

"Um... it only consumes about one-thousandth per second... no wait, is it one ten-thousandth?... How many seconds are in an hour again?"

Seeing Zoe's troubled expression, David just said, "Forget it, just try using it on me!"

"Ah!?" Zoe's mouth dropped open in surprise. "Use the ability on young master?"

She immediately waved her hands, her face turning red again. "N-no, that won't work..."

"Don't worry, I'm not as fragile as you think. Go ahead."

David's insistence left Zoe helpless. After pleading with him several times to no avail, she finally reluctantly activated her ability.

In that moment, David seemed to see Zoe's water-blue pupils transform into some kind of wonderful color.

It deeply attracted him...

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