Warlock of War: My Ares System

But, as soon as I had fully pulled it out, I dropped it into the basin of vines below me and watched roses sprout from my wounds, healing them to the point of full recovery.

"It seems we were a bad match… though, you did force me to use this… and now the vampires probably know of its existence…." I sighed, crouching down to the pale corpse, which had sprouted a singular rose with a blood-red eye in the middle of it.

It twitched around, eventually locking onto me before I pulverized it with my fist, feeling the mana get sucked completely out of my body.

Soon, I returned to the underworld, which had partly taken the form of my throne world around me, but in reality, all the others saw was our reaction… not the true terror and fear that my throne world could create.

"I'm exhausted…."

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[You have completed the Side Quest: Colosseum Match Five]

[Reward has been granted]

[The next Side Quest will be revealed once ready]

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"Ah, finally," I muttered, pushing the reward out of the way to see my actual status, which had finally reached a point where I was absolutely content.

『Status』

[Name: Orion Vazgath]

[Race: Demon]

[Class: Prince of Blood]

[Level: 55/55] (200/200) [Meet Evolution Requirements]

[HP: 100/100 MP: 75/75 SP: 60/60] - Above Human

[Strength: 43] - Above Human

[Defense: 40] - Above Human

[Magic: 45] - Above Human

[Speed: 48] - Above Human

[Skills: [Spear Coating] [Berserk Coating] [Empower] [Scout] [Ancient Torterras Tongue]

[Miasma Infused Presence]

[Tarot Power: [Undying Will] [Heroic Persuasion] [War Resonance] [Twin Carriers]

[Prince of Blood Skills: [Royal Blood Magic] [Vampiric Creation] [Vampiric Drain]

[Shroud of Fermented Blood] [Egg of the Progenitor]

[Passive Skills: [Toxic Immunity] [Toxic Body] [Night Vision] [Breath of the Snowy Underworld]  [Blood of the Underworld] [Blood Tainted Aura] [Blood Tainted Presence] [Speech of a King] [Constitution of a Tarturling] [Prisoner of Tartarus] [Iron Speech] [Demon's Gluttonous Stomach] [Potion Organs]

[Rune Path: [Influence of Battle] [Throne World: Basin of Roses] [Locked] [Locked] [Locked] [Locked]

[Equipment: [Magic Ring] [Storage Ring] [Sangria King's Spear]

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Unlike last time where upon hitting max level, I could instantly class up or evolve, apparently, this time, I needed something else in order to proceed with my evolution.

"Alright, what do you want from me?" I slowly muttered under my breath as several soldiers took me back to the prison palace.

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[You have leveled up]

[You reached the max level]

[Materials are needed to Class Up and Evolve]

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[1. Blooming Carnivorous Rose]

[2. Contained War Essence]

[3. One Hundred Decaying Warrior Souls]

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"I don't even know what the fuck any of these are… and you expect me to retrieve all of them? Should I ask the vampires for help?" I lightly muttered, but it seemed I wasn't the only one listening to myself as the soldiers around me soon stopped, their pupils filling the whites of their eyes.

"And what would you need my help for?" A sly mature voice rang through the air, vibrating my chest and causing me to freeze in place.

An extreme amount of pain flooded my body as if my blood began to flow backward, but with just a gritting of my teeth, I was able to withstand it and look back at the woman dressed in long dark red robes.

"You look like a cultist," I heaved.

"Impressive pain tolerance… if I didn't want to make you my servant, you would've been perfect as a toy," She lightly smirked while undoing the massive chains wrapped around my limbs. "They really went all out because you killed one of their top dogs… and now the top is in disarray. You even fucked over a few of my friends, which I don't mind since they needed to learn their place anyway,"

Clank

As soon as the chains hit the ground and I was left free to roam around, my blood began to flow in its normal direction, allowing me to let out a long sigh of relief.

"We're leaving now. My friends aren't going to take this loss lightly and will most likely begin the conversion of every single demon and demi-human within the colosseums vicinity,"

"Can't you just stop them since you're a duke or something,"

"Unfortunately… I was also going to do the same thing anyway, so I don't mind them doing the heavy lifting for me,"

Her wide smile nearly sent a shiver down my spine as her eyes had practically turned to slivers, revealing an almost snake-like quality from the thin red pupils being displayed.

I quickly followed her down the stone hallway and past the prison, where I saw each and every gladiator banging on their metal cells, begging or demanding to be released by the vampire who led the way.

She flawlessly ignored them, and so did I, allowing a smooth passage to the outside of the colosseum… or so I thought.

"Duchess… please hand over that young man. He has fucked us over completely, and the only way my master will be pleased is if he is dead or tortured," A young vampire came out of the shadows.

The dark properties literally wrapped around him like leaves, allowing him to move them to the side, causing them to snap right back to where they were initially created.

This guy is proficient with shadow magic… I'm gonna have to use my throne world again-

SHING

The vampire's head went flying as soon as the duchess disappeared from right beside me, a long bone-white blade with a spiky red handle gripped firmly within the center of her palm.

"Let's get going," The duchess smiled once again, and this made me only warier as now I could hardly wage the gap in power between us… I needed to evolve or class up fast. Otherwise, this city would devour me.

For the rest of the journey outside of the colosseum, these same bugs came flying in, only to be swatted away by the duchess, who effortlessly tore her allies apart.

And then, we finally reached it… the exit.