Many times I wished I could turn back time and save her, many times… I wanted to see her again. This feels like such a dream now. She's here, right now… After all of this time. I never expected I would ever see her again. The girl that taught us what love and caring for other truly was.
I was unable to follow what she tried to teach me back then, her soul and her mind were too innocent. Over time, as I grew up, I became bitter and more bitter. I couldn't find proper happiness and chased glory in the excitement and thrill of life and death battles.
I ended forgetting about her altogether.
"I'm sorry for everything, Saphira. I was never able to do as you taught me. I only became more bitter, I only brought not only my death, but the death of everyone I cared for."
"Huh? No, you did well…"
Saphira suddenly hugged me.
"I saw you papa, you weren't doing things only for selfishness, you fought the demons because they were invading the universe! You saved… so many people!"
"Yeah! Despite you always saying you were evil, you always targeted evil people that abused others, you only brought more good than evil in the universe! Even that big light seemed happy."
"What… such an irony."
I naturally targeted those that abused others because they were always the biggest fishes around. And well, deep down, I had a resentment against all these bastards, as when I was a child, I was also chased down, abused, and constantly running away from these types of people.
"You stopped the demons from invading the universe, you saved it!"
"Your death was not in vain; you stopped all the demons from advancing! Once you entered hell, you cornered Lucifer!"
Saphira knew so much, she really was seeing everything from Heaven…
"I guess… Maybe." I sighed, without wanting to really accept it.
"Now I'll help too! Saphira will be no pushover… I saw this beautiful world, the fuzzy light called it a Primordial World or something… He said it was very important! We have to protect it." Saphira was filled with determination.
"Hahaha, you're really pumped up, aren't you?" Eleanora laughed, petting the little ghost girl.
"Calm down now, one step at a time, alright?" I sighed, petting her as well.
"Oway!" Saphira nodded, quickly taking a look at the stew. "I'm hungy…"
"Oh right, let's eat then." I said. "I'll make you more. Anything you want."
"Ooh! Really papa?!" Saphira asked.
"Of course! For my little girl, anything." I said with a nod.
As I cooked for her, Hendrick began giggling in the background.
"Oh my, fufu, I have never seen my lord being such a good father before! T-This is a facet I have never seen before! I feel like I am learning so much…" Hendrick sighed, as Eleanora elbowed his stomach.
"Ouch! O-Okay, okay, I'll calm down… Geez, you've become so strong…" Sighed Hendrick.
While I saw Saphira eating happily, I checked at Hendrick's and Saphira's Status.
[Spirit Race]: [Vampire]
[Spirit Type]: [Blood/Poison/Shadow]
[Spirit Realm]: [Rank 2 (Upper Stage)]
[Health Points]: [1273/1273]
[Intelligence]: [2067]
{Passive Skills}: [Poison Vampire: Lv4] [Plague Aura: Lv5] [Researcher Eyes: Lv6]
{Active Skills}: [Stealth: Lv3] [Hallucination Fog: Lv3] [Torture: Lv5] [Dismantle: Lv5] [Poisoned Weapon Arts: Lv5] [Thread Arts: Lv3] [Alchemy: Lv6]
{Magic Skills}: [Blood Arts: Lv2] [Shadow Sneak: Lv3] [Venomous Blood Aura: Lv4] [Blood Enslavement Contract: Lv1] [Alchemical Compound Synthesis: Lv6] [Poison Blast: Lv4] [Poison Threads: Lv4] [Poison Materialization: Lv4]
{Title Skills}: [Plague Doctor: Lv4] [Progenitor Vampire: Lv1] [Alchemist: Lv7]
{Available Stat Points}: [0]
{Available Skill Points}: [250]
Hendrick Status was surprisingly how I expected it to be… One interesting detail is that the Spirits I summon will always be strong it seems, often times coming at my level and having leveled skills as well. It seems all his Stat Points were already automatically distributed too.
This means I won't have to babysit him until he becomes strong again and has come strong right out of the summoning circle. Still, he has his own Skill Tree and Skill Points to use, but he's smart enough, so I'll leave the task of assigning them to him.
Hendrick overspecializes on poison magic and alchemy, synthetizing compounds, toxins, and potions is his specialty. He's also good at making all kinds of bombs and intricate trap gadgets, he will be a great help from now on in both the alchemy department and everything in between.
He's also amazing at torture, specialize being an expert at making anybody talk, no matter how hard they struggle, he always makes them talk. Hendrick is also exceptional at assassination and mass killing using poisons and toxins, incapacitating our foes is also one of his greatest specialties.
[Spirit Race]: [Half Specter Vampire]
[Spirit Type]: [Phantom/Death/Blood]
[Spirit Realm]: [Rank 2 (Upper Stage)]
[Health Points]: [854/854]
[Intelligence]: [2267]
{Passive Skills}: [Specter Vampire: Lv4] [Phantasmal Aura: Lv5] [Specter's Gaze: Lv4]
{Active Skills}: [Stealth: Lv6] [Camouflage: Lv5] [Invisibility: Lv3] [Odorless: Lv3] [Soundless: Lv3] [High Speed Flight: Lv5] [Spectral Body: Lv5] [Phantasmal Claws: Lv4] [Intimidation: Lv2]
{Magic Skills}: [Phantom Blood Arts: Lv1] [Phantom Sneak: Lv5] [Phantasmal Materialization: Lv4] [Death Ray: Lv3] [Haunting Scream: Lv3] [Undead Enslavement Contract: Lv3]
{Title Skills}: [Specter Princess: Lv5] [Undead's Friend: Lv4] [Little Necromancer: Lv2]
{Available Stat Points}: [0]
{Available Skill Points}: [250]
And this was Saphira's Status… It was more than I had expected. I remember that Saphira never fought and merely helped us at scouting, and she has many skills just for that. However, she has wide arrangement of Death Magic Spells and even… the ability of being a Necromancer.
With her Undead Enslavement Contract, she can enslave souls into dead bodies and create Undead bound to her, and her Little Necromancer Title enhances this even more, alongside Undead's Friend, which makes any Undead she raises have complete loyalty while enhancing their stats.
She's an unexpected surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.