"Oh and who might you be, you're so pretty." A pink haired girl had crawled out of nowhere and found herself hugging Gloria's body.
Gloria was caught off guard by the sudden invasive personal space, she saw the girl that was attached to her and was scared straight by her aura.
"Yuura, get off of her!" Gehrman's angry growl came abruptly, he pointed his scythe to her neck.
Yuura feigned betrayal at Gehrman's actions, "Awe Gehrman, how could you point your weapon at such a sweet girl?"
Suddenly Yuura felt something grab her by the nape of her neck, "Yuura, it's rude to suddenly invade someone's personal space. I apologise for her actions." Kevin apologized for Yuura's actions while holding her like an intruding cat.
"I just wanted to get to know them, you know Gehrman has been raving about his amazing teammates that I had to meet them." Yuura, sounding wronged, tried to explain herself.
Although her explanation just made Gehrman blush, a blush that a certain dragon noticed, " "Awe, his blushing, how adorable." Necrozma spoke in their usual multitude of voices.
Gehrman's party had recognized that multitude of voices before, they didn't know who the dragon was before but now they knew, that was Necrozma. How in the hell did it turn into that!
"Can you all stop!?" Gehrman couldn't take anymore of this. His face was beat red and he was struggling to breathe.
Before he could put himself together, he felt a pair of arms wrap around him, " No need to feel embarrassed, we are so glad you feel that way about us." Gloria's usually stern or cheery voice now became extremely gentle and pure, holding the man that she so idolized and revered.
Gehrman calmed himself down and finally brought his head up. He looked around and saw everyone around him had a shit-eating grin, even his own party, the only ones that didn't were Gloria and Simon.
Seeing that, he became flustered again and pressed in with the issue at hand, "Milord, what do you need me to do?"
Seeing that the idiot antics had ended I had put down my automatically refilling coffee mug and addressed what I called him here for, "You want to hear the price for this power?"
"Yes Milord."
"The price is simple. You have to give up your freedom."
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The room went silent, Gehrman and his party wore grave expressions while the others didn't look the slightest bit phased.
Amanises chimed over to me, "We probably should've elaborated."
"Yeah that probably would've been a good idea. I'm not asking you to leave your party."
Gehrman literally collapsed, "Why the hell didn't you say that first!?"
I ignored his outrage, "The conditions for accepting such power is that you are not allowed to betray me nor defect from my control whatsoever."
Gehrman looked with expectations, "Wait… that's it? I was already set on doing that."
"Great, then we can begin." I went into the other room to get something.
"Hi, Amanises, did you complete the awakening process already? Your magicules levels are off the charts… literally, I can calculate it with appraisal."
"How very astute of you Gehrman, This oh so majestic wolf has successfully become a demon lord of extremely high caliber." Amanises had shown herself in an extremely prideful manner.
"Stop with the theatrical act. It doesn't suit you."
Nyx walked over and began to prod around his body, " You seem to be in quite a stiff position, are your joints ok. Your body seems to be quite damaged."
Gehrman treated her behaviour as if it were the most normal thing, "Don't remind me, I've been dealing with so much shit lately."
The conversation continued as normal while Nyx gave something called magical body therapy to Gehrman.
" Do you four mind getting on the bed so that I can treat you guys as well?" Nyx offered to the hunters.
" We're good lady…?" Silas answered for the rest.
"It's Nyx and I wasn't asking."
Gehrman: "Don't resist, she won't take no for an answer."
Without resistance the four was forced onto medical beds and given therapy which they couldn't exactly complain about considering how bloody amazing it made them feel.
BANG
Everyone looked to the table once again to find that there is now a capsule containing an immense amount of energy inside.
"Are you sure about this Gehrman? Last chance."
"I'm sure Milord."
I nodded and then strapped the injectors to him and pressed the bright red button.
Gehrman gritted his teeth and then slowly fell asleep in his chair.
[Commencing evolution into Divine elemental hybrid… successful]
[All physical abilities have significantly improved]
[The individual can now freely convert their body between material and spiritual matter.]
[Next, all skills and resistances already acquired by the old form will be re-acquired… successful]
[New intrinsic skills: Chaos haki… Acquisition succesful]
[New resistances: Abnormal condition nullification, holy-demonic attack resistance, Natural effect nullification, Physical attack nullification, Spiritual attack nullification… Acquisition successful]
[Evolution of the Unique skill: Hunter into the Ultimate skill: Qliphoth, lord of death… successful]
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The hunting party were enamoured with the phenomenon occuring infront of their eyes.
They watched as light flowed out of his body, constantly destroying his body and rebuilding it, almost as if this were another reincarnation for him.
Finally, the light stopped and Gehrman's form finally came to. He didn't physically look different but they could feel a difference coming off of them.
Gloria and Silas began to carry him out, "His room is furthest to the right." Lord Pneuma had informed them of the proper direction.
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"I thought you would be resting right now." I questioned the newly awakened surbordinate of mine.
"Apologies, I intend to return and thank you for making accommodations for the rest of them…" Gehrman was hesitating about something.
I noticed the hesitation and turned around to face him, "If there's something that you want then just ask it."
"Sir, I would like to assemble a force under me and I want my hunting party to be the enforcers of this force."
"Of course you can but you didn't have to ask me… and you know that. What is the real reason for asking me?"
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"Selene! Wake up!" Silas was waking up Selene while he was inspecting his own the new power within him.
The entire party assembled outside the clocktower where Gehrman was waiting for them.
"Hello everyone, you seem to be well rested, have you familiarised yourself with your new unique skills."
"You already know about that?!" Gloria was stunned, they had suddenly undergone an extreme transformation last night and they didn't know what it was.
"If you're wondering how? I asked that I'm exchange for your undying loyalty for me that lord Pneuma would give you all hightened pseudo evolutions and unique skills."
Hearing his words the rest were in utter silence and then beyond all expectations, they kneeled before him.