Seeing Yahweh leave, Tatsuma also activated his Teleportation Magic, bringing Cao Cao to the top floor of the Lucifer Palace.
"Tatsuma, you're back."
Sirzechs, who was currently processing various battle reports, looked up immediately.
However, upon seeing the figure next to Tatsuma, a look of surprise appeared on his face.
"You are... the leader of the Hero Faction, Cao Cao?"
"That's in the past."
Cao Cao shrugged, "I'm just a laborer who has lost his freedom now. You don't need to pay attention to me."
"What's going on?" Sirzechs looked towards Tatsuma.
"Nothing, I just spared his life."
Tatsuma briefly recounted what had happened not long ago.
Defeating the Dragon Eater, subduing Cao Cao and Ophis, finding Shalba's location and the strongholds of the Old Satan Faction...
A series of heavy pieces of information came crashing down, and Sirzechs felt a headache, unsure of where to start the conversation.
"You just need to focus on dealing with the Khaos Brigade. Ophis will be fine with me watching over her."
Seeing Sirzechs's troubles, Tatsuma made the decision for him.
"Khaos Brigade? I understand." Sirzechs nodded.
In fact, among Tatsuma's series of messages, he felt that Ophis was the most troublesome. Since Tatsuma was willing to help, the tasks that needed to be done next became much simpler.
Taking out his communication device, Sirzechs contacted the other Satans and Azazel. Both the Devil and Fallen Angel forces were dispatched in full, heading to the Old Satan Faction strongholds for cleanup.
After that, Tatsuma bid farewell to Sirzechs and brought Cao Cao to the Akatsuki Headquarters.
In the recent Sacred Gear User battle, he had led a raid on the Hero Faction stronghold and captured a large number of Sacred Gear Users alive.
Some of these Sacred Gear Users were persuaded and quickly surrendered, joining Akatsuki to work.
Another portion of the Sacred Gear Users were loyal to Cao Cao and were still eating prison food in the cells, refusing to surrender. However, now that even Cao Cao himself had surrendered, recruiting these Sacred Gear Users would be much simpler.
"Before the Starship Plan is launched, you will temporarily serve as the head of the Akatsuki branch, leading these people to develop the branch."
Tatsuma assigned Cao Cao's first task and chose a white trait for Cao Cao.
With his traits activated, Cao Cao's power saw a comprehensive increase. Both his physical stats and energy were significantly boosted.
After marveling at Tatsuma's magic, Cao Cao accepted the task and prepared to find Sho to inquire about related matters.
However, just then, Tatsuma called out to him again, took out a pitch-black long sword, and handed it over.
"Try it and see if this thing can be used."
"Gram?"
Cao Cao was momentarily stunned.
He was naturally not unfamiliar with this demon sword.
Reaching out to take it, Cao Cao swung it twice and said, "It can be used, but I feel some resistance. My compatibility with this sword isn't very good."
"I see, wait a moment."
Tatsuma opened his trait inventory.
Although he had consumed a large amount of materials to upgrade traits on a daily basis, to prevent some special situations, he had stockpiled many functional traits. After some selection, he quickly found his target.
[Demon Sword Factor (Purple): Gain high-level demon sword adaptability, using a demon sword moderately increases power, and slightly increases stamina recovery speed.]
Very good, you are the one.
Tatsuma granted Demon Sword Factor to Cao Cao.
"How do you feel now?"
"...It seems there's no problem."
A look of surprise appeared on Cao Cao's face.
Just moments ago, he felt the barrier between himself and Gram disappear. It was as if they were natural comrades.
Gram transmitted a sense of closeness to him. Not only that, but while holding Gram, he could feel a surge of power from within his body.
Cao Cao asked, "Tatsuma, do you know Siegfried's past?"
Tatsuma indifferently said, "I'm not interested in understanding the past of my enemies, especially enemies who are already dead."
"I thought so too."
Cao Cao shrugged, then spoke to himself, "Siegfried was a warrior cultivated by the Sigurd Institution, one of the organizations under the Church."
"To create a host for the Demonic Emperor Sword, the Sigurd Institution broke taboos and conducted various human experiments, mass-producing artificial humans."
"But even so, the Sigurd Institution still spent decades and sacrificed countless lives to create Siegfried."
And Tatsuma, with just a wave of his hand, crossed over that mountain of corpses and sea of blood to achieve the same great feat.
No, saying it was the same great feat is a bit of an understatement.
"Compared to those guys who are high and mighty, I now feel that you fit the definition of a god more."
"If you're trying to flatter me, I do find it quite enjoyable. But the things that need to be done cannot be omitted."
"That's a shame, it seems I can't be lazy." Cao Cao chuckled lightly and sheathed Gram.
"Are you planning to give me this sword to use?"
Tatsuma nodded. "Yes, but in return, you won't be getting the True Longinus back."
"I thought so too."
Cao Cao didn't care about this.
As he said before, it was already very fortunate to be able to live.
Holding the weapon of his former comrade, Cao Cao waved goodbye and left the room to prepare for the development of Akatsuki.
As for Tatsuma, he took advantage of this time to open his trait inventory and organize his harvest.
The Old Satan Faction was a terrorist organization in the true sense, and Tatsuma didn't hold back at all this time.
Consuming all his energy to create clones, he brought destruction to the members of the Old Satan Faction lurking throughout the Underworld. In just over half an hour, this bloody massacre came to an end.
The Old Satan Faction was almost completely wiped out, with only a few members who were away from their strongholds managing to survive by chance.
"What a great harvest."
Tatsuma looked at the traits in the inventory.
As the largest faction of the Khaos Brigade, the Devils of the Old Satan Faction were descendants of the followers of the first four Satans.
Although not all followers were included, the number of Devils in the Old Satan Faction was still very large. After killing them all, he obtained a total of two million three hundred thousand new traits, which was a historical record.
Picking out some traits with special effects and putting them into the backup area, Tatsuma fused the remaining traits.
After a moment, the fusion was complete and he now had 143 new gold traits.
"Hiss..."
Looking at this unexpected number, Tatsuma gasped, a look of shock on his face.
A large portion of the Devils from the Old Satan Faction were warriors with power. Although white traits still accounted for a large proportion, green traits and blue traits were also not few in number. It was precisely because of this that he was able to get 143 gold traits.
Taking a deep breath to calm his excited emotions, Tatsuma thought about the use of these golden traits.
First, he needed to unlock equip slots.
Equip slots were the foundation of everything. As long as he had enough equip slots, even if he only equipped gold traits, he could gain a huge boost.
[Consume one gold trait, equip slot + 1]
[Consume one gold trait, equip slot + 1]
[Consume one gold trait, equip slot + 1]
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