The strength that disciples of the Blood Skull sect gain in exchange for the lose of their humanity is not even a little bit. It is a total 100% increase.
This boost doubles their power and makes someone like Goldwyn, who had only been at the third mortal coil for 20 years, capable of matching someone that has been at the third mortal coil for at least 42 years in terms of power.
It is only a possibility of matching Elder Calcetti for now. At most, Goldwyn can match those who can mobilize two life seeds at once. If Elder Calcetti can mobilize three or more life seeds at once, then Goldwyn will be outmatched.
However, Goldwyn's advantage will only increase as time goes by. As Goldwyn grows stronger, he will be able to take on much older people who should be more powerful than him.
Then when Goldwyn reaches the ultimate peak of the third mortal coil, he will be able to defeat seniors at the fourth mortal coil. He might even be able to kill them and kill them easily too.
While he was thinking about this, someone came up to him and initiated a conversation with him.
This person was Jade. She had red hair and red eyes. Her forked tongue darted in and out of her mouth occasionally. and she walked with a smooth grace reminiscent of a predator stalking prey.
Arthur didn't consider himself prey. He also didn't like her, so when he saw her approaching, the expression on his face changed from that of quiet contemplation to a frown of displeasure.
She saw his reaction to her approach, but she didn't let that drop her. She came up to him and asked, "What is your problem with me?"
She had asked the question through the secret voice transmission technique. So to others, her lips had moved, but no words came out of her mouth.
Only Arthur, whom she intended to hear what she had said, and those who are powerful enough to analyze the information in the wave of mana that she used to send her voice to him could hear what she said.
Arthur also used the voice transmission technique to reply. He said, "I don't have a problem with you other than the fact that you want to have sex with me."
She asked with a sorrowful tone, "What is the problem with that? Am I ugly? Do you hate how I look? Is it that my family didn't offer you enough money?"
Arthur sighed when he heard her questions. He felt a little pity for her, but most of all, he felt bothered by something he didn't want to deal with.
In his conversations with her, she always looked like the victim. She was the pitiful girl that wanted to revive her family, and he was the playboy that was willing to have sex with anyone else free of charge but not her and not even when money was offered.
It can be said that her self-esteem had been hurt a little bit, which was why he pitied her a little bit. All in all, this dynamic between them and the fact that, deep down, she was a nice person made him unwilling to use severe force to dissuade her.
She was a lady that kept mostly to herself. She didn't bother anyone, and she didn't like to make trouble.
The reason she fought and beat the ladies that he had sex with was because she was jealous and angry. He could understand that.
What's more, she never went too far with the beatings. She would only challenge the ladies, defeat them, and that was that.
He felt a little sorry for her, so he said, "It has nothing to do with you as a person or the lack of money from your family. I just can't do what you want me to do because you look too much like my mother."
He didn't mention the fact that she was his cousin because it wasn't as compelling a reason as the fact that she looked like his mother. It is because in this world, sexual relationships between cousins are not frowned upon at all.
Only the sexual relationship between children and their parents is seen as wrong. Even so, it wasn't a good enough reason for Jade. After all, she had a family to save.
She said, "You should get over what I look like and how I look like your mother. If it will help, we can use an illusion on you so that you will think I'm someone else. That should put you in a good mood."
He was already getting irritated, so he said impatiently, "No, I'm not interested. You will just have to forget about using me for your plans."
She, too, was getting irritated with him. She was also getting angry with him. All of these made it easy for her to sneer at him and say, "Well, you might not have a choice soon."
He frowned and asked her, "Are you threatening me?"
She admitted it confidently, "Yes, I am. We have tried to be gentle, soft, and nice with you. We were even willing to let you return to our family and be supported by us."
"We have given you nothing but benefits, but you refuse to be grateful. Now the time of reckoning has arrived. We will not take no for an answer, so you either give us what we want or force our hands to use hard and painful methods to bring you to our course."
Arthur couldn't believe it. He found the whole thing so hard to believe that he began to laugh.
He laughed so hard that his voice became loud and audible to the thousands of people around them. This drew everyone's attention to him, but he didn't care.
After a few seconds of laughter, he stopped and said to Jade in a loud voice that everyone could hear, "I have three words for you. Fire and brimstone."