Tap. Tap. Tap.

Ern tapped his finger on the table with a serious look while the cooks in the kitchen used all their skills and abilities to cook the wild boar as quickly as possible.

"Are you aware that I can have you arrested for what you did?" Aurora said in a calm voice as she looked at him, "Where did you find such a huge boar, after all?"

"You do know that a shark can smell even a drop of blood over a kilometer away, don't you?" Ern asked.

"Yeah... It's a known fact, but... what's that got to do with it?" Aurora tilted her head in confusion.

"When Demons are hungry, we turn into sharks, only we don't feel the blood, we feel meat! And, there is no fresher meat than a wild boar running through the woods!" Ern exclaimed as he pounded the table, "Damn it, where's my meat!"

Crackling.

The doors to the hall opened as all the cooks that were in the kitchen came inside. They and the waiters were carrying a huge tray with literally a mountain of meat on it. Amber sauce dripped from the meat as well as a river of juice.

"Sorry for the delay!" The head chef uttered, and they placed the tray on the table.

Seconds before, Alas had used his power to move all the plates of fruit aside, otherwise, the tray would have crushed them.

Tremble. Tremble. Tremble.

The massive wooden table could hardly support so much weight, so it trembled as if it could fall apart at any moment.

"Here we go." Ern licked his lips and proceeded to eat.

The waiters brought all sorts of cutlery for different kinds of food, but Ern preferred to use only one thing - his hands.

"My God, this is so good! This is real food, not your damn greens!" Ern muttered while shoving a huge steak into his mouth.historical

Everyone was looking at him with puzzled looks, they didn't expect that Ern was actually going to eat it all since there were several hundred kilos of meat!

"Good. Honestly, I'm already hungry too. Maybe harmony isn't needed everywhere, but it certainly applies to the plate of food." Wain muttered with a smile on his face as he took a steak and some fruit.

Wain carefully poured the sauce over the meat, cut off a piece, put it on a fork along with the fruit, and brought it to his mouth.

"Bon appétit." Wain said before taking the first bite.

The juicy meat mixed with the slightly sour, slightly sweet taste of the fruit that exploded in his mouth like a bomb. Wain felt his body fill with energy as several messages appeared in front of him.

[You have eaten Twilight Raspberry!]

[Your energy reserve has been restored by a third!]

[As it is a special berry that absorbed energy for years, you received Soul Essence equal to the absorption of several Ascendant Souls.]

[The energy went to your Soul Temple.]

Whoooooosh.

The flavor separated from the energy as it streamed toward Wain's Soul Temple to the second of the three torches in the center of it.

There was an empty rod in the center of the torch, and when it absorbed energy, the rod filled to one-hundredth of a percent.

[Your second torch is 1% full]

'Hmm? What does that mean?" Wain thought as he decided to check his status.

[Wain Norheim

Ascension: First Stage (1%)

Race: Human.

Beyond: Calamity

Soul: Nameless King

Title: Savior of the Damned, Echo of Samurai, Mentor Inquisitor, The First, Soul Gatherer, Cartographer, Slayer of Goliath, Contender, Defeating One of the Four Kings, Killing the Legend, etc..

Majesty: 10]

"Wain? Is something wrong?" Erza asked as she found the expression on his look strange.

"No, it's fine. I just can't figure out if I should be happy or crying right now?" Wain muttered while in confusion.

"How full is your second torch?" Aurora suddenly asked as she immediately realized what had happened.

"Huh, I see... So that's why you brought us here. Considering how strict you are, I couldn't believe that you only ordered fruit and vegetables knowing that Demon, who prefers to eat only meat, would be at the same table with us, but now everything is making sense. You made these unusual fruits for me, right?" Wain asked as he set his fork aside.

"Yes, you're right, so what?" Aurora waved her hand, "These fruits are actually worth a lot, I just want to know how much energy you need, that's all."

"Okay." Wain shook his head, "I ate Twilight Raspberry, so I filled one hundredth."

"What?!" Aurora exclaimed in a dazed voice as she stood up and slapped her palms on the table with a shocked look, "One percent?! That's impossible!"

"Hmm? Is that bad or good?" Wain asked while in disbelief.

"Of course it's bad! Very bad! Incredibly bad! One percent? Are you sure about that?" Aurora stared at him with a suspicious look as she couldn't believe it.

"Yeah. I'm absolutely sure. It's one percent." Wain nodded as he folded his arms in front of him.

Bam.

Aurora collapsed on the table with her hands down and a blank stare as though that were the end of everything.

"I'm not sure what you two are talking about, but it sounds like one percent isn't what you expected, right?" Alas asked while eating his third fruit.

"I agree." Ern muttered while tearing a piece of meat in two, "I don't understand shit. Why don't you two take the trouble to explain it all to us?"

"Wain, are you going to be okay?" Erza asked with a worried look as she squeezed his hand tightly.

"This only applies to those who have made it to the Fourth Chronicle, but I think you all need to know about it too." Aurora muttered since she came to her senses, "Anyway, I was hoping Wain's second torch would be at least 30% full, so now you understand why I'm so devastated..."