Shizuku held the staff in her hands and looked at the top where the IV bag was hanging. There was a needle on the end which seemed to need to go into her arm.  “Am I supposed to  fill it with blood?” Shizuku frowned but still took the needle and stabbed it into her arm. She quickly saw her blood flowing from her arm into the bag at the top. After five minutes, it was completely full. 

“Geh, this took almost 30 blood!” While it was not much compared to her 400 blood pool, it was still a larger number than she had expected. But what she did not get was how she used the blood. “Mei, does it say how to use the blood once it has been added to the bag?”

“I am not sure…. Try casting a healing spell… but channel your mana through your staff.” Mei replied. 

I nodded and did as she told me to. The top of the staff began to glow slightly with a red tint, and blood slowly began to flow from the bag to the top of the staff and hovered in the air before flying towards Miyumi. It wrapped around Miyumi as it would normally do before dissipating. “Oh? Wow! This actually cuts down the amount of blood needed to cast spells!” 

Shizuku was very happy to find this out. While it took 30 blood to fill the bag, it only took half the cost of a normal spell to cast. “Not bad. This will last me a long, long time.”

“It was like it was tailored and made for you.” Miyumi wondered if the instance dungeons were here to help Shizuku to grow stronger or not. Miyumi also tried to enter the dungeon once by herself before they left the city. In the end she ended up in the same dungeon as everyone else. She could only enter the dungeon Shizuku was in if she entered first.

- - -

In a higher plain surrounded by a bubble-like barrier inside a white space, Goddess Yunni sat looking at the image in front of her. “She is doing well… Her will to get stronger is perfect for the plan I have for her.”  

Goddess Yunni looked at the panel to her right and tapped the air. The name Bloody Staff was marked with a line through it and moved to a column called completed. “I wish I could give you everything at once, but I still have to follow the world’s laws. But this should at least help you progress faster and grow stronger quicker. I need you to grow strong enough to return the world to what it once was….”

Goddess Yunni remembered when she first met Shizuku. The girl wanted nothing to do with the church and even asked her to make her a Fallen. A race despised by the humans of this world. A vampire was a higher being of the world, just under the dragon race, which hardly ever showed itself. She needed Shizuku to grow stronger and make more friends. As long as she kept growing stronger and kept her ideal of destroying the church and replacing it with a proper system, she knew the world would revert to how it was a long time ago.

“If only I could descend. If not for the humans making a pack with that bastard, I would not be sealed as I am now….” Goddess Yunni sighed. She hated not being able to fix things, but the humans…. No, not all the humans, but the ones who run the church made a pack with a demonic god. One who had been fighting against her since they were both created to watch over this world by the one true creator. “I can not tell the truth…. If I told the truth, it would be unlikely that she would have helped me…”

Shizuku was not the first hero that Goddess Yunni tried to get to help her. But she realized telling the truth only scared them away. The truth was that when this was world created, she and another god name Jazel was also created with her. He was to be the father of the world, and she to be the mother. 

But Jazel became corrupted. His aura began to turn a black so dark that it overshadowed the night. With the help of the humans, he had sealed her away. But the humans still needed her. A demon lord would always be born and the humans needed a hero. Only she could give them the gifts needed to take on the demon lord. But what they did not know was that a demon lord who wanted to destroy the world only became corrupted due to Jazel’s influence. Jazel did not care about the humans. He used them to create a proxy and to seal her. He wanted to take over the world, but even though she was sealed, she was still helping deal with the proxies he created. 

“This time, I will beat Jazel at his own game. He wants to control the world. But I will make it so he can not. You are not the only one who can raise a demon lord….” 

- - -

“Ahhh! Choo!” Shizuku let out a loud sneeze. She rubbed her nose and frowned. “Who’s talking shit about me?”

“I think the entire church is Shizu.” Miyumi teased, but Shizuku only nodded since it was probably true. 

“Anyway. Let’s head right since there are no other passages down the other way.” Shizuku held her new staff and walked towards the other hall. When they opened the door to step through, Shizuku’s expression sank. “Can we even kill these things?”