Chapter 8 - Becoming the Master

Time passed very quickly in the Abominable Abyss. Cyrus spent the following week studying all the many books and journals left by Miranda.

Cyrus never slept in his dorm and slept nightly in a small bed near Miranda’s. He could watch nightly as Miranda enjoyed her slaves, and sometimes he was invited to join as well.

However, he always joined in only after Miranda has been sated and left a bag of bones on the floor next to her, just to be safe and not be consumed.

For the rest of the first six weeks, he spent time scouring the whole library of the Abominable Abyss.

As Loki, he was already a god level master in many different spell schools of the Norse Nine Realms.

With the knowledge of Mimir, his knowledge was even more impressive and included knowledge of other Pantheons of Gods as well, namely the Greek and Egyptian gods.

However, for all his knowledge, he could not cast his magics here. As many of his magics were dependent on him being a god, with a godly reserve of magical power. His current body could not perform any of them at his current acolyte level.

That was not to say he couldn't control magic other magicians were performing. He was after all a God of magic, and once cast, he could manipulate the magics of other magicians, without using any of his manna.

However, if no magic was performed by anyone nearby, he was no better than a normal human. And the hunger still plagued him endlessly. 

He set up arrays in one of the laboratories to absorb energy from the surrounding. Luckily he was also a godlike master in inscriptions, runes and alchemy. He had many ideas how to sate his hunger. But he needed to experiment if his knowledge worked here.

He sat in a large array to absorb enough energy to sate his hunger. This sated him for a day or two. Pleased that his arrays worked, he decided to go ahead with his plans for something more permanent.

He cleared a room completely bare of any furnishings and stripped naked and started creating powerful but small invisible runes on his body. They were only visible when they were activated.

He then drew complicated lines in the air that glowed and stayed suspended in the air. Every movement was smooth and well practiced, Cyrus imbued his full knowledge into each rune that would be permanently placed on his own naked body. 

The first rune on his body was like a ring that fit around the base of his penis that fit like a penis ring. This was, in his opinion, his most important rune. Once activated, it will enslave the person he fucks, as well as copy their abilities and skills. It also gave him an immunity to people with the same abilities.


This was done as a safeguard to prevent Miranda from being able to absorb him.

The other effect of the rune on his penis is that his cum, if ingested was a drug that made the person who ingest it addicted to his cum. The smell of his cum was an aphrodisiac that makes women horny. This made his task so much more easier if he wanted to enslave gorgeous women.  

The second rune he created was attached between his eyebrows, like a third eye. Whenever it was opened, a third ethereal eye opened on his forehead and absorbed all knowledge around him, including books and scrolls. .

Initially he needed to physically read the books to absorb the knowledge. After creating his rune, he could absorb every bit of knowledge by simply being in the same room as the books as his third eye opened.

This ability was not only used to absorb knowledge from books, but it gave him the ability to see through objects, see in absolute darkness as well as detect hidden objects.

The third rune was created on his left palm. When activated, it can passively absorb energy from beings around him. When actively used, a glowing red seal will fly our of his palm to actively kill and "eat" a being.

The seal will actively upgrade as it eats, and if it eats a being with a different level than him, new seals will be created to join the original seal.

The fourth rune was placed in his right palm that gave him the ability to forcefully attract or repel objects, as well as increase and decrease gravity. This gave him a form of telekinesis, except that he had to use his hand to aim this ability. 


However, he kept these abilities a secret, as they were vastly different from the magics available here. He needed them as he was still too weak and vulnerable at his current state, not being able to do magic yet. 

After half a year, he no longer felt hungry from the curse Miranda placed on him. Initially, he was struggling as Miranda didn’t let him feed on her slaves.

However, after creating his runes on his body, allowing him to absorb energy and even lifeforce by mere touch, he hungered no more.

So it was easy to absorb the lifeforce of the many slaves Miranda had, but only a little from each and every one of them, enabling him to satisfy his hunger while confounding Miranda since all her slaves were alive and in full health.

By half a year, he was directly absorbing energy from the surrounding and if he wanted, from people nearby. But he would carefully do so, only absorbing less than 1% of their total energy.

After 6 months, he had exhausted the knowledge of the library and was no longer hungry.

However, he was still a level 1 acolyte as his cultivation had never improved. It had only stabilized. Miranda inquired about why he was still stuck at such a low cultivation. He showed her his rune on his palm, but only the passive usage of it.

She was astounded. Something that she had struggled with for decades, her new acolyte had been able to solve in 6 months.

“Can you show me how its done?” she asked eagerly.

“Sure” he answered. Immediately he used a finger and started drawing runes in the air.

“You are a rune master? How are you able to do that?” Miranda asked in shock.

“I have a gift in many forms of magic. I just had never heard of devouring before” he answered as he used his other hand and started drawing another rune simultaneously.

“I…. I can’t perform runes” lamented Miranda. Rune drawing was a specialized skill, like making potions or forging magical weapons.

“Don’t worry. I am doing this for you” he answered with a smile.

As he drew more and more runes, the runes started to merge together to form a large glowing circular shaped rune in the air.

“Please strip and lie down facing the upwards” he said.

Miranda eagerly did so, exposing her beautiful nude body. As she lay down, he placed his hand on her head and suddenly a rune was placed on her forehead.

Her eyes opened wide, but she could not move. She watched in horror as Cyrus opened her legs and parted her vagina with his fingers, exposing her cervix.

He placed the tip of his penis on her pussy opening and suddenly, the tip of his penis glowed in a purple light as he plunged in deep into her, ramming her cervix. A rune was directly implanted on her cervix deep in her pussy from his penis.

In that instant, there was a glow around Cyrus’ body, indicating he had advanced to a level 2 acolyte.

Although he has made love to Miranda many times, this was the first time since he created his runes on his body. 

With a quick move, he removed the rune from her forehead that was immobilizing her.

“What… what did you do to me?” she asked in anger.

“I’ve merely made you mine. Forever more, I am your master” Cyrus said with a smile.

“But… why? Haven’t I always treated you well?” she asked.

“Yes you have. This is why I want things to remain the same between us, except now you won’t be able to betray me. I needed to do this so I can freely show you my full abilities” he said.

Although she was angry, she somehow accepted his explanation as if it made the most perfect sense.

“Now turn over and I will impart the ability to control the devouring force” he said.

She turned over obediently and her eyes popped open as she felt Cyrus’ large cock touch her anus.

Although she is extremely promiscuous, she had never experience anal sex before.

Cyrus placed a small rune on the back of her neck which quickly disappeared into her skin. As it did so, he shoved his large cock deep into her ass.

She grunted and he started pumping into her ass and pulling her torso upwards by grabbing her breasts from behind.

She started moaning and tears flowed from her eyes as she felt him eventually cumming into her ass.

He turned her around and started fucking her pussy. “Now I don’t need to fear you eating me up” he smiled and commanded two male slaves to stand on either side of them.

Miranda grabbed their cocks, one on each hand and started absorbing their lifeforce and leaving them as bag of bones while still leaving Cyrus intact.

Miranda was so happy she hugged Cyrus and kissed him, her hands were still holding on to the empty penis skin and flapping the bags of bones around.

She found that she could also absorb the lifeforces of her slaves from afar, just by being in the same room as them. "Thats right. Absorb less than 1% from each slave, and you'll never go hungry. How do you think I've been surviving all this while?" explained Cyrus.

After they were sated fucking several times, they sat up. Cyrus informed her that he wanted to explore the rest of the academy, listen to other lectures and maybe even do missions.

After all, he was still merely a level 2 acolyte and needed to level up if he wanted to be promoted to magus.

He had all the magical knowledge of his previous godly life as well as all the knowledge of the Academy Library. However, his own personal manna was still very weak, making all the knowledge unusable for now.

He thus devised a way to grow his cultivation, not by usual methods, but by acquiring more minions like Miranda to devour for him.

Miranda agreed. He was her acolyte after all and she should be encouraging him to improve.

Cyrus had his own ideas and now had the freedom and authority using Miranda’s position. Now it was time to improve his cultivation levels.