The sound of water splashing in every direction could be heard, as a bright glowing figure could be seen, propelling itself downwards to the very depths of the unknown.
Gilgamesh has been swimming for, a while now, it's been twenty minutes since he has last talked to Solomon if anything he was confident that he has swum more than 15,000 meters down nearing the end.
But with the aid of his tentacles, the speed he was going was relative fast, it would appear his new racial skill was "one with water" which is a skill that allows him to travel along with the water.
But as he goes deeper he suddenly remained motionless as he floats one spot and looks at the dark abyss, and if you would look closely Gilgamesh's face suddenly turns to one of great worry, this, of course, grabs the attention of Solomon as she said.
"Solomon, I think you are right something monstrous is indeed down there although I can't tell what it is, with my racial ability of "water sense" I can tell that thing is huge, 60 meters, no! 80 meters, hahaha... this is going to pain in the ass to deal with it."
Announce Gilgamesh who was picking up some powerful vibration within the water, but that wasn't the only thing, as he traversed into the great mouth of the unknown, the further he goes the faster the temperature was dropping at a tremendous rate, normally this is what one should expect with the increased of pressure due to the depth.
But this wasn't the case, for one the pressure does not bother him if anything it's child play compared to his home planet, and one should also expect that the temperature of the water should be decreased as they got deeper due to the lack of sunlight.
But something was off, and Gilgamesh being the otaku he is, had long guessed what might be the situation, and in a time like this, he is grateful for holding such knowledge of anime and games.
So by just observing the surrounding for a, while, he has concluded.
"Judging by the abnormal temperature drop, it's obvious that whatever down there can manipulate ice, because my God I feel like I'm swimming in ice water."
"Well before I traverse any further I would need to get as much information as I can right now about my current self, this monster isn't going to be an easy kill, although I don't know much about the dragon veins of this world I know it counts as a very valuable resource in other anime and fantasy games."
"Solomon, I won't go any further, I need some information, tell me about myself, No, as a matter of fact, please give me a synopsis of my lethal skills."
[Abilty synopsis]
.Electric current generations: It is the ability to create and manipulate electric current from your horn, with this ability you can do an "AOE" attack that can kill weaker enemies instantly and hurt stronger enemies, but if you charge and pump enough electricity through your horns you can fire a powerful lightning blast from it.
.Fear inducement eyes: It is the ability to induce great fear into one soul, this makes the enemy shakey and also disoriented if this is inflicted upon a weaker enemy they could die from a heart attack due to a fear overdose.
.Water sense: The ability to sense the enemy in the water through vibration, allows you to determine the size and features, and overall distance.
.Venomous body: This ability give the master an extremely poisonous body, your blood cause organs to fail, it even smells so good once reveal it attracts the enemy, your saliva can create a poison so strong it can make one heart stop instantly, your flesh is a strong drug that can make one fall asleep if the consumed it, meanwhile your hair can destroy living cells.
"I see, well that's sufficient information I guess, although I would find it way easier to just consume it with digestive singularity."
Upon these words, Solomon instantly replies to redirect his thoughts, her plan was precise her master has to fight the ancient monster that is down there, a total of 30.89% of the ether and prana has already been consumed by this monster, but a total of 26.78% could be retrieved from its magic veins once dismantle directly, and it's only fair that her master reaps everything he can.
Despite the fact of victory being 12%, and every time he dies the chances will go up by 3% a slight increase but one that can be spam infinitely, and if calculated properly he would die at least 30 times according to her calculations.
But what to tell him, for him to make him change his mind about using digestive singularity, well the answer was a simple one, it's obvious that the best thing to tell him was the truth.
Out of 34,225 different alternatives she could have used, the one with the highest probability of working was very simple, which was the truth.
Yes although they were some lies she has told him, it ok to say some truthful things here and there, after all, the art of deception is a harmonic dance between both truth and lies.
The truth is often a lie, but the biggest lie is also the harshest of truth, in the end, it all comes down to what one believes.
So for her beloved master's development in the world of testament, she will make his life a dangerous one, after all, one cannot expect greatness for free because even the greatest king struggles to maintain their reign.
And just like how her master has a dream of living an enjoyable life, she has a dream to make her master reach perfection.
"Ha, can't you do that after I devour it, and another thing you can take other people's abilities?"
"Why so?"
"Baby charade ha... hmmm hahaha... that gives me a very good idea on what I can do to get my revenge."
"It's perfect, let's make her look crazy."
"Think about it, I might be a visitor but the level of destruction is just too insane for me to do, and as far as mother knows, I only sleep for long periods, I can make things float, and I drink a whole lot of water, meanwhile Kashira has seen me blow the roof away with my bare hands, generate eight pair of tails, walk on two legs, and show some intelligence far exceeding my age."
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"Yes it's perfect I will use my status as a baby to make my mother think she is crazy and should seek help as soon as possible."
"After all, Kashira in the game is just a natural-born evil, she destroys simply because it's her nature as an evil tsukumogami."
"So destroying a forest like this would be an easy feat for her, but mother hasn't seen anything I am capable of as yet, although I plan to do things behind the scene."
"Well, it's decided then vengeance for my poor tail shall be mine."
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"But anyway, I'm going to go down there and see if I can grab the dragon vein, so I will have to use my venomous body, in order slowly kill it."
"The question is, does it have an immunity to poison?"
"Sigh well let's get this over with."
With that said Gilgamesh began to head down to the lower depth of the monster pit, he has passed a couple of monsters, but they were all neutral types.
And on his way down he has seen many species, some beautiful, some scary, some big, and others just weird looking.
And after 20 minutes of constant swimming, he began to get a glimpse of something but as he reaches it, he paused once more, the reason is, that he finally began to see the bottom of the pit, and what he saw was truly a monstrous existence.
This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.
Before he was glowing greenstone the size of a car with multi-colored veins flowing through it, although it had a crack at the center, it was as if something was trying to break it to pieces.
But he didn't have to ask what caused it, reason be, that before Gilgamesh was a ginormous monster, it was a snake-like creature but it was more similar to that of the eel, it was at least over 80 meters, its body was covered with purple scales.
While it had several giant spikes going down its elongated body, its eyes were glowing a potent sky blue color as cold as ice.
It was as if anything it glared at would automatically freeze in a solid block of ice, but the weirdest thing about it was the fact that its entire body was glowing a rather menacing purple aura.
"So that's the monster that is eating at the dragon vein ha?"
"Solomon analysis."
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Name: Abaia// Age: 7,988// Race: Ancient sea monster// Rank: Commander// Existence value: 234,789// LVL: 22//
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Extinct beast// Lord of the swamp// The accursed// Beast of the dark age// 6,789th son of Poseidon// Trident candidate//
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Hp: [70,184/100,000]> Weaken due to old age Mp: [78,000/78,000]
Str: 98// Spd: 98// Vit: 99// Int: 47// Dxt: 99// Def: 99//
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Middle-grade poison immunity// High-grade water immunity//Low-grade pressure immunity// High-grade ice immunity// Low-grade fire immunity// Highest grade mental immunity//
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Curse Aura// Mist breathe// Corrosive breathe// Ice beam// Ice manipulation// Iron stomach// Ultra speed regeneration// Prana manipulation// Water sense// Night vision// intimidation// Hardening// Cloak// Lesser creation// Ether absorption// Control of lesser beings// Telekinesis// Mind destruction//
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Vortex creation// Aquatic prison// Haki//
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Flow// Swimming// Properties and sharing
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Upon seeing this Gilgamesh's eyes open up wide with horror, it was at this moment that he knew that what he was up against was a top-tier boss monster.
In the game "Yandere Paradise" boss monsters such as these were said to be so powerful they can destroy an entire kingdom with relative ease.
But regardless of that, this boss monster was indeed a rare find but there were two skills that he has that Gilgamesh was familiar with, and since the Abaia has this skill then without doubt destroying him was going to be a pain in the ass.
"Ultra speed regeneration and corrosive breathe, each of them are annoying reason be, with its regenerative ability it can regenerate any severed limbs at the speed of sound, and with corrosive breathe it can melt me right away, sigh well I will have to build up an immunity to It, fuck I hate dying."
"Solomon."
"Use your spell to shut off my pain receptors, I have an idea that can lower my dying rate ."
"It doesn't matter, this thing immunity to water base attack is insane, and water base spells are the only spells I have access to at this moment.
"And with Ultra speed regeneration most of my attacks will be rendered useless, even setting the wound on fire won't help due to terrain, in short, the odds are in his favor."
"But with my pain receptor off, I can die come back and use it again to adapt, adopt, adapt, adapt till victories is mine."
"If my respawn is like a game then when I resurrect the stored mana should have regenerated to the default right, with that said you can reuse that over and over again, it's a loophole I just thought of."
"Without pain distracting me, I'm confident I could beat this thing in a battle of endurance"
But just when Gilgamesh thought that he found an amazing loophole in the game early on, Solomon has long found a way to counter his excuses for not feeling pain, although what she was going to say was a major lie that Gilgamesh would not find put year's later.
"Ha, why so?"
"Wait what, are you fucking serious?"
"Just great, I'm already regretting my life choices."
With these words it was Solomon's victory, with this he was forced to feel pain, although she doesn't want him to, for his development pain is necessary what if they encounter an enemy that can ignore the nullification of pain.
Or in a worst-case scenario someone with the ability to ignore his adaption, so getting used to pain is a must, to survive one must go through countless struggles, this was just one of those many struggles her beloved master would have to go through.
But Solomon failed to calculate and realized one thing, that her master was easily one of the best gamers the world had to offer.
"However, it does not matter, all I need to do is defeat it, although I don't plan to face it off in a battle of pure physical strength and endurance right away, no I'm too weak to fight this."
"It's simple I can't defeat it, although I can weaken it, and to be honest as I am now I'm going to get my ass handed to me."
"Yap but we are here to retrieve the dragon vein, the two unique skills it possesses, although this creature has some intelligence, so I'm going to trick it."
"Well, it's is simple, I just need to retrieve the dragon vein, automatically it will stop at nothing to get back from me."
"Oh no way a fight isn't just about pure bronze, what many people fail to realize is that there is more than one way to win a fight and in this case, I'm gonna show you what is called a pro gamer move.
"Yes by utilizing the knowledge of my abilities, and remembering everything so far I have come up with a plan."
"Yes... You see I'm...
Badaump!
But before Gilgamesh could even finish what he wanted to say, he suddenly stop, reason be something came over him, it was like an impulse, so strong it was like a drug corroding his mind, no to call it's like a drug would be a great disgrace to what he was feeling.
This impulse suddenly came to Gilgamesh like a raging speeding train with no sound, this feeling could only be called enlightenment.
Meanwhile, Solomon was rather confused about her master suddenly pausing, but she still ask the question anyway.
Badaump!
Badaump! Badaump! Badaump!
But as Solomon talks, the silence between her and her master suddenly became distant as something rather unexpected happens after Solomon calls out to her master once more.
But as soon as Solomon asks that Gilgamesh's normal voice suddenly became more, lively, calm, and cute, but overall the bloodthirst in each word could be heard with much horror and terror to the point even Solomon felt chills run down her back.
"Solomon... Can you shut up for a minute?"
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"Good girl, you should speak when spoken to... Agh I suddenly feel the immense urge to rip something apart with my bare hands, as I watch the blood of my enemy slowly drip down from it... what is this wonderful feeling I wonder?"
"Well it doesn't matter, now then you may speak Solomon."
"Me, hmmm... The last time I check I have always been Shiki why do you ask?"
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"You are the one that is acting funny Solomon."
"How so, well my instinct is telling me to strangle you right here and right now, then burn you to ashes just to make sure you never come back, but sadly that's impossible... but I don't want to hurt you, but my body speaks otherwise for some reason."
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"But I won't hurt you, your too useful, but anyways what were you saying earlier."
Gilgamesh said still maintaining his cute and childish smile.
But upon these words, Gilgamesh suddenly remembers his previous plan before this sudden enlightenment as he began to speak with great joy.
"Ohhhhh! Do you mean that plan....yes, yes yes yes... A very good plan and it's called the operation " I am fish food" very straightforward isn't it?"
Gilgamesh said with a rather cute and sinister smile on his face, but it had the opposite effect on Solomon as she replied.
"Ahaa... Why do ask such a thing?"
But at that one word, Gilgamesh's current behavior began to worsen as he said
"Hahaha."
"Worried... Worried... Hmmm... Worried... You are worried about me, agh... I see Solomon's friend agh... My friend Solomonsolomonsolomonsolomon yes yes yes yes yes yes yes how foolish of me we are friends right...Sol-o...mon, haaa... Solomon, I don't know why, but I just have a rather uncontrollable hunger for blood!"
It was those words Solomon wasted no time as she did a secret analysis of net master's sudden condition as she said to herself.
Meanwhile, Gilgamesh was talking and whispering some dark things about murder, and how he wants to kill something brutally, he gazes at the Abaia before him as he smells a strong Vitality coming from it.
And with a bloodthirst eye and a grin, began to swim towards it at a groundbreaking speed, he was so mesmerized by the dark and twisted idea in his head that he failed to see the notification before him.