Walking off to the side and facing each other as to remain unseen by Mina and Hammer in case they could read lips. Alucard sighed and asked, “What happened now?”
“Nothing I just came to check on how things are going on your end and to let Mina see me.” said Zero with a smile.
“Everything fine on my end I already found Julius. He just left to grab some stuff he had hidden. You can restore his memory after we escape.” explained Alucard
“That’s good we’re down to the last 5 hours. I don’t know if Yaldabaoth will appear exactly then but we won’t be here to find out. I’ll come back here in 4 hours so please make sure everyone’s ready by then.” said Zero
“Okay.” said Alucard he walked away.
Zero followed and explained to Mina that he needed to go help Soma so he would be returning to the castle. After bidding his farewells Zero enter the castle and teleported to the heart of the castle. He came to an ordinary-looking room and moved along the wall tapping it as if looking for something. As he was tapping and pressing the wall he heard a click and a secret passage opened up.
“Looks like the memories I took from Soma were correct. This leads to Dracula’s real study where all his forbidden knowledge should be kept.” said Zero as he entered the passageway
Zero walked down the passageway and came across a door at the end which he opened revealing a large private study whose walls were filled with books and artifacts. Zero summoned 10 shadow succubi after opening a portal and ordered the succubi to empty out the room while he walked over and sat on a throne by a fireplace.
They worked tirelessly as they gather the books and artifacts to throw into the portal. As the process continued Zero spotted a shadow succubus with a large black book with a red jewel embedded in its center. He motioned for the succubus to hand him the book which it did and as he perused through the book he found that this was the book that he had planned to steal at the beginning. This book contained Dracula’s art of devil forging which allowed the user to use dead bodies and souls to create devils and new creatures.
Zero laughed at the idea that he found what he wanted when he no longer needed it. He handed the book back to shadow succubus and motion for them to continue their work. After 30 minutes of continuous work, they finally managed to transfer everything from the study to Zero’s dimension. The shadows then turned into shadow pools that flowed back into Zero’s shadow.
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Zero sat there as he looked to the ceiling of the study. He looked down after a while and sighed as he rubbed his forehead. “I think I might be unlucky.” said Zero as he continued to sigh looked back at the few days he spent within these castle walls.
Zero snapped his fingers and created a portal to the right of the throne he sat on and with a wave of his hand the portal moved and passed over him and the throne.
A portal opened up in the temple of Dahlia and Azalea and moved to the left causing Zero who was sitting on a throne to appear. Zero looked around and found that Nova along with the twin goddesses of death were missing. He sensed a presence in the corner and looked to find a lampad walking towards him.
She kneeled and said, “My lord I was told to pass on a message from lady Dahlia. The message is that lady Yoko came here looking for you.” The lampad looked at him like she was waiting for something and Zero figuring it out wave his hand to give her leave to go which she did.
Zero stood up and teleported to the magic circle where Yoko was waiting for him. When he arrived, he found Yoko in her full demon form with her magical tattoos on her hands and feet glowing a dark blue as her eye glowed a deep crimson.
“You okay Yoko?” asked Zero as he watched her in a trans-like state.
Yoko however didn’t respond and remained motionless as she began to emit an absurd amount of mana which pushed back Zero and the lifeless body. Zero manifest his wings and took to the skies as he created a portal for the lifeless body to pass through. As Yoko kept releasing amounts of mana that she shouldn’t have been capable of releasing the dark blue tattoos flared up and started to spread all across her body.
‘System what happening to Yoko?’
INDIVIDUAL YOKO BELNADES HAS BEGUN APOTHEOSIS AND IS CHANGING INTO A DEMIGOD
‘Why is this happening now?’
MOST LIKELY THE CONSTANT EXPOSURE TO THE DIVINE ENERGY OF THE DEITY SOPHIA ALLOWED HER TO BREAK PASSED HER MORTAL SHELL AND STEP INTO THE REALM OF DEITIES.
‘Well that’s good saves me the trouble of having to do it myself. 1 down 3 to go.’
The mana she was releasing became so powerful that it became visible and had begun to injure Zero force him so far back he could barely see Yoko. First, it was red then turn to purple before finally settling on a dark shade of blue exactly like her tattoos. The mana in the void began to gather and condense around Yoko. Soon Yoko was no longer visible as the mana wrapped her in a sphere-shaped cocoon.
The sphere kept on expanding force Zero to retreat even further away and only when it became the size of a moon did it stop growing. The sphere then began to pulse and release a heartbeat sound.
Zero looked at the dark blue moon and noticed that no change was occurring now.
‘System how long will this take?’
UNKNOWN
APOTHEOSIS IS DIFFERENT FOR EVERY CREATURE
‘Then it’s best to leave this area for now. Inform me if there’s any change here no matter how small.’
….
‘Did you hear me?’
YES, I HEARD YOU
I SHALL INFORM YOU
‘I’m really looking forward to having mother exam you and figure out what is wrong with you.’
Zero didn’t hear a response but knew that the system was sneering at him. He paid it no mind and teleported to where he sensed Nova and the ladies.
Unknown to Zero when he teleported away purple magical sigils similar to Yoko’s tattoos began to appear all over the moon.