Chapter 32 - Into The Depths
Important points:
[Fragment Realm]
Elite at lv.30, Transient – lv.75 and Human God – lv. 120
[Mystical Realm]
Justicar Lv. 170, Vizier – Lv. 250 and Alpha – Lv. 310
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The Siren progressively stopped trembling as soon as Lucifer left into the bathroom. Gathering her wit, she calmed the girl beside her; they had closely bonded due the situation. Heading towards the bed they sat upright, hoping that their master wouldn`t be someone vulgar, their heavy breaths calmed down, elegantly maintaining a posture.
The siren had velvety golden hair; her pupils had a deep olive color and skin so supple that it felt it would melt at a touch. On the other hand, the mermaids sky blue hair glistened and her aquamarine pupils radiated unrestrained kindness. Their bodies were flawless without the slight bit of imperfections.
Lucifer removed his grey robe and peered into the mirror. His cold blue slits settled on his appearance; his silver hair contained distinct strands of black mixed in, his built had become even more sculpted. Taking a shower, he extracted a pair of clothes from the wormhole.
As he departed the bathroom he felt their gaze’s upon him. Their faces revealed flustered expressions, with a bit of red. He gestured them to take a shower while he went to buy them clothes. By the time they were done, he laid out a handful of dresses outside the bathroom for them to choose from.
The females dressed up, the siren first introduced herself as ‘Emelia’ and the mermaid ‘Clarice’. Their faces were still tomato red as they faced him, their expressions lightened as he they noticed that he had no uncouth intentions against them. While examining them up close, he pondered on how to protect them. It was quite the bothersome task.
*Sigh*
After the introductions, Lucifer questioned them on their abilities. However, they hadn`t the least bit idea of mana usage, he halted his departure to the dragon continent, to at least teach them the basics. He was gentle as he directed them, Emelia he taught ‘Cryokinesis’ and to Clarice ‘Pyrokinesis’. During their learning process, he poured small amounts of his mana into them to steadily increase their mana pool. Their rank quickly increased to Transient but they were still unprepared for the dangers of the Dragon continent.
During the time he spent with them, their suspicions towards him gradually decreased and feelings of trust blossomed. He continued to teach them the Wrath Arts; so that they could defend themselves against physical attacks. While they slept on the bed, he spent his nights observing the night skies and the constellations.
The siren Emelia had a wonderful voice which could lure someone into illusions. Lucifer indicated her to train that skill; because it seemed quite useful. Emelia was a quick learner on the other hand Clarice had a very kind nature and and that what caused him a bit of apprehension. As their path would be filled with a lot of gore
After four months, they departed for the Dragon continent leaving from the harbor. On the ship, many merchants and experts alike gazed immorally at them. Trying to even touch them, as an expert walked up to Lucifer.
“How much for your girls?” the expert’s voice was threatening
“They are not for sale” he spoke out loud, at that instant the expert went for a punch towards his face. Lucifer dodging the man`s fist stabbed into his shoulder with a finger. The expert`s agonizing voice resounded across the deck as a sign of a warning to other passengers that they should not touch them. The passengers quickly darted their stares away from the girls.
He led them to their cabin which was wide enough for three people. 30 days passed, and Emelia and Clarice set about cultivating. Lucifer watched beads of sweat drip down their faces; he scanned their aura and noticed they had reached the mid-levels of the Transient Rank.
Wielding his daggers he twirled them with his fingers, frigid essence encased within them made the temperature in the room, drop a few degrees. He wondered what he result would be with chaotic essence, as the black ooze integrated into the daggers. It`s surface turned dark purple, the daggers resonated with him as it kept on feeding onto the essence. He could feel a consciousness develop within the daggers but it would take a few days at most.
Gazing at the daggers his thoughts raced, “Unexpectedly, the ooze has quite the uses” he smiled
The daggers constantly fed onto his mana, prompting their strengthening period. Another ten days passed before and the girls slowly opened their eyes, they turned expression cheerful from reaching the peak stages of the Transient rank. Clarice was on top of the moon from her new
found abilities and immediately hugged Lucifer.
“Thank you” she softly muttered before embarrassingly letting go, Emelia was still at the side overlooking the sight, her expression turned into a frown. Emelia turned towards Lucifer giving a thankful nod, before sitting upon her bed browsing through a book she had bought from the market.
Clarice also returned to her bed, entering a short nap. Lucifer could feel he had met the requirements needed to entire the Mystical Realm and he could order it to open up at anytime but he planned to do it later after he retrieved his desired materials. The ship rocked as a heavy storm erupted against the ocean floor; thunder clouds covered the skies as shadowy omens.
The ship rocked more frantically before large pincers erupted from underneath the ocean, clutching at the ship from all sides as it was dragged into the depths by the creature. The ship walls dented against the water pressure, Lucifer instantly used water essence to envelope all three of them in a blue barrier, shielding them from outside pressure.
Manipulating the gravity with earth essence within the ship, he allowed him and the girls to easily travel towards the deck. Merchants and expert who didn`t have water specializing abilities got their head squished by the pressure, blood dyed the ocean water. Emelia was astonished at how easily Lucifer could manipulate dual essences with ease as they tended to drain lots of mana, while Clarice cringed at the sight of blood.
Reaching towards the deck, he saw quite a few experts gathered who were all at God rank, their eyes frowned as they saw Lucifer approaching. Lucifer looked below ship, and oversaw a large scorpion with six pincers dragging the ship towards a black door against the ocean floor.
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He instantly judged that was a dungeon, a mysterious one at that if it was hidden so well. His daggers were instantly brandished behind his back if these experts made a move. Clarice and Emelia huddled behind his back, as they were obviously not strong enough to face the opponents
ahead.
The group of experts contained; five females and four males, their appearances signified them hailed from the demon race. However, it seemed they didn`t has any intentions to attack Lucifer because they couldn’t judge his rank as he had suppressed his aura and mana.
The group stared intensely at him and the girls behind. He couldn`t feel any killing intent though. Depositing the daggers behind his back into the wormhole, he headed towards the group to question them.
“So, what is that gateway?” he asked to verify his assumption
“The Forbidden Dungeon” one of the demonic females briefed and they didn`t answer any of his further questions. So he continued to watch the gateway while his hand was tightly hugged at by Clarice, Emelia moved around. Clarice`s chest was above average, so his hands just felt an extremely soft sensation.
As they almost reached the gateway, the scorpion turned into specks of silver light that returned to one of the male experts on the deck, fusing into his body. They all jumped off the deck and into the gateway, Lucifer watching them depart wondered if it was such a good idea to follow because he had these two ladies to protect.
“No choice” he muttered
Carrying them both by the hips, he too jumped off into the void. A strange sensation seemed to scan him as he got closer but which instantly vanished after a second.
The girls blushed a bit as he held onto their hips, they rapidly felt their heartbeats escalating being so up-close. Entering the gateway they materialized at an unknown location
As they gazed at the landscape, willow wisps floated in the air, under their feet’s a large circle engraved with runes gradually dimmed. Graves were lined up all over, and a distance away they could see an eerie fortress construct. Faint purple lights gleamed from the windows.
The group of experts could be viewed venturing towards it,
“This place is creepy!” Clarice trembled while speaking her hands grasped tightly against his body. Emelia scanned the surroundings as well. As they followed the group before them, agonizing moans and cries could be heard from all around them.
The group of experts in front brandished all their weapons, turning exceedingly cautious. Lucifer sent colossal amount of earth essence towards Emelia and Clarice enveloping them in a brown barrier, all the while he had to constantly supply mana to keep it in place.
Lucifer gently freed his arm from Clarice`s clutches; quickly wielding his dual daggers, frigid essence was radiated. At that instance the ground in front of the group exploded and hundreds of undead crawled out, rushing out in swarms. Their ranks were at least at Transient peak stage. They wielded chipped swords, cracked helms and armors.
All together they numbered in thousands against the group of 12 people. The group of experts along with Emelia and Clarice turned very grim, fear had overtaken their minds. Emelia quickly encased several icicles above her while Clarice generated a fireball in her palm.
The male expert of the demonic race unleashed his pincer scorpion from his body, its large frame materialized among the crowd of undead swatting them aside. Lucifer quietly observed it, as it tossed the undead aside but they would instantly repair themselves. The undead finally overwhelmed the scorpion stabbing their worn out daggers into its body. Blood leaked out from the holes across its body, and it crumpled to the ground.
The group of experts ran into the crowds of undead, brandishing their weapons and mana in a last ditch of effort.
“We have to help them” Emelia mumbled from the side, her eyes contained a flame of resolution. As she shot several icicles at the undead racing towards them, Clarice bolted some fireballs which exploded upon contact with the undead.
Undead could not be killed beside with the usage of light essence which Lucifer couldn`t obtain due to Tetra inhabiting his body. The only method remaining was to permanently immobilize them.
Ice essence mist spread from Lucifer body and across the floor ; enveloping only the undead as it passed through the area, any undead caught within the mist would be immediately encased into a pillar of ice. The entire battlefield was soon covered with the mist forming a giant glacier
with the thousands of undead were frozen within it. The group of experts; riddled with bloodied scratches walked out.
Their gazes contained surprise and reverence as they looked at Lucifer.
“Thank You” they spoke in unison before continuing towards the castle a distance away. They journey must have been very important if they threw themselves in like that. As Lucifer turned to look at Emelia and Clarice; they too were surprised at how quickly he had ended the assault without lifting a finger.
“Are you……Ok” Emelia mumbled from the side, Lucifer didn`t understand what she meant
“Whoa you`re so awesome” Clarice spoke loudly in an excited tone. Her attitude was very much like a child. She suddenly jumped at Lucifer hugging his waist tightly.
Lucifer and the girls continued towards the fortress following the group of experts from a few meters behind, the cries and horrid moans got louder the closer they arrived to the fortress. Destroyed graves lined at both sides as they continued forward. The air contained a few traces of an unknown smell and the temperature was little by little decreasing. Clarice enveloped them with fire essence to battle against the chill; Lucifer inwardly admired her temperament a bit.
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