Lucifer suddenly stopped chuckling to himself and sent his consciousness back to his core, a man that was missing his right arm and left leg crawled out of the water into the cave, blood sprayed with every heartbeat as he struggled onto solid ground, with a pale face and blue lips he stuttered out a spell and darkness coalesced around his bleeding stumps, almost immediately the blood hardened halting the bleeding.

Ignoring the pain in his limbs he struggled to sit upright, when he looked up greed and desire flashed across his pale face as he beheld a beautiful glowing stone gently floating a few feet off the ground, his eagerness to obtain the object he desired led him across the room in small painful drags across the rough ground opening his wounds once more.

He hoped that once he obtained the core he would be able to use its power to restore his wounds with the pure energy it would grant him, even high-level light spells would be available to him with such pure mana despite his specialty in the opposing arts.

once he entered the cores chamber he froze, surrounding the core was a dozen skeletons made of emerald translucent bones, they carried twin short swords of the same material their of bones.

He had already taken damage from the light crystal shattering and while in his shadow from the shockwave passed him without harm, but the walls cracked his shadow separating his limbs, there was no hope to defeat undead with dark magic on a good day let alone trying to win with someone in his current condition.

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The skeletons shambled towards him with raised weapons that gave the promise of death, his mind worked swiftly trying to calculate a way to escape the situation, gritting his teeth he concentrated on his spell as his body melted into the shadows, hoping that the exhaustion and pain would not break his concentration and have his shadow fragment into pieces.

Floating in a dark world the man ignored his pain as best he could while trying to calculate how far away the core was, if he miscalculated the distance he would not be able to take the core and use it to empower himself and kill his enemies, instead he would simply be cut down by low-level undead and die a disgraceful death.

Meanwhile, outside the world of darkness, a wall dropped away revealing a passageway into the core room, inside the passageway a Panther stalked into the core room to the sound of fur rubbing against stone as it squeezed through the passage obviously meant for humans.

Dark waves surrounded the panther as she prepared to pounce, several minutes passed when the Panthers lowered body abruptly sprung forward.

The man was shifting his shows position closer to the core when he noticed a ripple in the endless void of the shadow world, he turned around and screamed out as claws clad in darkness wiped his gut sending his organs flying outside, before he could attempt to cast a spell to halt the damage or defend himself fangs found themselves around his soft neck.

A soft crack later his lifeless body fell back into the overworld crashing into the ground in a wet thump. Lucifer took in the sight of her bloody fangs and claws and said "good work Kuro", the panther replied with a soft purr then stalked back out of the core room to look for more prey on the lower floors.