Dried tear tracks lined with dirt covered Lyne’s cheeks-- she had no more tears left.
The hatred suppressed within Rein’s heart rose. Lyne’s words caused his whole body to tremble in rage. Already, she had been forced to consume bowls of human meat soup as a mindbending torture.
These damn devils were also partly the cause of the Golden Desert Town’s destruction.
Naturally, Lyne’s torment was designed by Harvest Devil Ailehr, to ensure that Lyne would become nothing but a compliant tool under her descendent, the Second Prince.
After his training under the half-senior Chenhr, a part of Rein’s mind always remained clear. Otherwise, he would have lost control by now and exposed himself. He took deep breaths to control his mind.
Rein came to rescue Suey. With his current limited abilities, he simply had zero ability to rescue a second captive. He realized that at best, he could only give Lyne a half-chance at escape.
Some might consider these thoughts of Rein to be self-limiting. The reality, unfortunately, was that though one should never put a limit on their imaginations… a limit certainly existed.
Take Rein’s desire to rescue his younger brother Jein, for example. Though Rein wished to identify the exact situation of Jein and rescue his younger brother immediately… that was simply impossible as of now. It might become possible in the future, but not now. Even then, it might very well be too late.
Reality was simply that harsh. Currently, Rein was not even certain he could escape with Suey. He was placing his bet on his origin ability, an echo of a fallen god. He had a feeling that his half-senior Chenhr would criticize him for being so dependent on an attention-drawing ability.
“Don’t let her enchanting wails soften your heart, slave!” A voice of a black-hooded guard hollered in. “We expect to have our ears filled with her wondrous screams! Remember your orders! We can easily replace you with another willing slave!”
These words were to ensure that Rein, as the lowly slave that is Dahsunz, yet to display true devilish qualities, would not have a soft heart.
If not for Harvest Devil Ailehr’s command, these two guards would have long entered to directly enjoy the show.
Ailehr had warned the guards of this prison cave that if they were careless, they’d lose their heads. These guards needed to prevent some fearless devilish members within the sect from approaching, as well as potential Xuere spies.
As for Rein, or rather, Dahsunz… Though Rein now stood at the peak of the inner realm, the inner realm is very much considered to be the mortal realm.
Most mercenaries and bandits that plagued the secular world are of mid-to-high inner realm. As such, these two guards had a ‘normal’ feeling of Rein as Dahsunz.
Rein intentionally deactivated his ‘Shifting Mask’ to reveal his true identity to Lyne.
To his confusion, it wasn’t just hope that entered Lyne’s pupils. There was a trace of anger and dissatisfaction as well.
Rein sighed as he carried a bowl of human meat before the suspended Lyne.
“I’m sorry.” That was all he could say as he dipped a spoon into this bowl of human meat soup. “You’ll need to pretend to be tortured. As for this bowl, it will need to be empty.” Those two guards already examined the wooden tower cart, and would most certainly notice if Lyne was not fed. This prison cave itself had no areas to conveniently dispose of the bowl of human meat soup.
“No. Please!” Despite knowing Rein’s true identity, Lyne still wailed like a mother who had lost her son.
“I’m sorry,” Rein once again apologized. “If I do not exit with an empty bowl, I might lose my life.” There was nowhere to discard this bow of human meat soup.
“This is all your fault,” Lyne’s voice sank to a whisper. “The Second Prince would not have taken such action if you…” Ailehr had revealed the coming of the Second Prince during her torment of Lyne.
“What?” Rein also lowered his voice to ensure the two black-hooded guards outside would not hear their conversation.
“If you had just taken my virginity and placed a child in my womb after that battle against the three-head cobra, none of this would have happened…” Though Rein had noticed a trace of anger in Lyne’s eyes, her words came out as a broken whine instead.
Rein was silent. Indeed, after their battle against the three-headed cobra, Lyne did come into his tent and attempt to seduce him into losing control of his faculties. At the time, Suey laughingly hypothesized that Lyne saw Rein as a key to her escape from the politics afflicting the Xuere Clan. It now seems that she wasn’t far off the mark.
As for the exact reason that Lyne had selected him? Rein couldn’t be sure.
Rein was sure that many assumed him to be a depraved man due to his acts of perversion with Suey. The truth was that he was simply used to these sorts of displays due to his merchant days. You could say it was a questionable merchant ‘culture’, to employ seduction to influence business deals, as well as satisfy those with money to surround themselves with women.
As for Rein? The reality was that he wasn’t sure why Suey had thrown herself at him, and initially wished to scare the minx away using those depraved acts. It was only after that he somewhat accepted Suey. She even expressed her love for their ‘play’, which she felt helped her mind contend against her experience as a sex slave in those visions of possible future she had foreseen. Thus, the debauchery continued under that twisted cause.
Regardless, when it came to Lyne, Rein wasn’t going to simply welcome another woman simply because she was some recognized jade beauty throwing herself into his arms, especially since he knew little about the woman’s background and reason.
Still, Rein now felt some level of guilt. It was true, to an extent, that he could have prevented the current circumstance, twisted as the required action might be.
He glanced at the bowl of human meat soup in his hands, very much regretting leaving all of his belongings back in the central outpost. If he had brought a spatial pouch… No. He would already have been robbed by the devils in this sect if he brought in a spatial pouch.
“At least make sure to scream and wail,” Rein sighed as he dipped a spoon into the bowl of human meat soup, while Lyne was ashened.
His next action caused Lyne to close her lips and widen her eyes.
Instead of force-feeding Lyne the boiled human meat, Rein brought the spoon to his own mouth.
Rein dared not chew the small lump of human meat, and his facial and neck muscles twitched as he forcefully swallowed.
Most disturbing was the fact that it did not taste bad at all. There was even a sort of… sickening fragrance on his tongue.
Lyne began to theatrically wail as he continued to force-feed himself. His tempered body allowed him to control his muscles with precision to prevent the bile from his own stomach from rising.
After an eternity, there was one final piece of human meat, and Rein took deep breaths to calm and control himself.
“Give it to me…” Lyne ceased her wailing and muttered. “You must give it to me.”
Rein gazed into her eyes, and in there, he observed that a flicker of determination had returned.
As such, he fed the final lump of meat to Lyne, who forcefully swallowed it.
Rein sighed. He desired for the cool demeanor of Lyne to return. After all, that was a part of her attractiveness. He considered what he could do to give Lyne a bit of a boost.
As such, he removed the rags that covered his manhood, before kneeling before Lyne.
“Go ahead. Use your feet,” Rein said. This was a sort of play that some within merchant families engaged in. Some men might feel humiliated to partake in such a play, but Rein cared not. In his eyes, it was all just a bit of fun. Currently, he felt that this might be what Lyne needed. He doubted words alone would be of much comfort.
Lyne was naturally astonished by Rein’s actions, but she recalled how she had used her cold breath to play with Rein’s desires once before, a complete and rather satisfying control over the twitching of Rein’s tempered girth.
Thus, she found renewed strength to balance herself on her left foot as she lifted her right foot and placed it against Rein’s rising rod.
“To have a cool heroine who has slayed so many demons and devils in the western wilderness before me is a heavenly blessing,” Rein commented in the low voice.
“Mmmm.” Lyne bit her lips as she both saw and felt Rein’s thick member twitching under her foot.
She regained a degree of poise as she began to move her foot with a bit more force, batting Rein’s manhood to the left and right, up and down, pressing the thick member between her own foot against Rein’s thighs and abdomen.
Rein’s rasped as he flexed his member to extend Lyne’s playtime. He wished for Lyne to recover her mind. The reaction of his dragon certainly brought a bit of mirth back into Lyne’s eyes.
“Let me tell you a secret, Rein,” Lyne whispered after screaming a bit to satisfy the guards outside.
Rein nodded.
“My father abandoned my family many years ago in order to avoid the previous internal conflict of the Minhr succession. My clan’s loyalty was doubted and we were sent to guard against the west.”
Her foot increased in tempo as Rein’s eyes ran across her fit and toned long legs, up to her exposed honeypot between her thighs. Unlike the rather discomforting ogling of some of her previous suitors, she instead felt an unexplained deep satisfaction under Rein’s gaze.
“I was thus forced to carry Xuere Clan’s torch, to display our commitment to defending the western gap into the Western Wilderness.”
“The truth is… after slaying demons and devils for many years since my adolescence, I began to grow weary, imagining what might happen to me if I were to fall.”
“I will never fall to this… damn beast,” she hissed with a small smile as she used her foot to pull at the skin over Rein’s dragon.
“But. It may temporarily tame me. Many times,” she slyly added.
Her words brought Rein to a peak, and his fluids burst out to cover Lyne’s toned legs in a sticky white shower.
Rein was relieved that Lyne had regained some of her original demeanor. He stood up, feeling no shame at his own release under the beauty’s foot.
“My turn,” he reminded Lyne. “Make sure you wail a bit, or my cover will be blown.”
He positioned himself behind Lyne, and reached around to gently run his hands over the beauty’s welted sensitive skin. Her body was shapely but firm due to her training in the sword.
Lyne began to wail but also moan in a false show, and squirmed in Rein’s hands, music to the ears of the black-hooded guards outside. Rein could tell it wasn’t all acting-- the woman might occasionally flinch to his touch, but she always shifted her body to gain more skin-to-skin contact against him.
Rein’s hands finally cupped her ample breasts and drew circles around her red and puffy areolas that were each pierced by a metallic ring.
“Please… they’re very sensitive,” she mumbled. Harvest Devil Ailehr had discovered this weakness of Lyne and used it against her during the tortures.
“Then taming you will be easy,” Rein replied teasingly. He traced fingers over her puffy nipples, before suddenly twisting those rings, causing Lyne to arch in her torturous pose as she squealed.
Soon, Lyne’s own liquids flowed down her inner thighs. She discovered that her mind desired Rein to continue taking advantage of her vulnerable position. It was a sort of tantalizing erotic feeling that tingled across her skin.
“Well, that was easy,” Rein commented in an indecipherable tone.
“Even if you’ve broken me today, I will recover!” Lyne had now regained a bit of her original glow and continued the play between the two.
“Mmm. I look forward to it.” Rein said as he brought his lips to Lyne’s in a deep kiss. Indeed, a truly broken Lyne was of no attraction. This was much better.
“That’s cheating…” Lyne muttered as she melted into a tongue-lashing. Not too long ago, she was appalled by Rein’s debaucherous acts with Suey. Under her current situation, it instead made her feel an odd sense of security.
Rein then began to examine the two pillars and the manacles. Specifically, the inscriptions upon them.
“So. How are we getting out?” Lyne asked.
“By yourself.” Rein’s reply unsettled Lyne’s heart.
“You… aren’t you here to rescue me?” She said this with a dissatisfied tone, having recovered from the brink of torment.
“No…” Rein was honest. Perhaps he should not have been. “I came to rescue Suey. I don’t have the power to rescue more than one. I truly am sorry.” Rein’s mind was clear as to his current capabilities.
Lyne suddenly felt her body had been somewhat taken advantage of as her heart was filled with various conflicting emotions. A tinge of anger, but also disappointment. And yet, she also simultaneously felt joy that Rein had taken advantage of her. He had even consumed a bowl of human meat in her place.That meant a doorway into Rein’s world was open to her.
Thus, she was filled with an overwhelming desire for more. Much much more.
“Fill me with your seed,” she suddenly demanded.
Rein did a double take at her words.
“The plan would fail. I am certain they will examine you on my exit to ensure you remain a virgin for the Second Prince,” Rein said as he shook his head.
Lyne bit her lips as her mind spun.
After some examination, Rein was relieved to finally find the weak point of this set up that subdued Lyne’s strength. He thanked his half-senior Chenhr for forcing him to study so many inscriptions during his stay with Master Yirn.
Of course, part of it was the fact that devils found it difficult to access resources. Thus, much of the more costly and less combat-oriented knowledge, such as formations, inscriptions, blacksmithing, alchemy and so on was of an amateur level within the devil sects.
Rein found a rather weak and overlooked section of the inscription that bound Lyne’s strength. He forced the energy of his orange lightning dragon to the tip of his index finger, and began crazily injecting this aurae in short explosive bursts into that specific point on a pillar.
A sizzling noise sounded as a hole was burnt in said critical location of the inscription upon the stone pillar.
The inscription still appeared to be functioning, with the glow of aurae upon the pillars and manacles. However, the truth was that Lyne’s body would no longer be drained of her strength with that outward channeling point severed.
Rein had also found a few other weak points, such as the manacles around Lyne’s wrists. However, he did not break that inscription, because Lyne needed to still appear chained and secured when those two guards would undoubtedly examine if Dahsunz had accomplished his given task.
Regardless, Lyne would soon regain her powers and have the capability to free herself. Lyne could already feel a sliver of aurae returning to her body from the very air.
“If I successfully rescue Suey, our escape will likely cause an uproar. That will be your opportunity,” Rein informed Lyne. “Unfortunately, I truly do not have the power to assist you more.”
Rein still had not gotten his hands on any of those ghost-repelling talismans. Though reckless, he decided to simply snatch Suey and run as fast as he could. He had some confidence in using his frog leg imitation art, adding in the quality of lightning to the art, to explode away from this evil place.
If he could escape the bloodmist over this zone quickly, he would then be able to use his origin ability to teleport away, draining though it may be to carry another body--Suey-- along. As for whether he could escape, that was uncertain. Rein wasn’t sure how much of his aurae reserves dragging Suey along on teleportation would cost.
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Rein very much recalled how he had fainted when he was forced to carry that Wolf Syrup Town bandit through the spatial tunnel unique to his origin art.
“Then promise me that you will give me your seed if we successfully escape,” Lyne demanded icily. Though Lyne had recovered some of her demeanor, it was clear that any naivety she might still have had been erased by this experience.
Increasingly, Rein felt that he seemed to have an affinity with half-mad women.
“That’s… “ Rein recalled Suey’s conjecture of Lyne wanting to use pregnancy to get rid of the Dingien Clan’s interest in her and the Xuere Clan.
The Xuere Clan must be one of the stronger clans, capable of protecting against the Western Wilderness. Indeed, the Dingien Clan used marriage to ensure the stronger clans remained tied to them. That was why the currently competing princes all attempted to tie down members of the stronger clans within the Minhr Nation. It was considered a show of loyalty, which was why Lyne could not simply reject the Dingien Clan without potentially destroying the Xuere Clan.
At least, this was Rein’s understanding of the situation.
As for Suey, she had stated that she would not mind Rein having other women as long as these others would provide soldiers for defending her home. Still, Rein wasn’t at all fully comfortable with a second woman. Frankly, Suey is already a handful.
“You could simply leave this realm,” Rein suggested.
“And abandon my clan, its loyalty questioned and demise inevitable? I was left on my grandfather’s doorstep-- I have never even met my pathetic father. I am not the same,” Lyne harrumphed.
“A child should grow with the support of a father and mother.” Rein pointed out another one of his considerations. That was what Rein always knew. He himself was raised in such a way. And he could not possibly enter the Xuere Clan. He needed to become a telekinetic advancer, such that he could break into Devil God Hehrn’s realm.
“The Second Prince will not give in. No other nobles will assist the Xuere Clan. I cannot abandon the clan like my father did. I must provide an heir of unique talents,” Lyne stated as she glared at Rein. That certainly explained why she had taken an interest in Rein. Rein was certainly unique, in a sense.
“And If I end up with the Second Prince’s child in my womb, that child will no doubt suffer under the Second Prince’s hands. His reputation… he only desires to have more political influence through my Xuere Clan. I might even be eventually discarded!” Lyne continued.
“Since you’ve taken advantage of me… You must go all the way!” Lyne’s final declaration confirmed to Rein that he definitely had an affinity with half-mad women.
“If Suey acquiesces, then very well.” That was Rein’s reply as he was unable to provide other options to Lyne.
Lyne desired to remain in the Xuere Clan while avoiding being dragged into the Dingien succession competition. She, similar to her father, was seen as pieces to arrange cooperation, support and loyalty through marriage.
But if she were to return pregnant from a random encounter in the Western Wilderness… she would escape the clutches of the Dingien Clan even if she might be publicly humiliated.
Plus, Ailehr had mentioned that her actions against Lyne were due to the Second Prince. Once Lyne condenses that memory into a vision egg, the Second Prince would no longer be able to threaten her. As for the other princes-- would they even demonstrate interest in Lyne now that she had lost her purity? Most likely not.
Regardless, this was why Rein began to feel that he had an affinity with these fierce or rather, daring women. Despite the shared debaucherous play, both Suey and Lyne seemed to not care about ‘standard’ behavior.
Lyne would rather take his seed than be forced into the maelstrom of the succession battle, based on an intuitive interest in him. He now understood that another reason that Suey threw herself at him was to accelerate their connection, based on her visions of possible futures.
Anyhow, when the magical barrier opened under Rein’s request, the two black-hooded guards examined the tray, the empty bowl, and Lyne’s body. They also scanned the mostly empty prison cave. Lyne kept her eyes closed in a slump position, not daring to reveal even a sliver of her hopeful will.
“Well done. Well done!” A black-hooded guard yelled at the leaving Rein. “She might have been broken into silence!”
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Suey was singing a tune as she moaned from the pleasure delivered to her mind by a newly-arrived devil. Her two hands hung above her head as her lithe form was bent over a wooden beam.
“I once had a companion--mm-- by my side~
Yet one day, that friend became--Unngh-- the soil beneath my feet.
And so I wondered,
Did--mmmm-- my friend only exist in my imagination?
Perhaps it was simply an illusion conjured by my mind
All is nothing. Nothing is--Ahhn-- real~”
On her womb was engraved a new magical art-- a devilish art.
She had already been informed by the newly-arrived devil that the ‘Sole Cauldron’ Art would soon be broken through the use of creation magics.
Not even peak existences of the current era dared to claim they could employ creation arts. However, creation energy from the conception of a child could be diverted, and it was one of the most powerful types of energy.
The devilish man with red lips and a pale handsome face chortled at Suey’s tune.
“This is very much real, dear. But soon, your mind will be replaced. Eventually, the child of Devil God Hehrn’s body will finally enter and interfere in this realm directly.” Powerful existences could not descend into the Fusion realm easily. That was this devilish man’s mission. To create a body accepted by the Fusion Realm for Devil God Hehrn.
Once Ailehr takes over Suey’s body, her return to strength would also nourish the child in the womb. Once Ailehr returns to the peak of outer realm and enters the telekinetic realm, then the child will be born, with Devil God Hahrn’s mind.
“Meat has arrived!” A black-hooded guard hollered into this prison cave, his voice muffled by the magical barrier.
The magical barrier opened, and Rein entered carrying a tray of multiple bowls of human meat soup.
“Senior,” Rein prostrated to the ground as he barely restrained himself. “This slave can feed you as you accomplish your task.”
The devilish man frowned. He would very much prefer if a beauty fed him those succulent human meat while he stabbed the depths of the lithe body before him.
However, he did desire to be fed as well. He needed to do this a number of times, and direct enough creation energy to shatter the ‘Sole Cauldron’ Art of telekinetic level.
His first step was to activate the new engraving on Suey’s womb. That devilish art would cause Suey’s womb to throb with heat in the devilish man’s presence. A lewd crest. This would make the following ‘conceptions’ much easier.
Of course, it also ensured that Ailehr would not betray Devil God Hehrn in the future.
This was when Rein, or rather, Dahsunz, showed up.
“Go ahead,” the devilish man nodded, as his desire for the succulent human meat took hold of his mind.
Rein kept his head down and moved beside this devilish man of unknown strength. Rein calmed his heart. He had no choice but to act immediately.
The devilish man continued thrusting his hips as he grunted in the throes of pleasure. Rein raised a large spoon of human meat and fed it into the devilish man’s mouth skillfully.
The devilish man was surprised that a slave in rags had such ‘serving’ skill. It needed to be said, Rein’s mother, when alive, had indeed trained him to treat her well.
By the devilish man’s grunts, Rein could tell that he was about to reach his peak. Obviously, he could not allow the devilish man to deliver his fluids into Suey.
Rein raised another spoonful of human meat and slipped it into the devilish man’s mouth. Then he suddenly stabbed the spoon into the devil’s gullet as he stepped behind and wrapped his other arm around the devil’s throat in a neck hold.
This was a somewhat reckless move, but Rein truly had no choice despite not knowing of the devilish man’s abilities. His move dislodged the devilish man from Suey.
Suey immediately became alert, and as her legs were free, she twisted her lithe body around and with a half-leap to gather strength, she delivered a devastating kick into the devilish man’s groin.
The devilish man weakened in pain as his tool was struck hard. Rein neck hold prevented the devilish man from notifying the outside black-hooded guards.
An aurae shell formed around the devilish man and Rein activated his own as well, primarily employing his orange draconic lightning. He knew that devilish arts were usually weak to lightning, and thus his partial incomplete aurae shell should still limit the effect of this devilish man’s aurae shell.
Toxic bubbles seemed to rise out of the devilish man’s aurae skin, and sizzling sounds could be heard as the sparks from the partial lightning shell form over Rein’s frontal body clashed against its energies.
To Rein’s shock, dark crescent blades began manifesting themselves in the air around him and Suey.
However, midway, the form of these dark crescent blades fluctuated in density.
Another voracious and elegant backward kick from Suey and those dark crescent blades in the air shattered.
Rein felt cold sweat roll down his back. The devilish man must be at the peak of the shell realm, close to being an outer devil!
Luckily, the devilish man was missing the final step, and could not fully control outer realm powers to complete a stable aurae projection yet.
Rein understood what he needed to do, as was taught to him by his half-senior Chenhr. This devilish man is still a shell advancer, and must know some unique body enhancing art.
Thus, Rein knew he had to quickly take this man’s life. His own aura skin was only partial, and he had yet to begin any training in complete shell arts.
He released the spoon that he had thrusted into the devilish man’s gullet, and he performed a dragon claw martial ability towards the devilish man’s eyes with his hand covered in lightning.
The devilish man once again could not scream under the neck-hold as his eyes were destroyed. What advancer would use an aurae shell to close off their perception of the world?
All of this had happened in just a single breath.
Suddenly, Rein felt an explosive power rising from the devilish man’s body. The originally toxic bubble aurae shell transformed into a sort of scaly formation.
The devilish man’s arm suddenly gripped onto Rein’s arm.
Rein was astonished to feel his neck hold being loosened through brute strength. Despite his own powerful tempered body, advantaged position, alongside the benefit of layered lightning across the front of his body, his hold was loosening!
The devilish man had transformed into a hardy devilish beast, and the devilish being pushed off its feet. Rein was sent flying and he crashed into a cave wall. Rein’s appearance returned to his true form as the ‘Shifting Mask’ cracked, inadvertently damaged by such force. Luckily, Rein himself was only a bit sore due to his tough body.
“Quickly!” Suey said. “That’s a devil transformation!”
Rein realized that things had gotten out of control. He knew not what devil transformation was, but it could not be anything good. That devilish man had become a sort of hellish scaly demonic form, leaping about on all-fours.
It was hard to fully see the appearance of the devilish being, as the dark swirling aurae around the body obscured details. Or perhaps, the devil transformation was incomplete. Regardless, Rein could see that behind that dark haze were hints of scaly disfigured monkey form.
Rein’s only comfort was that this devilish being should be blind as well, since he had taken out the eyes of the devilish man.
The devilish being twisted about, attempting to use other senses to detect Rein’s position.
Surprisingly, it pointed itself roughly at Rein’s position and shot towards Rein. Luckily, it was not that accurate, and Rein easily dodged as the devilish being crashed into the cave wall behind him.
Rein leapt back to Suey’s side and quickly found the weak point of the manacle inscription. He activated his orange draconic lightning and stabbed his finger at that weak point.
Unfortunately, this allowed the devilish being to somewhat detect his position.
Suey knew what she had to do as she, relying on her manacles, used her arms to gracefully lift her lithe body high into the air, a move that would put most dancers of show troupes to shame.
Rein, however, made no effort to dodge, choosing to rely on his ‘dark mirror’ art again as he poured lightning energy into his index finger to destroy the inscription on the manacle.
His whole body was wrapped in a complete dark body with the exception of his hands, his soles, and his head, his rags naturally fell onto the ground around his feet, having no flesh to cling onto.
The crouching four-limbed form of the scaly devilish being crashed through Rein’s position and into the cave wall behind. It was asif Rein’s body did not even exist in that space.
Rein only dared to use this skill so openly because the devilish being clearly could not see, and wasn’t of the outer realm with the capability to accurately sense the aurae in its surroundings.
Finally, the manacles seemed to have their aurae supply cut off, and snapped open.
Suey collapsed onto the ground after her release, and Rein deactivated his near-full body ‘Dark Mirror’ as he covered his body with the rags again. He quickly picked up Suey’s slippery and aphrodisiac-oiled body in a princess carry. Suey bit her lips coquettishly as she wrapped her arms around Rein’s neck.
Rein sensed danger as he sidestepped. However, that was actually unnecessary.The devilish being actually crashed through the manacles hanging in the air, before colliding into a cave wall close to the entrance.
It seems that the devilish being had actually also lost its mind. Clearly, that snapping metallic sound was of the manacles separating, but the devilish being failed to comprehend that and had attacked the position of the manacles in the air.
“Respected senior!” A black-hooded guard outside hollered. “Is anything the matter?”
Rein blinked his eyes repeatedly as the scales on that monkey-like devil seemed to become clearer. That devilish being had initially overcome Rein’s brutish hold. It seemed his devilish transformation was becoming more complete, which Rein suspected meant an even higher degree of strength, speed and defense. They needed to leave immediately.
“Respected senior!” the black-hooded guard shouted. “We’ll be entering to ensure that nothing is of the matter!”
The magical barrier was foolishly dispelled, and Rein executed his ‘Frog Leg Lightning Release’, a combination of the ‘Frog Leg Release’ with the explosiveness of his draconic lightning.
Rein was fleeing. He had only survived so far because of how mindless this scaly black devil was. He did not understand where that mind of the devilish man might have gone, but that was not something to ponder in his current situation. After all, devils are famed for losing their minds.
The two black-hooded guards only heard a booming noise and Rein accelerated past them and up the tunnel towards the palm print zone.
The mindless scaly devil sensed this and followed, pulverizing the unprepared black-hooded guards into two blood mists. Those two had just begun chasing after Rein and were thus in the scaly devil’s path.
Rein was fast. He had gotten incredibly quick. The ‘Frog Leg Release’ was originally already explosive. Now with the element of lightning intertwined as an aurae shell around his legs, it had risen to a new level.
Once he reached the palm indentation area, he immediately looked skyward for the platforms that led to the exit.
He gathered strength in both legs. This was the first time he truly looked like a bit of a frog with the skill. He had always only gathered strength in one leg at a time and leapt as a normal human would.
The ground shattered and sunk by a foot as Rein exploded skyward, landing on a platform.
He gathered strength again, and kept on climbing rapidly, every single one of his leaps causing a platform to shatter and fall into the screaming Harvest Sect disciples below.
Those Harvest Sect disciples weren’t screaming because of Rein, though. Rather it was the mindless scaly devilish being that killed any blocking its path.
When Rein gazed down, he sucked in a cold breath. That devilish being did not need any of the platforms, and had begun climbing simply by puncturing its long dark claws into the cliff walls.
Not only that. It was catching up now that no one ‘blocked’ its path.
Although mindless, it certainly had its attention fixated on Rein!
Rein exploded off his feet again and finally reached the top of the cliff that is the surface of the world.
Suey had wrapped her arms around his neck as she pressed her face against his neck.
Just when Rein gathered his courage to risk dashing through the ancient battlefield of ghostly figures, Tihz appeared before him!
The appearance of Tihz dissolved into a bloody liquid to reveal a sneering Beincen.
Was this man not dead?
Rein soon had his answer.
“The price I had to pay to capture this body was to satisfy his final desires,” the possessed Beincen said. “Otherwise he would not have accepted his end.”
Complete and proper possession carried certain requirements. This type of possession was a conditional requirement.
“Out of the way!” Rein’s expression was dark. The mindless scaly devil would soon catch up, and Rein knew he could not contend with its physical and rising force. As for his magical arts? He really had none.
Rein knew not how Blood God Hahrn had known to wait here. The truth was that Rein was simply unlucky. Blood God Hahrn actually decided to leave the Harvest Devil Sect now that he had managed to gain some of its treasured blood.
When he had reached the exit, that was when the screaming started, and he gazed down to see Rein exploding upward. The sneering Beincen raised a blood-formed blade in his hand.
“Brace yourself,” Rein said as he threw Suey’s light body into the air. Suey could only yelp in surprise as she arced over Blood God Hahrn.
Hahrn chortled. He assumed that Rein was attempting to bait him into attacking Suey, opening a path for Rein’s own escape. Thus, Hahrn remained in his position to block Rein.
To Hahrn’s astonishment, Rein dashed towards him with complete disregard for that blood-formed blade.
Blood God Hahrn suddenly recalled from Beincen’s memories of Rein’s powerful flesh.
He sneered and sidestepped out of Rein’s collision path as he swung his blood blade.
The next moment, his face turned incredulous as Rein rushed past him unharmed.
Hahrn glanced at his blood blade. Any foe struck by his blood blade would be infected by his blood and never escape his gaze. Though he was still a shell realm advancer due to Beincen’s body, his was once a God-level existence in another realm, and as such, his abilities could not be judged based on realm limitations.
What astonished Hahrn the most was that he felt as if his blade had swung through empty air despite the blade clearly passing through Rein’s body.
He thought his sensations were off, but the fact that not a single drop of his blood within the blood blade had entered to infect Rein’s body meant that he truly had swung through empty air.
Rein had, of course, activated the ‘dark mirror’ to quickly bypass Hahrn’s blockade. That blood blade had simply passed through connected portal space between his front and his back.
If Hahrn had his past strength, he might be able to gather a few clues as to how Rein had escaped unscathed. Unfortunately, he was currently in the shell realm in Beincen’s body, and simply assumed that Rein had used an odd movement art.
Suey landed in Rein’s arms with a soft ‘mmph’, before returning to silence as she pressed herself into his body again.
Rein wasn’t entirely sure why she continued to maintain mostly silence since his appearance, but that was not important-- his current focus remained on escape.
Rein bounded into the thick bloody mist as a screech sounded to the high heavens.
“You think you can leave?!” Ailehr’s rage echoed against Harvest Devil Sect’s cliff walls as the ghosts in the ancient battlefield received orders to prevent all from escaping the Harvest Devil Sect.
By now, Rein was ahead with two figures, Hahrn and that dark scaly devil being in pursuit.
As Ailehr wasn’t sure who had taken Suey, her ghosts were commanded to attack all ‘escaping’ lifeforms. Thus, three groups of ghosts surged towards each individual.
Hahrn’s eyes bulged. He must not get caught by Ailehr. She would very quickly tell who he truly was, before determining his reason to infiltrate the Harvest Devil Sect.
He gave up his chase of Rein and burst off into another direction. Though to complete the possession, he needed to kill Rein and satisfy Beincen’s possession requirement, that could be done at another time.
Rein swung his head about in trepidation. Already he and Suey were surrounded by an endless sea of ghosts. Luckily, that scaly devil man behind was also similarly swamped. That scaly devil’s physical strength did not allow it to bash through the entangling and stretching arms of these ghosts.
Rein considered using ‘dark mirror’, but realized that it would be totally useless in this situation. If he wrapped most of his body in it, there was the danger of him sinking into the very ground. There was also Suey in his arms, and as she was a foreign live body, his shell would not wrap around her.
As for teleporting? He was surrounded by millions of ghosts that filled both the ground and the air. There was essentially no escape, not a single foot of area where he could teleport to safety. Not to mention, the red bloody mist that made it impossible for him to teleport to any meaningful distance.
A number of dwarven and human ghosts suddenly leapt forward and clung onto Rein’s body. Rein was filled with dread as a deathly cold sensation invaded his flesh, causing him to lose strength and drop to a knee. The ghostly forms began sucking out his very life energy as more approached, their eyes filled with rancor.
Yet Suey, who was in his arms, continued to remain calm as a cucumber.
“Today won’t be our end,” she softly stated.
Rein’s heart calmed and he believed her words.
The deathly sensation on multiple areas of his body suddenly disappeared. Rein was shocked to discover that a group of dwarven ghosts that sucked on his energies had regained their intelligence, with eyes bright and shining.
A dwarven ghost’s size suddenly rose to a hundred feet, and its hands raised a ghostly jewel-layed hammer.
“For the King!” the gigantic dwarven ghost hollered.
Comprehension returned to all the other dwarven ghosts in the surrounding seas as well.
“Kill the traitorous humans that failed to answer our call!”
“Kill the traitorous humans who plundered our lands after failing to answer our call!”
The ghostly dwarves roared and began crazily attacking all the other ghosts!