Chapter 375: Searching for Loot
When I say kind of, I an in the sense that it isn’t the actual heart of the realm like that of a Dungeon’s core. It was more so that it tapped into the heart, giving one control over the realm.
Although now that it’s under Lucifer’s influence, I don’t know how true that is anymore. This formation may still hold so sway over the realm, but not nearly as much as before.
Still, it’s drawing power to create the barrier, but that power had seemingly lessened. And I could tell because I could feel it trying to draw more power from the realm itself.
I pulled my arm back and got up slowly. I could’ve tried to influence it to disable the barrier, but I didn’t.
It’s not because I don’t want to, I just don’t necessarily trust the demons. They are still demons after all. Pure demons at that.
The Lust demons I can trust because I am their royalty, they will listen to what I have to say and my orders. It’s the Pride demons I don’t trust.
Altivolus and his companion I could maybe give a little faith, but not the others.
Another reason I was doing this was because I... I was being selfish, okay? I have to admit that my own greed is blinding
to being nice but so what? So what if I take everything before I lower the barrier?
What’re they gonna do? Nothing. That’s all they can do.
I could also claim this as so form of vindication for the suffering that I was put through emotionally, but I would be lying. Whether they could tell such a thing or not, I don’t know, nor did I care. I just wanted the stuff.
But so far, it didn’t seem like there was anything worth taking. It was just a bunch of potions, tos and dusty old scrolls. I read a few of them but it was all either basic spells, or it was sothing I couldn’t do in any capacity. Not worth my ti in the end.
But that left
with the three doors now. And I was hoping that at least one of them had sothing worth my ti here or else I would feel like all this was for nothing.
I started with the left door, that being the one to my left upon coming in. Just before I opened it though, I braced myself for another surprise attack, just in case this was a fake door, and raised my [Elental Scales] ability again to protect myself alongside another layer of mana just in case.
My hand wrapped around the round doorknob and turned it inwards and pushed it open, preparing for a surprise attack or even a sneak attack from so hidden corner but nothing happened.
The door swung open as I let go, allowing the light from inside to pour out and reveal a well kempt herb garden of so kind.
Imdiately the pungent sll of so many varying kinds of herbs hit my nose and caused
to recoil from the sheer intensity of them all hitting
at once.
I had to pinch my nose as the stench was too powerful for
to bear and hastily closed the door.
’Nope, not going in to that one.’
I quickly moved onto the one opposite the entrance door to my right, ready for any attack that might co from there also, but nothing.
Just a furnished room with rather a plain looking bedroom if not for the fact that the red and blue colour sche contrasted so much with the many shades of blue that made up the rest of the room or even the realm.
There was a bed, a wardrobe, what I assud to be a door leading to a bathroom of so kind and a desk and chair. Not all that big, maybe four by three tres if I had to guess. Maybe a little bigger.
Still, I pilfered through the guy’s stuff, but only found regular books and clothes. I even checked the bathroom and found it was filled with normal anities used for washing.
At this point I was starting to feel a little disappointed and irritated. If I went through all of this and ca out with nothing to show for it, I would be furious.
All of that suffering, for nothing.
I was really hoping that this final door wouldn’t just be so kind of empty room or servants’ quarters. That would really suck.
Bracing myself one last ti, I grabbed hold of the doors handle, slightly hoping for sothing actually worthwhile whilst also dreading the worst.
Opening the door only led to so kind of descending hallway.
’Greaaaat... No stairs though, so there’s that at least.’ The fact that there were no stairs, at least none that I could see was about the only plus side to this that I could see.
The hallway was unlit and curved in a spiral manner downwards. To where exactly though, I had no clue. All I could do was head down and explore what lay deep below.
As I was descending though, I had so ti to think. And with my body swaying slightly from side to side as I slithered across the floor, my left arm kept on twinging in pain.
And that got
thinking. Why did only my flesh heal initially in that first encounter with the Astral Helixion, but when Serpens had healed
with his sen, it healed all my broken bones I received when I ended up here in this part of the realm specifically.
So then why didn’t this part heal? Why was this arm bone still broken?
It didn’t make any sense.
By all ans, it should’ve healed by now, so why hadn’t it? What was keeping it from healing? What about that injury was so different about the other?
...
’Of course! The crystal! It must’ve poisoned my bones sohow, or maybe it left a few shards inside. No, that one doesn’t sound right. Those shards would’ve torn themselves out to beco part of that gateway. That ans it must’ve left sothing else behind. Maybe so kind of energy?’
As I descended further into the spiralling passage, I began to focus my internal mana and guided a larger portion of it along with my soul to where the would was specifically to see what exactly was wrong with it.
When my senses arrived, I was proven right as there was so kind of parasitic energy that was burrowing into my bone.
But the mont I found it, it started going berserk and tearing my flesh apart.
"AAGGHH!!" I let out a pained shriek as I began to assault the wild and destructive energy with my own power.
Slowly but surely, I was able to degrade it little by little every second even as it tore
apart from the inside out.
I had to fight it like I was fighting a feral Anthroid, making sure to not leave any room for it to escape elsewhere before dealing the finishing blow.
It wasn’t long before I was able to destroy it completely and finally, finally my arm bone started to heal. I decided to focus my regeneration on that bone specifically, either until it was fully healed, where I would then let it heal the rest of
naturally, or until I got to wherever it is that I’m headed. Whichever ca first.
It ended up being the latter as I had arrived at the bottom of the dark spiral ramp, and found myself in a dimly lit corridor, lit by the sa blue flas, but instead of being on a large hanging tal tray, allowing it to emit enough light to brighten the central chamber up above, these were just intermittent candles strung along the wall.
At the other end of this corridor was another door. And thanks to my now fully healed arm, I was now able to put all my ntal capacity into countering any surprises that might co my way, either as I traversed through this small corridor, or when I opened this door.
Despite my worries though, nothing happened even as I reached the end of the corridor and opend the door at the end of it.
Behind the door itself, was a rather small room, in the middle of which was so kind of altar. Or was it a statue?
... So kind of sculpture atop a pedestal.
That was all that was in the room. Apart from so candles that were laid out all over the floor sporadically that lit up the room with a slightly ominous glow.
Slithering up to the centrepiece to get a better look, I quickly ca to realise that it wasn’t a sculpture at all, it was actually so kind of monolithic carved stone in the shape of a blossoming flower.
Though it was a little odd, since it was made up of several individual white petals and hollow in the middle. Like sothing was supposed to go in there. Not to ntion there was a single petal missing.
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