Professor Lane entered Gaya's room without bothering to ask her permission. He gawked at the ss in the room but didn't seem like he gave a damn.
"Yeah co in" Gaya rolled her eyes,
"How do you like your job back Miss Steinyer?" Professor Lane asked in his waspish voice,
"Huh?"
Gaya was confused,
"I have a task for soone with your caliber, Miss Steinyer. Accomplish this and you will be Professor Steinyer"
Before Gaya could say anything, she had a feeling that she should hear him more. After all, she needed to pretend as she cares about this job to avoid raising suspicions.
She was really lucky whatever spell was cast on her when she took the identification card of the real imposter of Professor Steinyer was powerful enough to fool even the Fusion Stage cultivator such as Lane. Otherwise, she would have probably ended up in the deepest dungeons of Mazeroth.
"I have a week to get out of here Professor Lane. So whatever's in your mind-"
"If you depart now, you can finish it before tomorrow night"
He stared at Gaya wordlessly asking for her answer.
"What's the job?" Gaya asked, sighing.
"Escorting a student in and out of a dungeon"
"A dungeon?"
Gaya's curiosity was slightly piqued because dungeons are rare but every dungeon would contain a priceless artifact or a relic worth risking their lives.
If a dungeon was found, it would cause a ruckus among cultivators. Soon, the dungeon would be filled with adventures, rogue cultivators, sects to loot everything inside. Anything that could be found in a dungeon would be extrely valuable.
However as much as the dungeons contained valuables, they also contained danger in every corner. If a hundred people entered the dungeon, only a few would co outside fully intact.
"The task seems extrely dangerous Professor Lane, especially for the student. If you tell more about the dungeon and what it contains, I might take the task. After all, I want all the information I need before risking my life. Being alive is more important than being a professor"
"Fair enough," Professor Lane nodded. He almost looked like he was expecting everything Gaya just said,
"Primordial fire"
A single word that ca from Lane's mouth was enough to make her shudder. The last ti she witnessed the power of a primordial fore was when she was in the Fire Realm. Noah used Heaven's fla to save the old man from House Fisher. The fla was powerful enough to obliterate even the extrely powerful poison miasma in the Fire Realm.
According to the texts she read in the Nagaland library, the primordial flas would grow stronger with ti and enhance the spells and skills one possessed.
She also heard from Michael that he needs a Primordial fla to reach the 6-star Alchemist.
"That's what's inside the dungeon along with skeleton soldiers"
"Wait a minute. If that's what's all in the dungeon, why didn't anyone get it? So what's the catch?"
Gaya was not dumb enough to believe that there was primordial fire sitting in a dungeon but no one in the Akilan realm had taken steps to get the fire for themselves.
"The dungeon is protected by a void array. Even a half immortal would be rendered powerless the mont he or she steps into the dungeon. Which ans, only a battle-hardened warrior can get in and out alive"
"Sothing tells countless battle-hardened warriors had already tried that and didn't live to tell the tale" Gaya emphasized the word 'battle-hardened', crossing her arms.
Lane was annoyed by all the questions but he never showed his emotions on his face. After all, he needed her to do his bidding.
With a flick of his wrist, Lane conjured a purple fla above his palm.
"Unlike the normal flas, Primordial flas have a mind of their own. If the primordial flas deed you unworthy when you try to absorb them, you will be reduced to nothing but ashes" he threw the purple fire onto the broken table behind him. In re monts, the oak table turned into ashes as he said. Gaya was surprised by his theatrics as he had no need to turn the table into ashes.
"I assu you want to know who is the student you have to accompany"
Gaya nodded in curiosity. She derived a bunch of plans to get rid of the student and sneak Michael into the dungeon instead.
"The student has the id sixty-six, weirdly he chose to go by the na 'Ghost' in where he ca from"
Gaya received yet another shock from Professor Lane.
"He is an Alchemy student, probably a prodigy. He may have a chance to absorb the primordial fla without being obliterated by it"
She sensed no remorse or nothing at all in his voice. What if he was deed not unworthy by the flas which she didn't believe would be the case. If anyone was worthy of the primordial flas, it was him.
"I can get him in and if he survived the flas, I can get him outside"
"Great. Use this when you are within three feet of him. You will be teleported directly into the dungeon's entryway. He will have no choice but to see it till the end" he talked while walking towards the door to leave the room,
Just before stepping out of the room, he handed over a golden teleportation scroll to Gaya. He did not even bother to ask if she was going to agree or not as he knew she had no choice.
"What if that head prefect asshole tried to get fired again?"
"Next ti, not every professor will sign the petition"
By the ti his voice reached her ears, he already vanished into thin air.
Then she realized that if what he said was true, all the professors signed the petition including him. This ant he manipulated the entire scenario just to get her to agree to the task.
She even doubted he may have been the person who initiated the plan to get her fired in the first place. However, instead of punching sothing to vent her anger, she burst into laughter.
"Hahahahaha"
Professor Lane may have felt like the mastermind, but only she knew who was the real winner in the situation; Michael. Lady Luck was on his side, that Gaya knew for sure.
The only thing that bugged her was in less than a day, they had the ritual to put his soul back together. Although they were talking about the ritual and how to perform it, they had no idea how it was going to go. To be honest, she was worried sick but she didn't let Michael see her anxiety.
In the serenade of the black, the stars were a choir; they were lights that sing in infinite patterns. Sotis eyes needed music, and the darker the night the sweeter the song. Amid the starlight was the ever glow of the moon, that mother of the sky who watched over every beating heart, steady and true.
Despite her angelic moonlight that bathed the planet with sapphire light, the black forest remained dark. The thousands of years old tree-shaded the ground with their ever-expanding canopy, preventing any light from cutting through them.
Nothing was audible except for the sound of snoring in the distance. In the middle of a large glowing chakra stood Michael, Gaya, and Elidyr.
"The fire giant is still sleeping I guess," said Elidyr,
"When should we do this?" Nightmare flew back to Michael after surveying the surroundings.
"I just need your blood"
Michael walked towards Elidyr and took out a dagger from the system storage. The next mont, he cut open his palm as blood gushed out dripping onto the glowing chakra. When the blood touched the chakra, the glowing blue chakra turned crimson red.
"Step to the center and the ritual will begin" Elidyr's voice turned serious. The usual calmness in his voice was nowhere to be found. Gaya was slightly shaking seeing Michael taking steps towards the center of the chakra.
"Nightmare now. Lure the fire giant here" Elidyr ordered Nightmare. The dragon quickly nodded his head before flying in the direction of the fire giant as fast as he could.
Gaya threw the bait potion into the air which was caught by Nightmare in mid-air.
Boom!
When he flapped his wing, it produced a quiet booming sound. She had never seen Nightmare fly so fast. Everyone was nervous including Elidyr despite his calm deanor.
"Please co back to in one piece human" she whispered to him. She prayed to her mother with her hands against the chest.
Regardless of the situation, when he warmly smiled at her, she cald down.
"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
All of a sudden a thunderous roar echoed through the forest almost breaking their eardrums. The shout was soon followed by thunderous footsteps. The ground beneath them shook.
[Manual soul extraction is initiated…]
[Arch energy flow has been stopped…]
[Prepare to go through an extre amount of pain…]
[System offline in three…two…one]
"ARGHH!"
Michael's outcry in pain sent a chill through Gaya's spine. She dashed towards him in instinct to save him only to be stopped by Elidyr.
"The ritual must not stop"
Elidyr and Gaya saw the blood gushing out of Michael's nostrils and mouth as he collapsed onto his knees. He howled at the sky like a wolf in pain.
His soul was literally being stipped out of him. The pain he suffered could not be described in re words.
Everything in his being hurt. His head hurt, his chest hurt, his feet hurt, and every single fiber in his body scread in agony. The pain subsided at tis, only to flare up several tis more intense than before. He held his head tightly trying to fight through the pain. It was difficult to focus between the monts of pain and the voices telling him to stop what he was doing, but he pressed onward. But he felt sore all over, the ritual was taking its toll on his entire body more than he initially expected. However, his anger and pain in his heart offered him the strength to bear the pain.
His mind and body told him to give up but the anger of being abandoned and caged for sothing he never even did fueled his willpower to get through the ritual.
Gaya's worried look took a turn to worse when she witnessed a smokey figure erge from Michael. It was appearing and disappearing from his body as though it didn't want to leave his body.
The figure was screaming but she never heard the screams.
"The broken piece of the soul," Elidyr explained in utter shock. As a scholar specializing in souls, this was the first ti he had seen such a phenonon. Witnessing the power being radiated by the soul piece truly frightened him.
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