"Damien, wait here. They must be holding her sowhere inside that hellhole, and the true perpetrator must be with her," Akira said as she and Damien stood in the midst of a couple of dead Daemon corpses. Both of them were standing in a ravine surrounded by cliffs and dead forests with thick black clouds looming over them.
Any normal person would feel spooked by standing in this place.
However, Damien felt blown away by how insane Akira's powers were to the point he was enamored by the way she used her lightning.
The mont they landed here, they got ambushed by a bunch of Daemons. Akira got rid of them before any one of them could even get near him.
But what Damien noticed was that these Daemons seed weaker when he was able to sense their cultivations. All of them were in the Profound Ethereal Realm, unlike the first Daemon he t.
This is why he felt that Akira was right. The one who really kidnapped her disciple must be the strongest one and must be hiding sowhere.
But who would dare to kidnap her disciple? Was it because they didn't recognize who the disciple really was?
"Let co with you. We ca this far anyway, right?" Damien didn't want to stay here alone and felt he could be of so help to her.
Akira shook her head as she said, "It might not be safe ahead, and I won't be able to focus if I have to be worried about you."
Damien nodded with a sigh, feeling she had a point. He would have also said the sa thing in her shoes.
"I can't sense anybody nearby, so you should be safe. But if sothing unexpected happens, fly away without any thought. Or break this stone, and I will know if you need help," Akira handed over a black oval stone to Damien as he curiously looked at it, and before he knew it, Akira had already disappeared.
Still, Damien felt sothing was off about this entire situation and decided to simply check the mories of one of the dead Daemons.
"Master, are you feeling that sothing is off?" Kalypso asked as she sensed the doubt in Damien's mind.
"My aunt is a powerful woman, and she is surely famous enough for even these dirtbags to know about her. So how co they don't know who her disciple is. I find it hard to believe these monsters with brains would unknowingly kidnap the disciple of a powerful warlord," Damien mused.
"Then Master, you should quickly use your Shackles of Death technique on any one of these Daemons to look through their mories. Maybe you might learn sothing," Kalypso hastily suggested as Luna opened one of her eyes, wondering what this pipsqueak was talking about.
"What? I would still have to sacrifice my soul essence to raise one of them, and honestly, I am waiting to find a worthy servant. These ones are no good," Damien said with a strong head shake.
"No, no. No need to sacrifice anything, nor do you have to turn any of them into an undead. You just have to use your soul energy to scour through their mories. They are born from nethereal energy, which allows you to tap into their mories even after they die, unlike those who are born from ethereal energy. So do it quickly, Master, before their soul completely leaves their bodies," Kalypso said in a hurried tone.
"What this little spirit said makes sense. You have to try," Luna chid in as she curiously looked on, wondering if it was really possible.
Damien didn't waste any mont as he quickly placed his hand on the head of one of the Daemons and closed his eyes. He focused as his soul energy seeped into the Daemon's dead mind.
Damien hoped they weren't intelligent enough to use so self-destruction techniques to wipe their mories after dying, not that most would do sothing like that.
His brows furrowed as he looked through the mories of this dead Daemon. It just took a few seconds, and he quickly moved on to the next dead one without saying anything.
But he clicked his tongue as he realized that it was too late and all the mories were gone by now.
"What did you see, Master?" Kalypso asked.
Damien pointed at the crowded dead forest ahead of him and said, "My aunt went in that direction, and as she said, so Daemons might still be there, but her disciple is not there. She is being held in so other place, though I couldn't recognize which place it was. All I could get was fragnts."
Luna scoffed and asked, "Then how do you know the place your aunt flew to wasn't the sa one you saw?"
"The surroundings just seed a bit different. But to make sure, let spread my senses and see if I see anything similar," Damien spread his soul perception as it spread over 10 ters, 50 ters, 250 ters, 500 ters, and 1000 ters and stopped when he saw sothing that piqued his interest.
"I think I found sothing," Damien said as he took off and flew in the other direction.
"Hey, wait. You should break that stone and let your aunt know about this. Isn't that what she told you? Do you really want to rush head-on into monsters that wouldn't think twice before eating your flesh?" Luna said, seeing him take off on his own. She still felt disgusted about these man-eating monsters. As a goddess, she never got shocked by anything.
But so far, what surprised her the most was the fact that Damien was half-ghoul…a race that preyed on living beings of her universe. She just didn't know what to feel about it.
Damien had no idea about her complicated thoughts since she never expressed them, but he could feel that she felt more distrustful of the people around him, including his own aunt.
"I can't bother my aunt without making sure I got the right place. Besides, the Daemons my aunt killed earlier were not strong enough to be a danger to . I will just scout the place and get out in case there is a danger I can't overco," Damien said just to reassure Luna while Kalypso prid herself to be ready for a battle at any ti.
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