Chapter 232: Forward, Where We Move |
The overtaking of several kingdoms has been smooth sailing so I don't need to do anything to help them. I'll just leave it up to them.
Since I have nothing to do, I guess I can study more about the demon spells that we found in hell. Decoding it with Universal Language is pretty... difficult. Its like I'm a guy who knows all languages but doesn't understand math equations. Math is a language but its something very different because of the complicated things behind it.
And I'm trying to decode the books that Lagrima himself couldn't even discover. "Well, I was just fooling around most of the time!"
I'm about to give up since the complexity of these books are something out of my league. So I had an idea that Lagrima was hesitant on. But I don't really care anymore since we just need to upgrade our firepower even more.
I'd give away all the skill secrets of hell to... Yurid.
Seeing how intelligent she is, I'm pretty sure that she'll be able to decode those books. So that's why I called her over. And she's up for the challenge it seems.
I brought out my Demon Sword Acabar, "Rift Open." And opened up a portal straight to hell. I dragged her in with me and she took a good look taking everything in.
She let out a sigh and we went on our way to the castle.
The towering monsters just walking around the depths of hell, hordes of imps flying all around, thousands of demons just walking and flying in a single direction.
"They're going to play around or something. In short, they're gonna cause another havoc at another place. Its our new way to expand and grow fast." I answered.
We walked until we finally got to the Demon King's Castle. Well, my castle. Everytime I just look at it, its just incredibly cool.
And it seems that Yurid thinks the same too. "It really reeks of, 'I'm evil come to me muahahaha!"
I just looked at her weirdly with that weird laugh.
She couldn't take the embarrassment, "Just say something damn it!"
We went in the castle and we were immediately greeted by the succubus neatly lined up on opposite sides of the path to the throne. I told Lagrima to just remove them but he doesn't want to so I just let them there.
Yurid had a smirk on her face. I was worried but she didn't say anything. But I could hear her laughing.
I wanted to ask her what was that about but somehow I don't want to know.
We went in the library inside of the Demon King's Castle and I've never seen Yurid's eyes light up so much. "I don't know anything about these books... none at all."
"And you're happy about that?" I asked.
"Can't you see? I've read about a million books by now and the knowledge I gathered surpassed everything that you know. I know every language without your skill, I have knowledge against all curses and poisons and their antidote counterparts. Right now I can boast about being the smartest of them all. But in this single place, after thousands or maybe a million books I've read, I've never heard any of these books in all my life." Yurid then ran up to one of the books and opened it for her to read. "A language that I don't know... HAHAHA!"
I didn't know what to do or say in this situation since she's already incredibly invested in the books. I just left her there and while I was going out, I heard that menacing laughter from her. "Nope. Rift Open." I returned back to the overworld and I'll just fetch her tomorrow or a week from now.
Since that's done, I can just leave it up to her to memorize everything that was there.
And I've got nothing else to do.
But I want to do something alone. I need to gauge up how powerful I am. But before I do that, I'll need to take some preparations.
I told Lam that whoever asks for me, to tell them that I was just hunting some artifact dungeons and so on.
All the gold in my inventory and everything in my inventory except for my familiars, I gave it to Lam. I also brought myself a petal of the Flower of Zeratria just in case.
Since that's done, I don't have anything to worry about anymore.
I did once and I'll try to do it again. Since I finished the first floor of the Tower of Babel, I want to check it out. The first floor of Tartarus.
So I opened up a portal in front of the Tartarus and stepped in and saw the towering giant of this tower surrounded by flesh and tentacles wrapping around to the top.
Without hesitation, I walked up in front of the doors of Tartarus and opened it. The whole place was dark so I took a step forward... and fell.
"Demon Form!" I changed into demon form and tried to fly. But I just noticed, I didn't fell down. I'm being dragged down. I couldn't fly or anything. So I just closed my eyes and let wherever I'm being pulled into.
A few seconds, later, I was then dragged into a place where darkness surrounded the entire place. And the only light source was the burning door behind that monster shadowed by the light behind it.
"Perfect Vision." Using this skill, I can see in the dark and fixes my eyes to be the perfect eyes for a human. I can see like the whole place is lit up. And when I saw the monster, I took a step back.
A three headed monster with the body and face of a dog. Leashed by the chains that was binding him and the door. Its loud roar echoed throughout the entire place. They began to bark and move around trying to get out of the bindings they were in.
A system message then appeared in front of me,
[Tartarus Floor 1: Cerberus, The Gatekeeper of the Underworld]
[Tartarus is a tower made to challenge high leveled players and parties to cooperate to increase their fighting power. Tartarus grows stronger every battle royale as leveling gets easier every cycle. Tartarus has been in Pandir for about 21 Battle Royales. Hasn't been completed by anyone.]
[Tartarus Floor 1: Cerberus, The Gatekeeper of the Underworld, Quest Details Floor Details and Rewards]
[Quest Details]
Defeat Cerberus.
[Floor Details]
Floor Size: INFINITE
Number of Enemies: ONE
Number of Bosses: ONE
[Rewards]
[Tartarus' Key]
A one way key out of the Tartarus. Can be found in Floor 1, Floor 10 and every 10 more consecutive levels after that.
[Triple Synergy]
Able to use up to three spells at the same time with three different elements. The weakness of elements such as fire and water will be ignored while using this skill and will allow the two elements to join together to form a new skill.
[Cerberus' Leash]
A broken leash marks the chaos that will usurp on the world.
Same system message as the one in the Tower of Babel with twisted words and a skill called Triple Synergy that I'd love to get.
I looked at the Cerberus and it began to bark at me, jumping and doing anything it can to break free.
I walked closer and drew out, "Come, Demon Sword Acabar!" I want to end this quickly. And I won't hold back. "Gauntlets of Instability, Boots of the Trickster, Seal of Armor, Berserker Helm, Pants of Eternity." I held my sword up high and aimed it at the Cerberus' head.
I don't want to fight this. I just need to prove to myself that I can do this. Alone. And I'll do everything I can to win. "Uncontrollable Power!" Just as I said that, my hand began to shake and aiming became difficult.
Uncontrollable Power is a skill that allows me to gain strength farther than I could handle. If I could feel pain, I would've probably dropped my weapon right here and just feel the agony in my arms.
Its a skill to destroy your own body to gain destructive power. And I'm willing to take that risk.
Before I attack, I ran away from the Cerberus about several kilometers away. I then ran back to Cerberus and using the momentum, the buffs in my arsenal, I can go all out. "MILLION SHOT!" I threw the sword out of my hands with everything I've got and when I threw it, I was knocked so far because of the shockwave that it caused.
The sword hit the barrier around Cerberus' body but it easily pierced through that and ran straight through its head to the point that only the hilt of my sword.
I walked over to see if it was really dead. But the moment that I got closer, the Cerberus began to move and the Demon Sword Acabar fell of of its head.
[Phase 1 Complete.]