Chapter 34 – Chalice Of Healing

Important things:

[Fragment Realm]

Elite at lv.30, Transient – lv75 and Human God – lv 120

[Mystical Realm]

Justicar – Lv. 170, Vizier – Lv. 250 and Alpha – Lv. 310

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As they ascended the staircase at a steady pace, the thick stench of blood permeated around them, Emelia and the male expert grew nauseous but still continued. Entering the room, they viewed pool large in diameter at the center, blood bubbled within. A bewitching woman had half of her body submerged in the blood; her eyes were completely black like an endless void.

As Emelia and the male expert stared at the lady, they feel into a daze wrapped in illusions. Exiting the pool, the blood in the pool materialized into a robe covering her. She stared at Lucifer slightly startled as he was not affected by her ability but her lips moved to form a charismatic smile.

“Do you too seek the elixir of this tower?” she spoke with her ensnaring tone

The pool bubbled while disfigured nude bodies of young men crawled out; their bodies were wretched and their gazes soulless, they had completely lost their sanity, saliva dripped from the corners of their mouths.

“Would you like to join them, because you would make a fun plaything?” she spoke captivatingly

Lucifer calmly watched her trying to judge her rank, the pool bubbled once again and a green serpent slithered out; coiling around the lady, it hissed causing the walls of the tower to reverberate. The soulless young men headed towards the lady; materializing her whip she lashed at them, swiping of pieces of their flesh which were bone deep, the coiled serpent ate those chunks.

Judging by her aura; the lady was at the middle stages of the Vizier rank. With a large boom, the snake ejected, rushing at Lucifer with an extraordinary speed disproportionate with its huge body. The pool of blood was manipulated into forming small serpents, as they rushed at

Lucifer he could feel the toxic venom in their bodies.

The huge serpent`s fang stabbed into Lucifer`s arm; invading him a large amount of poison. The lady had a confident smile as she saw him getting injected with the poison. They venom flooded his body decomposing his veins from within as it came into contact with the black ooze; it was rapidly absorbed into it, giving Lucifer immunity to the venom.

Lucifer grabbed onto the serpent`s fang, breaking it off. He stabbed it into it eyeballs repeatedly, the serpent writhed in pain as it body was stabbed by its fang. The lady gaped because the venom was toxic enough to kill anyone below the Alpha rank on the spot.

The serpent`s carcass was tossed aside at that moment the lady gave off a high pitched scream as her skin corroded off. Her previous bewitching look was reduced to that of a walking corpse. The serpents that were heading towards Lucifer changed their direction rushing towards her

The invaded her body; her eye sockets gained a green flame, her bones creaked as the green flames shrouded her body. The young men beside were charred from being in close contact with her. The flames entirely ate at their bodies leaving not even leaving ashes behind.

“Look what you have done to me!” the lady raised her corpse like hands touching her face. The serpent was part of her life-force she had manifested.

The intensity of the scorching flames caused the temperature to rise, Emelia and the male expert woke from their daze, Clarice was unconscious at the side of the room. Emelia quickly released her ice essence but against the middle staged Vizier rank she was completely suppressed due to the discrepancy between their ranks.

The greens flames leapt from the ladies body, shooting towards the serpent`s carcass as her life-force was further divided into the it. The wounds healed on the serpent and it too was bathed in those green flames; slithering back to the lady it revolved around her, the lady`s aura quickly elevated to the peak stages of the Vizier rank.

The pressure released by her caused Emelia and the male expert to slam against the ground and they could hardly stand. The lady and the serpent blazed at Lucifer causing the air to split apart because of their speed, the air vibrated as they further increased their speed arriving before Lucifer in a matter of seconds.

The serpent opened his mouth, spitting out a sphere of blazing venom, the lady unleashed her claw like hands suffused in green flames. Lucifer faced their assault, his gaze placid; a thick burst of blood thirst was released from his body and the Chaotic essence from his essence fragment enveloped him.

Emelia and the male expert felt terror as the chaotic essence wrapped Lucifer, the lady and the serpent hesitated slightly by the release of his pressure, giving him enough time to evoke his daggers. Slashing the blades, he burst out dual waves of chaotic essence at the serpent and the lady. The specks of chaotic essence disintegrated their bodies which ever part they got in contact with.

The lady`s wretched body split into half while the serpent had an incision that corroded into its skull eating away at the serpents brain matter.

The green flames instantly died down after the death of their user and the chaotic essence and blood thirst seeped back into Lucifer`s body.

However, the male expert and Emelia where frightened by the tyrannical presence he revealed at that instance.

“Let`s go” Lucifer spoke sharply

Lifting up Clarice he poured some mana into her to wake her up, as she jolted up right. Clarice looked around, appearing a little light headed.

Lucifer headed towards the next floor. Emelia was bewildered by his abilities, but she strangely felt drawn to him even more. She and Clarice quickly hurried after him while the male expert took some time to regain his thoughts.

The next floor contained no staircase but two statues holding up a chalice at the center. The chalice was filled to the brim, with a silvery liquid which emanated life essence.

As the male expert saw the chalice, his expression turned jubilant; taking out a flask he rushed at the altar. Submerging the flask into the chalice he collected the silvery liquid. All the while, Lucifer scanned the room, what attracted him was not the Chalice, but another type of energy he felt in the room.

Walking behind the altar, a door with various runes was displayed as he swiped his hands over the door. He felt his mana being sucked into the runes activating them and his consciousness was dragged into a different place. A figure materialized before him, a woman with a veil covering her entire appeared before him. A miasma of despair erupted from her body and a deadly aura was released simultaneously.

“Envy” Lucifer muttered

Envy moved towards him, her ice cold hand was placed against his chest and an otherworldly energy rushed into his body inspecting him thoroughly

“Lucifer” Envy seemed quite happy from her tone

“What are you doing here Envy?” Lucifer asked

“The door you used is a temporary gateway into my realm which I created long back; I was quite surprised someone of that plane managed to unlock it, so it was you….huh”

“Where are the other gateways?” Lucifer questioned

“In the other realms, what is that thing inside you?” Envy voice turned serious, as she met Tetra, the colossal presence caused her powers to be suppressed instantly.

“Something I am stuck with” he sighed

“Anyway our time is limited, looking at your vessel it can handle a tiny proportion of my energy” Envy extended her hand, a snake extended from her hand biting into his hand it then vanished into his body as green specks of light.

“You know what to do” Envies voice slowly faded before he appeared back into the tower.

Checking his hand he saw the marking of a serpent covering his entire right arm, the tattooed serpent was constantly moving across his arm.

Covering his arm with his long sleeves he moved towards Clarice and Emelia.

“Drink from the chalice” Lucifer spoke, he could feel the rich liquefied mana in the chalice and it would be highly beneficial to them.

As Clarice and Emelia drank from the chalice their mana started to rise, they broke through their Transient rank bottleneck stepping into the God rank they then kept on drinking until their progress stopped at the God rank peak stages. They could feel that they would no longer progress until they stepped into the Mystical realm.

It has to be known Lucifer is an irregular to reach the Vizier rank in the fragment realm, the Wyvern`s he had fought had descended from the mystical realm after they had reached that rank with an artifact as it was completely impossible to move between realms until you reached the divine realm.

The silvery liquid abruptly healed the wounds they had sustained, leaving not a scar, it had extraordinary healing properties. Lucifer gazed at the male expert “No wonder, they came here”.

They exited the tower without a hitch and slowly made their way to the rune circle which they had entered from.

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