Life Hunter

"I know all of that" Arima waved his hand "Don"t mind about that, just bring me the Dravinite you have" He said

After Arima asked, the dragon ultimately brought him a huge purple rock.

"That"s all the Dravinite we have" The T-Rex said

"Thanks, that"s enough" Arima took the rock in his storage and turned towards the creva.s.se

"What are you going to do?" The dragon asked

"I"m going to use the magma as a fire to reforge my soul weapon. The Dravinite has absorbing characteristics, it can absorb other metals and fuse with it to upgrade itself, I"m going to use all the metals I have with me and forcefully integrate them in the Dravinite and then reforge Karma. Of course, normally, I wouldn"t be able to mix that much metals, but if I use this magma then I think I can do it, it has some magic properties so it should work. Also, the main reason is that Karma is bounded to my soul and while it"s restoring itself, it"s in an ethereal state, which should be able to accept the new material" Arima explained "Basically, I will trigger a fusion between the multiple metals I have and use the magma to stabilize it and compress it in my soul. Ultimately, the most important thing in all of this is whether my soul can withstand the compression and fusion or not"

The two beasts more or less understood what Arima was going to do, they knew what was a soul binding and they were a bit surprised when they learned that Arima had succeeded in doing it but they only had one question for him about his plan "How?" They asked at the same time

Arima grinned, he released his aura "[Cutis Salamandra] (Salamander Skin)" He chanted, his skin became strangely hard and stony and the color turned into a dark red. Arima directly jumped in the creva.s.se, he used "Zeus" and became a bolt of lightning that flew to the bottom.

The two beasts were shocked as they looked at Arima falling down. The latter kept falling until he saw the hot magma rising, he accelerated and dived in. The moment, he dived into the lava, he became extremely slow and a wave of extreme heat a.s.saulted him. He pushed through the lava and continued to go deeper. He kept doing that for almost an hour, when he finally stopped. He judged he was around the bottom of the magma chamber.

He opened his eyes that looked like volcanic rocks, he waved his hand and started writing something with magic

"[Scriptura]"

"[Infragilis, Aeternus, Periculo, Ultrix, Protector] (Unbreakable, Eternal, Dangerous, Avenging, Protector)"

"[Coronam auream] (Golden Crown)"

He wrote and the words formed a hundred meters wide spherical golden barrier, the barrier had a strange ornament on top of it that looked like a crown. The barrier repulsed the lava and was now an empty spot in the magma. Soon after, a silver light appeared inside the sphere, next, Arima put the Dravinite in the barrier, the metal began to revolve around Karma like an electron. Arima didn"t stop there, he took out around ninety percent of all the metals he had in his storage, adamant.i.te, mithril, orichalc.u.m, he added all of these with a lot of different other types.

The several units of metal hovered around Karma and totally shrouded the silver light. At that moment, Arima began to work, he placed his hands on the sphere and closed his eyes.

Inside the barrier, Karma glowed and connected with the purple metal, the two began to glow together and fuse. After that, all of the other metals started to glow in different colors one after another. They all transformed in blocks of light that began to move towards Karma at the same time.

When around five different metals connected with Karma, the first rejection occurred and the sphere cracked. Arima glanced at the crack and instantly fixed it

"(I need to hold this barrier for five minutes)" Arima thought "(If I don"t, Karma will explode one more time along with all the metals here)" Arima smiled in the lava. There was actually something he didn"t tell to the dragon and the T-Rex

"(If I lose control over that barrier too early, then forget about destroying the region, it"s the whole continent that"s doomed)" He smiled wryly "(Well, I didn"t know I would do something like that before coming here, I should have brought Night)" He thought and then saw a crack forming and directly repaired it.

"(Well, that should give him some experience, he only fought Aria"s soul beast alone after all)" Arima brushed it off and concentrated on the barrier

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In the spirit realm. Night was nonchalantly sleeping when Vinia entered the room and told him that the human prince will come tomorrow.

Night yawned "I see, that"s good then, I"ll be able to take care of it faster than I thought" He said after waking up. Then he raised his ear and looked towards a certain direction "Arima is doing something interesting apparently" He mumbled

"Mh?" Lanya tilted her head when she heard Night"s mumble

"Ooh" And Lilis was delighted "What kind?" She asked

Night shook his head "I don"t know; I just know that Arima is really expectant of the result of what he is doing" He said

"Tch" Lilis clicked her tongue and then she thought of something "Why don"t you tell me where he is right now? I can go there directly" She said

"No. I"m sure Arima don"t want you to follow him everywhere" He refused and Lilis began to pout.

"Hum, Lilis, master, we can visit the spirit realm to pa.s.s time" Lanya proposed and Lilis smiled and directly agreed to it while Night tensed.

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"Do you think it"s going well?" The dragon asked to the T-Rex

"I don"t know, what he said, I don"t think it"s impossible but I"m sure it"s really hard" The dinosaur said "Maybe…Maybe he didn"t tell us the consequences if he failed!" He suddenly realized and shouted.

At that exact moment, the earth began to shake and an earthquake spread to the whole continent, followed by a strange aura.

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While she was calmly walking in the amus.e.m.e.nt park, Lilis felt the earthquake but what shocked her was the aura that followed just after.

She turned her head towards the beast territory "Impossible!" She shouted "It"s the aura of a transcendental weapon in its creation process!" A thought suddenly jolted her mind, she glanced at Night who was looking in the same direction as her "("An interesting thing"? Is it that man"s doing? Are you telling me that he has a soul strong enough to forge a transcendental weapon with only the materials of this world?)" She thought and her expression became stiff "(How much monstrous do you want to become before you"re satisfied?)"

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Arima had successfully hold for five minutes. When he released the barrier, Karma and all the metals became a strange gathering of different colors, the moment the magma touched it Arima directed forced it to accept it, at the same moment, Karma released a strange aura and the whole volcano began to shake.

The magma was being siphoned by the huge amalgam of metals and a huge spiral formed in the middle of the magma chamber.

Arima was already feeling a bit of exhaustion, he was currently doing his best to control the lava, he was directing it in sort that it would gradually heat and fuse with Karma. The huge metal block became red with the heat and its form started to change.

Everything was going well until the shaking of the volcano became too strong. Arima"s eyes narrowed. He urgently sent a message to the two beasts above.

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""I can do it but I need time, meanwhile, try to stop the excess of lava coming up"?" The T-Rex said the message out loud and looked at the dragon. The latter directly acted, he gathered his mana and spread it around the mountain

"What are you doing old geezer? Help me, you control the flow of mana while I use my magic!" The dragon shouted

The dinosaur sighed "Fine" He said and strange tentacles-like things sprout out from his body and connected to the dragon.

"[Grow for me]"

"[Become a wall protecting the world]"

"[Earth confinement]" The dragon chanted

Two huge walls of earth formed on each side of the creva.s.se which span around three thousand kilometers. The two walls rejoined together and confined the creva.s.se.

"I hope you can finish it quickly because I can only keep this thing up for a day" The dragon said at the moment the first explosive magma arrived

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Arima continued to refine Karma, but because he realized he wouldn"t be able to continue for long if he used his full power, he had to reduce the pace.

"(At this rate, I"ll finish it in half a day or so)" He thought.

After that point, it was just a matter of time. Arima kept refining Karma while the beasts kept the lava, that escaped to the surface, under control.

Like that, twelve hours pa.s.sed.

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The next day in the morning, it was time for the prince to arrive at the Spirit realm. Although everyone was sensing the shaking from the beast territory, it kept doing the same for half a day already, and it was also becoming weaker over time so people already got used to it and expected it to be over soon.

So, it didn"t stop the prince from coming to the Spirit realm to see Vinia. The prince arrived in front of the huge dome with a huge escort, at least a hundred soldiers with each one them being at the fifth level at least.

Vinia had opened a huge path to the inside of the territory and was waiting for the prince to arrive. When the latter stepped down from a carriage, Vinia directly walked to him

"Welcome, Prince Drannoc" She smiled sweetly and said, her expression didn"t reveal anything strange

The prince laughed narcissistically "I"m here, did you finally decided to be mine?" He said

Vinia smiled "I wanted to talk to your majesty about that, why don"t you come in?" She said

The prince nodded "Sure" He said and waved towards his escort. He told them to stay here and a beautiful woman wearing a dark dress and a cold expression came to stay by his side "She will stay with me; I"m sure you understand" Drannoc said and pointed towards the woman beside him

"Yes" Vinia nodded and began to lead the prince into the dome. Like with Arima, they first walked for a moment on a stone paver in a flower field before reaching the town. They went directly to the "castle". They pa.s.sed by the park and entered the mansion. Vinia brought the prince to the exact same room Arima was left waiting last time.

When the prince and her guard entered the room, the latter immediately reacted "Your Majesty, please stand back" She said and locked her eyes onto Night laying on the couch.

"What"s wrong Fayla? It"s just a sixth level beast" The prince frowned in displeasure and said

"No, it"s not just a beast" The bodyguard, Fayla, said

Night jumped from the couch and stood up in front of them "[Altera rationem terram]" He chanted. The s.p.a.ce distorted and Vinia vanished from the room.

"What just happened?" The prince looked around and said while Fayla"s eyes widened

Night began to change. In just a few seconds a jet black and red dragon was already standing in front of them, smirking. The ceiling was destroyed because of his height, he waved his tail and all furniture inside the room fell apart.

"Now…"

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At the same time, Arima grinned and observed a giant sword made of magma in front of him.

"Well…"

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"It"s time to begin" "It"s time to begin"