[Meanwhile]Eden was turning back to Heaven with a satisfactory smile on her face after finishing her job, and flew to Illias, before kneeling in front of her.
Eden: G.o.ddess Illias, I did as you said, I brought the human Marco here without being discovered from the other world, which, coincidentally, was almost alike to this.
Illias: Good job, Ede….
She didn"t finished her sentence when she glanced at the mirror which shown Marco, however she saw dark particles coming out from his chest, which took the shape of Alice.
Illias: ...Eden.
Eden: Yes, my G.o.ddess?
Illias: Were you really sure that you didn"t brought the Monster Lord too?
Eden: Yes, I saw it myself, the Monster Lord was not with the human.
Illias: ...Did you check the human too?
Eden: No, I was unable to do it because something blocked my senses.
Illias sighed, and moved the mirror so it could face Eden, and her eyes glanced upwards, towards the mirror, before her eyes widened in shock.
Eden: W-What?!
Illias: I asked you to not bring the Monster Lord… And you did the opposite…
Eden started to tremble in fear, but Illias spoke anyway.
Illias: However, because you brought Marco here and you were unable to check his body and soul, I will close an eye about this subject. But if an error like this is repeated and you don"t have a good excuse, I will punish you.
Eden: T-Thank you for your generosity, my G.o.ddess. I swear that something like this will not happen twice.
Illias: Mh, now you are free to go.
Eden nodded and flew away, meanwhile her face turned really scary.
Eden: "That d.a.m.n little… I swear if it wasn"t for my G.o.ddess, I would have killed him already."
[Back at the duo]
Marco and Alice were currently underwater again, this time there wasn"t any monster blocking their way and reached the temple, about the seal that Tamamo made for them, it was gone.
Marco: I hope I can easily pick the Orb…
Then they reached the center of the temple, which was exactly like the one at south, and in front of Marco there was a throne where the Northern Sea Queen is waiting.
The monster looked like something that came out from Lovecraft"s book, it was a huge monster the only human part visible were the chest, face, abdomen and v.a.g.i.n.a.
While the rest was like a giant red octopus with 3 pair of curved giant horns, under the human parts, there were a crab"s pincers and one of the tentacles was holding a golden big trident.
?: ...I am the ruler of these seas, Poseidoness. And you must be a thief who came for the orb?
Marco: *Sigh* It"s happening again… Isn"t it? "So she wants to test me…"
The real objective of Poseidoness was to test Marco to know if he was really worthy of the Silver Orb, and she immediately pointed the trident at him and thrusted forward.
Marco instantly used Chakra Gate and dodged the trident, it almost hit him, and he was sure that it would make a hole in his stomach, so he used Undine"s powers to sprint to the Poseidoness, he was ready to strike her, but some tentacles slapped him away at a high speed.
Marco crashed to the wall of the temple, but he immediately rocketed back at her by kicking the wall, this time she countered by bringing the trident against him, trying to slap him away, however, thanks to Sylph"s powers, he dodged the weapon and striked directly at the monster with a Lightning Sword Flash.
His hand pierced Poseidoness" body, however it didn"t do that much damage, so he put a foot over her body and pulled out the arm, then he jumped away, dodging a tentacle.
Marco developed 2 chakra arms and used them to block incoming tentacles, then a third chakra arm came out from his abdomen and extended towards Poseidoness, however, she raised her trident and bellowed.
Poseidoness: Feel my thunder!
And lightning came out from her trident, striking Marco"s chakra arm. The chakra arm got disintegrated and the lightning reached Marco, zapping him, however, his Enrikan Shirt deflected part of the attack, leaving Marco just paralyzed.
Marco: Tch… d.a.m.n Cthulhu wannabe…
Then Poseidoness" tentacles binded Marco"s body before he recovered, and started to enter in his clothes, one was dangerously too near to his a.s.s while another was stroking his p.e.n.i.s, making it hard.
Marco: F-f.u.c.k…
Marco took a deep breath and started to use Salamander"s powers in his body. Bubbles full of vapor came out from Marco"s body, and Poseidoness" tentacles started to get too hot to continue molesting Marco, and retreated back.
Marco"s body was free once again from lightning and tentacles, and then he used Salamander again…
*Ding*
*Semi-Berserk activated, physical limits broken.*
Marco"s body was dyed red due to the blood pumping at high speed, and he shot forward like a bullet, unlike before, he was too fast for the tentacles to reach him, and he headb.u.t.ted Poseidoness, even though she was really big, she flew against the wall.
However Poseidoness wasn"t the only one that got hurt, Marco was hurt too from hitting harder than he should, but the Semi-Berserk state negated the pain, and created a really pressurized water bubble under his feet, before shooting faster than before to the monster who was recovering.
Marco used Chain-Claw, and rotated towards Poseidoness, she dodged, but a big number of her tentacles and the wall behind here were gone, she lost too many tentacles to fight just like before, so she turned towards the hole in the wall, and opened her mouth.
However she couldn"t utter a word when Marco tackled her, and opened his palm to reveal a sun-like bijuudama, but before he could use his Fire Style: Bijuudama, he heard Poseidoness" words.
Poseidoness: I lost.
The palm with the bijuudama stopped some centimeters away from her face, and disappeared.
Marco: Give me the orb now, I am not in the mood to go Hippity Hoppity right now.
The fact that Illias didn"t hesitate to send Eden to his tracks scared a bit him, and being slapped from a vampire woman that declares herself his mother wasn"t something that would really help.
Poseidoness: ...Don"t worry, Marco. I already know why you came here and everything. The Queen of the Southern Sea already sent a message, here it is…
Then one of the remaining tentacles brought out the Silver Orb, and Marco took it, then he put it on his bag and let Poseidoness free.
Poseidoness: And Alipheese, it has been quite a while.
Alice came out from her hiding place and said with a poker face.
Alice: Hmph… Thank you for guarding these Northern Seas.
Poseidoness: Ah… Thank you for your kind words, Your Majesty.
Then she turned towards Marco and said while picking up her chopped off tentacles.
Poseidoness: Traveler Marco, I expect great things from you. I pray you bring some light to this world of strife. Never let that will of yours waver and stray from your path.
Marco just nodded, and deactivated Semi-Berserk, his body was aching everywhere but he gritted his teeth and didn"t screamed.
Marco: We will take our leave then…
Marco and Alice swam away while Poseidoness waved one of her tentacles, Alice noticed Marco"s slow movements and asked.
Alice: What"s the problem?
Marco: Nothing, just a price to pay… Let"s go.
Alice sighed, Marco is still trying to play the tough one. Soon, they left the sea without any encounter with an Eldritch monster or strange events.
Alice: Where do we go? At Sabasa?
Marco: ...No, we will investigate at Gold Port for the last Orb.
Alice shrugged and followed him back to Gold Port.
[SPECIAL QUESTS]
1st. Achieve coexistence between Monsters and Humans
2nd. Kill Illias
3rd. Return to Lucifina"s grave
4th. Visit every places in Illias Continent, Sentora and h.e.l.lgondo
5th. Turn back to Sabasa Kingdom
6th. Make Alice happy
7th. Rescue Sara, again…
8th. Tell the truth to Alice