Otherworld Adventure

The marsh waters began to drain and dry up, but what"s peculiar was that it didn"t seep into the ground, but rather it was gathering towards where the tree dome was at, the first place that Cecil arrived upon entering the extra trial.

"Dark Wood Elves...I didn"t know they were an elven species. The books at the library didn"t note down any information about them..."

GROOOOOAAAARRRR

Once the area was completely devoid of all trees and water, a loud angry roar sounded from where the tree dome was at.

The roar had even caused a shockwave and when it hit Cecil"s body he couldn"t help but grimace and puke out some blood.

"s.h.i.t!"

Cecil wiped his mouth and began regulating his mana flow and his breathing. The shockwave had attacked his internals and he felt disorientated.

If he knew that was coming he would have prepared a barrier, but the surrounding were now pitch dark with only his small mana bolts illuminating his surroundings.

He had 10 mana bolts flying in his surroundings, but they had winked out of existence when he was attacked by the shock wave.

After he quickly checked and readjusted his condition, Cecil conjured 10 more mana bolts and had them float around in the air.

After the roar, nothing else happened. It was dark and Cecil couldn"t see anything beyond the light that his mana bolts provided for him.

"Where is this King?"

Cecil"s Mana Sense quickly picked up on something and he paled in fright. He turned his sights up above him and sent a couple of mana bolts into the air.

Up in the air he could see vines and tentacles waving about and he nearly cried out in shock when he saw the cold, deathly glare that an elf monster was giving him.

The black, hollow eyes that screamed "death to all who oppose me", the creepy and dark atmosphere plus the disgusting tentacles swirling and twirling in the air made Cecil just want to give up on the trial.

"...this is gonna give me nightmares..."

Cecil readied himself. He activated Mana Burst and he didn"t hesitate in channeling as much mana as he could into his skill.

The mana that emanated from the monster in front of him was enormous. It far surpa.s.sed any S or SS ranked monster he has ever encountered.

"Could this be the rumored SSS cla.s.s monster?"

Cecil"s Mana Burst illuminated the surroundings and his mana"s light shone on the Corrupted Dark Wood Elf King. Luckily for Cecil, just like the name of the monster, it was a KING, which means it was a male.

"At least I won"t have to look at two towering mountains! A flat plain is much better!"

Cecil grinned and he wrapped his aura around his sword.

"ASCENDING BLADE!!!"

His shout marked the beginning of the fight. The sword beam smashed right into the Elf King"s body and it shrieked in pain.

"Hahahaha! Come!!!"

Cecil sent more Ascending Blades smashing onto its body. He kept his Mana Eyes active and tried to look for the monster"s core. He a.s.sumed that it would similarly have a core like the other monsters, but what he saw made him frown.

The entire monster"s body was emanating the same amount of mana levels and not one place stood out from the rest.

"Could this be a normal monster?"

Cecil used Blink and arrived right next to the monsters head. He slashed down furiously at its neck and he severed its head off.

He landed back down on the ground, but the monsters vines and tentacles began to rampage around in the air. Cecil moved and dodged the thorns, acid and tentacles that were sent his way.

"Ugh..."

The acid that was spat at him from the tentacles that had mouth-like openings began to corrode the ground.

When Cecil continued to dodge the monster"s attack, he noticed that from the stump of the monster"s neck, tentacles had sprouted and was reaching down to its severed head.

"Blegghh... not again."

Just like from his first fight with the Corrupted Dark Wood Elf in the first pathway, it connected its head back to its body. Then it opened its mouth and roared.

"!"

Cecil widened his eyes and quickly put up a barrier around him.

"HAH!"

PING PPING PING PPING

Another shockwave smashed into his barrier and immediately broke it apart.

"s.h.i.t! That"s strong!"

Cecil sent more long ranged attacks at the monster. No matter how hard he tried to close the distance, the numerous tentacles in the air would always obstruct his way forward.

He used Blink multiple times and tried everything. Cutting up the main body, slicing and dicing it, disintegrating the body with a Flash Canon, everything!

But all he got was the disgusting visual of the Dark Wood Elf King"s Body regenerating again and again. Then it was accompanied by a subsequent roar and shockwave.

"Tsk...how do I kill this thing?!" Cecil exasperatedly yelled.

The monster roared once again and sent more and more tentacles along with spells and skills his way. Cecil did his best and kept on dodging and evading all the attacks.

"This is going nowhere!"

He was vexed. No matter what he tried, he couldn"t kill the monster. There wasn"t even a clue. He had his Mana Eyes active the entire time, but he still couldn"t find anything that resembled a core.

"...don"t tell me I have to obliterate the entire body?"

The entire body meant the vines and tentacles that were connected to it. Cecil grimaced and checked the amount of mana he had left.

"...it should barely be enough for an Over Flash...but..."

Cecil was worried. If he used Over Flash now, his remaining mana would completely zero out and he might fall into madness.

His Zero Mana state was much different than his friends. When they zeroed out their mana they would only fall into a state of exhaustion, but him...he would fall into depravity and might even lose his mind from the dangerous state of having no mana present in his body.

"I"ll drag things out...gather my mana first and fire off an Over Flash after I"m safe enough to use it."

Cecil made up his mind and began to fight pa.s.sively, not sending any big skills flying at the monster. He conserved his mana and began recharging his depleted mana as the fight continued to drag on.

******

While Cecil was underground in the first extra trial, Lucia"s group was making their way over to the second trial"s location.

When they pa.s.sed through the northern gate, a mist began to flow from the depths of the forest and it covered everyone.

"Guys! Stick together!" Lucia shouted.

The Little Kings immediately grouped up together and tightened their formation. Serilla was with the Student Council and when they saw Lucia"s group quickly move together everyone around them followed suit.

It was unfortunate however that despite being within arm"s reach of each other, when Lucia turned around to grab onto any one of them, her hands pa.s.sed through and her friends dissipated into mist.

"G-guys?!"

Lucia panicked. She quickly activated her pseudo mana vision and noticed that the fog was emanating mana.

"It"s not normal fog!"
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Lucia began to circulate her mana and she activated her Elemental Burst. A crimson aura rose from her body, it formed a barrier around her body and repelled the fog from getting close to her.

Since she had lost sight of her friends, Lucia decided to just keep walking forward slowly. It was relatively...peaceful.

No monsters showed up even after she had kept walking forward for over 30 minutes.

"Hmmm... could I be inside an illusion?"

Lucia was skeptical, there"s no way the trial would be this...un-suspenseful. The first trial required them to kill monsters, but now all they had to do was walk through the fog? Wasn"t this too easy?

Not long after, Lucia arrived at a... house. It was a little weird looking, but if Cecil saw it, he would immediately think that it was a house from modern Earth. She was just about to step forward, but the door of the house quickly opened.

From the house a young, handsome black haired foxkin man walked out and noticed Lucia standing there. He turned his eyes over and gently smiled.

"What"re you doing, Lulu? Come in, you must be tired."

"Huh?"

Having her name called out so familiarly, Lucia blanked out for a moment. The man had very similar facial features to Cecil. He was much taller and more mature, but his voice was a little familiar.

"Is that...the adult Cel?"

Such were Lucia"s thoughts when she looked at the handsome young man walking over to her. When the adult Cecil came over, he immediately stretched his arm over to her shoulder in an intimate fashion and pulled her next to him.

"Let"s go?"

"Uh..."

The adult Cecil chuckled and pulled her into the house. When Lucia pa.s.sed through the unfamiliar house, there was a mirror just next to the door. When she looked over, she couldn"t help but notice that she too, had turned into an adult.

A beautiful and young foxkin woman was staring back at her. She had beautiful, silky silver hair that reached her ankles. There were also 9 fox tails peeking out from under her deluge of silver hair. The young woman had a voluptuous body, but Lucia couldn"t help notice that her belly was bulging a little.

Standing next to her with the handsome young man, the two couple looked very well matched.

"How"s the baby? You just got back from the doctor"s right? I"m sorry I couldn"t accompany you. Eli needed help with a monster problem the Kingdom was facing."

"Huh?! B-baby?!"

"Hm?"

"Ehhh...uhhh??"

Lucia was immediately fl.u.s.tered when she heard the word "baby". She looked down onto her bulging belly and an unknown feeling of happiness began to well up in her.

"This is...Cel and mine"s...baby?"

Lucia began to smile happily. She noticed someone getting closer to her. When she opened her eyes, the adult Cecil"s face was slowly closing in on hers.

"C-Cel"s about to kiss me!!!"

She couldn"t help but grow extremely happy at this. Finally, the stupid idiot was taking the initiative!