2281 Yisha Levels Up
The hell blood pulse blended into Yishaâs body. Suddenly, a plume of purple air burst out of Yisha. It solidified into a purple substance chain and wrapped around her, loop upon loop.
Everything she hadâher clothes, her accessories, her armor, and all sorts of other thingsâdisintegrated into nothing but dust under the power of that substance chain. As the chain surrounded her, Yisha curled her long body into a ball, like a fetus in the womb.
Once Yisha was safely encased within the purple cocoon, all became quiet.
...
In a giant palace, Fox Queen, Mister White, and Crime were traveling forward. Fox Queen suddenly stopped. She looked around her and said, âMister White, is this the correct path? Why have we been walking for so long, and yet we are still in the same palace?â
Mister White slowly said, âThis must be the fourth checkpoint for the treasure. We have to travel through here to get to where the treasure is.â
âHow do we get through here, then?â Fox Queen asked Mister White.
âThis palace seems to have a space power restriction. My powers are weak here, and so I am afraid I might not be able to break the restriction. Perhaps this is something you will have to do,â Mister White said after a think.
âAnd how would I do something like that?â Fox Queen asked with a frown.
âJudging from the calculations I have made, we can start right there.â Mister White pointed at a stone pillar as he spoke.
Fox Queen looked at the stone pillar and groaned. She didnât move.
...
Han Sen stared at Yisha with a look of surprise. The whole process had gone far better than he expected.
The hell blood pulse activated the Hell King blood she had inside her body. They fused with Yishaâs already considerable strength. She had broken through and become deified with no trouble at all.
When she emerged from her cocoon and ascended, Yisha was wearing a set of purple armor. Her regal presence blanketed everything around them as if she was the queen of the entire universe.
âIf you dare to tell anyone about what just happened, I will kill you.â Yisha stared daggers at Han Sen as she spoke.
âMy Queen, I didnât see anything.â Han Sen blinked innocently. But deep inside, he was thinking to himself, âWomen are weird. Moments ago, she was begging to be deified. And now, after becoming deified, she still isnât happy! Does she really care about a small and inconsequential detail like being naked? Her naked body is quite nice. Why is she so upset?â
Yisha only stared at Han Sen in response. She turned silently and looked to the thirteen teleporters. Then, she said, âWhich teleporter do you think we should use?â
Clearly, Yisha wasnât very good when it came to this sort of maze. It seemed as if she had forced her way through the palaces by trial and error.
âIâm not very good at figuring out the path, either. If I was to guess, though, I would assume they went through the teleporter at the end of the life and death cycle bridge. But even if we select the right one this time, we wonât know where to go next. Weâd have to try every single one we come to.â Han Sen stopped to think for a moment, and then resumed talking. âMy Queen, how did you come this far in the first place?â
Yisha thought and said, âI was with the Ice Blue Knights. While I was exploring a planet with a group of knights, we accidentally woke up a deified xenogeneic called Under Overbearing. I was swallowed by it.â
âAt first, I thought I was dead. I had been swallowed, and I knew that its stomach could digest anything. Even deified creatures would melt in there. Just when I lost all hope, I found a seam that allowed me to escape the stomach. I wiggled through the crack and got out. After traversing many caves and passing by a shattered statue, I ended up entering a palace. It must have been one of the palaces on Under Overbearingâs back.â
âWait a minute, are you saying that you arenât the one who destroyed the floor in one of the palaces? And you didnât break the Sacred Leader statue?â Han Sen asked Yisha with shock.
âOf course not! My power wasnât strong enough to destroy anything in the palace,â Yisha said.
âIf you didnât break the palace, then that means someone else entered the palaces before you did. That crack in Under Overbearing stomach might have also been his work,â Han Sen mused quietly.
Yisha nodded. âIt is certainly possible, and he might indeed be around here someplace.â
âWhat makes you think that?â Han Sen asked curiously.
âThe crack in the Under Overbearingâs stomach couldnât have been there for very long. With how quickly the beast heals, the wound must have been made less than a week before. After a week, the damaged stomach would have healed completely,â Yisha said slowly.
Han Sen frowned. âThen he might really still be in these palaces. But how could he leave no trace in the palace? If he was here, he would have left behind some indication of his presence. But aside from that one ruined palace, the rest of the trail was left by you, yes?â
Yisha nodded and said, âYes. And while I was exploring, I didnât see any sign of someone else having entered.â
âPlus, he broke the statue, but he didnât take the bone needle inside. Thatâs just weird. Was he too careless to find out what it harbored? But then again, how could such a powerful elite be that careless? It doesnât really make any sense,â Han Sen said.
Yisha sighed. âMaybe he just doesnât care about the items in this place?â
Han Sen was stunned by the suggestion, but as he considered the idea, it made sense. âThat might indeed be possible! He must be a very powerful person to create a hole in Under Overbearingâs stomach. Maybe his real target is the final treasure of the Sacred Leader. If that is the case, then that doesnât bode well for us.â
Han Sen walked across the bridge of life and death. They arrived at the door of light and walked on through.
The teleporter deposited them into a palace, the same as usual. There was a main hall, two side halls, and a hall in the back. All in all, there were four different teleporters.
Han Sen looked around and spoke to Yisha. âI think they left via the back hall.â
âHow do you know that?â Yisha asked in surprise.
âI can see the auras left behind by their bodies,â Han Sen explained simply. He was suspicious too, though.
The more powerful a person was, the less of a trail they would leave behind. And that trail didnât last forever. Mister White and the others had been gone for a long time by this point. Under ordinary circumstances, it should have been hard for Han Sen to detect the trace elements they had left behind.
In fact, Han Sen didnât see any traces of Fox Queen or Crime. But he could see molecules that Mister White had left lingering in the air. That didnât seem normal.
âPerhaps Mister White made his trail visible on purpose?â Han Sen guessed to himself. âBut how could he know that Yisha and I would survive? Why is he leaving me clues? Or is this all just a trap?â