57 I Still Cant Do It (2/2)
This time, Lilis dropped her fork and Lanya's eyes widened to the maximum ”Are you okay? Are you sick or something? Or did Tiatus's light infect you?” Lilis said in a rude way.
Arima frowned ”What are you saying?”
Lilis fell silent ”…Are you actually working on something harder than Time magic?” She asked
”Yeah, I'm sure it's at least a hundred times harder” Arima responded casually.
”I can't believe it!” Lilis stood up and exclaimed in a serious tone ”Time magic is the hardest magic theory that has ever existed, something that is harder than that, it would be something that even G.o.ds don't know about” She said
”Oh” Arima smirked ”Then you will know once I accomplish it” He retorted nonchalantly and put a lollipop in his mouth ”If I can have something that Heaven G.o.ds don't, then it'll be one of my biggest advantages” He uttered and stood up. Night already had finished his meal and was back on his shoulder.
And while Lanya was shocked after hearing that Arima didn't succeed to do something, when she learned it was something that even Lilis didn't know about, she sighed in relief. Her last thought was: ”(It's normal then)”
Lilis fell speechless and just finished her meal quickly, pouting, before Arima teleported them away.
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The place they reappeared in was the middle of a canyon, totally surrounded by escarpments.
”What the h.e.l.l is this?” Lilis complained already, it was obvious that she was infuriated about what happened before.
”A dungeon location apparently” Arima said totally unaffected by Lilis's mood ”If I'm not wrong, it should be around here” Arima said and started walking, following the direction the gorge had defined.
Lanya and Lilis silently followed him, the latter was pouting and the former seemed to be curious about what was ahead.
Five minutes later, they arrived at the dead end of the canyon. But at the same place, a large entrance to an underground cave.
”Well, it's not hard to realize where the dungeon is” Arima said sarcastically and headed to the entrance.
Lilis breathed out and seemed to be calm now, she followed Lanya who enthusiastically went in with Arima.
When Arima took a step inside the cave, the sound echoed in the whole place. The walls of the cave seemed to made of a strange and polished gray stone. Arima walked in there for a moment before reaching a staircase that went even more underground.
Arima didn't hesitate, his sigil glowed a bit and an orb of Light appeared, hovering around him and lighting the surroundings. And so, he started going downstairs. Lanya and Lilis followed, with blooming interest about this place.
When they took the last step, they arrived in a huge room, with perfect dimensions, a totally square form, the whole room was maybe a million cubic meters.
At that moment, some squeaks resounded in the room. Arima created a stronger light and totally illuminated the room. The room they were had entrances to many tunnels, and from them were coming out an incalculable number of small monsters with green skin, sharp teeth and really grotesque appearances. Simply said, they were goblins.
Arima looked at the afflux of monsters with bored eyes. His eyes flashed and locked on every goblin, the supposed incalculable number had just been counted by him. He then snapped his fingers and every goblin coming at him stopped on their tracks before cras.h.i.+ng and colliding on each other. After the mess they created. They all had their heads separated from their necks.
Just like that, Arima killed thousands of goblins ”They're weak, but I'll still take it” Arima said and retrieved the life force of these goblins with his magic circle.
He then burned every corpse like nothing happened, he chose a tunnel to go in, then instantly took it. Lanya followed him without questions while Lilis sighed one more time.
After that, nothing really interesting happened, the strongest monsters they could find were around the eighth and ninth level. Each time Arima met one, he took it to the other dimension and sent Lanya and Night with them for their training.
Then at some point, they arrived in a really big chamber that only had one monster waiting there. It was huge humanoid c.o.c.kroach. The sounds he made were absolutely disgusting and it really made Arima annoyed ”[Accelerans](Accelerando)” Arima took a step forward and the noise disappeared and everyone froze.
Arima slowly walked toward the monster. At the same time, he took out Karma and released the three seals in one go.
”[Aeterna]” When he was just in front of the immobile c.o.c.kroach, Arima conjured a huge amount of lightning on his sword and then slashed at the monster with it. The wave produced by Karma directly exploded and fragilized the monster's defense, the black explosion spread into the whole room, the earth began to shake and the wall were fissuring. After that, Karma easily cut through the monster's neck and killed it and Arima suppressed the rest of his attack's energy.
The monster's head fell on the ground and the flow of time returned to how it was supposed to be. Only Lilis who had enough strength to resist the time lock, perfectly witnessed the death of tenth level monster in less than a second, literally.
”That was a lot easier than I though it would be” Arima said with a bit of disappointment.
Lilis laughed ”You're at the second sky of the earthen realm and you can use Time magic, what did you expect?” She said
Arima shrugged and prepared to teleport the group away. Even Lanya and Night didn't understand a thing as to how a tenth level monster died just like that. Because Arima only gathered time around him, even Night was left in confusion.
Arima didn't wait for them to recover their spirits and teleported them to the other dungeon they had been given by the guild master. But that one was even easier, and Arima finished it in twenty minutes, without breaking a sweat.
Ultimately, Arima transferred his group to the Center City. He had decided to spend the four remaining days there, before he had to begin his temporary job as an instructor at the FDA.
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