82 So, Were In Trouble, Right? (2/2)
”Yeah, something like that” Arima responded and then started to wonder ”Something that could threaten an entire country, but isn't coming from a human source…” He muttered and his eyes flashed ”Dungeon!” He exclaimed.
”Dungeon? I thought you were disappointed by it” Night tilted his head.
”Yeah, but that's not the point. What if another country got their hands on the dungeon's blueprint. They could either create a new dungeon and hide it on this continent and let the monsters gather in it before releasing them. They could also do the same with every other dungeon on the continent” Arima explained and then smirked for some reason.
Night looked at that smile and sighed ”You won't stop it, will you?”
Arima's grin became wider ”Of course, why would I do something like that? It should be extremely fun to face millions of monsters” He said with a very disturbing tone ”Well, but at least, I'll try to do something about that h.e.l.l gate, but I need to a.n.a.lyze the circles for that”
He declared before creating a time dimension instantly, he teleported to a plain. He always chose this kind of environment because he liked how pure it was, it also had a perfect view of the sky.
He sat down and re-drew the runes he saw earlier on the ground with mana. When he finished, he was able to look at it carefully.
”Soul… Darkness… Death. That's the three main components of this array. Darkness for a theoric link between our world and everything that is hidden in h.e.l.l, but that link represents a path closed by a gate. Death is connected to the Darkness as a key for the gate. And the Soul is used to push that key and make it turn. But the souls needed are of course retrieved from the living world, those dying souls are collected and given to the key”
Night blinked ”So, basically, it needs sacrifices to create a path toward h.e.l.l”
”Yep” Arima answered and touched the runes, he waved his hand and made it move, he also did the same for other symbols and circles.
”What are you doing?” Night asked.
”I'm trying to understand what it will exactly do when it is activated, and what would happen to the city if it was opened. That's what I'm looking into” Arima explained.
Night hummed and watched silently.
Ten minutes after, he opened his mouth ”Hey, I need to ask, if you rewrote my soul, do you think you could allow me to take human form?” He inquired.
Arima stopped moving his hands and looked at Night with widened eyes ”Ah” He suddenly exclaimed as he was struck by a great idea ”There was that way too, huh?”
Noticing how Arima reacted, Night's expression darkened ”…Hey, you didn't think of it seriously before, right?”
”What are you talking about?” Arima looked away in complete innocence ”But it's possible. Well, I would need time and also concentration, because if I mess up, well, you wouldn't die, but you would be either stuck as a wolf pup or a dragon”
”If it ever fails, please make it so I stay in my dragon form” Night immediately said.
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It just took a few days for Arima to finish the a.n.a.lysis of the whole array's structure. It could sound long when you think that the one who did it was Arima, but real experts would call him a monster, to decompose every element of an array and look into it, it would take months for a group of specialists.
”That's really odd. This thing has no real goal. I feel like I lost two days of my life” Arima said and sighed ”It looks like an incomplete theory, that is really just made to create chaos”
”So, you didn't learn anything in the end?” Night asked.
”No, I at least could deduce that it was a summoning ritual. But the chaotic aspect of this is that there is no target for the summon. The only thing I know is that the summoning is supposed to happen in the perfect center of the city. Basically, the castle” Arima explained.
”When?” Night furrowed.
”Mm, two weeks maybe. I don't think I can stop it by now, I have no choice but to take care of the summoned beast itself” Arima answered and sighed. He then stretched a bit and looked at Night ”Now, do you want to try that?”
”Of course” Night affirmed and slowly changed into a dragon.
When Arima had Night facing him in his ten meters tall form, he snapped his fingers and a circle encompa.s.sed them ”We will resonate now, but there will be no physical manifestation, it will be easier for me to rewrite your soul” Arima declared and Night nodded.
”[Resonance]” The both chanted at the same time. Night became a black light and recovered Arima's figure. But the unusual thing was that the light didn't disappear. Instead, Arima sat down and closed his eyes and fell into deep concentration.
In his Soul right now, Arima felt like he had arrived in the middle of a strong fire. He had a ma.s.sive stone monument in front of him, depicting a n.o.ble dragon.
Arima breathed in and touched the stone, the statue started to glow and red lines spread on it. These same red lines started to be transmitted to Arima.
”Let's begin” Arima declared and he became totally shrouded in a red light.
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