Chapter 117: Salt (1/2)
‘ding’ ‘You have defeated [Arilla – Breaker lvl 196 – Demon]
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‘ding’ ‘You have defeated [Sakin – Bone Warrior lvl 203 – Demon]
Ilea skipped through the messages regarding the demons she had killed. Most of them were around level two hundred with three outliers, one of which being at two hundred and thirty.
‘ding’ ‘Azarinth First Hunter has reached level 207 – 5 Stat points awarded’
‘ding’ ‘Inheritor of Eternal Ash has reached level 203 – 5 Stat points awarded’
Ilea put all her remaining points into Wisdom, bringing the stat up to 330.
‘ding’ ‘Azarinth Reversal reaches 2nd lvl 4’
‘ding’ ‘Veil of Ash reaches 2nd lvl 11’
‘ding’ ‘Embered Body Heat reaches lvl 13’ (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
‘ding’ ‘Embered Body Heat reaches lvl 14’
‘ding’ ‘Wave of Ember reaches 2nd lvl 4’
‘ding’ ‘Ash and Ember Manipulation reaches 2nd lvl 10’
‘ding’ ‘Ashen Wings reaches 2nd lvl 5’
‘ding’ ‘Eyes of Ash reaches 2nd lvl 14’
‘ding’ ‘Ashen Warrior reaches 2nd lvl 6’
‘ding’ ‘Fear Resistance reaches lvl 2’
‘Not really helping me in this situation...’ Ilea thought as she kept flying at a high speed next to Trian, both of them quiet. The ocean was eerily still.
“What kind of third tier spells do you have?” she suddenly asked, trying to start a conversation.
“Lightning attack, I couldn’t yet chose any of my movement skills to get to the third level. Would probably make this situation a lot easier...” he sighed.
“Yea...” Ilea said as the two sped over the water. There were some waves now indicating that the ocean did change from time to time.
“Aki do you know anything about this place? I think at this point I’d rather know than hide you.” she suddenly said, Trian looking at her from the side. The two stopped and floated over the water, the moons bathing them in a pale light.
“Who’s Aki?” the man asked and Ilea unsheathed her dagger.
“This. And I swear you little shit if you act like you’re just a normal dagger to make me seem like an insane person I’ll put you back into the forge were you belong...” she held the dagger right before her face. Half a minute passed as Trian’s expression turned from confused to worried.
“Ilea I don’t think you….” he started but was interrupted by the dagger.
“Alright alright, I though it was funny. Hello Trian, nice to meet you.” he said and Ilea just sighed.
“You cheeky fuck...” the three continued flying onwards but at a slower pace. “Do you know anything about the demon realm?”
“I haven’t actually been here before. It’s fascinating. Thanks for being stupid enough to get into that portal. I’ve heard of a person going in before but that was a long long time ago. I’m not sure if they managed to get out again but apparently it was an accident. Now what I know is that you can’t just open portals on accident so this place might be a little different.” Aki explained.
“Nice to meet you too dagger. So you believe this realm is easier accessible? Demon summonings are rather known so maybe there is something...” Trian said.
“Exactly, you don’t hear about other beings being summoned. With a demon realm existing one would assume there are other realms as well. Why do we commonly only know about demon summonings?” Aki asked.
“There are other things one could summon. Animals and spirits would be among them but you have to catch them first or befriend them somehow. Perhaps we’ll find out something but if the demons can get out through summonings, maybe there’s a way out for us as well.” Trian added.
“Just make sure to not drop me down into the water. I’d rather not be trapped in that crap forever...” the dagger said.
“Where did you find him? He seems...” Trian asked.
“Familiar? Yea apparently he gets some influence from me so now you’ll be annoyed by two people at once. Found him in the Taleen dungeon I was in, truly a treasure trove though I compare this guy more to a cursed item you have to throw into mount doom.” Ilea said, sheathing Aki again.
“Again with the weird references...” Aki said. “Trian now that you know about me, fuck you for those lightning and draining attacks.”
“Noted.” the noble replied. The three continued onwards for another six hours before quickly stopping to eat and drink something in the air, not wanting to drink the salt water. Ilea was somewhat confident it wouldn’t be much of an issue for her body to make it work but they still had some resources stored away in their items.
“What’s that?” There to the right!” Ilea suddenly exclaimed.
“You’re dreaming Ilea...there’s nothing...” Trian said, flying onwards. It had been three days of nonstop flying and the man was getting a little delirious.
“She’s right, there’s something there...” Aki confirmed her observation.
“Come on, to the right!” Ilea said and took the man’s arm who followed without further complaint. In the distance the white speck Ilea had seen became bigger and bigger, behind it a set of another white specks came into view until the first one, a sizable chunk of rock protruding out of the water was clearly visible. The form of the rock didn’t look very natural to Ilea, too even and too many angles.
Finally reaching it, there was a platform they could land on on one side of the white rock. Trian immediately collapsed, sleeping in the span of ten seconds. “Weak.” Ilea commented in a joking manner. She bent down and licked her finger before touching it to the ground. Licking it again she spat on the rock. “Salt.”
“Of course you immediately lick the ground of the new place you’re in. Can’t level your poison resistance any other way...” Aki said.
“I regret revealing you Aki. This is all salt, rock salt to be exact...” Ilea commented as she sat down and summoned a meal. She made it vanish again a second later, thinking about their situation. They might need to ration at some point and they had eaten around ten hours ago already. She instead summoned her notebook and started sketching the surroundings, writing about their discoveries.
“What are you doing?” Aki asked, not seeing the page. She unsheathed him and put him on her lap.
“I’m documenting.” she simply stated.
“You surprise me time and time again Ilea. Is your brain going through random shrinking and growing processes occasionally?” the dagger asked but didn’t continue the banter upon not receiving an answer. He instead reminded her of some useful things she might want to note about the realm they had found themselves in.
“Does your hunting spell not pick up the thing you saw enter as well? Or anything else? I’d keep it running...” the dagger said. Ilea had already been doing that but found nothing so far except for water and salt.
“If I find something I’ll inform you.” she said and continued the drawing.
Trian woke up four hours later, obviously a little embarrassed for how long he slept, taking the next shift of guarding their little rock from anything that might appear. Ilea slept for around two hours before she got up again and saw Trian working on something quite similar to her own previous activity.