Chapter 10 - 11 : Holy Knigh (1/2)
Arthur had a bitter feeling as things didn't go the way he wished them to, he wanted to free the girl from the seal but he didn't know even why he would go to such lengths to do so ,he who had been betrayed and vowed to always be alone and never trust again felt some kind of special connection with the girl.
In a way, he guessed she was similar to him but he couldn't guess in how exactly.
He knew she didn't trust him and maybe she would like to be free but she didn't have the power to so he wanted to release her from the seal so they could each go on their way.
For the time being , Arthur knew that the holy church let him go because they could not fight against him, but he was sure that later on they would come back for either for revenge or to kill the demon girl so he decided to leave the town for the time being and stay at 'that' place for a while, so he bought various kinds of foods.
He didn't hold back and bought everything that he came by and then put it in his storage, as he was going to be out of the town with the demon girl, and she needed food daily, he brought an enormous amount of food that can hold out for half a year.He then headed to the town's exit accompanied by the girl.
Once they were some distance away from the town, Arthur created a [dark cloud] that could fit him and the girl.
When the demon girl saw the 'cloud' she was taken aback slightly then continued to gaze at it for sometime curiously.
Arthur chuckled as he saw the girl examining the cloud, he then said
”Get on the cloud, it's much faster and I don't want anyone following us”
He then jumped on the dark cloud and waited for the girl to follow him, he thought he could travel by foot with the same speed as the cloud but he would have to carry the girl and that seemed inappropriate and maybe she would not want to be held by anyone.
The girl finally jumped on the sturdy cloud, but as the cloud rose up high into the air, she seemed to be anxious and shaking a little, Arthur guessed she must've been acrophobic or never been so high up in the air, as for him?
He was never afraid of heights as he traveled a lot when he was a business-man because the job required him to make a lot of contracts in various countries.
Even though the dark cloud had incredible speed, Arthur didn't use the maximum speed as he was afraid the girl would fall off with her fragile physic, but he was surprised to see that not only she had gotten used to the dark cloud, she also was not affected by the current speed.
”She must have a good amount of strength, huh?”
It took them 15 minutes to reach the entrance of the cave, Arthur landed the dark cloud and got off it followed by the girl who understood they reached their destination.
Arthur didn't waste time as he entered the cave and began walking forward.After 30 minutes or so they finally arrived the empty room which was previously Zodiak's tomb.
The demon girl looked around, surprised to see that they arrived at an empty room as she expected some kind of hideout but not an empty room.
Arthur noticed the stunned girl and said
”I will try to find a solution to your seal, meanwhile we will be staying here since the holy church is chasing us and I don't want to bother with them”
Just as he finished speaking he waves his hands and retrieved a large bed and some other furniture from his storage ring.
He also took out some food for the girl and put them on the bet, then he proceeded to read the ancient books he got from the tomb hoping he will find some kind of clue as to how to break the seal for the girl's powers.
The demon girl saw Arthur reading books and trying to find a solution for her so she had complicated feelings about this black-robed man she didn't know why would he go to such lengths for her but she soon seemed to realize something and shook her
'You mustn't fall for his plays! He must need something from you otherwise he wouldn't help you'
She soon sat on the large bed which was luxurious and made from gold, but she didn't seem surprised by it and she was used to seeing this black-robed man have many incredible and expensive things, just by buying her for 2 million gold coins showed that he was by no means someone ordinary.
As time passed and she saw how strong he is by easily beating the old man from the church , and his strange dark cloud which seemed able to fly with high speed so she concluded that even with her powers back she might not able to escape from him so she began very anxious and she didn't want to be held prisoner ever again.
A day had passed since they arrived at this room but Arthur didn't stop reading even for a second, he didn't feel tired or bored, and the more books he read the more he discovered new things.
Finally he could find a clue to break the seal, it was said that to break a seal cast on a demon, you either have to kill whoever cast it or you can overpower the seal with a stronger magic which will immediately break the seal, but it was noted that anyone who can seal the powers of a demon is usually very strong so it was considered impossible to break the seal with a magic more powerful than it, but Arthur was overjoyed as he knew he was considerably strong so he wanted to try this method and maybe it will work.
He turned around and looked at the demon girl, who surprisingly was asleep, after 2 days or so without sleeping she seemed to not be able to hold it anymore and fell asleep while sitting on the bed.
She seemed to be shaking a lot so Arthur guessed she must be having a nightmare of some kind but nevertheless he didn't want to wake her up as she stayed awake for 2 days or maybe even more so some sleep will help her a lot.
Arthur decided to experiment with his magic until the girl wakes up.
He started by creating some weapons with his dark magic and trying to create complicated ones, and he easily succeeded as he was able to create a 30 meter long black chain made of dark magic, he noticed too that the chain had some black flames in it, they seemed hard to notice as the chain was black too, he guessed the black flames were the one from the 'dark flame ring' but to make sure they were from the ring, he retrieve a long sword from his storage and held it , and noticed there was indeed black flames in the edges of the sword, he tried slashing in the air with minimum strength and saw black flames shot out from the slash 2 meters ahead until they disappeared.
He also tried summoning skeletons and then killing them but unsurprisingly he didn't get any Experience for it so he sighed and gave up on the idea to level up non-stop by summoning and killing skeletons.When he was in the middle of doing some tests with his dark magic, an idea struck him so he quickly turned around and appraised the sleeping demon girl.
Lucy(Demon) : LVL44
But just as he saw the window which showed the demon's level name he appraised again focusing on the window and as he has guessed another window showed up.
Lucy(Demon) : LVL44Status: bound by holy magic
'I must really be stupid to not appraise a second-time sigh...'
After secretly blaming his stupidity, Arthur checked the status and he was joyful of the results as he could see the Health, Mana, and Stamina, he also noticed that her stamina was very low but that was to be expected after staying 2 days or even more without sleeping or taking a rest.
He tried appraising the window again but nothing happened nevertheless he didn't give up just yet, as he tried appraising every single status but still nothing showed so he stopped any further tries.He continued with his dark magic experiments waiting for the girl to wake up...
After 2 hours or so, while Arthur has gone back to reading books since he was bored of training and trying things with his magic, he heard a cry which came from the large bed.
”NOO!”
The girl's cry surprised Arthur who was engrossed in reading, he turned around and saw the girl awake and breathing very quickly.
She looked around a couple of seconds then breather a sigh of relief, she glanced at Arthur and realised he was looking at her , but when she looked at clothes she noticed that she was not wearing the grey cloth anymore and her face and another part of bodies were exposed nevertheless her important areas were covered with her white tattered dress.
She guessed that the grey cloth fell off from her body because of her habit of moving a lot when she is asleep , but she didn't bother putting the grey cloth again as she was only with black-robed man and she was sure that he would not touch her because if he wanted to he would already have done it.
The girl sat on the bed, picked some food which was put on a nearby table and began eating it slowly.
Arthur saw the petite girl eating so he waited for her to finish and eating and then said
”I might have found a method to break the seal so I'm gonna try it, ok?”
The demon girl just nodded toward Arthur but her eyes had no emotion as if she was expecting him to fail.
He walked toward her and when he was a couple of centimeters away he extended his hand and released dark magic which looked like a black fog , it invaded the girl's body who seemed surprised by the action of Arthur but didn't do anything , after all even if she wanted to protect herself from the dark magic invading her body she couldn't do it as her powers were sealed , so she just stood there, gazing at Arthur.
The dark magic began entering the girl's body slowly, and after a couple of seconds he couldn't it push it further as some kind of barrier was blocking the way, he tried forcing the dark magic to break it and suddenly heard a notification 'ting'
Do you want to break the Holy barrier using you dark magic Y/N cost: 500 mana
'yes'
Just as he accepted, 500 Mana was used and he heard a 'Puchi' sound and his dark magic continued to invade the demon's body but he quickly called it back and in an instant, all his dark magic which was in the girl's body exited it and then disappeared into thin air.
Lucy's POV
After coming to this room, Lucy just ate and sat at the bad without doing anything, after all, there is nothing to do in this isolated room and she knew that there are enemies outside so she just stayed there quietly.
She noticed that the man was focused on reading books to help her and truthfully she was grateful but she just couldn't bring herself to trust him not even a bit.
She was very tired after staying awake for almost a week, she had high enough stamina than an average soldier but she couldn't stay awake forever, she tried to resist the sleepiness but after so much struggle she couldn't and fell asleep without realizing it.
She was in the same room the men she loved and other people from the church tortured her and had their fun with her, she looked around and was terrified to see them gazing at her lustfully and laughing evilly, she couldn't hold her body from shaking.
Lucy vowed to kill them all but facing the men who betrayed her heart and used her she couldn't even muster up the strength to move, she noticed she was still bound by the same chains as back then and the men was approaching her with eyes filled with obsession and lust.
As he was coming towards her slowly she couldn't help but scream ”NOOO”
Seconds passed and nothing happened so she opened her eyes and saw a different room, she was sitting on a large bed, and breathing heavily, she checked her surroundings as to make sure it's real and then sighed
”Mmust've been a nightmare again....”
Lucy got up from the bed and ate some food which was on the table, the food was quite delicious as the black-robed man bought every kind of food he found in the town, so she filled her stomach until it was full and when she finished she heard the man speak
”I might have found a method to break the seal so I'm gonna try it, ok?”
She just nodded towards him to expecting nothing as she knew the one who sealed her powers is terrifying and there no way to break the seal just by some 'method' he found in a book.
The man came close to her then extended his hand, some dark fog was created from who knows where then invaded her body, she could feel the cold feeling coming from this dark magic. Demons are beings of darkness and when they a born they get a small affinity with it so she knew that it was slightly similar to the Darkness Magic, but at the same time it wasn't, it gave a ferocious feeling like it would devour her body at any second.
A couple of seconds passed then she heard a 'puchi' sound and she was showered with a lot of notifications...'ting'..
The seal binding your powers have been broken!All your stats have gone up!The skill [demonic boost] is now available to use!
...
...A lot of notifications came telling her that all her skills are available to use and when she checked her status windows she saw that her stats have gone up to what they previously were before she was sealed. Lucy rubbed her eyes multiple times as to check if she was still dreaming but fortunately she was not, the black-robed men somehow successfully broke her powers even though she had no hope for him to succeed. She could feel the power in her body after a long time being so weak and fragile, her face gained some color and some small wounds and bruises healed slowly.
Arthur's POV
He noticed that his attempt was successful so he was happy, he saw the wounds on her body healing up and her face gains back some color, she seemed even more pretty now as her skin became even whiter and her eyes became more alluring and charming.
He realized that he gazed a bit too much so he coughed and said
”So? Is the seal broken? Are your powers completely back?”
Despite knowing he succeeded, he had to make sure that he had done it without making any side-effects.
The demon girl nodded towards him and then extended her hand and a ball of fire was on top of it.
She moved the ball of fire to show him she now had recovered and was no longer bound by the Holy seal.
Since she now had become strong again, Arthur guessed that she will go on her way, but deep in his heart he felt a connection, even though it was thin and he still couldn't trust her after he had done to her , there was an almost non-existing connection between the girl and him and he didn't want separate from her .