Chapter 112 - 109 : Mission; Protect Arthur (1/2)
Time was tight for someone like Jizung, who was searching for Arthur. He should be resting and recovering from his injuries and not expanding Nether Energy and using multiple techniques to find Arthur.
The reason is, if he didn't kill Arthur or at least torture him to his heart's will, he(Arthur) will become a knot in his heart, like a demon that stops him from advancing any further in cultivation.
He already dropped two whole grades so it's obvious that his clan will suffer a lot, in fact, it may even be kicked out as most of the elders disappeared and he became too weakened because of the explosion.
The only was who was almost unscathed is Granny Shishu and Azure Bai, who used the golden shield. Kilan was also managed to avoid danger, he was currently flying with high speed with Aborak on his left. Both of them used techniques to locate Arthur.
Since the area of the explosion was within the range of their techniques, it didn't take them long to find his location, it was to the far north of the bottomless abyss. Jizung was slower than them as he couldn't use high-levelled tracking techniques or else he might drop more grades, his Nether Energy is already depleted so using more techniques would make things much worse.
The situation is becoming worse for the unconscious Arthur as there was no sign of him waking up any time soon. His body was still healing itself but unless someone forcefully tried to wake him up then he would remain like that.
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The first person who found Arthur was the Lich King and Kilan. They didn't recklessly dive ahead and strike him as it was too idiotic after what happened.
He was layed unconscious with a pool of blood under him, he looked in a very miserable state yet the two of them stayed far away and simply stared at him.
”What do you think we should do? He looks unconscious.”
Kilan questioned his friend as he was not brave enough to go and restrain him again after what happened, no matter if he's unconscious or not, he's a dangerous man that should not be underestimated.
”He's at the Deity Realm? Perhaps he's trying to make us get close again.... let's restrain him from here.”
Aborak pondered for then made some strange seals in the air, black gas came out of his sleeves and suddenly, two ugly looking beasts appeared out of nowhere. They resembled a griffin but they were much smaller, more or less the size of a lion. They were jet black including their skin and they had a foul stench.
The two beasts flew toward Arthur intending to restrain him. Kilan took out a long white chain from his storage and threw it toward the Griffin, the chain had two shackles which are used to lock someone's limbs.
Each one of the two griffins bit the end of the chain and flew toward Arthur. Surprisingly, they were met with no resistance when they put the shackles and wrapped the chains around him yet a second time today but all of this made Aborak and Kilan frown even more.
It would have been fine if some kind of mechanism was activated but nothing happening made them worry even more.
Very soon, the griffin flew again while restraining Arthur between them in mid-air, slowly but surely they were making their way toward the two.
At such a time, a green beams came from the South, it was Jizung in a very haggard state, blood was flowing out from the forehead and his face almost dyed with blood yet he didn't seem to mind it as his eyes were focused on Arthur who was held in mid-air.
”FOUND YOU!”
Without even minding Aborak and Kilan, Jizung madly rushed at Arthur and attacked. Multiple small green snakes twirled in the air and flew toward the unconscious Arthur.
The old man showed no mercy and his actions were too sudden, by the time Aborak and Kilan reacted, it was too late to stop the snakes from reaching Arthur, even for strong figures like them, to begin with, even that godly teleportation needed at least a second or so to activate yet they didn't have such precious time to block the snakes.
Unlike Jizung, they didn't want to deal with Arthur immediately, there were too many questions they needed to ask and things needed to check before killing him so Jizung's actions were too rush from their point of view.
At such a desperate time, just when the snakes were going to invade Arthur's mind and soul and slowly poison him to death and cause him unimaginable pain, a blue light suddenly appeared.
A fist-sized white pearl appeared out of nowhere in front of Arthur's chest, it glowed with a blue light and it pulsated every now and then. The pearl sudden appearance was surprising but what was even more shocking is that all the snakes with no exception were burned into a crisp by a blinding white flash.
Jizung's face turned paler when he saw that, he retreated repeatedly from that white flash until he was near Aborak and Kilan. The fear from that blinding flash from earlier was still engraved inside of him, never to be forgotten so when he saw a similar light, he couldn't help but back off and feel afraid.
If another similar explosion occurred, it's without a doubt that he'll perish and it's unlikely that neither Aborak nor Kilan would spend their Nether Energy or treasures to protect him, after all, they were friends on public but in reality, they were bitter enemies albeit not fighting.
After throbbing for half a minute, the pearl glowed with a blue light constantly until the pearl transformed into a miniature figure. If you look closely, you would notice that it's a pretty woman with long blond hair and two alluring blue eyes.
In a matter of seconds, her size became that of a normal human as her size increased, one could see the unmatched beauty, whether it's her curvy body or two snowballs in her chest area, everything about her would make any man love stricken.
Although she only wore a golden piece that did not cover anything but her lower regions and some of her chest, that only made her more pretty. It was, in fact, the Holy Goddess Delia that was sealed by Zodiak.
The famous Bloody Day was the day she lost her freedom and was sealed by Zodiak into this pearl but it came at a cost, she lost her freedom but what was surprising is that every day, her power increased by several folds. It's only been a short time but she advanced from the God Realm 6th Grade to the peak of the God Realm.
Normally, it would have taken her at the very least a century to advance a grade or two if she's lucky but in less than a year, she advanced 3 whole grades.
She didn't know what Zodiak did but she was both happy and depressed. Happiness because of her rise in strength and depression because she literally became the toy of a human.
Zodiak made sure that no matter how strong she became, she has to obey Arthur's words and he also added missions for her to follow and she absolutely cannot disobey.
The main mission is to protect Arthur and Lucy but she had to put priority to Arthur. In case of a life and death situation, she would automatically be summoned to protect him so when the green snakes attacked, the pearl came out of Arthur's storage and started to function like Zodiak planned.
'Argg!! A Holy Goddess like is me a slave! How can that be! If the Holy Order heard of this then I would be burned to death by the Holy Fire as punishment...'
If she didn't protect Arthur then she would die alongside him and that is something she certainly did not want to happen.
Seeing that there were only three enemies, one only at the 6th Grade and the two others at the 8th Grade, it didn't look that bad for her as she was at the Peak of the God Realm, moreover, the Lich used death energy mainly and that's something a Holy goddess can easily block or destroy.
Holy magic has always been the weakness of evil magic in general, whether it's darkness, dark or death magic, there was also other magics that are weak against Holy attribute but just like Holy magic is strong against those, it is very weak to Fire especially and Lightning secondly.
Delia turned her head and saw the miserable state of Arthur, with bloody injuries and slashes all over, his state couldn't be worse, he was on the verge of death.
”Gosh, what kind of man requires a woman to save his ass....”
As a Holy Goddess, she was supposed to be kind and polite but since she was sealed, her mouth became rotten and she never ceased insulting Zodiak and especially Arthur, her new master.