Chapter 117 - 114 : Departure (2/2)

The next day, Arthur and co departed for the Abyss Valley. Their destination was a very dangerous place and on the way, they met many dangerous beasts, even some godly ones but they were all pushed away or killed by Delia or Arthur's new bodyguards.

A black rocky Death Golem with the height of 4 meters, a two-headed lizard, and a blue wolf was flying around Arthur and Lucy.

Saly was riding Astrith and Delia was flying next to her. On the shoulders of the golem was the poor Miya who was forcefully taken from her clan by the cruel Arthur who she despised to the bone.

She didn't know why he decided to take her with them but she couldn't resist or flee as it was impossible in their presence. As for Lissandra, Arthur told Delia to seal her in the white pearl for the moment, it was only a temporary solution as the pearl would kick her out sooner or later.

After a couple of hours spent flying, they finally arrived near the spatial fluctuations. The reason they didn't use a Spirit Boat is that it's very sensitive to spatial magic and even a bit of it can destroy it so Arthur decided to keep it hidden for the time being.

”It's going to get dangerous from now on, better stick close to me to avoid any incidents.”

Delia spoke as she gestured to Astrith and Arthur to come closer. The blue furry wolf shrunk in size until it was the size of a normal wolf, Saly was still riding him. Arthur and Lucy who were riding also got next to Delia. Miya was miserably thrown by the golem toward Delia, who waved her hand and made Miya stop her fast air charging.

”You.... was it necessary?”

Miya was a very calm person, even after what has been to her, she never snapped in anger or shouted but this time she was unable to hold her emotions in check and raised her voice a bit. She quickly realized it and turned red from embarrassment. She resented Arthur so much, she saw he was not a bad person but she really wanted to strangle him right now.

The 5 of them were surrounded by Delia's Holy Light. When she was sure everyone was protected, the Holy Goddess proceeded toward the spatial fluctuations.

The mysterious person said 'Green' so they searched for a green spatial fluctuation but it was hard. There were thousands of them, one the size of a fingernail and the other the size of a mountain. Some were colorless and some were blood red but none was green.

....

”It appears there is no green colored spatial fluctuation and it's dangerous to head further as itwould invade the territories of ancient beasts.”

”So?”

Arthur didn't appear to care as they had Delia but the Holy Goddess showed an annoyed look and explained.

”I may be your servant for now but I'm not going to head for my death if you want to die then go by yourself. These territories are ruled by Sovereign Beasts and above, even ten of me can't beat or block them, much me alone. What's more is that the evil Energy here is more concentrated than any other place, if we head deeper, it'll weaken me and I'll be unable to protect you with my Holy Light.”

Hearing this, Arthur felt depressed as they found no sign of the green colored spatial fluctuation and the situation is getting dangerous by the second. At such an important and desperate moment, the silent Saly pointed at the far distance and exclaimed.

”It's a green one, a green!”

She wasn't smart enough to understand the whole process of the going back to Astria but at least she knew that they were looking for a green portal of some kind so when she noticed green she spoke.

The green spatial fluctuation was about a kilometer or two at most from their distance and since it was surrounded by many other ones, it was hard to see it, it's a miracle Saly somehow discovered it.

”It's indeed a green one but is it the right one?”

Delia was still not willing to take the risk of diving there and then passing the wrong one, she was quite hesitant.

”Wrong or not, we'll still try it, now go and stop wasting time.”

Arthur didn't hesitate as he gave Delia a direct order she can't disobey. Whilst gritting her teeth, the Holy Goddess spread her white and breath-taking wings, they flapped multiple times and the Holy Light around them became brighter and more powerful.

The speed they were advancing at was a bit faster but Delia's Energy was expanding at an unbelievable pace as she was using Holy Magic in such an environment, it's like trying to ignite a fire inside water.

Not long after, the 6 of them reached the green spatial fluctuation. It was the size of a 2-meter door and the width of two normal humans.

So as they do not get separated, they held hands and Astrith went back to Arthur's consciousness. Just as they were ready to enter the blurry green portal, a terrifyingly loud noise resounded in their ears to the point of almost making them deaf.

When Arthur turned his head to look, he was dumbstruck to see a gigantic dsungaripterus, its wingspan is at the very least 50 meters. It was opening its mouth and ready to devour all of them in one ago.

Fortunately, the Holy Goddess noticed it before them and stepped ahead while her wings flapped and a flash of blue light was emitted from them.

Some kind of cubic blue barrier was formed in front of her but it was instantly shattered after holding no more than a second. Delia was struck by the creature and her left wing was torn off forcefully while the right one had some of its feathers fall.

Arthur grabbed Delia's hand and formed a Dark Magic while jumping to the portal along with the three others.

It was fortunate enough that the creature couldn't fit in the portal but its angry screeching was heard even after they passed the spatial fluctuation.

What laid in front of them was a dark space with countless flashing stars and planets all around, they seemed to be in some kind of tunnel that led to a specific world.

The road was silent and after just two minutes, another portal was at the end of the tunnel. Since the distance was too far, they could only see a spatial fluctuation but couldn't see what type of world it was.

Arthur was going to breathe a sigh of relief when suddenly, Zodiak's skeletal corpse appeared in front of him, his two lifeless eyes flashed with a purple light. The skeleton forcefully grabbed Arthur's arm and said

”I don't know what happened but just in case, I put a seal into my corpse so It would forcefully bring you to Astria when you're going back from the Underworld, if you're hearing this it means the place you're going to is not Astria, it may even be more dangerous than the Underworld so I thought it'll be good if I helped you a bit.”

Before Arthur could react or even utter a word, the skeleton dragged him out of the tunnel and opened another tunnel on its own, the tunnel was endless and you could not see the end of it. Before any of the people present could react, Arthur was no longer seen and the tunnel created by the skeleton disappeared.

Lucy's face paled as she heard what Zodiak said, just like the others. The things she feared was what kind of world would they go to? The man said 'Home' but Astria was their home.

'Unless?'

Just as a thought struck Lucy, their surroundings flashed and by the next second, a semi-dead Holy Goddess, a small beast girl and half-demon silver-haired woman and a wide-eyed green haired girl along with a two-headed lizard that appeared out of nowhere, appeared in a very narrow alley.

The place reeked of a foul stench, it seemed like piss and just a couple meters of them was a gray cubic box that emitted a more horrible smell.

All of them stared at the end of the alley as they heard people speaking and the sound of countless footsteps, what's more, surprising is the presence of a four-wheeled gray or black boxes that were moving on their own.....