Elder Blood Witcher 137 Re'ember Me...

The two undead start walking around the blisteringly hot lake bed to find the chaos ember, luckily the taurus demon's seemed to be the only ones inhabiting this area otherwise Solaire would probably drag him out and leave the ember... Eventually they spot the Chaos ember semi-hidden atop some lava that's glowing a harsh red and orange, Reima doesn't really know how he's going to get this but navigates to the opposite side of it and uses Aard to try and push it onto some dry land. It splashes lava almost everywhere making Solaire and himself almost s.h.i.t their pants, the ember is pushed directly next to some traversable land, covering his hand in Armament Haki Reima retrieves it and shakes off any lava still clinging to it.

Solaire "Was it truly worth the effort?" he says giving a sigh.

Reima just nods and then points to the corner of the lake that has a familiar demon hiding near it, it looks like the Capra demon that was protecting the path to the depths... Either they couldn't be bothered to create more demons or these are the races most numerous to these lands.

Reima "That's the way forward, remember to watch your step, I'm not going to dive into a lake of lava to try get you out..." He gives a grim look to Solaire who retorts, "Likewise my friend."

They get to the demon and easily kill it with a lightning bolt and a Soul arrow, instead of charred lake bed they were walking on the path forward seems to be the ruins of Izalith, the architecture reminds Reima of Aztec buildings from earth... Obviously the Aztecs didn't have demon guarding their properties and lakes of lava to create lighting but potato, tomato's...

They look towards the path and see stairs leading to a large doorway enshrouded in a gold fog, Reima doesn't really know why the fog is gold but guesses he'll find out when they get there.

They fight through many Capra demons who seem to be more skilful with their two huge machetes than the one protecting the Depths, it doesn't matter though as Solaire and Reima cut them down regardless. Once they've reached the stairs a fat statue with a snakes head seems to come to life and start spewing fire at them, Reima simply kicks it with a Haki infused foot which launches it off of the platform and into the fiery abyss below. The two loop around and kill what seems to be a giant centipede that reveals a bonfire in it's previous location, they sit down at it and rest for a while... The battles are harder than any other area they had previously been to but they are gradually getting more proficient at fighting, their teamwork is improving quickly as well. By now Reima's melee combat strength could dwarf any martial artist from earth, his skills forged through constant battles makes him a scary opponent to face, not to mention his physical capabilities which are heads and shoulders above even Geralt with his special Witcher mutations. He looks into the fire and realises he has quite a lot of souls stored up and decides to allocate them to his intelligence again, he absorbs the souls and uses the energy to increase his soul level, raising his intelligence to what he can only guess is 99. Afterwards he doesn't really feel any different, apart from the ever present ache and itch during the process, he casts a Soul arrow at a nearby wall and notes that it feels almost effortless to cast such a low level Sorcery... Even his Sign strength seems to have increased along with this as his understanding had improved along with his mental capabilities. Reima doesn't really know what he wants to upgrade next, should he do Dexterity or Attunement? He shakes his head and decides to choose whatever picks his fancy when the time comes.

After a longer than normal rest due to Reima upgrading his soul level the duo get up and start descending the stairs towards the large doorway, only to be stopped by a larger than normal Taurus demon who's charging up the stairs towards them. Reima is scared slightly due to the way the bridge is shaking, thinking the bridge might collapse he launches two Crystal Soul spears in succession which both strike true, killing the large creature before it even reaches them.

Solaire "Impressive..." he mutters after witnessing such quick conjuration, He'd only seen Seath the scaleless cast sorceries in such a manner.

Reima shrugs at his seemingly unintentional praise and observes the stairs to check if the demon has done any lasting damage to it, after looking closely it seems perfectly fine... It seems to have been created by and for demons to be running up and down it. They reach the bottom and are ambushed by another Taurus demon along with a centipede monster that doesn't seem able to actually reach them... Instead just hovering just outside of the hole it had made, waiting for them to approach.
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They swiftly deal with the Taurus demon like the others that'd come before it before turning their glare to the centipede who seems to shudder slightly under their predatory gazes.

Reima instead of approaching the doorway to Izalith takes a detour to the path on the left, Solaire looks on confused and he simply says "Flame ember." which makes a reluctant Solaire quickly follow behind.