Reliving The Past ~ Mage Of The Abyss 51 Chapter 45 ~ The Quad Shuffling Door

The archer's party was annoyed by Kurira's decision. From the previous battle, they are the lowest in terms of kill counts, so separating themselves might have been a better option. Though, they didn't consider the safety reasons behind it.

Kosumba's party on the other hand knows full well about it. They want to go on the same path as anyone else and make it to the outside by defeating one of the guardian's gates.

Only Siola's party is the one following that guy, which has been confirmed by the way he talks, he is an NPC.

This might lead to something big, is what Siola believes.

Going through a narrow corridor, Rakuri step up and asked him, "So, what's your plan to get out of here? This place doesn't look like an escape route."

"Hehehe…"

Hearing the man started giggling, Rakuri gripped her staff even tighter.

"You travelers always use that gate, aren't you? Lemme share a bit of my knowledge with you, so, hear me well" lifting his finger right in front of eyes, "There is this powerful spell hidden in one of the rooms that we are about to meet, it is called [Rift Pa.s.sage] if we can find it, we can get out of here safely."

"…" Rakuri's face started hardened, "Safely? What does it do, teleport us out?"

"Yeah, but unlike the usual teleport, we can go wherever we want as long as we know the coordinates. How about it, still interested?"

Siola then steps forward. Trying to look down at the man with her short height, she said, "Obviously a helping hand won't be as free as charity these days. Why don't you just spit it out and tell us what is it that you exactly want us to do? Do we need to cut our limbs off for you to share that book?"

The man's lip widened as it tilted, "Nice to see smart people for once. You see, inside the room that has the spellbook in it… there's a monster that would explode when you got in contact with it, can't see a thing in there, and these room shuffled faster than you picking up flowers."

"How do you know all of that?"

His smile still hasn't faded, he quickly turned around and remove his shirt. Trembling lips as Siola's face hardened, she knows that she shouldn't have asked that.

Aside from the heavily trained muscle ma.s.s of his back, the wounds are the main attention. Body full of st.i.tches and burnt, with a single look, one could tell that he has been through a lot.

"Take a step wrong, this is what gonna happen to ya."

Siola was speechless. Imagine that it happened to her, she won't be able to even st.i.tch it. Rakuri went and said, "What else in there?"

"Two dogs, 6 heads. I've killed one, so watch out for the other. That piece son of a beast can chomp your head off without you even looking" pausing for a moment, "Don't know about the other two."

"…"

Rakuri pondered for a moment, glancing at Kurira, and then turned to Siola. She looked at her with puppy eyes, Rakuri knows exactly what she's thinking and thought, 'This girl… so cute— wait no! We should prioritize our safety first, there is no guarantee what would happen to us if we go in there. That guy might not be lying, but if we're careless, we might—"

"All right" out of nowhere, Kurira cut her thought and decided on her own, "Let's go then."

"Wait, what are you doing, we should—"

"Come on, hon. Seriously? It isn't like you to be thinking so much."

It is true, but now that Siola is with them, Rakuri doesn't want to put her in danger. Thinking up a chance like half of the doors there lead to something unknown, who knows what is going to be on them. Two led into monsters, so there is a high chance that they are going to encounter the same in the other two.

After a sigh, she agrees with it. Seeing Siola went hyper spirited made her happy. Though, she's still worried.

They soon arrived to a dome-like room, sticking each of their hands-on each door.

Opening them in sync, they quickly went inside and readied their weapons.

…

First room, Siola's encounter.

True to what the man says, inside is dark. Siola never has memories fond of such places, as she swallowed her saliva, she pressed forward.

*Grr*

Sound of grunting can be heard mildly, her eyes quickly widened as she took a step on a pile of bones, "Holy s.h.i.t"

*Grahn*

Three-headed dogs emerge from the dark and quickly bite her arms, "Ngh, hiiiiieeeeeee!"

Another one of its heads tries to bite her head but blocked by her other arm. Having three heads meaning it can take three things into his mouths.

*Grahn *Grahn *Grahn

Dola kept avoiding it, going left and right, its sharp teeth already sink to both of her arms.

*Chomp*

"Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaah*

It managed to bite her neck, as quickly as possible, the dog tore her neck. Eating skin as soft as snow and meat tender as chicken, the dog has gotten himself a dinner.

*Grahn *Grahn

"Ngh, nghf" her eyes starts tearing up as a wave of notification flood in her vision, she saw her Health dropping faster than she's drink up milk. Faster than she could ever imagine.

Something about this scene… makes it uncomfortable for anyone to see.

"Ahh… ahh…"

Instead of trying to break free from the dog's grasp, Siola started moaning. Her vision rolled out as blood coming out of her mouth, "Ahh, yes, yeeeeeesss." The pain… gave her pleasure.

As her front neck got taken away from her, her voice comes with it.

*Cough*

Another cough of blood burst out, the monster went down and tried to chomp off the meat of her arms, Siola didn't resist them at all. Though, she already has something in mind. 'd.a.m.n, can't believe it's actually working. Those Yandere b.i.t.c.hes aren't in it for nothing. Haa… wish I have more time with you, boys, but I need to go back now.'

Grasping her palm again, flood of dark magical energy started whirling around it, mumbling in her mind, '[Create Entry-tier Undead] Randomized Skeleton.'

As her health goes down, the chunks of bones goes up, forming into a full-body skeleton with a husky smoke radiating from its chest. 'Help me out, boy.'

The skeleton quickly moves and then kicked the dog away from her, after another cough, she turned around trying to hold back her ground. She waved her hand and mumbled once more inside her mind, '[Create Entry-tier Undead] Randomized Skeleton.'

Again, another body of skeleton was formed form the chunks of bones.

'Heh, this is what I learn back in the library. Instead of using [Reanimate] to raise a skeleton, you could use the Create spell and raised a Randomized Skeleton, which is far superior IF I'm lucky. Too bad, I can't tell since I don't have [Appraisal] on me.'

With body full of bites and wounds, most of her flesh have left her. Even with all of that, she continues to step towards the dog, pointing down at it, "Heeeee… eeeeheeghehghefwe, nwa wen." She formed her finger like a gun and then, "Bwam"

The two skeletons quickly rushed toward the dog. It jumped towards one of them, but the other sacrificed its own arm, letting the dog bite it instead, and then slam it to the ground.

*Bam*

Following that, the sharp parts of their bony fingers scratches its skin. Pulling its tongues out and poked their eyes with it. Continuing on, they rip the dog apart mercilessly.

Blue blood spilling out of it, and it continue on for the next minute. Siola who is holding her meatless throat formed a grin of satisfaction seeing the view in front of her, so beautiful and wonderfully done.

[Details]

- Enemy defeated: 1 (Infant Undead Cerberus)

- EXP gained: 500

- (Bonus) EXP gained: 5000

[Loot obtained]

- Petty Cerberus Core x1

- (Bonus) Petty Cerberus Core x1

'Oh, oohhh. Here it comes, here it comes!'

And indeed, it is. A series of notification has appeared to inform her of her glory.

Surge of magical energy spiraling inside her body, healing her wounds and recovers her meat. Widening her eyes like a madman, she burst out a laughter, "Bwehehe, that 5k exp was really smart of her."

Back when Rakuri asked Kosumba for his exp, she wanted it solely because that was the amount they needed to achieve level 20.

Even though Rakuri has been away from the game for a long time, she still remember many things about the game since this game is the one that gave life to her.

A gamer always have that one game they are most pa.s.sionate about, no matter if it's new or OG, everyone must have one. Even in the late years, they still remembers about them, even though not by much, they could at least sit down in a bar and talk about them for hours on end.

And this game is it for the three of them.

By using a not so well-known exploit, they can skip through the rank up process and promote themselves from a Starter into a Novice. The devs knew about this but did not do anything to fix it. That's because it's something that they encourage people to find out, and Rakuri is one of them that are lucky to stumble upon it.

Though, only her knows it as she kept it hidden from the other two. The reason why they can rank up their status, is because Rakuri is the one who is doing it for them.

It is not a bug... but a feature.

Moving her jaw left and right, "Sst, goodness. So, it's a baby Cerberus, huh. Kinda look like a dog to me though."

Staring at the two skeletons who are returning back to her, "Good job, boyos. You can leave now." She lifted her finger and snapped them. Using [Release Seal] they returned to their former form, piles of bones.

'Different than waiting until them died out, with the use of that seal, I can ressed them again without extra cost and the duration would be reset. This can potentially be an exploit, the 300s time limit made it impossible to make it happen though.'

She grabbed her staff back and look around the room, after finding that it's empty, she went back out. Sighing, she expected to get at least a treasure or two.

When she left the room, she noticed that the other guy is also outside. "You're back. Come here, I got the book" he said.

"Was the creature in there?"

"No. It must've gone to another room. Let's go, we have to help them."

"Hmm… no."

"Huh? You're going to leave your friends behind?"

"Of course not, I just think they can handle it themselves. If you want to help, how about giving me a rub? My shoulders getting stiffed."

"…"

The man shows concern in his face. Seeing his concerning look, Siola is glad knowing that he's not someone malicious. "So, can tell me more about yourself?" she said as she rested her legs on the stone floor. The man sighed and leap over to the other side, putting his hands on her shoulder, he ma.s.saged her.

"Mm… oh yeah, that hits the spot."

"…" still glancing at the door, he said, "Gallus."

"Mm, Gallus, I see. Have you been here long? Did you miss your family and want to go back?"

His hands tightened. "Oww!"

"Ah, sorry. I didn't mean to." Tilting her head, Siola then responded, "No. Sorry, it was thoughtless of me."

"…" after a silence, the man spoke again, "I used to have a wife and a child, a very delicate and frail daughter. She took her away to live with another man. His schemes sent me here."

Siola kept listening with hardened expression.

Sighing, "It's been a while since then. I don't remember how long exactly, but I used to be young and handsome back then."

*Pfft*

"I'm sure you are" she said.

"Hehe, what about you, traveler? What makes you decide to come here, to our world?"

"Hrrmm… because it's… my home, I guess."

"Home? …" with a smile on his face, he responded, "I see."

*Crack *Crack

*Bwooomph*

Another door is opening, they quickly glanced up and see... it is Kurira this time��� with all the disgusting goo sprinkled all over her. "Eww, what the h.e.l.l happened in there?"

Kurira shifted her eyes and saw the man is rubbing Siola's shoulder, "HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!!" she quickly jumped over. This startled the man, "Ah, she was the one who asked—"

She quickly sits down beside her and yelled, "I DON'T CARE!! RUB MY BACK TOO!!!"

"Huh?"

Siola rubbed her ears, "G.o.dd.a.m.n it, why do you have to be so loud."

Gallus can only sigh, resisting would be even more of annoyance for him. He went and rubbed Kurira's shoulder, but she suddenly stripped her clothes naked.

"Err…" Siola was baffled, "What the heck—"

"Shut up. Now, do it! Rub my back!!"

Gallus is sweating. His palm is sweating, after touching her delicate skin, she moaned, "Hauuu…"

"Kurira! It's taboo to moan like that when you got ma.s.saged."

"Geh, just shut it. He's an old man, can he even get a b.o.n.e.r at that age."

The said old man may not have the b.o.n.e.r right now, but if this keeps up… even someone like him... could get one. He is still... invigorated with life after all. Each time he pressed his thumb, Kurira moaned so erotically. Her backside is exposed, and only being covered by a rag covering her breast.

This is torture for him.