Asmodeus left the tower, only to find everyone waiting for him with weapons in hand while glaring at the ghostly Funf. He couldn’t help but chuckle and wave them off. "It’s fine, don’t worry. She’s harmless now."
"He’s right~ I can only touch him. Kekekeke!"
"Ahhh! She talked!"
Brando let out a loud shout while swinging his fist with a snap of wind.
"Don’t be so childish, haven’t you seen a spirit before?" Martha’s lips curled into a smile despite her gently coaxing of the bald muscle man. But it worked. Brando stopped acting nervous and instead focused on Martha.
That’s when she looked over his shoulder. "So, you’re going to carry that thing with you?"
"Well, not like I have a choice."
"Oi?! Who is a thing? I’m the beautiful and alluring lady i!"
Asmodeus shook his head and tapped Brando’s shoulder. "Just let it go, brother. It’s ti for action, we’re leaving this place." He then looked back at Funf, not yet ready to call her i and narrowed his eyes.
"Okay, okay, I get it!"
"Can the portal really work from here?"
She floated in the air around Asmodeus while observing the entire zone, then glanced back with a nod. "He’s not watching; sothing must be happening outside." Although the auction continued, the Crystal Abyssal seed busy.
’It must be Serena and the Valkyries.’
"Alright, Brando, you and Martha are going to head back to Luria now." Asmodeus didn’t pause for their response and knelt to place both hands on the sand wall. He closed his eyes, picturing the beautiful castle where his little treasures ran around playing together.
"What do you an?!"
"Honey, look at who’s with us, don’t you get it?" Martha corrected her husband, who looked like a lost puppy. But she couldn’t refuse Asmodeus’s offer. Their group had a few n and several won, half of whom were pregnant, including her.
’I’m counting on you, i.’
His chest churned with a sudden thud as if soone grabbed his three hearts and yanked them from his body. To endure, Asmodeus bit his lip. He sank his teeth deep into the soft flesh as his fangs broke the skin.
’This helps.
The sharp pain in his mouth overwrote the dull, throbbing ache spreading from his chest to stomach as blue luminous light grew around his body and the entire group.
Slowly but surely, the beautiful image of Luria fluttered in a faint mirage as the purple portal ford.
"Go, I can’t hold it for long."
"But..."
"Brando, my goal was to save you, brother... please."
Brando’s eyes widened. Blood dripped from Asmodeus’s nose, and he instantly rushed to Martha’s side and took her hand. "Let’s go, babe."
One by one, the forr slaves each offered thanks to Asmodeus before entering the portal. None of them could have imagined this end.
i’s figure shimred, becoming faint after the last person broke through.
"Are you alright?" Asmodeus wiped the blood and, with a smile, asked the weakening ghost. "Maybe you’re going to pass on now?"
"W-Who is?!" She protested.
The blue portal cracked.
"It seems that we’ve reached the limit; from here on, we won’t be able to use this thod, Asmodeus." Sotis i would show a serious expression that caught him by surprise because of the impression her persona before death gave.
"It’s fine. If I need to, I will force my way through. But, how long will it take to escape the arena, and will that guy find out?"
Valena sat on the wall beside Asmodeus. She didn’t take the portal, and of course, he didn’t ask her to. If she just appeared, it might cause havoc, and he also wanted to enjoy the feeling of riding this dragon ho.
"He’s already realised sothing, but because I used my technique, he’ll think it was my actions that interfered, not you. Ehe." i winked with her little tongue out.
"Don’t do that..."
"Hmph, damn stone man!"
"So what now?" Valena asked while hugging her shins.
Asmodeus glanced towards the sky, where previously he could see the auction area. But after Funf, aka i, appeared here, that sight vanished. So now he couldn’t help but seek help from her.
"Do you have a plan?"
"Of course I do, but first we need that lizard to transform."
"...Can I burn her?" Valena snorted flas from her nose as she grumbled.
"Haa... don’t fight, at least not now. It would be best to work together, then fight once we get ho. Alright?"
"Ho?" Both girls asked at the sa ti.
"Of course, from now on you’re both my people, so there has to be a ho."
Valena hopped off the wall, turning away from Asmodeus as she muttered to herself, with the tips of her long ears turning red. "I’ll help you this ti." She said with a coy voice. "Just this once, you hear ?!"
"I do, just this once. Okay."
Ba-dum!
The mont her limbs elongated and deford, Asmodeus felt his chest pounding, as if so kind of bond ford between them. He knew very little about dragons and didn’t ask, because sothing told him she’d act embarrassed if he did.
"ROAR!"
Suddenly, a familiar growl and howl of wind filled the arena as the massive dragon took her true form. Four sets of crimson wings, with claws at the tip, and two arms attached to her torso, rather than the inferior wyvern form from earlier.
"Did she grow?" He asked, glancing up at the massive beast.
He could swear her form looked smaller before this.
"Kukuku, so you noticed! How is it? Are you impressed, shocked, awed?!"
Valena’s tail swatted the sky, destroying the wall with a single sweep in her show of delight.
"You look amazing," Asmodeus said as he jumped onto her back, his hand gripping the exposed scales just above her neck. He applied magic to the base of his boots, then fused himself magically with her body. "Let’s go. i, guide her to the right spot."
As much as he wanted to play, right now his wife was fighting outside without help. He knew Velvet hurt herself and couldn’t continue to lead the others. Thus, Asmodeus refused to delay himself.
First, Nerim.
Then Lun and Logan.
Finally, his beloved wives and people.
.
.
.
Woosh!
They took flight.
Each ti a pair of her four wings flapped, her body flung higher into the air, ghost i wrapped around his body while shouting out the directions.
Asmodeus curled his lips, unable to hide his excitent.
Valena’s speed grew faster and faster as the fake sky shrank, transforming into a dark, distorted blur of space. Various shapes and images floated in the air as i guided the dragon towards the opening.
"Left! Past that strange toy!"
"Okay, okay..."
’So the Crystal Abyssal has the power of space... or a weakened idea of it.’
Thanks to Funf’s explanation on domains, he learned of the inherent limitations and the effect two people’s domains had on each other. It also explained why, sotis, when fighting an Abyssal or Arbiters, he felt his Ti Domain beco weaker, or, like against Ein, it had zero effect.
’The pressure I felt when first entering was him trying to exert his domain on ... to literally slice my throat the mont I entered.’
Asmodeus enjoyed this sensation; the wind pressure felt like small claws pulling on his face. A tiny glimr of light entered his sight in the distance.
"Is that the auction area?"
"Mhm, that’s the place we need to go. Are you ready?"
He gripped Axiom tight and closed his eyes, gathering all his different energies into one flow and pouring it into the haft of his halberd.
This process tickled, like little tongues licking his organs that slowly grew into sharp pricks and then a dull ache as the amount of death and abyssal energy grew. He bit down on his tongue to clear his mind as the letters across the tip of his halberd shone gold.
"That’s it! We need a domain to shatter another domain. Let’s call this Domain Breaker!"
"...."
Asmodeus thought it was cool, but he really didn’t want to give credit to i for coming up with such an interesting title.
He lifted his halberd in the air, directly above his head, while Valena’s speed increased exponentially. "I’m ready!" He counted in his mind as the small blemish in the twisted reality grew larger and larger.
A beautiful gold and purple glow wrapped the tip of his halberd. The power created a distorted arc of lightning that zapped the black, twisted space violently.
It almost resembled a Lion and a dragon fighting for supremacy.
3...
2...
1...
Asmodeus brought Axiom down.
The halberd scread.
Gold and violet light collapsed into a single line, then detonated outward in a destructive show of authority. The Abyssal’s domain buckled like warped glass under a hamr, fractures racing across the false sky in concentric rings.
His ferocious energy, which no other could match, devoured a portion of the domain’s essence before sucking it back into the halberd.
The false reality imploded.
Asmodeus burst through the sky with shards of black crystal dissolving into runic shapes. The force shook the auction domain, but despite this, the three stooges continued giving their little display.
He jumped from Valena’s back after seeing a familiar stage.
Maybe because of Funf’s skill, but when he leapt from Valena, he landed atop the crystal seat where Nerim sat.
"Phew..."
But when he opened the crystal, his eyes widened.
"Nerim?"
Inside the crystal, Nerim glanced up at him with dazed, misty eyes, her soft lips sticky with drool and her digits hidden between her thighs.
"Baby~ you finally ca for ."
Nerim lunged and dragged him inside, while he glared at the redhead floating beside him. Valena, perched on the stage, watched them with a huff of smoke.
The spirit of i whistled.
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