"I want so insights and epiphany in Limitless Plane if possible," Rin thoughtfully said before she ford words in her mind and continued.
"You can try to feel things and learn more about tal Elent in so islands rich with magical ores while I will roam in thunderous and lightning areas," Rin clenched her fists in determination as she added, "Let's try to reach level 2 in our affinities. I am sure it will give us a significant boost in power."
"Sounds good. We need more power to safely and dominantly establish ourselves here until it's ti to leave," Erix nodded, his eyes laced with ice-cold determination. "Let's focus on that progress in Limitless Plane until we achieve it."
Closing their eyes, they ditated for a few seconds before they entered the Limitless Plane.
However, they were imdiately greeted by a familiar avatar as they arrived in the sky above the vast ocean filled with islands.
The avatar was none other than the woman who gave them the Spiritual Art, The Way of Unfettered.
Tenebria.
"You…"
Rin and Erix were startled.
"It's about ti we t again," Tenebria said with an obscure smile in her obscure avatar.
Rin and Erix saw the avatar's eyes shining before a familiar item materialized before Erix.
Babin Maw Hook!
"Erix. I gave you this artifact for your benefit. It is cursed, but I am sure you will overco it and reap the benefits. Feel its depths by using and mastering it and try to comprehend its space power."
"As for the other thing…" the woman avatar paused before turning to Rin. The woman's smile beca prominent as her lips moved.
"What?" Erix couldn't hear anything, but when he looked at Rin, he was taken aback seeing her sparkling expression filled.
"It really works like that?" Rin asked, her face flushed red. In her origin region, she could feel an additional rune, an additional power.
Tenebria chuckled softly and confird with a nod. "Enjoy the discovery. It's ti for to depart."
At that, Tenebria's avatar disappeared.
"What were you talking about?" Erix quipped in puzzlent.
"That's a surprise~ You will know when the ti cos," Rin cheekily grinned.
Erix helplessly smiled.
"Co on, I'll show you the islands I was talking about."
"It seems you've explored before."
"Yep."
…
After a while, Erix and Rin entered their own different worlds.
Erix was ditating on an island's tallest peak. The island was filled with all sorts of ore veins containing all sorts of tal and other materials.
He was sensing all of them by spreading his consciousness, learning about them, and searching their depths. He wanted to familiarize himself with the foundation of tal and the tal elents and comprehend their mysteries.
Of course, he could automatically learn about unique tal structures during that process as ore veins contained various tals, thus myriad ways to understand the foundation of tal Elents in the taphysical realm, which includes the law of tal itself.
On the other hand, Rin was also in a similar process to deepen her understanding and achieve mastery of Lightning.
Amidst thundering clouds with blue and purple lightning dancing around, Rin floated and let herself be struck by lightning with the unlimited power accessed through using the Way of Unfettered spiritual art in the Limitless plane.
Since whatever they imagined could be achieved with the Way of Unfetterened in Limitless Plane, both Rin and Erix were using this Spiritual Art to the fullest to aid them in quenching their thirst for acquiring more power.
It didn't take long for an hour to pass in this manner as they were kicked out abruptly with their ditation breaking at once.
Both of them slumped down, their faces plastered with disappointnt.
"I felt like I was so close to breaking through to the next level," Erix sighed.
"Sa," Rin rotated slightly, putting her head on Erix's lap.
"We'll enter the next session right after twelve tonight."
"Okie. I'll give you a surprise before that, and that'll take three hours, so let's finish today's adventure by nine," Rin grinned and pulled Erix's cheeks. "It's going to be fun."
…
Rin and Erix left the Inn and directly went to the Hunter Guild.
After looking around the hall, they learned various things and chose three missions.
All of them were in Blood Stone Forest.
1. Collect 12x Horns of Redrock Goats. Reward: 30,000 Abyss coins.
2. Collect 60x Feathers of Bloodthirsty Chickens. Reward: 60,000 Abyss coins.
3. Collect 10x Red Mist Bloom. A type of flower. Reward: 100,000 Abyss coins.
…
While Rin and Erix were heading to the Blood Stone Forest, they were unaware of a pair of eyes following them.
Inside the Dark Queen's mansion, she sat on her dark red throne with four people standing before her.
Two middle-aged n with nervous expressions wearing rchant outfits and two young won in maid dresses.
"Lion Force guild is determined to build their post in Blood Stone Forest and have already taken over one of your Blood Stone mines in the north of the forest," said the vampire maid with a slender and tall figure with straight blond hair.
"Did they kill our people?" Dark Queen asked, her eyes coldly narrowed.
"Four dead. The rest escaped, and they didn't chase," the other maid, an elf girl looking in her late teens with a long brown ponytail, answered.
"Launch a probing attack and assess their power," Dark Queen ordered.
"Understood."
Both maids bowed and left.
"Now, you two pigs," Dark Queen coldly glanced at the two middle-aged n. One human and one dwarf. "Give a good reason to spare you."
"Please give us one more chance. We will pay back the exact worth of your resources we smuggled."
Dark Queen coldly chuckled, "You didn't even receive the paynt for things you helped smuggle out of my territory. You were caught before you could escape. So…."
"How-are-you-going-to-pay ?!"
Although Dark Queen couldn't personally hurt them because of the 10-level difference rule, she had her subordinates around their levels to do the work.
"L-Let us go and retrieve our paynt. We'll give all of that to you on top of paying more."
"Yes. We can form a soul contract."
"No need to form a soul contract," Dark Queen suddenly smiled, a smile oozing out pure cruelty. "I trust you."
"Because I have the ans to find you and give you the worst tortures if you don't pay on ti."
"Now, scram."
"T-Thank you for your generosity."
Both n quickly left after thanking her.
On the other hand, Dark Queen murmured sothing and waved her hand, causing a red-bordered cloudy screen to manifest before her.
The screen showed a forest and two individuals dancing around trees with quick and deadly attacks against a bunch of rock-scaled red goats with drilling horns.
Leaning back on her throne, Lilith silently observed Erix and Rin with a hint of amusent and interest.
'A hybrid of zombie and a human. Undead and living.'
'What do you have that broke the zombie hex and allowed you to keep your soul with such a pure undead source?'
A strange drunken expression replaced her face, her cheeks painted with red. 'A zombie, the lowest and purest of undead, rged with living...'
'Fascinating creature~ I want you and your future!'
The direction of Erix's evolution, when ascending to Royal-order, would be sothing never before seen because reaching Royal-order ant going through a proper bio-magical evolution of their body, and Erix would be the first Hybrid Zombie to achieve that.
Being a hybrid herself, Lilith seed to have sothing in mind, an experint, and an ambition to use another hybrid with a different nature but having partially similar factors.
Human and Zombie, Demon and Vampire. Both hybrids had one thing in common.
Zombie and Vampire were both undead-type lifeforms, but Erix was a never-before-seen hybrid!
'You will be mine!' a devilish grin, a lusty expression adopted her face as Lilith continued watching Erix.
Underneath her eccentric behavior was also a calculus that was forming a plan on how to acquire her toy.
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