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A black glint of light flashed through his eyes.
Leylin calmly started to walk around the crevice. The interior of the crevice looked like an ore mine with huge amounts of roots creeping in the surroundings.
The roots intertwined across the walls as if they were covering the surroundings of the cave like a fishnet.
Leylin continued to traverse into the cave. After walking for about a kilometer, he reached a yellow tree root that was like a wall that blocked its path.
“Intruder! Answer one question of mine, or else you’ll be ripped into pieces!” from the large trunk of the tree, the face of an old man emerged. The old man stared at leylin trying to intimidate him.
Leylin didn’t bother to answer the stupid ‘Gemstone Starfish’ question to the Misleading Mist Tree Root. he knows that this Misleading Mist Tree Root was just a trap in the first place! Even if an intruder got the answer correct, he or she would still be lured into a trap.
“Latent Fireball”
“Inferno Mass”
Leylin raised his hands and instantly casted two of his spells, along with this he also threw a blue colored potion into the mix.
Numerous small black fireballs were launched in the Misleading Mist Tree Root direction, instantly followed by many crimson colored menacing beast.
The blue colored potion landed right on the roots and a gale of gas was released from it and wrapped the whole area.
Both the attack somehow intensified as the Potion hit the tree. The red light intensified, it grew from covering a root to instantly covering the entire wall, and drew close to the Misleading Mist Tree Root.
“What is this…Argh…”
Following which, the Misleading Mist Tree Root’s screams could be heard throughout the garden.
Leylin could still hear the dense, hair raising, terrifying screams while he was at the entrance of the hole, coldly looking on as the tree is howling like a crazed beast.
The flames began to mercilessly scorch down on the roots. Within only a couple of minutes, the Misleading Mist Tree Root was burned to ashes.
The Misleading Mist Tree Root’s screams become weaker, until it finally came to a stop.
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“It’s time to get rid of the extras” Leylin thought to himself as he rubs his ring, before walking into the mud tunnel, which had mostly collapsed.
Very soon, he came to where the Misleading Mist Tree Root originally stood. It was a pity, however, that it was now only filled with ashes and the burnt remnants of a husk. All traces of the huge tree root’s countenance had also disappeared.
Leylin looked at the two paths that stood before him, one was the black tunnel that the Misleading Mist Tree Root uses as a bait to trap the intruder, and other was the bronze coloured path which was present where the Misleading Mist Tree Root once stood.
The pathway seemed to be formed using ceramic. It looked extremely crude, but had a unique, good feeling about it.
As for the path, there was even a line of ancient Byron characters, “Tunnel to Experiment Lab #1! Top secret! Only authorized personnel allowed!”
The bronze coloured pathway wasn’t long, and Leylin quickly reached its depths.
There was a small hall and in front of it, there was a black metal door, which was extremely tall, and over 4 meters wide.
On the metal door frame, there were various magic runes with the words ‘Experiment Lab #1. Supervisor: Edward’ written on it.
The words on the metal door were obviously very old, as there was some dust on it, and it looked slightly beaten.
When Leylin was in front of the doors, two figures entered his field of view
After seeing them, Leylin looked coldly at them. His hands were crossed behind his back and he looked like a guy who is not here to mess around.
The old with and Jaye looked at the newcomer and instantly assumed defensive position.
“Who are you, where is Virago? ” The old witch asked, but from the looks of it, Leylin could tell that she is preparing a offensive attack. Jaye immediately stood behind the old witch at this moment. The magic rays emitted from her body.
At this final moment, Leylin didn’t bother with any disguise, so his real face was for all to see. For him, all the use of that these two were to him was over and, at this moment keeping them alive is just adding to his trouble and keeping unaccounted variables.
Leylin looked coldly and activated his innate spell Kemoyin Scales and attacked without any pretense.
“Shadow Domain”
A black Shadow covered the area and an ominous aura spread throughout the tunnel. The Old witch and Jaye both immediately threw their attack spell in the direction of Leylin.
*Boom*
Explosive sound reverberated throughout the room, and a menacing silence falls upon the area, The gut feeling and years of experience of The Old witch told her that this is far from enough to get rid of him.
” Ahhhh”
A piercing shrill scream sounded as the Old Witch was beyond scared as she recognized the voice. She turned around to locate her daughter and saw her binded with 4 Snakes wrapped around her body, one of them had it’s fang penetrate her neck and blood flow from her neck.
“Jaye! ”
The Old witch face morphed into a crazed and menacing look, as she howled her daughter name and stride towards her.
Suddenly the Fangs began to pierce even deeper and the old witch stopped in her tracks, as if someone poured a bucket of cold water on her, she was rudely made aware of the fact that her daughter life is in her advisory hands.
” What do you want? Do you know who I am? ” Old witch calmed down a bit, seeing that the Magus could probably be reasoned with, since he decided to hold her daughter captive rather than killing her.
” Oh! Of course I know about the elder Old Devil from ‘Thousand Meddling Hands ‘, and what I want is a very simple and reasonable request and that is everything that you have obtained from this plane”
Leylin walked out of the shadows with a confident smile on his face, as his hands were behind his back.
He rubbed his ring again and was satisfied with the outcome, The ring looked somewhat different than before now, instead of 7 snakes, there was only 3 left there.
This ring is one of his Trump card, it’s nothing else but his trusted and old Fallen Star Pendant itself. After Leylin went through his Bloodline Transition, He decided to upgrade his weapon a step further too.
Back in Dark Magi region he has created meridians on his Fallen Star Pendant. Since then he has used innumerable amount of resources to keep evolving it and in the end after he refined enough Pure essence, he shifted 7 drops of his pure blood essence from his meridian to the Fallen star pendant.
Then he used complex magical formation and rune arts to create a ring out of the pendant, The ring is divided into 7 source of strength with the materialization of 7 snakes, each containing one Drop of pure blood essence.
At this moment Leylin is able to command and maneuver his weapon with greater familiarity and simplicity. He has choose to call it – Ring of Despots.
“You… ” The Old Witch was beyond agitated but still hold on, as another scream escaped Jaye’s mouth.
” I will agree but you will have to swear an oath to let us go or else How would I know that you will not kill us after I gave you what you want? ” The Old witch retaliated with a demand of her own.
“I highly doubt that you have the ability to raise any demands here ” Leylin spoked coldly and walked towards the pair, as soon as his words fall Old witch got into a offensive position.
“But don’t worry I will not kill you, I don’t want to make an enemy out of the Dark Magi organization behind you the ‘Thousands Meddling Hands’, I am simply following orders, if you agree to my request I will not take this risk myself ” Leylin spoke with a easygoing and trusty smile, as if he is the most benevolent man to ever walk the face of this world.
Leylin presented himself as a member of an organization, Old witch knows that if he is following orders then his higher up will definitely not let him be pursued, but if by any chance he goes beyond that order and act on his own then his life will be in jeopardy.
Old devil fall into a contemplative thought, as she cursed the 7 generation of Leylin family. She was left with no choice, She decided quickly to agree with his demand and not give him a chance to torture her daughter.
With a pained and malevolent look in her eyes, she tossed multiple scripture, manuals and recipe formula towards Leylin.
“This is all I have, Now let her go! ” Old witch calmly said betraying all the agitation in her heart.
Leylin capture them and once over it, as he looked at Jaye and currently, his pupils had already changed to an amber colour, seemingly giving a peculiar gaze.
“Look into my eyes!” Leylin spoke with a strange tone as it brought a hissing sound with it. It was as though a snake was speaking.
Innate spell — the Eye of Petrification!!!
That voice seemed to carry a weird power. The Jaye couldn’t help but look into Leylin’s eyes with a bizarre expression.
*Creak! Creak!*
A greyish white halo started to shoot out from the Her eyes and erupted to enclose all of her body changing her into a sculpture.
Looking at the latest turn of events, The Old Witch was beyond shocked, even though she knew that escaping unscratched was not possible but still this quick and decisive attack of Leylin threw her off.
She turned around to look in Leylin direction with eyes spitting out fire and fury that she never felt before, and was about to retaliate and take revenge for her daughter.
Suddenly a vertically slit amber eyes stared her down, with it’s magnificent and tyrannical presence. Before Old witch could do anything a unimpressive punch zoomed on her face, She could see but not react.
Even she was bewildered how can a blow move so slow yet so fast, Sadly she didn’t have much time to ponder on this scene, as the punch landed on her head and it exploded like watermelon.
*Puch*
Her cranial juice spilled all over the floor and the headless corpse slumped down on the cold hard unforgiving ground.
“Bad move, You didn’t give me the keys, even if you did I would have killed you but still, you didn’t give me the Key! ”
Leylin looked at both the bodies laying around the floor, The snakes quickly traced itself back to it’s place on his ring.
“A mother trying all she can for her dying daughter, In any place on Earth, it’s a heart warming scene and one to be praised too. Hell even on this world it’s a good thing to see that there is emotions here in some people. But sadly this is a world which despises weakness and your love was your weakness! With the scripture and resources you got from here coupled with this many years of accumulation, you could have became a Peak Rank 1 Magus easily and with some luck even a Rank 2 but *Sigh*.. ”
Leylin looked at the headless corpse of Old Witch with no emotion present on his face at all, even though he feels it’s a sad story, he couldn’t care less.
“Even though I don’t push all those near me away from me, No matter what happens, I refuse to become a weak hearted man who will lose sight of what’s important and end up as a headless corpse and a target of pity for others. Your plight give a chance for me to exploit this situation and I will ”
Immediately after, Leylin began to check all the belonging on Old witch, The reason why he didn’t get rid of them before was, because he knew that the old witch had found out about these ruins much earlier, She must have already reaped a bountiful harvest from within the ruins before this expedition and even now she has taken a lots of resources from here.
Leylin got lots of things from them, many ancient scripture and manuals, along with the defensive mechanism they fixed up on the bones mountain. He also got the Key to open the entrance.
He calmly walked forward, and touched the black metal door.
Upon contact, an icy cold feeling could be felt as first, before a hotter temperature was felt. As for the sturdy metal door, it gave off a feeling of being indestructible.
There was a brass keyhole at the center of the black door. The ethereal keyhole gave a bone freezing feeling.
He withdrawn an extremely thick yellow bronze key, This key was rather curvy, as if it was a ladle, but it was a perfect fit for the keyhole on the door.
“For one whole year, I have prepared for this moment. I have forcefully suppressed my advancement and prepared dozens of contingency plan for you Gargamel, For this fight I have prepared all that I can. Now It’s Showtime! ” Leylin smiled with a fire burning in his eyes, a gale was formed by his unconscious release of Spiritual force, Leylin took the bronze key, and inserted it into the door.
*Clang! Dong!*
