Chapter 301 - Moving On!

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Nesephise looked into the lake while everyone ate and enjoyed a rest. She was singing once more, her song suddenly began to grow stronger, but she still wasn't catching the complete ability.

However, as she continued to sing and her voice became more and more intense, her sound waved became strong, even showing up as waves of bright yellow-gold magic and not as invisible as sound waves would usually be.

"Wow… this is… Ah!" she thought, as she realized that many little critters were slowly swimming towards her. Salamander, large tadpoles, and even frogs and other amphibians, they were all coming to her side!

"A-Am I finally managing?!" she thought, however, her voice suddenly broke out of balance and the song was ruined.

The amphibians were scared, and quickly swam away from her side…

"Agh…" she sighed, feeling disappointed with herself.

Nesephise looked into the water reflecting her appearance, as she felt like she couldn't act this pathetic after all the things she had gone through.

"I almost grasped it… I just have to get over it and do it… But where is the big frog anyways? Is it really in the big city? What would be the chances for it to be there…?" she wondered.

"We'll find that info soon, don't worry." Said Abyss, appearing behind Nesephise.

"Ah, Abyss…" said Nesephise.

"You did it! I saw it, you attracted the creatures… Now you just have to use it with the big frog and communicate to it to exchange Chaos for her egg, right? The tale of the Elder said that the frog was able to retrieve people it selected if a Priest that could sing and talk to her would appear." Said Abyss.

"You're right… I think I can do it… I have to believe a bit more on myself, I guess." Sighed Nesephise.

"That's the spirit! Now let's go to the city, we'll find someone, and extract their info forcefully!" said Abyss.

"Haha, you guys methods are sometimes pretty rough… But I guess they're effective." Said Nesephise.

With that said, Nesephise quickly walked at the side of Abyss as the two girls reunited with the rest of the group, everyone had their fill by now, the giant catfish they caught and grilled was now completely gone, not even bones were left behind.

"Ready to go? But what about Ifrit? And Lilith?" wondered Natalia.

"Ifrit is still recovering, the time inside my divine realm is faster than in the outside, so an hour here might be several there, I believe he'll be able to join us in a few hours." Said Abyss.

"What with Lilith though? All out of the sudden she grew super attached to Ifrit… This is suspicious." Said Yuki.

"Yeah, I think she got the hots for him." said Boxxy.

"You girls! Stop talking about things such as these so casually!!!" sighed Belphegor.

"I don't really like to get involved in someone's else personal life like that… so I wouldn't be able to tell." Said Abyss.

"Well, we can always ask them!" said Yuki.

"Yeah, we want to know." said Boxxy.

"You two are oddly fixated with knowing this stuff… I believe we should let them be." Said Belphegor.

"I-I think this is not the time to talk about such personal things, don't be like that… Aren't you supposed to be adults?" asked Edward.

"Well, they're only around a year old." Said Natalia.

"Ah…" said Edward, his expression seemed surprised, but he also realized he already knew.

"Anyways! Let's get to it, enough talk." Said Abyss.

Abyss and the rest quickly flew up into the skies, crossing through several masses of clouds around, ands laying any beast that got in the way.

Nesephise seemed worried about her people, but Erebus told her that they were all fine.

"I have made a small biome inside my dungeon body which is a swamp, they're all rather comfortable there, the town was also put inside so they didn't even had to reconstruct anything… As of now they're just exploring and hunting fish." Said Erebus.

"Phew, are the children okay?" asked Nesephise.

"Yeah, the Elder and the Chief have been taking care of them, alongside a couple of other families, they're doing it as a form of gratitude to you, for having helped in protecting them twice by now…" said Erebus.

Nesephise smiled.

"I see, I am glad that's the case… I suppose I shouldn't worry so much then." Said Nesephise, as she looked into the distance, suddenly noticing a large city in the back!

"T-That city is…" she muttered.

"That's the one?" asked Abyss.

"It does looks similar to the one we destroyed back in our planet." Said Edward.

"Yeah…" said Erebus.

It looked like a highly futuristic city you would only find in most sci-fi stories, with large skyscrapers reaching the skies, hundreds of spaceships flying around, and upwards, and many other things.

Everyone quickly decided to move down and camouflage their presences as much as possible before anything else.

"We are here…" said Rot.

"The big city looks like fun… But we should just pick some people and quickly pull back." Said Yuki.

"Yeah, let's see…" said Boxxy.

"Boxxy, don't go picking up people based in how tasty they look." Said Belphegor.

"Ugh, okeeeey…" sighed Boxxy.

"More importantly, it should be some sort of important person, but not so important to be missed, a random citizen might not even be a good target if they only know the most basic stuff." Said Edward.

"Lilith's illusion magic would come in handy now." Said Erebus.

"I can actually use Illusion Veil, so leave the task to me." Said Natalia.

"Very well, Natalia is way more trustful than Boxxy or Yuki." Said Belphegor.

"I agree, you go for it." said Abyss.

"Alright!"

Natalia quickly covered herself in an invisible veil, and jumped over the walls, infiltrating inside the city. Meanwhile, the rest of the group stood there while hiding within the shadows of Erebus, who had the power of Shadow Sneak, which allowed him to meld with shadows…

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