Chapter 190: Caught!

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A beautiful blonde long-haired Demigoddess holding a staff found herself somewhere else out of nowhere. Her eyes flashed with bright emerald light, she was concerned and even began to panic. Her beauty was unparalleled, but could not save her from what had happened, and although her priestess clothes enhanced her defenses and magic power, she was still thrown into the Teleportation Trap and sent elsewhere.

However, despite her young looks, she was an old Demigoddess of Life of several hundreds of years of age, who liked to deceive young Mortals into praying for her as she charmed them with the beauty of her statues, which depicted her real body almost nude, only covered by white robes around.

She recalled what had happened, Ophelia had been suddenly trapped inside a spatial bubble that was somehow invisible to the other Demigods, and then, a mass of red flesh grabbed her and threw her into a Teleportation Trap.

Then, she lost her sight and woke up here, confused, and her clothes were a bit tattered. She was gasping for air and her heart was beating fast. She felt tired and exahsuted and was fearful now that the other more battle-oriented Demigods were separated from her.

She was not confident in her own battle prowess as much, as she specialized in healing magic and support magic. Being thrown here out of nowhere had really scared her completely.

"Where am I? What is this place?!"

She quickly stood up, as she found herself in the middle of a volcanic land. There were monsters wandering around, draconic creatures covered in red scales and breathing fire, in the shape of giant lizards, piranhas, and more.

They all glared at her as she felt the heat of the place make her entire body be shrouded in sweat.

"Unngh…!"

"RROOARRR!"

The massive fiery draconic creatures exuded divine power as they flew towards her, firing fireballs, volcanic downpours of lava, massive fiery rocks, and everything they possibly could!

"S-Shit!"

Ophelia gritted her teeth as she began to charge her offensive magic, firing all sorts of light magic attacks. Powerful arrows, rays of light, explosions of photon energy, blinding flashes to stop them before catching her, and more!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Naturally, these beasts were still weaker than a Demigod, and died miserably, being torn to shreds by her attacks. But because they were so many god damn ants, she still felt pressured to attack before they could catch her and spent divine energy desperately to survive and keep going forward.

Due to this, she ended being taken over by exhaustion in just a few minutes… and there was nowhere to be seen in the scene.

"W-Where is everyone? Not even the enemy is here?! Did they seriously just threw me in this infernal pit to die out? Do they think it will work!?" she cried in anger, as she took out a few Divine Energy Crystals from her Divine Realm and consumed them, recovering divine energy slowly.

However, there was something very wrong with this Dungeon, the monsters were all Divine Beasts, and continued to spawn… endlessly! It was as if billions of mana coming from somewhere were fueling this entire dungeon to continuously generate monsters without stopping. She barely had any time to relax, even flying upwards wouldn't be enough as flying monsters would try to catch her and dozens of fireballs and volcanic breath attacks would reach her anywhere, she went!

Nonetheless, she still held the upper hand in strength, and continued to pull through, killing these beasts even gave her some essence, which she thought might make her stronger, but she suddenly felt as if this essence was not being given to her but drained elsewhere, into the ground itself.

It was as if the dungeon wasn't letting her get any EXP!

"W-What the heck is this place even?!" she wondered, fighting desperately against the draconic beasts, as a clone of Chaos, sharing his soul and mind, was watching her over alongside a clone of Abyss that also shared her soul. Boxxy was here too, and they were covered in the Illusion Veil skill of Chaos.

"She's working hard!" laughed Abyss.

"Indeed, should we strike now, master?" asked Boxxy.

"Not yet, we have not necessity of striking yet. She can exhaust herself all she wants while the Dungeon absorbs all the essence of the monsters she slays. Through my power over the dungeon, I can redirect this energy to us, and therefore…" said Chaos, as he saw all the "EXP" that was rightfully of Ophelia fly to him, Abyss, and Boxxy, slowly enhancing their stats!

They were leeching off her hard work while also weakening her! And she was so terribly at detecting illusions that she couldn't even see nor sense them! To begin with, without the artifact to detect Chaos, it was impossible for the Demigods to find him.

They continued to steal EXP from Ophelia, as Ophelia grew more and more tired! The time passed, the clock continued, and… things were not changing for the better for this Demigoddess!

"W-What's… Ungh…! Why is this not stopping?!"

She continued to run away from the monsters, but they always cornered her and forced her to back, she was being continuously pushed forward and backward, all the time! It was as if destiny was playing cruelly against her, her entire and beautiful body was shrouded in sweat, her divine energy was dimming…

Chaos eyes flashed with crimson light, as he, Boxxy, and Abyss, were ready to attack.

TRUUMM…!

Suddenly, the bubble of space made by Abyss opened, as Ophelia was suddenly attacked from behind by three mysterious figures!

FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!

"E-Eh?!"

All the monsters around quickly felt paralyzed before the dungeon master, as Chaos, Abyss, and Boxxy pushed forward, catching Ophelia off guard!

"Y-You?!"

Ophelia was thrown into the ground by a powerful kick by Chaos, her ribs broke immediately due to the sheer strength of his legs, which were overcharged with divine flames and chaos while using Crimson's Divine Technique named "Blazing Drop Kick"!

CLAAAASH!

"UAGGH…!"

BOOM!

The pathetic Demigoddess fell over the ground, vomiting blood.

Her face was shrouded in horror!

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