Chapter 374 - Blood God's Fountain (Part-4)

Ryuu sat in front of Dhaeq as Dhaeq spoke with a smile on his face, "Thank you brother Ryuu, we do not know what we could have done without your help."

Ryuu simply smiled back towards him as he spoke, "Brother it was combined effort of all of us that helped us to prevail."

As they were about to speak a snotty voice interrupted them, "If you could create something then why did you not create something like that before, then we could have save some more of our people."

Ryuu's brow twitched as Dhaeq spoke with a snarl, "Elder Myde cease speaking in such foul manner."

As the Elder grumbled Ryuu gave her an apologetic smile as he spoke, "I wish to apologize Elder, I cannot fathom to understand your grief for your martyred brethren, but please believe me when I say there will be no one happier than me if I could have been able to erect the array ages ago."

Myde huffed as she spoke, "And may I inquire what stopped you."

Ryuu sighed as he gained a pained expression on his face, "Brother Dhaeq, you remember the first time you met asked my left hand."

Dhaeq's face scrunched up in confusion before he spoke with his eyes wide, "Yes yes you said you were attacked by some creature."

Ryuu nodded as he spoke with a sigh, "What I failed to tell you that we were above 30,000 strong, before we met the enemy, we did not even get chance to attack it, it simply breathed towards us and in blink of an eye so many died."

Upon hearing that the entire room was plunged into deathly silence as Ryuu continued, "Its poison was so dangerous that they all turned to ash within seconds upon coming in contact with it, so many had died that day, and the best part it was simply its breath it did not even bother attacking us, yet we fell that day."

Dhaeq spoke with soft sigh, "But you manage to survive in spite facing such fierce adversary."

Ryuu shook his head as he spoke, "I did not manage to survive brother, I merely delayed the inevitable, I am dying, I have less than 5 years left to live."

Upon hearing that Dhaeq's eyes widen with alarm as Kiesa spoke with a frown, "Surely there is a cure."

Ryuu shook his head as he spoke, "I know someone who might be able to help me but I am so far away that I might not be able to reach him before a decade at the very least."

Myde frowned as she spoke, "So your injury prevented you from acting before."

Ryuu nodded while looking a bit downtrodden as he spoke, "It is as you have guessed esteemed elder, and the poison is slowly eating me from the inside and most I can do is suppress the poison with my strength but it is weakening me by a lot and every time I have to exert more strength the poison flares up and leaves me incapacitated and in great pain."

Kiesa's eyes widen as she spoke, "That was why you go missing after almost every siege we faced."

Ryuu nodded towards her as she continued speaking, "Then why did you exert yourself you could let your companions to deal with it."

Ryuu chuckled at that as he spoke, "My companions are my allies as long as I do not become liability then I would be culled, as such I cannot show weakness in front of them."

Dhaeq with a worried look on his face spoke, "Is there anything you know that might help you brother Ryuu, you helped us so much I cannot in good conscious just leave in to your death."

Ryuu was quite for a moment before he spoke slowly, "There is a way that might work, it involves ingesting poison and slowly building up resistance to it and hope to reach the level required that will make me resistance to the poison."

Kiesa was taken aback at what she heard as she spoke with disbelief in her voice, "How will the using of extra poison even work? Will the extra poison not interfere with the one in your blood?"

"A person when he has to climb higher level and cannot fly will make a ladder to reach the higher ground and this poison would be my ladder. As for working, well it should after all my teacher used similar method to help me gain poison resistance though I will have to tweak a bit and hope for the best."

Dhaeq spoke with a frown as he spoke, "How sure are you that will work?"

Ryuu gave a nervous laugh at that as he spoke, "I am not sure it might work.", as he looked at the concern look on their face he spoke quickly, "Brother I know you are concerned but this is the only way for me, if I had any other method I would have done it in a heartbeat."

Dhaeq sighed before he spoke, "Is there any requirements of the poison?"

Ryuu bit his lips as he spoke, "During the siege I saw you use a black orb dripping with poison, the same poison was provided to us in order to create the poison for the array, can borrow some of the poison."

Dhaeq nodded at his request as he spoke with a worried look on his face, "Of course brother."

Elder Myde sighed as she spoke, "Do you need any discreet location for what you plan to do."

Frozen Ocean and Zywia both made their way to the inner sanctum of the cave after receiving the message that the Ryuu wanted to speak with them and it was an emergency, as such thy moved as fast as their guide to take them to the inner part of the cave.

"Why did he asked for us like this Sister Zywia?, Frozen Ocean spoke concern laced in voice.

Zywia simply shook her head as she spoke, "No idea sister, no idea I just hope he did not do something incredibly foolish."

As they entered a room they found a giant array pulsing on the ground with low hum with Ryuu stripped down to his shorts, but what shocked them was array made of blood covering all over his body, even his head had been shaved clean seating at the middle of the array, "Catch this".

A space ring flew towards Zywia which she caught with her right hand as she cast a questioning look towards Ryuu as Frozen Ocean spoke with a frown, "What is this weird smell and what are you doing shaving off your head and drawing array all over your body and did you use blood to draw the array."

Ryuu smirked at her as he spoke, "Dealing with my condition and yes the array that has been drawn in this room and on my body is created with the help of my blood and lots of blood replenishing pills, the smell is from various medicinal herbs that is about to be unleashed soon.", as he spoke a glob of black colored liquid with a slight purple tinge floated around him lazily.

Both the ladies had their eyes open wide at his proclamation, as Ryuu spoke with a small smile towards Zywia, " If I die today make sure that my stuff that are all stored into my space ring is delivered to my teacher and if possible my corpse is salvageable and not hazardous makes sure it is as well, now leave I have to concentrate."

The abruptness of the situation stunned them and made Zywia feel scared for Ryuu as such she quickly spoke out, "Ryuu what are planning to do, I will not allow you to….."

Ryuu's eyes hardened as he spoke, "Zywia leave and please do not tell others anything about it."

Frozen Ocean sighed as she spoke, "Ryuu how sure are you that your idea will work?"

Ryuu sighed at that as he spoke, "Nonw."

This time Frozen Ocean exploded with anger, "THEN WHAT..."

RYuu growled lowly as he shouted out, "I KNOW WHAT I AM DOING NOW LEAVE."

With that the duo were flung out of the room as the door closed and a massive array formed sealing it, the last glimpse of Ryuu they managed to get was him getting surrounded by grayish smoke and the blob expanding and flowing to him.

As they landed on their feet Frozen Ocean looked in disbelief as she spoke, "How did he manage to fling us like that how strong is he."

Zywia snarled as she glared towards the door as she spoke, "He is strong but I have no idea by how much but I know when he steps out of that room I will give a dressing down, how dare Ryuu treat me like that?", with a huff she turned and left while gripping the space ring hard as she looked back towards the door with concern in her eyes, for the last time before she left.