Chapter 73: Back to the Present.

Chapter 73: Back to the Present.

Wow, I can't believe just how much this actually hurts.

I felt like an overstuffed turkey ready to explode. And what I felt wasn't really far from the truth. Because now instead of the lines around my body being scars, now they were actively pulsing with blood, causing my armor to be perpetually wet.

There was also the feeling of razor-sharp knives running across those lines across my entire body but I have learned not to care about the pain at this point. Pain wasnt something that affected me much even if I felt it.

I mean, what was it going to do? Kill me?

Good fucking luck pal.

Even I couldn't kill me.

Ignoring the pain though there was a lot that happened it seems like. First of all, I wasn't in the chasm of the abyss anymore, it was just a normal cave now with an empty tomb in the middle. Although it was still dark as all fuck considering I was still inside a deep cavern.

By the way, the darkness literally didn't affect me in the slightest. I saw as clearly as I would in daytime.

Another thing was the pendant in my hand that was repaired. It was pitch black with orange engravings that resembled the darksign. It also gave off an aura of immense power. Just like Manus. Curious I used inspect on it.

'Inspect.'

...

*Cough* *Cough* I said: "I used inspect on it."

...

Where system.

Huh, I think I finally managed to break my system. But just as that thought crossed my mind I got a notification. And a searing soul tearing pain came with it.

<@&%#1&!?!#%@?!#*%#!?>

<ERROR>

<VESSEL INSUFFICIENT: FORCED ASCENSION FORCEFULLY DELYAED>

<ERROR>

<REBOOTING...>

<INITIANTING SYSTEM RESTORATION...>

<ERROR>

<FORCING SYSTEM UPDATE...>

<18.8>

<32.3%>

<47.0>

<59.2%>

<68.9%>

<ERROR: INSUFFICIENT, IMBALANCE UNABLE TO FINISH UPDATE>

<YOU HAVE RECEIVED THE EMERGENCY QUEST: COMPLETION>

###################################

<COMPLETION>

DESCRIPTION: YOUR VESSEL IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION DUE TO YOUR IMBALANCE CAUSED BY YOUR ATTEMPTED FORCED ASCENSION.

REQUIREMENTS :

'I need an adult.'

Then I realized.

'Fuck, I AM an adult.' But my incredibly developed instincts that bordered magic told me that elaborating on my words right now would be an emotional death sentence so I refrained as Gwynevere spoke.

"I have been waiting for this you know, you know it's rude to keep a lady waiting."

!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!??!?!??!?!??!??!?!??!?!??!?! Elaborate, I beg of you.

Before my short-circuited brain could recover Gwynevere pulled me in for a kiss. But unlike Priscilla's short peck, hers was more passionate and deep. But no tongue. I cleverly avoided tongue by kissing back as while I did not disprove of the notion it would be hard to explain the deeper-than-an-inch gashes all over the inside of my mouth that gushed copious amounts of blood to her. After a bit our mouths separated.

And holy fuck Gwynevere was basically glowing. Was I teasing her too much? I genuinely took my teasing as a sort of revenge against the gods that made me endure endless insanity but it seems like she took them as flirting. Regardless I wasn't angry or displeased by the result which made me chuckle hollowly inside.

/How horrible of a piece of shit am I? Accepting the love of another girl before even giving a proper response to the first girl who declared her love for me?/

At least after that Gwynevere seemed a tiny, minuscule bit more reasonable.

"Anyway, as I was saying do you want to go back to the future with me Gwynevere?"

"Yes, I would LOVE to go with you, John." She answered that faster than I expected but it made sense, nobody really needed her here, her family was distant with her and she was treated as more of an idol than a person. Regardless of what she was told, she knew deep down that she was replaceable with her brother's illusions.

"Then buckle up." Grinning I wrapped an arm around her waist.

"{Soul Release: Manus}" "Soul what-"

*BOOOOOOOOM!!!* My right arm extended to a grotesque size as scale-like protrusions covered it along with black tentacles. Although soul release opened all of my wounds with a vengeance it also allowed me full access to Manus' powers which meant I could theoretically rip myself back through time.

I channeled all of my power through my arm as I punched forward with all my might as the floor beneath my feet shattered and the space around me bent like rubber, it felt like my fist was pushing up against flexible glass so I put more power into it, driving it further and further until.

*CRACK!* "EEK!"

My fist ripped a hole in spacetime with the firelink shrine as the anchor unlike the anchor Manus designated which was the pendant. Taking the chance I launched us both through the hole as it closed behind us, Gwynevere shrieking the whole time.

*Thud! 2x*

After a bit of wormhole space travel both of us landed in the darkroot garden once more. Ignoring the disorientated Gwynevere for a bit I stood up and took it all in.

I did it.

I was back in the present and I was alive. The end was finally near.

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