Chapter 407 Stairway to Heaven?

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Chapter 407 Stairway to Heaven?

"What?"

With a grumpy expression, she turned to ask instead.

She had already spent all her energy, so she couldn't even teleport us back to the capital like this.

"Since Goddess Zeta is currently useless, we have no choice; we shall head back to the capital manually!"

*BAM!*

"WHO'S USELESS AGAIN, HUH?! YOU BRAT!"

T-That stings!

"It was a figure of speech! Don't get angry!"

I guess it was so out of context that it sounded like an insult to her, but anyway, would one actually kick someone in the back just for that? If Zeshion hadn't quietly grabbed her from behind, then she might've actually beaten me up.

"Sorry Will, it's that time of the month for her, so please pardon her."

Zeshion whispered in a low voice, but everyone around him heard it. After all, other than me and Ember, everyone's in the 9th-stage and above. Goddess Zeta, realizing how many tamers heard her current status, blushed hard. Then, her embarrassment turned to anger as she flailed wildly, shouting.

"Let me go! I'll smack this disrespectful brat and correct his manners!"

"Come on, Zeta, let it go. He's just a child."

"NO!"

The two of them kept exchanging words as Zeshion slowly took her further and further away until they were no longer in sight.

"..."

So that's how unstable she gets when it's that time of the month? Without particular reason, I turned to Ember, causing her to act embarrassed while blushing.

"S-Sorry, Master, but as a slime, I have no estrus cycle."

"Oh, is that so?"

That was news to me. I wonder about the others...

"This place is..."

Everywhere I looked, I could only see a sandy view. Not even a single pebble or a blade of grass was present. It was like I was thrown into the middle of a flat desert.

[This place was where that hateful empire was before.]

"..."

No more words were needed to convey why it was a desert and not a cityscape.

'This guy literally wiped them out, huh?'

When I had Ember check it before, the place was covered with smoke and dust, so it was impossible to confirm. Who would've guessed that it would become like this after his rampage?

[Enough about that; tell me about this anomaly.]

As he asked, he also began to move. With a single wave of a finger, the content of the Storage Ring flooded out, floating around as if they were satellites, forming a ring around him.

The essence crystals began to dissolve, turning into something between a powder and a fluid. After all of them turned into that state, they then started to sweep around the flat, sandy ground, forming a complex array.

As he worked, I also began relaying the information that Namia had just told us.

Soon enough, the powdered essence crystals solidified once more into lines and curves of uniform thickness, spreading a total of 100 meters across the ground.

"... and so they said that the god-level demons would reach millions in a week if left unattended."

[... To think it would proceed to this extent. We should hurry.]

"So, you have an idea about the reason for this anomaly?!"

Azrael turned to look at me, his gaze sweeping all across my body as if assessing me.

[I do, but I can't tell it to you. Come with me; there should be someone who could answer your questions better than I can.]

As he finished his words, he then snapped his fingers. As soon as the echoes faded, the magic array on the ground began to release a mystifying glow.

[Take a step back. I'm summoning the path to heaven.]

*BAM!*

Something fell from the sky, raising a cloud of dust. I covered my eyes, avoiding the sand that would irritate them. When I felt that the cloud of dust had already settled, I opened my eyes wide and stared in shock.

"... an elevator?"

So it wasn't stairs?