Chapter 94: Mission III

"See what you have done to my precious baby! I have been cultivating my precious for hundreds of years and it's a part of me... To see it damaged to this extent, you're a monster. Oh my baby..." she cried for a while before stabilizing her emotions. 

Apparently, it was a creature that grew along with her so she and it had developed a connection. Upon seeing it broken to the extent of almost getting destroyed, she would obviously be sad and feel anger towards himself. 

"Putting the matter off, a single essence would be enough to heal it. So I want three essences beforehand. You could give me seven later, it will still amount to ten anyways" 

Without an expression, Cylius took out three glistening blue grains from his pouch before throwing them at her. A happy expression revealed on her face as she hurriedly caught them. 

She separated the three into three parts carefully before taking two and placing them at the clam's mouth. 

The clam obviously became better quickly as the broken parts of its shell regenerated, fixing its injuries. Its color also became shinier from the dim state it was before. The clam took one to heal its injuries and kept the last one within itself. 

After giving two to the clam, she took the last one and also put it in her own mouth. A blue aura radiated from her as her complexion turned better and her skin seemed even glossier than before. 

"Mm good... For our target, the first one we'll be going for is the Crimson Blue Worm King. As he's a peak semi converted being, the essence he has is much. Existing for around a millennium, he should have accumulated some essence." 

"Where is it"

"Around the Eastern Blue Sea. It's on this part of the map. He might not have hidden yet as he usually spends his time slumbering. As he's a loner, I'm sure he hasn't gotten the news yet."

Nodding his head, he tore open the space before stepping in. After he tore it open, the mermaid appeared to be very surprised as she took a look at him and the tear cautiously before stepping in alongside himself. 

Fifteen minutes later, they appeared above the sea. 

He was as usual. A robe and long black hair with only a pouch on his waist. As for the mermaid, the clam has shrunk in size as it stayed on the mermaid's waist also. 

With the mermaid guiding him, he had no problem finding the place where the worm king resided at all. 

Entering the place, he saw worms all over the place. They were everywhere within the cave, moving back and forth. With numbers that could go up to hundreds of millions, they gave people a cold shiver. 

At any sign of an intruder, they would be sure to swarm to the creature and devour it whole. However, with his skills as a second-tier being who have comprehended the dimensional rune, he and the mermaid wasn't discovered at all. 

Further going into the cave, the number of the worms became lesser and lesser but their power kept increasing. From the ordinary worms they were to the first-tier initial stage worms, halfling stage, mature stage to the limit break stage. 

However, after they had encountered the limit break stage worms, they encountered a dead end.

The firm cave wall was right in front of them. But Cylius didn't go back but instead kept moving forward until he was right in front of the cave wall. Touching it lightly with his palm, a pathway was revealed. 

This pathway was only revealed to him and the mermaid, it wasn't revealed to the worms. 

Just a bit after they had crossed the wall, they saw the worm king. 

It had a giant plumb white body with hundreds of legs resting on the ground. On its face, there were two little beady eyes that were closed at the moment and on its head, there were two antennas that were dropping down currently. A hard carapace covered its skin, making it look fearsome. 

It looked like a caterpillar rather than a worm. It was currently slumbering. 

As Cylius could already sense the existence of the water essence, he immediately went in for the kill. This creature was a peak semi convert, it was powerful enough for Cylius to take it seriously. 

With a slash, the head was down yet its signs of life didn't fade. Instead, it even seemed to have regained its consciousness as its body instantly became more active as it woke up. 

"Waaa" a cry escaped from its body as the body instantly tried to jolt back up and escape. 

Through the cry, the worms had instantly turned to them as the sound they made became closer and closer. The continuous sounds made by them were annoying and they was a danger to even second-tier beings. 

But he wasn't worried about it. They would scatter after he killed the worm king anyway. 

However, Cylius didn't give the chance as his saber slashed a few more times, cutting the whole body into several pieces. But even then, it still tenaciously survived as they crawled back to each other, trying to regain its former state. But even if they tried to combine with each other, it couldn't as they kept falling back into the pieces they were. 

Blood splattered as the sign of life on the pieces of meat started to fade away, becoming a dead corpse. 

The attacks Cylius had contained the dimension rune along with the death rune he had comprehended. While its own rune was stopped and suppressed by the dimension rune, the death rune did the rest, suppressing the cells. 

The worm did not have any chances of surviving at all. 

Even its soul had been caught by him. For the body, he will devour it. He can't waste such material. 

"Ah" the mermaid let out a surprised gasp as she looked at him in fear before looking at her clam before caressing it gently. 

A black spatial hole opened in front of the pieces of meat as several tentacles came out of them as they dragged the pieces of meat into the hole. Even the blood wasn't spared as all of it was devoured and turned into nutrition by him. 

As he had thought of, the swarm of worms that have come in immediately became chaotic after he killed the worm king. 

Once he released his aura of a second-tier, they immediately scattered away. 

"The next one" 

"The Deep Water Swallower..." 

.....

Just like an illusion, he and the mermaid traversed the ocean slowly yet fast. 

Two weeks passed by as soon, he and the mermaid had collected 90 grams already. Only ten grams were left now as they were nearing his goal. But, he surely wanted to more so that he could exchange for it. 

He wouldn't just stop at 100 grams, he wanted more. 

"Next one-" he asked the mermaid. But suddenly he stopped before closing his eyes. 

The mermaid was confused as she was just about to say the name of the person they were targeting next. 

Within his consciousness space, the whole world was like a map as the fluctuations of treasures appeared as colored dots. The brighter the dot, the more active it was; the redder, the more powerful fluctuation it was sending. 

Right now, he could sense a scarlet red dot that has suddenly appeared out of nowhere. By the degree of its brightness and how red it was, he was quite sure it came from a third-tier and wasn't much active. 

Meaning, it was a dead object.

Seeing how he didn't locate any other fluctuation around it and how it was a third-tier treasure, he immediately measured its location before opening up a spatial tear and stepping in. 

As confused as the mermaid was, it could only follow him and enter the spatial tear.

Within a dark enclosed cave.

A dim blue light shone as it lighted the entire cave. The entire cave was lighted dimly with next to none lighting. Within the cave, there were no lifeforms as only the slow dropping of water dropping was heard. 

It was a generally quiet and gloomy place. 

Just in this gloomy place, a hole opened up. The hole looked strange as if it had cut open air, existing uniquely. If one was to look into it, they would feel a deep sense of confusion and fear as if contacting a fearsome place. 

Just within this place, two people walked out. A male and a female. 

Upon entering the place, Cylius could feel it even more clearly now. The intense fluctuation coming from a third-tier. He reckoned that it was the corpse of a second sage runic being. 

A false domain existence!

Maybe it was during the time where the academy invaded and gained ownership of this planet. 

It may have been the peak of power but was killed by the academy because it refused to submit. It was probable that it had some sort of connection with the planet's consciousness. 

Although the mermaid couldn't exactly discern the power and state of the owner of the fluctuation, she also became tense as she could feel the third-tier aura. 

However, she couldn't tell if the owner was dead or not and what stage it was at. 

Following the traces, he headed in deeper. 100 meters deep, they encountered a body of water. It wasn't connected to the ocean outside. But due to the extended radiation, they have developed weird and special traits. 

The magical and the poisonous water was mixed up, making it not safe to drink. The water was the source of the light. It glowed with a bizarre mix of colors which blue was the brightest of them all. 

Going 500 meters deeper, they encountered water elemental beings that came to life from the radiation. The fluctuation was even more clear and powerful now as it affected the surrounding environment, making them have even stranger properties. 

A kilometer deeper, the ceiling suddenly went up and the space increased much in size. 

It was also there, they witnessed the giant corpse. The corpse of the third-tier existence!

It was the skeletal system without any meat attached onto it. Although the meat has long faded, the bones stood tall and strong, not seeming to be even corroded by time. 

It was the bones of a false domain existence after all. At most, only a millennium should have passed and there was no way the bones of such a creature would disappear over time. 

Dense pack of runes filled the entire skeletal structure as every single cell of it was protected by runes. Not only the runes too, a faintly visible aura of a domain was also protecting them.