Chapter 155: A Horrible Sensation


    Early Evening - Late Spring : Strait of Western Elynnor


    "I''m here to make a deal."


    Piercing straight through my instinct, her words filled my mind with a deep and distracting confusion. -W..wh..what?-


    I stared at the ancient with a look of bewilderment.


    Seeing me stop fighting back, she slowly let go of my tail. "Sorry if I scared you. I got a bit excited after finally finding you."


    It was as if my brain was stun locked. I simply didn''t know what to say. "W..why were you looking for me?" As much as I hated to admit it, I was inly inferior to such an overpowering and domineering dragon. The difference in our strength was so vast that I wasn''t sure if even nuclear would work. -What could she possible need me for..-


    "Before I can get to that, let me do something." Quickly closing her eyes, she started moving a disgusting amount of mana to create a brutally inefficient space rune. It looked like she tried to copy one of the space runes left by Bahamut through pure brute force.


    -She wants to iste us?- Although the rune she was making was extremely crude, it did indeed create space mana, just instead of making a gate, it made a cloud that just warped our surroundings.


    "Here, let me do it.." Finally snapping out of my mental stun, I dissipated her rune and created a gate, just instead of sending us to the void, I kept us inside the gate."How did you.." She looked around in awe as our surroundings vanished into a pure darkness.


    "Hooh.." I took a deep breath to calm my nerves before I spoke. "If you wanted to kill me, Id already be dead so..."


    "R..right. An old friend sent me to make a deal with you." She turned to me with a determined look.


    "Why didn''t your friende themselves?" -And who is that friend to be able to send you?- I was already skeptical.


    "Well, it''s not that simple... In any case, let''s get down to business." Her face quickly became serious. "I need you to kill someone."


    There was a short and painful silence that wrapped around us. "Excuse me?"


    "I know it sounds crazy, but my friend said it was someone that threatened her life that even I can''t kill." The desperateness and worry in her voice felt genuine but it just threw me off.


    -If its someone that even you can''t kill.. then the f*ck am I supposed to do?- "You must be mixing me up with someone else. I''d be killed by you in a heartbeat, let alone someone even stronger."


    "Well, I felt the same but after seeing you in person, I''m starting to think it''s possible. You’re <em>fundamentally different</em> after all."


    -What… How does she..- Questions ran through my mind, one after another, but I couldn''t think of an answer for any of them.


    Before I could finish thinking, she opened her mouth and pulled out a weird looking purple sphere with trillions of ck, moving tubes inside of it. -A hypersphere?!- It instantly reminded me of the tesseract I saw when I first reincarnated. The color, and design on its shell was the exact same.


    As I was staring at it, she casually threw out another bombshell. "The fact you recognize this is proof that you''re the person she told me to look for."


    The instant I realized what she said, I felt a shock of electricity course through my body. -The only people that know about that are Mother and Father..-


    "The man you need to kill is named Magni. I don''t know too much about him either, but ‘you''ll know him when you meet him’."


    -God.. I wish she''d stop throwing up red gs..- Under no circumstances was this a deal I should take. The request was too oundish and vague, and the contractor was someone who knew far too much about me. -But I really need that artifact..-


    As I eyeballed the hypersphere, I tried to rify something. "So.. that artifact.."


    "This is the downpayment."


    -Sh*t..- Whoever I was making the deal with was someone that knew I couldn''t refuse the deal in the first ce. "Fine.. I''ll do it... Whats my time limit?"


    She showed a look of relief once I agreed. "She said to just do it once you get the chance to."


    -What kind of time limit is that?- It was once again, too vague to make sense of.


    “But let me make something abundantly clear, Sir Ragnarok.” She gave a threatening re as she pressured me with her excessively heavy aura. “If you fail thismission, and my friend dies.. I won''t stop with just killing you..”


    It felt as if the world stopped turning for a moment. My entire body stiffened up and I broke into a cold sweat.


    “Haah..” With a deep breath, she eased up her aura and lightly tossed the artifact to me. “Here..”


    -Oi!- Instantly breaking into a panic, I tried to catch it as gently as possible.


    The instant it touched my palm though, it shined a bright purple light and moved right in front of my face.


    -WHAT THE?!-


    As I was shbanged, an all too familiar robotic voice appeared in my mind.


    "Clearance: Approved


    Authorities: -Error-


    -Update Impossible-


    -Update Dyed-


    -Please reconnect to a server at your earliest convenience.-


    -Assuming Temporary Authorities-


    Authorities: Approved


    Conditions: Met


    Activating Procedure: E?????p???s???i?????l????o???????n???? "


    -W..wha..- The voice was mostly clear and understandable, but before I could process what it said, a horrible pain, as if my brain and eyes were being ripped apart, shot through my head.


    As I lost control of my mana and the gate dissipated, I heard the ancient''s voice again. "My name is Amphitrite, if you really do seed, I will forever be in your debt."


    The genuinity in her voice dissipated the anger that built up from the pain, but even if I wanted to do something, I couldn''t move.


    Before long, my vision faded to ck and my stomach was filled with that gut-wrenching sensation.


    Even today, I can vividly remember the feeling of powerlessness mix with the feeling of sinking into the ocean..


    What a horriblebination that was..


    Once I finally woke up, I could only feel cold, dry sand beneath me. -Huh.. w..where am I..- Looking around, I noticed I wasying next to Ilios in some kind of underwater bubble, but even though there wasn''t any light, I could see extremely clearly.


    -So my thoughts have sped up, and my vision got better..- I was quick to notice the two obvious changes, but I didn''t take the time to think much about it. There was something much more urgent weighing on my mind. -How long has it been?-


    Normally, my internal clock (instinct) would tell me how long it had been even if I was in a dragon sleep, but this time, I waspletely in the dark. -Sitting here and thinking about it wont do me any good though..-


    As I slowly sat up, I identally woke up Ilios.


    *lick-lick-lick-lick*


    Without even seeing him wake up or move, I got assaulted by his licks.


    "Haha, I''m alright, I''m alright." I tried to calm him down by petting him before things got out of hand. Once things finally calmed down, I mumbled under a guilt filled breath. "It doesn''t help that I don''t know how long you were left alone this time.."


    As if understanding what I said, Ilios casually backed up and wrote in the sand.


    ''IIIIII IIIIIIIIIIII'' (6 and 12 tallies) He sat down and gave a proud look when he finished writing.


    -Gosh.. so it''s been 6 months... WAIT WHAT?!- Although just two sets of tallies, it quickly reminded me about how smart he was. -I guess he is an Ancient Fenrir...- "Did anything major happen while I was asleep?"


    Ilios tilted his head slightly.


    -I guess that question was a bit..- Before my thought could finish though, Ilios created a bright spotlight and illuminated everything outside of the bubble. -What is he..-


    Outside of the bubble was the seafloor, an endless and dark abyss of sand and rock, but around a hundred meters away, there were several massive tentacles, lining the ground.


    Not quite understanding what happened, I looked down at Ilios to see him puffing up his chest. -Haha.. why is he..- It took a moment for everything to click. "YOU KILLED THAT?!"


    A broad smile came to Ilios''s face as he gave a strong nod.


    I sat in awe for a moment before a pure pride washed over me. "Good job, Buddy! To think youre so strong now!" I excitedly leaned down and rubbed my head against him. "Next time there is a big fight, it might be you protecting me!"


    But Ilios didn''t seem to like that idea. "Arw.."


    Hearing the odd noise he made, I pulled away from him a bit. "Hm? What''s wrong?"


    Casually lifting his paw, he pointed to me and swirled his mana around the bubble.


    -What is he..- "You want me to use magic?"


    He gave a strong nod before giving a look of anticipation.


    "A..alright... What kind of magic d-" I cut myself off as soon as I started controlling and reading my aura. -What.. the..-