Location: Myriad Realms, Lil Red Storm Realm, Freedom Megalopolis. Thɪs chapter is updated by 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝⁂𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖⁂𝕟𝕖𝕥
"Are you mad at me?" Dalie asked me while I was wondering if it was okay to bring a Pixie to the Blood Rule Source.
Yes, I will be asking for Dredre’s opinion too, but I needed to make sure it was safe for her first. Since I was pretty sure that if asked, Dredre would want to go.
But, considering the circumstances of the location I planned to visit in Blood Rule Source. Let’s pin it for next time.
"No, I am not," I lied. Thanks to the invasive connection between us bloodkins, Dalie knew it too. So, I added, "But if you want to make it up to me, I need your help opening a passage to the blood rule source and collecting some blood rule slave cores—"
"Say no more, do you have the coordinates of the location in the Blood Rule source? Or are we doing some good old exploring and gathering?" Dalie cut in, agreeing to my request without a second thought.
"Great, Hive spirit will guide you to the location in the blood rule source," I exclaimed to assure Dalie that I wasn’t mad at her anymore through my fake excitement, and then informed Dredre, "My pixie guide, you are in charge while we two are gone. Can you handle it?"
"Yes, I can," Dredre said confidently, flying out of her cozy little nest in my hair.
I nodded with a gentle smile, instructing her, "Ceed is your number two. So, don’t try to solve everything by yourself, got it. Goodbye."
Using the cursed bloodline and Hive spirit, it wasn’t hard for Dalie to sense my pseudo-calamity soul gem in the Blood Rule source and open a passage a little further away from it to avoid the Deviant Devil’s fight.
"All the best," Dredre wished Wyatt as he vanished with Dalie into the portal. Then she slowly turned to look at the skyline of the Freedom Megalopolis, a concrete and glass jungle, and her eyes twinkled. Nobody knew what was going on in the tiny little head of hers.
As soon as we stepped into the blood rule source, we did not have the time to explore its blood-themed habitat, as we felt the dying shockwaves from the Deviant Devil’s battle blowing our hair.
"What is that entity? It’s so powerful. It’s able to resist the intent of the Blood rule source with just its bizarre thumping sound," Dalie asked in shock as it glanced at a silvermoon-like entity up ahead in this scarlet world. The entity was too big. She did not even have to make use of her celestial vision to notice it. It emitted a thumping sound like a bizarre but powerful heartbeat. Making her wonder if something was within the silver moon.
"Fuck!" I cussed, observing the truth using my primordial soul pupils. The Owlape prince had not only defeated the celestial blood rule slave but devoured it and was attempting to undergo an evolution of sorts. The silver moon was truly an Owlape egg containing a Ruler-class deviant prince. The Blood Rule source was doing its best to destroy the egg that did not belong here using its blood rule slaves, but they all were reduced to ash by the thumping sound produced by the egg, even before they could reach a couple of hundred yards of it. As the thumping sound was a mixture of various rules, a hybrid rune, a powerful one at that.
After losing the celestial blood rule slave to the deviant devil, the Blood Rule source should have up’d its response by sending out a more powerful blood rule slave to deal with the deviant devil. Instead, it was sending out these semi-ruler and low-level ruler class blood rule slaves. That was because it believed both its Celestial blood rule slave and the Deviant devil were dead, leaving behind this anomaly, a ruler-class egg. So, its response was within its own rules.
I speculated if the Deviant Devil recklessly attempted to undergo this unknown evolution and risked everything to trick the Blood Rule source. After all, it couldn’t have come out unscathed from the fight. But the only hole in this speculation was what was keeping the Deviant Devil in here? Why did it not just escape licking its wounds but recklessly risk everything?
The first thing that came to my mind was that it wasn’t capable of entering and leaving the Blood Rule source. It made use of a strange method to track and teleport to where the Elder Anaesthesia dragon was. Now that the Elder Anaesthesia dragon was locked away, it had no idea how to leave the Blood Rule source and was stuck in here.
After all, in here, even the entity which was believed to be closest to achieving transcendence in all of the Myriad Realms, the Devil Merchant Code could not enter or leave as it pleased. If not for my demon merchant privilege of soul transfer, the Devil Merchant Code would have abandoned me here regardless of how much I was willing to pay. Then, I, too, would be stuck here.
I believed my speculation and assumptions held merit, but I am sure the Deviant Devil would not have just rushed over to where Elder Anaesthesia Dragon was without any sort of preparation or plan. Well...the more I gave it a thought, the more I felt maybe my guess held more merit than I believed it to.
"Dalie, hurry, and collect as many blood rule cores as you can. We’re not staying here a second more than we have to," I informed, not wanting to be targeted by the Blood Rule Source’s intent. After all, I wasn’t a true celestial like Dalie yet. I could be considered a Hybrid at best. If the history of hybrids of any race has taught me anything, it’s that I should leave this place as quickly as possible once my job here gets done.
"Got it," Dalie agreed in a heartbeat and made use of her celestial array formation origin to gather all the blood rule slave cores within her range. There weren’t many, as it appeared that some of the cores had turned into dust with their users or were swallowed by the Blood Rule source to revive the blood rule slaves.
However, Dalie had collected enough cores for my use and some more. So, I signaled her to take us home, but just then we heard a desperate plea, "Young Celestial, please, take me with you."