The students were quiet as Miss Gilbody smiled at their awe and raised her voice. “Tomorrow morning Archmagus Valmor shall have the form of transport figured out. Unlike previous years, we shall spend most if not all year round within the dungeon making the interior academy dungeon town. Once this is done, the academy can open a portal gate to our academy here allowing us to easily access the dungeon.” She said. “Also unlike common camping or field trips done by the 2nd and 3rd years. The opening of a dungeon is a huge event worldwide and many nations nobles shall be coming. If someone has family then they will most likely come to one of the several founding cities that will be appearing along with their knights, now then, do not forget to gather all school clothing and material. We will spend all year there as such all studies will be there. Now get going children.” Miss Gilbody said.
The children was still in awe by the sudden revelation but slowly the students dispersed one by one.
***
At the same time that the Everlight Academy was testing their students, at the Holy institute the same thing was happening but the result amazed everyone.
Having stepped to level 31 Silvia reached the final match without summoning her familiar. This was, of course, common of her strange sense of justice so no one found it strange that she did not summon out her familiar. In a similar fashion, Ernest was able to win his way to the finals where he summoned Night for the first time.
The newly evolved Dark Cherub had caused a massive wave when they had identified Ernest and Night. His race was Lesser Nephilim Adolescent level 35.
Nephilim, the race revered by the Dark Holy Order, hated by the Holy Light church. A creature that was half angel half demon. It was the first step for a demon to merge Holy and Demon magic and was the first true base form of the Idol of the Dark Holy Order. Not to mention the fact that it was a Devil, it's devil form was that of a dark winged and black halo angel but it’s true form would cause fear even in much stronger people.
“Summon your familiar Silvia or else you will lose.” Ernest said.
Unlike her common high handed demeanor, she frowned while pulling out her wand. “Let's fight, Six Holy Walls.” She chanted and six layered dome barriers formed around her. “Holy Smite!” She shouted as a ball of holy magic formed above her and shot up into the sky filling the skies with clouds.
A white bolt of lightning began to flash, this was not normal lightning but Heavenly lightning, it could truly be called the might of the heavens.
BANG!
The bolt slammed down but Night simply jumped forward and struck out with his spear. The tattoo’s he absorbed from Cinder suddenly lit up as the lightning hit his spear all of them vanishing while nullifying the holy mana leaving only an immensely pure and rich lightning mana.
“This is quite good.” Night said as he guided the mana slowly to the tip of the spear and swung it at Silvia. Shooting out pure lightning mana, a yellow bolt of lightning shot out and cleaved through her barriers stopping on the third on while leaving a huge hole in the previous two.
“How nice.” He said and landed.
In the priest’s seats, the face of the Holy light church priest was dark in a scowl as he saw the power held by Night, “Stupid girl, wake up and summon your familiar. Only it’s pure angelic magic can hurt him.” He thought.
The difference between Angelic holy magic and human holy magic was purity. One can’t compare the two.
“Ernest, let me handle this, it’s sure to turn into a good show.” Night whispered.
Ernest narrowed his eyes, “It has to do with that time?” Ernest asked quietly.
Night just smiled and turned to the girl that was like a turtle in a shell. “Bitch, this is for that little ‘hunt’ you set out during the summer to kill us.” Night said.
A black light flashed around his spear and he took a step forward as his wings folded and he shot forward slamming with the spear pointed forward into the barrier.
BANG! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Five barriers outright smashed but Night grinned and held back causing the last one to crack.
Silvia’s face turned pale as she swung her wand, “Three layer purification!” She shouted.
Three magical circle formation appeared above Night but he simply smiled and let the light slam down on him. What shocked many people was how, besides just some smoke that stopped soon after he was completely unaffected.
Night grinned showing a pair of sharp canines that remained from him still being a demon. “Such low level holy magic doesn’t affect me anymore.” He said and swung the spear causing the cracks on the barrier to spread.
She bit her lip and cast a support spell to increase her speed with light magic and as if teleporting she appeared several dozen meters away under new barriers numbering more than three times than before.
Night’s smile slowly vanished, “How boring, where did that fire and passion of yours go. If it will be a contest to see if the wolf tires or the turtle dies then I don’t intent to play. Start fighting me seriously like when you chased us down or I will kill you right now.”
Silvia was pale as she was cornered by Night who had lost his smile and was narrowing his eyes.
The crowd was beginning to suspect something was up because she had always been an offensive person especially against Ernest yet he hadn’t even raised a finger and Night was dominating.
Although he had resistance to holy magic, it wasn’t that high after all at most it was on par with a newborn cherub.
Night’s eyes shined an evil glint as his grin appeared, “Fine, if you don’t want to fight, let's end this.” He said.
Suddenly his magic surged but as it did, slowly his Sclera turned black and as it went from the left to right, the yellow eye was dyed in red. All the while his aura was rising more and more potent. Bolts of energy began to form and strike the ground around him. His right eyes suddenly filled up, the skies were completely covered in black clouds blotting out the sky.
A surge of energy rushed up and suddenly a huge black bolt of lightning hit Night and suddenly the field was covered in an intense light.
Everyone was completely blinded but when they felt a shaking everyone forced themselves to look. What they saw was a huge body, almost 15 meters tall, completely uncovered except for the black spear in its hands, with dark grey skin, black eyes and glowing red eyes and long wild hair and a pair of horns growing out the side of its heads.
It was slowly getting up using the spear and it looked down at Silvia with eyes devoid of emotion.
Suddenly from its back, two huge black wings spread and he roared.
It caused everyone to cover their ears as it completely stood up and slowly lifted up the spear.
“IT’S GOING TO KILL HER!” Someone shouted.
The light around Night had vanished but an intense heat and wind was coming from it with every move.
WOOSH!
The spear slammed down and hit the barrier without resistance unlike before.
Silvia watched in dread as she saw her death incoming. It was then that she felt all her mana move to her familiar seal and she opened he eyes and found the angel in front of her.
“Sacrifice of Love.” the angel said as her body broke down but above the girl a single pink colored magical formation but what was amazing was the blinding light it shined with. When the spear hit it, the spear completely stopped and what’s more is that the force rebound and cracking could be heard from Night’s arm.
The next moment, the pink light climbed the spear and began to cover Night’s body causing him to roar in pain before he shrank down once more letting go of the spear that also disconnected from the formation and fell to the ground.
Night was holding his arm and looked at it to see many pink runes and grinned.
He waved his hand and his spear flew to his left hand before he turned it and slightly stabbed himself. The pink runes were sucked into his spear by some unknown force and he regained his movements in his arm and turned
to Silvia who was collapsed.
It looked like Night had beaten her but the fun was just starting. A light church priest ran over and checked her announcing she was alive but just exhausted. Feeding her a mana potion she soon regained consciousness.
“The winner is Ernest Wais Nelmoon.” the referee priest said.
Ernest had not moved and had won but before anything else happened, the Holy Light church priest appeared with a dark expression as he looked at Silvia. “Lift your hand and show me your seal.” He said.
Everyone froze because after healing and announcing the winner at the center of the arena the priest suddenly came out.
Silvia trembled when she heard that but the dark expression that turned darker when he saw her like that and suddenly he grabbed her right hand. “I said show it!” He said pulling his wand out and putting it against her familiar seal, “Summon.” He shouted and from it a pink light appeared after filling the seal with abundant mana and what appeared was the beautiful pink haired Angel of Holy Ribbons of Love.
As soon as he saw the angel, he squeezed Silvia’s hand making her cry in pain, “What is the meaning of this!?” he shouted.
“I-it hurts!” Silvia said and the priest threw her hand away and suddenly backhand slapped her, “Speak you bitch! Why is the Angle of Holy Ribbons you were rearing turned into a bitch like this!? Why did you rear a bitch messenger of Eros!?” he roared.
Silvia collapsed holding her face that was stained with tears.
“Oh my?” A gentle voice said as the entire area was filled with the faint smell of sweet fruits and perfumes that calmed and dulled the mind. “I wonder who you are calling a bitch?” The voice like sweet honey asked.
The eyes of Holy Light priest turned toward the voice finding a voluptuous woman in a beautiful pink robe that came to her breasts but left her shoulder and nap exposed while her arms had a fabric attached going behind the back.
“You, bitches of the Eros cult.”
WOOSH!
Without warning a blade of wind cut the space between the woman and the priest. Behind the woman was a female knight with a dangerous expression on her face, “Say that once more and it shall be your head.” She said.
The priest paled but did not back off, “It is your goddess that imprinted my churches Holy Ribbon Angel. What is the explanation, if you have none then it is this bitch that sold herself to men and allowed her holy angel be defiled and thus shall be punished by the holy light of our just god.” He said.
The woman shook her head and looked at the sorry state of the little girl and waved her hand releasing a small heart shaped green energy that entered the girl and suddenly all wounds and fatigue was gone before she turned to the little angel, “Young messenger of our beloved goddess, please tell me, were you evolved by your master as such willingly?” the woman asked.
“I was not fair priestess. At the time I was under the influence of my emotions so I affected my master but she had been kidnapped and sold to many men to be raped before being returned under the cover of night.” the angel said.
“Do you know who is the culprit is?” the woman asked.
The angel shook her head, “I had fallen unconscious and was withdrawn to heal and was unable to feel outside in my state at the time.” She said
With a nod she pat the little angel’s head making her blush, then turned to the priest, “Is that enough for you?” She asked.
The priest snorted and looked at Silvia, “Defiled beast, begone and never claim yourself of the Holy Light church. You are fit only to be one of… them.” He spat pointing to the pink robed beautiful woman. He turned and flew away.
“W-wait! P-please don’t!” Silvia said holding her hand out towards the priest but he was gone.
Tears stream down unendingly and slowly the light in her eyes faded as she collapsed into a coma unable to bare the events that happened.
Ernest narrowed his eye and sent a message through the link, “That was too cruel.”
Night snorted and replied, “If I had left her with the bandits it would have been a blessing for her living in ecstasy day and night. That would not have been enough to satisfy me after her ambush.” He replied and looked Ernest right in the eyes.
The other just sighed and watched the female knight take away Silvia as he wondered what would happen with her but after a while he found that it would probably no longer concern him. Possibly their path would cross less and less as the Goddess of Love Eros and the God of Light he wished to serve did not openly form connections much less work together.
After these events, the priests said they would go to the Snake pit in a month as stated by the rules of the first claim rights of those who find and set up the Dungeon city first.
Chapter 10
In a massive desert with nothing but white sand in sight, an unexpected area was covered with strange clouds that swirled around one specific area. At this area a crack in space was perfectly visible but all around it was a huge circular stone structure. Under it, was a huge altar platform with hundreds of steps and on it were hundreds of thousands of magical formulas and symbols just like the circular structure.
This was a very unique magical artifact that can only be constructed by the mighty demi-god like existences above level 90. This structure had captured and sealed the space cracks and had perfectly sealed it but recently it had forcefully opened once more but soon the structure once more turned on and the black crack in space began to close once more stabilizing the space. Only an enraged roar could be heard from beyond the crack.
At this time though, 100 meters in the air, space began to spine, bending itself and turned incredibly wide. Slowly a 100 meter wide sword blade that stretched nearly 500 meters began to appear from the space distortion.
As it came into being, it attracted a huge amount of attention but it suddenly shrank leaving behind several hundred people to freefall while some 300 children with 11 or 12 years old remaining up what was left of the sword.
All those free falling suddenly revealed a large number of lights as countless familiars burst out.
Those without flying familiars called out to their friends and were caught quickly or some used magic slowing down and stopping in the air.
Soon everyone began to land at the base of the massive altar. Some 10 kilometers away, a large wall of stone existed around the magical artifact, something made by the level 90 powerhouses as a type of natural ‘wall’. Near the relic a large impressive green temple with countless snake idols and the final idol of a powerful looking man whose lower half was in the form of a snake.
His exposed chest and human formed torso was finally sculpted and was easy to see from far away as it was built in grand style in front of the massive magic artifact.
There were three types of serpents twisting around the statue. One was made of white stone and looked similar to the familiar of the Priest that went to the camp with Madrid the previous year. Another looked like Cascade’s strange snake dragon but it was more impressive with a large mane, much longer antler like horns and two five finger dragon hands holding the two blue and red orb in its hand. The last was a black evil looking Serpent with spikes in the place of horns.
These were the so called ‘idol’ beasts of the church. The first is known as the Basilisk, the type of snake making up this serpent doesn’t matter as variants always exist by this point. This creature is known as the idol aligned to the holy and light path. The second is the Celestial Dragon, it is considered the strongest of the three, and is considered neutral alignment and a judge of the heavenly order. The final one is aligned with darkness. It is called an imoogi and is a powerful serpent that failed to successfully reach the status of Celestial dragon falling from grace.
These three make up the idol’s of the serpent god, as for anyone that can force a snake into a perfect half human form like the god himself they would be considered the most perfect Saint priest but it would be like forming one of the Lamia race which is a sentient race and a di
e hard follower of the same god.
The people who fell slowly gathered on the ground while the large blade landed and the young children shakingly came down, some of which collapsed due to the fear they had when the sword suddenly shrank dropping everyone.
That happened because Xero could not support the size as it took a huge amount of his mana and had to pull it back causing everyone to fall and they began to walk over only to see him sweating on the ground after the sword vanished completely.
Miss Gilbody walked over and put her hand on him and a green colored aura filled him and he thanked her.
In the air, Valmor soon appeared from the distorted space and fixed the space itself showing no difference it had before.
He descended landing in front of the stairway. “Students, we shall be entering the dungeon, I shall not be able to defend you as I will be busy from the get go.” He said and turned.
Xero, who walked over to Grunt asked what he meant.
Grunt smiled, “Just look.” He said
He watched as he walked up, from his familiar seal a 30 cm ruby appeared covered in bright red flame. Slowly it grew more and more before the an foreboding sinking feeling filled everyone’s heart as a growl appeared.
Slowly from within the fire, a pair of wings appeared, then arms, torso then the fire dropped to the ground and the creature crawled out of the flames. Its limbs seem like it was made of burning wood but it was incredibly powerful. It stood up showing its immense 12 meter size. It’s three toed claw feet came out of the flame and soon a long reptile tail appeared.
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