Chapter 26

Yuji POV

“Where are they?!!” I said roaring to the knights that came with Haru “How the hell did you lost them! Misaka too where the fuck is she?!”

One of the knights then spoke

“Sir, we will need to wait for the morning to go and search for them, it-” yet before he could finish his sentence I struck at his face with my fist, instantly rendering him unconscious

“No excuses! Find them now! Dead or alive find them! We can’t let them escape, they know too many things!” he then turned and backed away.

Haru then ordered the knights to follow him and headed north.

“Damn it, but it doesn’t matter, the closest town is more than a week’s walk, and the knights will get there first. Even if they decided to lay low, the forest beasts and monsters will make sure to do our job for us, but still I need to find proof of their death, otherwise it will only come back and bite us in the ass later.”

Renji then said

“I should have taken care of that bitch that night, I never knew she became this strong…”

“Don’t worry Renji, we will, I only fear that they have caught Misaka, damn fat-ass, I don’t know how he let her escape his sight, he was supposed to keep an eye on her…” I then added “Let’s just head back to the church, I think the cardinal has a way to track them down, do you remember the day he gave us the blood ministration? I think that I heard something about it being a beacon for the church members to keep an eye on the heroes. We can get an idea of where they went if we contact the cardinal…”

“What are we waiting for then” said Renji “Let’s just head back”

“We will, Renji, I just needed to make sure that they really are missing, seeing that we couldn’t track them we will go back and see with the cardinal”

‘No one gets to run away from us. I will make sure that they are caught and are punished for it…my way.

Haruka’s POV

Once inside the cave, I had to make sure that we are all on one side, seeing that Misaka and Haruna were not speaking to one another the atmosphere felt a bit dreadful and really awkward.

I then took the initiative to ask Misaka about something that has been bugging me since the day we arrived.

“Misaka” I said to which the girl did not reply as she looked in a dazed state, so I had to call again “Misaka!”

This time she was startled and paid me more attention

“Do you remember what happened when you enter the cardinal’s chamber? Because the last time I did I couldn’t remember what happened so I always made excuses not to go there…”

The girl was reluctant at first, which was understandable but she still gathered her courage and spoke.

“Blood ministration…”

“Huh? What is that?” is aid

“Is something the church does to keep track of the summoned heroes, but you don’t need to worry about that”

“What do you mean not worry about that!” said Haruna “if what you say is true then they could be tracking us right now!”

I then asked Haruna to calm down while saying

“Could you please explain because I can’t remember what was happening?”

Misaka took a bit of time to gather her thoughts then said

“I don’t know why, but the blood ministration does not work on me, it seems that it is related to my title. Yet for you girls, you were given the holy blood by the cardinal the first day, but you missed many sessions so the potency and effectiveness has decreased, I think that some traces are still left within your body…and I think I even have a way to relieve you from it but I would rather not use it…”

Related to her title? And a way to remove the threat…

“Could you please explain? What did you mean by your title and the way to remove the blood?”

Misaka then showed me a blue screen with her title in it

Sanguine princess

One who rules over blood, Controlling blood is controlling life itself.

“I am somehow able to cleanse and control my own blood, not even poison can affect me…and it seems that I am able to negate the effects of the holy blood…also I have a spell that could control the blood within others…but I am not that proficient in it…and you have seen the results earlier so I would rather not use it…”

She looks terrified and scared…probably traumatized by the fact that she killed someone, yet her ability is amazing, and if she is afraid of using it, then she will die with regret…

I then took the sword I pillaged from the knight earlier and slit my wrist. Forcing blood to poor down profusely from it.

My face began to pale, and I started feeling dizzy instantly afterwards, I thought that it would take time for the aftereffects to kick in but it seems that this world is not bound by our old world’s laws…

Haruna then began to panic

“What the hell are you doing?! Get a tissue or something to stop the bleeding now!”

Bleeding

-120Hp

-120Hp

-120Hp

…

“No!” I said “Misaka stop being afraid of your ability, it will save you one day! And I cannot risk us being followed or tracked get the foreign blood out of my system, I am sure you can do it…”

I know it was a stupid thing to do, I even had a healing potion in my pocket if things go south, but if I don’t do this, she will never move forward…

I only needed to make the first step…She did the rest.

Daiki POV

The giant ox-head then struck at where I was only to be surprised by me instantly reappearing on top of his extended right arm, running across his bulging muscles while he tried to grab me with his other free arm.

Dodging the other hand was easy, but I still used my chains to roll them on his index.

I learned a neat trick, I was able to extend the length of my chains depending on my will, and believe me they could extend a long way…

Once they rolled the flesh of the ox-head began to sizzle while I pulled with all my might.

The strength behind my pull was enough to break his finger and make it bend in a strange way.

Gozu

Boss class

-6800 Hp

993200Hp/1000000Hp

This was all thanks to the ass-whooping I got from Abigor, it enabled me to fully use the strength I have within me.

Releasing the chains while the bull screamed in pain in kept on running towards his head. The other beast came closer and dumbly used his fist to try and knock me away, while I used an abyss walk to appear over the head of ox-head. The punch must have dealt significant damage to the shoulder of ox-head as it literally shook him.

Ox-head then forgot about me and began roaring at horse-head.

I then used the chains to wrap my right hand around one of ox-head’s horns, using it as a pivoting center. I jumped and crushed his left eyeball with a well-aimed fist empowered by soul discharge.

Gozu

Boss class

Critical!

-22000 Hp

-1100Soul damage

870200Hp

That is a lot of damage, yet at the same time they have a lot of Hp…this is going to take forever.

A heart wrenching scream was soon heard, ox-head began to shout and stomp the ground while his right eye began to bleed heavily, covering most of its snout and mouth, while it foamed from pain and agony.

Horse-head then soon tried to swat me away, only to land another hit on ox-head to which he turned mad with rage, and began fighting with horse-head.

I jumped away from the two giants and left them to duke it out, they fought relentlessly and without pause, while I kept a lookout on their Hp, horsehead had a clear advantage, as he was still healthy and without damage, while the other one was losing his Hp in a slow and painful manner.

Their weapons clanged and their fists met, while ox-head used his horns as weapons too, horse-head would occasionally land a kick that would send the giant bull rolling on the huge pyres of flames.

Their fight would probably not last for a long time, due to their strength and the damage they deal to each other, however, at this rate, horse-head will win and with a big margin too, if I was left with only him, I will have a terrible time trying to wither down its HP.

Looking at ox-head’s Hp I noticed that it reached the twenty five percent mark, remembering my maximum damage of almost one hundred and nineteen thousand damage, so I patiently waited for his Hp to go down at least that much.

I then began casting the soul eruption skill, while the ball of soul was being created the two creatures had yet to notice me, in their mad and pointless fight they forgot that I was still here.

However they were a bit far from where I was, so I feared that if the soul eruption skill explodes that they will receive minimal damage.

Deciding on using abyss walk to close the gap, something amazing happened, I did not even move while the spell itself teleported and reappeared between the two giants.

Once they noticed it, it pulsed one last time before erupting into an enormous explosion.

You died!

Rise if you would, for that is your curse!

I rose back to see only horse-head still standing, probably stunned from the fact that he lost a lot of his HP so I took the chance to use abyss walk and suck his very soul.

Once I felt my soul replenished, horse head was now back without the stun effect, yet clearly his broken and battered body left it no chance to fight back.

Its body was charred, its fur was burnt, his eyes were no longer operational and most of its skin was burnt to a crisp.

It was just standing there waiting for death, to which I gave without hesitation, as the giant beads dropped from his neck, I spun the chains around it and ignited them, they then slowly began to sizzle and burn on his neck, it tried to grab the chains, with whatever meager strength it had left, yet the chains were too small for his hands, and so they dug deeper into his flesh, slowly burning away at it, slowly choking him, blood began to poor from his neck, while his half charred nose began to spew blood and his mouth gurgled for air. It smelled like burnt trash. Disgusting and repulsive, but I didn’t care…

It took some time for the chains to reach his major blood veins, but once it did, blood poured out like a bursting dam.

It took a few agonizing moments for it to die, but once it did die it turned into dust.

Only two items were left behind once the two beings died. A giant bead like the one that they had on their necks and a small round relic that looked like a pentagon with an eye in the middle.

Few notifications then soon followed.

For defeating a boss that is 500 Levels above yours you have received a title

The unwavering.

Title already in possession, title changed to

The Unyielding.

Title additional bonus :

Unique ability.

Unbreakable

For three seconds all damage received is nulled.

1Month Cooldown

For defeating the boss of the third circle of hell you received:

1 ability.

Death Vow.

Death Vow.

Skill rarity

Unique.

Damage: instant death.

Cost: user’s life.

Death Vow!

What is life without death, and what is death without life, a question only one that lives in neither words can answer.

Granting you the power to sacrifice your own life for the life of your enemy.

(target cannot be more than 100 levels above the user of the ability)

(does not work on divine or demonic creatures of the god class)

Holy shit this is amazing!

Another notification then soon showed up

The skill, abyss walk has evolved into two different abilities.

Shadow step

Abyssal projection

Shadow step

Passive/active

Level 20/20

The dark is your ally, walk within it like you are moving through shadows.

Shadow step enables you to move from shade to shade. Additionally you are passively able to see in darkness like if it is the brightest of days.

The user is no longer bound to use the spell under shadows, even in the brightest of days they can move through artificial shades.

Abyssal projection

special

Moves inanimate objects through space

Level 1/20

The dark is your ally

Abyssal projection lets you displace objects in space.

Distance, size, density of said objects can be increased by the increase of the skill level.

Cannot be used to displace space itself.

…

Way too many skills…but it seems that they are all going to be useful.

I inspected the two objects that were on the ground.

Mezu’s doorway.

Mezu as a guardian of the third circle of hell was given the door to the next circle.

Opens a pathway to the circle of blasphemy

Gozu’s key.

Gozu as a guardian of the third circle of hell was given the Key to the next circle.

Opens a pathway to the circle of blasphemy

It seems that I need to use these two items together. Anyone that passes through here would have needed to defeat both of them to pass…I wonder how is that even doable…I only got lucky and my skills are more than enough to do the job…but still all I need is to keep on going.

I took the pentagon and got it closer to the giant red bead, they began to shimmer, like if they were resonating.

Soon afterwards a black hole opened within the big red bead leading to another place…

I walked forward, now with more confidence, as the training I did with Abigor enabled me to easily defeat two giants that far surpassed my own strength, well I tricked them into beating the living shit out of each other, then finished them off, but still…

I then walked through…three levels down, four more to go…