Chapter 31: Final Fight to Complete the Mission and Leave the Cave, Tribulation, and Heading to the Dragon Awakening Ceremony (Volume 1 end)
Marcus thought the mission would be simple that it would not actually take them this long however after reaching hundredth floor, where each floor after it would have a gate keeper to the next floor stronger then the highest by 1 stage (like initial to middle tier) this really did not make that much difference, but it having the combined skills and powers of all the monsters with almost no vital points as each of the monsters made up for each other weak point, with enhancements to the superior qualities of the monsters its made of. Each floor will also increase in monster quantity and quality and variations as they go up. (Another reason is that Falce can not be used as the mission makes her keep out of combat, but she will still get the mission reward to wen completed) It took Marcus and co almost the entire time to reach the 174th floor using almost all their points in the previous floors to beat the next floor, as they defeated the gatekeeper as they proceeded to the next floor, as they had less than 2 days technically 4 days, however they will have to face tribulations for breaking through the Rebirth Stage, Dark Immortal, and Gold Immortal since the cave seems to hide them away from the heaven's tribulation.
With half a day of spying and probing, they found the floor to be over 1000 km long made out of rocks like the others with several pillars spread with a giant golden door at the other end of the floor with over 25,000 monsters with them being between high and peak stage of Gold Immortal. They were 3 different types of monsters like Draconians, Harpies, and Molerites (mole monster) (these monster are man-made than the ones born on the outside giving them more weakness like loss of intelligence, which is why they are called monsters and not creatures) with the ability to attack above, below, and straight forward. As the gatekeeper of the floor was a mixed that was over 10,000 ft tall with a human like faced with horns growing from its head and the nose like a mole, mutated claws as hands and feet being a fused version of the mole and draconian, along with giant wings that spread out completely blocking the door from view with green and brown scales all over its body. After Marcus looked at it he found out that it was different than the before guardians as it cultivation based was equivalent to a High Stage Heaven Immortal.
Noticing this they began to come up with plans using all the points which they all had they bought array flags called Heaven Suppression array and Rupturing Sealing array and setting the array flags of the Rupturing Sealing array secretly around the gate keeper to stall it and make sure it would not attack them while they killed the other monsters. Since some of the gatekeepers would leave there post and attack them when fighting if they possessed enough intelligence as it would notice instead of getting weaker the enemy would get stronger with each kill. They set up the Heaven Suppressing array around the whole floor to make the levels dropped from peak to high as the all the items that can be bought from the store were all limited to Dark Immortal with some being Gold immortal initial stage because of the mission. Along with buying several thousands of traps and hidden contractions while destroying the previous ones and placing the new ones around the entire floor, automatic firing and reloading ballistas created using formations to fire and reload and the arrows, various poisons (don't need antidotes as all of them are immune with God immunity), Exploding Talisman, hidden weapons, and one time use weapons.
Marcus had the ballistas placed in the dark shaded places like corners or behind some of the pillars throughout while 5 at the entrance as the gate guardian would not be able to see that far. He then had use the fused function with the last of his points and fused together all the poisons and put them on the arrows, and weapons of everyone as he had the assassin's hide in darkness and space all around the hall to wait to attack and have them spread the poison as they went to each of there hiding spots as the poison had became colorless with no smell after the fusions. Knowing it would take a 30 seconds for the poison to began its effect, Marcus had Kumi and Mari with him throw explosive talisman at the crowd of monsters along with using various skills drawing the monsters and creating a bigger explosive chain reaction through the poison in the air. Killing several hundreds and awakening the gatekeeper. As the creatures started to rush to them, Marcus activated the arrays sealing the Gatekeeper and suppressing the crowd as their power was suppressed causing them to be caught in surprise and not being accustomed with their new suppressed power Marcus and the other activated most of the traps that cause lightning earth spikes, water prison, and etc killing thousands of them.
With less than 20,000 left the poison started to take its effect as it started to corrode, weaken, and even destroy the creatures bodies along with causing them to be caught up in illusions and start attack each other. Taking advantage of this the assassins' started to sneakily attack and kill several of the wounded ones and the ones fighting each other before quickly going back into hiding, with ballistas throughout the room firing rapidity as well killing hundreds of them per minute. Seeing this the gatekeeper's eyes turned red with hatred and madness as it started to attack the array over and over again. Marcus knowing the array can only stop the gatekeeper at most 1 minutes drew out all sorts of different weapons as he started to take the spears on the ground and kick the ground with his feet as the spear flew off the ground Marcus used his feet and kicked several of them into gatekeeper with origin laws forming the Origin Seal of Eternal Agony in order to stall it more even though it will cause it to get angrier by it.
Seeing that both seals can hold out for about 3 minutes, Marcus, Kumi, and Mari started to join the fight using different laws, intents, skills, and powers as they quickly mowed down the other monsters left and right. Using only 2 minutes to clear the floor, They took several replenishing pills to recuperate from the small wounds and energy they used before they fight the gatekeeper. After 1 minute, they heard a huge angry roar spread throughout the floor, causing a huge gust of wind and dust to blow towards them making them having a hard time standing straight as the gatekeeper slowly walked forward like it was a bad-ass after escaping the seal, causing Marcus to snort coldly at its arrogance, but secretly thinking he will do same thing in future except with more effects that makes him appear as a divine being descending before people. While Marcus was secretly forming plans about the future, the ballistas rapidly shot at the monster coming forward along with the rest of the traps and contraptions activating attacking the monster. With a quick breathe of silence with smoke appearing where the monster was standing, a dark shade started to appear as the monster came out with only a few more wounds to its bad causing more pain to it it and its hatred rising making it enter berserk frenzy stage as it went and quickly destroyed the ballistas.
It quickly appeared in front of Marcus and the others, and was about to attack as they disappeared before him and arrived 10 km around him as they each took out some explosive talisman and the one time use weapon and shot the weapon towards it before it could react and then throwing the explosive talisman as they quickly back off appearing 200 km away. The explosive force caused was 100 km causing a small wind storm to sweep the floor. Before the smoke cleared a red figure quickly pounced towards Marcus with its fist hitting the ground was Marcus previously stood as he use ghost shadow step disappearing again. As the floor had a huge dent in it with countless cracks spreading out from the force of the fist the monster appeared again with blood covering from holes and slashes on its body along with being parts being charred black, with red eyes bleeding tears of blood. The monster took a step forward towards Marcus again as it already knew he was the ring leader, when the ground sunk beneath it and as countless explosive talisman could be seen shining as Marcus had set the trap earlier knowing that the monster would come after him.
The monster screamed in pain from the sudden trap with ones its foot stuck in a hole, as it constantly was trying to move its foot to escape from the hole. Taking advantage of this the assassin's started to attack using their bows, darts, and other long ranged weapons to attack it as they did not get close as the monster seem to already know their presence and seem to be waiting for them to sneak attack it up front. Seeing the barrage of attacks hitting him and the assassins not getting close to attack, but from a distance, the monster became even more angry as it reached a new stage of berserk as it body expanded to twice it size and escaped the hole.
Knowing it was with very few health left, Marcus did not charge he had everyone attack from a distance and shift to a different location after each attack. This caused it to be even more angry as it quicken its pace and attack Mari as she was the slowest. It palmed her and sent her flying into the wall as a dent was made from her body with blood seeping from her mouth and head across her left eye as she coughed more up from her broken ribs with a feeble conscious from the attack. Marcus gave a quick order to Kumi to attend to Mari as they finish off the monster.
Marcus quickly turned around and was stunned seeing the monster appearance, but quickly knew why it look like this. The monster was suffering from agony of flames and lightning swallowing its body unable to move an inch of its body as the lightning struck the nervous system making impossible for its brain to send messages across its body to move. Marcus knew that this was a curse from attacking Mari as she was a Blessing phoenix, Marcus and the others quickly attack it in it joints and spinal cord to make sure it would not be able to move along with attacking its neck, heart, and brain as the areas were protected with thicker and more durable scales causing the attacks only to leave a dent. Taking a full 2 minutes before the gatekeeper died. As the sound appeared in everyone's mind
[Ding, Mission Completed: Has reach and cleared the 175th floor before the awakening ceremony starts. Mission Reward: 1,000,000 exp for each person, free bloodline below 100,000 for each person, 5,000,000 DP points, Title Endless Conqueror, and a free fused power for Marcus. Since the last floor was cleared in under a day you will be given an extra bonuses as each of your systems will undergo an upgrade to the next level for free, along with an extra 1,000,000 DP and Marcus will be given 10,000,000 exp added to his universe to advance it further.]
After it died without bothering to checking the system update Marcus and the rest quickly reach Mari as she had healed alot since she had regeneration to speed up the process Marcus gave a healing pill and used one of the skills he created over the past years using his bloodline, body, and laws called "Road to Salvation" as it can heal the injuries at a faster rate than any other technique and can even improve a person's regeneration and making them feel blissful feeling in their body from the skill. With these Mari healed all of her injuries within 10 minutes as all of them sat down to rest as they cooked and ate the meet from the killed gatekeeper as these monster are not able to be converted as they are man-made and are useless when use for alchemy, inscription, runes, arrays, formations, and/or to create weapons. After they ate and had there rest the took a quick peak at their status as Marcus and Kumi both leveled up to Level: 352-Heaven Immortal Initial, with Mari at Level 349 -Gold Immortal Peak, with Falce at Level 500 -False God Initial and the Assassin's at Level 336- Gold Immortal High.
Seeing their levels go up and having completed the mission all of them was excited as they only use about 3/4 of a day to take care of this dungeon as they set up a defense mechanism and slept and rested for 8 hours before starting to move. As there was still 3 days left, Marcus decided to first teleport to Star Fall Canyon in order to each of them to complete their tribulation with having the assassin's take their tribulations together at one spot, Kumi and Mari take their at another, with himself with Falce taking their tribulation together. Falce became excited that she will have her tribulation with Marcus as the rest was puzzled. seeing their puzzled faces Marcus explained to them that with more people around that the "heavens" of this universe can sense the stronger the tribulations, the stronger the tribulations the harder it is to survive, but the more benefits toward the end. As when the assassin's pass they will more than likely be only a pace from Heaven Immortal, while Mari will probably break through to Heaven and Kumi will increase her level, while Falce may increase her level, my universe will undergo the baptism and He will probably break through to peak of Heaven Immortal or high stage at least with everyone having their bodies tempered with the lightning.
After Marcus finish his explanation, they all have either shocked or understanding faces on them as Marcus told them to buy a pill just in case their life was endangered during the tribulations and telling the assassins to buy a suitable body cultivation method to use the lightning to temper their body and muscles as Mari, Kumi, Falce, and Marcus do not need them as they either automatically absorb the lightning to temper the bodies or the cultivation method they practice already does it. After preparation were completed, Marcus teleported them to Fallen Star Canyon and dropped them off in groups that he told earlier in certain locations far apart from each other with placing a portable concealing, detection, and defensive array orb near them to prevent intruders from disturbing them as Marcus and Falce teleported to an empty spot to undergo the tribulation.
The sky turned dark as the tribulation started to gather causing as dark, red, blue, purple, and green lightning, fire, and wind appears (lightning only tribulations is only for Immortal Realm, Demigod adds fire, and God realm adds fire, while at breaking through to God Emperor stage will add ice and purple color is only added when a chaos creature is undergoing a tribulation as the power is over 10 times more powerful than the rest, it does not add more because the helix part of Marcus bloodline and soul cannot be detected by it as it is a higher being than the universe) forming large serpents and Chinese dragons roaring and building up more power as each became bigger and bigger before reaching 300 M each as they all stared down looking at Marcus and Falce, before hissing and roaring as they all struck down at them with the intent to kill and swallow them.
The tribulation struck down as the causing thousands of cracks to appear along with various parts of the canyon being destroyed. Marcus closed his eyes and open his mouth as he started to circulate the bloodline art, cosmos art, and celestial art as he absorbed and swallowed the tribulation, while Falce as a very powerful weapon was absorbing it and as the celestial art was connected between both of them it ran the tribulation power through both of them while transforming it into a new energy that belong to the art. The energy cause a soft tingling pleasure feeling to run between the both of them as Falce stated to let out soft to loud moans that was covered by the roars of the tribulation as the tribulation continued for half a day before disappearing.
Seeing the tribulation disappear, Marcus opened his eyes and stopped circulating the technique as he took a quick glance over his body before looking at his universe. The universe had startling changes compared to a few years ago as it space was expanded and the planets more spaced out and separated from each other as the planets started to take more diverse sizes ranging from sizes as big as Pluto to sizes 1000 times bigger than the Earth's sun. The Helix being still 100 times the biggest planet sizes as the unique trees on it were already half way grown compare to the others as they were still just tiny buds. After snooping around some more and taken notice of all the changes Marcus too back his divine sense as he looked over at Falce before making a dumbfounded and shocked face with a hint of a blush as he gave a thumbs up.
Aeris had her chin on the with her butt stinking in the air with a perverted face that turned red and pink color as she was heavy panting and soft moaning sounds coming out of her mouth. seeing the sexy looking look and position Falce was Marcus watch and enjoyed the view for a while from many angels before snapping out of her trance state. When she snapped out she stated with a oh and said "Master, it seems that the tribulation was done without me even noticing it. Let do it again together as the feeling I experience was great."
Marcus then took Falce who still had a somewhat perverted still and teleported to the rest and had Mari, Falce, and the Assassins go into his universe while him and Mari quickly used there concealing techniques and teleported to the carriage that their clones were in while changing into a new set of clothes bought from the dream store with immortal emperor grade defense and concealment mechanism to make the clothes look like ordinary silk. Kumi was a long black and silver blue lightning colored maid outfit. Marcus new clothes were a similar design to Ezio outfit except the bottom part having a similar design as Edward Kenway Privateer Outfit and a cape that covers the top part of the shoulders in the front and goes all the way down to the ankles in the back and the outfit color being Royal Blue and Gold.
As they replaced their clones and road the carriage a day before arriving at the Velado City. As the carriage moved forward to it arrived and stopped outside the entrance of the Hazard Clan. Marcus looked at the entrance and said "Huh, so I back here, let's get this over with." He said as he slowly walked toward the entrance.
(End of Volume 1, the status and another chapter will be out tomorrow)
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