Chapter 273: Chapter 262 - The Arch Gate
Five minutes after Lara left, Zeel rubbed his head and groaned intensely as he rose to his feet.
"Luckily, enough of the death energy dissipated before she shot me," Zeel murmured.
The Red Queen felt insulted "It wasn't luck… it was Human Mathematics,"
Zeel smiled wryly and did not comment. He directly reached into the hole in his head and forcefully pulled out two bullets.
The first bullet broke his skin but bounced away, the second bullet briefly fractured the skull, but did not penetrate. The third bullet buried itself inside his skull.
Zeel was glad that The Red Queen acted quickly to get rid of Lara's memories, but Zeel knew the trauma would remain instinctually.
Noticing that he was alone in the tomb by this point, Zeel limped weakly to the coffin at the center of the room.
"Ms. Lara is in the process of escaping outside the tomb. Mathias had been infected with a strange disease caused by contamination from the remains of the dead body," The Red Queen reported.
Zeel nodded in acknowledgment and gave an order "Kill Mathias' family. This will also be last respect for the naïve man,"
The Red Queen access outside networks once more with a burst of energy. The Red Queen did not want to kill Mathias' family, but even she would not go through the trouble of rehabilitating them.
Unknown to Mathias, the moment he made an agreement with The Trinity organization, his family was abducted and held by the organization. After several years of failing to meet his commitment, his family was sold into prostitution.
Almost every day his wife and daughters were abused. Now, they were only shells of who they used to be. They no longer held any hope for the return of their father.
Since her Sentient Core has been with Zeel, The Red Queen has seen these situations countless times.
Unlike Alice and Elizabeth who only received filtered prayers, Zeel would always receive the most gruesome and pitiful of prayers.
Luckily, witnessing all the tragedies did not affect Zeel very much since he simply lacked the ability to care about anything that did not affect him directly.
"Done!" The Red Queen reported.
Zeel nodded and peeked into the coffin ever so slightly. The feather around his neck trembled, fell to the ground, and turned into Child Himiko.
"She was the most beautiful woman when she was alive," Child Himiko murmured staring at the decayed body inside the coffin.
Zeel did not comment, instead, he slowly patted the head of Child Himiko, calming down the tears that threatened to fall from her sparkling eyes.
Zeel wouldn't usually be so polite to anyone, but he saw similarities between himself and the girl.
"Big girls don't cry," Zeel said profoundly.
Truly, that phrase was something he learned from Ella and Alle when they listened to music. It seemed the perfect line to use at the moment so he made it his own without any shame.
Zeel slowly reached his hands out, attempting to place them onto the decaying body of the true Himiko; however, the Child Himikp grabbed his hand with fright on her face.
"She is cursed with death. If you touch her, you will also die," Child Himiko said anxiously.
Zeel completely ignored her pleadings and placed his hands on Himiko's body as the abyss bead materialized in his palm.
The Child Himiko's eyes grew wide as she witnessed Himiko's body being completely absorbed by the Abyssal Bead.
"What is it?" She asked in fear.
Zeel patted her head and answered "I can only use it once a day so there is no need to worry. It's just something that harms evil people,"
After the body in the coffin had disappeared, Zeel noticed a passage below the body. Inside the coffin, he could see stairs leading down into an abyss.
With the body absorbed by the Abyssal Bead, Zeel felt energy course throughout his body once more.
Zeel urged the nanites in his body to heal the rune engraved on his shoulder. The 'seal' rune was immediately dissolved and Zeel felt his divinity rushing back with renewed vigor.
It seemed slightly more powerful than when he initially sealed it.
With a little more push, Zeel felt that he could probably break through to the 1st Stage God. At that point, he will truly be able to use his divinity actively.
So far, using his divinity actively in combat would result in a strain that would force him into a deep sleep, or the restrictions becoming more severe.
It was only thanks to his talent that he was able to use his divinity-given abilities at all.
However, if he attained 1st Stage God, then he would be able to use his divinity however he wished as long as the scale wasn't too wide. Better yet, the restriction of the World Laws would ease up slightly.
It was a pain for Zeel to deal with the constant headaches that occurred for the simplest of actions.
Zeel did not even hesitate to grab Child Himiko and jump into the abyss inside below the coffin.
He felt the falling sensation for a bit, and just as they were about to touch the ground, Zeel altered their speed by using an opposite upwards momentum.
This made the landing safe, though Zeel noted that his landing could use a bit more finesse.
Zeel began his observations.
What appeared in front of Zeel and Child Himiko was a long corridor that exuded an ancient feeling. Not a thousand years ancient-feeling, but more like since the dawn of time ancient-feeling.
"You knew this was here?" Zeel asked curiously.
"No, I do not have the strength to venture this far. The field around you is barely keeping me from running away," Child Himiko replied with fear in her voice.
Child Himiko thought she knew every part of the tomb but it seemed she was still a bit naïve.
Zeel and Child Himiko walked for the next 50 Kilometers without stopping. A couple of kilometers ago, the bombs Mathias set in place finally detonated but it had no effect on the underground structure below the tomb.
When Zeel was about to come upon the 60 Kilometers mark, he stopped and stared intently forward.
With a concentrated vision fuelled by his divinity, Zeel could see the faint shift in the air viscosity.
"Pass this point is another dimension… a dark dimension," Zeel said.
Himiko frowned, she was an angel in training before being corrupted so her knowledge was not too shallow.
"Then it is the Dark Dimension?" She asked.
Zeel rolled his eyes but did not answer, instead, tapping his Mbeamer as a signal for The Red Queen to explain the birds and the bees to the naïve Wanderer.
"Dark Dimension is indeed a possibility but the term is too vague… there are never two dimensions that are exactly the same,' The Red Queen chided like an older sister.
"I don't understand," Himiko said grabbing her head and pulling her hair.
It was a childish action that befitted her mental age.
Zeel sighed "It's complicated but each dimension is like a human being. Even twins are never exactly the same. So a Dark Dimension can still be a Darkia Dimension, Darke Dimension, Darko Dimension, Darker Dimension…
The different variants go on until infinity. There are as many dimensions in the 'known' Universe as they are stars in the skies.
But the main Dimensions are always just called 'True Dimensions'. The Dark Dimension, The Light Dimension, Netherlands Dimension,"
"Which one is in front of us?" Child Himiko asked.
Zeel placed his finger across the barrier and shrugged confusedly "It's just Space,"
After confirming it was just an empty space, Zeel crossed over the small layer that separated one Dimension from the other.
Once across, Zeel noticed a huge metal gate arch that shifted constantly between several states of matter: plasma, liquid, solid, gas, Condensate…
After Child Himiko entered the Dimension, she stared up in awe.
"What are they?" She asked.
The Red Queen answered since Zeel had already walked towards the gate "It's a space gate. Really Ancient Homo-Superior Technology. I think it's from the 24th Century,"
Zeel fiddled with the gate for a moment, then reluctantly placed a Gravitational-Ball into the gate causing it to stabilize for a moment.
It pained Zeel's heart because the Gravitational-Ball would have to remain behind for the gate to be functional.
After all, he couldn't allow
When Zeel stepped back, the arch gate solidified and a small tunnel to distant star systems was reflected inside.
Codes flickered within Zeel's pupils as he made not of each and every star system he witnessed. When he saw the perfect coordinates reflected, Zeel jumped into action.
Zeel didn't even bother with anything else, he directly grabbed Child Himiko and leaped through the gate.
What followed was the feeling of being spun inside out, round and round, and then smashing into a solid surface.
Zeel made sure to protect Child Himiko with his body since she was still a child Wanderer at the moment.
After reorienting himself, Zeel inspected the temple he arrived at. There were no statues, only several inscriptions written on the walls, floors, and even the nearby tangible space.
"This is it… We can Mjump directly from here," Zeel said.
The Red Queen finally sighed in relief since she noticed they were in a totally different galaxy at this point. If this was not the correct location of the entrance to the next Universe, then they would have immense trouble getting back to Earth.
It wasn't so difficult, but extremely energy-consuming.
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