Chapter 137: The "Obscene" Reward for the Clearance
Huge changes occurred on the 3D screen.
The seven characters who represented the Barbarian, Sorceress, Paladin, Assassin, Amazon, Druid, and Necromancer classes were still standing there vividly. The changes on them weren't that obvious. The weakest among all the classes was the Necromancer, and it was now level 19 already. Every character had at least a level 5 [Magic Item]on them. The Sorceress character was the fanciest with a complete set of green [Arcanna's Tricks]emitting a green light sphere and enveloping the character in it. The items the sorceress had were obviously better than the items that the other characters had, all appearing in different colors.
Set items were great after all. On top of their power, their appearances were much sharper and different compared to others.
What surprised Fei wasn't the appearances of his characters... but rather a line of ancient red words filled the whole 3D screen. The words were clearly reflected into Fei's pupil –
"Congratulation, young adventurer. After the test of blood and fire, challenges between death and life, choices for love and hate, you have complete all the quests from Act I in the Diablo World. Your miraculous skills, [Summon]and[Give], will be leveled up. Your conversion limit will be upgraded, the parallel universes will be upgraded, your mercenaries will receive a boost in strength... There is a total of eleven level ups that you will receive as mysterious rewards. Slowly unveil the secrets of the Diablo World! Young man, a new adventure lies ahead of you. Prove you are worthy of God's favour by using the swords and blades in your hands like a true warrior!"
Fei was only able to half understand it.
In between the lines, Fei sensed an unexpected aura of compassion, as if an elder was standing in front of him calmly, gifting him with all these rewards, and then patiently and carefully teaching and instructing him.
As soon as Fei finished reading the sentence, the line of words started to change. The words slowly fainted, and shrunk into small red dots. After dancing in the air like fireflies in a dark night, they suddenly rushed towards Fei like iron dust attracted to a magnet.
Fei couldn't dodge it, and all the red-light specks instantly entered Fei's body.
It felt really strange.
As if he was hugging another soul.
For the next second, Fei felt something appear in his body but it strangely felt like it belonged there. It was a force, like a cloud of information. It felt ancient, mysterious and strange.
Fei closed his eyes and slowly "read" the information.
Suddenly –
"Shit... combining strength, so this is how, it's bad..." A short message in this information surprised Fei. He didn't continue reading the rest of the information; he instantly exited from the 3D screen.
The time was tight.
...
...
The back mountains of Chambord.
The autumn's sun was warm and the weather was very nice.
There wasn't a single cloud in the sky, and the sky looked like a huge crystal blue gem that covered the top of the world. Deep in the mountains, deep and long roars from beast and animals sounded frequently. The yellow leaves fell from the tree branches and covered up numerous unknown secrets.
All the plants and greenery were turning yellow and golden brown, expressing their beauty brazenly.
Nearby, on one of the plateaus made of rocks with vines climbing over them, Akara smiled as she taught Angela and a bunch of kids how to identify herbs and their effects in making potions. The atmosphere was very peaceful and fun. Angela and the kids would gasp and laugh as they learnt the mystical effects of the herbs and random plants that they didn't pay attention to before.
Akara was very pleased with the atmosphere, and she did her best to teach.
Not too far away, Elena, looking like a Valkyrie, was standing on a big rock as she held on tight to her bow. Her red hair fluttered in the wind, like a burning fire. Although there weren't any huge beasts in the back mountains, the dangerous surroundings in the Diablo World had trained her to be cautious all the time. She guarded Akara, Angela, and the kids carefully. She was very sensitive to danger, and she knew what place that beautiful naive girl held in Fei's heart.
Therefore, Elena felt she must help Fei to protect this girl.
[Black Tornado]was lying beside Elena's feet lazily. Its eyes were sleepy and it opened its mouth and yawned here and there. Under the warm autumn sunlight, this smart beast felt very comfortable.
The scene was beautiful.
Suddenly, Blacky sniffed his nose.
It felt perplexed, and it raised its dog head and looked up. Its eyes focused on Elena and found the source of the abnormality – the autumn sun wasn't hot, but a large amount of sweat started to drip from Elena's forehead. The crystal sweats reflected all sorts of colours from the sun.
Drip! Drip!
The sweat landed on the rocks.
"Woff!Woff!Woff!..." Blacky got up and started to bark.
Akara who was teaching the basics of potion concoction to Angela and the kids also stopped talking and looked this way.
She also felt the change coming from Elena's body –
At that moment, a few strong energies came from nowhere and were instantly injected into Elena's body. These energies were all different attributes. They couldn't co-exist with each other. Therefore, they were fighting aggressively with each other, and Elena's body turned into a battlefield for these energies.
To any warrior, this situation was deadly.
The disruption coming from the energies of different attributes might instantly destroy one's body and bones; the person might become a pile of flesh and blood.
Currently, there was already a layer of light blood on Elena's soft smooth skin, and a lot of bloody mists were coming out of Elena's invisible pores. From afar, it seemed like Elena was covered in a red flame. Numerous veins were becoming visible on her arm that was holding onto the bow. Her white teeth had bitten into her red lips so hard that blood gushed out.
The mercenary was definitely in huge amount of pain.
"What's going on?" Even Akara who was very wise was surprised couldn't understand why this would happened to Elena. In her long life, she had never seen any female rogues in any kind of similar situation.
Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
There was no time to waste, Akara raised her hand and a series of white light flew out of her palm and into Elena's body.
This was the special healing skill that priestesses of the Diablo World knew.
Akara had deep knowledge about magic as well.
With the help from the healing, Elena was doing a little bit better. However, the conflict between energies didn't stop. In fact, it was getting more and more aggressive. Soon, more and more bloody mists gushed out of Elena's body, and the beauty was covered in blood.
""Woff!Woff!Woff!..." Blacky started to bark like crazy.
"Sister Elena..." Angela was also terrified by what she saw.
Akara used the healing skill non-stop and didn't reserve her magic energy at all. A series of white healing lights dashed into Elena's body, but it wasn't helping much.
"Damn..." Even Akara, who worshiped god, spat out swears.
"Ah..." The valiant valkyrie who endured all the pain couldn't hold up anymore. She let out a deep painful cry.
At this moment –
Huuuu!
A blue portal suddenly appeared on the rock, and Fei walked out of it. He took out a full bottle of [Full rejuvenation Potion]and poured onto Elena's body. He then held the hot mercenary who already fainted by the waist as he stomped the ground. Boom! The rock exploded into pieces as Fei leaped into the air and disappeared from Akara's, Angela's, blacky's, and the kid's eyes.
"Don't worry, I have a solution!"
Fei's voice resonated in the sky.
Akara felt a bit relieved, but became very curious. It looked like Fei knew what was going on inside Elena's body... But why? Angela on the other hand wrapped her arms around her chest as she felt very worried. This pure girl didn't get mad or jealous of her fiance holding another woman.
...
...
Fei used Barbarian [Leap]repeatedly and his body merged with the wind. He quickly arrived at a stone room in the underground cave within the back mountains.
He ordered the guards to not let anyone in as he poured the last bottle of [Full rejuvenation Potion]he had into Elena mouth.
The hot mercenary was in a terrible condition.
There was ice, fire, lightning and poison energies within her body. The four types of energies were fighting inside her body. If Akara didn't use healing skills to suppress the conflict and Fei didn't use all of the [Full rejuvenation Potion]he just converted to balance them out, the valkyrie in his arms would have broken into pieces.
"Shit! Do I have to do that?"
Fei looked at Elena who was still fainted, hesitating.
He knew exactly what was happening to Elena – this was one of the rewards he got for completing all the quests in Act I in Diablo World – Combining his strength.
This was the underlining purpose of this reward –
All the strengths from the other six mercenaries from the other six parallel universes that Fei's other six characters were in would be combined into Elena – this wasn't a surprise – only Elena was like a living being and the other six mercenaries were like rigid robots; they didn't have any intelligence. Although he guessed that this strange phenomenon occurred because of the rewards he got, he didn't expect it to have this kind of connection. Also, from the information Fei read in the Diablo World, this combination process was very dangerous. Without careful preparations, Elena might not be able to balance the energy in her body, and that would result in harming of her health, and even death.
At this point, all the potions that Fei converted were used.
But Elena was still in a terrible condition.
All four energies in her body didn't show any signs of balance and calming down. In the conflict, they were more like kids who got into a fight. They were causing more trouble and getting more aggressive. Although Elena fainted, the pain was still torturing her. Fei's heart was hurting just by looking at her unconscious frowning expression. The floor would soon be stained by Elena's blood.
Fei quickly made a difficult decision.
He slowly placed his hands on the buckles of Elena's armor.
Although it was called a remote and impoverished kingdom, Chambord wasn't actually as impoverished as most people thought. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Surrounded by green mountain ranges and the Zuli River, Chambord was quite an aesthetic and cheerful place.
In the afternoon, on the defense wall, a team of sharp soldiers was patrolling around the battlement. The plain across from the river seemed to feel the desolation of autumn; the green grass had turned yellow. Looking from afar, it looked like there was a golden carpet placed on the ground. A breeze blew pass by, and the long grass on the hills waved, as if they were tides. The scenery was just perfect.
Suddenly –
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
A series of vague drumming noise came from afar; it was filled with the sharp murderous intent that came only from military troops. It instantly broke the peaceful atmosphere and picturistic view.
"Stop!"
Michelle-Barak, the captain of this team waved his hand, and the patrolling soldiers paused their steps.
Barak toned down his breathing and listened carefully to this vague drum noise. His face slowly changed color. He jumped onto a battlement without say a word and took a detailed look. At the horizon, where the golden plain met the skyline, he saw a dense row of flags. The flags had various colors and symbols, and they all fluttered in the wind. Then, a group of people appeared; they looked like a huge mass of black ants from Barak's view... It was an army.
"Who could they be?" Barak was shocked.
This army that appeared out of nowhere and had at least a thousand men. They were all armed well; their weapons shined and reflected the sunlight into Barak's eyes. This fully armed army was up to no good. But just in case that it was misunderstanding, Barack sent out a scout.
A fast horse with the scout on it rushed out of the kingdom gate. It soon passed the stone bridge and headed directly toward the army in afar.
At the same time, all the soldiers in the kingdom received urgent commands and were all rushing up the defense wall in formations.
After more than ten minutes, the scout had finally returned. Although he didn't hear the report from the scout, Barack knew what was going on after he saw the blood stains and the few arrows on his back – this army who appeared out of nowhere was an enemy.
"Ring the bell and alarm everyone. Quick! Inform Mr. Brock about this situation now!" Barak's agitated voice sounded in every soldier's ears.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The huge bell that was about 2 yards tall and hung at the highest location on the defensive wall was rang.
A tense atmosphere spread in Chambord Castle as the bell rang by. The relaxed citizens who were wandering on the streets all panicked and rushed back to their homes. A few fast horses were rushing towards Chambord's Civil and Military Academy and King's Palace. Although the atmosphere suddenly changed from casual to tense, after the experience of the black armored enemies' siege, people of Chambord who had lived through the war didn't turn into chaos. All the preparations for battle were being processed accordingly.
Barak led forty soldiers out of the Castle; they rushed to the stone bridge.
During the battle on the stone bridge with the black armoured enemies, the god like King Alexander broke this ancient bridge who had been here for numerous of years in half with his brutal strength, and left a gap about more than ten yards(m) long. After that war, the two portions of the bridge were connected by ropes, chains, and wood boards. But under the design of his majesty, the simple and crude rope and wood board bridge was replaced with a suspension bridge made from iron chains and plates.
This suspension bridge was perfect for both attack and defence. It was like a gigantic beast that crawled in between the two side of the stone bridges. It served as a great first line of defence and perfected the Zuli River's moat effect.
Creak! Creak! Creak! Creak!
8 iron chains that were as thick as an adult's waist slowly pulled up the iron suspension bridge like 8 godly arms under the squeaking and whining of the the huge iron wheel. The more than ten meter gap reappeared on the bridge. The fast current in the Zuli River rushed by under the gap, and cold mists were blown around by the wind, freezing the surroundings. There was also a mysterious suction force coming from the river, making everything more horrifying.
When faced with this gap, any army would have to fill the river with corpses before they would get by.
"Archers... get ready!"
Barak drew out his sword. He licked his lips and didn't bother hiding the excited expression from his face. Chambord Kingdom had slowly ramped up its military strength. As one of the twenty three strongmen who participated in the battle on the stone bridge and one of the Silver Saint Seiya, he was looking forward to this battle from the bottom of his heart.
He wanted the whole empire to see how strong Chambord was!
Behind him, many soldiers charged out of the castle to help them. Saint Seiya members such as Drogba and Ivanovic had lead the elite soldiers under them and joined the soldiers at the northern side of the stone bridge. On the defensive wall, both Bast and Brock who were the civil and military heads of Chambord had already arrived after the alarm. They were standing under the watch tower calmly.
This was a scary reaction speed.
Everyone was waiting for this sudden, mysterious enemy to arrive.
...
...
At the underground cave in the back mountains.
In the simple and crude stone room.
Fei had took off the last piece of soft leather inner armour for Elena; he tried doing so as he close his eyes. Although his shivering fingers had not touched Elena's white, smooth and burning skin, he already felt a warm and charming sensation. Fei felt like his soul was getting a third degree burn by this Valkyrie's beauty.
There was no time to waste. Elena's condition was getting worse and worse. Fei shook his head as he hugged the female mercenary's body. He felt a mystic sensation; his body was numbed by this soft, warm, unprecedented feeling. His head turned blank.
The fainted Valkyrie seemed to sense something; the frowning expression on her face relaxed a little bit.
Fei suppressed the dirty thoughts in his head as he thought back to the information he got in Diablo World. He looked at Elena's beautiful face as he sighed in his head. At this moment, for some reason, another girl's pure figure popped into his head. However...
After lightly separating the Valkyrie's long and white legs, Fei finally slowly entered.
There wasn't anytime to experience that moment of ecstasy. A stream of explosive power filled with destruction rushed into Fei's body through the connection. Although Fei was anticipating this, that extremely painful sensation made Fei instantly cry out with a deep roar. He felt like that power had torn his soul from his body. His blood also gushed out of his body through the pores, filling the air with bloody mists.
Fei finally experienced the pain that Elena was enduring.
It was hard to imagine how this pretty girl was able to endure this pain; she didn't even groan when she fainted... This girl's fortitude instantly shocked Fei!
He hugged the girl tightly in his arms, as if he was hugging the most precious treasure in the world.
Fei utilized his Barbarian physical power and tried to take on as much of that terrifying pain as he would. He could even clearly feel the four energy:lightning, fire, ice, and poison passing through the connection and entering into his body. He felt like all the cells in his body were ground into dust. Endless amounts of pain were generated through the conflict and fight between these four types of energy.
Under this pain that was more than ten times the amount as the pain he experienced after drinking [Hulk Potion], every second was longer than a century in his head.
Soon, ice, lightning, fire, and poison, the four incompatible energy gradually stopped fighting. They were like four guys who became friends after a long fight. The energies circulated in Fei's body for a full cycle, and then completely returned back to Elena's body through the connection like a whale sucking back the water it spurted out; none of the energy was left behind in Fei.
Next moment, Fei felt the beautiful body in his arms slightly moved.
This slight movement surprised Fei, and it instantly cleared his head. He immediately realized that it was very awkward between them, his lower body part was still... Eh, he was going to say something and separate their bodies, but two soft, slender and smooth arms reached out and held onto Fei tightly.
He lowered his head.
He saw the hot mercenary blinking her beautiful eyes.
She had obviously awakened quite a while ago.
And she knew what happened.
A crystal clear tear drop slowly slided off of her beautiful face.
However, she didn't let go of Fei; her arms still surrounded Fei's neck tightly. Fei was even having a hard time breathing. It seemed like she was scared that the person in her arms would instantly vanish to thin air if she let go.
"Hug me tighter!" Elena murmured into Fei's ear.
At the same time, Elena hugged Fei tightly like a burning fire
She pushed her hot body against Fei; Fei felt like he was about to melt into this warm flame. Her body lightly shivered in Fei's arms; at that moment, she was no longer the invincible magic archer who covered up the heat from the sun by her frost arrows, she was just a brave yet timid little girl who had a low self-esteem.
Fei suddenly realized.
He finally understood that he was ignoring some before.
His heartfelt warm and soft, as if it was wetting and melting into bits, blending into the body in his arms, and they could no longer be separated.
Seductive moans and heavy breathing gradually resonated in this stone room.
Elena raised her white, smooth, swan-like neck, waved her hand, and a blue water curtain enveloped both of them in it. The sky blue light lit up this dark stone room, and made it as beautiful as heaven.
This was the color and tone of a dream.