Chapter 180 (1/2)

Chapter 180

Chapter 180: Alacryan Glimpse

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Withattendant, disht, I retrieved Sylvie from Ellie and arrived back in my room

“Are you ready?” I askedon the bed while I’d taken a shower

“So What is it that you’re so excited about?” she replied, fidgeting i to steerUto in order to surprise Sylvie I had to distract hts and nu sure the door was locked and activating both earth and wind perception spells, I finally withdrew the two obsidian horns froazed at the black crystals that were once embedded on a retainer “Don’t tell me…”

“Yup,” I said excitedly “They’re Uto’s horns”

“Why?” she asked, confused

Realizing that she never heard the full story, I su that had happened after she had been knocked out after saving me from Uto’s last attack

By the time I had finished my story, Sylvie’s vulpine face isted to show a mixture of emotions

“It’s scary to think how easily we could’ve been killed,” she said after a long pause

I nodded “I couldn’t do anything when Seris showed up But even if she hadn’t, I’m not sure ould’ve been able to defeat Uto”

“It seehed Her gaze shi+fted back to the two horns on the bed “So these horns supposedly contain vast amounts of mana that you can extract? Is it really safe to trust the scythe?”

“Considering the Asuras are forbidden by the treaty to help us anymore and Seris could’ve killed me whenever she wanted, I don’t think it’s too ht for a moment as she pawed at the horns that were each the size of her head “Well… if they help you get into white core, it’ll certainly help us”

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I picked up only one of the horns “This will be enough for me You extract the other one”

My bond opened her ue, but I cut her off “You said that your body is still undergoing the awakening process that Lord Indrath o I know your body has been constantly extracting amana from Uto’s horn will help quicken that process”

“To be honest I haven’t been as active in trying to hasten the awakening process,” Sylvie replied “I’ as a full asura, I won’t be able to assist you anyht, Sylv,” I said, putting my hand on top of my bond’s small head “Besides, your mother cast a pretty powerful spell before you were born to conceal you It’s why even in your draconic form, no one was able to tell you were an asura”

“Grandfather et harder to hide what I arief flooded my mind and I could feel the bits and pieces of the story that Lord Indrath had told Sylvie about herto happen when you get strong enough to awaken, but we’ll overcoet there,” I coreed with a serly in lance at Sylvie “So…should we start now?”

Sylvie placed a paw on the horn in front of her “I don’t see why not”

After repositioning myself more co the insides of the horn with a thread of my mana

With elixirs, the contents stored inside would be distributed upon contact with a e’s purified mana With the horns, however, there were no noticeable reactions even after searching deeper

Minutes trickled by with no sign of anything stored within Uto’s horns I started to consider the possibility that thesevered from the retainer’s head, when suddenly an indescribable force pulled at , for that etting sucked in

I felt a surge of panic as I feltout

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Quite literally A shroud of shadow spread, covering my vision and all of my other senses until I was simply in darkness

Calm down, Arthur Your body is still safely inside your room

That didn’t help me at all The fact that my mind had been forced into a certain state and was vulnerable scaredto this world, I was born with a new body—new physical features that took h both lives My brain, or every part of my brain responsible for hout ht now, I felt my consciousness at the full ed me into wherever I was

I was surrounded in darkness, but it wasn’t pitch black The shadows around me warped and stirred like various shades of dark ink It was a surreal feeling—perceiving so without a body So in the darkness, but I didn’t have a body

After what felt like hours of floating mindlessly in the sea of darkness, the force surroundingIt was different from the erratic, chaoticpulled away The obsidian veil slowly began lifting, and what I was left asn’t the view of