Chapter 258 (2/2)

“What?” I hissed, surprised

“I was saying…” Regis stressed, his large white eyes narrowing “That we need to think of a battle phrase for our combo attack!”

I raised a brow “Our…coo inside your hand and make your fist turn all s to need so more concise to say”

My initial reaction was to dismiss his silly idea, but there was so

“Fine,” I sighed, relenting “What did you have in is’s eyes widened in surprise “Seriously? I thought you were going to be a grouch about it”

Shooting hilare, I enveloped my body in aether as I raised a hand to sis flinched

“How about Aether Explosion Punch!” he suggested, out of arm’s reach from me

“No,” I said flatly while ns of an exit

“Aetheric Void Buster?”

“No”

“Shadow Death Imp— “

“No,” I cut hi up with these ridiculous na those arcade gais responded simply “Ooh! How about—”

“No”

“Fine fine fine I’ll be serious What about so siht about it for a“What about Gauntlet For with excite about!”

“Too loud!” I snapped, antic bug go back to its hole near the center of this floor We’re hours away from it”

“You saw its den?” I asked, shocked

“Yeah, while you were absorbing the fruit It wasn’t that hard to find with how is explained before his eyes narrowed in suspicion “Why? You’re not thinking of trying to fight that thing, right?”

“Let’s just search for the exit,” I disears in my brain continued turn

Subjective hours passed uneventfully as we coh the ethereal forest A few more ti me every time we passed by them

Thankfully, none of the other fruits seemed nearly as potent as the first one I had consumed

We rested intermittently, mainly so that I could sit down and concentrate onto think of how to forhout my body so that I could more freely control the aether insidewith nothing to show for it, I pulled out the translucent stone which held Sylvie It had becoot tough or I was feeling overwhelo inside of it every now and then to see if there were any develop better at all—but nothing had changed

But this tiotten stronger after consu onto the stone, I could feel so at my hands that rapped around on the smooth surface of the stone

Will you accept the aether this tiht as I pushed the aether from my core

It only took a few

“H-Hey! What happened?” Regis, who had been inspecting the perimeter, flew to my side

I held up my hand “I…I’m fine”

“I’m more than fine” A smile formed on my face as I stared down at the translucent stone that seehter than before “Thanks to Sylv, I think I found a way to reat! But I got sois said with a smile “I think I found the exit from this floor!”

I tucked the small stone back in is panicked “Are you hurt?”

“Nothing like that”

My thoughts went back to the millipede and the way it created a shell of aether around everything that it couldn’t digest According to Regis, there was also a huge influx of aether stehts were correct, then even at the risk of my life…

No I had already decided that I needed to risk es that I would face when I got out of here

I turned to Regis and spoke with iron into kill that millipede”