Chapter 229 Give me your hand?
Rio reached outside the cabin where Leon was sitting at first. He had to fight against a few minions who were blocking the way, but they were easy to handle. Whatever golems he saw across him, he took them away after destroying their magic cores.
They have runes of tracking too, but what can anyone track once Rio puts them into his system inventory. He would just erase all those runes and then take them out.
Unlike his sister, and Becca and others, who despite having the membership card for top level benefits, chose to stay and have dinner in that open cabin, Saisha had chosen her table only at the VIP section. So Leon was personally enjoying benefits which even his father never enjoyed for free.
Rio looked forward and saw that in front of the cabin, there were four people standing there. Three masked men and one who was wearing a red hood over his head.
"So you're the one whom Virgil sent, right? The one who came here to kill me." Rio said as he moved his hands and ice spears started to form and float behind him. He dispatched them whenever someone came close to him by a certain range.
Those who could dodge the spell, counter it or fight him - they were met with the sacrificial dagger in his hands. Their bodies falling down with a clean precise cut that made their end as swift and painless as possible.
This dagger was something he bought from the system shop. Its name was 'Cursed Crimson Dagger' . What it does - simple, it kills. The more it kills, the sharper it becomes. After unlocking a few of its seals which require a set number of kills using this dagger, he could upgrade this dagger to a level where it could penetrate all armors ever made.
Systems words.
Though Rio calls it empty boasting of this robotic AI
But he bought it just to give it a try. And since it was an offer of 50% off, which system gives him once every month. It still cost him around 26000 points though.
And seeing that this quest gave 25000 points as a reward, he took this dagger out just to see its sharpness and quality today. To see if it was really worth his points or not.
[The first seal of Cursed Crimson dagger.
37/500]
'If I had this dagger two years ago, then with the number of those undead I killed, I would've unlocked max level already.' Rio said, feeling satisfied with the dagger.
As Rio began his advance, a few minions blocked his path. Trying to stop him from reaching the hooded figure. However, they posed no significant challenge, as he swiftly incapacitated them, rendering them useless.
The man in the red hood, frustrated by seeing his henchmen's failures, finally spoke. "You can freely use mana, how?"
Rio chuckled. "Didn't you hear, I'm an angel; we don't get poisoned."
Unfazed by Rio's confidence, the man continued,The man who heard his words looked at nearly a dozen dead bodies scattered all around him, and was thinking 'if this is the angel, then what the hell is a demon and the devil.'
But he didn't care and continued "Don't get arrogant; you will die here today." As he finished his words he signaled the three men who were standing in front of him, to move and attack him. "Kill him and bring me his hands."
Yet even after he finished his words nothing happened, the masked men didn't move.
"Don't worry about them, let's talk in private, shall we?" Rio said, while walking towards him. He waved his hands and the heads of those 3 people fell down with a thud. And blood kept flowing out of their empty heads like a fountain.
Those 3 all had the aura of around C rank. So he had some confidence. Four on one, all with similar ranks, what could Rio do. No matter how much of a genius he's believed to be. But he never thought that with just a wave of his hand they all fell down.
A wave of shock and horror passed over him, as his hair stood on end. He remembered the words of Virgil echoing in his head again 'take him seriously and kill him as soon as you get the chance.' He finally understood.
He waved his hands after coating it in aura, and felt it pass through some resistance and then finally stop. He looked up and his eyes shone in a red glow beneath the hood, he noticed several threads appearing all around him. A whole bunch of them twisted and turned amongst themselves to highten their durability. He saw them vibrate at high speed, acting like a chainsaw that cut everything in its path. With their invisibility and effects, it managed to cut even the heads of those guards in C rank, before they even noticed or had a chance to avoid it.
He tried using flames through his hands and ignited the threads, but as he guessed nothing happened. The threads looked tangible bluish, like something that was there and wasn't at the same time.
"What ability is this?" He asked, feeling very interested in this invisible binding skill.
"Why don't you come to my side and I'll tell you?" Rio said, touching the barrier wall of some type that separated him from reaching the hooded man.
"Virgil told me you'd be interesting, let's see how much more." The hooded man finished his word, and an old looking black flute appeared in his hands.
He started playing it, and as if hearing the command from their master, golems from all over the restaurant started appearing all around him. Whoever they were fighting, they left them and came here to answer the call of that flute.
"Show me everything you got, Angel?" The hooded man said with a smirk.
Rio looked at the increasing number of golems around him, and squinted his eyes. He also felt these were a little different than the ones he fought along the way. They all oozed a metallic aura from their bodies and were holding several weapons in their hands.
'Aura sealing and enchanted weapons.' Rio muttered as he jumped to the side to avoid the slash. "This could take a while." Rio said as he spread his mana and noticed on the other end of that wall Leon was fighting against two C rankers. And with the constant heat that he was feeling in the air, it won't be long until he kills them.
[Hela scoffs and says you have your own legion to call for. Why worry about the numbers.]
Rio heard her voice and shook his head. But there wasn't any other choice.
'There's no limit ranked or higher present inside the barrier right.' Rio asked the system, to confirm his doubts before using his main skills.
[Yupp, so don't worry and let loose. let them see the dread of the dead.] System said encouraging him.
Rio nodded his head and used the mana in his body using Hela's blessing - Call of the Underworld.
A long, sinister scythe made of black fog materialized behind Rio, its presence radiating malevolence. With a swift movement, Rio held the ominous ethereal weapon in his hands. The very air around the scythe began to shimmer as if reality itself was bending to the Reaper's dark presence. The light crystals started to flicker and fail, as the death energy spread everywhere. The floor started to tremble and crack under the black smoke emanating from the scythe.
'By the will of Hela, Queen of the Netherworld, I invoke the cursed ones, the eternal specters. Heed my call, O herd of reapers, residents of nether, and part of my legion. Come forward and follow my will. Let the world be drowned in the deaths of enemies we kill.'
His incantation had just finished as the black fog swirled ominously around Rio, shrouding him in a sinister cloak of darkness. The scythe in his hand pulsed with a reddish glow, and vibrated with an eerie hum.
A low, ominous creaking echoed in the hallway, as if the doors were opened below the darkness. The black smoke on the floor was sucked away instantly, as if a gateway to the Netherland had opened beneath it, and the darkness was eagerly swallowed into the abyss.
Soon in the place of that empty darkness, stood twelve terrifying figures.Cloaked in smoke, their bodies seemed surreal, yet their presence was undeniably chilling, with scythes in their hands and their heads covered with a black hood.
They were the reapers - the ones who harvested the souls of the dead, who brought the souls of sinners to the underworld, under Hela's command. They all bent down on their knees paying their respect to Rio. The mark of their queen was oozing her aura on him, forcing them to submit to his will, and follow his command.
This was a blessing Hela gave only to her avatars, and something he asked for after he came out of that dungeon. Even though before he got trapped in the dungeon, Hela chose him, except for her technique and another simple blessing she never gave him anything. But when he returned he asked for this blessing and she agreed to give him.
He fought alone in that dungeon like an idiot for so long, so this was the first thing he secured so something like that never happens again. He even asked Nyx to give him her blessing "Ruler of Shadows" - but she refused saying he wasn't worthy yet. And he should just focus on mastering her first blessing, instead of collecting trashy tricks from other weaklings.
Rio looked at his spectral reapers and then at the golems who were surrounding him, and gave his order "Show them hell."
As soon his words finished, the reapers floated in space and scattered all around him with their scythes ready to strike everyone down.
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