Chapter 230 The White Door
[Lucy's POV: ]
The experience of my entire being filling up with that strange power, the feeling of becoming an absolute being that was above everything that existed in this world, to the kind emotions that overtook me when I activated that power was, truthfully, exhilarating.
I felt great for a moment, and then, I was swept up into those emotions, thrill, and joy.
'It was as if I was freed of everything binding me… but, I realized this power was not good only after I came back to my senses and saw the poor creature dead on the ground in that ugly state.'
It was bad, like, really bad…
"Haaaaa."
"Stop thinking about it now and on us, bastard. We are here."
I couldn't stop thinking about the horrible scene that was before me right after that power disappeared and I felt a kind of weakness I couldn't describe in simple words.
It was like there was suddenly a voice in my soul. It was strange. I didn't like it.
I wanted to activate that power once again.
I wanted to feel that thrill, that authority, that unique ability to have the power to anything and everything in this world… the feeling of having an absolute ability to dominate everything.
I don't know why, but that wasn't a bad feeling.
'But, if I was going to cause another bloody mess like that once again after using that power, then, I did not want it.'
Cary called it Ego Darkening and from Cary's concerns and Anna's detailed explanation of what this phenomenon was, we now knew it was something we did not know about before.
It wasn't anything like a debuff or a curse or a shift in one's mental state. This phenomenon was as fundamental as the nature of the Worldline.
It was connected directly with the 'existence' of oneself and everything, as well as the 'truth' that curious finders like Anna dedicated their entire lives for.
"Haaa. It sure was quite far away from the last time you both found it, hun? You were lucky."
[[ Hahaha, you are calling our superior abilities the result of some mere luck, master? Just say we are better than you- ]]
-Smack.
"Yeah, no. You ain't better than no one here. You are more useless than Raz here. It was good that Anna was with you or else you wouldn't even have bet an eye to this important place."
[[ Masterrrrr! Why! Why do you keep hitting me!? ]]
However, as El said, thinking about what had happened already was of no use when we had this important task at hand left.
I can contemplate over what I did to that Queen after we are done with this thing.
"Alright then."
Since the boss monster was dead, the three main quests were almost done, and we had dealt with the corpses and the creatures that Cary and Anna had left alive, we were finally at the special point that Cary and Anna had found during the time the two of us were unconscious.
[[ One was surprised back then and one is surprised right now as well. This place certainly is quite attractive. Especially that door. One can tell that it is the Rune language of angels. It's quite amusing to see that here. ]]
"Before the fall of the city, this place was the capital city of the great holy kingdom of Marciel, the city of divine grace: White Rome. The royal family of the nation used to live in this castle that has now been degraded to an ugly anthill, however, around a few centuries ago, before the invasion of the Devilants, this was a prosperous city that was one of the peak powers of this world.
The bloodline of the Marciel royal family was blessed by the gods and it was said that the last ruling family was also descendants of high angels.
And, the place beyond this gorgeous door, is the last sanctuary of that blessed royal bloodline."
El liked this otherworld for two very unique reasons. The first reason is the pretty scenery present all around this world and the second reason is the attractive people of this world, especially the royal family of this fallen 'city'.
'It's quite an amusing fact that only this city fell to the Deviants and the rest of the nation was untouched by their damned kind.'
One of the unforgettable characteristics of the Devilants was the influence of their queen and their kind's reproductive capabilities.
The Deviants are one of the lowest-ranked demonic beasts within hell since the environment of hell isn't the perfect place for them to create large colonies. It's their natural habitat but it is also a place that restricts their activities and controls their numbers, however, this thing changes completely when a Queen is somehow able to slip into the human realm with even a few of her subjects.
They can get too strong too quickly, and the worlds that have deeper knowledge about the Underworld know about these creatures.
Including this very nation.
"They knew that the Devilants' invasion meant the ruin of their kingdom. If they had let them grow beyond the borders of this city, they might have spread to their entire kingdom and perhaps the rest of the world, thus, with heavy hearts, the royal family saved as many of their citizens and sent them away as they could, held the enemy in this city by creating a powerful holy barrier that would block the enemies from getting out of this place and, sacrificed their own lifeforce to keep them here."
"They were nobles in true meaning, beings deserving of the titles of rulers, and [[( Lords )]] within the Worldline…"
"And, what we see before us right now, is the place which used to be the center, the core of the barrier that was surrounding this city before it turned into a dungeon and then a dimensional dungeon and connected with our world."
Cary and Anna were once again stunned at how we knew about this place even though this was our first time here.
They knew we had a lot of prior knowledge about a lot of things, however, they could tell there was a reason that we were telling them about this place in this manner. And, my Anna caught onto what we were trying to say instantly.
[[ Ohhhh! Does that mean the people from that time are still alive somewhere?! They must be some amazing people if they possessed enough power to block demons like them from leaving the proximity of this place! ]]
She was smart, and El loved her for this reason the most.
"Haha, smart Anna. That's right, the people of their kind, the last survivors of their family, should still be inside there.
However, we don't know that yet so, let's go in first."
The royal family had created a barrier around their city and they lived in this place for decades and centuries before they confirmed that they had been isolated from space and time and stopped focusing on the barrier.
This place before us… this white door that was bigger than the boss room we were before earlier, this grass-covered ground in a place where no natural life was possible, this unique air of this place, and the pure Mana of this place were enough indications to tell this place was not actually part of this dungeon. However, it was the place they had lived in their last days.
'We can call the place beyond this door and the place around this door a kind of dungeon error that isn't above the limitations of the 'correction' threshold so, it just exists in this dungeon.'
The location of this place changes with each passing second though. Even as we were standing before this door, its place was changing within the dungeon's space.
It was a unique phenomenon. That's why finding this place is so difficult and finding it twice was even more so.
'Anna's decision to mark this place with her unique Mana technique was very good. Others without the knowledge of such places don't even think much of it.'
She was good, but Cary wasn't as useless as we had thought either.
He was also smart and had his own powers, just that those powers mostly weren't of use to us just yet.
"Come Lucy."
"Yes."
This door wasn't part of the dungeon but it was a door that still existed here. So, if there was a door, we had keys that could open them.
[[ That relic is fraudulent. ]]
[[ Hehe, it's just too good. One also wants to use one's special relics. One wonders when one will unlock one's main storage space. ]]
The two of them had quite a lot of skills and titles and abilities so, with each hundred levels, only a few random ones of them were unlocked.
We had yet to find the method to unlock their abilities aside from this leveling method, however, since we knew for certain there were methods to do it from Ras' example, we would find it out eventually.
-Oooooooooooong!
We placed our hands on the door and activated the Silver key, and the entire white door started filling up with an attractive golden light.
The light seeped into the carvings and images on the door and, after covering the entire door, the light gathered around a certain image of a unique-looking mark that most certainly was the crest of their family.
-Crrrrrrrr…
And then, after several centuries, the door of the heart of the previous royal castle opened up-
"…?! El dodge!"
-Swiiiiiiiiiiish!
-Booooooom!
As soon as the door of the room opened up, a powerful arrow covered in holy energy and fire elemental power flew out directly at the two of us that I barely dodged with El.
"What a fun way of greeting their first guests, hun."
"It was dangerous, not fun."
Beyond the doors, we could see a pair of three eyes. Not two as we had originally expected, but three.
Something expectedly unexpected.
However… we have already accepted things are going to be different from our prior knowledge.
This was just another instance where that was applied.
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