NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1261: Erebus' Power
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Titania reinforced the magic shield using the powers of Planta's Skill, which came convenient even when she wasn't present in Arcadia at all!
Aside from that, Erebus used his mighty miasmic tentacles to clean the "floor" above the magic shield rapidly, destroying the undead by the dozens.
The hundreds of undead were quickly reduced to a handful constantly coming out to be devoured by Erebus miasmic clouds.
However, the problem continued and seemed never-ending.
"Even if I leave my cloud there to automatically kill them, they still will eventually manage to get past it!" said Erebus. "How can I deal with this? Should I try to close the gate forcefully?"
He asked that to Titania, which he knew she could hear him. Erebus, the Demon King of Miasma had done something as amazing as creating miasmic spirits and even distorting space and time to open the first portal to Earth.
Something like closing a gate forcefully wasn't outside of his capabilities, although he didn't know if it would work anymore within his sealed new form as a fairy.
Sealed though, might still not fit his current situation, as he wasn't exactly sealed, but died and was reborn as a fairy.
"No! I am fairly sure you aren't as strong as before, Demon King!" said Titania. "We must find a different way! Can't you enter the portal?"
"What? But what will happen outside of it? The undead?" wondered Erebus.
"I can handle them with my troops!" said Titania. "But to make these gates close, you must enter them and slay the boss monster inside. This is how the Demon King of Death is operating."
"The Demon King of Death, huh?" Erebus wondered. "So he's my successor is the Death King… I guess this is why there's so many Undead everywhere. He's trying too hard to destroy Elayne and the forest. He should do like me and amass an immense and destructive force, infiltrate inside and destroy everything from the inside out… he's desperate and lacks patience."
"Do you know him?" Titania wondered, too curious to not ask.
"I know who he is, but I have never talked with him… technically, he belongs to the same origin as me, we are all fragments of the first God of Chaos," said Erebus. "He's technically my brother."
"What?! I had no idea…" said Titania, gasping.
"It doesn't matter either way…" Erebus sighed. "All of us are far too different to really see one another as brothers. We lived different lives, and lived in different eras too… Nonetheless, I'll do what you said, Titania. However, if this is a trap to leave me inside and die then… I'll accept it, I suppose. My life is in your hands."
"E-Eh? Ah…"
Titania was surprised, she could swear she had imagined he would say "you'll pay for it with your life" or something terrifying like that.
However, he fully trusted her, and even accepted if this was a trap to punish him, he felt genuinely guilty, and if dying again would make him amend for his sins, he would gladly die again, it seemed.
"Yes, don't worry, I'm saying the truth!" said Titania. "You must defeat the boss inside and then run out of the gate once he's dead before the entire mini dungeon is destroyed!"
"Okay, I understand," nodded Erebus.
The fairy glanced at the gate and rushed inside, leaving behind a large and thick layer of black miasma clouds to devour any undead that were to come out for a few minutes.
FLASH!
As he passed through the gate, he found himself within a cold and ancient castle in ruins. Covered with corpses everywhere, bones and rotten bodies, zombies and skeletons.
They were hundreds, constantly trying to rush through the gate right behind him!
"GRAAAHHH!"
"GRUOOHH…"
"SHAAAHH!"
Erebus nodded as he analyzed his surroundings and scanned the place.
"You sure are annoying, stop it."
He sighed as he noticed dozens of bone beasts and specters trying to bite and drain his soul, but were being unable.
His miasma crystalized around his body, forming a cocoon to protect himself, and whenever they tried to suck away his soul, they were simply blocked.
"You're trying to eat my soul?" Erebus glared at the specters with an expressionless face, then smiled lightly. "Fine, have it your way."
Then he opened the way towards his soul out of nowhere, the hundreds of specters flocked around him like a swarm, trying to grab and tear it to shreds and eat it!
However…
"GRYYYAAAAHHH!"
One of them screamed, followed by countless more, a mere touch or bite into Erebus soul made them tremble in utter agony, suddenly being consumed by miasma and turning into black clouds which Erebus ate.
"I have a Miasmic Soul, which is also Divine," said Erebus. "You will never be able to eat it before it eats you first."
Suddenly, every specter within the vicinity vanished, exploding into black smoke and being eaten by the fairy boy.
The other bone monsters glared in disbelief, standing in silence without even knowing what even to say or do…
"Huh, it seems you know your place now," Erebus said. "Would you join me? I'm also a Demon King, a generous one. Become my army and I will not destroy you and eat your souls. What do you prefer? Dying or continuing to exist, even stronger than before?"
The undead weren't dumb, they might be beasts driven by instincts, but they also obeyed another demon king and had a level of intelligence after existing for hundreds of years in the underworld.
Half of them quickly lowered their heads to him, the smartest bunch!
Meanwhile, the other half roared, too loyal to their Demon King to join another, they attacked him with tooth, nail, and breath.
"Fine, have it your way."
Erebus spun in midair with his cocoon, tearing to shreds all the bone undead that attacked him within mere seconds, resembling a Bey blade spinning around.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
As the Undead died, Erebus waved his hand, miasma possessed the ones that lowered their heads, transforming them into stronger, Miasmic Undead.
"Now you're under my rule, lead me to the boss of this gate. Quickly."
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A giant Undead Wyvern roared, rushing forward and leading him through the ancient and ruined castle.
Erebus could sense a powerful presence in the distance.
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