Endless Journey: Infinite Realms

Chapter 68 Fusion Impossible: Mysterious Intruder

Actually speaking, Alex originally had no idea on how to do congeal an Abyss Core, but it seems like his Elderitch body already had an idea on what to do.

As such, Alex decided to just get it on with absorption.

Alex kept his eyes closed as he stayed focused on absorbing Abyss Energy.

Alex knew that for him to reach the Grade 3, he must be able to congeal a Core made up of Abyss Energy inside his body.

Once he successfully congeals his Abyss Core, not only will Alex gain access to more spells, his overall bodily strength and power will also be improved.

But just one hour after Alex started the absorption, he suddenly felt a powerful presence rushing towards their location.

"Who is it?" Alex bristled as his eyes shot wide open.

Alex’s body was tense, as he could feel that the presence approaching their location was an extremely powerful being.

Alex was saying ’being’ since he was not sure whether this new presence was a Human or a Monster.

If it was a Monster, Alex already have some ideas to talk peacefully to it.

But if it was a Human, well... Alex can just say that it will not be good for either of them.

"Someone’s coming." To Alex’s no surprise, Alina also felt this intruder. "This intruder... seems strong."

"Yes, it’s strong indeed." Alex muttered as he patted Alina’s right shoulder.

"!"

Alina jumped a little from the skin contact, but she did not do anything to shove his hand off. Alex smiled after seeing this, blatantly ignoring the snickering Asteria in the background.

"So, what happened with the golden girl?" Alex inquired, as he did not notice what happened earlier. ’Is she sti- oh, she passed out again. What did you do to her?"

"It’s a long story that I will tell you later." Alina replied with a slight twitch in her eyes. "For now, we should worry about intruder."

"Well, the first thing that we should do is to hide that woman first." Alex said while pointing his index finger at the golden woman. "No matter what kind of creature the intruder is, it will not be better for it to see a woman like this."

"Got it." Alina said as she waved her hands, making the golden woman disappear.

Alex could some trails of dark smoke after the golden woman disappeared, indicating that what Alina did was something new.

"Oh, that’s a neat trick of yours. How did you manage to do that?" Alex neutrally said as he tried to not show emotions in his voice.

"Ah, I just combined my Dark Magic and my Esper Ability!" Alina enthusiastically replied as she gave Alex a smile.

"Ok..." Alex found himself somewhat speechless from what he heard.

"Is something like that even possible?" Alex thought to himself as he waited for Alina to talk more. "I certainly... did not expect that."

"Actually," Alina droned on as she seemed to not notice what Alex was thinking about. "I never thought that my Dark Magic was actually compatible with my Weak Space Manipulation. I only found it out when I got the Dark Magic Tome earlier!"

"After I fused with the Dark Magic Tome, it immediately reacted with my Esper Ability, which resulted in me gaining some new abilities!" From the way that Alina looked right now, it was quite obvious that she was happy with her situation.

"...." Alex tried his best to not show it, but he was feeling slightly jealous with what happened to Alina.

Earlier, Alex actually tried to combine or fuse his Abyss Magic with his EM Wave Manipulation.

But no matter what he did, they could not even be coaxed to be in contact with each other.

They were like two similar poles of magnets that are being forced together, even though their polarity forces them to repel each other. There is just no way that Alex could force them to be together.

Because of that failed experiment, Alex thought that maybe abilities from different power systems were just incompatible with each other.

But seeing what happened with Alina invalidated that theory of his.

"So, how were you able to combine them anyway?" Alex inquired as he watched Alina’s beautiful face glowing with excitement. "Maybe I can try them out later."

"Sorry, but I have no idea on how to explain it to you." Alina replied as she ducked her head down. "But do not be sad, as Asteria told me that you still have the chance to fuse abilities as long as you have the right tools and skillset to do it."

"Oh great, another delayed power-up." Alex bemoaned sarcastically as he decided to drop the power fusion issue for now. "Well, let’s forget about that fusion now and let’s focus on our contingencies."

"Contingency 1: If it is a Human, then we will do our best to run away if the opponent is strong." Alina replied quickly as she placed her hands on her hips. "Contingency 2: But if the Human was just weak, then we can beat this Human down and invite that Human in our group."

"..." Alex tried to not point out that the second part of Alina’s answer sounded a little wrong.

"Contingency 3: if the intruder was a Monster, then we will be more polite on it and try to talk to it more." Alina continued, with her not noticing Alex’s thoughts earlier. "But if that Monster stays hostile to us, then a fight will be inevitable."

"That’s exactly the gist of what we were about to do." Alex murmured to himself as he and Alina squared their bodies up.

By this time it was only Alex and Alina that was present in the clearing, as the little monsters were all busy hiding nearby.

Alina had instructed them to run once the first sign of trouble appears, with them unauthorized to look back as they ran.

"I hope those little runts will actually run when I tell them to." Alina muttered as she gave them a worried look. "Really, those 5 are a naughty lot!"

"Hehehe, you seem to have fun taking care of them!" Alex said in a slightly teasing tone. "Hey, can I call you Big Sister too? You seem to like being called that way!"

"Ugh, it will just sound creepy if you say it." Both Alina and Asteria said at the same time, which just showed Alex that they could be right.

"Sigh, why am I not even talented in comedy?" Alex lamented to himself as he and Alina saw the intruder descending in front of them.

:....:

One of the reasons that Alex and Alina did not run away for now was because their visitor seems to not hold any hostile intentions against them.

This intruder could be here specifically for some business matters with Alex and Alina.

But no matter what the reason was, both Alex and Alina were confident to talk it out.

Both Alex and Alina tilted their heads as they greeted their visitor.

"Erm.. hello?" Alex tentatively said as his tentacles waved around agitatedly. "Are you here to talk to us?"

"Well yes, it’s you two that I am looking for." The intruder replied as the loose coat and hood that the intruder was wearing began to disappear.

"!!!!!!"

The intruder ignored Alex and Alina’s reaction to its real appearance as it slowly said,

"You two and I have some talking about to do."