Devil Gate

"Grrrr....grrr...."

The sounds of the wild boars were suddenly heard, screaming painfully amid the battle. Everyone looked up, and so as well with Marissa. She instantly came back to her sense after the eerie smile from that man.

"Damn it! It's all the fault of that undying man." By this time, the hundreds of souls had already started to enter the bodies of the wild boars. It was because of those souls that had been stained with the wickedness which made the group of wild boars howled in pain.

"Magnifying..." Marissa muttered. With this one words, she could see all the trajectory of the surrounding energy, including the 'Blood Sucking Energy'. 'So, that's how the curse happened.' She muttered.

After that, she chanted again. "Eyes of Hell..."

The moment those three words were uttered by Marissa, her twilight-like chicken eyes immediately spate two twirling fire on her pupils, whereas the air in the surrounding immediately churned and boiled as if it was being put atop a burning fire. Her black feathers were blooming, surrounded by a golden fire. Her chicken crown was spewing cold blue fire. She was like a creature who rose up from hell.

Unfortunately, there was no one who could see that, except for Kamandhanu.

'Crap! I must be looked so cool now, but there is no one who could appreciate it. How am I going to show off?' Marissa thought inwardly, then shook her chicken head vehemently. 'I should finish this as fast as possible, or else, there would be many dead wild boars in front of my little shop. I don't want to see that happen.'

...

'Eyes of Hell...'

The souls who were about to descend to the group of wild boars which were in agony, abruptly stopped at their trajectory. The crazed expression on the souls became even more twisted as if they were also in extreme pain. The 'Blood Sucking Energy' were surged up furiously resembled the enraged waves of ocean crashing to the rocks on the seasore. They seemed to come alive and detected something that they despised so much in their life. It made them angry and instantly searched for the source of their nemesis, the thing that made them wanted to devour it in madness.

On the spectator place, the suspicious man was shocked. His eyes glinted. Something that seemed to be a dark thunder flased acrossed his angry pupils. He was angry, but also excited. There was someone who dared to challenge his authority in the field of death? How bold!

Without thinking any further, he chanted. "Soil cracked, fire danced. The undying shall rules over the land, the fire shall burn the heaven..." He then looked to the crazed souls who were surrounded by the evil energy as he gave a sinister smile. "My little children, I shall give you a reward, now devour your food."

Thereafter the sentence were spoken, the evil energy changed their route and started to stream down toward Marissa who was currently covered up by the golden-bluish fire.

"Oh crap! They are coming this way. How am I suppose to exterminate them? If I couldn't hold on, I would be devoured. They are the energy which could devour the blood and life force." Marissa was anxious.

It was at this moment...

[Ding! Congratulation! The puppet had been successfully manufactured to be the Host's clone]

[Would the Host try it?]

"Try it, try it. Let it take my place." Marissa almost screamed loudly. She then proceed to transfer the 'Eyes of Hell' to the clone, gave her one of the , and then proceed to control it with the help of Mr. Angel.

'Plot armor is such useful thing in this world'. Marissa sighed.

At this moment, the clone that wasn't any different than human, was coming out of the shop in a leisurely and nonchalant manner. "Hmph!" The clone that looked so much like Marissa in her disguised form, snorted loudly, as she strode her way to the entrance of the shop, then looked up.

"How dare you act so atrociously in front of my shop." After that, she paused. She looked at the evil energy that was on their way to devour her, swarming like bees, competing to be the fastest entity to arrive and devour her blood and life force. "Come at me!" Marissa opened her hands wide. Her eyes focused on the crazed souls and twirling evil energy.

Shua! Shua! Shua!

The whirlpool of the evil energy instantly came to Marissa, well... They came to her clone to be precise, entering the body of her puppet clone

Gurgle! Gurgle! Gurgle!

The hundreds of souls were surging into the body of the clone.

Noticing that his 'children' had been going into the body of the enemy, the man on the spectators arena smirked in a way that made peoples feeling very uncomfortable. "Heh, let it be exploded, like the beautiful volcano, erupting in the midnight." He also didn't expect that the expert who was competing with him all along, trapping his subordinates in a world of illusion, and even intervened with his curse now, was actually a woman. Now that all of the evil souls had been entering her body, let's see how the woman turned into a firework before all her blood and life force were devoured by his cute 'little children'. Thinking about that, he smiled even more sinister.

One second...

Three seconds...

Five seconds...

...

One minute...

Uh? Nothing happened? The man was bewildered. Even the peoples and tigers who were still battling each other, as well as the spectators who were watching in the far away place, started to notice that there was something amiss with this situation.

The group of wild boars had stopped howling in pain, and their complexion had returned to normal. The Demon Barbarians had almost been obliterated, and now only two of the Void Connoisseurs who were still alive, together with the two Void Apprentice, and the Nascent Soul young man who wielded the long whip.

"Impossible!" The man couldn't accept the outcome. He gnashed his teeth and chanted once again. "O Death, Give me thy power, this descendant of thy shalt annihilate the light, and bestow upon thee the slaves of life... Rise!"

Following that, he released more souls from his sleeves and spread them into the surrounding human and spiritual creatures. The baleful energy instantly scattered around and found their suitable host to possessed in order to suck their blood and life.

The clone stopped for a moment after all the souls entered it's body as if it was experiencing an 'error' because of too much data and information entering into it's processor. But afterward it immediately came back to normal and looked to the several souls that were released by the man.

"Arghhh...."

"Arghhh....."

What happened?

The spectators who were watching excitedly at the battle of the human and tigers were instantly got shocked when they found out the abnormality on their comrades. About a dozen or so peoples among the group of hunters were now convulsing profusely as if they had an epilepsy.

"This..."

"The curse is back! Run for your life! The curse is back!"

Everyone started to run in all direction, leaving their comrades behind, who were being plagued by the curse. Nevertheless, there were still some peoples who were loyal and stayed behind to look for their comrade's situation.

Marissa's clone turned her focus to the peoples who was in the process of possession by the evil souls. When her stared at the souls, the souls instantly hissed in pain and hurriedly came out of the bodies of the spectators. They all looked so much in pain.

"Rebounce..." Marissa's clone muttered.

Boom!

The suspicious man suddenly staggered back and vomited a mouthful of blood. He looked at Marissa's clone in hatred before escaping in a hurry. "Just you see, I'm gonna back to take revenge!" He left the words before there was a 'swosh' sound, a little tornado appeared momentarily, and then he vanished into thin air without a trace.

Looking at the escaping enemy, Marissa was alerted. She hurriedly instructed everyone to enter the shop and they shouldn't come out until she, Kamandhanu, and Uncle Huth returned. She also told them to take care of the wounded and all the victims of the Demon Barbarian.

"Remember, if there were troublemakers who came to the shop, just shout loudly 'Little Ancestor, there are troublemakers'. I will be immediately notified and the security system inside the shop would fix them shortly." Marissa instructed sternly. "My younger brother, Abimana, would be my representative during my absence. If there is someone who doesn't obey him and cause troubles, I'm not gonna be merciless toward you."

The audiences nodded their head obediently, and one by one they started to go into the shop while bringing the victims and their wounded comrades. The other two Void Connoisseurs, two Void Apprentices, and the Nascent Soul expert who wielded the whip were also successfully apprehended. They were brought to one of the room inside the shop and were locked inside.

...

"Let's go!" Marissa's clone brought Kamandhanu and Uncle Huth to follow the man. She was using to enable them moved in the fastest way. She also used in order to looked clearly the energy trajectory left behind by the suspicious man.

With the in hand, Marissa felt like she suddenly changed her role to be a detective. She was only short of a set of Sherlock Holmes Suits, which consisted of a newsboy hat, a trench coat, a boot, and a... cigar? Uh, no, the cigar could be eliminated. Oke, just let's stop this nonsense! They're not important at all!

...

Swoosh!

After the gal of wind vanished, three peoples, no, one human, one tiger in a form of human, and one puppet that looked like no different than a human, appeared in a certain place, which were surrounded by a dense packed of teak woods, Avicenia alba, and lots of Forest Orchids.

Marissa's clone nudged the that was put on her eyes slightly. She noticed that the evil energy which was black in colour like a twirling worms suddenly vanished into thin air. When she increased the magnification of her a few more times, she suddenly made a discovery that a very thin membrane were set up in a few hundred meters in front of them.

"Let's go there." She pointed toward the membrane.

Swoosh!

They arrived in no more than a second. After all, the two men beside her were already on the Void realm. Both of them had a supersonic speed, which was one thousand meter per second. If they were on Earth, they could even cycle the Earth back and forth for only seven hours of flying.

Arya Kamandhanu and Uncle Huth looked around the surrounding, but they couldn't find anything wrong. Is there something wrong with this place? They both looked at Marissa with a big question mark plastered over their faces.

"You couldn't see it, right?" Marissa walked toward the location of the mysterious membrane. She wanted to touch it, but held herself back. "Mr. Angel, what happened if I touch this thing?" She asked the system through telepathy.

[Nothing happened]

[The Host would be first repelled and rebounced by the power that resided in the membrane]

[If the Host try again and forcefully enter the membrane, there is a possibility that the Host would die]

[The power inside the membrane wasn't something that could be ignored by the Host with her current strength]

"Is that thing so fearsome?" Marissa was astonished.

[Of course]

[It is called as 'Devil Gate' or 'Samsara Gate']

[It is called as such because anyone who trespassed it under Monarch Stage would be obliterated in a second]

[Even Monarch would be hurted badly that even if he or she successfully stay alive after crossing this membrane, he or she would be no more than a cripple]

[So, if the thing could be easily crossed, it wouldn't be called as 'Devil Gate' which would bring peoples to hell, or 'Samsara Bridge' which enable peoples to die on the spot and go to the afterlife immediately or going to the reincarnation system]

"Then, what should we do? Should we just let them going on a rampant and spread the cursed everywhere?" Marissa asked anxiously.

[There is only one way for now]

"What is it?" Marissa asked eagerly.

[If the Host could successfully concoct a pill that could weaken or even obliterate the evil soul who wants to possess it's victim, then, this problem would be solved]

[Of course, the best way to solve the problem completely is by slaying the caster, because if the grade of that pill is not that high, it would only solve the problem momentarily]

[When the effect of the pill is gone, it wouldn't be able to protect the peoples that the evil souls want to possess]

"Ah, there is such a miraculous pill?" Marissa was puzzled. It was the first time Marissa heard a pill that could expell a curse. A pill that could do exorcism? What kind of pill is that?

[Yes]

"But, I don't know anything about medicine, pill concoction, or something that is related to it." Marissa sighed.

[That's why the system give the chance for the Host to learn it]

[If the Host want to have the ability to travel the universe with nothing to hinder her, Host need to have the power]

[It's a power to be able to stand at the peak]

[To have that kind of power, Host need to learn and understand many things in the world, and medicine is just one of them]

[If the Host is already at the peak, Host could go anywhere in the world, including the hometown of the Host, which is Earth]

"Do you mean that the system want to nurture a capable ruler that could do and know many things? Someone who has knowledge of many things and multiple abilities?"

[That's right]

"Aiyah, I don't have a problem with that anyway. In fact, I'm someone who love to learn, especially when it is something new to me. It's just that there were some fields that I can't force myself to learn it because it was too tiring and troublesome." Marissa sighed.

[That is the problem the Host need to overcome]

"Fine." Marissa said helplessly. "Then, tell me now what's the formula for that pill."

[The Host could check it herself at the system's interface]

[There are three normal formulas and one special formula given to the Host for a start. They are: Revitalization Pill, Soul Revitalization Pill, and Master Warrior Pill]

[The special formula is Blue Fire Pill]

[The ingredients are...]

[The higher the level of the Host in medicine, the more formulas the Host could unlock]

Marissa looked at the system's interface and read the ingredients for each of the formulas, and she immediately became speechless. It couldn't be helped, she wasn't from the medical field even when she was on Earth. How could she know how the Black Fire Grass looked like? How could she know what is the Red Moon Flower, White Water Leaves, and Purple 'Musi' Lily? What are they? The only thing that she somehow had a correlation was the Black Liquid of Rafflesia Arnoldii. Damn! This is too much!

After grumbling for a while, Marissa finally relented to her fate. In order to enable her to go back to Earth to meet her family, her father and little sister, or to find out about her relationship with this world, or how could she just reincarnated here without any rhyme or reason, she would force herself to study. She will fight and work hard!

'Hmph! You black hearted system, you think I can't do it? I will show you the power and spirit of a twenty-first century girl.' Marissa harrumphed.

...

"Brother Bayu, Uncle Huth, let's go back. I've checked the surrounding thoroughly. But I myself can't do anything for now. Let's get back first and think of a plan to solve the situation. We shouldn't rush it and make mistakes." Marissa said.

Hearing what Marissa said, Uncle Huth and Kamandhanu nodded their head. They too, had the same thoughts.

"But you two must help me find some ingredient first so that we could help everyone get away from the curse." Marissa explained.

"Ah, the ingredients that could shoo away the curse? The curse could be avoided and exterminated?" Uncle Huth asked, feeling surprised and agitated.

"Yes." Marissa nodded.

"Alright. Let's search them all right now." Uncle Huth said, while Kamandhanu only nodded his head slightly.

"Let's go." Marissa beckoned with her hand.

Just as they wanted to leave that place, they saw a bloody body in the vicinity. How come there was suddenly a body when they wanted to leave? Why didn't they notice it earlier?

"Let's go check it first." Marissa suggested as she started to walk toward the body. Arya Kamandhanu and Uncle Huth immediately followed behind.

...

Quizz:

What could be possibly happen next? Will they be able to collect all the ingredients for the Blue Fire Pill and solve the problem of curse?

A. Yes, of course. There would be nothing happen.

B. Yes, but they would encounter danger on their way and solve it afterward

C. Yes, and they would find a treasure while they were searching for the ingredients

D. No, they encounter danger on their way and were trapped somewhere in a different space and dimension

E. No, they would encounter some of the Demon Barbarians from the place located behind the mysterious membrane