Chapter 19 How?!

Eclipse’s POV

I was walking through the inky black smoke of the void my only guide is a pinprick of light in front of me, I was hoping dimensional travel would be like teleporting but nope I have to walk to my destination.

“Come on Eclipse its not that bad at least the gods are guiding you to Talia and not some random location.” She said.

“That’s the thing. Knowing Talia, we will be in a random location.” I said.

“She’s not that bad.” Said Scythe.

I finally made it to the light and stepped through. When I stepped through, we were in the middle of a dungeon surrounded by 10 giant snakes.

“I rest my case.” I grumbled.

“Wow she really got lost.” Scythe said shifting to her weapon form.

“Your telling me.” I gripped her handle and decapitated the first one before it noticed me.

I then shifted my hand into my claw pulled out one of my bone knifes and threw it into another’s eyes. Both fell down before the others could react. I was confused on how I killed the second one until I pulled out another knife. It was covered in Void energy, so it threw another on into the body of another snake as I attacked. The knife sassed through the snake like air leaving a hole through it body.

“Wow me knifes got an upgrade.” I commented as I dodged the falling serpent.

‘You can thank me later I finally found a way to combine the bone with void energy.’ I hear a voice say.

“Well, well, well look who finally woke up after his long nap.” I teased.

“You didn’t need my help, so I decided to take a nap.” Dracova said.

“Ok well if you’re not busy can you maybe tell me what I’m fighting?” I asked him.

‘Let’s see. Ah your fighting basilisks.’ He said. “Be careful of their venom even poison dragons have a hard time neutralizing the venom.” He warned.

“Oh goody.” I replied sarcastically.

The other two basilisks charged at me the first one went high while the second went low. I jumped on top of the first effectively dodging both. I quickly ran down its back and turned around to see them pull themselves off of each other. The both turned to me I quickly looked away from their eyes to avoid their death glair.

“God, I hate fighting things I can’t look at.” I mumbled as I jumped to the side to doge their poison spit.

I then charged and saw a flash of something moving so I rolled left just as a tail slammed down where I was. I quickly made a light spear and stabbed it into the tail pinning it down. The basilisk hissed in pain I then was under it and kicked strait up snapping its head back I see the other one lunge at me as I was off balance, so I used my hand and pushed myself off the ground dodging the strike. I summoned another spear and threw it into the head of the basilisk killing it. The other one recovered from the kick I then summoned two knives and spun around slicing its neck before it brought its head back. I landed on one hand unsummoning my light weapons and sprung away just as the final basilisk fell to the ground squirming while it blead to death. I then brushed myself off.

“Well that takes care of that.” I said the felt a burning sensation in my left arm. “Dam it.” I said as I looked at the now dirty uniform. I then saw a hole burnt through the left arm and my skin had blackened veins. “Shit.” I hissed.

‘You did it now didn’t you. I warned you now you will be weak for a full week.’ Dracova said.

“Yah well its better then dying again. Never want to do that again.” I mumbled.

‘Good point I just glad you killed me quickly.’ He said with laugh.

“Yah to bad I hesitated just before I killed myself. It caused me to miss the instant kill I was looking for.” I grumbled.

“How could you get us this lost!?” I hear a male voice behind me shout.

“I don’t know I generally have good instincts.” A familure female voice shouted back.

I walked to the voices seeing Talia and Jacob with their backs to me arguing. I walked up behind them using sneak and then jumped up and slammed my fists into their heads.

“Ow” They both said rubbing their heads.

“Do you two want to attract every monster in a 10-meter radius?” I hissed.

“Eclipse!” Shouted Talia as she tackled me.

“Its good to see you too how long I was gone?” I asked hoping the gods slowed the time or linked the time lines.

“One month. To be honest if it wasn’t for the armor set you gave me, we would have been worried sick. Thank Death that he was able to contact me through the set.” He said.

“Well I’m glad you found out about the set and I’m also glad he told you instead of leaving you to wonder where I went.” I sighed.

“Here you can have it back.” He said holding out the ring.

“You misunderstood my intentions. I was tacked by death to find some one suited to rule in his place and so I have.” I said pushing the ring back and curing his hand around it.

“How am I suited to take over a god?” He asked with shock.

“It’s your curse that has made it possible. Have you ever wondered why your ability is so different from your family?” I asked.

“Yah while they could control the blood, they drink I could control the very soul of the person.” He stated.

“Yes, exactly you are the hero of life as well as the holder of one of deaths curses.” I said.

“I see so I’m meant to help defeat the demon lord.” He whispered to himself.

“I see you have your memory back can you tell us who you were?” I asked him.

“I was a hacker as well as a great researcher my main job was to be a black hat and keep people out of important systems in the USA. But I had a second job on the side helping the Curse Collector fide new targets.” He stated sadly.

Talia then gasped. “You were in love with her!” She squealed.

“Yes, I was indeed in love with her.” He said.

“Well you’re in luck because you just confessed to her.” Talia said happily.

“What you’re the Curse Collector!?” He shouted.

“Ahahahahah no that would be Eclipse.” Talia said whipping tears of mirth from her cheek. “I was the cop that chased her and almost caught her twice.”

He then looked at me with surprise. I smiled. “Guilty as charged.” I said. “By the way thanks for-“ I stopped as I heard a ding.

Do to having an I pod it has been deleted. For the inconvenience we have given you access to your music through the system.

“Ok? Sorry about that interruption but anyway as I was saying thanks for helping me back then I couldn’t do it without you.” I thank. I noticed His confused face and was about to explain but Talia said something I wasn’t expecting.

“Did you sub gamer system tell you something?” She asked.

“What?” She then subtly elbowed and gave me a look telling me to lie and she will explain later.

“Yah.” I said.

“I see so you’re the actual gamer?” He asked Talia.

“Yes I am.” She said.

“I’ll believe it you do look older.” He said.

“Uh we are about the same age.” Talia said.

“What!” He said in surprise.

“I was cursed to be eternally five.” I told him the cover story that Talia made up unknowingly.

“I see that would also explain your eyes and hair.” He said.

“By the way I hate to be blunt but how did you die?” She asked

“Well funny story Truck-san really wanted me.” He chuckled.

“What do you mean?” Talia asked.

“I was working on stopping a hacker from getting into the system when a truck ran trough my wall killing.” He said as he and I fell over laughing.

“What’s so funny?” Talia asked.

“He works on the third floor of the office building.” I choked out in-between laughs.

Talia now privy to the joke fell over laughing herself. We rolled on the ground laughing for hours until we were able to regain control of ourselves.

“Man, that was too funny.” Talia said whipping another tear.

“I know right that was actually the first memory I regained from my old life. You have no idea how hard it was to keep my laughter down.” He told us.

“Ok now that, that is out of our system we need to finish this dungeon, so I can get an idea of where we are.” I told them. “But first I need to ask a question.”

“What is it?” They both asked.

“Did Talia cook at all during your trip?” I asked.

“No, she was in charge of direction which was obviously a bad idea.” He mumbled.

“Good because she can’t cook either.” I laughed.

“What!?” Jakobe looked at Talia who was shuffling her feet back and forth trying not to look at him. “You can’t cook, and you have no sense of directions?! What can you do?” He asked.

“She is probably the best paladin you will know and can whip raw recuts into super solders.” I answered.

“Oh, great so she could have trained me?” He whined.

“Trust me you probably dodged a bullet on that one.” I said.

“Hay how did you know?” She asked.

“Simple I stopped by the training ground a few times.” I laughed. “Most of your recuts dropped out within the first day.” I joked.

“Ouch I’m glad I didn’t hear about her ability to train people.” He said thankful.

“Hay don’t be mean.” Talia pouted.

‘Were just messing with you.” We both laughed.

“I would be happy if you helped me out in my training unlike my human body my vampire body has almost unlimited stamina.” He replied.

“Oh, goody I can train you!” She said happily.

“Yah but first we need to figure out where we are. I’m sorry to say in order to do that we have to figure out what dungeon we are in. And to do that we need to beat it.” I told them.

“Oh well we can consider this your training!” She said not giving up.

“So, does anyone know which way to go?’ I asked.

“This way!” Talia said going the opposite way I came from.

“Its this way then.” I said turning around and going to the room I portaled in at.

We walked in to see the dead basilisks. “Wow who did this?” Asked Jacob.

“I did.” I replied. “But I don’t know why they didn’t disappear?” I wondered.

“They must be your loot.” Replied Talia. “By the way Eclipse why are you waring school clothes?” She asked as I placed the basilisks in my inventory.

“That’s just what I was wearing when I got back. I didn’t really have time to change.” I told them.

“Wait I recognize that uniform you were in Highschool DXD!” She shouted excitedly.

“I’m sorry what?” I asked confused.

“I know that show so how was dealing with Issei?” Jacob asked.

“I beat him up every week sometimes twice a week. I swear that guy just didn’t learn. Hold on don’t move.” I threw a knife next to Jacob’s head in paling a snake beside him.

Jacob looked behind him to see the snake to into a skeleton leaving a bottle of venom. “Thanks Eclipse.” He said picking up the vile.

“Your welcome now let’s get moving I don’t want to stay here any longer.” I said.

“Wait Eclipse look at this!” Talia shouted.

We walked over to see what she found and when we got next to her, we saw an ax with a snake handle and runes on the blade in bedded into the wall.

“Cool ax why didn’t you try removing it?” Asked Jacob.

“Tried but it wouldn’t budge.” She said. “Why don’t one of you try it?”

“Ok but I prefer being an Assassin than an ax welder.” Jacob walked up to the ax and gave the handle a pull, but it didn’t budge. “Yah that thing isn’t coming out.” He said.

“your turn Eclipse!” Talia said pushing me.

“But I don’t want it I already have all the weapons I need.” I whined.

“Just do it. You can never have to many weapons.” She said with a smile.

“I don’t need it!” I shouted as she gave me one last push sending me off balance. I grabbed the closest thing out of habit which happened to be the ax’s handle. The Ax came out and I fell to the ground with a resounding oomph. “Why did you have to push me.” I cried.

“What you were being stubborn besides it looks like it now belongs to you.” She said pointing at me hand.

I looked down and saw the snake on the ax curl around my hand then then sunk its fangs into my hand and the ax disappeared. I grab the spot where it bit me but there were no wounds in fact all that was left was a rune that said Mudguard on my forearm. I then looked up and glared at Talia as she pretended nothing happened.

“You can kill her later Eclipse but right now we need to get moving.” Said Jacob trying to calm me down.

“Fine but this isn’t over.” I growled knowing I couldn’t kill her even if I wanted to.

“Hay I’m hungry” Talia proclaimed.

“Fine we’ll stop for lunch.” I sighed. “But I’m cooking.”

“I remember the lunch you bribed me with on our first meeting it was delicious. I would be happy to have you cook.” Jacob said with a smile.

“Is it really that good?” Talia asked.

“Its almost first class it was so good.” He told her.

“I know someone like that, but she was my girlfriend.” Talia told him.

“So, you were a lesbian?!” He asked surprised.

“I call her my girlfriend, but we weren’t dating at all.” She said sadly.

Jacob gave me a side glance as I prepared to cook. “Wow you brought everything except for the bathroom sink.” He laughed.

I then pulled out a bathroom sink. “You were saying.” I laughed.

“You bought that just for this joke didn’t you.” He mumbled.

“Yup.” I laughed.

“Ah Eclipse is it supposed to disappear like that?” Talia asked.

I looked at the sink as it slowly turned into light particles. “Um.” I hesitated.

Do to taking out something that shouldn’t exist, yet it has been deleted for this inconvenience we have given you the spell water spout.

“My system told me that it deleted it.” I told her.

“I see so it deletes all forin object.” She concluded.

“No if it did that then the food we have would also disappear. It’s more likely it gets rid of all objects that don’t suit the world it is taken out in.” I said.

“I get it since this world doesn’t have indoor plumbing or the ability to create plastic materials it deleted it.” Jacob said.

“That’s my theory and to test it.” I then pulled out several pots and pans made with metal handles.

We let them sit for a second and when they didn’t dissolve into light. I then got to work cooking.

“Wait how do I know you can cook?” Jason asked.

“Yah for all we know your just as bad as I am.” Talia agreed.

“One I’m still alive, aren’t I? Two there is no way I would buy all this food and not be able to cook.” I stated as I poured oil into the pan.

“What was the point of the first point?” He asked.

“I was stuck in a dungeon for ten years you guess.” I said as I lit the mobile stove.

I then chopped up several pieces of stake then threw them into an oil coated pan the places the pan on the stove. As it cooked, I poured red whine over the pieces as they cooked in the whine and oil, I grabbed the spices and seasonings and made dipping sauces I shook the pan flipping the stake bites. I then threw parsley and clove into the pan after the whine evaporated or was absorbed by the meat. I then threw in some broccoli, so it can get some of the delicious stake taste. I then pulled it out and plated it for each of us and placed the dipping sauce in between us.

“There you go Bon appetit.” I said.

“I hope this isn’t one of those tropes where it looks good but tastes like shit.” Jacob grumbled.

“Or I can take it back.” I said reaching for the plate.

“NO! I mean you went to all this trouble I might as well try it.” He said grabbing a fork and sticking a piece of meat. He then dipped it into the Soy sauce and stuck it I his mouth.

I didn’t even look for his reaction I just started on my food and noticed Talia start to shovel lots of the beef bites into her mouth. I laughed as Jacob did the same thing, we didn’t talk but the sounds of enjoyment were all I needed to feel satisfied. Gluttony knows I could never satisfy my hunger because of his curse. I simply enjoyed the food and the company.