Chapter 633 [ Great Gruen Volcano - VIII ]

[WARNING! User has done something stupid!]

"You're finally responding, but it doesn't matter anymore" - Cloud said as he felt his body on the verge of collapse, only to regenerate to his peak in a matter of seconds.

[PERFORMING EMERGENCY PROTOCOL!]

Cloud felt everything around him freeze, he quickly gritted his teeth as he could feel his vitality being devoured by his body much faster than the divine stone could recover it.

[CREATING A DIRECT CONNECTION WITH THE USER'S ORIGINAL BODY, INCREASING THE DANGER LEVEL OF THE WORLD... ANALYSING THE OVERALL SITUATION TO CREATE A BALANCE... ANALYZING... ANALYSIS COMPLETED... GENERATING NEW PUNISHMENT UPON MISSION FAILURE...]

Cloud gritted his teeth as he felt his body change drastically, before he felt like he was being imprisoned, but now he felt this enormous sense of freedom again, as if the chains that were tightening his body were breaking one after another.

[VICTORY CONDITIONS HAVE BEEN KEPT THE SAME, OVERALL POWER LEVEL OF THE USER'S BODY HAS BEEN RESTRICTED TO THE MINIMUM POSSIBLE... FAILURE CONDITIONS HAVE BEEN UPDATED, PUNISHMENT FOR FAILING THE MISSION HAS BEEN ASSIGNED... DIMENSIONAL CURSE HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE USER... PLEASE READ THE NEW INFORMATION...]

"ROAR!" - Cloud let out a mighty roar as he felt his body expand steadily.

Everyone watched in surprise as the blond's body began to change, but there was someone who could feel this change more than anyone else, and that was none other than Tio, the dragon woman who was slowly waking up after feeling this familiar aura.

"Tio-san!" - Shea exclaimed as she saw that the dragoness was coming to.

"I'm fine" - Tio muttered as she looked up and looked at the blond who was transforming - "He's doing it."

"Doing what?" - Yue asked worriedly as she handed her a potion made with the liquid from the divine stone.

Tio drank the potion without a second thought and felt her body seem to return to normal, though the mental exhaustion was still present - "He's breaking the boundary of his mortal body and is regaining his draconic body."

"I don't understand, why would Cloud have a draconic body?" - Shizuku asked, confused by this because she was absolutely sure that Cloud was 100% human, or at least originally.

"He always had a dragon soul, that means his human life is not the first life he has lived" - Tio replied as she watched Cloud's body continue to expand.

"This is bad" - muttered Freid as he ordered his beasts to attack his opponent now that he was vulnerable, but to his irritation, he watched as the dragons under his control didn't move an inch - "Why aren't they attacking!"

"Because they're shaking" - Tio muttered while squinting as she watched Cloud's body continue to grow with no apparent limit - "An instinctive fear is taking hold of them, and there's nothing that demon can do about it because this primordial fear is something that is imbued in the deepest part of their DNA."

[FINALISING THE PROTOCOL, CHECKING THE FINAL STATE OF THE USER'S BODY... ANALYZING... ANALYSING... ANALYSIS COMPLETED, MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF POWER THE USER CAN USE IS 50%, ALL STATS, AND GENERAL OFFENSIVE POWER HAS BEEN REDUCED BY 50%, RESISTANCES ARE MAINTAINED AS NORMAL]

Cloud slowly opened his eyes before letting out a mighty roar that shook the maze.

Freid began to sweat at the increasing amount of mana the blond was releasing, which seemed to detonate like an explosion.

Everyone closed their eyes to shield themselves from the smokescreen that had been produced by the magical explosion, which quickly began to disappear.

Yue, Tio, and the others looked worriedly at the blond, only to see a long reptilian figure. Two long black wings spread out, a head very similar to Tio's appeared as the huge dragon showed his appearance. He was an imposing black dragon with strange golden markings all around his body.

Tio marvelled at these markings which appeared to be ancient runes.

"That's impressive," muttered Shizuku in surprise as she looked at the imposing creature without being able to say anything else.

"Wow ~" - exclaimed Shea as she looked at Cloud, only to feel her heart pounding.

Yue was the best off of the three, she was the closest to the boundary known as divinity. She came from the royal family of the vampire empire, who were direct descendants of the blood god, that's why she could feel the enormous divine pressure radiating from the black dragon's blood.

"T-This power" - Freid said as he tried to use [Analysis] on the dragon in front of him, and thus find a weakness, but his expression changed when he managed to get what he wanted.

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Freid was struck dumb as he turned to escape, only to see the beast he had been pestering appear in front of him with a huge toothy grin.

"Where do you think you're going?" - Cloud asked in a deep voice as he let out a laugh that made the place rumble.

Freid didn't reply, he just looked at the creature as he extended his hand back.

"Bad choice," Kurama growled as his body shrank slightly and flew at the demon.

Freid smiled slightly before extending his hand against his opponent, not because he wanted to attack or hurt him, but because this was his only way to escape, even if he had to sacrifice something in order to do so.

Cloud frowned as he sensed something odd about the whole thing, but this situation was too good to simply throw away, more so when he still had an Ace up his sleeve.

"[Corruption]" - Cloud muttered as he ripped off the demon's arm, who promptly let out a mighty roar of pain.

"[Blood Escape]!" - Freid exclaimed as its body disappeared from the scene.

"Escaped" - muttered Yue with a frown.

"Yes, but not safely" - replied Tio with a small smile because he could sense that Cloud's last attack wasn't as simple as it looked at first glance.

Cloud quickly descended to where the others were as he looked at them in silence.

"Is that your true appearance?" - Tio asked curiously as she looked at Cloud's marvellous form, especially his scales that seemed to be made of the brightest obsidian she had ever seen.

"Yes," Cloud nodded as his raven began to shrink, thus returning to his normal form. He quickly began to move his body and with a smile, he noticed how he had returned to normal, and even with his power reduced, he felt like he was free.

"Look, a pillar!" - Shea exclaimed as he saw what the lava dome concealed.

The group quickly looked in that direction and saw the same thing, so they decided to go first to complete the labyrinth and then talk things over calmly, after all, the heat was still hellish.

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"Ugh" - Freid let out a sharp groan of pain as he looked at his arm with concern.

After Cloud had managed to wrench it off, strange dark spots had begun to appear on what was left of his limb.

"I see things didn't go well," said a female voice.

"Be quiet, human" - growled Freid as he watched the girl remove her hood, revealing Eri's face, who only smiled slightly.

"Don't be so angry, I just came to pick you up" - Eri said with a small teasing smile, though her expression changed when she saw the black spots on her ally's body - "Where did you get those strange marks?"

"They were a product of that blond monster's attack" - Freid replied with a frown.

"Impossible... these are marks of corruption" - Eri said as she stepped slightly away from the demon - "Or at least they have the same symptoms as the marks that came out in the books I managed to read."

"I don't care what it is, I just want to know if there is a cure or a way to get better" - said Freid with a frown.

"I'm sorry, but corruption is an incurable state, not even the gods are immune to this situation" - Eri replied as she shook her head - "That's why I say it's impossible for this to be corruption no matter how similar it is to what's in the books".

Freid began to vomit black blood as the strange black mark began to spread across his body - ". . ."

Eri's expression changed drastically, she didn't hesitate anymore, she quickly stepped back and looked at the demon as if it was a corpse - "I'm sorry, but now this and sure that's the mark of corruption, only that thing can expand so fast and that aura of rot is unmistakable."

Freid froze as he began to pray to his god in search of salvation, though no matter how hard he tried, no one was answering his prayers.

"There must be some way to save me" - Freid said as he looked at the human girl, after all, she was the only one who had any kind of information on the "disease" that was tormenting him.

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