Chapter 576 [Orcus - X]

"Yeah, I'm fine" - muttered Yue while shaking her head and licking her lips.

"Well, now that you reacted, it's time to finish this, and I want to guess that the head with black mark, has to have the ability to create illusions" - said Cloud while looking at Yue nodding.

"Well, that means that the red mark is fire, the blue one is water or ice, green, possibly wind, white, maybe holy or healing magic" - Yue replied, confused because she wasn't quite sure of her answer - "As for the yellow one, I have no idea, its concept is too abstract."

Cloud nodded calmly as he took his naginata with his right hand and his gun with his left hand.

Without further thought, he ran at the strange creature, who quickly focused its attention on his presence.

Cloud continued to advance smoothly as he signaled Yue to start preparing her magic.

"Ok" - nodded Yue as he extended his hand - "[Azur Blaze]!"

Again, a powerful blue flame appeared in the area, completely surrounding the [Hydra]'s body.

Cloud quickly seized this opportunity to attack, more when he saw how the blue head disintegrated and the others seemed to have suffered severe damage, with the exception of the head with the red mark that seemed to be immune to fire.

"[Crystal Coffin]!" - Yue exclaimed as she switched elements - "Now, Cloud!"

Cloud smiled when he heard this as he used his ability to increase his speed.

He quickly appeared in front of the huge 6-headed snake and with his spear cut off one of the heads with slight difficulty.

Normally, this would be an impossible feat, but the metal [Shtar] was extremely tough, hard, sharp and a good conductor of mana.

Cloud's naginata penetrated the snake's flesh with almost no difficulty as the monster let out a sharp cry of pain.

"Stop playing with that thing, and kill it quickly" - Yue said with a frown.

"Easy, I know what I'm doing" - Cloud replied calmly as he carefully took the head he had cut off, and gave it a firm bite.

Yue was surprised to see this, but quickly understood what was going on - "Jealous of my ability to control the elements?"

Cloud didn't reply, he just continued to nibble on the strange mark on the decapitated head, which was the one with the green symbol.

[Skill [Elemental Control (Wind)], achieved! [Elemental Resistance (Wind)], obtained!]

A huge smile appeared on Cloud's face as he used his new elemental magic instinctively, as if he had always had it.

The [Hydra] let out a mighty roar as he lost a fragment of his power, only to watch in terror as the blond seemed to have increased his speed drastically.

"Yue, use [Crystal Coffin] again!" - Cloud exclaimed excitedly as his red eyes glowed with excitement.

"Ok" - nodded Yue as she held out her hand again - "[Crystal Coffin]!"

Again, an icy prison, surrounded the body of the huge monster as Cloud accelerated in its direction.

The [Hydra] let out a roar of fury and despair as it watched its head with the black mark, being severed as well as the head with the white mark.

Cloud quickly repeated his former action and nibbled at the marks next to the monstrosity's flesh.

[Skill [Elemental Control (Sacral)] and [Illusion Magic], have been acquired! [Resistance to Sacral and control magics], has been acquired!"].

"[Maximus Heal]!" - Cloud exclaimed as he extended his hand in Yue's direction, only for the girl to feel her tiredness and fatigue disappear.

"Recovery magic?" - Yue asked in surprise and from what she could see, it was extremely potent.

"And that's not all" - smiled Cloud with a huge toothy grin - "[Sanctus]!"

Before Yue could say anything else, she watched in shock and terror as a huge light surrounded the room.

Without being able to comprehend what was going on, a huge holy aura surrounded the enormous beast as the sound of a huge explosion, echoed through the place.

When she could see things more clearly, she noticed how the [Hydra] was swaying weakly as it tried to stand.

She had heard of [Sanctus] magic, one of the few offensive magics of the holy element, and even though it was light magic, it caused massive damage to all enemies, even those resistant to the holy element, but what made this magic much more dangerous, was that the more [Bad Karma] the target had, the more damage it received.

Yue was sure that even though this strange monster didn't know right from wrong, the bad Karma accumulated over all these years had caused the beast to suffer devastating damage.

Cloud slowly walked over to the beast as he shot straight into the center of its head while using his spear to slash the head with the red mark and give it a sharp bite that tore the beast's flesh.

With his mutation to human-monster hybrid, he was starting to regain his inhibitions against many things that were morally questionable, such as devouring the flesh of monsters without worrying if it was cooked or not. He could wait, but with a creature as good as the [Hydra], it was better to take advantage of it being freshly dead so he could get a better power boost.

[Skill [Elemental Magic (Fire and Ice)], has been acquired!] [Optimizing skill, generating new Skill [Elemental Tetra], defensive skills have been added to [Sacred Magic], optimization complete].

Cloud licked his lips with a huge smile as his eyes sparkled with excitement.

He could feel as if he was slowly returning to normal, even though he was still a bit far away to his true power.

"I feel like there's something different about you, Cloud" - Yue said with a frown.

"Yes, I'm getting back to being my true self" - Cloud replied as he looked down at his hands and squeezed them tightly.

"Hmm" - Yue twitched her nose slightly and started sniffing the blond, only to frown when she felt something strange - "Why do I feel a draconic aura on you?"

Cloud was silent for a few seconds before thinking how to respond.

He hadn't realized this, but it didn't matter that he changed bodies, his soul was still that of a dragon after changing so drastically.

"Can you tell me about it?" - Yue asked curiously, though inside she was slightly scared because she didn't want to think about the fact that it was possible that the blond didn't trust her, not with everything they had been through together.

"Well, I'm going to tell you some things, though I have to warn you that there are things I can't say, not because I don't trust you, but because it's for your sake" - Cloud replied as he revealed a bit of his past and his true identity.

Yue was silently listening as she looked with surprise at the person in front of her - "Are you the reincarnation of a dragon, is that why your aura is like that?"

"That's right" - Cloud nodded, because this was the simplest way to put it.

"That makes some sense, it also explains why you were acting so normal even when we were in danger" - muttered Yue as she nodded - "It also explains why you're perverted."

Cloud was silent at this off-topic accusation.

"Oh, sorry, it's just that dragons are known to have somewhat difficult personalities to deal with, there are some that are decent, but it's quite possible that they're just hiding their true personalities" - Yue continued honestly.

Cloud's expression couldn't have been worse, more so when it was obvious that Yue was constantly hitting his face with comments about his race.

"Oh, sorry, let's just say that my clan has a strange bond with dragons, one that makes us have certain prejudices towards them, nothing serious, Cloud" - replied Yue with discomfort because she could notice the annoyance on her "husband's" face - "I'm sorry?"

"We'd better leave it up to here, now that we're done with that thing, I think it's a good time to see what this is all about" - said Cloud while shaking his head.

"Ok" - nodded Yue, who was also extremely curious to know what was going on.

The duo quickly walked towards the exit as they earnestly watched the corpse of the [Hydra] slowly starting to dissolve.

Cloud was thankful to have devoured the marks without a second thought as the two adventurers opened what were supposed to be the last doors.

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"I want a progress report" - Ishtar said as he looked at his subordinates - "Are the heroes doing a good job?"

"Yes, they are advancing wonderfully through [Orcus], and it's a matter of time before they reach the 20th floor" - replied a Templar knight as he looked at the highest authority of the church of the saints.

"Perfect, Ehit-sama will be happy about these developments" - smiled Ishtar as he looked at a hooded silhouette - "Don't you think so too, apostle-sama?"

"Certainly" - nodded the hooded man in a cold and emotionless voice - "Though I have to tell you something important, Ehit-sama decided to incorporate another person into the game"

"Another person?" - Ishtar asked with a frown.

"Yes, one that I'm sure you know very well" - replied the hooded silhouette - "Belta Lievre"

"Interesting" - muttered Ishtar as he let out a laugh.

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