Chapter 110: Buddy The Fox

Perseus POV

I can't even detect any falsehood or illusion from the fox, which is weird, this fox is an actual fox, not anyone in disguise, so the friend of the first demon lord is a fox, that's new.

I didn't really question things as I drip blood in the other bowl till it filled all the way fully and help the fox bleed faster, Maple is a child of the sun goddess, maybe this fox is a descendant of one of his friends, but won't the DNA be lost by now or something?

The vault then slide open to the side as I felt this weird feeling washing over me and it feels somewhat refreshing. When I healed both myself and the fox, we head inside the vault.

And inside is the most incredible, remarkable, amazing, magnificent, marvelous, phenomenal, other adjectives that don't have the letter M, wonderful...raspberry on a metal plate.

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What the fuck, bro?!

I did all that just to get a berry, if this fox didn't exist, I wouldn't even be here, the smell of the berry was very repulsive to me, so it might be poisonous. So it's a berry that I can't even eat even as a person mixed with demon blood,

Just when I thought the journey was fucking smooth, barely any traps, no traps at all when I open certain doors or when we get the books, all that impressive machinery for a useless poisonous berry?!

I'm from a village where we can determine what we can eat by smell, I can tell that I'll die from just licking it, and my people can eat the most things that are poisonous to either humans or demons, so if the race who have the strongest stomachs can't eat it, who the fuck can?!

And thanks to merging with the 2 roses, my senses are enhanced even further, so that berry is like that smells of a poisonous lake of corpses, it reeks.

I didn't even stop the fox from eating the berry since it's what foxes eat, even though it might be magic due to the fact that it hasn't spoiled yet. Sure enough, the fox glowed a bit and afterwards I felt this sort of connection with the fox like I do with Leilah and Ruka.

I approached the altar and he fox jumped into my arms and slept, I lifted the plate up to see this freaking timing that is counting down about 20 hours or so, probably the countdown to the self destruct sequence.

"Perseus, up here." Ruka called out

A top of the doorway we just walked through have this small sliding cabinet, Ruka float up there and slide it open to find a thick book.

'Buddy the fox.'

"Buddy Paw, he's my treasure that was gifted to me by the sun goddess." Ruka read the first page "Once you put your blood in the bowl and his in the other, you shall form a bond similar to when a person like my former brother in arms did with Rowan the red rose.

"I severed my connection with him so that he'll be temporarily not age, the berry contains all of his extracted powers and this book is a guide to take care of him as well as my diary, please take care of him well, tell him I'm sorry that I had to abandon him, please don't leave him alone like I did, he'll make a wonderful companion.

"Once you make the connection with him, his life is tied to yours and shall have a similar lifespan, he is a very loyal friend, I don't want him to be broken as I have, I've tasked him to approach a lot of people, he will choose those who bring him along."

She then stopped reading for now and we all stared at the fox sleeping in my arm. So this fox is the so called treasure, who would've thought.

"So Buddy the fox...he's technically your brother, I seriously don't know why fate is tying me up with your family, but this fox should be somewhat powerful...let's go home for now, it's almost my appointed time to meet Zach to buy the 5 star fabric."

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I left the vault room after exploring it a bit and closed it, the cups where we drained our blood were empty, but it was still red. I pushed the vault again, but it seems to have locked.

'Buddy will sleep for quite a while to accumulate with his powers again, I don't have an exact answer, but it shouldn't take more than a week.'

Just how powerful would this fox be? I'm looking forward to it.

I then sense a lot of people close by and slid down the slope to die by my traps as they clearly did not check it properly. It took a couple dead guys for them to send some competent guy with a good sword and quick hands to come down and cut down the wires.

On the right, we have a couple archeologists, a few nobles, and their fancy guards of mages and knights. On the left, we have the god worshippers or referred by most as the anti magic cult which was identifiable from the symbol of the cross on their robe, despite detesting magic, they're using magic themselves.

Apparently only their top members are given permission to do so, they will eliminate every other magic users before they then cripple themselves and end the use of mana once and for all.

Well with the vault locked, they should think that the treasure is still in there and I'm just holding this totally not suspicious fox who I now placed to lay over my shoulder to sleep as I face them.

"Guys, now that you're here, any of you descendants of a close friend of the demon lord?"

Their representatives seem to just walk past me and ignored the question, they read the thing only to go back to their group and sigh at the fact that they can't access the vault before turning to me.

"We saw a room with an empty altar, what was there?!" A noble demanded

Man, I really wanted to scream out 'Deez nuts!' as the reply.