18: Extraction VIII: Mission Impossible?

Ares had seen where the story was heading to, but he still sat patiently to listen to what she had left to say.

"I found it Strange because I don't even remember running up there. I felt like I had appeared there..And then without thinking much I saw a cave entrance ahead. I wanted to take refuge so I ran it .."

Iris had paused for awhile as she thought " But do you know what's odd? It's the fact that I didn't voluntarily and entirely go into the cave..The cave had called me in..But when I walked in, I don't remember what happened next"

Iris sighed " I woke up and found myself sleeping in the same spot I was in the store room where slaves were kept and it was morning..It had all seemed like a dream because none of the soldiers talked about me escaping last night.. which got me thinking, perhaps it's a dream?"

Ares knew it wasn't. It was pretty obvious that sorcery was involved "You should take it as a dream for your safety.. Okey?"

"Huh? Why? Perhaps is it true?" she inquired.

"I said, take it as a dream and eat, now!" He demanded as she obediently agreed and focused on her meal.

Ares sighed as he stared at the fire burning..He guessed Neon was right when he said that the Flute had chosen her to dwell in.

But it only left Ares with more thoughts and questions.

Thoughts and questions like, why her? Why would it choose a mere moral like her? What's special about her or something? Or perhaps it was a random pick?

These were question that he was curious to find out for some reasons.

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"What do you mean by that?"

Young Master Ryu sat there in bed as he stared at the old man. His face was covered up in confusion and shock. "What do you mean by.. what you just Said now?"

He wished he had misheard what the old man had just said..But the old man had repeated the same thing.

"You were possessed by a demon poisen which now lives and grows in you" The old man said as he turned to where he left his bowl of medicine which he was working on.

"But how does that even make sense? why would that happen? it's unreasonable because I don't have anything to do with the demon realm " He debated staring at The old man.

Young Master Ryu had really wanted this to be a mistake or some kind of joke..He wanted it to be a cold lie!

"I have nothing else to say.. I've already given you your diagnosis of illness..The demonic poisen roams around your body now and threatens to slowly eat up and destroy your core of Cultivation"

The Old man sighed " If it's left there to keep growing, it'll only keep weakening you and bring you harm eventually. You'll loose your powers If it takes over and you might even eventually die. That's how dangerous that poisen is"

Young Master Ryu's face was clouded in shock and disbelief " But how did it all happen? How did it get into me, I don't remember anything " His face was already pale in worry!

The old man sighed as he approached him with the bowl of medicine which he handed over to him

"if I'm not wrong,.I believe this poisen was planted into you by the Demon Patriarch. Perhaps when you were battling with him then he did it.. Because across the Cultivation world, I haven't seen of any demon inclined cultivator or mage capable of it. And even if there were, they'd not be so powerful to do this "

The old man watched Young Master Ryu gulp down the whole medicine and then handed back the bowl to him.

"Then, is there any way to remove it? any means to break it off or something? Anything, no matter what it is, as long as it can free me from it" Young Master Ryu eagerly asked.

The old man Stated. "The poison is a very sophisticated and powerful one. Even I, can't think of a way to remove it and I don't think any doctor can give you an accurate way to do so. Which leaves you with one alternative "

"Alternative? What's it? What's the alternative?"

Young Master Ryu was taken aback by the news and he really didn't want to be kept hostage by something Like this which could have him ruined!

So he was naturally anxious to find solutions as soon as he could!

He was already useless in his father's eyes..No matter how he practiced and struggled to impress his father, his father never took fancy to him and his effort!

So Young Master Ryu couldn't possibly imagine how I'd be if he lost all his Cultivation! He would be trash in his father's eyes and even be thrown out of the sect!

This merely reminded him of his dream which he was Still struggling to understand.

"The only method is as simple as it is hard. You need to find the Demon Patriarch and get him to remove the Poisen himself" The old man said "That's the only sure way out of it"

Young Master Ryu gasped at the solution.. At this point he guessed this had taken a harder and more complicated turn than expected.

How could he possibly accomplish that method alive.