Chapter8: Contract
Arden shivered in fright at the sight of the gigantic snake but at the same time, he wondered if it was the same snake he saw in the mural previously because the giant snake was golden in color and also had a horn in the center of it's head which made it resemble a dragon. Very much like the one in the murals. "Get back" Arden said to Evnor as he pulled her behind him while pointing the serpent suppression pole at it, he had a terrible feeling that this very snake was the poisonous serpent king which the system had warned him about. "sssssss!" The giant serpent's eye condescendingly glared at Arden, it suddenly hissed, a powerful presence which shook the whole underground system surged out of it's body. The mere sight of it's presence nearly made Arden and Evnor into a kneeling position. Both of them gritted their teeth and exerted all the strength and energy in their body to remain standing. Upon seeing that the two ants dared to resist its might, the poisonous serpemt king hissed once more and exerted a little more of it's mighty presence to suppress them. Immediately, both Arden and Evnor felt the pressure on their person's increasing drastically, though they continued pushing their strengths to resist, their knees slowly bent. "crack" Evnor's knee bone creaked and her body lost balance, she collapsed unto the floor and a blue beam of light from the Snake Kings eyes fired into her forehead causing her to lost consciousness. The same beam was fired towards arden's forehead however, the serpent suppression pillar suddenly hummed as if awakening from dormancy and immediately absorb the blue beam of light. "hisssss!" The serpent king hissed in displeasure upon realizing that it's attack had been absorbed by the serpent suppression pole, it felt challenged, how can a random weapon absorb it's mighty attack? It's spread its jaws and gulped down to swallow Arden who trembled in fright. Despite his fear though, Arden didn't forget to continue pointing the serpent suppression pole at it. "Rumble!" Just when the poisonous serpent king was inches away from the serpent suppression pole, a powerful surpressive presence which had been dormant for eaons suddenly awakened and exuded out of the pole. The suppression force from the serpent suppression pole suddenly exploded out and enveloped the serpent king, making it's movement pause. "I can't move my body, How the hell is this happening!!!" A thunderous voice exploded out from the mouth of the seemingly noncommunicating poisonous serpent king, surprising Arden. "You can actually speak!" Arden exclaimed in the high of his shock. "Brat, what is that thing, how can it suppress this king!" "hehe, soo you really can't move?" instead of answering the poisonous serpent king, Arden asked in confirmation. "You little piece of shit, how dare you ignore my question, do you believe that this king will squash you do death!" The poisonous serpent king exclaimed.He was frustrated by the fact that a mere ant dared to disrespect it simply because it had a weapon which can suppressed him. "Why don't you just give it a try" Arden said but inwardly, he was shivering in fear, though he appeared calm and unafraid, he was almost pissing in his pants due to the fear of the poisonous serpent king who the system had warned him about. "What, you dare disrespect me!" the poisonous serpent king was furious, he madly wanted to get a hold of this ant and slowly torture him to death for it's transgressions. A tremendous cluster of Astro energy surged out from the poisonous serpent king which made the whole underground system tremble dangerously, Arden felt a shiver running down his spine, at this moment, even space seemed to warp from the outburst of Astro energy. Fortunately for Arden, despite its struggle, the poisonous serpent king didn't prevail to move even an inch closer, instead, it felt the surppressive force tightening over its scales. Seeing that it couldn't break out of the grasp of the serpent suppression pole no matter what, the poisonous serpent king was indigent "Damn it, put away that piece of shit and see if this King dosn't obliterate you!" This time, Arden went silent and didn't provoke the poisonous serpent king any further but he refused to withdraw the serpent suppression pole no matter what it said. After shouting threats one after the other only to be ignored by the resolute Arden who refused to relent no matter the case, the poisonous serpent king finally calm down and let out a sigh. "Sigh, After you killed my minions, I acknowledged your strength and wanted to knock you both unconscious and leave an imprint in your body to manipulate you to do my bidding but who knew that an ant like you would be able to push me into a deadluck where neither you or I could do anything to the other party." "So you weren't planning on killing us" Arden asked. Surprised by what he just heard, didn't it attempt to swallow him whole just few minutes ago? "Not really, of course, for barging into my layer and killing off the minions I created and raised with my royal blood you very much deserve death but you guys are more important to me alive than dead" "why is that?" Arden mumbled. "I need to be free, I have been trapped in this damn place for five hundred years because of Crui Rughk, Even if this king has to chase him into the roots of hell, I will surely hunt him down and have my revenge" "Who's crui rughk?" Arden couldn't help but ask, his interest was picked by the intense hatred and resentment which flashed in the poisonous serpent king's eyes. "My arch enemy, he's the Vacticion demon Emperor of Vacticion demon Clan, This king is known as Evshelf, In the moment of my prime, I was feared by all powerful clans but I let down my guard and let a sinister and cunnig person like him cheat me, I'll make sure he pays, I'll never let him off, never!" At this moment, Arden had a puzzled look on his face as he gazed at Evshelf, he wondered just what happened between him and his enemy but he stopI'll didn't relax his guard. "Hay kid, why don't we make a deal" After his ranting, Evshelf suddenly turned towards Arden. "What kind of deal do you want to make?" "you are going to help me out of here but in return, this king will assist you and help you rise to the apex of Astro world" "I disagree, you must be lying" Arden muttered flatly. There's no way he'll believe that someone who had been imprisoned and trapped here can help him become the strongest in the world."you bastard, have you gone insane, how dare you say that this king is lying" Evshelf directed a fierce glare at Arden. Arden quickly pointed the serpent suppression pole at it, looking quiet alarmed. "mmhhh!, keep on parading that worthless pole, even with it, do you think that this king can't do anything to you?" "you've got it all wrong brat, this king has reached the peak of Steller Vanguard and can survive for more than a thousand years without eating or drinking i can just keep standing here and gazing at you pointing that thing at me for a hundred years but I wonder if your life span can last that long, or if you'll be able to preserve without eating or drinking." Evshelf nearly smirked at the end of his statement. Listening to Evshelf, Arden's face slowly darkened, he never expected this self presumed king to be so shameless but at the same time, he realized that he had no choice but to make a deal with Evshelf because he couldn't possibly persevere in this battle of attrition. "I'll agree to make a deal with you but I have questions and a condition" Arden finally came to a consensus after mulling it over for some time. "what do you want to know boy?" Evshelf asked excitedly. "Explain to me how, exactly I can help you out of here" Arden mumbled. "It's simple, you and I need to sign a body soul binding contract that will last 30 years which will allow this king to dwell in your body and soul for thirty years, and share the same life and death, don't worry this king wil offer you assistance so you don't die and kill us both" "isn't that the same as you possessing me?" "No it's not the same, I can only dwell within your body and offer little assistance when needed, other than that I can't forcefully take control or that will be a violation to the contract, if this king violates the contract, this king will perish both in body and soul " "ok I get it now but can we not do it that way, I am not comfortable having to hear that such a large creature will enter my body, will I even be fine if that happens?" "oh,you'll be fine, don't go on wasting time spouting more nonsense, do you even have much of a choice?" Arden sighed upon hearing this, at the end of the day, he really didn't have much of a choice as he will be the one to die from hunger if the deadluck were to continue. "my condition is that you won't harm me in anyway possible after I help you, even after the contract has been exhausted" Arden concluded after a long thought. "As you wish brat, this king always keep to his words" Evshelf said as he bit himself and released a splash of golden blood which painted the platform. "Draw out your own blood on the floor" Evshelf told Arden and the latter did just that by cutting his palm with the lazoniun swift blade. After that Evshelf brought his head closer to Arden and said "say what ever I say to complete the contract" "I.. "l.. Evshelf, the poisonous serpent king... Arden, he human….Pledge to bind my body and soul with..…….. The moment in which both of them finished this vow and voiced out the name of the other party, the blood sprayed on the platform began to glow and merge together. As this happened, both Arden and Evshelf felt an inexplicable connection between one another which was slowly strengthening. Right after the glowing blood of Arden and Evshelf finished combining, it split into two parts which laded in Arden's and Evshelfes brows simultaneously. "Human, you better take good care of our body and not die otherwise, this king will not forgive you if I die because of you!" The moment in which this happened, Evshelf suddenly shrank and transformed into a ball of golden light which enveloped and finally absorbed disappeared into Arden's body.Chapter9: New World [Poison Stake Mission completed] [Host is rewarded 200xp to level up into the next level] Arden beemed at this news, and immediately, a tremendous amount of Astro energy suddenly surged from within him, clustering and huddling till it condensed into a pure and vibrant yellow Astro energy which was considered to be of a higher grade. Arden shivered in excitement as he felt the newly initiated powerful form of energy withing him. According to what he had heard from Evnor, In the rank of Astral servant, astral energy is always being condensed into a purer form whenever the Astral mage upgrade his or her strength. It seems that despite the fact that he was using a system, the same effects also happens in his body when he levels up. At this moment, Arden was no weaker than Sir Micrio. Suddenly a systems notification in which Arden was familiar with rang in his head. [by completing four missions consecutively, host has unlocked a system ability, Copy] Status
Chapter10: Bad News Fresh rays of the sun which was rising from the west brightened up the whole surrounding. The surrounding was formed by a cluster of a uniform breed of trees which had hibiscus coloured leaves. A long and narrow path stretched forth along those trees on which Arden and the others walked on, as they strode, sounds of chirping birds entered their ears from time to time. "Are we there yet?" Arden asked curiously as he surveyed his surrounding excitedly. He had asked this question for almost a dozen times on the way to the new world, Arden was just too anxious and excited to enter the so called new world which he had heard a lot about from Evnor. "No we aren't there yet, why can't you be patient, we've only reached the periphery of the jungle of carnage" Evnor remarked dispassionately. "Ok" Arden clamored but his blood was still boiling in excitement, just how many of those mystical races out there was he going to see, just how do they look compared to the moon
Chapter11: Rescue i "the situation is far worse than that, the moon Elf clan has been exterminated by the Urc clan!" "impossible!, those bastard Urcs and our Elf clan have been enemies for so many years but the overall strength of the two clan have always remain the same how can they ever be able to exterminate our Elf clan" Althev yelled hysterically, he couldn't bring himself to believe what he just heard, likewise Evnor and Noiter. Evnor and Noiter was currently shaking all over after hearing the news but couldn't utter a single word. Arden fixed a puzzled gaze at Noden trying to determine whether he was lying or not, the revelation was also a shock to him. A short moment later, Evnor cameback to her senses and stoped shaking, she suddenly asked, "How did it happen?" "As you very well know, our Moon Elf clan had formed an alliance with the Radiant Fairy Clan overseas, the clan head suddenly got a distress signal from the fairy clan that it was being attacked by a powerful
"This secret tunnel was revealed to me in the past by the prince himself, we can use this tunnel navigate around all corners of the Millenium city, the plan is to blend into the crowd and and strike unawares, kill all the guards and save them." "I agree with your plan but there's one thing I'll like to point out" Althev said solemnly. "We all know that the strength of the urc clan guards ranges from between the third stage of celestial novice to the fifth sage however, we both know that Wolder is in the third stage of Astral servant and would be two much for any of us to handle, how do we handle him" "I'll volunteer to distract him with Sir Noden" Arden suddenly said. Althev and everyone nodded except Noden who found Arden's statement suspicious. "kid do you think you have what it takes to fight an entity like Wolder?" "brother Nothen, you can rest assured Arden is strong enough to do that, he's in the second stage of Astral Servant just like you" Althev blurted. "wh
"you bastard, you finally remember this king after you ignored this king and almost got him killed, hmph this king will be kind enough to enlighten you with the truth so that you don't keep on courting death you reckless fool" Evshelf said pitifully. "What that brat Wolder used to block your sudden attack and even tried to blast at you just now was his pure condensation of Astro energy outside his body" "When an Astro Mage reaches the second rank of Astral servant, their Astral energy condensed to a very concentrated state where they can project it outside their body and manipulate them to create attack and defences of all forms depending on the Astral Servant's mastery of Astro energy" "You obviously haven't been an Astral Servant for long so despite the fact that you can, you haven't mastered how to control your Astro Energy to the point of projecting it out of your body" "The Sky piercing flame arrows Attack the other kid used just now is another form of attack called
"Evnor, you need to leave now, Wolder is to terrifying, without enough strength, you can save us save yourself now before it is too late!" Across Evnor and Althev who had subdued the guards, A beautiful Elf young man who almost looks like a girl said these words to Evnor. The beautiful male young Elf's appearance bore fifty percent resemblance to Evnor, apparently he was prince Galva and also Evnor's older brother. "No brother I will never leave you in the hands of those bastard, even if it means death, then we'll all die here trying to save you" Evnor remarked stubbornly. "you idiot, do you intend for the Elf's to be completely exterminated, you need to escape now and live on till you grow strong enough to avenge our deaths" Galva was on the verge of exploding in rage as he profusely tried persuade Evnor to escape only for Evnor to refuse obstinately, very adamant to die here if she fails. Ignoring her brother's rage, she directed her sight towards the ongoing
At that moment, Arden was feeling as if all the Astro energy within his body was completely drained out as most of it had been absorbed into the serpent suppression pole. When he saw the incoming destructive attack coming towards him, Arden witnessed first hand just how destructive it was as the smooth platform below it in it's wake was eroded into a deep and narrow pit Instantly, Arden absorbed the miniature wind hurricane into the spent suppression pole making it as heavy as a giant bolder. "Ahhhhh!" with a loud roar, Arden exerted all of his physical strength to swing the pole in the direction of the incoming attack, releasing his own attack of equivalent power. A loud explosion ensued as the two destructive wind waves clashed into one another like colliding celestial bodies and created a powerful explosion of Astro energy and wind alike which expanded rapidly and enveloped both Arden and Wolder. Noticing the might of the explosion, Noden quickly constructed an Ast
In the mighty Urc clan which was well known in it's tyranny, a magnificent dark tower could be seen and numerous other small houses made up of brick walls, this very tower represents the symbol of the Urc clan, it magestically stretched into the sky, towering above Everything in a way that elicited fear in eyes of outsiders. The tower is also home to the strongest and leader of the Urc clan, Vecnom, the Urc ruler was adorned in a dark loose armour augmented by triangular metal pieces with rough spikes all over it, his current expression was terrible to behold. "How dare they act against the Urc clan, they all deserve death, Wolder is highly incompetent, how can he disappoint me like this and throw away the face of the Urc clan?" "Send a ward to my son ilres who is currently close to the millennium city, tell him to mobilize fifty mages to fish out and extermibate those bastards once and for all!" "but clan leader, you know that the Elves have the shapeshifting Inn
Chapter271: Return Of Crui Rughk In the the central continent of the Astro world, the blood lands which is located in the very center of the continent that is home to the Vatican demon clan, the strongest force in the central continent which rules with an iron fist. All of the original patriarchs of the Vatican deom clan gathered up in excitement as they awaited the return of their emperor, Crui Rughk.Few days ago, the mighty patriarchs of the Vatican demon clan resived a massage from their emperor telling them that he will be retuning on this very day and ever since then, the five patriarchs have assembled here to resove him personally.the five patriarchs of the Vatician demon clan all"ROAR!"A resounding roar suddenly reverberated in the from behind the five patriarchs of the Victorian deman clan as they waited.The five of them quicpy turner their gazes behind them only to see a massive black cat which had was striding forth from behind them.The black cat was known as Vamp
Chapter270 The cyclone hydra The T Rex had its wide mew wide opene as it gazed at Arden in front of it who had walked passed it and reached the depth of the lightning field with lightning bolts so intensely dangerous and poweful that both it and him couldn't bare to go into. As he walked into the dangerous depth of the lightning field where he had retreated before, Arden didn't even frown or feel any pain. This was all because the dangerous lightning bolts couldn't touch his body at all as they were all absorbed by the large vortex surrounding his body before they could land on his body. After entering the vortex, they will then be absorbed into Arden's heart into the energy pearl which cobtenoued to emit a suction force throughout of Arden's body. As the lightning bolt and lighting pool continued to be absorbed by the vortex around him, Arden no longer cared about any danger and walked ahead steadfast going deepee and deeper until he reached the very core of the lightn
Chapter 269: Fusion ii "ROAR!" A loud roar filled with intense energy and force resonated in the lightning field, causing the lightning bolts and lightning pool to ripple intensely. Arden roared out with all his might, releasing his pent-up feeling of satisfaction. With the power cursing through him now, Arden felt that with his physical strength alone, he would be as strong as the pro level Stellar Vanguard. This means that he will be able to fight the T Rex on equal footing using nothing but his physical strength. After his analysis, Arden deactivated the Serpent King Evolution Art, causing his transformation to revert back to his normal self. After doing this, Arden stepped deeper into the lightning pool, this time not absorbing anything but he created an Astro energy warding barrier around his body to protect him from the lightning bolts in the depth of the lightning pool however, despite Arden's efforts, he was still injured by the intense lightning bolts which
Chapter268: Fusion iThe lightning bolts inside the lightning pool is incredibly more intense and dangerous than the lightning outside the lightning pool, the instant in which Arden's leg stepped into theclightning pool, several bolts of lightning immediately struck his body violently. The lightning bolts penetrated his skin defens and burnt his skin while at thesame time causing an intense jolt to run through his whole body. When this happened, Arden frown and nearly cursed out from the pain throughout his skin but he didn't retreat from the lightning pool because although the lightning bolts were very painfully, they couldn't injure his faitally and even more, he gain a very pure and dense lightning element Astro energy from the lightning bolts. Although he did my retreat, Arden didn't advance either, it wasn't that he didn't dare to but he knew that it would be more advantageous for him to remain his his position for the time being and contenou absorbing lightning eleme
Chapter267 Five meters to the location of Arden and the four king beasts was a rear place of natural phenomenon that was very hard to come by. It was a region of space that was crammed with numerous red coloured lightning bolts which flashed around blasting into the ground and even the air. As he stared at this region of space filled with lightning, Arden couldt help but opene his mouth and exclaimed in joy "Lightning elemental astro energy field!" Arden had learned about the lightning elemental astro energy field from a book he had obtained from the treasures of the Drake kingdom he had plundered. The book described meany things related to natural lightning field that occurr randomly in some areas due to some special occasions. In the book, it was described that lightning field is formed when there Is a dense amount of lightning elemental Astro energy in a location which caused a reaction that give birth numerous lightning blots that forms a lightning sea.
Chapter266 lightning elemental Astro energy field The female king beast attempted to get up from her position and regain her stance but Arden moved too quickly. Before she could get up, the inscription pen appeared in his hand as his quickly inscribed words Tame on her forehead. With that completed, the King beast suddenly trembled and silently knelt in front of him. [ Taming Crystal Lurocyton successful ][ Congratulations, Host has completed 80% of mission conquer the dark forest and host will be rewarded with 10000xp as well as 10000 nexus coins] The system notification rang out in his head causing Arden to smile broadly, he couldn't get enough of the system's reward for this hidden mission. As he reviled in the joy of obtaining the system's reward, Arden squatted down and turned on the system's Copy ability to scan through the body of the Chrystal Lurocyton. The result of his scan was just as he had envisioned however, he was little bit disappointed towards the
Chapter265: Analysis "What the hell!" Arden exclaimed as he uncontrollably flew away with an unstoppable momentum. "Roar!" The three king beasts all suddenly turned their attention towards the female king beast, and each of them quickly directed their attacks towards her. In a shot moment, a dangerous red lightning strike, blazing orange flames and thorny plant vins all attacked the female king beasts from different angles. In the face of this attack, the female king beast suddenly screeched causing great waves to disturb the three king beasts rendering their attacked weakened to a great extent. After this happened, the blue sphere of Stellar Light Astro energy covering her body suddenly explode as and propagetared in all directions sending away all the other three king beasts. The three colossal king beasts all got sent flying and smashed into the hard crystal wall, meanwhile the female king beast instantly conjured up another blue sphere before dashing toward Felix at an
Chapter264: Astonishing Power As Arden and the king beasts entered into the giant hole under the red crystal mountain, they followed a passage and ended up in a very wide underground Cavern. In this place, Arden and the king beasts were instantly attacked the moment they came in. "Vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" Suddenly powerful sonic sound waves coming from all their surroundings plunged into their ears, numbing their ear drums while at the same time, making them feel immense pain all over their bodies. "What the fuck!" Arden exclaimed as he did his vest to channel out his stellar light Astro energy to block off the effects of the around waves. At the same time, Arden turned his gaze in front of him to look at his surrounding but he couldn't even see the figure of the enemy who was well hidden "Roar!" The king beasts standing below Arden all let out painfully roars as they all channeled their energies to block off the effects of the sound but this had little effect. Rea
Chapter263: the most powerful king beast in the dark forest Arden couldn't help but smile in delight as he heard the system notifications, he couldn't help but look forward to the final reward when he completes the whole mission. Fine let's go to the next king beast, Arden ordered and the two king beasts led him to the direction of the mountain which didn't surprise him. This was because when he ventured into the mountains in the past under the mission survival search, he came across a monstrously large creature that was emanating a powerful presence equal to the T Rex and the Thorny Kraken. At that time, Arden was lucky enough to find another route that safely led him to his destination otherwise, he would have been forced to sneak past it which was undoubtedly more dangerous. When Arden and the two king beasts came out of the carnivorous forest and into the hard rocky ground, the entire mountain started to tremble as a colossal creature rose slowly from the ground.