Poison God's Heritage

I immediately sent a divine sense message to everyone.

"Don't move."

It was two words, and they were heavy.

"I liked our divine sense together, you can speak through me but do not move or act for the moment, I think we're heading into a trap," I said.

"I guessed as much," Dao Shen said.

"Yes, it's too obvious of a trap, I couldn't tell you guys since I'm unable to use my divine sense," Zhang Tian said.

The Fire Lord nodded in agreement suggesting he also realized what was going on.

Law on the other hand…

"Wait, trap? What trap? I can't see anything, there is a Brute right there asleep, where is the trap?" he asked.

We all looked at him, pitifully so, and I said, "Notice when the first Rakshasa screamed. When we were with the puppet at the monitoring room, every one of these things had woken up from its slumber.

I have a feeling that this Brute in front of us is not asleep, but only acting. So we lower our guard," I said.

"Then what are we going to do? The Silver Rakshasa will probably come down to hunt us," Zhang Tian said.

"How? They can't do so, we already locked the door behind us," Law said.

Dao Shen replied to him, "The Rakshasas have been living here for tens of thousands of years, they probably know this place by heart. So, it knows we're here, and these Brutes will not allow us to leave. Fighting them is a losing battle on all fronts, since there are more of them on the lower level and we don't know if there are more Silver Rakshasa moving about in the base."

"What about poisoning them?" Law asked.

It was a fine idea, but not the brightest.

I shook my head, "I don't understand their biological structure. What works for humans could be utterly harmless to them. So using random poisons can have all sorts of effects, and the worst part is if it could alert them to our presence."

"If we can't stay here, and we can't go outside, then what are we going to do?" Law asked.

I thought for a moment and then pressed my hand against the ground.

The base allowed me to control it albite slightly, allowing me to open up a small cube-like structure in the floor where we all fell into.

I then locked the ceiling above us with a finer layer of Soulsteel.

"Whoa, you can control the base, then shouldn't you be able to get us out?" Law asked.

"I talked to the owner of the base, I'm only getting access to the base's control as long as I'm still planning on saving the owner. If I were to try and escape, I have no idea what she might do. She could even trap us and lead them to us, or just revoke my ability to control the Bastion."

"What an evil person," Law said.

"They're not," I replied, "Even I would have done the same. Survival is not something you can compromise on, and they've been trapped here for thousands of years. Our goals align so it is fine," I said as I pressed my hand into the wall in front of me.

It slowly opened up like a doorway, the base was slowly adjusting itself, moving and separating pieces and parts of itself to allow us to move into a tunnel-like structure that was made in real-time.

The Rakshasa was above us, as indicated by the map that the administrator was showing us. And I was moving our group right under their feet, not even a few feet of distance separated us.

However, with every step we took toward the Queen, my mind was getting duller and duller.

Although the soul power consumption wasn't that high, it was still significant in regard to the distance we need to travel.

And once we made it halfway, I fell to my knees. Golden Blood was dripping down my nose which I wiped.

"We should rest," Zhang Tian said as he noticed my predicament.

I took several gasps of air as I tried to recover, Dao Shen even handed me a Soul Rejuvenating pill which I took from him. Even though I had many on me of far higher quality, one shouldn't return a gift willingly given.

"We're making decent progress, but I don't like the fact that we're relying on junior brother to open up the underground pathways. It's taking too much of his soul power to do so, and that's not easy to recover," Zhang Tian said.

"I could try and help out," Law said, "I'm confident in my soul power," he added.

"Don't bother," I said, "The required soul power to morph a single block is more than the total of what you currently possess, my soul is a mutated one and has a capacity pretty much comparable to one of the suns," I said. After all it was hinted at when I was talking to the Wisest Sun some time ago.

"Also, I should be good to go in an hour or so," I said.

That wasn't true. The exhaustion that comes with moving so much Soulsteel is not something anyone can take. It feels like you're being drained of your blood every time you use it to move the blocks.

But it is our only way out of this place. Not to mention, I can't keep doing this indefinitely. Because I'm feeling that every block I move now requires a bit more soul power than the previous one. Although it is negligible, that is a change in itself.

"I don't have much time," the Queen spoke into my head. And since I had linked my divine sense to everyone, they all heard her.

"Who's that?" Law asked.

"The owner of the Bastion, anyway what do you mean you don't have much time, we're making good progress here," I said.

"I only have a small wisp of my soul left, it is barely enough for me to speak with you and allow you to control the base if I were to fall unconscious, you'd be crushed under the weight of the base because I can no longer stop it from doing so," she said.

I knew it was too easy-going this far.

"Give me a time frame," I asked.

"Two hours, I can hold on for two hours max," she said.

I looked at the Administrator and said "Give me detailed information on the movement of the rakshasa in the base. I'll take one hour to recover, and we'll have to go back up."

Everyone understood that we can't stay here for long. If the Queen falls unconscious or her soul is fully exhausted, she will truly die. Once that happens, we'll be trapped here like mice. Find more chapters on m_v l|e'm-p| y r

I chugged in more Soul Rejuvenating pills and began meditating.

Time trickled by and the one-hour marker ended.

"The path up above us is clear, but a few rakshasas are still roaming the area. The brutes protecting the Queen however are fully alerted and are patrolling the ice prison." The administrator gave me a detailed explanation of what was happening above us.

I raised my arm up and opened a hole above us, we all climbed out as fast as we could and hid in the shade.

"We need to cross the entire corridor ahead of us before we reach the Queen's room. Once we get there, I'll relay a new set of orders. The third and fifth junctions up ahead have Rakshasas roaming them. We only have one shot to do this, don't make any sound, and follow me closely," I said and began sprinting forward as lightly as possible not to make any sound.

The four of them followed suit as we blazed through the path ahead.

We went past the first and second junctions without many issues as they were empty, and once we got closer to the third one I stopped.

A lot of Rakshasas were on the path leading right, and a few were on the path leading left. Some were resting and some were hanging upside down from the ceiling, some were even patrolling up and down.

If we tried to run past them, they'd definitely see us and would alert the base. So how were we going to cross unseen?

I pressed my fingers on the ground, causing several small pieces of Soulsteel shaped like my finger to rise up across from the junction.

The pieces then dislodged themselves from the ground and became separate.

I then used the ring's ability to swap position with one of the fingers. Once I did, the finger took my position. So now I was next to the four fingers, and my allies were next to the one finger. And I kept swapping our positions one by one until all four fingers were on the other side and all four of us were across the junction unnoticed and unspotted. It only took a few seconds too.

We then continued moving forward until we reached the fifth junction. Just as I was about to do the same thing I rapidly slammed the ground forced everyone to fall under, and closed us in a cube.

The action was sudden and fast and it surprised my allies, but they didn't speak up and waited for my explanation.

"When I'm in contact with the base. Not only am I able to use Divine Sense, but I can also feel and sense what the base is sensing," I said.

"And what does that have to do with us being forced down here," Law said as he seemed to have fallen face first.

"That means as long as it is close, I can locate anything around me, and I was able to sense two entities coming from the junction next to us… they both had two feet each," I said.

That was enough indication, especially since the Administrator couldn't notice them. The only humans in the base were us and the Queen, and the only other thing that could walk on two feet was the Silver Rakshasa, and now there are two of them.