Chapter 131: Dramatic Increase In Strenght

Crown Prince Lail repeatedly glanced at Laila. He wanted to inform her of the black handkerchief covering her face but feared being misunderstood. Therefore, with his hands clasped behind his back, he intermittently glanced at her until she glared at him.

"Ahem! It's quite dark here, isn't it?"

Caught in the act, he had nothing else to say. And at this moment, pointing out the black veil might earn him another glare.

"It's always been dark here. What else did you expect from being underground?" She snidely remarked.

"Yes, that's true." He admitted defeat. 

As they walked through the desolate cave in companionable silence, a dark tunnel appeared before them.

"Where do you think that leads to?"

"Not another beast nest...hopefully." Princess Qamari felt hesitant.

None of the tunnels they entered so far yielded good outcomes. Except for the first one where she acquired the medicinal plants, all the other tunnels going forward were infested with beasts.

'But the tunnel we left was clear. Maybe the one ahead is as well.' Either way, they had to find a way out of the tunnels, then the Forbidden Zone. For that to happen, they had no choice but to explore every tunnel they came across until they found a way out.

"Let's go. We won't know where it leads to unless we personally explore it." Sighing in resignation, he tightened her grip on Skyler and took the lead. Crown Prince Lail withdrew his magical weapon and followed.

Cold wind with a scent of blood blew their way. Shrieks of horror and panic reverberated through the tunnel as ghostly shadows flickered on the dark walls. Then an eerie silence, more disturbing than the howling shrieks settled over them.

"Those...were those spirits...?" Just saying the words had her shivering in trepidation. Princess Qamari wasn't afraid of ghosts, but spirits that howled so forlornly put her on edge. The last thing she wanted to encounter was a horde of evil spirits.

But things never happened according to one's wishes.

"The tunnel carries the faint scent of blood. These spirits might have died within its walls." Taking the lead, Crown Prince Lail cautiously moved through the tunnel. Halfway through, the wailing shrieks returned, leaving them tight with tension.

The ghostly shadows were more corporal, stretching out skeletal fingers with unbearably long nails. As they passed by them, the revolting long nails grazed their arms, faces, and back. Feeling the chill from their cold nails and smelling the repulsive blood scent from their magnified digits, Princess Qamari felt nauseous, coming close to vomiting.

"Qaliq, move quicker. I can't stand these." Not for the first time, she was thankful for covering herself so tightly. 

'No wonder the residents of the East Minions Faction wear heavy clothes to ward themselves of evil spirits. If I had to face this sort of torment every other day, I would too.'

Sensing the unease of the woman behind him, Crown Prince Lail increased his speed. He didn't want to hastily step into unexplored territory, but Laila's anxious cry drove him forth. Her discomfort bothered him.

After what felt like an eternity, the two arrived in front of another tunnel. Only this time, the gruesome presence from the dark tunnel was two times thicker than the one they cleared.

"What do you think? Should we enter?"

"This tunnel is even more ominous than the one we just passed. The spirits inside must be even denser and more corporal." She didn't want to enter. One nerve-racking trek was more than enough. If she entered this tunnel, Princess Qamari felt certain that she would lose her mind.

"Can we not enter? Maybe there is another tunnel around here." She retreated back into the tunnel they recently cleared and searched around for another tunnel. Crown Prince Lail didn't say anything. He patiently followed behind her and allowed her to do as she desired.

'This is the first time I see her this frantic.'

He found it amusing. The genius, calm, and outwardly cold magician he came to know also had another side.

After doing three rounds of search, Princess Qamari dejectedly stopped in front of the gloomy tunnel, her gold eyes spewing resentment and unwillingness as Qaliq joined her.

"There is no other way. It's either this tunnel or remaining stuck here forever."

When he put it that way, her reluctance lessened. But just by a little bit. She was no fool. There was nothing but danger waiting ahead. 

Not hearing her say anything, he turned to find her staring seriously and grimly at the dark tunnel. From her flickering gold eyes, he could tell that she was mentally preparing herself for battle.

'Smart and brave girl.' The praise drifted through his mind as his eyes flashed with an admiring glow. Everyone had fears and something they desired to avoid at all costs. But few individuals ever confronted their fears.

This attribute of Laila earned his admiration. 

Focusing back on the tunnel, Crown Prince Lail twirled his spear. And as if preparing to face the King of Hell, Princess Qamari held her sword in a battle stance and fiercely glared at the dark cave.

One in front and the other behind, the two entered the field of doom.

"Uwahahahaha..."

"They're here! They're here!"

"Finally, we have company!"

"A welcome is a must!"

Instantly, as if they had been waiting for the two's arrival, numerous ghostly voices reverberated throughout the tunnel, echoing on the walls, as the entire cave shook from their excitement.

The ghostly shadows, enveloped in a cloak of green smoke, teasingly flashed from one spot to another, their corporal forms wrapping and deforming as their malicious laughter resonated like a death sonata.

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Crown Prince Lail turned to look at Laila, worried about her condition in the face of the numerous ghosts.

What he saw took his breath away.

The originally nervous and anxious woman was gone. What replaced her was a deadly and fierce warrior magician cloaked in a radiance of creamy, pure light as she ruthlessly wielded a golden sword that released blinding sharp light.

Unlike what he expected, the woman wasn't standing frozen in place. In her white robes, she was dancing with the ghosts with her golden sword in hand. Accompanying them in their song of death.

And from the stunned expressions of the ghostly shadows, he could tell that they didn't expect her ferocious charge. They were counterattacked before they even attacked.

Smiling in delight, Crown Prince Lail discarded his worries and joined the fierce warrior in her reign of terror.

Princess Qamari lunged towards a hallow spirit, its red eyes and creepy smile rubbing in the wrong spot. Since she didn't like his eyes or smile, she might as well get rid of him. Her white robes flapped around her figure as she mercilessly slashed, splitting the thing in two from head to the rest of his smoky figure.

The figure shrieked in pain, but his wail was short as his body instantly disintegrated, dispersing in a shower of ashes. She twirled in mid-air, her floating figure, covered in a white radiance, blinding the ghostly shadows.

"How hateful! She is taking advantage of our weakness!"

"Get revenge for our friend! Make her pay for her deeds!"

"Kill her! Kill her!"

The ghostly shadows were enraged. Their friend was killed right before their eyes. As if that wasn't enough, the woman was used unorthodox methods to blind their sight and weaken their strength. In these tunnels of death and gloom, when had they ever been so suppressed?

It was always them toying with the humans that came. No human had ever toyed with them, let alone kill a companion of theirs. Not willing to admit defeat to a mere human, they swarmed towards her.

"Come, I shall release you all from this despair!" Fearless, Princess Qamari laughed uproariously and charged towards the surging ghosts.

The moment she entered this cave, she had already decided to clear these slimy, filthy, wretched beings from the face of the seven realms. Because even though the Forbidden Zone was in a separate dimension, the evil air of the spirits dwelling in the place seeped out into the lands where the dimension repeatedly opened.

Like the Bansi Village. Because the black shield stationed there was a direct portal to the Forbidden Zone. And every time it opened, or every nightfall when the power of darkness and evil forces was at its strongest, the evil aura would seep out into that village.

This evil aura would, in turn, seek out places like graveyards or burial grounds with extreme death energy and awaken creatures of the night. These creatures were the evil spirits that the villagers fear and steer clear of.

Since fate ordained for her to be here, she would see to it that no ghostly shadow remained by the time she left.

With a powerful swing of Skyler, Princess Qamari unleased her first level, third stage Elemental Flushing energy. The clear and pure energy fused with the sharp and deadly energy of the golden sword and unleashed destruction.

Like the delicate petals of flowers or the ribbons of cotton fabric, the charging ghostly shadows were washed out like ink on paper. Their ghostly figures stood frozen in shock as the expressions in their eyes changed from disbelief to despair, and finally, regret.

In their last moment of consciousness, before their corporal bodies disintegrated and dispersed, the ghostly shadows regretted clashing with such a frightening woman. Before her single sword strike, their combined dark energy was reduced to nothing.

Before her white radiance, their dark mass was obliterated into oblivion. 

Sigh.

With a final sigh of resignation, they accepted their fate and admitted defeat. Their ashes merged into the eternal winds of the Forbidden Zone, forever erased from the seven realms.

They too were once humans. But a gruesome death and contamination of unclean stray elemental energy had corrupted their souls and transformed them into evil spirits. Their souls, which should've originally entered the cycle of reincarnation, got chained to these tunnels of death and gloom.

Filled with boundless thirst and fueled by an aching void, they resorted to absorbing the energies of living beings to sate their thirst and alleviate their pain. With the passage of time, they lost their true selves, remaining nothing but a swarm of ghostly shadows.

At this moment, in the most unlikely situation, they were finally free from the clutches of darkness.

Crown Prince Lail watched in stunned silence as the swarm of ghostly shadows dispersed into ashes. His eyes shined with a bright light as he turned to Laila.

"Very nicely done!" The woman never failed to surprise him. Never failed to renew his impression of her.

Dealing with ghostly shadows corrupted with the dark elemental energy was as hard as dealing with level 4 magical beasts. Level 4 magical beasts possessed strength that could rival level 2 Elemental Revolving magicians.

When these two levels faced each other one on one, victory and defeat depended on willpower. The one with the strongest willpower would always win. 

But if a horde of level 4 magical beasts faced a level 2 Elemental Revolving magician, then even a Level 3 Elemental Revolving magician would be forced to flee, let alone a level 2.

Only a level 1 Elemental Flushing magician had a chance in confronting a horde of level 4 magical beasts. Without a doubt, the woman before him had also broken into the Elemental Flushing stage.

But that was not the only factor that contributed to her outstanding clearance of the ghostly shadows.

Only light could banish darkness.

This belief was ingrained in the heart of every magician in the Seven realms. To be able to vanquish a horde of ghostly shadows, the girl had to be a light elemental ability magician.

And a very powerful one at that.

Princess Qamari was just as shocked at her performance as her companion. During the elemental energy baptism, she was in a semi-conscious state where she perceived something happening in her body but wasn't in a state to check it. 

As such, it was only now that she realized the dramatic increase in her strength.

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