BXBX NOVEL Chapter 1064: Escape!
The Demon Gate started to tremble, Rita and Lily saw as it quickly closed, the spatial distortion it created repairing itself, the smell of sulfur still remained in the air, but the Demonic Hands were finally gone.
The remaining wizards were also slain, my Divine Beast Familiars finally taking them down with their combined efforts. The laboratory finally fell into silence, and the entire space was still blocked from the outside world.
Nobody knew what had happened here… yet.
"Hahhh… It\'s finally fucking over…"
Rita sighed in relief, resting over the floor.
"T-This was too much…"
Lily did the same, looking into the ceiling.
"I\'m sorry everyone, I just couldn\'t stop once I started," I apologized. "I kind of panicked…"
"Well, it couldn\'t be helped, Ashhand ended being a monster," Mark said, patting my shoulders. "It\'s over, but I think we should hurry, everyone outside will grow suspicious after a while…"
"Yeah, you\'re not wrong," I nodded, looking at Tomas unconscious face.
He was also stark naked! All his clothes were torn apart when he transformed.
I quickly wrapped him on a dress of leaves of my own creation, and feed him a bit of my blood sap, to heal his exhaustion and injuries.
"Are we really taking him with us?" Rita wondered.
"Yeah, Tomas might be a useful ally," I nodded. "He was pretty much forced into this and became a monster too. If we could make him reveal what happened here and more information, it would all be really valuable. He was a victim after all, I think it\'s my responsibility to at least help him a bit."
"But what about his demonic powers?" Rita asked. "Isn\'t that too dangerous? What if he gets possessed again?!"
"Don\'t worry, it shouldn\'t happen again," I said. "I did the same I did with John to Tomas, I sealed the demon soul inside his Demon Heart, and also his corrupting soul. Over time, he should recover and feel even better. I can\'t extract the Demon Heart though, it is replacing his own heart, and he would surely die…"
"Got it… Well! He better be worth the damn effort then," Rita sighed. "Let\'s get going… How are we going out? Through the door?"
"I fear we might get ambushed by wizards waiting outside, so no…" I said. "I\'ll use my tree teleportation to get inside the Druid Guild and then just dispel it from here. It should be the quickest and safest method."
"When you dispel it… does it leave some evidence?" wondered Mark.
"I believe it might," I nodded. "But don\'t worry, we\'ll just burn this entire laboratory into ashes with your fire, that should do it, right?"
"I see… Very smart," Mark nodded.
"For now, though, quickly! Everyone, place as many things inside your inventory, everything here is big evidence! Also take more pictures to everything! We got at least five minutes before they come!"
"Alright!"
Everyone quickly started storing everything. I went to take all the souls stored inside those giant flasks, to free them once we get out and let them pass away peacefully.
There were also a lot of valuable items, such as more Skill Books, most of them seemed experimental, and were made to help someone learn Demonic Skills, wow.
There were also a lot of Demonic Grimoires containing all sorts of Demonic Spells, most of them made out of materials from people, their skin, bones, and written using blood.
They were honestly too creepy to even look at, so I just threw it all inside my inventory without wanting to think too hard.
Once we were done, Mark set everything ablaze.
FLUOOOSH!
Things quickly started melting and turning into ashes, his flames were very strong and burned through things even faster than normal ones.
"Alright, let\'s get out of here."
I conjured the tree, as a portal opened from it, and I saw all my friends walk through it.
Except…
Crack, crack…!
"Huh?!"
CRASH!
The space that was being held back by the familiars was beginning to be forcefully shattered!
I felt a powerful magical presence surging from above, something enormous, a tremendous pressure like nothing I had ever faced before.
No, perhaps I have…
It was compared to when I was inside of Yggdrasil\'s soul.
How… is this possible?
Who is that? A god? A literal god?
No…
"Who dares…! Who dares meddle with the space I control?!"
Crack, crack…!
Space kept cracking, as the voice of an old and furious man echoed through everything.
No way, it\'s him?!
"You cockroaches! I won\'t allow you another second of doing as you please! Open NOW!"
Crack, crack…!
CRASH!
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More cracks continued to spread, the enormous pressure almost made me fall to my knees, but with all my strength, I grabbed all my friends and jumped inside, summoning my familiars once I found myself inside the druid guild.
"WHERE ARE YOU?!"
The furious voice of nobody else than Merlinus echoed as I heard the sound of broken glass, the spatial bubble fully shattered, his magical presence surging like an endless wave.
"Close!"
I quickly closed and dispelled the portal, only a few seconds before his presence were to find us.
The flames quickly burned the tree into ashes, hopefully leaving no evidence.
We found ourselves still paralyzed, sitting over the swamp inside the Druid Guild\'s building.
The smell of water and plants was quite… relaxing.
Our hearts were beating too fast, honestly.
"T-That was… Merlinus, isn\'t it?"
Granny Austucia was right there, looking at us in disbelief.
"A-Ah… Maybe?" I muttered nervously.
"W-What… What the hell were you doing?!" she screamed angrily. "Did you really…? By Verdant! Did you had to escape to my own guild?! If he were to find you came here… Ugh, forget it."
She sighed, walking to the kitchen.
"I\'ll bring some tea, you look too mortified to even speak, I can tell…"
As she walked away, I rested over the wet floor, as a little froggy jumped over my belly.
"Ribbit…"
"Hahh… Hahh… I\'m never doing infiltration missions ever again…"