Feng Yu who now finally made his way into the prison arriving at the topmost floor looked around in interest, as he saw the arrangement of the cells, he couldn't help but ponder to himself, "So it was like this eh..."
"Still the same even after so many eras...." Jing Mingyun mumbled slightly.
"What was that?" Feng Yu hearing her words frowned as he asked.
".............." However, she chose to remain silent.
Not bothering to press the issue, Feng Yu walked towards the edge of the first prison floor and looked down the railing at the various blocks separated by a wide-open space at their center.
At the bottom floor, one could see a few columns that had dried up bloodstains and charred marks on their surfaces. A few fiends who had committed actions deemed unpardonable as well stubborn indigenous life were placed before them with their bodies charred black and covered in blood.
One familiar looking indigenous lifeform panted as he tried to catch his breath and complain, "Pant... pant... you damn Nymphs! No matter how long it takes, someday we shall destroy your kind..."
"Silence!" A guard said as he walked forwards and stepped onto the indigenous life back crushing his spine with snapping sound.
"Argh-!" The indigenous life cried out in pain as he grabbed his back and fumbled around the floor.
"Petwei~! A silly little ogre dares to threaten our kind, you have no idea who you're dealing with..." The blue-skinned special guard mocked as spat on his face, he then gripped his pike and prepared to assault the poor indigenous once again, but his actions came to halt upon hearing a sound.
Bang! A massive door that was positioned a few meters away from the guard opened and slammed causing the prison to vibrate. Soon, a sturdy set of footsteps sounded as the figure of a four-meter-tall scaly blue-skinned fiend wearing a unique class of armor appeared.
The guard seeing this individual bowed and greeted, "Special Guard Chief greets the Head!"
Kefalas was wearing a deep frown on his face as he stood outside the room, he glanced indifferently towards the fiend who saluted, before ignoring the fiend and making his way up the stairway his mumbling voice trailing away with his form as he walked towards the surface.
"Che! That stubborn fairy, I wonder how long you'll be able to keep tight-lipped? It seems that I’ll have to travel to that damn Titana as she’s the best in this field. Sigh... time is pressing, and Reinz will need the information from their species in order enact that plan, after all, it's not every day that race offers us a new chance this will be the last and final battlefield war..." Kefalas complained as he swiftly made his way up the stairs from the bottom floor to the topmost floor in almost an instant.
In his angered state of mind, he didn't even recognize the familiar looking red-haired fiend that made its way down into the prison. Soon, his figure vanished as it made its way towards the surface from the top floor.
Feng Yu noticing this narrowed his brows as he observed the room which Kefalas had exited from, he thought to himself, "It seems that an even more important prisoner is within that room below. Hmm, I'll have to find a way to look inside, but first I should report for duty."
Upon clearing his thoughts, Feng Yu made his way down the bottommost floor. As he passed by the blocks, he swept his gaze across the prisoners locked within the cells. Most of them were of water type lifeforms that scaly skin and blue eyes while a few of them were of different races altogether with large wings and long beaks, as well as odd individuals who seemed to exist as ethereal-like entities with their bodies fading in and out of reality itself.
"What kinds are these?" Feng Yu asked in a low voice.
"Mermen, Ancient Hawk-kind, and Spector Life beings... they are rare lifeforms from an ancient time, a time where many kinds used to live non-divided..." Jing Mingyun replied as a vague reminiscent look came over her face.
"Interesting..." Feng Yu murmured, as he continued to walk down the stairway.
After a short while, Feng Yu arrived at the bottom most floor where the guard was about to attack the ogre once again, but upon seeing Feng Yu's appearance, he was forced to call his rage to a quit.
"Che! Count yourself lucky, you damn ogre..." The guard said as he glared at the squirming ogre, he then placed his pike back on his shoulders and walked towards Feng Yu before speaking.
"So, you're Lei Feng... quite early, aren't you? My name is Pylan, the lead guard of the Prisoner's Hall..." As he spoke to here, he gestured with his hand towards a pillar at the remote corner of the bottom floor and spoke once again, "That pillar you see has all of the instructions regarding your daily patrolling rounds, we each take shifts to inspect these bastards in each cell ensuring no faults or oddities. Since, you've already made your way down to here I'm sure you've already seen most of the prison cells and have no need for a tour. Therefore, I will leave you with this word of advice, you see that door behind me?"
Pylan said as he pointed towards the door Kefalas had exited from while looking at Feng Yu with a deep expression, Feng Yu hearing his words nodded his head in response.
"That is the Central Prisoner's Hall, in there we keep all of the most powerful indigenous lifeforms as well as the most dangerous creatures. If you enter that room, you must prepare yourself to accept one result and one result only..." Pylan said in a solemn tone once again as he paused for a moment before finishing. "You must be ready to face your death!"
As Pylan said this, he turned around walked back to the ogre in preparing to lock them back in their prison cells. As he walked, he spoke once more to Feng Yu who was behind him, "Now then... your shift will begin in a few minutes, get to work rookie!"
"Understood!" Feng Yu replied with a quick salute after which he walked towards the distant pillar with his shift instructions.
Upon arriving before the pillar, Feng Yu inspected it with his spiritual sense. Soon, a stream of information appeared within his mind.
After digesting the information, the corner of Feng Yu's lips rose into that of crafty smile as he spoke in a voice only, he could here, "Heh! Such a great list we have here, and I just so happen to be patrolling these guys too, this should prove to be an interesting term..."
"I told you so..." Jing Mingyun said in a cheeky tone.
"Ha, right you are Yun'er, once we are out of here, I will answer to any of your requests..." Feng Yu said in excitement.
Jing Mingyun hearing his words became stunned soon the pride of a dragon rose up with her as she thought to herself, "Hmph! What can a human have to offer my kind?" However, as she thought about how he readily agreed to help her seize the Aqua Pearl and his energies that caressed her body as they sped up her healing rate, her face became red as her heart fluttered.
Soon, the familiar voice a middle-aged man sounded within her thoughts as if like a distant memory that was forcefully burnt into her soul, "The daughter of a dragon must only be touched by only one man, seen by only one man, never is there to be another... another... another..." The echoes of the voice fading away as the scene once more returned to normal.
Jing Mingyun recalling the scene bit her lips and muttered, "I hope you don't regret it later..."
"What... what was that?" Feng Yu asked in a slightly nervous tone, as he saw her reddish expression within the cocoon with his spiritual sense.
"................" Jing Mingyun remained silent once again.
"I... I don't think it will be another strange request now would it?" Feng Yu thought to himself as he recalled his life most memorable encounter with the Golden Goddess.
"No way..." Feng Yu muttered under his breath as he shook his head and walked towards the stairways leading upwards, a smile on his face as he spoke once more in a voice that faded along with disappearing form that traveled above the stairs, "Let's build an army shall we..."
Chapter 104
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Death’s Floor, Shocking the Prisoners!
The walls were damp as trickles of water flowed down their surface. The chilly ventilated
winds that traveled from the upper grounds sweeping its way across the quiet hallways of this grim prison rustling the hairs of the special patrolling guards, as well as the prisoners locked behind their cells.
These guards were vigilant, as they carefully and adeptly patrolled each cell leaving no stones unturned. If mice were here, even they would find it hard to hide within these halls as the grounds smooth-glossy rock-like surface can reflect even the dimmest of lights that were keen to even the blindest of fiends.
As the guards from this level continued their rounds, deep below the depths of the fifth floor and beyond were a few darker prison blocks, each held an assortment of native beings belonging to the various lands.
Further down below these floors was the fabled 9th floor, a prison block which held the most dangerous among natives with each sealed in maximum security cells. They say that all guards who patrolled this floor have never once returned, as despite being sealed, the prisoners here had means beyond that of ordinary natives.
Hence this floor’s unfortunate name becoming known as Death’s Floor...
A red-haired fiend with two unusual swords on his back wore his cyan colored armor with pride, the edges of his masquerade-like helmet glimmering in bright blue lights as it shrouded most of his face from all to see.
A strange look in his eyes as he patrolled the prison hallways of Death’s Floor, eyes that gleamed in a curious, thoughtful light rather than the sharpness that belonged to ordinary guards. His steps paused before a deserted hallway with a few dried-up bloodstains of unknown years on the once glossy floors.
Here, an arrangement of individual cells laid before his eyes, from left to right all the way towards a single isolated cell block at their direct center. A small orb hovered at the center above these cells giving a strange kind of sensation as it pulsated irregularly.
“I’ve found you... I wonder, how hard will it be to earn this one’s co-operation...” Feng Yu muttered silently as he slowly made his way towards the isolated cellblock ignoring the natives that were eyeing him from the cells.
What remained odd, however, was that these natives didn’t carry a look of fear or contempt, but rather, a gaze of arrogance that hid a hint of ridicule as they saw the direction Feng Yu headed.
“You should be careful, he... won’t be easy to persuade...” Jing Mingyun said with her spiritual sense.
“Oh, well this should be interesting. I’ll be sure to remember, also, I wasn’t certain before but since I know that you have knowledge of this place. How do I go about freeing them?” Feng Yu replied with his spiritual sense.
“Hmm, that’s simple these cells each have an odd mechanism in place. While my strength is injured at its core and I won’t be able to fight, I can still materialize my True Soul for a few breaths of time to break their seals...” Jing Mingyun replied.
“Really? Then that makes this much easier, hmm, there’s only one more problem, even though I was assigned to be the only one to guard these bunch there is no certainty that no other guards will not come here, can you keep an eye out for me?” Feng Yu responded in a happy tone.
“Count yourself lucky that I was already on it...” Jing Mingyun cheekily replied as the lips on her sleeping face made a slight curve upwards.
“Even better, quite quick... if I were a common mortal, I would have already accepted the young lady’s hand in marriage...” Feng Yu jokily replied in a manner that even he himself didn’t seem to notice, a way very much like the late Feng Yu of this world.
Jing Mingyun hearing his words had a tinge of red swept across her pure face, painting the extraordinary divine-like beauty with a look like that of a mortal girl in spring. She remained silent giving no direct response, as her thoughts wondered on its own far away from the realm of any mortal or even non-mortal man.
Feng Yu who didn’t hear her reply swallowed his spit as he had only now realized what he just said. However, rather than trying to clear it up, he merely shook his head as he continued forward through the prison block.
Soon, he arrived directly in front of the prison cell gazing at the prisoner who was locked behind its strange looking barrier.
A short but stout figure with stumpy legs, with a long curly beard that covered most of its body below its massive head. He had thick arms the size of an average individual’s waist with bulging muscles that gave off a feeling of endless might, his arms were chained to odd-looking stones different from the natives sealed above, as they gleamed with a powerful blue light that seemed to imply a confidence of being able to seal all things.
This figure looked towards Feng Yu with a dull looking in his eyes, his broad face and big nose contracted as he opened his mouth and released a deep yawn.
“Huuaaaa......” As he yawned, his braided moustache would sway below his cheeks as he chewed his mouth swallowing the dry spit in his mouth before once more looking at Feng Yu and speaking.
“Fiend........ what brings you here? Has that fool Reinz sent you here for my secrets? Doesn’t he have his time occupied by the current Cycle of Trials as well as that Fairy? He should have already known that my past is history, much like the current destroyed worlds of the past. Strung together like pieces of clothes, all to create some game... a punishment they say, a punishment for siding with those beings... hahaha! If I had known from the beginning, would I have ended up like this? Would my kind have dwindled to nothing from this earth? WOULD I EVEN BE FORCED TO BECOME SEALED BY EVEN YOU BUNCH OF FIENDS!!!” The stout figure said as a look of wildness flashed in his eyes.
Bang! A terrifying energy erupted from his body causing the hallway to vibrate for a moment as a crushing pressure swept across Feng Yu’s entire being.
“Shit!” Feng Yu not expecting such a sudden change became stunned, but as he was somewhat vigilant at heart, he managed to quickly revolve his
Boom! The ground that Feng Yu was at previously was cracked as its unknown ancient material was broken into a myriad of pieces, a clear sign of what would have happened to Feng Yu if had lingered here.
At the bottommost level, the head guard Pylan shook his head as he looked up the level stairs leading the level above him while thinking to himself, “Shit! I forgot to tell that newbie about that one. Oh well, if he dies, we can always find another...”
As he finished words, he no longer paid attention to the minor quaking of the upper floor and continued to maintain the pillars on the bottom floor.
Back on the 9-level floor, in the desolated hallway of prisoners, there was a commotion.
“Che! And the newbie escaped...”
“Aww.... damn! And I thought this one would have died just like the previous did.”
“Haha! You lost this time. Now it's your turn to remain silent for another hundred years...”
The prisoners in the cells at the sides began to complain and discuss in fever as their spiritual senses bantered back and forth. The now sane figure of the stout man in his prison looking at Feng Yu with a look of interest as he spoke, “A quick one you are, to think that you are capable of avoiding my oppression... sigh, how my strength has dwindled due to my own contraptions...”
Twirling his body in the air, Feng Yu skillfully landed his feet onto the ground and looked towards the man in the cell with a look of surprise, his body filled with sweat from the surmounting limits maneuver he had to do in order the escape death's grasp.
He thought to himself, “Dwindled strength... and already capable of displaying half-step True Soul Prestige?! You’ve got to be kidding me?”
As if she could read his thoughts Jing Mingyun replied, “The Dwarfins are a rare race, their craftsmanship knows no bounds as their strengths were also almost unparalleled. The one before you is a Trueblood Dwarfin, one who has lived for far more years than you could ever believe...”
Feng Yu hearing this soon shrug of his shock as his interest was piqued
. He asked, “Oh, how long has this old dwarf lived then?”
“Although a vast amount of his strength has dismissed, he has probably lived more than a few eras...” Jing Mingyun replied.
“What?!” Feng Yu who had just recovered from his shock exclaimed, startling even the prisoners who were chattering away. The Dwarfin who was looking at Feng Yu observed with a stare that seemed to be pondering if he lost his mind.
Jing Mingyun seeing this thought for a bit before responding casually, “Ah, I forgot, you humans tend to die quickly...”
Feng Yu hearing this became silent as a new thought came to his mind, “So, it’s like uncle said, she really does have a connection with the dragon race...”
The prisoners looked at FengYu as they jeered, “What's wrong newbie? Lost your senses?”
“Hahahaha!” A rumbling laughter shook the room as they prisoners mocked with glee.
However, all of this soon came to an end, as the stout man snorted, “Humph!” causing a powerful ripple to spread out throughout the region bringing a silence to all prisoners. As he saw this, he then looked towards Feng Yu and spoke, “I see you’re also wearing those old things, though they are capable of growing to the standard heaven grade. Hehehe! What can you do without the true knowhow? Hahaha! Go back you silly creature and tell Reinz or even that Kefalas that they should give up any idea of learning those secrets... they will have a better chance learning how to use the Aqua Pearl of those blasted Fairies...”
As he said this, he closed his eyes and went back into meditating, looking like an ancient piece of stone that had rested in these cells for innumerable years. The prisoners who were previously mocking Feng Yu also doing the same as they now remained in silence.
Feng Yu seeing this frowned, he glanced around the area seeing no one in sight as he decided to make a bold move incomprehensible to his usually calm and collected mind or mostly so...
“Since direct conversation is out of the question, I will simply have to use the most direct of means...
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