Endless Journey: Infinite Realms

Chapter 278 What a Monster!

(((Author’s Note: Holy frick! With this chapter, I reached 500,000 words! Hahaha, congratulations to me!)))

At the moment that Alina touched Astria’s hand, the first thing that she felt was... clarity.

Her eyes, which Alina thought was already powerful enough, underwent a change that she did not expect!

"This..." Alina could only mumble these words to herself as her eyes widened in surprise. "I never thought I could see things this way..."

Beside Alina, the similarly surprised Astria looked like she had experienced something surprising too.

Her eyes were closed intently while her nose was repeatedly sniffing in the air. Whatever this woman was doing now, her nose seemed like it received some kind of overstimulation, which made her do something like this.

"What is happening with my nose?" Astria said as she took a deep whiff through her nose. "Right now, my smelling range has increased, and I can smell anything in an extremely large area! Not only that, but I also could smell new things that I have never smelled before..."

"Hmph, what you two are experiencing now was the effect that I am talking about earlier." [Asteria] said to the two as she gave them a derisive sneer. "Now that you have linked your sensory organs together, they began to work as one, which allowed you two to sense new things that your organs were not able to sense before! Not only that, but the range of your sensory organs are strengthened because of that very same link! Pretty cool, right?"

"...." Alina and Astria could only nod back at [Asteria] dazedly, as their minds were still engrossed on the new sensations that they are feeling now.

[Asteria], who saw what these two were doing, scratched the back of her head as she let out a sigh.

"So linking two Divine Sensory Organs already results to something like this." [Asteria] thought to herself as she shook her head. "If two organs were like this already, then what would happen if three Divine Sensory Organs were linked? Or 4? Or even 5? By that point, would they be able to sense anything, including the future? Fufufufu, I am getting so excited about this...."

[Asteria] visibly tried to calm herself down as she knew that she must not let Alina know about her secret plans.

Once she was sure that her face was already smooth enough, [Asteria] let out a cough as she looked at the two women.

"Oi you two, by this point, the power of your linked organs should be enough to track Alex down." [Asteria] said as she pointed her finger in front of her. "With the increased range of your linked sensory organs, you two should be able to see and smell where Alex is! Even if that hooman was in another moon, you can still sense him! I am sure of that!"

This is the method that [Asteria] had thought of that will allow them to track Alex down.

Even if Alex was somewhat possessed by Emperor Litch, his visual and olfactory signals were still the same, which meant that as long as he was inside Alina and Astria’s sensory range, they will be able to find him!

If it was before the linking, Alina and Astria will find it impossible to detect him.

But now, that was a different case already!

"...You always sound like you are lying, but I can see that you are telling the truth right now." Alina said while Astria let out a sneeze. "In fact, you sound so sure of what you said. And that makes me suspicious. It seems like you know too much of our sensory organs. It was as if-"

"It was as if you are planning to make us do this." Astria butted in as she pointed her nose at [Asteria’s] direction. "Even if your words were indeed true, I can smell something suspicious as you talked earlier. Why did I suddenly smell something like that from you? Are you trying to pull a fast one on us?"

"...."

"[Asteria], why are you not talking?" Alina said as she tilted her head. "Do you find it hard to talk now because you fear we might detect something that you do not want us to see?"

"Yo-yo-you two hoomans, just look for Alex already!" [Asteria] shouted out as she glared at the two. "Don’t you two hate each other right now? Why are you then cooperating like this then? Do you really just hate me that much? Huhuhuhu, stupid hoomans, always bullying me!"

"You think we are cooperating? Heh, I want to pull my hand away from this woman right now. The only thing that is making me hold her is my desire to find Alex!" Alina quickly replied as she shook her head.

Astria did not say anything, but she seemed to have the same sentiment as Alina too.

"Hmph, if you really want to find him, then just focus on looking for him! Why are you even questioning me now?" [Asteria] immediately said. "Come on, why are you staring at me like that? Start looking already!"

"Your attempts to divert the topic away is so obvious I just do not know what to say." Alina said hesitantly as Astria let out an amused laughter. "Why so evasive, little fairy?"

"Muuu... just look for Alex already!"

"Fine... we shall look for him now. As for you, we will just question you later."

"Hmph, if you want to question me, you two should better survive first! Your remaining enemies are powerful, and they might be able to do something horrible to all of us!"

"Little fairy, why are you talking like that? Of course we will survive. Can’t you trust any of us?"

"Trust means nothing if you don’t show me results!"

"Wow, for a honey-addicted prankster fairy, you sure sound serious right now. Are you sure you did not eat hallucinatory honey today? I can still remember the time that you ate one like that. Man, you were so out of it..."

"Hey!"

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ALSO AT THE VAST REGIONS OF THE OUTER SPACE.

Two streaks of light could be seen traversing the vacuum, with the blue streak of light in front, and the green streak of light just behind it.

To anyone looking from afar, these two light streaks seem to look like comets that are on their way to crash into some kind of celestial body.

However, if one was near enough, they will see that the light streaks were actually gigantic individuals travelling at insane speeds!

One of these streaks was a blue giant, while the other was a green giant.

Both of these giants were flying in a straight line, with their speed making them look like they were not that heavy at all.

"Wooosh..."

As these two giants continued their travel, interesting things could be seen happening on top of their bodies.

Above the blue giant’s head, a single man could be seen.

Wearing black clothes and apparel fitting that of a wizard, the man seemed to be busy on experimenting with his abilities, which was showcased by the pulse of power emanating out from him.

Right now, lightning could be seen streaking on the man’s hand, with the man’s laser-like gaze concentrated on it alone.

"Hmm... this energy that is inside my body, it’s the combination of Mind Power and Abyss Energy. Hmm, Vessel 969 sure is interesting..." The man, who was no other than Emperor Litch himself, muttered as he observed the lightning that he conjured.

"Techncially speaking, this vessel’s Mind Power and Abyss Energy should have never been mixed. But vessel 969 managed to do the impossible! Hmm, really interesting..."

As Emperor Litch said these words, he snapped his fingers, forcing the lightning to undulate like a snake in front of him.

If others can see the lightning in front of Emperor Litch, they will surely be shocked, as there was something different about this lightning!

Plumes of black haze were coming out of the lightning, which should not be the case at all!

When space rocks made contact with this black haze, they immediately disintegrated into nothingness. That was enough to show that there really is something weird with this black haze!

But even when he saw what the black haze can do, Emperor Litch seems to be not worried about it. Heck, he even looked happy with what he was seeing!

"From what I managed to glean from Vessel 969’s Abyss Sprites, it seems that Vessel 969’s whole body evolved to become an Abyss Sage." The Emperor muttered as he cupped his chin. "From what they said, an Abyss Sage can create his own original spells, as long as it was under the influence of the Seven Sins. Original spells huh. Interesting...."

After muttering these words, Emperor Litch suddenly waved his hands as he gathered every gravitational waves that he can.

As these waves converged on his palm, Emperor Litch closed his eyes in concentration as he whispered some words.

"....."

After a few seconds of saying this incantation, Emperor Litch opened his eyes, and as he did so, the appearance of the gravity waves that he gathered began to change!

At first, these gravity waves were invisible to the human eyes. But right now, every gravity wave that the Emperor held started to glow green!

"Hahaha! Success!" Emperor Litch shouted in delight as he looked at the new version of the gravity waves that he held in his palm.

His eyes were wide in mirth as he tentatively handled the green gravity waves.

After a few more seconds of observing the waves intently, Emperor Litch decided to release these gravity waves on a nearby asteroid.

"Boom!"

The gravity waves hit the center of the asteroid head on, which resulted on the asteroid shattering into countless pieces.

This shattering was undoubtedly caused by the gravity waves themselves.

However, that was not the only thing that happened on the asteroid.

At the moment that the asteroid shattered, a massive hole appeared at the midst of the fragments.

"Whooosh..."

A powerful suction force came out of the hole, which then proceeded to absorb all of the asteroid fragments around it.

It was only when all the fragments were gone that the hole disappeared, leaving nothing on the place that had an asteroid earlier.

"...." Emperor Litch, who saw all of this happening, could barely conceal the grin on his face as he rubbed his chin.

"So I can create an original spell that is the combination of this body’s Esper Abilty and Abyss Magic... I thought that this is only possible in theory, but as it turns out, Vessel 969’s Abyss Sage Body allowed me to succeed!" Emperor Litch muttered as a fervent glow appeared on his eyes. There was no doubt that he was extremely pleased with his discovery, and he made no effort to hide it now. "Hmm, I wonder if I can also apply this on my very own abilities too..."

"..."

Lingo, who was intently observing every action of Emperor Litch, could only stare in front of him with shock as he saw what the Emperor was doing.

"Did Emperor Litch just... combine the spells of an Abyss Sage with the electricity and the gravity of an Esper? That kind of thing is not easy!" Lingo thought to himself as he bit his lip. "Even if Emperor Litch was able to establish a massive Empire with advanced magic and technology, he should not have been able to easily use Alex’s powers!"

"Monster, he’s a monster!" That was all that Lingo could think of as he decided to be more obedient to Emperor Litch. "I’m sorry Milord Alex, but I will not dare to offend Emperor Litch. Who knows what he can do to me now..."