Isadora observes the soul of the bandit leader, "That's odd but it's a success." Nytri tilts her head and Isa speaks, "The skill isn't in his soul space but spreading to his cells, he'll probably die painfully. But the skill has successfully been implanted into him, now I only need to figure out how to make them not die. Then move the skill to the soul space."
"Hmmm," Nytri speaks, "That's easier than I expected." She drops the bandit leader and he rolls on the ground in pain bleeding from all his orifices. Nytri crushed his throat because of his screams so a slow silent death.
"Yeah," Isadora speaks, "We could add a mobile feature for it to travel to the soul space whenever it enters a body." She rubs her chin, "The process will be complicated but doable."
Nytri chuckles, "Why don't you put it in the soul space directly?"
Isadora looks at Nytri obliviously, "That would be easy but I've tried so many times and can't find the soul space of others. My Information Magic always shows me an estimated location around the brain but not the exact part."
"Maybe you should focus on raising Information Magic to level 10." Nytri speaks.
"Easier said than done." Isa folds her arms, "The requirement for me to level Information Magic up from 9 to 10 is still obscure."
"That maybe," Nytri speaks, "You'll just have to experiment with it. About the soul space, it's more like a miniature realm in every being."
Isa speaks with doubt, "A realm? In every person? How?"
Nytri shrugs, "You'd be surprised what the human body is capable of. But every person has a realm somehow stuffed in their bodies, energy from there is SoP after all." Isa gets closer to the dead bandit leader and bends down to check to see if she can get the skill orb back.
"That's a shame," Isa speaks, "I can't take the skill orb back, like it's melded with his flesh."
"Just let it be," Nytri shrugs, "We can make more of them anyway."
Isa looks up and sees the bandit leader's soul, "...That's a disgusting soul."
The bandit leader whimpers, "KKIIII! PLEASE LET ME GO, I'M DEAD ALREADY!"
"Naa," Isa speaks, "I think I can use your soul for something else. Let's say modify it, destroy it or taste it. I wonder what a soul tastes like." Her eyes glows with a fierce grin, she stretches her hand to touch the soul.
Time slows down to a stop and Isa notices it, "Mu-" Isa feels Nytri pulling her by the collar, she activates ARMORED SHELL and makes 2 daggers in her hand ready for combat. Nytri brings her slowly behind her and she sees Nytri also in ARMORED SHELL ready for combat, Isa looks forward and a faint image flashes before her eyes. She sees a blurry round object of some kind with wing on a side, then it vanishes from her sight.
Time starts to move slowly and Isa quickly gains her footing and enters a combat stance, a katana is hanging by her waist. Isa notices the souls around them are gone, "Mu~m?! What was that?!" cold sweat flows down her back.
Nytri grits her teeth, "I don't know. It's so fast I could barely see it, even faster than your grandma when she uses her SPRINT skill." Nytri's thoughts, "What was that? Some kind 6-winged ball? Whatever it is, I couldn't even sense it. Almost like a ghost."
They stay combat ready for a while before relaxing. Isa looks around, "How is there an entity capable of moving past us? And that moment, time was stopped completely."
Nytri appraises her surroundings, a screen appears before her.
[No activity detected]
Nytri grits her teeth, "My Information Magic can't even detect anything from the surroundings."
Isa looks at Nytri in shock, "How come? Your Information Magic level is Maxed, if you can't even see it then….." Isa has no words to describe then looks around her.
"It doesn't exist." Nytri speaks.
Isa looks back at Nytri, "How can it not exist? We just saw it."
"It has no presence," Nytri speaks, "No scent, no sound, no mass, no nothing. If we hadn't seen it, we wouldn't even have noticed it. We have to track it."
"How can we track something that doesn't exist?" Isa asks in frustration.
Nytri looks at the corpses, "It took the souls around us, so we have to track the souls." Nytri releases a faint pulse that spreads far and wide, "…..Nothing." Isa looks at Nytri, Nytri's eyes turn golden and her veins also turn golden. "In that case WISHING> Locate the souls who were around us and take me there."
Nytri's surrounding shakes violently and air seems to be sucked in around her. "MUM!" Isa stretches her hand trying to reach Nytri.
"Don't worry about me," Nytri speaks, "Track my location from here." Isa nods and steps back, a violent suction warps around Nytri and she vanishes.
Isa activates her Information Magic and a screen appears like a radar showing where Nytri is, Isa stares at the radar and the place Nytri stood. "What?" she looks at the radar again in panic, "Mum is still here?.....but not here?"
Isa opens her communication channel to the Nexusphere, "Everyone, something's happened. Mum is tracking some souls but I can't track her!" she's not the only one unable to track her. Even the Xenos who are bounded to Nytri's soul can't feel her connection but they know she's alive.
The Nexusphere enters into panic and all Xenos and Azurians spread out to search the entire earth for Nytri, they search every rock, cloud, sea, everything. This is when they mapped the entire earth. They even left golems around to keep searching but nothing, they even discovered a tunnel to the realms in the ocean and on a foreign strange land. But's it's not what they're looking for.
Far over the seas an Azurian is flying at sonic speed, this Azurian it's Astrarigel. He stops abruptly and a shockwave spread from him causing the sea to rise. He grits his teeth, "Where are you?" he looks around in panic.
In the air high up in the sky, another Azurian has made a tall tree branch that high and looking over the earth. The tree branch has eyes in them that keeps looking around, scanning the entire earth.
An Azuria is deep in the ocean swimming like a rocket, he reaches a place deep underground and finds powerful deity monsters there. They die as soon as they make a sound. The Azurian keeps scanning the ocean deep and comes across a river flowing on the ocean floor, he swims past it and comes across glowing rocks arranged like roads. He moves along searching, panic is clearly shown on his face.
A Xeno and an Azuria also fly to reach the end of the sky, they create a rift and pass through to leave the earth. They appear in a place like water and the earth is below them like a huge snow globe with unimaginable size. They move higher up and create another rift at a certain location, they arrive in the divine realm. They split up to search for Nytri.
Some Azurians and Xenos go even beyond the divine realm to a new realm which they later came to know as the Celestial Realm. Some pass the Celestial Realm and move even higher to the Eternal Realm which they later found its name. Some Xenos were already in the Eternal Realm exploring, they began their search the moment they heard the news in the Nexusphere.
Some Azurians and Xenos go down deep into the Abyssal Realm and meet up with Nytri's contracted summons to search the Abyssal Realm.
Far away from earth, in the Monster Realm. A mountain range covering over 800 meters suddenly opens its eyes, the mountain rises and it's Mama Zilla. Mama Zilla looks up to the sky with her heart beating rapidly with teary eyes, she roars *RROOOAAARRR!!!!* her roar reverberates across her territory even going beyond. Her clan sense the roar and start moving towards her anxiously, even the Lovecraftian race and monsters knowing Nytri are worried.
Luckily, Nytri's territory in the Monster Realm still remains her own. They can at least assume she's still alive with that. The monsters spread out hoping to find a dispersal rift to travel the realms and reach earth one way or another.
[AU: INFO
- Astrarigel: Chapter 107 for his fight against gods
- It is entirely possible for Beings in the Monster Realm to reach the earth but they have to travel through random rifts to either realms or dimension. Luckily adults can sense these rifts so they avoid it, only kids make the mistake of entering one. But even they have a high chance to return alone before their parents start searching for them.
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