NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 284: Thanatos Was Right
As soon as James said those words, Ariel nodded her head without question and looked around. James instantly spread his meaning around and began a search for any trace of it.
He couldn't find anything.
However, there were no words or messages from anyone saying they could help. That meant James had to be careful.
Ariel quickly made her way to the room's door and tried to pull and push it open, at least to try. It would be wrong to say that nothing had happened, for when she tried to pull the door open, the clock ticking rang in the pair's ears.
Until then there had been no sound in the room.
When James gestured for Ariel to stop, Ariel waited, and when James had explained his meaning in more detail, he commanded Ariel to continue.
When Ariel tried to force the door and pull it open, the sound was heard again:
"TIK!!!"
This time the sound was deeper, but only in James' ears. Because the mana it was emitting was at a higher level, all his senses were becoming fused with it, which made him hear the sound at a higher level.
James moved with the flow of mana towards where the sound was coming from and stopped in front of a closet. As he opened the closet door, he couldn't help but be surprised:
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Inside the closet there was a door leading to somewhere else, it looked like another room just next door, but as James moved his hand towards it he could easily see that it was blocked by something.
It didn't take him long to notice a keyhole and he quickly left the closet he had been trying to get into and just looked around. She gestured for Ariel to come and Ariel was able to see the image in the closet.
At that very moment, the bodies of the two trembled.
The floor of the room they were in began to tremble, some of the objects in the room tumbled to the floor and the sounds became almost ear-splitting.
At that moment the floor of the room began to fill with some kind of liquid, which the duo immediately recognized as blood, and then another message window opened in front of James:
[You found the door, you need to find the key].
This message seemed to be coming from Nemesis as if his wife had decided to help him.
As soon as James saw this message, he immediately turned to Ariel next to him and said "A KEY! LOOK FOR THE KEY!!!"
James would normally have joined the search but he couldn't. The only reason was that the pool of blood in the room was increasing every second. Maybe it was slow, but the fact that after almost three or four minutes more than a quarter of the room could be filled was frightening.
And he realized it, just as Ariel had.
In short, James had to use the blood element. He could shape the blood that filled the room to separate it and even put it in his inventory, he had never done that before, the only time he had ever shaped blood was when he made a sword out of blood that was quite weak.
This meant that he had to shape tens... hundreds of llitresof blood with his magic and elemental tendrils constantly.
It was a skill that newborn vampires could use with ease, but it was completely new to James.
As soon as Ariel heard those words, she suddenly looked around and began to check the contents of any orifices that had fallen or were still in place.
After only a short time she managed to find a piece of a key, if not a key.
James, meanwhile, was still very carefully shaping the blood that was still pooling on the floor, litre by litre, sending each one to his inventory.
Still, James managed to notice. The speed of the blood rising from the floor seemed to have increased considerably. What could fill a quarter of the room in three or four minutes had now increased to perhaps a minute.
As James tried to figure out why, Ariel turned to him and said, "I FOUND A PART!"
James knew at that moment what the trouble was. It was as if a seal had come to life, the first piece of key had been found and wherever the blood was coming from, the process began to speed up.
After a short time, Ariel managed to find another piece of key and put the two pieces together.
Still, it seemed that another piece was needed.
Meanwhile, the amount and speed of blood coming out of the floor increased again. One minute had now become half a minute and perhaps less.
James' mana and the energy in his elemental sprout began to diminish, even if slowly. James began to convert the blood at a slower rate with each passing second and, as he could tell, the room was filling up with blood at an even faster rate.
By the time he was exhausted, a little over a quarter of the room was already filled with blood.
James could easily see that more than half of his body was covered in blood. James was 1.85 meters tall and he was trying to reduce a sea of blood that was now over a meter long.
After a short time, the two were nearly submerged under the sea of blood in the room. Ariel had just pulled her hand out of the sea of blood and was trying to keep her head up when she started screaming over and over:
"I FOUND IT! I FOUND IT! QUICK!!!"
As Ariel shouted, she put the last piece of the key together, and after a brief glow, the key pieces were permanently joined.
With that, Ariel went straight into the closet, unlocked it and then walked through the door without stopping. James, on the other hand, barely made it through the door.
When the two opened their eyes again, they realized that they were in the room they had seen before.
They were both breathing heavily as if they had woken up from a nightmare. James was sure of one thing at that moment:
The huge and destructive demon beast he had seen on the 37th floor had not given him the adrenaline rush and fear he had just experienced.
Both of them had dilated pupils and their eyes were wide open.
Suddenly James saw a message [I was right, wasn't I?], and it was from Thanatos.
What James didn't understand, though, was where the ticking was coming from, he couldn't make the connection between the door and the ticking of a house clock.
Despite all this, he was too preoccupied to question such a thing. He leaned back and stretched out on the floor as if he didn't care about anything.
When he turned his head to look at Ariel, he saw her doing the same thing and then heard the sound of a door opening.
James stood up abruptly and then looked in the direction of where the sound was coming from, just in time to hear a murmur, "Welcome, sire, we have been expecting you, we have already heard from Lady Nyx that you were coming."
A woman was standing in front of him, probably 70 or 80 years old, not old, but certainly not young, but you never could tell in the tower, after all, even the old woman Datura was over a thousand years old. She was a beautiful jet-black beauty, with hair that looked like threads and eyes of ruby.
James knew at a glance that this woman was a vampire.
"Hello," James said and stood up. The adrenaline in his body was still high, but at least he had managed to pull himself together.
Gently picking Ariel up from the floor, he checked that she was alright and when he saw that she was fine, he turned to the vampire and spoke again:
"If I'm seeing a vampire, you must know where Kriss is, right?"
At James' question, the beautiful vampire woman bowed politely, as if bowing to an emperor, and then said, "I'm sorry sir, Duke Kriss is unfortunately unavailable at the moment, he had to go to the eastern part of the floor for the training of the new vampire soldiers, he sends his deepest apologies."
James shook his head when he heard these words and then asked, "And you? What is your name?"
The woman bowed again and then said, "My name is Laura sir, I am the head servant of the current vampire empress. The empress has informed us that we must treat you, the master of all vampires, in the best possible manner. With your permission, I offer you a shower and a good meal."
James shook his head as if he knew that he really shouldn't refuse anything when he heard those words and then said, "Please lead the way."
He had many more vampires to meet. He was in the house of those who would worship him.