TBATE Duality

Chapter 113

A.N. Merry Christmas!

Sylvie Leywin POV

| 1 month later |

"Is everyone ready?" Yozora asked as Seris and Chul climbed on her while I sat on her head in my white fox form

"Ready" we all replied

"Let's go then" she declared as we sinked into our shadow

The feeling of being moving hit me suddenly, there was no way to confirm if we were moving or not given that everything around us was pitch black, every now and then little windows of light came into view and from those we could see and hear the outside world

After a couple of minutes Yozora jumped into one of these windows and we found ourselves in a fetid dungeon, the stench was enough to give me goosebumps as I wrinkled my nose, I quickly activated the artifact Jade gave me to filter the air, god Gideon's lab smell like a bouquet of flowers by comparison

"My senses are not as sharp as Jade's but there doesn't seem to be anyone around" Yozora stated

I examined our surroundings, we were in a dimly lit corridor, reinforced doors dotted both sides and I could hear the rattling of chains alongside some voices coming from beyond them, all of them were just wailing or screaming in pain, at the corners where the floor met the wall and where the wall met the ceiling I could see mold and spiderwebs, somewhere deep, very deep below us I could feel the mana barrier made by Jade's artifact

"Couldn't we go closer to the goal?" Seris asked as she looked around to understand where exactly we were in the massive underground prison that was the lower part of Taegrin Caelum

"Sorry, there are too many protections there, I guess after all this time Agrona managed to create barriers effective even against my [Shadow step] if Jade was with us he could have disabled them but I can't" Yozora explained

"We'll have to walk then" Seris declared as she started to march down the corridor, how in the world did she manage to walk on high heels on a stone floor while making no sound at all without any magical aid I do not know but I definitely have to ask later

We quickly followed her, Yozora walking on her side to protect her while Chul and I stayed a couple of steps behind to ensure that in the unlikely event of a fight all of us have enough room to move unhindered

After so many corridors and flight of stairs that just counting them would give me a headache we reached a cell different from the others, it didn't have a door, actually the whole wall that would separate the cell from the corridor was missing, instead I could feel a transparent mana barrier spread in its place, inside the cell was a sight so horrific I had to bite the inside of my cheek to not scream

There chained to the wall was the corpse of an asura, a Vritra judging by the horns that sprouted from his head, the corpse was tall, probably well over 2 meters and given the width of his shoulders he once was quite well built too, now though all that remained was a skeleton covered by a thin layer of gray, rotting skin, the horns on his head that were once shining in a rich obsidian colour were now cracked and coloured in a dull black

"Sovereign Kiros" Seris muttered

"I still can't believe Agrona would devour his own kin just to get stronger, I know he's rotten to the core but this is horrible even for his standards" Yozora commented

"Believe me this is absolutely normal for him" I told her as I reminiscied the message Sylvia, my biological mother, left to Arthur, message in which she explained how Agrona was all too eager to start experimenting on me even when I was still in my egg