Six-Armed Serpent Demon

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Ivy-Beate hugged the two overjoyed, tearful Bubbles together, comforted them, and then ruffled the bear's head before telepathically asking Sinker: [Where are the rest of the team?]

Sink shook his head.

After landing, everyone went home, but their appearances had changed so much... Some went home, while others couldn't, so they went to another sailors' bar for drinks... and then, the Armada's bombardment began...

Sink was originally a nearly seventy-year-old, blind sailor, all alone. As soon as he came ashore, he couldn't wait to go to his usual sailor's pub, intending to have a couple of drinks. But his new appearance was so different from before he went to sea that it immediately caused a sensation among the pub's acquaintances. Not wanting to be stared at like a rare animal, Sink returned home.

As for Edra, she was less fortunate.

After reaching the shore, the telepathic mistress of Sinker, Edra, went home to visit her husband and son. However, in her current form—covered in black scales and with membranous wings—she felt herself going crazy under the timid and unfamiliar gazes of her husband and child. After awkwardly standing there for half an hour, she hastily left some money and ran away.

With nowhere else to go, Adela returned to the Medusa Tavern, where she happened to run into Sink, who was equally lonely. The night was long and sleep was elusive, so the two decided to go back to their second-floor guest room and have a frank argument. It wasn't until Xiong Gu, still without pants on, came downstairs and hid in the underground wine cellar that they escaped unscathed.

Seeing the port area razed to the ground by artillery fire, Sink was alright, but Edra immediately panicked and became restless.

【Owner…】

She pleaded with Ivy Beatrice.

"Go," Ivy Beatrice said. "And you, Sink, go and fulfill your captain's duty. Find the others and see if they're still around."

Adela immediately took flight and rushed towards her home like a madwoman.

Ivy-Beate sighed as she looked in the direction she flew off: Edla went straight to the coastal road.

Sink didn't fly, but jogged away: the vast majority of sailors lived in the port area, with Edra being a very small minority.

As the silver dragon dispelled the power of the frost city, the temperature began to warm up.

Steo untied the little boy from his back, took off his hooded cloak and wrapped it around him, then laid him on a relatively flat, collapsed brick wall. Blue Bubble used her spell-like ability "Water Conjuration" to conjure some clean water out of thin air and gently wiped the unconscious boy's lips and forehead.

Ivy Beatrice used her medical knowledge from her previous life to give him a diagnosis.

“Severe malnutrition,” Ivy-Beate said.

The symptoms had already progressed to hypoproteinemia, she thought. It's just that this world doesn't have the scientific testing capabilities to make a further diagnosis. Fortunately, magic can fill the gaps in science; with a simple "disease removal" spell, there's no ailment that can't be cured. The only problem is that she doesn't have that magic on hand right now, and she doesn't know where to find it.

She suddenly remembered that her blood, possessing the property of "rapid medical treatment," had demonstrated extraordinary healing effects in the "Mass Production Bomber Project Transplant Surgery," resulting in a 100% survival rate for the test subjects. Even if it couldn't cure this child's illness, it should at least replenish his life force, right? So she pricked her fingertip with her nail, pried open the boy's mouth, and dripped a drop into it. Sure enough, after half an hour, although the boy was still unconscious, his body temperature gradually returned to normal, and his breathing became calm. Steo and Lysa, who were watching, breathed a sigh of relief.

Lysa asked softly, "Is my brother alright?"

"It's okay for now."

Ivy Beatrice answered, glancing around before sighing, "But where are we staying tonight?"

Then Sink returned, bringing with him devastating news.

The rest of the bomber squadron weren't as lucky. Whether they went home or went to the bar, they were all reduced to dust under the barrage of the Invincible Armada's firepower.

A full hour later, Adela finally walked back, unsteady and limping, like a walking corpse. Her eyes were glazed over, she was completely lost, and her spirit had collapsed.

Ivy Beatrice observed this without asking further questions. Her emerald-green vertical pupils gleamed with a sinister light.

—Zachsa must die.

Chapter 152 The Final Preparations for Extracting Divinity

“Sink, find Zachara. Fly higher, and follow the Invincible Fleet from a distance above the clouds, trying not to reveal your presence,” Ivy-Beate ordered. “I’m going on a long trip. Edra, you stay here and protect the others. Don’t leave. All of you who stay here must obey Blue Bubble’s orders.”

"...as you command."

Edla trembled, her eyes blazing with rage and resentment at the loss of her entire family to the bombardment of the invincible fleet. But under the gaze of her master's emerald vertical pupils, she could only bow her head in obedience. The Infernal Demon Skin transplanted into her by Ivy-Beate was crafted from her own shed snake skin. As a demon skin servant, Edla could not defy the will of her master.

Ivy Beatrice didn't want her to monitor the Invincible Fleet because she didn't want her to lose her mind and launch an attack rashly, thus losing another combatant.

She just didn't say it out loud.

"Don't worry, I'll give you a chance for revenge," Ivy-Beate promised before activating "Advanced Teleportation," "but not now."

A flicker of life returned to Edra's lifeless eyes, and she lowered her head and began to sob.

The next second, Ivy Beatrice felt the humid air of the primeval jungle of the Sanlachi Mountains and heard the calls of various birds and flying monkeys in the distance.

A familiar scene came into view: a circular basement with dark walls and floors made of large, finely crafted granite blocks, the stones engraved with runes inlaid with brass.

This is where reincarnation begins.

The underground chambers of the Boto family's mountain castle.

The numerous insects, snakes, and rodents that had been lurking there were startled by Ivy Beatrice's sudden appearance and scattered in all directions.

She looked around. The empty iron cages that had once held the owl bear cubs and the dinosaurs were still there, but they were covered in red rust. The bodies of the slain soldiers had all turned to bones. There were large holes in the walls, smashed by Tankred, and a cave dug by a trolley in the center of the floor.

The scene of my reincarnation and rebirth upon arriving in this world is still vivid in my mind.

Ivy Beatrice had not yet figured out where she could comfortably extract the divinity from the red dragon's head.

Ideally, she would be summoned to another world by a different demon, where her divinity would be extracted. But that would be like hitting the jackpot; after waiting so long, no demon had summoned her. Ivy Beatrice wondered if the six-armed serpent demon she knew was dead.

Now she doesn't want to wait any longer.

If this were to be done within the Abel World, it would inevitably be discovered by other powerful beings, and they might even interfere.

She had tried before. Although she didn't know how Zachasa had done it, she knew that if Ivy-Beat retrieved the red dragon's head at sea, Zachasa would sense it, and the invincible fleet would rush towards her. Therefore, Black Sails on Beat Island wasn't a good place to extract divinity. She didn't possess the silver dragon Georgrosia's ability to create a divine kingdom on land; if she attracted a powerful enemy, her small base would be destroyed before it was even finished.

Neither the City of Flames nor Geogu will work. Both the Bronze and Silver Dragons are in a semi-dormant state, and any operation involving divinity will definitely attract their attention. She's still far inferior to those powerful figures.

So after much deliberation, Ivy Beatrice finally chose this place: Eric van Boto’s secret magic laboratory.

The Boto family has hidden the demon concubine Diraz here for hundreds of years without being discovered by the outside world because this place is located on the border of Samarach, nestled in the towering mountains of the Samarach Mountains. It is extremely secluded and remote, and the brass runes on the walls and floor of the secret room have the function of preventing the leakage of energy.

Although the Earth Giant and Tankred, or more precisely, Ivy-Beate herself, destroyed parts of the ground and walls, the main Brass Rune function remained intact.

Ivy Beatrice pulled out the "Stone Shaping" scroll, sponsored by the Ottokan family, from her dimensional bag. She walked to the hole in the wall where she had knocked Tankred flying, bent down, and touched the remaining granite bricks with her fingertips. Under the influence of the divine power, the remaining bricks seemed to turn into clay, changing shape and extending into the void.

The sunlight streaming into the sealed room gradually diminished and eventually disappeared. The sealed room returned to complete darkness.

Ivy-Beate checked it carefully again; the opening had been resealed. The entire stone wall was now sealed without a single crack, though it was significantly thinner than before.

Next, she used the same method to smooth out the hole dug by the earth giant, making the floor as flat as before.

With a wave of her hand, the two bronze doors of the underground chamber closed automatically. She then channeled a little energy into the brass runes to check if the magical structure remained stable.

The result satisfied her.

Everything is ready.

The next second, Ivy Beatrice's body grew larger, her legs folded together to form a snake tail, and she transformed from a human into a six-armed snake demon.

The six-armed serpent demon gently moved its six arms, took out the red dragon head carved from a red meteorite from its dimensional bag, carefully placed it on the ground, and deactivated the "shrinking technique".

The red dragon head meteorite statue, which rapidly expanded back to its original shape, occupied a third of the secret chamber, crushing the skeletons on the ground and smashing the rusty iron cage.

The six-armed serpent demon saw an indescribable, immense energy begin to emanate from its ruby-like dragon head, but it was contained within the secret chamber by the power of the brass runes.

We can now begin extracting divinity.

This is a slow and meticulous process that requires careful refinement.

Ivy Beatrice needs to immerse herself completely in the Four Symbols Tower and the Star Chart in her spiritual world, using the black hole at the center of the Milky Way to extract divinity bit by bit and integrate it into her own spiritual world.

This could take half a month, or it could take two or three months, or even half a year.

Once she has accomplished all of this, her strength will have greatly increased, and she can then go and settle accounts with Zachasa.

As for Zacharsa's whereabouts, Ivy Beatrice could guess even with her toes:

Before they tracked the invincible fleet to the coastal city-state of Kyog, they discovered that Zachasa had briefly anchored on an island six days' sea voyage from Kyog, where it disbanded most of the warships belonging to other city-states.

Regardless of what Zachasa's next plan is—whether it's mobilizing troops to retaliate against the Silver Dragon or something else—he will choose to go to that small island to recuperate and lick his wounds before making any further moves.

Ivy Beatrice sneered.

That small island is the graveyard of the invincible Armada.

When the Red Dragon's most powerful armed force disintegrates, that will be the time for Black Sails to reap the rewards of the Northern Federation.

Chapter 153 The Hidden Face

Four jade-like hands simultaneously caressed the nose and snout of the red dragon's head stone sculpture, and the six-armed serpent demon closed its eyes.

She immersed her consciousness into her own spiritual world, and then she saw that familiar yet mysterious Milky Way.

Here, the speed of thought is limitless; with a single thought, countless stars flash by. She travels through nebulae, as if drawn by something, her speed increasing until she reaches the center of the starry sea, where she sees the blue-purple accretion disk slowly moving around the enormous black hole.

[Meditate, while using your palms] The demon in your mind, Diraz, says, [Feel the rough texture of the red crystal with your palms, repeatedly imagine the shape of Hesrati's head, imagine the divinity contained within it, and use your palms as a medium to suck it into the giant black hole.]

Ivy Beatrice did as instructed.

But several minutes passed, and nothing happened.

The meditation seems to have failed.

"I didn't feel anything," she said to Diraz in frustration. "I have no idea what divinity is, how can I imagine it?"

North Star

Dillaz said, "You're putting the cart before the horse. You must first find the North Star, the eternal star, and the star that guides you and me."

So, both in reality and in her spiritual world, Ivy Beatrice simultaneously raised her beautiful face with her eyes closed.

Soon, she found the North Star in the endless sea of ​​stars.

It wasn't the largest, nor even the brightest. But she knew it was it, the eternal North Star, the ruler of all stars.

Ivy Beatrice projects her consciousness toward the North Star, attempting to use it to manipulate the cosmos.

With this attempt, she was delighted to find that the rotation of the huge blue-purple black hole accretion disk had increased slightly.

In the abandoned underground chamber of the Boto family, the enormous dragon head carved from red crystal began to tremble slightly, and countless tiny pebbles and bone fragments on the floor trembled and hummed as they slowly floated away from the ground.

As Ivy Beatrice meditated with her eyes closed, she felt a hot, chaotic flow of energy coursing through her four hands and into her arms. Unbeknownst to her, as the energy flowed, crimson scales were quietly emerging from the backs of her white hands, spreading towards her forearms. Moreover, her hair subtly parted, and another unfamiliar face appeared on the back of her right head.

This face also has droopy eyelids, and at first glance it is even more beautiful than Ivy Beatrice's "supernatural charm" snake demon face, but the distribution of facial features has a strange sense of disharmony, and an indescribable grotesqueness and distortion.

Ivy Beate knew nothing about this.

Still absorbed in observing the flow of intense heat in her arm, she asked Diraz with a puzzled look, "Is this divinity?"

Ivy Beatrice's impression of divinity should be like the golden flames of the Four Symbols Tower Armillary Sphere, radiating light and heat. While this eerie energy was equally fiery, it made her feel uncomfortable.

Diraz sighed contentedly in her mind: [Powerful divinity, energy mixed with the abyss's aura, ahhhhh, so good—]

The eyes on the right side of the back of her head opened as well. These eyes had no pupils, like two white mercury balls, yet they seemed to be glancing sideways at Ivy Beatrice's face, while revealing a greedy and eerie smile.

Just then, his hand left the red dragon's head, and his meditation was abruptly interrupted.

The crimson scales on the backs of the four arms and forearms suddenly shrank beneath the skin, and the unfamiliar face disappeared again, as if it had never existed.

【What are you doing!】

Diraz was furious. "Don't waste time!"

Ivy Beatrice did not answer her.

The seductive voice of the demonic concubine that had just echoed in her mind had gone a little too far, reminding Ivy Beatrice of the unspeakable videos she had secretly watched out of curiosity during her university years in her previous life. This gave her goosebumps, and she instinctively pulled her hand back, simultaneously opening her emerald green vertical pupils.

Ivy Beatrice lowered her arms thoughtfully, ceasing her meditation.

She suddenly realized that as the hot energy from the faucet was introduced, the blue-purple black hole accretion disk in her spiritual world underwent some inexplicable change.

Although Ivy Beatrice couldn't understand the change, a sudden, intense heart palpitation gripped her just moments before.

This chilling feeling was a warning from her own spiritual instincts.

It felt as if something bad was about to happen.

Just then, she heard faint footsteps coming from the passageway outside the bronze door of the underground chamber.

Author's Note: I revised the manuscript today, so it's a bit short. Please forgive me, I'll make up for it tomorrow.

Chapter 154 Finally Reunited

The footsteps of the person who came arrived at the bronze gate and stopped.

All sounds are silent.

Ivy Beatrice held her breath. She was astonished by her body's reaction at that moment. Sadness, anger? In that instant, the intense emotions that had been suppressed for so long suddenly erupted, causing her ears to ring.

The sound of footsteps.

Unforgettable.

The visitor seemed to be waiting for something, but Ivy Beatrice had no interest in playing guessing games through the door. She waved her hand, and the heavy, stiff bronze door creaked open.

Then the King of Samaraki, the High Illusion, Archmage Zaire, appeared before her.

The six-armed serpent demon stood rooted to the spot, staring at him with cold, vertical emerald pupils. She smiled mockingly. Just as expected, he first glanced at the red dragon's head before looking at her.