Otherworld Adventure - Chapter 379

It didn’t take long before the monster started relaxing its posture, however, by that time, Angelia still wasn’t finished taming it. Even when she tried exerting her dominance over its mind to initiate the contract sequence, she kept feeling herself being repelled by an invisible barrier.

It wasn’t long before Angelia started feeling her temporary control over the monster’s mind slipping away. She panicked and urgently called out, “B-big brother! I-I can’t keep going. This guy’s mind still won’t cave in! He won’t accept me!”

“Tch, I knew it…” Cecil clicked his tongue. “A monster of this caliber just wouldn’t cave in so easily. It’d probably rather die than submit to Angelia’s control.”

“B-but why isn’t it struggling?” Lucia asked.

“It’s just a ruse. The bastard’s just trying to store up power to break through my seals…”

He quickly started loosening his control over his spells and began gathering up his mana for something else.

“Cel, what do we do? Do we begin attacking it again?!”

“Wait, I’m going to try something. Lulu, should probably get some Misty Gates ready and have everyone evacuate…”

“H-huh?!”

Right as Cecil’s control over his Spell Prison and Spell Seal loosened, the monster immediately sensed it, and just like Cecil had predicted, instead of continuing to cave into Angelia’s control, it instead began erupting with power and started struggling to break free.

“Since you won’t submit to my sister, then you should just go and die!”

Cecil finished gathering an absurd amount of mana into his arms and he used Blink to appear right on top of the monster’s head.

He brought both of his palms downward, aiming right onto the skull of the monster and started to slowly release his mana. Golden light began to slowly congeal itself down below him. This was the prelude to his Over Flash skill.

“Hahaha, I haven’t used this in a long time. I should thank you for letting me use it!”

As he continued to slowly let out his mana, the air around him grew stagnant as the ambient mana began rushing towards the ball of light he was currently ‘holding’. The monster immediately sensed the immense threat that Cecil’s technique posed to it and it immediately stopped what it was doing.

The monster finally feared for its life as the ball of light in Cecil’s hands slowly began to expand and after a few seconds, the golden globe of mana had expanded until it covered the monster’s entire head.

“If you’re still looking to die, I dare you to try anything!!!” Cecil yelled out in excitement.

He still had the objective of trying to frighten the bastard into falling for Angelia’s control, but he was equally excited at the thought of blasting the creature with his Over Flash. He forgot that there were still people around but his friends weren’t so stupid as to continue staying there when they saw the absurd amount of mana that their friend was emitting.

“F.U.C.K, THAT’S OVER FLASH! LUCIA, OPEN A GATE BACK TO REGIO CITY! NOW!!!” Ainz cried out in horror.

“O-Okay! You don’t have to yell!”

“Can’t you see this is urgent?! If that stupid monster doesn’t submit to his sister, he’s really gonna release that Over Flash! I can already tell just from the mana he’s radiating. He’s going to level everything in the vicinity!”

“H-His Over Flash from a few years ago completely changed the landscape of a large dungeon… just thinking about what this one could do… Huuffhhh, I don’t even wanna think about it!” Velicia said with a shiver.

Lucia immediately opened up multiple Misty Gates. She opened up 2 near the vanguard unit that was on the monster’s body and another one at the shore. Everyone immediately filed into the Misty Gate without any questions asked.

They were all paralyzed in fear from the dangerous aura Cecil’s attack was emitting. It was like everyone instinctively knew that even if the attack didn’t hit them, they’d probably die just from the aftermath.

Since they all knew this, everyone began rushing through the Misty Gates once they were opened. The rumors they heard from their higher-ups that stated Cecil as being an entity far above their level of power weren’t all just some tall tales that were just embellished by their superiors.

Instead, they felt like the rumors of his powers weren’t even enough to actually describe just how frightening he was. They had struggled to take on multiple offshoots of the lake monster, but Cecil himself had singlehandedly tied the monster down and struck it with an Ultimate Technique of his.

Even just a moment ago when they were fighting, he hadn’t rested and instead conjured up his previous control spell to lockdown the monster and hinder its use of mana just so that everyone else could attack, and now, he was using a technique that all of their superiors feared just to threaten the monster into submitting to his sister’s control.

After everyone had finished evacuating the area, all that was left on site were Cecil and his friends, Gabriel and Angelia were still here as well while Lucia was already waiting nearby with a Misty Gate at the ready.

If Cecil decided to fire his Over Flash at the monster if it didn’t submit now, then they’d be able to make a getaway at a moment’s notice.

The monster in question had frozen over in fear right now. It wasn’t moving and everyone could see its pupil’s imperceptibly quake in fear of Cecil’s attack.

“What? You still won’t submit? If you don’t, I’m going to erase you now!” Cecil roared and he began to slowly push his mana outwards and loosen his control of trying to contain and pull back the mana he had gathered.

“Gruuuuuhhhhh…”

“!”

“Angelia, now!” Gabriel quickly said.

“R-right!”

Angelia quickly sent her consciousness back into the monster and she delightfully found that the monster had let down all of its guards. The invisible barrier to its mind that she couldn’t penetrate through earlier had vanished and she was able to connect herself with the monster.

She quickly searched for the way to form a pact with the monster in front of it by searching through its mind. Angelia quickly found it and immediately initiated the pact ceremony. The large monster resisted only a little bit before it accepted Angelia’s control and pact offer.

Once Angelia had branded the monster with her consciousness, she pulled herself back and quickly informed his older brother that the pact was a success.

“Big brother Cecil! I-I did it! This big guy’s now my monster!”

“Huh? O-Okay…oohhhh crap, I think I might just lose control now…”

“Eh?”

“Wuh?”

Everyone paled when they heard his words. Angelia turned extremely pale while the monster, upon sensing Angelia’s feelings through the connection it now had with her, immediately despaired.

“You’ve got to be kidding me!!!” Ainz exclaimed.

“Yeah, I am just kidding. Give me a sec…” Cecil curtly replied before he started reeling in all of his mana.

He hadn’t lost control, but he was about to. His mind was so fatigued from using his Skyfall from earlier and consecutively using his Spell Seal and Spell Prison. He then pushed himself to use Over Flash to threaten the monster and was just about to just give in to his exhaustion.

Cecil really just wanted to take a nap right then and there, but he first had to reel in and take back all of the mana he had gathered to use Over Flash since he no longer had to use it.

Firing it off in a different direction was out of the question. If he did that then he’d really fall from exhaustion, both physically and mentally. He did his best to reel in all of his mana and returned it all back into his body.

However, there was a large excess of mana inside of him. When Cecil had poured out his mana earlier and formed the large golden ball of mana that encapsulated the monster’s head, the ball of mana had caused the ambient mana to gravitate towards it, further strengthening the technique.

Now that he had to pull it all back into his body, he immediately felt the excess of mana inside of him. It felt a little straining but he began combining this excess mana with his Ki, turning it all into Ether.

Cecil wasn’t one to waste any form of energy that was left inside of him. Since the mana had broken the balance of energies inside of him, he decided to just convert it all into ether. He had previously used up a lot of his ether a few months back during the war with Merkruz.

Now that he had the opportunity to regain all of it back, he quickly took it. He also realized that the mana gathering array that he had used earlier to prepare his Skyfall now had another use other than just being a setup technique.

After he transformed all of the excess mana into ether, he released a relieved sigh. The ether that was now present in his body invigorated his mind so he no longer felt the mental exhaustion from his earlier technique.

“Phew… looks like we’re done for today, huh?”

“Yeah… good job…”

“Cecil, we really need to work on your call signs for whenever you’re about to use one of your Ultimate Techniques…” Eli exasperatingly said.

“Ultimate?”

“It’s something that Transcendent level figures call some of the most powerful techniques in their arsenals…”

“Oh, that sounds nice. So you take it that I’m on par with a Transcendent now?”

“…If you aren’t then I just can’t imagine how powerful those people are then…”

“Wow… I must be the youngest Transcendent in history, huh?”

“…”

“Let’s head back… we’ve cleared the area. I think we all deserve a hard-earned rest,” Lucius suggested.

“Yeah, let’s go. My Misty Gate is still open. Let’s just head back to Regio before we come back here tomorrow,” Lucia said as she pointed towards the Misty Gate that was still open just behind them.

Everyone nodded and quickly stepped through the gate. Angelia lingered for a little bit longer with Lucia, instructing her new friend what to do when they were gone before she walked through the gate with her big sister.

“Ugh…what a hectic day…” Cecil complained.

Elizabeth turned and raised a brow at him.

“We should be saying that. You’ve been constantly putting us on edge with those techniques of yours…you mind toning it down for the rest of the expedition so that we can get the others to do some work? If you keep doing this, it makes me question why we’re even here, to begin with when you can do things all on your own…” Elizabeth quipped up.

“S-sorry…”

“Anyway, let’s go rally up our expedition members. Just like Lucius said, we should go and rest today in the city. We can have Lucia teleport us back to the campsite first thing tomorrow morning.”

“Alright.”