Endless Journey: Infinite Realms

Chapter 449 Cheva, the Abyss Monster of Wrath and Envy

"There are several things needed in order for an Abyss Summoning Ritual to work." Black Alex, whose body was still emitting tremendous amounts of Abyss Energy out of his body, said as he closed his eyes.

"The first thing is the Abyss Ritual Formation. This formation shall channel the Abyss Energy inside my body in order to establish a connection with the Abyss Plane. Without this formation, the ritual will not start at all."

"The second thing is a spatial anchor. This will serve as a marker on the Abyss Ritual Formation. This anchor will then allow the Abyss Plane to pinpoint and locate the exact location of the formation. In our case, our spatial anchor shall be the four Moon Stones that Alina stole for us. These stones were the ones that has the highest chance of attracting the attention of the Abyss Plane."

"The third and final thing needed for a ritual to succeed is the existence of a sacrifice. Abyss Monsters can grant any of your requests, as long as it is within their scope of power. In exchange, you must sacrifice something for that request. The more difficult the request is, the higher will the demand for the sacrifice be. If you don’t have any sacrifice prepared for the ritual, then you will be immediately killed by an enraged Abyss Monster."

After saying these words, Black Alex opened his eyes as he stared solemnly above him. White Alex swallowed his throat as he saw this, as he realized that the real show is about to start now.

"Once these three things are established, the ritual summoner can start summoning an Abyss Monster already. As for what happens after that, just watch it from me." Black Alex said as he spread out his fingers

"Pew pew pew pew!"

4 black pellets shot out of his fingers, with each pellet striking the moon stones placed on the floor.

These stones, which looked to be extremely unmovable, began to shake as the pellets hit them.

The ritual formation on the floor appeared to have a reaction on the pellets, as they began absorbing the moon stones that had the pellets embedded on them.

No matter how large or rough the moons stones appeared, they were easily gobbled up by the formation, as if they were just food presented to it.

Once the stones were ’assimilated’ in the formation, Black Alex let out a low hum as he spread out his arms.

There was a fanatic look on his face as he belched out more Abyss Energy out of his mouth, which proceeded to react with the ritual formation.

"Hong~"

A glowing stream of light erupted from the ritual formation, which then began absorbing the Abyss Energy belched by Alex. This absorption process lasted for around 3 seconds, and once it was finished, a small, crystalline sphere could be seen hovering right in front of Black Alex.

Black Alex looked at this sphere with a fond look on his face, as if he had suddenly seen the love of his life. He slowly approached the sphere with reverent movements, as if he was afraid of spooking it.

Once he was within the sphere’s touching distance, Black Alex let out a cackle as he slashed his wrist open.

"Schla!"

Black blood began to spurt out of Black Alex’s wounded wrist, which he sprayed directly on the crystalline sphere. For a few seconds, the sphere did not show any reaction to Black Alex’s blood.

But when all of the sphere’s surface was covered by the blood, it began to release a wailing sound similar to that of the tortured dead.

White Alex winced as he heard this wail, although Black Alex appeared to be rejoicing at this.

"With my blood as the catalyst and the moon stones as the anchor, I, the Abyss Envoy, hereby uses my authority to summon you!"

"Boom!"

Black Alex then threw the sphere upwards, until it hit the ceiling above them.

"Splat!"

With a sound similar to a broken egg, the sphere broke when it smashed against the ceiling. Black, viscous, fluid sprayed out of this impact, drenching everything around the sphere with its ebony ink.

Before White Alex could make a comment about this mess, he saw that there was something else that shot out of the broken sphere.

A pitch-black gate, which was the size of several humans stacked together, suddenly materialized from the broken sphere.

White Alex, who was located below the Institute, shivered as he felt the existence of this black gate.

Even when this gate appeared to have no signs of life, White Alex could not help but take a step back, as he realized that this gate has no signs of life because this gate was extinguishing life itself.

"Skra...."

The black gate stayed still for a few seconds after its appearance, which plunged the whole room into a tense state.

"..."

Even when Black Alex told him that this ritual is under his control, White Alex still could not be at ease with the black gate. There was just something innately wrong with it... that White Alex could not accept.

"O, Great Guardian Tenet. I implore you to open the gates of the Abyss for me. Allow me to access the secrets of the Abyss Plane, for it is my right to do so!" Black Alex roared as he flew towards the gate. "Resist, and you will face my wrath!"

The ritual formation on the floor was both flickering and glowing even at this point, with the energy from them being constantly absorbed by the black gate.

Upon seeing this, White Alex narrowed his head as he realized that although the black gate appeared to be independent, it was the ritual formation that was supplying the energy needed for the black gate to exist.

"This means that once the ritual formation runs out of power, this whole summoning ritual will end." White Alex muttered as he kept a safe distance from the formation. "So as much as possible, nothing must disturb this formation..."

[ACCESS GRANTED, ABYSS ENVOY. MAKE FULL USE OF THIS RITUAL. THE ABYSS... DOES NOT WANT WASTING ITS RESOURCES ON USELESS THINGS.] To White Alex’s surprise, a deep, baritone voice suddenly came out of the gate, with its words focused on Black Alex’s declaration.

Black Alex only smiled as he heard this voice, as if he had been not worried about this at all.

"Great Guardian Tenet. Allow me to talk to a Half-Step Transcendent(Seventh Stage) Abyss Monster that can destroy a celestial body." Black Alex said as he crossed his arms. "The stronger this monster is, the better it will be for me. Do you have someone like that?"

[WE DO, AND I SHALL BRING HIM NOW] The Great Guardian Tenet replied briskly, wits his voice fading into silence. The black gate then went still at this point, as if Tenet’s sudden silence was enough to make it docile.

"..."

After a few seconds of waiting, the black gate began to shake as power erupted out of its seams.

The gate’s opening, which was closed shut like any other normal gate, began to slowly open as the gate’s shaking continued to increase.

A decaying and desiccated arm then slowly crawled out of the now opened gate. This arm, which had two eyes on its palms and a mouth on its wrist, continued to wiggle out of the gate, releasing an aura of destruction and death that almost made White Alex vomit.

White could not help but sit on his butt as he felt suppressed and terrified by this arm alone.

This irrational fear of his was amplified when he saw the what came out arm the gate was the arm alone. There was no body attached to this monstrous looking arm, as if the arm was severed from its body in the first place.

What should have been the elbow portion of the arm was replaced by a stump filled with numerous festering wounds. There was nothing that was attached to the arm because of the presence of this stump, creating an unnerving sight of a floating arm.

Countless parasitic worms and plants could be seen thriving on the stump, with each of these parasites exuding an aura compared to that of a Third Stage Being. These parasites appeared to be at peace right on their habitat, as they did not even react to the sudden change in their surroundings.

"...." White Alex had no words to say about this arm, as even his pure, untouchable soul was almost tainted by this arm’s aura alone.

"yOu CalLeD mE? wHo tHe F*cK arE yoU to JusT CaLL Me Out HerE?" An aged, distorted voice from the arm came out, with its words immediately showing the arm’s animosity towards Black Alex. Even when the arm’s words were almost indecipherable, White Alex could still feel the hostility that was now flowing out of the arm’s words.

"EveN iF yOu ArE tHE aBysS EnVOy, YoU hAVe No F*cKinG RigHT tO CaLL Me oUT ! DamN yOu! I’m ABouT To eaT mY FavORitE DiSh! dO yoU KnOw hoW MUch I aM CraVInG for iT?" The arm bellowed in extreme anger as reared back its fingers.

"Boom!"

An earthshaking power materialized as the fingers pulled back further, creating rifts of broken space around the arm.

White Alex were left with no choice but to retreat further at this point, as he realized that staying here will place him in more danger. He dragged Wisteria’s unconscious body along with him, which surely had saved the woman’s fate.

"YoU maY Be tHe aBysS EnvOY, bUt You aRE StIlL WeAk! yOu sHouLD hAVe nO RigHt tO bE CaSuaLLy COmMAndING US! You... yoU aRE jUSt OuR PawN!" The arm continued to shout as it began approaching Black Alex with a killing intent.

There was no doubt that it was thinking of killing Black Alex now, and judging by the spatial rifts closing in on him, Black Alex’s death was about to come.

"..."

But instead of panicking in front of these rifts, Black Alex kept his calm as he shook his head.

Ignoring the murderous arm that was approaching him, Black Alex let out a low whistle as he calmly pulled out an object form his pocket.

This object, which he revealed to the arm with a smug smile, was a fragment of a sword. Rust and grime covered this sword fragment, which coupled with its brittle appearance, made the sword fragment look useless.

To anyone who saw what Black Alex was doing, they might shake her head as they think that Black Alex was just desperately doing anything to survive.

But they were all wrong, as at the moment that this sword fragment appeared, the murderous arm froze in its tracks.

The power that the arm was wantonly releasing earlier has retreated back to its body, bringing the whole area back into its peaceful state.

It was as if nothing earth-shaking had happened earlier, and that the arm was just here to casually visit Black Alex.

"So, with this sword fragment as the sacrifice, how long can you possess my body?" Black Alex queried to the now frozen arm. "Will it be enough to destroy... my target?"

"WITH THAT FRAGMENT? HMPH, YOU CAN GET AT LEAST 15 SECONDS FROM ME." The arm replied, with its tone much calmer compared to before.

"..."

White Alex was slightly rattled by the sudden change on the arm’s mannerisms, as he did not expect a simple sword fragment to induce a 180 degree change on the arm’s attitude.

"15 seconds? Hm... I think that is enough." Black Alex replied as he nodded his head.

Before White Alex or the arm could make any comment about the strange tone on his last words, Black Alex suddenly laughed as he sent a smirk on the arm’s direction.

"So, do you accept this sacrifice of mine? Make your choice already, as my summoning ritual is about to end. If you don’t’ give me your answer quickly, you will be banished back to the Abyss Plane." Black Alex said as he gave a pitying look at the arm.

"It was only this ritual that is allowing you to stay intact in this world, so please make a decision now. If you don’t then you just wasted your time here."

"YOU’RE F*CKING ASKING ME? OF COURSE I WILL ACCEPT YOUR SACRFICE! THERE’S NO WAY I WILL PASS UP ON OBTAINING THIS SWORD FRAGMENT!" The arm replied, this time with a note of happiness in its words. "HAHAHA! THOSE OLD FOGEYS SHALL BE JEALOUS OF ME! HAHAHA!"

White Alex was now creeped out by the arm at this point, as all of its behavioral changes had rendered him completely confused.

"Since you accept it, then I shall declare what I want from you." At the sight of the jolly arm, Black Alex let out a sigh as he threw the sword fragment towards the arm.

As the fragment sailed across the air in a graceful arc, Black Alex let out another sigh as he continued speaking. This time, his words were laced with his Abyss Energy, making him sound similar to the arm.

"Cheva, the Abyss Monster of Wrath and Envy, with the sacrifice I gave you, I implore you to..."