Isekai: The Eight Soul Fragments

Chapter 26: A Dangerous Mutation and Major Turmoil



The second they arrived at the forest, Remuel stopped in midair. "How was your first flight?" Instead of feeling the subjective manner, Victoria let out comments regarding the flaws and things that she liked. "Breeze was nice, but you may need to deal with the air resistance. Overall, pretty decent, why aren't we going down though? It's embarrassing to be carried by you." Remuel laughed lightly as he looked around the area. "Can you scan the area first? It's better to do it in the sky than on the ground." Victorina poured magic power into her eyes and scanned around the forest from the skies. "Dangerous presence detected on the southeastern direction, it's inside a cave. It should be that right?" Remuel who got the instructional directions flew towards the southeast. "Bear with it for just a couple more seconds, though it's somewhat of a round trip." After arriving to the destination, Remuel finally went down to the ground with Victorina in his arms. He lowered her gracefully and brought out [Amalgam of Destiny]. "[Amalgam of Revelations]" He generated a barrier for the both of them that can be absorbed as mana when damaged badly. He summoned a dozen layers and each layer can be absorbed as mana once they have been damaged to a certain extent. Unlike Draxus, Remuel had already mastered all the abilities in the [Amalgam of Destiny] so there was no compensation to him. "Let's hunt this dragon down." Remuel and Victorina rushed down onto the cave to find the mutated earth dragon inside. Victorina raised the staff that was lent to her by Harold. It was a simple staff that was made from orichalcum with a red gem on one end. "[Engulf and envelope into an orb that brightens our path]" With a short chant, an orb of fire had lit up their surroundings. The two then progressed a little bit more until they start feeling odd premonitions. They stopped on the spot and raised their guard as earthquakes began. "Cave in!" Remuel realized the methods and used fire magic to generate a large explosion to the wall. The sight of the open sky was visible for a second but was once again covered. When they faced forward, a large brown dragon appeared with a large shell-like back with spikes in it. "It is said that earth dragons are highly resistant to physical attacks but this one..." When Remuel looked all over the dragon, he could see multiple spikes as if it had adapted to some strange environment. The dragon roared and caused the ground to shake once again. Pebbles rained down from the roof and the orb of fire was dispelled due to the shockwave the earth dragon brought. "Trouble is trouble, let's begin! Victorina!" After dodging the pebbles, Victorina positioned herself behind Remuel and began chanting. "[In fire we blaze in delight, blast them with might, destroying the freight, and then say goodnight. Hellfire]!" A large burst of flame came out from Victorina's staff and began burning the dragon alive. "[Amalgam of the Anarchist Cookbook]" Remuel summoned hundreds of explosives all around the dragon and supplemented Victorina's hellfire with black fire. "[Cursed fire]!" Multiple large explosions caused the cave to start shaking once again. Cursed fire prevents wounds to be healed just in case the mutated dragon has regeneration. The earth dragon's scales and spikes started melting slowly. This time, Remuel ignored the falling pebbles and simply poured in magic to the end of both of his hands. He then fired a searing concentrated laser made up of pure fire straight through the dragon. However, due to a loud roar which unleashed shockwaves, the laser was weakened to some extent. Victorina continued pouring even more magic as the dragon's scales continue to melt. After a few more seconds of pouring more magic, Remuel cancelled his laser attack and summoned multiple fire orbs that will explode by whirling fire all around. All the bombs Remuel had placed around the dragon had already been detonated. But since the earth dragon was still moving with most scales and skin molten, Remuel created a burning trident using fire magic and rushed into melee range. Victorina had run out of mana and is currently drinking liquid mana to make a full recovery in a quick pace. After drinking, she immediately directed her staff towards Remuel. "[Empower and strengthen his abilities, infusion of fire and desolation. Devil soul]!" Remuel's speed and power increased as he pierced the trident through the molten scales and skin and destroyed the heart of the dragon. Remuel then scattered fire magic all over the insides and completely killed it. Both of them sat down as Victorina brought out another fire orb to serve as their light.

"That went quite well, I ended up using a potion though." Victorina sighed as she looked around the area which is completely caved in. Remuel stored the entire mutated earth dragon in his interdimensional storage and sat in front of Victorina. "That should be within acceptable range of investment, I think it's a little too easy to be honest." Remuel pondered for a bit while looking around the area. "It's because we're pretty boosted in the first place, we're far too stronger than a normal person in this world. So I would understand why the monsters here are on that level of threat. A normal party would be annihilated in minutes." Victorina brought out some snacks that she had packed from the interdimensional storage. "True, the scales and the shell is a little too hard for normal equipment. But that's mainly because of the earth dragon characteristic. But since it has been mutated with spikes, the danger levels of the monster peaked out as something you shouldn't fight melee." The two of them discussed the degree of danger it could bring to people. "Well, there's also the possibility of regeneration if you didn't use black fire. Magicians themselves would have trouble fighting it." Victorina took a bite on the cookies while pondering. Remuel also took from the jar which Victorina brought out. "We're gonna have to blow up the back wall to get out though." Remuel turned his gaze to the earth that had caved them in. "Do it later, we're snacking." Victorina reprimanded him for the possibilities of rash actions that lead to the spoiling of snacks. They discussed some light things before Victorina placed the jar back into the interdimensional storage. "Alright, who's gonna blow it up? You?" Victorina turned her gaze at Remuel while asking the question. "Sure." He brought out a large orb of fire and placed it against the wall. "This will be big so we have to step back." The two moved to the other corner as Remuel allowed the fire orb to detonate wildly. A large explosion unleashed a shockwave to the two and destroyed the rubble that caved them in. "That was nice, shall we head back? Seems like we'll be getting lunch late." Remuel turned his gaze at Victorina. "Yeah, let's be quick." Remuel smiled a bit as he used the [Amalgam of Destiny]. "[Amalgam of Bible]!" Once again, a pair of angel wings formed from Remuel's back and he carried Victorina the same way as before. The two quickly left the cave and returned towards the outside of the town where they landed. "That was embarrassing, good thing nobody saw that." Victorina let out a small comment as they entered the town area. They hid their equipment and immediately walked towards the adventurer's guild. There, they found [Guild Master] Soaz waiting for them. "That was quite fast, how did it go?" The guild master had his eyes wide opened as both Remuel and Victorina returned unscathed. Victorina answered the guild master's question. "Melted quite nicely." Remuel brought out one of the teeth as a proof. "With this, it should be proven that we can be trusted quite nicely with extreme requests eh?" The guild master laughed at Remuel's words and asked them for their guild cards. "Very well, I shall process your rankings now." Soaz brought them into the private room again and discussed what kind of abilities they used to take down the dragon. "With overwhelming heat, we should be able to melt the scales and make it vulnerable." Remuel added more information to Victoria's short explanation. "But since there is a possibility that the mutation allows them to regenerate, I prevented that by using cursed fire." Both of them supplemented each other with explanations which got Soaz really intrigued. After some time of explaining, one of the receptionists arrived with both of their guild cards. "Alright, with that, you're officially silver. And your reward of 1 platinum coin, we converted it to gold coins since it might be hard to pay with it directly." Victorina thanked Soaz for the help gracefully and stood up. Remuel nodded to him and let out words of thankfulness before they left. "We should return no-" Just as Remuel was about to finish his sentence, a phone call rang on his phone. He picked it up immediately and heard Harold's voice in panic. "Remuel! The King and Prince are poisoned! The guards are looking for me and we need your assistance! I can't perform remedies and they won't live through the next two hours if I don't perform it! Ulysses is transporting them to our research room. We'll meet you there, and use the window." Remuel who got the sudden news immediately told Victorina about it and dashed to an alleyway so they can fly up there. Victorina used magic to bend the light and make them invisible to the people. "What the hell is happening?"


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