七星影视

Chapter 1121 Saving The Others

"A gate that unlocks with the fresh blood of our kin. Something as sickening as this could only be made by them, without a doubt." She said, waving her large hand with sharp claws, the liquid orichalcum flowed across the crevices of the gate.

We stepped back as the gate gave out a shining bright light, several inner cogs and other things activating and slowly opening the whole entrance, which led downstairs into the last level of this pyramid of secrets.

"Thank you for opening the gates, Sphynxiette." My mother smiled, gently caressing her sharp claws. "Are you alright?"

"Ah, yes… You are so warm, so small and frail." Sphynxiette suddenly touched my mother\'s hands. "Yet I can still feel a lot of power from you. I suppose you\'ve found your own ways to become strong despite the flaws of your bodies."

"Flaws? Well, we were just born like this. But I suppose that in your own perspective, we are quite the fragile living beings. But we\'ve learned of ways to harness the power of the elements, of magic and nature into our bodies. We call this Cultivation. We strengthen your Physiques to become tougher, we forge a magic circle, so our magic becomes more potent and easier to conjure." My mother laughed as she taught the golden lady many things. "Let\'s go down. I hope we can find more of your kind down there."

"Amusing, so you people know of ways to surpass the feebleness you were born with…" Sphynxiette wondered, as we walked downstairs. She was one hulking giantess of a woman, barely fitting through the corridor down below. "Our kin are different in that regard; we don\'t seem to be able to grow stronger past our primes. Which we achieve once we grow up enough and eat a lot and be healthy. But a part of the strength we held was with the brightness of Mother Star."

"So you can\'t grow stronger? Like the Slimes…" Aquarina wondered, looking at Pyuku. "Maybe… maybe the slimes were also originally alien too?"

"Huh? I don\'t know, our history doesn\'t say anything about that." Said Pyuku, shrugging. "For all we know, we were created just like the rest of the tribes."

"It\'s not really worth questioning such things, Aquarina." My mother reprimanded her. "We are all people here, whichever origins we once had, it does not matter in such context. Sphynxiette, can you sense your kin?"

"I can, to an extent." She nodded, her glowing red eyes releasing bright beams of light around her, as if scanning her surroundings. "Hmm…"

We kept walking across the long corridor in front of us. There were no traps this time, just endless golden halls, which slowly led to a larger hall, full of darkness. My senses swiftly picked something up just a second after the golden lady did.

"T-There\'s something!" She ran forwards while leaving us behind.

"Wait, be careful!" My mother said, as we followed her closely.

With a wave of her hands, a flash of bright light surged, illuminating the entire hall. What was revealed in front of us as Sphynxiette\'s eyes wide open as she saw three other figures hanging from the ceiling.

They were like her, with their lower halves resembling gryphons, with giant golden wings, sharp metallic claws, golden skin. Their eyes were not all red. One of them had blue eyes, another green, the third had pure black eyes.

Unlike her, they looked completely immobile, not even crying anymore. They were in a deep slumber, slowly bleeding thin strands of liquid gold from their open wounds.

"Nooo! Hang in there! Please!"

Despite them being alive, she panicked, crying as she started trying to break the chains. If they weren\'t fighting back or suffering like she was before, it probably meant they were about to die. We had to quickly move!

"Sylphy!" My mother called.

"Yeah!" I nodded. "Everyone, quickly, free them from the chains!"

We moved as swiftly as we could, we couldn\'t cut through the hard orichalcum chains, but we were able to drag and pull them off with our strikes. I think I was the only one capable of cutting through them, with a lot of effort and by fusing both Void Wielding Arts and my Dungeon Bracelet\'s Spatial Attribute Magic Power. But even then, the cuts were uneven, so I was unable to easily free them.

Ultimately, it took us more than we imagined, but they were all freed. Every time their wounds were freed from those accursed stakes, whatever blood left around them would return inside their wounds, which would then close almost magically.

It seems like a lot of time was needed for the blood that drops from their bodies to no longer "belong" in there. Perhaps the cells themselves take a while to die and become the hardened Orichalcum, as terrible as it might sound.

"W-Wha… Sister…?"

"What… Ugh…"

"Cough, haahhh…"

They slowly woke up, becoming slightly conscious. But they looked really bad. Once we dropped them on the floor they were unable to move any longer, and were gasping for air, as if something was needed. We tried to feed them their "Soul Stones", every single one we had at our disposal, they ate them weakly, but couldn\'t completely swallow due to how weak their jaws felt.

"No, please, you need to eat! You can\'t die on me! Not after all these years! Please!" Sphynxiette was beginning to break down, tears streaming from her eyes. "Please, please!"

"Is there no other way?" I asked mom.

"It\'s just that my healing and revitalizing magic doesn\'t work on these people… They have a completely different biology." My mother said. "But if they\'re truly made of metal and minerals then… Perhaps Nepheline could do something. We have to bring them to the surface first though, you said you can grow stronger by absorbing sunlight, right? There\'s plenty up there. Let\'s go, quickly!"