43 Tuli The Underworlder

Above the mountainous domain, there were two sources of great mana. Their glare upon each other wasn't the brightest kind.

One of them sat on a throne, cradled by a sentient cloud. The tall mitre was held in place upon the head of a young woman. Her questionably skimpy outfit painted in a color of blackish jade revealed that she didn't come from this continent, or maybe this plane of existence at all. Her eyes fiercely judged the other woman in front of her.

The judged woman held tightly onto her scythe. She was none other than a Hellspawn from the underworld. Her neck-length silver hair was blown by the wind. Blackish grey skin with a dark schelar, her sky blue pupils were wondering which direction she would face because of the pressure given by the person in front of her. The eyebags revealed her to be a hard worker in a dilemma, and how she got into this situation was severely complicated.

Two more portals appeared beside the cloud throne, each of them spawn a battle puppets in the form of a humanoid three times the size of the hellspawn. The pulsating core on their chest emits an energy with the wavelength of a cultivator at the Alcazar Establishment level, a stage higher than the Alcazar Foundation phase.

'Why did it come to this…'

An Alcazar Establishment phase is a stage where a mana cultivator manages to establish their Alcazar, creating a stable foundation to nurture their miniature realm. Only by gathering more insurmountable mana to combine the World Catalyst into their 'Alcazar Core', they could expand their realm more. This is the second most fruitious stage as numerous entities with many benefits will be spawned.

Hence, the massive power gap between the Alcazar Foundation stage and the Alcazar Establishment stage. Those battle puppets were as strong as a cultivator that could possibly lift up an entire mountain.

The hellspawn conjured numerous creation spells' circuits. She then covered herself with thick plated armor from jaw to toe. Wafting the sky in a prepared position, she enhanced her dreadful scythe with a sharpening and durability enhancement.

"Tsk," clicked the lady on the throne, she was so agitated that her veins could be traced visibly on her big forehead. "I wasted so much mana just to chase you from Dis to Neamh. Tuli, can you just not resist and fucking pay your taxes!?"

"I TOLD YOU THAT I HAVE NO 'HEL' LEFT! I USED IT ALL TO PAY MY DEBT!"

"THEN JUST SELL YOUR BODY, DAMMIT! AND STOP GAMBLING ALL OF YOUR POSSESSIONS AGAIN!"

One of the battle puppets rushed as it hurled its punch. It then clashed with the thick armor as it left a crack on the exterior layers. Fighting back, Tuli replied with thousands of slashes.

Surprisingly, the battle puppet was able to fend each slice with its flurry of punches, forcing them into a comical stalemate.

The other doll joined, as it also unleashed a massive flurry of punches at the speed of sound.

The hellspawn immediately conjured another scythe, actively running away as she tried to stay alive from the tax collector's goons.

"What kind of battle puppets are these!?"

"I'm glad you asked." She smiled. "Their bodies were tempered within a grade nine furnace, fueled by the cosmic starfire. Their core was cultivated from the darndest of asteroids— wait, where is that brat?"

Within the sliver of luck she had, she managed to create numerous clones to fend off the cracked battle puppets

Tuli found herself hiding within one of the unknown caves of one of the highest mountains. Curious, she felt an abundant amount of energy within the deeper part of the elongated tunnel.

Hiding herself with numerous concealment formations for every sense. It didn't let the smallest of sounds of her burly armor slip on each movement she took.

At the end of her small journey, was an open entrance to a chamber. Tuli detected someone inside, albeit curious, she planned for an ambush to see if she could get anything from the unlucky person on the other side.

'Please, let it be a rich person.'

One step into the chamber, a red spear accompanied with a large shockwave was unleashed from the chamber.

The knockback sent her body onto the cave wall behind her. Her neck guard was pierced, the spear went through her neck, hanging her body like a live trophy that was waiting for the predator to come out.

'D-did I anger another venerable!? Hueeeee!'

Shifting her focus into the force behind that destructive spear. Tuli shifted her vision onto a tall naked lady, with a pair of nasty wings that fused into a trident-like structure, each segment ending in an opening designed to hold halved rocket nozzles at the end of each finger bones. The bio rockets combusted a low propelling fire as it whistled, slowly wafting the tall lady forward.

Silky porcelain-pale skin, with jet black hair and a shiny crimson gaze, Tuli felt like she was meeting with the goddess of death within her view. Beautiful, yet deadly. She then gazed at her two pairs of voluptuous mountains, dangling delicately, it made her more nervous than afraid.

'I-I can't appraise her power level.'

The mana circulation within the lady in front of her was too abrupt to be determined. Unlike normal cultivators, the mana was emitted from her whole skeletal structure, constantly sparking from a core below her heart.

MF didn't expect that the first intruder of this chamber would be someone that used a concealment formation. Luckily, MF had already seen how it worked so all she needed to do was to capture the ferromagnetism fluctuation surrounding her and she checked those all the time because of how paranoid she was.

"Well, well, what do we have here?" The Ouroboros licked her ravishing lips.

MF could go further or even make a whole hole to the surface of the mountain, but she decided to be precise with her strength so that she wouldn't kill her target. Thanks to the 'High Energy Conductivity Bone', she could harness more power onto her muscles directly. This gene modification also increased her 'Mana Reactor' gathering speed.

Tuli tried her best to look up at the devilish face MF made after seeing her prey. The spear that got through her neck doesn't stop her from being enraptured by the alluring face that MF showed.

Tuli felt like her sexuality was challenged.

"Mommy—I mean, Miss venerable! I assure you, I mean no harm! I was chased by an atrocious someone and I happened to stumble upon this cave!"

"Then why use a concealment formation to sneak in?"

"T-that, ah…"

Tuli couldn't construct the best sentences for this situation. Her mind raced, because if she gave a detailed and pretentious reasoning, her head would be decapitated. So instead, she decided to make herself a degenerate yet harmless person. She had done this before and she hoped to survive again.

"I want to secretly ogle at your voluptuous—AAARGGGHH!!"