Eric awoke in pain like he'd never experienced. His very chest felt like it had been seared to mere charcoal.
Rising, Eric tried to push off against the floor and realized he hardly could. Pushing with maximum effort, Eric realized that he wasn't pushing off of mere ground.
'Is-I-Is this the volcano's magma chamber?' Yanking his lower body out of what was now hardened rock. Eric couldn't help the strange inclination that his body was becoming… foreign.
Shaking his head, Eric got up and started climbing out of the volcanic chamber. Yet the boy couldn't see that the volcano was pitch black. Darkness the singular entity in the space. What used to be magma was now nothing more than cold stone.
Confused and tired Eric tumbled out of his the volcanos and hazily made his way to somewhere away from the ordeal he'd experienced. Walking, an unknown amount of time passed before Eric woke up.
Yawning and feeling strangely full, Eric looked around to notice that he was now in a cavern space a type of lamb like carcass strewn across the floor, picked clean.
Picking his hair, Eric froze for a minute as he felt his head.
'WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY HAIR'
Eric's normally curly hair was a bit matted but otherwise attractive. Yet now all that was left was a slick skull with nothing on it.
"Damn you-you-you demonic thief, you stole my hair." Angry, Eric focused on his dantian. Looking inside, were two figures.
The Mountain Cloud Bloodline sat in quiet meditation. The figure sporting all of his master's elements and now ice as well. Yet below him was l another.
Eric's gaze intensified as he saw the figure shrouded in flames and darkness. It looked similar to him except the body pitch black, hues of blood red and orange flames seemed to flare or snake around it.
Staring, Eric saw the figure's eye open and stare back. Its gaze hollow but Eric didn't believe it for a minute.
"You're taking up space and you still want to take over my body, stupid thing. How am I this unlucky." Exiting his dantian Eric focused on resting before he set off in search of the items Magdy wanted.
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Slamming a fist down onto the gargoyle, Eric grew furious the more he looked at the thing.
Water spun around his fist as [tidal wave fist] slammed onto the gargoyle's back. The creature made ungodly growls as it's giant figure took flight into the air.
'Damn, Damn, Damn. This lard ass had to be waiting by the last item I needed.'
Looking at the molten fiend essence that bubbled in a small corner, the boy swore up and down. Eric's left hand gripping onto one of the wings while his right focused on the spreading cracks he was making.
"Water beats stone you heavy cunt." Winding up, Eric's fist burst with frigid ice as his fist tore through the cracks into the creature's back.
Molten lava poured out of the hole as the creature shrieked. Eric continued punching the creature's back to enlarge the hole. The creature roared as it pulled a last ditch maneuver. It flew upwards at a high speed before doing a summersault in the air.
The creature closed its wings trapping Eric underneath. High up in the air, the monster fell back facing down to the ground.
"You gotta be arrrrghhg!!!!!!!" The wings tightened threatening to suffocate him. Pressing both hands on it's back Eric initiated his transformation and ice spread with desperate enthusiasm.
The beast's descent was picking up speed as a reddish hue stated to envelop it. It fell like a meteorite.
With a bang, Eric had broken the entirety of the creature's upper back, wings breaking apart and magma flooding out of the area.
"Damn it!!!" Crawling into the magma, Eric had only just made it in when 15 seconds later the creature hit the ground.
The impact destroyed the imps, skeletons, wraiths, and volcanic beasts. There was only a flash of red as the ground now bore a large crater.
Eric coughed up clumps of sulfuric dirt and blood. The boy was lightly burned but the tremble of his body spoke of his current state.
"Urrghhhh, blaaaaaaa" Eric wiped the vomit from his mouth before weakly walking over to what he came for. Taking out a runic jar from his spatial ring, Eric got every last drop and even searched the surrounding area.
Walking a few miles from his previous battle location. Eric settled on a hole covered by a large rock that Corrosive scorpions inhabited.
Using a piece of demonic lion meat as bait, all Eric had to do was pull it out and the entire nests worth of scorpions burrowed into it.
Tossing the meat far away Eric punched the hole a bit and closed the majority of it before going to sleep.
Only an out later a ripple passed over the area that caused Eric to jump. A clap of thunder and the roar of a true behemoth had caused the realm itself to go haywire. A talisman burned on Eric's back as he was teleported to where he had started off in the realm.
Faling face first, Eric could see Magdy with labored breath and gore covering him. In his hand was the large tooth of some unfortunate beast.
"LEAVE NOW!" Speaking telepathically, Eric never even had the chance to respond before he was brought out of the realm. Lightheaded, Eric wanted to gain his bearings, but Magdy crushed a greater teleportation talisman and the duo were gone.