Ataraxia Abyss
Chapter 19: The magic tower

At night, the Faith awoke from her sleep. His head felt like he was looking at the world upside down, when he was focused he started to see clearly, but the world was still upside down.

"Good morning motherfucker!" Regal said while drowning Kaiman in a bucket of water. Kaiman began to wriggle in panic, making himself out of breath faster, when it had been 30 seconds Regal again pulled him.

At the moment Kaiman is hanging upside down on a tree, his legs and hands are tied and underneath there is a bucket of water.

"I beg you! I was forced by Hayes! If only Black Cliff hadn't kept sticking to me then I would have told you..." Regal drowned Kaiman in that bucket again. He then pulled the rope again and threatened Kaiman.

"You're lucky the devil can't break their promise!" Regal then submerged Kaiman's head into the water again. Anne who heard Regal's words immediately asked.

"You can't break a promise?" Regal then answered. "Well, the devil can't break a promise in the underworld, but here the rules are a little different."

Regal then pulled back the Kaiman rope. "Please be innocent! I'll give you Black Cliff's pay I swear!" Regal gives the rope to Anne and punches Kaiman in the face.

"Listen old man, you give us a share of the client's payment ordering whatever's in this wagon! Do you understand?!"

Kaiman with a frightened face nodded. "I'll share two with you!" Regal gives Anne the condition to drown her head again.

The head of Kaiman this time was sunk for quite a while, Regal began to look at Anne, the happy face of Anne finally turned to a frown and finally she raised the body of Kaiman.

"Make it 60% and I'll let it go..." Kaiman who was shocked to hear Regal's words finally replied.

"Sixty percent?! 50 I have lost..." His head was drowned back in the bucket. After quite a while Regal finally pulled his head again.

"Well 60% I'll give it!" Regal smiled and said. "I'm not in the mood, make it 70 % because I've become a jerk..."

Hearing that Kaiman was shocked and tried to bargain but seeing Regal who wanted to drown his head again finally made him agree to it.

"Alright-All right! 70 Percent for you!! Release me!!" Kaiman peed in his pants, Anne who saw that instantly removed the rope and let Kaiman fall along with the bucket.

"70 percent sounds evil to me..." Finnley commented, But Regal smiled and said.

"He lied about being threatened... Let's eat." Finally they continued their journey in the morning.

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The Red Viper had started to recover, there were no casualties among them and there were no more attacks from the monsters.

"We have arrived..." They all stopped in front of an ancient ruin.

Regal who saw that immediately shouted. "Gram!" Kaiman who heard this immediately refused. "No! Nah! This place! The client who ordered is here I swear!"

Regal saw it more clearly, and it was true that there was a magic formation written here. Regal called out to Gram and cut through the void, suddenly a portal appeared from Regal's former slash.

"Eh... I was given a spell to enter..." Kaiman said, Regal did not care about it and continued to enter while pulling their horse carriage.

As they passed through the portal, Regal and the others were in the same place, but the ruins were now a whole castle without the slightest moss.

"Where are we?" Said Anne. Regal stepped in without caring around and said. "It's another dimension..."

Everyone was obviously shocked, magic to make another dimension only existed within the Dungeon alone, even if a magician could control most space and time he could only create dimensions to store items.

Kaiman immediately stepped forward and prostrated himself before him. "Greetings Avior Grandmage!" Regal and the others knew this, in Wimbledon aside from his great warrior power, they had a magician called Grandmage.

"Get up, I don't need any respect." Kaiman finally stood up but he was still trembling before him, at first he looked at Kaiman but now he turned his eyes to Regal.

"You broke my seal, son? Are you a space witch?" Ask Avior to Regal. Regal nodded and replied. "Well, I'm a space witch."

The Red Viper finally understood, why he could damage the Avior seal and why he could distort space and time. They all finally realize that Regal is a space witch.

"The soul and the blood in your body, is that so? How about we have some tea, young man?" Avior offered Regal a cup of tea, Regal looked at the others and they did not seem to want Regal to ignite Avior's anger.

"Well, I have time..." Regal finally went inside the castle and had tea on the balcony. The tea was brewed by a maid who looked very strange.

"Air mercury... Aren't you?" Avior smiled and replied. "Are the children of today all intelligent?" The maid then transformed into a slime made of mercury and sat on Avior's lap.

"My teacher taught me a lot of things, by the way what did you order? Is it necessary until you give a different route and method of entry to a middle-class merchant?" Avior laughed at that.

"Hey son, you're a mercenary, right? What does it mean you're accepting a contract?" Regal nodded. "What's your request?" Hearing that Avior directly talked about his experiment.

"I am a magician who specializes in the field of summoning magic creatures. I've done a lot of things here.

But the only thing that works now is this creature, Avior gave Slime the mercury to Regal to see. After taking a closer look Regal threw it aside and the Slime turned back into a maid.

"So what do you need?" Avior who heard Regal was interested in the contract finally explained.

"What's in that carriage box is the key to the Domain of the Hollow. It was a Domain that contained the treasures of the sealed Celestia. If you can open that door and finish it, you can take whatever's in there as a gift."

Regal then asked. "And what's in it for you?" Avior smiled and said. "Open the coffin there and find the Savage Hunter of Styria. An ancient record explaining about the Demon King of Madness"

Hearing that Regal immediately asked. "Where and when?"

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The two of them went to the basement, Regal was now standing before a large door, Avior was using his magic to control the Dungeon's key.

"When I open the door, you must defeat your enemy as soon as possible, I can only open this door once, and when my Mana runs out then you will be stuck in there."

Regal agreed. Avior finally opened the Dungeon's door for Regal, after it opened, Regal entered it.

When inside, it was like an underground fighting arena, complete with a podium that became a barrier. Regal descended into the middle of the arena.

The floor of the arena looked like a mirror, Regal could see the reflection of his body under his feet, but suddenly Regal's reflection moved not following Regal.

Regal who saw it immediately retreated backwards, as Regal retreated he could see his shadow coming out of the floor and putting up the same horses as him.

"That's right..."

Regal sees his shadow begin to wear Adamas and Gram... He knew it was going to be difficult, but Regal also installed his equipment and prepared to fight...

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