Pioneer of the Abyss - Book 2 - Chapter 59 (Patreon)

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Click the following link for the 1445 word chapter 59:

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All Across the Alliance

Regardless of where they are, everyone watching Aqua’s livestream feels tension flooding their entire body at the sight of Aqua full of holes with various blades of water and bite marks stabbing into her and without any arms left. All while she herself has several tentacles digging into the Bloodliner.

Genuine fear fills the audience across the Alliance. Whether they’re just Aqua’s fans from either her professional work as an actress and singer or fans of her broadcast, or whether they’re her family members. Everyone feels it. And that feeling grows stronger with every wound inflicted on Aqua.

But the ones who feel it the most are her parents as they watch silently, completely unable to take their gazes away from the livestream in front of them. With the only change they show every now and then being flinching every time Aqua gets another wound. Just hoping against hope that none of the injuries strike her hearts or her brain.

Fortunately for them and everyone else watching, Aqua manages to block or avoid any and all attacks aimed at her head. And while she doesn’t avoid all of the attacks aimed at her hearts, she manages to keep her main heart completely unscathed.

A tense silence fills the Alliance amongst her viewers as they watch both of the Bloodliners tearing each other apart. With Aqua slowly but visibly regenerating in the middle of it.

But her regeneration is significantly slower than it was before thanks to the poison. Leading to a much more balanced battle.

Bit by bit, the two tear chunks out of each other. And bit by bit, they spread their own poison or venom into their bodies.

Until the two suddenly change. They separate from each other, filling the water around them with their own blood. Then they both begin preparing what appears to the audience to be a final assault of sorts.

Aqua fills the ocean around them with ink that speeds up her healing and harms the Bloodliner even further as her abyssal servants spread out to gather the corpses of dark marauders and the Bloodliner’s allies that are killed by the spectating guilds. Meanwhile Aqua shapeshifts her mouth to that of an Abyssal Orca and enhances her fangs with a skill on top of that.

Flooding them with so much venom that it begins to leak out of her fangs before she rushes at the other Bloodliner.

And the other Bloodliner in question does something very similar. He transforms his head into that of an Azure Dragon while enhancing his own fangs and filling them with poison. Then he rushes straight at Aqua before the two of them chomp down on each other in a violent trade that has shivers running down the spines of any and all who are watching.

Especially Aqua’s parents and grandparents.

But no matter how much it hurts them to see Aqua in such a state, none of them can bring themselves to stop watching. Nor do they want to.

The livestream, and even the other guild members and spectators who all finally stop fighting watch as the poison and venom spread through the two Bloodliners’ bodies that are barely visible within the ink.

Seconds pass as the two compete on who can spread more venom or poison into the other’s body. But neither seem to win as they both begin to grow sluggish.

Aqua’s main heart becomes visible through the poisoned flesh as it too shows signs of the poison reaching it and beginning to destroy it. Meanwhile the dark veins spreading across the Azure Dragon Bloodliner’s body begin to reach the furthest parts of his flesh. Nearly completing the transformation into an abyssal servant.

Orvyn and Seravina feel rage, pain, and agony along with sorrow as they begin to tremble at the sight of what looks like their daughter losing the battle in a draw.

But right as the two Bloodliners are both weakening in their grips with their fangs, and Aqua’s last heart begins to crumble away as the poison reaches her head and discolors her eyes, Aqua’s eyes flash once. Signaling the activation of a skill.

Then the mouths of hundreds of Abyssal Orcas appear all across the poisoned ocean near the two, with each mouth being placed next to a corpse that was dragged over by Aqua’s abyssal servants.

And the mouths chomp down at once, devouring each of the corpses and instantly halting the progression of Aqua’s heart crumbling away.

Not just that though as the heart begins to recover until it’s a complete heart again. Following which the poison in her body including her head begins to fade a little bit, and her eyes return to their normal color.

Enough to let her natural regeneration return and allow her to survive.

Orvyn and Seravina both begin shedding tears as they quietly hug each other at the sight of Aqua’s encroaching death being stopped. And to top it off, Aqua’s venom finishes spreading through the Azure Dragon Bloodliner’s body. Instantly making a wave of pitch black water spread all over him, covering his appearance as the transformation begins.

A slightly different appearing transformation than any previous transformation shown on the livestream.

But no one pays that any mind as everyone watching in the Alliance all immediately show immense relief at Aqua’s survival.

Even that doesn’t last long though before the silence in the ocean around Aqua and the other natives is shattered by a single shout.

“Charge! Kill the outsider while she’s still weak and reclaim our planet!!!”

No one knows where exactly the shout comes from, but immediately after it echoes through the water, hundreds upon hundreds of people each with the symbols of the clan engraved somewhere on their clothes break through the hunters barricade. Rushing towards Aqua with their weapons raised and skills ready.

Panic quickly spreads through the Alliance again, doing a complete reversal of the situation.

People across the Alliance try whatever they possibly can to save her. Whether it’s sending her as many Sponsorships as possible now that she’s technically out of combat before they reach her, or even sending requests to allow them on the planet. Even though they know there’s no way they could reach her in time.

But then the Azure Dragon Bloodliner’s transformation ends, leaving a single man floating in the water looking different from the other abyssal servants.

While most abyssal servants look like their original appearance but with dark blue shading to everything in their bodies and glowing blue eyes, this abyssal servant has hints of purple mixed in with the blue of his eyes. And the dark blue shading of his body is significantly weaker in color than all of the other abyssal servants.

One thing, however, stands out the most.

The intelligence shown in his gaze that none of the other abyssal servants have as he moves Aqua behind him and sweeps his arm out, sending a flood of dark blue tinted purple poison to wipe out the people swarming to attack in a single wave.

Once again silencing the entire Alliance in the process.

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Aqua

I feel nothing but pain as I look through half-lidded eyes at my latest abyssal servant. At the people around me who were just wiped out without a trace.

And at the System Message playing out in my vision in blue colors.

{User has obtained the blueprint of a Bloodliner through total infection of said Bloodliner. The abyssal servant created by this infection has now been upgraded to an Abyssal Lord. All Abyssal Lords, unlike abyssal servants, may be summoned endlessly, retain intelligence from when they were alive, and may level up. Abyssal Lords are absolutely loyal to their creator. Additionally, through the creation of an Abyssal Lord, additional abyssal servant classes have been revealed in the Abyssal Ruler skill’s description.}

Ah.

A hidden skill effect.

That’s… nice…

My vision begins to grow blurry as I focus on the Abyssal Lord made from the Azure Dragon Bloodliner. Meanwhile the Abyssal Lord himself, after dealing with the people rushing to take advantage of my weakness, turns towards me and kneels in the water.

Then the Abyssal Lord actually speaks to me, asking, “What is your desire, Ruler?”

I feel the corners of my lips quirking ever so slightly upwards as relief floods me that I made sure to infect the Bloodliner instead of straight up killing him.

Who knew infecting a Bloodliner would reveal hidden effects of my most used skill…

“Take me…” I start before feeling my vision fading to black as I barely manage to finish, “…home…”

Then I lose consciousness.