Chapter 384: That’s My Goal
Chapter 384 of "Galaxy Fall: All My Skills Are Maxed" reveals: The dimly lit underground cave reeked of damp earth and the heavy, metallic tang of... Keep reading!
The dimly lit underground cave reeked of damp earth and the heavy, metallic tang of fresh blood. Nadia elegantly picked up another delicate glass, the thick, dark crimson liquid swirling inside it, and took a slow, deliberate sip:"Not too bad, this is better than Ethan’s blood." She said, licking her lips with a macabre satisfaction.
Jessica shivered, her mind reeling from the horrific reality of what—and who—was on the menu. "What, what are you, really?!!" Jessica asked in a low voice, looking away from Nadia, unable to stomach the sight of her former teacher indulging in such a grotesque feast.
"Me?" Nadia placed the glass down with a soft, practiced clink against the stone table:
"Well, I am..." She used the silver fork, and smoothly picked up a piece of fresh, raw meat on her porcelain plate, and placed it in her mouth, slowly chewing it with the refined manners of high nobility.
"I am Nightmare." She answered, thick blood staining her lips like morbid lipstick.
Jessica was entirely silent, shuffling backward and sitting deeper inside the electrified iron cage, creating as much physical distance as she possibly can from Nadia, tightly holding her knees together in a desperate attempt to comfort herself:
"Nightmare? Why are you keeping me here?" She asked again, her voice trembling slightly in the cold, oppressive air of the dungeon.
Nadia swallowed her horrific meal, and looked over at her with predatory, hollow eyes: "You have something in you that I am after. Don’t worry, after I get what I want, I will set you free." She pointed the silver fork directly at Jessica, its prongs glinting in the faint light:
"What I mean by setting you free." She smirked, a chilling expression that lacked any trace of human empathy:
"I will take both your hands, and keep you right in front of me. You will watch as I eat you slowly... What do you think of that?"
Jessica was dead silent, staring blankly at the rough stone ground. She was completely, utterly powerless—stripped of the Mythic eye and reduced to a fragile Level 1 Fighter. The mysterious thing Nadia spoke off, the alleged dormant power hidden deep in her soul, she has absolutely no idea of such a thing, and physically felt nothing different from a normal human.
’Am I going to sit here, wait for my death; and get eaten?!’ She thought, clenching her fists until her knuckles turned white, a tiny, desperate spark of survival attempting to ignite within her shattered core.
"Oh dear, being eaten by me counts as an immense achievement... I only eat the best of all creatures. In this current world, they’re only few people who can truly draw my attention." She smiled softly at Jessica, casually wiping the dripping blood off her pale lips with a pristine red handkerchief.
"You are sick." Jessica spat, the sheer horror overriding her survival instincts for a brief second.
"Fufufufu... Only you can actually insult me and still breathing. Even the mighty Aethelgard family won’t dare insult me... The sun family is different." Nadia chuckled, the sound echoing unnaturally against the cave walls.
"Aethelgard family? Sun family?" Jessica was a bit confused, completely unbothered by the terrifying fact that Nadia could effortlessly hear her internal thoughts. She turned her dull gaze to her own hair, which was finally back to its usual, natural red color after being freed from the illusion, and exhaled a heavy, exhausted breath.
"The Aethelgard family? Well, they are the absolute current Rulers of the fourth world, mercilessly ruling the other great families." She explained, taking another elegant sip of the harvested blood to wash down her meal:
"As for the Sun family? They’re extincted... Well, not really." She turned her chilling gaze back to Jessica, her eyes narrowing with dark amusement:
"That friend of yours, Mirabella. She is the last living heir of the Sun family. My goodness, I wonder how tender her royal meat will be." She muttered, seductively licking her lips at the thought of consuming such a supreme bloodline.
The mention of Mirabella snapped something inside Jessica’s broken mind.
"You!! You can’t attack Mirabella! Not only that, I know this is only a fragment, or a part of your soul!!" Jessica yelled, her sudden burst of deductive reasoning and sheer desperation freezing Nadia completely in place, the fork halting inches from her mouth.
A heavy, suffocating silence descended in the cold cave, stretching on for an eternity. And after some agonizing seconds, Nadia exhaled, the air dropping several degrees:
"How did you come to that conclusion?" She asked softly, breaking the tension by taking another bite of her food.
"First! You kept ranting about the fourth world! We’re currently in the second world!! Although you were completely controlling me all this time, I remembered something crucial!! You can’t enter this lower worlds with your true strength without collapsing it! So this entity here is simply a soul, or a severed fragment. Your main Body is lying somewhere in the fourth world!!" She yelled at her, her chest heaving rapidly, not even stopping for air as she exposed the limitation binding her captor.
Nadia slowly nodded her head, genuinely impressed by the her deduction. Taking another bite, and chewing softly, then swallowed:
"My true body is incredibly close to becoming a true goddess... Already standing at the absolute Peak of the Divine Sovereign stage. I just can’t break through the final threshold." She turned her head to Jessica, her eyes burning with an ancient, obsessive ambition:
"I have been endlessly searching for a long time, traversing and moving from worlds, looking for anything—ancient artifact, divine weapons or celestial herbs—that can help me reach my ultimate goal. They all proved completely futile... Until I met you in the first world." She smiled softly, turning her attention back to her grim delicacies on the table.
"I believe once I completely absorb the dormant powers in your soul, my main body can finally advance, and become a true goddess, and permanently leave the fourth world." She picked up an ear with her fork, casually placing it in her mouth with a sickening crunch:
"You, you want to become a goddess? Do you really think those who ascend and become goddesses are so fundamentally evil and sick like you?" Jessica asked in a low, trembling voice, not daring to look up at Nadia’s horrific meal.
"Evil and sick?" Nadia lightly shook her head, an ancient, mocking pity flashing in her eyes as she looked upon the ignorant mortal:
"In the distant past, the first, second, and third worlds were all one massive, unified world. Do you know what apocalyptic force separated the three? Do you know how many trillions of living creatures died in the sundering? And at the ruthless hands of those so-called holy gods and goddesses... My dear, Ignorance is also a profound blessing, you should enjoy your peaceful time when you still have it."
Jessica froze, the terrifying implications of the world’s true, blood-soaked history shattering her entire understanding of reality.