Chapter 41

In the past month since the couple Idan and Arabel appeared, Milica has finally been able to dispel her boredom a bit. She spent her time teaching them how to cook and sharing her experiences traveling through Forbidden Zones.

She was curious to watch this couple. She didn't know why, but they stood out from her other students. She assumed that this might be due to the fact that they came from another world, and all this novelty and suspense attracted her.

Idan and Arabel had a completely different perception of the world around them, they looked at it from different angles. Even their relationship made Milica smile: she noticed how awkward they felt and acted when they tried to find out about each other.

Their very presence became a kind of outlet for Milica.

The years spent in Limbo proved to be a real challenge for her. The impossibility of leaving the borders of a single city was unbearable for her.

At first, only her students could lighten her gloom and dispel her boredom. But over time, teaching and mentoring their charges has become a routine. And soon she had no students left at all, which was the result of Limbo's hunt.

Losing every student was painful for her. In the end, she refused to accept new ones and withdrew into herself.

Due to the instability of the space around Limbo, the time difference with the outside world was in constant chaos. Sometimes new creatures entered Limbo and were swallowed up by the dungeon, and sometimes no one appeared for several years.

Everything changed when, after a long seclusion, Milica finally went for a walk around the city. She met a young elf who had recently fallen into Limbo and was caught by other outsiders who decided to enslave her.

Due to her long absence, some outsiders forgot about her existence and decided to enslave the elf.

On that day, not only in this city, but also in two others, they remembered Milica. With her own hands, she dealt with all the outsiders who were associated with the enslavement of the elf. Blood flowed through the streets of Usuria, and everyone finally found out who the true ruler of the outsiders of this city was.

On this day, Milica took the elf who had been enslaved as her new student in recent years. That elf was Eulalia.

Eulalia was only able to dispel her boredom for a short time, and soon she was back to her old self.

She was brought out of this state by the news that a new gang of outsiders had reappeared in the city, trading for the slavery of captured outsiders.

Without hesitation, she got rid of them too. Among the captive slaves, she noticed a young man who was injured. She would have passed by if she hadn't noticed that the wound on his body wasn't inflicted physically, but with the help of magic.

Later, she gave the name Nemo to this young man, as he could not speak due to his injury. In her eyes, Nemo held too many secrets for an ordinary person.

First of all, he miraculously survived being affected by the spell.

Secondly, Nemo had a symbiotic relationship with the spirit, which greatly shocked Milica. Being an elf, she knew about spirits and revered them as children of nature itself. The spirits were pure and innocent creatures. According to her ideas, the spirits never chose representatives of intelligent races as "parents", but always chose innocent animals. And the fact that such a being accepted this young man as his "parent" seemed unthinkable.

Thirdly, this young man had three unusual connections with the higher races at once. The first of these was the pendant he was wearing. Inside it was a piece of the soul of the one who gave this pendant. Milica knew that such pendants were usually given by superior races such as the Valkyries to their chosen partners.

Unlike the first bond, the second and third, which Nemo possessed, were marriage marks, symbolizing the union of two beings. These marks meant eternal connection and devotion. The first mark belonged to the dragon race, and the second to the cursed bloodsuckers.

Thinking about it, Milica remembered that the Valkyries live in a detached and secretive manner on their Celestial continent, not showing themselves to the inhabitants of this world. Ordinary people don't even know about the existence of the Celestial continent. But Milica knew that the Valkyries were one of the races claiming to be the ruler of this world.

Dragons, in turn, are widespread on the Labyrinth continent and in Magelia. Milica suspected that Nemo might have met one of them on the Labyrinth continent.

Bloodsuckers, popularly known as Vampires, were originally the indigenous inhabitants of the continent of Labyrinths and dungeons. However, due to the ancient war that partially destroyed this continent and led to the invasion of dungeons all over the world, vampires migrated to the continent of Ludelia. Currently, they, along with other races associated with the Labyrinth, have occupied a significant part of this continent.

Milica wondered how this young man, who was barely 20 years old, managed to attract the attention of three representatives of the higher race. Each of these races is not known for its restraint, and as far as Milica knew, they all have a very possessive nature.

Milica suspected that none of the women who had been involved with Nemo in the past knew about the existence of the other two.

This realization lifted Milica's spirits, and she was looking forward to the moment when these women would meet and have a real catfight. They were all from a superior race and possessed powerful strength. Milica wondered what kind of destruction their meeting could cause, and how the current Nemo, who did not even know about their existence, would be able to cope with these three.

And so, when Milica was sitting in her office, preparing potions and necessary things for Idan and Arabel, who were soon to go to the Forbidden Zones, she felt strange vibrations coming from the second floor.

She immediately recognized who their source was and hurried to the second floor. Recently, Idan and Arabel visited her and made it clear that they needed privacy for a while.

Milica didn't think much of it at the time, but now she finally realized that this couple was probably up to something.

She went to the nearest room, which belonged to Idan, but did not immediately enter, fearing that she might interfere with him. However, she couldn't wait or guess, so she knocked first and waited for someone to answer. She didn't dare to use her Soul Force to scan the room for fear of provoking a backlash.

After no one answered, but the strange waves only intensified, Milica opened the door a crack and looked inside. Instead of Idan, there was a pulsating blood-red cocoon in the middle of the room.

Numerous bloody threads stretched from the cocoon, which clung to the walls, floor and ceiling of the room, holding it in the air. Strange fluctuations of energy emanated every time the cocoon pulsed.

Milica was surprised by what she saw. She had never seen anything like it before.

Milica was mesmerized by the sight in front of her and forgot for a moment.

It wasn't until sometime later, when the waves emanating from the cocoon became more intense, that she came to her senses.

After leaving Idan's room and looking into Arabel's room, Milica found a similar picture there. Inside Arabel's room, there was also a pulsating blood-red cocoon.

Having understood the essence of what was happening, Milica immediately created a restraining and masking spell around her house, designed to hide the waves emitted by the cocoons. She could only sense them because she was close enough. From what she experienced next to them, Milica realized that the waves would get stronger over time, and sooner or later, if their spread was not limited, all residents of the city would feel them.

Milica did not want others to find out about this, and therefore decided to hide what was happening.

Nemo and Eulalia were soon summoned to their mentor's house. When they saw what the couple had become, they were shocked. Milica quickly explained the situation to them and ordered them to be carefully guarded and monitored, not allowing anyone near the house, not even her subordinates. She only entrusted it to the two of them, as she trusted them completely.

Nemo and Eulalia took up their mentor's assignment with seriousness. However, the spirit residing inside Nemo was disturbed and agitated by the waves of energy emitted by the cocoons.

"Nemo! Nemo! I want this!" Izzy started screaming into Nemo's ears, pointing at the cocoon.

Nemo was speechless.

"What do you mean, 'I want this'? Do you want to eat it?" asked the stunned Nemo.

"No, you fool! The energy it emits is bloodline energy, and it's so pure! If I can absorb and absorb it a bit, my cultivation will accelerate exponentially!" The spirit said enthusiastically.

If she had matched her voice and looked like a little girl, Nemo would have imagined her eyes burning with excitement and desire.

"And what needs to be done for this?" he asked, calming down and realizing that she only needed the energy coming from the cocoon.

"Just sit under the cocoon and I'll do it myself," Izzy said, starting to rush Nemo.

Forgetting about his duty to protect and not let anyone near the cocoon, Nemo himself came and crouched under it. He reasoned that by doing so, he was not violating his mentor's protection order.

The spirit named Izzy began to absorb the energy emitted by the cocoon with great joy and enthusiasm, rapidly increasing her strength and growth.