Into The Portal: Monster Invasion

Chapter 100: Mirror of the Soul?

Miles opened his eyes and looked around. The vision in front of him was foreign to him. He looked at the scene in front of him. There was a girl kneeling on one knee. The room was gigantic. He could see his lower body from where he was sitting, but the bucket-thick legs weren't his. Neither does the room.

From where he was sitting, he could see the room in all its majesty. There was a giant golden door across the room and the walls were painted in the light shade of red. Miles failed to see any window and there were torches on the wall. He only heard about torches and never saw them before, because all AI Wristwatches were built with strong flashlights.

"Not bad, not bad at all!" The thunderous voice spoke from Miles's body. He didn't recognize the voice, but it had a majestic vibe. As if it was filled with arrogance and nobility. "You didn't let me down at all, Elfrun!"

"It is my honor to help you, father!" The girl on one knee spoke. Miles recognized the woman as soon as he saw her, but didn't know why she was calling him father. 'Is this some weird dream?' Miles tried to turn his head, but he had 0 control over his new body, he could only watch.

"Sadly their rank is too low, but eye-type artifacts that can fit me are too rare. I have to make do with it for now." The thunderous voice said once again, "Oh, it has other functions too. Hmm, it seems like I can see in the dark. But that is all. It is better than I expected. By the way, what orb did the monster drop"

"I wasn't able to acquire the orb, father." The girl said and recounted what had happened. Miles was flustered when he heard the girl. He was saying the thing that happened in the Umbra Forest, but what it had with the vision in front of him. And what was the eye artifact he was talking about? Wasn't that lens-type artifact like Prince Dark told him?

"That damned Marooner again? Useless" His body spoke with rage, "But since that fool Prince was there, there wasn't much you could do."

"I wonder what Mercer would think if I were to face him now. He thought he killed me at that time and took out my eyes. But I lived! I lived to avenge what he did to me!"

Grandfather? Miles's brain had another short circuit again. Why does this person mention Grandfather? What is the connection between them? Grandfather killed this person and took his eyes? I never heard such a cruel thing. Come to think of it, Grandfather is mostly known as Cruel Heart, and not many call him by his name.

Since the girl in front of me is from Starve Cleric, and she kneels down in front of this person, if we accept all this to be real, the man who I am hearing must be the leader of the Starve Cleric.

But the Leader of the Starve Cleric died. My grandfather killed him. That also matches with what this body just said. Mercer failed to kill him. Did the Leader of the Starve Cleric really survive, and lose his eyes only. Then it would make sense for the Starve Cleric girl to let me have the orb and focus on eye-type artifacts. She must have retrieved them for her father.

"The time is coming, father. Your time is coming!

We will soon have enough manpower to execute those despicable people." Elfrun said, and added, "Also, I am in the pinnacle-tier now. Please bestow upon this lowly slave your divine teachings about energy!"

While Miles was thinking, he suddenly focused on what was going on. He was searching for a way to learn more about energy ever since he used it accidentally, and now he listened to the term again. He hoped the person would teach on the spot, but the reality wasn't as he wished.

After some chit-chat, the body accepted to teach, and Miles started to think. How long will I see this, and how long has it been since I entered this vision? If time flows the same for my body and in this vision, I cannot stay and watch, otherwise, it would be too dangerous. But I don't know if I can come again. Hell, I don't even know how I can get out.

"I will start to teach you every day, starting from next week. But you should still take it slowly. Even though you are at the pinnacle-tier now, energy is still harmful to your body. Anything lower than Form-Rank is thrash"

After the girl left, the body rose from the throne and walked to the mirror. When he was in front of the mirror, Miles finally saw the face of the person. It was a giant man with a thick blonde beard and red eyes. There were scars all over his body. His uncovered chest was also crisscrossed with many injuries.

Miles recognized the face to be Leader of the Starve Cleric. While the world knew he was dead, he was hiding wherever his base was.

"Only I know how to merge with monster artifacts thanks to that thing. And now I acquired these eyes. I guess I can accept his deal for once to thank him. I have an enmity with Cross as well anyway." The voice spoke to himself and looked at the newly acquired eyes. "What is this feeling? Ever since I got these eyes, I can't shake off this weird feeling."

Miles was afraid to be found out, but nothing happened. The man burned with blood-red flames washed over his body from inside to out but found nothing. Miles felt the path of energy moved in this person's body and felt something was wrong. He couldn't put his finger on it, but he felt like the way energy was moving redundant? It was inefficient.

"How can I know such a thing? I don't even know how to move energy, let alone the best way to use it." But in the next second, he cut off from the vision. He felt pain all over his body, and he was convulsing. He returned to his body, but couldn't even move a finger. He felt like his brain was splitting in two.

At this time he failed to notice the necklace around his neck had gotten warmer. It wasn't too hot, but it was emitting strange warmth. But by then Miles was long unconscious and too busy dealing with mind-splitting pain.