I Regressed With a 10,000x God-Tier Multiplier-Chapter 16: The Oracle’s Rescue
Lucifer stood before the massive adamantine doors. He tightly gripped the hilt of his cracked broadsword. The divine quest heavily restricted his options.
He could not just blow the doors off the hinges. He had to sneak five thousand heavily armored soldiers into an active hostile stronghold completely undetected.
He closed his eyes and aggressively tapped into his newly expanded thirty thousand mana pool.
"Soulbound Arcanum," Lucifer whispered. "Cast Veil of the Void. Maximum radius."
Darkness violently exploded outward from the chest of Lucifer. It was not just an absence of light. It was a physical heavy blanket of pure suffocating shadow magic. The dark energy aggressively swallowed Lucifer, Elara, and the entire five-thousand-man legion of Cryo-Vanguards completely.
The massive blue army completely ceased to exist to anyone standing strictly outside the radius of the spell. They cast no shadows. They emitted absolutely no body heat.
Even the heavy rhythmic clanking of their crystal armor against the stone floor was entirely muted by the magical vacuum.
The cost was entirely brutal.
┏━━━━━━━[ Spell Active ]━━━━━━━┓
│ Spell: Veil of the Void
│ Target: Self + 5,000 Linked Summons
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│ Upkeep Cost: -1,000 Mana per Minute.
│ Current Mana: 29,000 / 30,000
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Lucifer gasped quietly. A heavy dull ache instantly settled directly in the center of his chest. He actively burned a thousand mana every sixty seconds just to keep the army hidden. He strictly raced against a lethal ticking clock.
The Veil would collapse if he ran out of mana before they cleared the base. This would leave them entirely exposed in the middle of a heavily fortified enemy camp.
"Move," Lucifer commanded through the muted magical link. "Quick and completely silent."
Elara stepped up to the massive black adamantine doors. She firmly wedged her silver gauntlets directly into the microscopic gap between the heavy metal plates. She aggressively engaged her celestial strength. Her metallic wings flared.
She slowly forced the massive doors apart just wide enough for Lucifer and his to slip through with a completely silent terrifying display of raw physical power.
They slipped completely through the narrow gap directly into the inner sanctum of the Cult of Decay.
The room was absolutely massive. The walls were constructed entirely of polished bone and dark rotting flesh. Hundreds of glowing green candles provided dim sickening illumination.
The fifty Dark Elves Astrid had warned him about stood in a wide defensive perimeter directly in front of the door. They wore sleek black leather armor and held wickedly curved poisoned daggers.
Their eyes were entirely blank and completely clouded over by heavy dark purple blood magic. They stared blankly forward to act as mindless completely stationary sentries.
Lucifer led his cloaked army smoothly through the gaps in the Dark Elf perimeter. The Elves did not react. The Veil of the Void hid the massive army perfectly.
[Current Mana: 22,000 / 30,000]
Lucifer checked his interface. Seven minutes had already passed. His chest burned fiercely.
They bypassed the guards and aggressively approached the exact center of the massive room.
A raised entirely blood-stained obsidian altar dominated the center of the sanctum. Twenty heavily robed Cultists surrounded the altar.
They actively chanted in a guttural demonic language. Their hands were raised aggressively toward the dark ceiling.
A young woman lay completely flat on the bloody altar bound tightly with heavy iron chains. She had long flowing golden hair that seemed to actively emit a faint warm starlight. She wore completely torn white robes. Her eyes were closed. Her face was pale and heavily exhausted.
This was Sarah. The Star-Touched Oracle.
The Cult Leader stood directly over her. He wore heavily spiked bone armor and held a massive jagged sacrificial dagger completely dripping with dark purple poison.
He raised the dagger high directly above his head and fully prepared to plunge it directly into the heart of Sarah to complete the dark ritual.
Lucifer did not have time to issue complex orders completely. He had to break the brainwashing magic instantly before the knife fell.
"Vanguard," Lucifer whispered through the magically muted link. "Target the twenty robed cultists around the altar. Suppressed fire. Execute."
Fifty Elven snipers aggressively stepped entirely out of the cloaking shadow and dropped smoothly to one knee.
"Fire."
Fifty suppressed absolute zero beams violently lanced completely across the dark room. The Vanguard did not need a massive volley because the targets were completely unarmored and entirely stationary. The frozen beams aggressively struck the twenty chanting cultists perfectly in their heads.
The cultists did not even have time to scream. Their heads instantly flash-froze and violently shattered into bloody ice dust. The twenty headless bodies collapsed entirely to the bone floor with a series of wet thuds.
The Cult Leader froze with his sacrificial dagger still entirely raised directly above his head. He stared in absolute shock at his dead congregation.
The death of the Cultists instantly shattered the dark magical tethers in the room. The fifty brainwashed Dark Elves entirely collapsed to the ground by the door. They aggressively gasped for air as the purple fog violently cleared from their eyes. The children of the goddess were completely safe.
The Cult Leader heavily recovered his wits. He swung the poisoned dagger downwards. He heavily intended to finish the sacrifice before the invisible enemy killed him too.
[Current Mana: 15,000 / 30,000]
Lucifer did not rely on the snipers to hit a moving target positioned directly over the hostage. He aggressively dropped the Veil of the Void spell entirely.
The massive blanket of shadows vanished. The five thousand blue snipers instantly materialized in the room. Lucifer completely ignored them. He aggressively activated the Zephyr’s Grace Emblem.
A sonic boom violently shattered the remaining green candles in the room. Lucifer completely crossed the massive gap between his position and the altar in a single terrifying microsecond.
The dagger of the Cult Leader was exactly two inches from the chest of Seraphina.
Lucifer materialized directly beside the altar. He aggressively drove the jagged broken hilt of his snapped broadsword directly straight up into the exposed gap under the jaw of the Cult Leader. He heavily channeled his multiplied fifteen Strength directly into the blow.
The broken steel punched directly straight through the skull of the Cult Leader and instantly pierced his brain.
The Cult Leader went entirely rigid. The poisoned dagger slipped harmlessly from his hand and clattered loudly across the stone. Lucifer violently kicked the massive body backward and sent the dead leader heavily crashing down the altar steps.
[Ding! Target Eliminated.]
Lucifer entirely ignored the system prompt. He heavily leaned over the bloody altar and aggressively grabbed the thick iron chains heavily binding the Oracle. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
He channeled a quick localized burst of completely raw magical energy directly into the rusted metal. The chains snapped apart like brittle glass.
Sarah heavily gasped as her eyes flew completely open. Her golden eyes locked directly onto the face of Lucifer.
Her physical body entirely completely exhausted by the dark ritual completely gave out. She slipped straight off the edge of the smooth altar.
Lucifer rapidly lunged forward and caught her firmly with both arms before she hit the stone floor. She felt completely weightless.
Her starlight hair heavily spilled across his leather coat. She looked directly up at him entirely shivering.
A new massive glowing interface aggressively violently chimed entirely directly in front of the eyes of Lucifer.
┏━━━━━━━[ System Alert ]━━━━━━━┓
│ Entity: Seraphina (Star-Touched Oracle)
│ Emotion Status: Absolute Devotion.
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│ Rare Event Triggered!
│ A Soul Bond has successfully formed.
│ The Oracle’s fate is now permanently linked to the Host.
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Lucifer heavily stared at the prompt. He looked down at the young Oracle entirely resting weakly in his arms.
The massive strain of the Veil spell and the Warlord ascension heavily caught up to him. His chest burned. His mana had completely dropped heavily down to exactly 5,000 points.
"The altar is completely secure," Lucifer rasped heavily and completely ignored the terrified Dark Elves slowly waking up near the door. He held Sarah entirely tight.
"The boss fight has not even started yet."
