Chapter 138: The Chase Continues

"..." While Nio and Nioh successfully left the third floor of hell, Typhon also succeeded, arriving at the third floor in an absurdly fast time.

The magic she used earlier found another door to the third floor, and now that she’s arrived she immediately senses that Nio and Nioh aren’t on this floor.

"Seems both of them already left this floor...they’re more capable than they look...though nothing outside expectations..." Typhon had already anticipated the possibility of them leaving this floor before she arrived.

"..." Typhon looks at her hand, she notices the freezing before the effects even appear, unlike Nio and Nioh who only noticed when their lungs were already freezing, Typhon noticed the moment she touched this floor.

"This is a problem even for me...Third Floor...the Sea of Lamentations...the place where all the weak sinners who step on it become ice statues and are buried under thousands of tons of ice that only grow with time..." The snow and ice on the third floor are something constant.

In other words, they’re rising upward without stop, it’s impossible to say how deep this floor is with so much ice that exists below, after all hell is very old, but when this floor appeared it was initially a plain with only 4 centimeters of content below, and now it’s this place infinitely full of ice.

"..." Typhon thinks about what magic she can use to deal with the freezing, until she remembers that magic is frozen in this place.

"As far as I remember the cold is mainly at the upper part...so digging under the ground would be safer, if someone is frozen on this floor leaving it becomes almost impossible, it’s one of the few floors where you can get eternally stuck, however going under the ice is inefficient and very time-consuming, aside from the magic expenditure to stay warm below the ice..."

"[Kra-Yu&**Ty---Dra]" Typhon uses another magic she normally wouldn’t use in front of Nio, the pronunciation again is something cut off by using "sounds" that shouldn’t exist as words.

[Kra-Yu&**Ty---Dra] Temporarily turns the user’s body into a source of pure energy.

Typhon’s chest opens, the flesh pulses to the sides exposing the chest completely, the lungs, heart and ribs become exposed while blood drips.

The bones retract inward compressing and dragging everything in the way to the sides opening space in the middle of the thorax.

Inside this "flesh cabin" a blood-red sphere appears while veins of flesh sprout from the sphere fixing themselves to Typhon’s flesh, immediately the sphere begins to replace all of Typhon’s blood.

Typhon’s skin begins to glow purple and red, all her blood being replaced by a pure and dense plasma, but extremely stable and pasty, Typhon’s veins glow red making it possible to see every vein from inside the body from outside it thanks to the glow.

The amount of heat that Typhon’s body emits is so great that not even the cold can reduce the temperature near her, part of the flesh of Typhon’s chest melts dripping to the ground while her chest stays open and exposed.

It’s like an immense furnace only without any protection, despite most of the flesh of Typhon’s body melting grotesquely there are parts that don’t melt.

Her head, her tail and her feet, are the only parts where the plasma is forbidden from circulating, after all Typhon needs to be able to move, Typhon’s body is emitting so much heat in a stable way that it’s like a small star in movement, nowhere near as hot as one, but still extremely hot.

Just the air ten meters from Typhon already exceeds 100 thousand degrees celsius, while the air 3 meters from her reaches 1 million degrees celsius, it’s so hot that naturally her body’s only response was to melt, it was impossible for her flesh to last.

It’s so hot that the very air is turning into plasma and radiation is being emitted and released continuously creating a dangerous zone around her.

If this place weren’t hell and the ice of the environment weren’t very different from common ice the damage that this magic of Typhon would cause would be incalculable, just from her being on a living planet she would raise its temperature so much that all oceans would dry up in a few minutes when the heat spread.

And all this is thanks to the fact that these magics of Typhon are magics far above level 100, they’re magics she should only use when she had her original power, since she doesn’t have her original power when using such magics her body is grotesquely wounded in compensation.

And if it weren’t for hell she would literally die in a few minutes from using such dangerous magics.

"If I had used magics of this type in the fight against Nio...I would have died without her doing anything, and this magic isn’t even that strong, it’s even weak and even so it would kill me just from using it...yeah...it’s frustrating how weak I am..."

"..." Typhon begins to walk, she can’t fly using magic in this state, her open chest and her constantly melting flesh are wounds that greatly reduce her mobility, however it’s still faster than walking digging tunnels in the ice.

"This stings slightly...I wonder what others would feel..." Typhon feels pain, understands pain, and can even groan in pain, however Typhon doesn’t really comprehend what pain is.

For her pain is information, a acquired data that says where a wound is, her bizarre mentality isn’t capable of understanding personal physical suffering, she understands that wounds hurt, but isn’t capable of reacting to pain like others.

That’s why she doesn’t even hesitate to deform, melt or destroy her body when using certain magics, all that matters to her is whether it will work.

"My flesh is melting too fast, in the past this didn’t generate enough heat to wound me...my resistance is inferior to what I expected..." The atoms around Typhon are extremely energized, while each step of hers leaves a trail in the environment.

"But it’s fine...I’m sorry Nio, it will take longer than I’d like to find you..." Typhon feels guilt, not for any mistake of hers, but for leaving both Nios alone, of so many things to feel guilty about everything is still centered on Nio.

Either way all this doesn’t matter to Typhon, because of the extreme cold her body doesn’t overload with heat so the temperature neither reduces nor increases, forming a natural "shield" that allows her to wander as she pleases through the same floor that nearly incapacitated Nio.

"We’ll see each other soon my love, I hope you’re safe on the fourth floor, I wish you much luck...you’re going to need it" She expresses genuine desire for Nio’s safety, while knowing that the fourth floor isn’t as "easy" as the third floor.