Chapter 1174 - A Strange And Aberrant Forest

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Recalling what the Imps said…

"Well, there's one, right here, if you move to the southwest, you'll find a large lake of venomous green oozy water. Which is in fact a massive demonic beast known as the Big Green… By following the river, you'll reach a forest area filled with living black demon trees, which eat souls and are quite deadly… But I doubt they can be a problem for my lady!"

"If you get through that forest and follow the path made by the ancient ruins inside, you'll get to the Lands of Emptiness!"

Apparently we have to continue taking this southwest route from the Big Green, and then we'll reach a large forest made up of terrifying black tentacled trees, and after passing through the ruins in the middle of it straight through all of this forest, we'll reach the Lands of Emptiness, where the… these empty guys, however their name is, we'll meet them and ask them nicely if we can pass through the Gate that leads to the Greed Layer of Hell, where our good friend Mammon lays.

Moving forward, we finally reached the black forest after hours of moving over Carlos, our new Demonic Sandworm Pet which I revived after I accidentally killed him. Nothing too big, I am sorry for Carlos, but I had to do it because he was being very rude, now that he's back he's super nice too so its all good for me.

"We are getting closer to the forest!" said Celica.

"That's where it is… I see... I wonder if we can find something stronger there. I am bored." Sighed Truhan.

"There's certainly something! I can smell it! Woof!" said Wagyu's heads, looking into the dense forest.

"Alright Carlos, hurry up!" I said.

"GRRYYYYAAAARRRRR!"

Carlos suddenly began to swim through the vast desertic land around us at an incredible speed, making the land around us tremble a lot. His body was made to move incredibly quickly across the desert, after all he was a gigantic sandworm, what did you expect?

"The forest itself seems gigantic but normal, the power it emanates is not… these trees are indeed an interesting flora of this dimension, they're alive and have tentacles- wait, I think we have seen many in your divine real anyways." Said Redgaria.

"True they look like Small Chaotic Flesh Trees, but these are more compact and mostly composed of demon energy…" I said.

"Master, can I freeze it all for an easy travel?" asked Saphira to Redgaria.

"No! We are going through it normally." Said Redgaria.

"Now, now, it would be interesting to just burn it all down, but I am intrigued about getting inside. Perhaps we'll be able to find something interesting inside. Those ruins… they intrigue me, I wonder what they're there for? Were there demon civilizations in here before? We don't really know, and it excites me to learn about this hellhole's history." I said.

"If you say it like that it seems exciting, but don't call it hellhole…" said Zehe.

"Well, and what else it is guu?" asked Rimuru.

"It's…! Wait, it is indeed just a hellhole… literally." Sighed Zehe.

Before getting there, I decided to build a Drain Shrine really quick, which was formed swiftly as I had already made up the blueprint, using my abilities and Andromeda's help, I gathered all materials and simply materialized a new one after spending some divine points and divine energy, everything was done in an instant, and another shrine began to feed me with demonic energy.

But this was clearly not enough… not enough! I need more, more! I am insatiable…

"Alright! Let's get to it." I said, leading our party inside as we entered the massive forest, Carlos ended being dwarfed by the gigantic, black-colored trees which had many tentacles and crimson-red eyes, they were all like animals rather than monsters, and they looked at us rather creepily. They were all low-rank to mid-rank demonic plants, nothing too dangerous. Their tentacles were a bit annoying as they tried to violate us within them as if we were Hentai Characters, what the heck is up with that?

But I simple sliced them over and over without any issue. As I summoned the Undine Butterfly who summoned a Gate of Bjarmia atop its head and began firing projectiles made of water automatically while flapping its wings peacefully at our side. I also summoned Nova, and he began firing fireballs and fire breath around too. These two guys were having a blast, and seem to grow stronger the more they utilize the abilities assigned to them through my Path Jewels.

My party saw them and were surprised, I had not introduced them to everyone. Actually Bubu seemed envious as well as he had not seen them before either.

"BUBU?! BUBUEEEH!" he began to cry and complain, jumping around over Carlos's head and annoying the giant sandworm.

"Woah calm down already buddy! Relax! Nothing bad is going on, these guys are just our friends! Sheesh…" I sighed.

"Bubuuu!" he screamed angrily, he looked at the two Summons who innocently glared back. Bubu was obviously stronger than them and had mastered three Daos while the two only had mastered one, so they were his apprentices.

However, the butterfly, which was named Azure and the little star named Nova reached Bubu and suddenly lowered their heads. Although Nova had not a head to talk about, he was just a sphere- anyways, they did just that.

"Bu?!"

Bubu was left shocked! He glanced at the two Summons in surprise, they were acknowledging him as the superior one! Bubu looked at the two with his eyes wide open for a bit, but then nodded and calmed himself down. I don't get what's going on anymore.

"Bubu, bububuu! Bubueh, bubu!" he said, talking on his strange dialect, this caterpillar got cocky somehow, he looked at the two summons as if he was giving them orders, although the two continued to fend off the tree's tentacles.

"What is even going on?" asked Nesiphae.

"I-I think they became friends… Or something." I said.

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