The fifth floor was the largest of the floors in the Dungeon, measuring twice the size of the maze. However, nearly half the area within the floor was taken by the giant, unbeating heart of the Celestial Dragon.
The Celestial Dragon’s Soul appeared on the fifth floor, watching the heart that once gave her life. Even after her death, the heart still possessed a lot of her strength within it.
“The person who came here, wants to take you away. I can’t allow him to become stronger.” She floated closer to the heart.
She had always been guarding this place as soon as she gained consciousness in her spiritual form. Although she didn’t know how her heart ended up here, and how the maze appeared from her body, she knew that her purpose was to protect this heart.
If it fell in the wrong hands, it could cause her descendants to stay sealed forever. She had long been waiting for her descendants to arrive, so that the heart could be used to unseal the bloodline of dragon remnants.
With the arrival of the Sea Dragon Empress, she saw hope for the first time.
Even the Cardinal who came in the past, died without being able to meet her. But this time, in her excitement, she even revealed herself before it was time.
She didn’t think that Eren was a vicious wolf, hiding in the shadows to devour her. If she had known that, she never would’ve shown herself in front of him.
She even regretted her decision to go to the first floor.
“If my descendants are siding with that person, then everything is lost. Even if I might be destroyed, I will never let them get what they want.”
She placed her hand on the heart, using the remnant essence within her soul to stimulate the heart. It was no different than her sacrificing the remnant soul and her life, all to activate just one ability of hers on the heart.
For a brief moment, the heart started hearing, while the soul of the Celestial Dragon became even more blurry. With each passing second, her existence was being erased.
At the same time, the space in the surroundings was being stimulated. Spatial Flickers appeared all around the heart, the surroundings becoming unstable.
With the heart temporarily beating, she started activating the spatial teleportation ability that she could freely use when she was alive. It was also one of her life saving abilities in the past.
Due to her fragmented memories, she didn’t remember why she didn’t manage to survive even if she had an ability like this. Still, it didn’t matter for now.
The spatial cracks started getting bigger with the reality itself becoming bigger. The Celestial Dragon’s Heart also started shining with the aura of space.
“Just a few more seconds…” The Celestial Dragon’s Soul mumbled, her spirit barely visible at this point.
As she was about to complete the process, her expressions suddenly darkened. She felt a cold hand grab the back of her head.
She was suddenly pulled back, her hand from the Celestial Dragon’s Heart. Instead, it was Eren who placed his hand on the heart.
With one hand, he devoured the live essence of the Celestial Dragon that the heart had consumed to activate this ability. With the other hand, he transferred it to the soul against her will.
Her spirit, that was on the verge of disappearing, started recovering. It became more visible, slowly returning to the state she used to be when she met him.
After she recovered to the same extent, Eren took his hand off the heart.
For the first time, he uttered a few words to her, “Let’s make you bleed…”
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The heart had stabilized as the force of the spirit was taken back. It stopped beating once more. The space also recovered with the cracks in the surroundings disappearing.
Eren was sitting on the ground, his back resting against the heart.
His eyes were closed, as if he was simply sleeping peacefully. However, his heartbeat was slightly fast paced, as his chest heaved up and down. His skin was also paler than usual, but he still looked fine.
His clothes were stained in blood, but it didn’t appear to be his blood as there was not a single wound on his body.
An unknown amount of time passed before Eren’s eyelids flickered. He slowly opened his eyes, groaning in pain, as if his body was hurting. He felt like an old man, who had just hurt his back.
With his vision becoming clear, he saw wondered where he actually was.
The last time he used the unseal talisman, he was able to see everything that happened as if it was a dream. It was the same this time.
He saw a dream where he was beating the Celestial Dragon’s Soul. He even saw himself traveling through the second, third and the fourth floor, without a single trouble.
It was only when he appeared on the fifth floor that he couldn’t see everything, as if his dream had ended right there. For some strange reason, he didn’t remember anything that happened on the fifth floor.
Now that he regained his senses, he could observe his surroundings to guess just what transpired here.
The first thing he noticed was his clothes, that were stained in blood. It didn’t feel like his blood either, especially since the blood was white, filled with a spiritual essence.
“Is this the blood of Celestial Dragon’s Soul?”
He soon noticed a gruesome sight. In the distance, there were remnants of the Celestial Dragon’s Soul. It was as if she was ripped apart when the soul was still alive and could feel everything.
She was made to go through the torment so she could watch herself bleed. In the end, her mind itself was destroyed, leaving nothing but the remnants of the spirit.
As the remnants of the spirit were still lying in the surroundings, in the puddle of white blood, it was clear that she wasn’t dead. She was still alive, but it was worse than being dead.
She was completely destroyed, externally and internally, her eyes blankly looking in his direction with no semblance of life or emotion.
“How did I make a soul bleed?” Eren wondered, still finding it hard to believe.
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