Chapter 294: Chapter 294. Journey into Hell
"So, do you want to sell this to me? Believe me, I am not deceiving you; five soul stones are more than enough for this space prop," Gal calmly said without a single hint of shame on her face, as if she didn't try to deceive Myne at all.
"Hey, who is she calling a little girl? From her face, she looks younger than me. How dare she call me a little girl? Myne, put me down. I have to teach this little brat a life lesson," Velvet angrily hissed in Myne's ear while shaking her body as if she really wanted to beat Gal.
Myne could only roll his eyes helplessly at Velvet's excitement.
This little brat whom you wanted to teach a lesson is already over 50 years old. So, isn't it natural for her to call you a little girl? Also, don't talk about whether you could even touch her hair before getting beaten, why the hell are you angry over such a small matter? Myne thought all of this but didn't dare to raise his voice.
He had no way to provoke Velvet, where he got such confidential information about a stranger girl's real age, which probably wasn't something he should know. Just taking the side of a stranger over his own girl was bad enough for him to get beaten to death by Velvet, not to mention other things. So he decided to change the subject as soon as possible.
"You can take it. It's not like we have anything valuable on us that we want to put into it. Anyway currently, our pockets are as clean as our faces, so having a bit of money with us will surely help us buy a few necessary things. By the way, do you have a market here? Where do you use your money anyway?" Myne asked curiously while taking five soul stones from Gal.
The soul stones looked like crystalline, sphere-like objects with sizes ranging from 10 to 15 centimetres, with a white light flickering inside them. They were quite similar to mana stones, the only difference being that mana stones are blue, while soul stones are white.
"Although there is no market, there is an exchange centre on the 4th floor. You can exchange anything you want with soul stones. There's every kind of thing available for your needs, as long as you have sufficient soul stones to buy anything. Just remember, the lower floors aren't for sightseeing with your wife on your back. Your disguise won't hold up a minute down there.
Those creatures working around you might look innocent to you, but it's only because you look like them, and they don't have the power to see through you. Otherwise, if you were in your real hume form, you might have already become food for many creatures," Gal explained after completing the transaction.
She first emptied out the storage bag she nearly brought before bringing Myne and Velvet toward the giant red teleportation door with a happy smile on her face
"But I didn't want to go out alone. Is there any way to make Velvet completely invisible or change her appearance like me?" Myne nervously asked in a low voice.
Hearing Myne's question, Gal suddenly stopped walking and started looking at Myne with a weird expression. "What do you mean you want to go out? Are you saying you want to return to your world?"
"Of course. We didn't plan on spending our lives here. We just need to figure out how to escape this tower and then find our way back to our kingdom, where we... accidentally stumbled from."
This time, it was Velvet who replied. For some reason, she felt like Gal was talking too much with Myne, which was not a good sign. So, she suddenly interrupted Myne before he could say anything.
"Haha, you two are indeed funny. Do you have any idea where this tower is? Oh, and let me give you a piece of bad news that might save your lives. No need to thank me. You can never return just by getting out of this tower because it's inside a pocket dimension, not in the world you both belong to...
Now, looking at your faces, it's clear that you two country bumpkins have no idea what I'm talking about. Forget it, just stay here, learn a few things, and you'll soon understand what I just said. But now, make haste; I don't have all day to accompany you two."
Leaving Myne and Velvet rubbing their heads in confusion and shock, Gal hurriedly started walking toward the big red teleportation door. Myne and Velvet, although having many unsolvable questions in their minds, realized that they weren't in a situation to ask anything without offering something useful in return. They could only follow her silently.
Soon, with mouths wide open while observing the gigantic teleportation door, Myne and Velvet entered it. When they opened their eyes again, they found themselves in a world purely surrounded by red light, with dense sulfur particles in the air and A fiery river of magma churned a few kilometres away, casting an eerie glow on the jagged landscape.
There were no clouds in the sky, nor any sign of the sun—just a pure, clean, bloody red sky with a few giant bird-like creatures soaring and clashing overhead, their battles a stark contrast to the desolate wasteland.
The area around the other side of the gigantic red teleportation door was similar to the 6th floor but with a focus on crude mining rather than intricate smithing. Grunting, mutated dwarves toiled over steaming ovens and clattering machinery.
Further from the working area were various small stone chambers with single rooms and a big stone house in the centre, probably Gal's personal house, as she had mentioned. In front of that house stood a big 5-meter tall stone statue of her, proclaiming who was the boss here.
Of course, there was also a statue of the real owner, Belial, but it was placed at the entrance gate very far from the teleportation site. If Myne's eyesight wasn't enhanced, he might not have been able to see it.
"Stop gawking like oafs and follow me! You're making me embarrassed" Gal snapped, rolling her eyes. "Haven't you ever been to hell? What's so special about it that you stand there gawking?"
When Myne and Velvet came to her side a few meters away from the portal, she handed them a blue, palm-sized fruit with small water-drop-like patterns on it. "Eat them. There's too much sulfur in the air, and you two will soon fall ill if you don't eat this fruit. After eating it, you won't feel any problems adapting to the hellish environment here for the next entire month.
But after that, you'll have to eat more if you want to stay here without getting ill. By the way, one soul stone for each fruit."
As Myne and Velvet ate the fruit Gal handed them, she nodded her head while slowly explaining its benefits. As soon as they finished eating, she immediately raised her hand in front of Myne and asked for payment with a smirk on her face.
"You're not cheating us to rob our money, right? Your smile doesn't look honest," Myne asked with a frown, handing Gal two soul stones.
"Oh, come on, dears," Gal cooed, her voice dripping with false sweetness. "How could you doubt a sweet, innocent girl like me? I'm just doing my job. The environment of hell is really not suitable for a normal living being, and you two aren't powerful enough for your bodies to endure a sudden change in environment. So, the fruit you eat is a must-have before entering hell.
Also, if it weren't for the fact that I know you two have money, I might not have told you about it. Until you realize it, you would have surely fallen ill, and then you'd have to spend more than just two soul stones to become healthy again."
"Oh, look, we finally come to your little house, and again, thanks to me, you got the best place in this entire Area Number 3, right beside my house. Security is guaranteed."
Myne and Velvet examined the small stone chamber with a two-meter-tall iron gate and then glanced at Gal's giant two-story house right beside it. Their mouths couldn't help but twist in response.
"Now, you two take a rest. Tomorrow, I will bring you to your worksite. Oh, there is no day and night system like your world, so here, take this." Gal handed them a special handwatch with twelve weird symbols on it. "It shows time in the hell dimension. When the smallest needle comes to that 'O' like symbol, I will come to you, got it? Now, do you feel your two soul stones are spent in the right place?
Sigh, today's children only know how to doubt their elders." Gal, while talking to herself, walked toward her luxurious house, leaving Myne and Velvet behind, silently watching her.
After shaking his head, Myne took out the golden key given to him by Belial and opened the iron door of the stone chamber. The interior of the stone chamber left Myne and Velvet speechless – there was nothing inside except dust and spider webs, of course. Those two things always managed to find a way for themselves.
Myne first used his cleaning skill to tidy up his new room before closing the iron door and taking out necessary items like a comfortable bed, a warm quilt, a sturdy table and chair, a flickering magic lamp, and a small stash of fruits and snacks.
Afterwards, Myne removed the disguises from Velvet and laid her down on the bed. He then took a deep breath and removed his disguise as well.
"At first, Myne thought he would have to face that unimaginable pain again, but to his surprise, the process of changing back to his original form wasn't painful at all, and he returned to his natural self in a few seconds."
"That was quick. I thought I would again have the opportunity to listen to your girlish scream, but it seems like my wish won't be fulfilled this time," Velvet commented while looking at Myne's excited little brother with a regretful expression since she couldn't taste it in her weak condition.
"No wonder the last time I woke up, you were smiling while looking at me. So, this was the reason, huh?" Myne, not caring about himself being naked since he had once again destroyed his clothes during the transformation, jumped on the bed beside Velvet. While burying his face in her big boobies, before closing his tired eyes.
"You know I haven't washed myself for months, and even now, I am covered in sweat, right? You shouldn't hug me like this; it's disgusting," Velvet, who was too weak to shake off Myne, replied with a deep sigh.
"Who cares? I've licked every part of your body, drunk your love juices God knows how many times, and tasted your saliva as if sucking a lollipop. If I really didn't like your natural odour, would I have done those things?
I could just f*ck your pussy and move on, instead of doing all those perverted things you always enjoy the most," Myne still facing inside Velvet's boobs, with a hand inside her leggy, he rubbed her naked butt, and another on her tail, messing with it, he spoke calmly, making Velvet's face turn red from embarrassment as she remembered all those perverted things Myne had done with her.
"Now, before you say anything, if you don't want to do intense exercise in this weak condition of yours, just stroke my head and let me play with your assets, so I can calm down my mind and fall asleep."
Velvet, although understanding that Myne didn't show it, was very disturbed inside. She wanted to help him relieve his pressure, but in her weak condition where she could hardly use her arms, she didn't know how to do it. So, she did what Myne told her. While hugging him tightly to give some warmth, she stroked his head and rasped his back, soon making him fall asleep...