"How can I free you?" Gabriel asked the Devil.
"Blood..." The Devil spoke in a dark tone.
Hearing his words, Gabriel couldn't help but think back to the statue. Millions of people were sacrificed to free the statue and even then, it wasn't completely free. He couldn't help but wonder if it was the same here.
"Human Blood?" he asked, frowning. He didn't think there were any humans here, other than himself. And he wasn't going to kill himself to free this Devil.
Fortunately for him, the Devil shook his head in response. "The Blood of Abyss..."
"I need the Blood of Abyss to become stronger, to regain my full power," the Devil continued, his eyes glowing with a fierce determination. "Get me blood, and I shall free myself!"
"What is Blood of Abyss? Where can I find it? And how much do you need?" Gabriel inquired.
However, in response, the Devil closed his eyes. He raised his right hand, bringing it closer to his face.
He opened his lips wide, revealing his sharp fangs which he stabbed inside his forearm.
As he freed his hands from his lips, pitch black blood started falling out, which slowly condensed into a small black dagger, which shone in a mysterious dark light.
The dagger floated in the empty space, moving closer to Gabriel.
"A dagger made from my Blood... This shall lead you to the Abyssal Beasts! Take their lives with the dagger and it shall collect their blood."
Gabriel reached out his hand, holding the dagger which brimmed with a mysterious power, as if it was trying to lead him in a certain direction.
"How many do I need to kill?" Gabriel asked as he tried to hold back the dagger.
"Kill! Kill! Keep killing until the dagger stops leading you! Only then it shall be enough!" The Devil spoke, before returning to its usual still position.
The more he moved the weaker he became, and the more blood he needed. Moreover, since he had sacrificed his own Blood to create the dagger, he became even weaker in response.
Gabriel gazed at the dagger in his hand. He didn't know just how strong those Abyssal beasts were and how hard it was to kill one. On top, he didn't even know how many he had to kill. Unfortunately, this was the only way out of this place that he could think of.
He couldn't rely on anyone else but the Devil! No one else was going to come here to save him!
Holding the dagger firmly in his hand, Gabriel flew in the Abyss, taking the direction that the dagger showed him. Moreover, he also noticed that when he held the dagger, his vision had improved, allowing him to see in the endless darkness of the Abyss.
Unlike before when he didn't see anything for days, this time he found something within half an hour.
In the distance, he could see multiple strange beasts, flying through the abyss. Each of the beasts looked fierce and powerful. However, to Gabriel's surprise, the thirty Abyssal Beasts in the distance were the same that he had seen when he first woke up in the Abyss.
These were frightening but he remembered that they hadn't attacked him when he was at his weakest.
Unfortunately,he couldn't repay their favor. He had to kill them to be free. He didn't know why they didn't attack him, but he had to.
Taking a deep breath, Gabriel gripped his weapon tightly and approached the beasts. As he got closer, he could see fear in their eyes. However, more than him, that fear appeared to be coming from the dagger which was made from the Devil's Blood.
Seeing the Dagger, most of the Abyssal Beasts there went wild. The fear caused them to attack Gabriel.
But Gabriel was prepared for the fight. He dodged their attacks and struck back with power and precision. Each swing of the Devil's Blood dagger was deadly.
To Gabriel's surprise, a few strikes from the dagger were enough to take down an Abyssal Beast. Not only that, but he could also feel that his Elemental Reserves were once again filling up, the more he killed.
Instead of exhausting his strength, he was gaining more. The dagger collected Blood of Abyss for the Devil. However, it also transferred some of that strength to him, to keep him going.
Now that Gabriel was able to use his Elements thanks to the Dagger, it became even easier for him. The Abyss was filled with darkness after all, which was one of his Elements.
Multiple dark shackles came out from the darkness, wrapping around the necks and the claws of the Beasts to hold them back.
Even though the Shackles couldn't hold the beast back for more than a few seconds because of them being stronger, those few seconds were more than enough for him to kill one.
Unlike in the outside world, Gabriel managed to kill the Abyssal Beasts more easily. Within a few minutes, the group of thirty beasts was devoured by the Dagger, which appeared to be the weakness of those seemingly invincible beings.
For the next few days, Gabriel kept flying through the endless abyss, killing the Abyssal Beasts wherever he found them.
In her two days, he had killed more than a hundred thousand beasts. However, the dagger still didn't stop leading him, as if it wasn't even close to enough!
Gabriel had been killing non-stop without taking any break, sometimes even forgetting why he was killing them.
More than a week passed, and the number of beasts that he managed to kill had reached in the millions, but it was still endless...
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Gabriel endlessly went through the abyss, killing everything he could find. On the other hand, Karyk went through the graveyard with an endless number of tombs, living the lives of the beings buried here.
Karyk lived multiple lives and suffered multiple deaths, learning the value of each life and each death. Meanwhile, Gabriel was starting to lose the value of death with how many he had killed.
Both of them were forced to take a different approach in life by destiny, and neither knew what the other was going through, and how it was going to affect their fate…
