BXBX NOVEL Chapter 352 - A New Mission
Alfonso looked at the person in front of him with disbelieve.
"Dante?"
"Yo buddy, welcome back~" Said Dante with a smile.
"What the…" Alfonso didn\'t know what to think.
"Buddy, before anything, let me tell you how impressed I am with you" Said Dante.
"What do you mean?" Asked Alfonso.
"I mean… this is the first time that I have seen the gods here so pissed about someone, to actually drag a living human here… I must express a sincere bow to you" Said Dante while bowing.
"I…" Alfonso was confused.
"Even I didn\'t piss them so much" Added Dante.
"What did I do? I don\'t remember having troubles with the underworld…" Murmured Alfonso.
"Oh but you do, Alfonso" A voice came from behind Afonso.
"Who!?"
Alfonso turned and saw a small kid with platinum hair looking at him. He seemed to be not older than 13 years old, he was wearing a pair of shorts and a white t-shirt.
"Who is this little kid?" Asked Alfonso to Dante.
"I don\'t know, he came just before you woke up" Said Dante.
"How come you don\'t recognize me, Alfonso?" Said the kid.
"Have we met before?" Asked Alfonso.
The kid looked at Alfonso and sighed.
"Maybe this will help" Said the kid.
Suddenly, from his hair, a pair of ears grow, also, from his back, a small tail could be seeing.
"How about now?" Asked the kid.
Alfonso was stunned.
"C-C-Cerberus!?" Asked Alfonso.
"Bingo" Said Cerberus with a cheeky smile.
Alfonso couldn\'t believe his eyes, he grabbed the cheeks of Cerberus.
"Is that really you?" Asked Alfonso.
"Stosh pullinsh mysh cheesh!" Said Cerberus.
"Oh, sorry" Said Alfonso.
"Anyway, the one surprised here is me" Said Cerberus.
"Huh?" Asked Alfonso.
"You are quite the celebrity down here" Said Cerberus.
Alfonso had three question marks above his head.
"You are the number one troublemaker here in the Underworld" Said Alfonso.
"Tr-troublemaker?" Asked Alfonso.
"You see, to explain it better, I have to tell you about the process of someone whose soul is sent here" Said Cerberus.
"When someone dies, the soul is reclaimed by a grim reaper, then the grim reaper in question absorbers the negative soul power of the soul in question, they become stronger and the soul loses all his or her powers, that\'s why, even if a champion at the emperor level comes here, they won\'t be different from any mortal"
Alfonso nodded.
"However, to extract the soul of someone, there are a few conditions, for instance, the process of \'dying\' is just that the body can\'t support the soul anymore and it comes out of the body; A body without a soul decay and so on"
"Here it comes one of the reasons you are so popular, you see, the soul power that you contain, in theory, it\'s too much for your body, that\'s why you should have been dead a lot of time ago… however, there is something else inside you that, basically, don\'t let your body decay while your soul remerged with your body" Said Cerberus.
"Something?" Asked Alfonso.
"A second soul" Said Cerberus.
"There is someone else inside you, that\'s why you haven\'t \'die\' yet" Said Cerberus.
Alfonso immediately though in Chrono.
"However, that\'s not the most important reason, the most reason is your soul in question" Said Cerberus.
"Your soul, who has died two times already, has absorbed the death aura on the underworld, so your soul has a HUGE amount of death soul power, that makes the grim reapers go crazy on your soul" Said Cerberus.
"Really?" Asked Alfonso in disbelieve.
"I have been here for some time and your name is known in all the 8 levels of the underworld"
"As he said, even the gods of hell are anxious for your soul"
"I supposed that\'s also the reason why are you here" Said Cerberus.
"What?"
"The god of the sixth level was the one who summoned your soul here, of course, he paid a huge price but still…" Said Cerberus.
"Do you know him?" Asked Alfonso.
"Of course, I do, after all… I came here to kill him" Said Cerberus.
Alfonso looked at Cerberus who had a resolute expression.
"Why?" Asked Alfonso.
"He has something that belongs to me, I want it back" Said Cerberus.
"What is it?" Asked Alfonso.
"…" Cerberus didn\'t answer.
Alfonso looked at Cerberus and sighed.
He patted the head of Cerberus.
"It\'s okay if you don\'t want to say it, however, let me help you" Said Alfonso.
"Alfonso…"
"I want to go too!" Said Dante.
"Oh, he has something that belongs to you as well, Alfonso" Said Cerberus.
"Something that belongs to me?"
Cerberus touched the cane of Alfonso.
"This strange cane of yours… he has a pendulum that irradiates the exact type of soul power that this cane of you does" Said Cerberus.
\'DING!\'
Suddenly, a notification from the system sounded on Alfonso\'s head.
[Urgent Mission!
Escape from the Underworld! : The second artifact of time, the pendulum of time has appeared! Only its power can let you escape from the Underworld! Find it and escape from the Underworld in less than seventy hours before your soul belongs to the Underworld forever!
Rewards: Pendulum of time + 4000 Drachmas
Remark: Visiting the fallen heroes might help you in your journey]
Alfonso looked at the mission and knew he didn\'t have much of a choice.
"So, what do we do now?" Asked Alfonso.
"I know two routes, the safest one and the shortest one, which would you like to take?" Said Dante.
"I recommend the safest one by the way" He added.
"If we took the safest one, how many days will it take us to reach the sixth level?" Asked Alfonso.
"About 3" Said Dante.
"Days?" Asked Alfonso.
"No, years" Said Dante.
"…"
"I get it! You are in a hurry! Sure! Let\'s go get ourselves killed by taking the shortest one!" Said Dante.
"How many days will it take us if we take this route?" Asked Alfonso.
"If we somehow managed to get in one piece… seventy hours" Said Dante.
Alfonso nodded and the two young men and the little boy began their journey.