Reborn as an Extra

Chapter 545: Inside Hell. Part-4.

The density of miasma in this place is very high, so high that the ’law’ of ’mana’ has been suppressed here.

Which means that the ’law’ of ’Miasma and Corruption’ is so powerful in this place that other ’laws’ of the world are heavily suppressed, and it’s possible for any kind of bizarre thing to happen here.

’It’s basically a little bit of a weaker version of the sea of miasma inside the spirit realm... it’s all been heavily corrupted...’

Rio looked at the floating cube and noticed that it was working much slower compared to the outside world.

’Thankfully I have been protecting it with my own sword intent all along or perhaps even this would have been targeted by miasma...’

Miasma can’t harm Rio, but that doesn’t mean it can’t try to retaliate against him; it can try to destroy his ’compass,’ it can try to hinder his mission, and it can create various problems for Rio.

[Sword Intent!]

[Elemental Sword Art: Miasma Type: Miasmic Shield!]

Just like how mages create a shield of mana around them to protect themselves from physical attacks, Rio created a powerful shield of miasma around him using the miasma in the surroundings.

’Well, I have sword intent as a shield so I don’t really need a second shield but covering the area around me with miasma will give me a higher level of camouflage...’

Rio had already sensed the miasma was starting to target him.

It got in his way and shattered the soul of the monster he was trying to examine, which means miasma will likely continue to create problems for Rio as time goes by.

’I can deal with most things... I just don’t want to end up facing an SS-rank Evil Spirit...’

The spirit realm corrupted with miasma is the best place for evil spirits to live; it’s possible for there to be millions and millions of them present in this place.

Rio can deal with most, but SS-rankers are still too much for him, and it’s possible that Miasma might try to send an SS-ranker his way.

’As long as I have this miasma covering... the miasmic detection of even SS-rank evil spirit won’t work on me...’

Rio sighed and started moving in the direction the cube was pointing towards.

’No wonder it’s said that it’s near impossible to navigate in the spirit realm and it’s easy to get lost here....’

Even Rio’s intuition and senses were being confused, let alone anyone else’s; even with miasmic detection, he could not tell exact directions, and the spatial fluctuations in the area were very unpredictable.

Sometimes the space would warp randomly, and sometimes it would become eroded with void storms.

The space randomly shrunk and stretched in this place, and it was very unstable in various locations.

Rio had to avoid those unstable locations while walking forward.

If he got thrown out of the spirit realm due to some random spatial fluctuation or instability, he might end up being teleported to some random location in the universe.

If that happened, it might become very difficult for him to come back to his original solar system.

’The spirit realm exists between reality and nothingness... creatures here are very bizarre and weird; even the space-time fabric here is behaving in bizarre ways...’

’No wonder the shadow dragons got banished to this place as punishment after they betrayed everyone during the demon extinction war...’

Sending someone to this place is one of the highest levels of punishment you can give to anybody.

Just staying in this place will make you a literal plaything for miasma and corruption, and you will be horribly tortured for hundreds of thousands of years if nobody kills you and shatters your soul to free you.

’How big of a sin did the shadow dragons commit that they got banished to this hellhole of a place...’

Shadow dragons are good at manipulating shadow, and they are proficient in shadow and dark elementals.

They have high resistance to miasmic corruption, but even they won’t be able to stay sane after staying in this kind of place for too long.

’How come Ellie was so ’humane’ and ’sane’ even though her real body exists in this kind of place?’

Rio was genuinely quite surprised that Ellie was even able to stay beside Liam without causing any troubles.

If it were any other shadow dragon, they would have already gone berserk and would have spread corruption everywhere before being killed off or sent back to the spirit realm.

’Ellie... What are you planning to do with Liam’s soul? I hope you are able to resist miasmic corruption and won’t do anything irreversible...’

Rio had no idea what the contract between Liam and Ellie was; he had no idea what deep emotions they both shared.

But as a friend, he had to at least try and give them a hand when they were in danger.

While Rio was walking, he saw dozens of those weird ’flowers’ that kept crying and vomiting all over the ground, but he didn’t approach them this time.

Rio knew that if he tried to read their memory, they would also blow apart, and miasma would once again pinpoint his location.

He wanted to keep his location hidden so that SS-rankers wouldn’t be able to find him; exposing his exact location would be fatal in this scenario.

’If I was an SS-ranker, I would have already started purifying this entire region of the spirit realm and would have absorbed all the miasma here to use as my own energy reserve...’

’It’s a shame I can’t create that level of chaos right now...’

As Rio always says, he’s not an ’Assassin’; he’s a ’Humble Swordsman,’ and working while hiding is not really his ideal way of doing things.

In his opinion, the most optimal solution to finding Liam would have been to go directly and find some wandering SS-rank evil spirit, torture its soul, and read its memories.

Then he would do the same procedure with dozens of them until he’s able to make a proper mental map of the entire region with their combined memories.

This would have made it much easier to find Liam with a map and knowledge of the region.

’Sigh, not having enough strength makes things so inefficient...’

He was forced to remain low-key and move slowly because he wanted to maintain his absolute camouflage; otherwise, he would have already raised chaos in this entire area.

*Rumble!* *Rumble!*

While Rio was thinking about various things in his mind, he saw a gigantic, mountain-sized evil spirit walking in the distance.

It was a massive turtle, and with each step, the ground trembled as if an earthquake were happening.

It was so huge that Rio didn’t even need to use his miasmic detection to verify, and he already knew that this being was definitely an SS-ranker without a doubt!

’Err... It’s indeed an SS-ranker... but its situation doesn’t look good either...’

The evil spirit was in the shape of a giant tortoise; its massive shell was made up of hundreds of thousands of giant maggots dried up and sticking to it.

Its entire body was covered in rot and corruption; there were gigantic eyes hanging around its body like pendulums of a clock.

The creature was so bizarre Rio could not predict how many spatial fluctuations it was creating with its weird body.

There were hundreds of thousands of wounds on its body, which was constantly bleeding black blood like a river.

It was leaving a giant trail of blood while walking forward, and there were hundreds of weaker evil spirits tailing it and drinking its spilled blood.

The scene was really uncomfortable to look at.