Chapter 318: Chaos' Return
Chapter 318: Chaos’ Return
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SPLAAAASSSSHHH!
Suddenly, water filled the entire temple where Chaos and Aruliel were fighting the Forbidden One’s Ego, finding themselves submerged in the swamps of the outside world of Amphibi!
The frog had suddenly vomited them, it happened so fast that when they finally realized something was happening, they already dropped over the swamp ocean…
“Graahh…! What the…? I am free? Then I don’t have anything to do with these fakers! I am out of here!” thought the Forbidden One’s Ego, swimming away from the temple while Chaos and Aruliel were being dragged by the water turbulences.
Chaos quickly manipulated the water using his water-attribute magic, and rushed forward, chasing down the Forbidden One’s Ego with Aruliel at his side.
Meanwhile, the Aberrant Psionic Cthulhu quickly tried to swim into the surface while dragging Froggo and the other two summons, coiling her tentacles around them to not let them get caught by the strong currents.
She quickly used Psychic Communication, Telepathy, to speak with Chaos.
“Chaos-sama! I have successfully caught Dura and I am healing her soul, and I have also secured this inferior amphibian life form and the two other incompetent summons, so you don’t have to worry about them!” she said happily, expecting praise.
Chaos nodded while chasing down the Forbidden One’s Ego with Aruliel at his side.
“Well done, you’ve done more than I thought you would, I will compensate you by giving you a true name soon, for now, make sure they survive, and seek Abyss and the others!” said Chaos.
“Understood!” said the Aberrant Psionic Cthulhu, feeling excited that she might give a true name in the near future, she swamps to the surface of the water, looking around as she floated in midair!
The first thing she encountered was… a giant frog looking down at her!
“Aaggh! S-So this was the thing that swallowed Master…! I-I have to get away from it!” she said, quickly flying away.
Meanwhile, the frog had just vomited all the things it had inside, even the lost temple, and even the temple with the sealed aberration made of combined fragments of the Forbidden One, that the ancient Saint of Amphibi had created, which the frog had once accidentally swallowed!
Nesephise sighed in relief as she stopped singing, she felt completely drained out of all her energy, as the frog mother looked at her with contempt, she was someone that was very similar to those two Saints she had once met.
There was the first Saint she met in the past, the one Saphibian woman that helped her defeat the aberrations that had attempted to devour her several times when she was a small baby frog, and the ones that were filling the world with miasma and had shaped it so differently from what it used to be back then, this Saint was someone she held dear, and although she was already long gone, the near-sapient giant frog recalled her within her memories.
And the second Saint she met was the one that had asked her to release her child which the giant frog mother had swallowed wrongly, it was a Saint that later on helped her in defeating invaders from the outside, the first waves of Mindflayers, who had tried to take over this planet because it was fitting for their preferred living conditions of warm and humid places, but were ultimately defeated by her and the second Saint…
So for her, the giant frog, the Saints were important figures that she was able to understand with their songs. She had originally eaten Chaos and Aruliel because they had annoyed her, but she now decided to bring them outside, alongside anything else as a way of redemption.
“Saint… You’re… the third Saint…”
Suddenly, a telepathic message reached Nesephise’s mind! It was the giant frog’s voice!
“Y-You can talk?!” she responded through her mind.
“Only… to the Saints… Special connection…”
The frog mother was able to speak, but very faintly, she had a hard time communicating her intentions, and her words didn’t came as eloquently as a normal person would be able to communicate them.
Meanwhile, Abyss and her group looked at the scene in front of them with happiness clear in their faces, after so long, they were finally bringing back their lord Chaos!
They looked down int the floating temples above the water, they exuded a tremendous aura of darkness and chaos! They quickly flew to investigate, as Abyss and the rest noticed three flashes of darkness coming out of it, completely ignoring them, and flying away deep underwater!
“AH! T-That’s Chaos, and that was… Aruliel?! And who are they chasing down? Was there an enemy inside the frog?!” asked Abyss in disbelief.
“I have no idea, but this seems bad!” said Belphegor.
“Let’s go after them!” said Yuki.
“We have to go help Chaos-sama!” said Boxxy.
“Let’s go!” said Edward.
“Nesephise, come inside my divine realm to rest!” said Abyss hurriedly.
“Wait! I want to stay here, the frog can speak to me into my mind, she’s a nice person actually! She was just misunderstood… I want to talk more with her… I’ll stay, you guys go after your leader!” said Nesephise.
Abyss looked at Nesephise with a bit of disbelief, inside her mind there was no way that frog could be a good person if it swallowed Chaos and caused so much trouble to them! Yet Nesephise was forgiving it so easily…
Well, the frog had never caused any trouble to her in particular, so perhaps because of this, she didn’t had the same grudges as Abyss, and therefore, it was easier for her to establish a relationship and perhaps even a friendship…
Deep down, Abyss felt a little bit betrayed, but perhaps she shouldn’t overthink things through.
As Abyss was about to tell Nesephise to take care, while some of her group members already went to chase down Chaos and other stayed with her, Silver and his group decided to act while lurking in the shadows…
“The egg… It still in the frog’s tongue… Ernesticia, do it!” said Silver with a malicious smile.
The little girl within the party wearing a black hoodie waved her staff as divine power came out of it…
FLASH!
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