Demon King Ascension System

124 Setting Off

Three creatures, two humanoid demons, and one towering demonic beast stood at the shore of the island.

The dark blue sea in front of them looked ominous no matter from which angle and perspective of mind they looked at it, which made Blake feel slightly unnerved.

But remembering that the weaker humanoid demons were all able to traverse the sea without receiving any visible damage both on the ship they were hopping on or on their bodies, Blake knew that the chance of there being a danger to him on the sea would be minuscule.

‘Speaking of which, we have another problem here instead of worrying about the future problems that might or might not exist...’ Blake thought to himself as he looked at his big gorilla friend that was almost as big as the sailboat itself.

‘Well, I think Vera must have already come up with something considering she was very calm.’

Vera, who was standing a couple of meters behind Blake and Robus was making sure that she brought all the spatial bags that she had filled with all her stuff in them and left nothing important behind.

“Vera, Can I open the rune formation now?” Blake pointed at the sailboat that they had secured on the shore.

“Sure,” She replied without looking in Blake’s direction, still busy counting the spatial bags and their content.

Blake then walked over to the sailboat that was surrounded by the runes that he and Vera drew last time.

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The rune formation would probably crumble on its own in a couple of hours since he didn’t pour in more nether to it, but waiting for a few hours was too long and the group wanted to use the sailboat soon.

Blake then held his hand right on top of the vital part of the rune formation, which he knew because he was the one who drew it, before drawing a very simple-looking rune that he had just learned three days ago.

It was the same rune that Vera used to make the rune formation on the other sailboat break apart and lose its functions.

The spell was a fairly simple yet very useful spell that a runemaster could use to break a rune formation that didn’t have any protection to it and it was even easier to use the spell on a simple rune where a runemaster could easily deduct where the heart of the rune formation was.

Vera didn’t teach Blake about it since she thought that there would be no reason for Blake to be breaking rune formations in the first demon realm.

‘No humanoid demons in the first realm were using rune formation.’ That was what she thought until reality begs to differ and five sailboats complete with rune formations inscribed on their bodies suddenly appeared on the shore of the island.

So she then taught Blake what the spell did and how to correctly use it.

Which Blake successfully learned in a second after she showed him once and now he was already using it on his own correctly, making the rune formation that she and he drew three days ago crumble away from just a simple single spell.

“A little help, Robus?”

Then with Robus’ help, Blake – or rather, Rous pushed the sailboat back to the edge of the shore until the whole ship was only one small push away from reaching the waters.

“Vera, we’re much or less ready.” He spoke to the demoness who had finally finished checking everything that she wanted to bring was indeed in her bags.

“Other than making Robus fit inside the boat, we’re ready to go.”

“Ah yes, about that,” Vera then rummaged through one of her spatial bags for a few seconds before her fingers finally found what she was looking for and pulled it out of the bag.

“Here, wear this.” She threw the thing that she grabbed from her spatial bag.

When Blake caught it, he could finally see that it was a pendant, of course, with dense runes written on the body of the pendant.

“Tell Robus to wear it and then put your nether into it, make sure to put enough to cast a second realm spell.”

Following Vera’s instruction, Blake then jumped upward, straight onto Robus’ back before putting on the pendant that barely fit on the gorilla’s neck.

“Rr?”

“Yes, it was a gift from Vera, she said you should wear this for now.”

With the pendant hanging properly on Robus’ neck, Blake then began pouring his nether onto the pendant, just as Vera said, enough to cast a second realm spell.

Blake had fallen limp before when he activated the three combined rune formation because he already spent quite an amount of nether fighting off his chasers, but now that his body was in peak condition and added with more points put into his spirit stat after his level up, Blake could just leisurely spent that much nether without his body being affected at all.

Blake wondered how Vera could make so many runes, enough to hold that much nether into such a small pendant as she didn’t teach him everything about the rune formations, saying that everyone needed their own individuality in their rune formations to be called a proper runemaster.

But seeing so many intricate runes inscribed on such a small area, Blake couldn’t help but wonder how she was able to do it.

‘Maybe I could ask her after I showed my progress with my rune formations later.’ Blake thought to himself as he finished injecting his nether onto the pendant and jumped back down to the ground beside Robus.

Right after the pendant received the abundant amount of nether from Blake, the faint glow that it released after being activated turned to a flash of light that covered Robus’ whole body for a solid three seconds.

Blake already had an inkling of what was about to happen since he knew what problem the pendant should be solving, but when he finally saw Robus’ body after the flash of light disappeared, Blake could now really appreciate again how amazing and useful rune formations were.

The huge gorilla that easily reached 8 meters tall in height and had limbs as thick as Blake’s body, now became a two-meter-tall, ordinary-looking gorilla that Blake had seen in picture books back on earth.

And the pendant that barely fit on his neck a few moments ago was now hanging directly on top of the gorilla’s chest.

“All set?” Vera asked the two creatures who were both respectively trying to figure out what and how it had happened.

But not wanting to waste any time just staring at each other, Vera just said, “Let’s get on the sailboat and set off!”