Ten Lucky Draws: I Became OP

Chapter 373: The Race for the Heart (2)

Once Aurora and Isis left the Crimson Spire, they quite literally wasted no time in going for the Heart of the Hollow Prince.

With a single, soft hum from Aurora—barely audible even to Isis standing right beside her—they disappeared completely from the view of anyone trying to trail them.

She used no power existing from the outside—so tracking them normally was futile.

It was as though they had never been there at all.

And those who had been lurking in the dark where left in confusion as they couldn’t pick up on them with their senses at all.

A Dark Phoenix froze mid-step.

“…Where did they go?” he muttered, scanning the crowd. His companions turned, equally baffled.

A Devil merchant who had already dispatched three shadow-clones to follow them blinked at empty air. The clones returned to him one by one—before dissolving back into smoke.

“It’s… impossible to simply just disappear” one of his aides stammered. “Right?”

The aide’s words trailed off as the merchant’s face darkened.

In the private gallery above, Desiree stood motionless eyes fixed on the exact spot where Aurora and Isis had last been visible.

“Tsk, while that little white haired one completely disappeared.,” Desiree said with a vicious smile.

“That Dragon… her scent is still around.”

Her chief attendant—a tall, gaunt Devil—stepped forward.

“Haha, that’s better for us! We can get to the realm before anyone else.”

Desiree’s lips curled into a thin, furious line.

“Right,” she nodded. “So, let’s move out before it’s too late.”

—–

Within minutes, the 79th Heaven began to stir.

Communication tokens lit up across sky-islands.

Phoenix flocks took to the air in coordinated sweeps. Shadow-clones multiplied…. Seers set up scrying arrays and formations.

And the bounty boards suddenly bore two new portraits—drawn from memory with frightening accuracy—alongside staggering rewards.

Aurora and Isis were now the most hunted pair in the Heaven… and those two themselves were already more than a light year away from the Crimson Spire.

They materialized on the rocky grounds far below the floating sky-islands of the 79th Heaven.

—

The moment their feet touched down, the air changed— it was thicker, colder, heavier with the metallic tang of old blood and ancient decay.

It was dark here as well… with only dim crimson light filtered through the gaps in the floating landmasses far above, painting everything in shades of dried blood and shadow.

They stood in what could only be described as a graveyard of the forgotten.

The ground was uneven rock—red and black stone cracked and pitted, littered with the remains of countless beings.

Skeletal remains of dragons, phoenixes, demons, and things that had no names stretched for miles in every direction.

Aurora tilted her head,

“…Ugh, this place is way too depressing,” she murmured.

Isis’s tail swayed slowly, eyes scanning the horizon.

“Seems like all the strongest met up to die,” she said quietly.

She pointed with her chin toward a massive fissure in the rock a few miles ahead—a gaping cave mouth framed by jagged black stone.

ROARRRRRR!!!!!

They moved toward it without hurry… but halfway there, a roar split the silence.

It was deep, guttural, multi-layered—like nine throats screaming at once.

The reverberation was so loud that the ground itself trembled.

Aurora and Isis shared a quick glance before speeding up, lifting slightly off the ground to avoid the rough terrain.

Moments later, they arrived directly inside the cave, right where the coordinates had led them.

Inside, all they could see was a nine headed serpentine figure.

It was massive in size as each of it’s heads were like a small world. Yet, it’s condition was pitiful as it was bloody, had cracked scales… with one head already severed.

They had appeared on a pure massacre of a Nine Headed Hydra.

The remaining eight snapped and lunged at a single figure standing at the center of the carnage.

The man had red hair streaked with a single black patch.

He wore dark, practical battle armor—that was now splattered with Hydra blood.

In his right hand he held a long, he held a staff. Yet, this staff had the ending of a blade which cut as good as any sword.

And four women fought at his side—each moving in perfect harmony with him and each other.

Aurora and Isis watched with narrowed eyes, but Aurora she was feeling something… deeper.

It was one of the many bloodlines of her now Unus race that was sort of resonating, as if it could feel another version of it.

Her eyes shifted through the women, but then landed on the man himself.

He ducked under a snapping head, spun, and drove his staff upward through the underside of another neck.

BOOM!!!!

And as the women watched as the five figures completely tear the Hydra to pieces, Aurora scanned him.

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[Xeros Thanatos

Age – 6 Cycles Old

Race – Mortivance (Eternal Bloodline of Bonds (Hyperversal))

Rank – Early Hyperversal

Remarks – Son of the Trans-conceptual existence of Thanatophilla and Erosence. The Son of Ash Originat and Persephone.]

—–

BOOOOM!

The massive body trembled before collapsing in slow motion—a mountain of scales and bone crashing onto the cavern floor, sending tremors for miles.

Xeros touched down lightly as his staff vanished, releasing a single, steady breath before turning his head.

His eyes found Aurora and Isis hovering above, and he frowned—until now, he hadn’t been able to spot them at all.

But the instant his gaze fully locked on Aurora, a strange, burning sensation surged through his bloodline, unlike anything he had ever experienced.

One of his wives approached, sensing a shift in his mood.

“Honey, are you okay?”

His brow furrowed further, confusion clouding his thoughts.

’The only time my bloodline reacted like this was around Ellyn… but even then, it was never this strong.’

He gave them a single, unreadable glance—neither warm nor cold—before turning away.

“Yeah, let’s go before too many arrive.”

As they stepped through the newly formed rift, Aurora lingered for a moment, her gaze fixed ahead before she finally spoke to Elysia.

’Mother Elysia, is this why you advised me to take on Abyssal Missions?’ she asked, remembering that Elysia had said it would help Ash in some way.

That had played a large role in her decision to come to the Mars Plane.

[Exactly. This brother of yours has been building his strength to help on the Earth Plane,] Elysia replied, then added,

[Just so you know, your father has just arrived on the Earth Plane as well.]

Aurora smiled and turned to Isis, who was surprised to see her just standing there so absentmindedly.

“Let’s go, princess.”