Chapter 1005 A Mysterious Jewel
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"GRYSHAAAAA!"
The furious Spider Queen unleashed a barrage of attack using her eight legs, unleashing waves of corruption that spread over my body. They hurt, but not as much as before. My dragon form was my strongest form after all, it enhanced all my stats, especially my defense! This form in specific enhanced these gray metallic scales I have even more now as it covers my entire body with a barrier of Pure Data, which can defend against Corrupted Data!
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
"You attacks are not as effective anymore!"
I gathered Power and Data into my hands, as I unleashed a barrage of dragon punches against the Spider Queen! Its entire body was incredibly hard and it was even harder to absorb the data it had. I have to smoother its body before I can even devour it!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
My fists were like silver meteors as they impacted the Spider Queen. The gigantic beast began to move back centimeter by centimeter, as I felt the power of Kate infuse through my entire body even more than before, she was pushing herself to her limits just to help me.
"I won't disappoint my daughter!!! ORRAAAAH!"
I charged my tail with more power, unleashing a spiraling drill attack and piercing through the spider's hard exoskeleton in the process!
CRAAAASSSSHHH!!!
Suddenly, a sea of liquid corrupted data began coming out, as if it were the monster's blood.
"GRYSSHAAAAA!"
The Spider Queen felt incredibly hurt, panicking, and then using her sharp fangs to attack me!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
She attempted to bite through my body, but that was useless! Although I wish I could bring my weapons here, it seemed impossible for now, so I had to just continue using my fists, tails, and… my dragon breath.
"How about this for a change?!"
I opened my dragon jaws, charging all the power I could muster, and then unleashing a flash of bright gray and blue light, my dragon breath, against the Spider Queen!
BOOOOOOMMMM!!!
The explosive attack consumed half of the Spider Queen's entire body, blowing it away. The monster, however, remained alive, looking at me hatefully. For a moment, I began seeing everything darker and strangely, as if the corruption- Wait, the corruption is affecting me too much!
"Shit… You damn piece of shit, die already!"
With all the fur I had, I unleashed another Dragon Breath, devastating the other half of the Spider Queen, just in time to separate myself from Kate. She was thankfully unaffected, but my body was covered by Corruption, slowly trying to consume me.
"Uuggh… W-We did it…"
"Papa!"
Kate flew to my side, as she suddenly used her tiny hands to grab the Corruption and… eat it?!
"W-Wait, what are you doing?!"
"Nom, nom, nom…"
She continued eating it all until she completely cleansed me…
"Well, thanks a lot…" I sighed, petting her head. "That was more than I had expected but… Hm, it seems that things are stabilizing here- Eh?"
Suddenly, the darkness shrouding this entire area of the pocket dimension changed, turning from black to white, as if it was being purified. Countless circuits emerged everywhere, blue, and gray lights appeared, it felt as if it was finally gaining life.
With Kate, we flew outside the hole and then swiftly sealed it using System Magic, until it was completely clean and closed. Most of this area was still black, but the white part continued expanding around and completely taking over another big hole nearby, where countless spiders began running from its interior, and… another giant Spider Queen too.
"We hate to quickly kill those too!" I said.
"Muh!" Kate quickly flew at my side as she granted me her power in exchange for my divine power.
Bright flashes of data were unleashed from my body, as I began firing them against the spider, without letting any single one of them escape. The spiders were completely decimated with these beams of flashing light, and the Spider Queen immediately confronted me when it felt cornered.
"SHAAA!!!"
However, it seemed sluggish and weaker. Was it because it was fighting in a purified area? These weird monsters thrive in corrupted data, so when they're in clean data, it feels like they weaken and might even just die.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
I unleashed as many beams as I could from my hands. The Spider Queen was unable to fight back this time, easily being decimated into nothingness after the tenth attack… and like that, we even freed another hole. Like that, with Kate, we continued and ended destroying another three more armies of spiders, purifying three more cracks with a total of five. Most of this area was purified, but a path led somewhere else, where more of these corrupted parts were located.
However, within the center of this spherical-shaped area, we saw something strange that we had never seen before. An odd, blue-colored jewel positioned over a white altar. It seemed to be almost transparent, as if it lacked something.
"Just what is this thing?" I wondered, using analysis to analyze it with the help of the System.
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[Interdimensional System Core (Rank ???)]
An Interdimensional Jewel that is part of the structure of the Pocket Dimension of the System within the Soul and Origin of Drake, the Dragon King. It once contained large quantities of Pure Data and Divine Power, fueling the System with power, but after some unexpected error, it has been dried from its energy and now is completely empty.
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[This is a System Core! They're like the pillars of the System's Structure, there are several ones that couldn't be recovered, perhaps if we keep purifying these areas, you could recover all System Cores and enhance the System's power.]
"Oh, so that's how it is- Hey, Kate, wait a bit!"
Kate recklessly flew into the System Core without a care of the world, touching it curiously and then, imbuing her energy and power into it…
FLAAASH!
The System Core began to glow with bright blue light, slowly recovering its former glory.
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