Is that a Wisp?
chapter-994

'H-How long was I here?' Krune wondered as he had regained clarity of thought now. The burning sensation in his body had also reduced to a certain extent. It was because the healing effect from his Ocean Heart had prevented the side effects to a certain extent.

Thanks to Ocean Turbulence, the healing effect had fused into his Frozen Blood, circulating through his body as it rapidly healed him. Unfortunately, the side effects were too much. So until now, it had only been competing against the side effects, preventing him from dying.

Krune thought for a moment, noticing that he barely had one and a half crimson rings remaining in his Ocean Heart. 'It's clearly insufficient for me to even heal. Thankfully, the side effects have been stopped, for now. Let's hope it will continue at least like this.'

Sonic Radar!

His throat vibrated minutely, causing him pain while doing so. Only the side effects have been stopped. But their damage hadn't been healed yet. Krune's state was getting closer to death as time passed.

His Sonic Radar outlined the prison cell in his mind, allowing him to notice that the door had three bars in a rectangular portion at the top. They were only big enough for one to peek into the cell from outside to see the state of the prisoner within.

Currently, two guards had been posted outside. They occasionally kept watch within, not uttering a single word otherwise. It seemed like they were trained experts. So, they didn't banter while on duty.

Krune continued to scan through the hallway, noticing what seemed to be demons trapped within each cell. Their conditions were horrible, as they had faced torture worse than Krune. The only difference was the fact that they had been captured before him.

He knew for a fact that he would suffer even worse torture when Raka returned. He quickly scanned through the entire prison, noticing that it was a sprawling structure, spanning at least a kilometer in length and width.

It was fifty stories high, a behemoth of an institution. Most of the cells were filled to the brim with demons, all bound to chairs similar to his. Their limbs were either severed or broken into pieces.

'It seems everyone in this place are brutes. They're like mountains, each of them. Fuck, even that Demon Soldier was as strong as an Emperor Monster from Layer 3. If I add in its ability to regenerate by absorbing the miasma, it's at least three to four times stronger than an Emperor Monster.' Krune frowned as the layout of the entire prison appeared in his mind.

He then continued to sense further, using the metallic structure to echo his soundwaves, obtaining a lot of information. He then transmitted the soundwave backward, focusing on the wall behind him. He increased the frequency until the soundwave passed through the wall, spread out, collided with other objects and returned.

'So, I'm in a prison cell almost at the top of the prison. There are only two floors above me, and they seem to be a resting place for the wardens and for them to collect dates, observe, and collate their torture plans. They even have accommodations for delegates.' After that, Krune inwardly scowled, 'Monsters!'

Krune realized that there was a valid reason to suspect him. But, the fact that they simply tortured him and had resorted to it as their first measure made them have an absolute bad impression on him.

After scanning the wall enough, Krune thought, 'This wall seems to be made of mysterious material. It's incredibly dense to the extent that I wouldn't be able to destroy it even if I were at peak condition.'

'Fuck, where did they hide my bag? This thing is truly, truly annoying.' Krune thought as he continued his search, soon noticing that his bag had been placed in a room. The items he had brought were neatly placed on a table. Krune counted through them, heaving a sigh of relief to see that all of them were in place.

He then thought of something, noticing the position of the guards before his cell as his eyes shone with a cunning glint. Soon after, he summoned his Cloud Whale, making sure it was small, only spanning 10 centimeters in length.

Dreams of the Heart—Ocean Turbulence!

Krune fused Frozen Blood, Neon Radiance King, and Moving Ripple into the Cloud Whale, causing a layer of ice to form on its body. He then focused, fusing Sonic Radar into it as he slowly adjusted the layer of ice, soon turning it crystalline, causing the Cloud Whale to behave similarly to a mirror.

Krune then focused intensely, creating a minute layer of ice on it, making a tiny, nigh negligible gap between the two. They were balanced using Moving Ripple and the Cloud Whale's ability to generate air currents.

Krune then adjusted the two, creating two more layers of ice on the Cloud Whale, adjusting everything based on trial and error when the Cloud Whale turned invisible.

Rochester Cloak!

It was a scientific principle that used four lenses to cause an object to appear invisible. There was also the case where an object placed within two concentric glass cylinders would appear invisible. It was simply because the light rays were reflected through them from the front and to the back. They converged around the object and traveled in a straight line that seemed like a continuation of its incident ray.

Because of this, the object placed within the innermost glass cylinder couldn't be seen from outside. And now, Krune used the same principle, using Neon Radiance to experiment until his Cloud Whale turned invisible.

After that, using Moving Ripple, he suppressed the coldness emanating from it until it was fully suppressed. The Cloud Whale arrived close to his cheek, but he wasn't able to feel any chill from it. 'Now, no one would be able to sense it.'

He then sent the Cloud Whale through the bars, making it fly slowly through the corridor while he kept track of the place through his Sonic Radar. Eventually, after numerous efforts, the Cloud Whale arrived in the room with his belongings.

It compressed air in its mouth, arriving in front of a bottle before gently unleashing the air needle, silently poking a hole through it. It then pushed the needle inside, sucking in as much of the Healing Extract within as it could hold in its body.

It then flew out and returned, entering a cell as it hovered before a demon. This was the demon that had been tortured the worst, made to lay in a state worse than death. But, based on everything Krune could feel through his Sonic Radar, this particular demon's body had the highest density.

It was to the same extent as the Red Demon he had faced before. So, Krune realized that it should be very high up in the food chain as there was just one on its level in the massive prison. The Cloud Whale arrived before its opened mouth, gushing all the Healing extract into it.

The Red Demon's eyes widened in shock as it was unable to find just from where it arrived, feeling something hit the insides of its mouth.

'Did the humans put something weird in me?' Its eyes shot around, 'No, there isn't anyone here. And this fluid…it's able to heal me?'

After a moment of shock, the Red Demon swallowed everything. As its mouth had been pried open and fitted to a lever of sorts, it was unable to close it anyways. But upon sensing that the Healing Extract was beneficial to itself, it didn't struggle, acting nonchalant as if it hadn't drunk anything beneficial to not appear suspicious.

Krune knew for a fact that he wasn't able to break free out on his own. He needed chaos to do that. And what was the best way to enact chaos in a prison filled with demons?

The Cloud Whale made numerous trips, soon emptying all the Healing Extract into the Red Demon. It then returned to the room with his back, swallowing five Blood Essence Crystals before adjusting the ice on its body.

Thanks to Ocean Turbulence, it was able to manipulate the passive abilities on its body. The Cloud Whale soon arrived and dropped all five Blood Essence Crystals into the Red Demon's body.

Upon feeling the influx of energy into its body, the Red Demon was surprised before its body began to greedily devour all the energy. It then faintly released some miasma as a result, immediately pulling everything into its body.

It first used the energy to heal the most grievous of its injuries. While it was healing its injuries, the Cloud Whale continued to drop the Blood Essence Crystals in its mouth.

10…20…50…70…leaving behind five Blood Essence Crystals for his later use, the Cloud Whale dumped the rest into the Red Demon's mouth. While the Red Demon continued to heal its body rapidly with the excess influx of energy, the Cloud Whale brought a Blood Essence Crystal and placed it in his mouth.

Krune used the energy as he activated the healing effect of his Ocean Heart, first working on eradicating all the burning feeling in his body. By the time the Blood Essence Crystal's effects wore off, he finished healing himself from the burning feeling throughout his body.

Then, after expending some more energy, he healed himself from the side effect of the Blood Essence Crystal he had just devoured. The Cloud Whale cut open his stomach, encasing the remaining four Blood Essence Crystals in a layer of ice before placing them within.

Krune then healed the cut, closing the wound. As the layer of ice on the Blood Essence Crystals was his ability, he was able to remove them as he saw fit. So, this way, he could replenish his energy reserves without needing to take any action when necessary.

Based on what he had heard, Raka had been called by the City Lord to discuss about him. They judged that his situation was way too important to take action in a hurry. They wished to extract the best use out of him. And hence, they had summoned all the important figures of the city for a conference.

'And something of such scale would indeed take time to reach a consensus,' Krune thought as the Cloud Whale made numerous trips, now layering all his items near the walls, away from the line of sight of the guards when they peeked inside from time to time.

The Rope Bush seeds, the bone tree fragments shaped into spheres, the Frozen and Exploding Cylinders. Other than that, he didn't bring in the rest with him. They were just travel baggage and weren't that important anyway.