Heaven, Earth, Me

Chapter 1080: Mysterious Room.

Once Clara placed the beast's core in the large bowl, the bowl started glowing for a few moments. Everyone looked at the spectacle with curiosity. Still, after a few moments, the light disappeared, and nothing else happened.

Everyone looked at it for a few more seconds before Evelyn decided to speak up. "It seems that wasn't the answer. Do we need to place something that fits in there, perhaps?"

The dragoness crossed her arms under her chest and pondered. "Perhaps… However, what can we use to fill the bowl perfectly?"

Evelyn's gaze couldn't help but go to Yasenia's chest. Then, she spoke with a smile. "Your tit-"

SLAP!

Instead of sending her flying, the tail slapped her in a way that made Evelyn start pivoting in place like a spinning top. Yasenia looked at the others, innocently blinking. "Any other suggestions?"

Andrea looked at Yasenia's breasts and coughed. "They would fit perfectly, though."

SLAP!

The dragoness deadpanned as Andrea similarly started spinning. The dragoness looked at the others and asked. "Anyone else wants to start spinning?"

"Oh!" Evelyn stopped spinning and exclaimed. "That's a great idea!"

So, they tried picking up the bowl. Kali grabbed it and lifted it… Or, she tried to. When she moved her arms up, the bowl didn't even flinch. "Huh?" Kali looked down at the item with surprise. "It's stuck to the podium supporting it." 

"It is?" Cecile tilted her head and asked. "Perhaps you are too weak to raise it?"

Kali's ears flinched, and she muttered. "Let me try again."

Then, she started pulling it upward again, slowly increasing her strength. As the strength she used increased, her energy started rotating and enhancing her muscles. Seeing that it wasn't budging in the slightest, Kali decided to use her entire strength. "HAP!"

But… It didn't move. Not even a little bit. 

Yasenia laughed gently. "That was quite adorable. However, it seems that the item is stuck on the ground. Let's move some of the magma to the bowl instead… Speaking of which." The dragoness looked down, tapping the floor several times with her tail. "Not hot. Alright, Fulo. Time to go down."

Fulo felt a sense of weightlessness before his butt hit the ground. "Ouch!"

Yasenia chuckled, giving him a playful look. After receiving that gaze, the poor man couldn't protest even if he wanted to. 

Once there, Yasenia extended a hand and placed it close to the magma waterfall. "Very hot… I can't carry it by hand." 

Everyone almost slipped. 'Why was your first thought trying to do it by hand!? Use another container!'

The dragoness did so, taking out a bowl made of very heat-resistant materials. Filling it up was easy, as was carrying it and pouring it.

Once they did so, the large container started glowing again, and to their surprise, the magma started being absorbed by it. "Look!"

Fulo exclaimed, pointing toward the door. They looked over and saw that a strange light appeared at the bottom of the doors. The light was creeping upward at a slow pace, lighting up a few formation lines as it moved. After three minutes, it stopped. 

Yasenia blinked. "Why did it stop?" Looking at the bowl, she noticed that there was no more magma left. "Ah…"

So, they continued filling the container for the next five hours until the unassuming doors completely transformed into glorious, glowing doors with golden lines covering them. 

Approaching the doors, Yasenia looked at Andrea and commented. "Well, Darling. Open them."

Andrea raised her eyebrow and teased. "Oh? Wasn't I in punishment mode~?"

The dragoness smiled, her eyes arching charmingly as seduction practically oozed out of every pore of her body. "The punishment is for later~. Don't worry, I am keeping tabs."n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Andrea felt a twitch in her heart and another place. 'Oh, Heavens, I made a mistake.' She approached the doors right away, wanting to stop thinking about Yasenia's action before her body was turned on.

Touching the doors, Andrea pushed them open. Surprisingly, the doors slid open very easily. Yasenia looked at Andrea, who opened the doors easily, with a surprised expression. "Oh? That's all? Fill the bowl with magma and fight a beast hidden in the magma waterfall?"

Tatyana chuckled. "You are forgetting how we resolved the first encounter."

The dragoness blinked and thought back. "Ah… We didn't even let it go into the magma ocean before we killed it."

Tatyana nodded. "If I had let it go back inside, I am sure that it would've called a few other friends. We would still be fighting hordes of magma monsters at the entrance."

Andrea's voice reached them. "Hey, come here. This is quite the sight."

Seeing that Andrea was looking around with awe, they followed her steps and passed through the doors. A large and adorned room expanded in front of them. The walls had magma veins, using the natural glow of the superheated material to illuminate the place with a reddish glow.

Other than that, the furniture in the room could only be described as sublime. The handicraft used for each and every one of the items strewn across the large room was masterful, a testament to the grand origins of the owner of the room.

Yasenia's nose twitched, sniffing the air as she tried to absorb every single particle floating in the air. Seeing her greedy look, it was clear what she was aiming for. Everyone else continued looking around for the formation that they needed to unravel. 

It didn't take long before Tatyana found it. She stomped the ground, making a carpet in front of her jump upward due to expertly redirected force reactions. Tatyana found a circular and complex formation below the more than twenty-meter-wide carpet. "Hm~. Interesting. This is a gate formation."

Cecile asked, curious. "Gate formation?"

Angel crouched in front of it, her eyes full of curiosity and happiness. "Oh! Such a cool way to use formation lines and runes!" Looking at Cecile, she commented with a big smile. "Also, also! Gate formations are formations that either hide or lead to a passage. They are normally used in important rooms so that the people there can escape in a dire situation. Those who don't know how the formation works won't be able to pass it."

Cecile hummed. "I see."

Sniff, sniff, sniff.

Looking at the dragoness, who was sniffing the place in front of the formation, Andrea couldn't help but ask. "Anything interesting around, love?"

Her voice carried a slight chuckle, clearly amused by Yasenia's antics. The dragoness pointed at the formation and said. "Yes. There."

Tatyana raised her eyebrow. "Oho~? There are treasures below this formation? Well, Angel, let's get to work."

While those two worked, Evelyn jumped on Yasenia's back, resting her butt on the thick root of her tail. "So, Yasenia, anything else that's interesting around here?"

The dragoness coiled her tail around Evelyn, lifting her up and setting her on her shoulders. Then, she answered while grabbing Evelyn's thighs so that she wouldn't fall. "A few interesting items. However, most of them are furniture." 

"Oh? Where are they?"

Yasenia waved her hand and poured the items in front of her. "Here!"

Evelyn looked around the room and couldn't help but notice many empty spaces that clearly were not there when they entered. Evelyn's lips twitched a few times. "Did you take them?" 

The dragoness answered matter-of-factly. "Of course!" 

The electric-blue-haired girl leaned forward, looking at Yasenia's face with a helpless expression. "You took them already? What if they were part of a puzzle or something that we shouldn't have moved?"

Yasenia blinked a few times and tilted her head cutely. "Oops~."

Evelyn felt a direct hit on her chest. "Ugh!" She grabbed her face and began pouring down kisses on Yasenia's gorgeous face. "Why are you so cute, my silly dragoness!"

Yasenia giggled and reassured Evelyn while happily receiving her kisses. "I checked if they were connected to any energy threads before taking them. When I was sure that they were just decorations, I took them. Don't worry, Dear. I won't put Andrea's trial into peril because of greed."

Evelyn believed her and knew that Yasenia wouldn't have taken them if she wasn't one hundred percent sure that it was safe to do so. Still, she teased Yasenia with a raised eyebrow. "Oh? Really? I don't believe you. You are a greedy dragoness!"

Yasenia pouted, prompting Evelyn to kiss her pouty lips. "Hehe~."

It didn't take long for Tatyana, Angel, Selena, and the other formation masters to tamper with the Gate Formation. Once open, the circular floor started sinking, creating a descending spiraling staircase toward the entrails of the room.

Everyone gathered and started descending the stairs. The stairs were dark and gloomy. Unlike the well-lit surroundings, there wasn't a single source of light here. The dragoness made energy flow toward her tail, making it flicker with gorgeous colors and illuminating the surroundings.

Kali muttered. "That's gorgeous… Since when can you do that?"

"Hm… I don't know." The dragoness answered honestly. She then explained. "I mean, this is the first time I tried, and then it worked. So…"

Kali chuckled. "I see, I see."

Tatyana looked at the glowing tail with curiosity and smirked. "That should illuminate dark caves quite well~." 

Evelyn grinned pervertedly. "Indeed. Indeed. We should give it a try in the future."

The others rolled their eyes. 

"We've arrived."

Andrea interrupted. Looking over, they could see another room in front of them. Unlike the one above, though, this one was hot and dark, with broken items and furniture. The ceiling was barely tall enough for Valeria to walk without crouching down. 

Angel muttered, surprised. "To think that you smelled a treasure here that interested you and not above…"

Yasenia moved around the room, her nose constantly twitching as she spoke. "Treasures are usually hidden, so I bet there are more powerful treasures in locations like this one than those well-illuminated halls."

Cecile added. "Plus, a treasure in a well-illuminated hall will be taken. Those hidden like this one are the ones that last for a long time before they are discovered."

"Oh." Angel blinked. "That actually makes so much sense."

Yasenia walked toward a standing shelf and circled it, looking behind the shelf. "Oh. Here it is~."

The girls looked over curiously, and Andrea asked. "What is it?"

Yasenia extended her tail and coiled around it, slowly taking it out. Once she did, everyone saw Yasenia holding a large box. The dragoness placed the box down and opened it. "Oh~? Quite… Interesting." 

Andrea leaned over, and her eyebrows raised, confused. "A… saddle?"

Yasenia chuckled. "Indeed… A saddle."