Cyril awoke and found himself trapped inside some form of plant that was secreting chemicals all over his body. The chemicals had paralyzed him and he could no longer move. His breathe was getting shallow too as it was getting difficult to breathe.
He tried to summon wind to protect himself, or to cut himself out, but it was useless. The tried to control the fluid chemical on him like he could control water, but it also failed.
The vines actually radiated with the energy of life, thus it was able to easily heal itself from any elemental attack. He knew that if he couldn't get himself out soon, he would be food for the plant.
He thought about using the opposite energy, the energy of death. But in order to use this energy, he needed the energy to come from somewhere.
Suddenly, he felt someone or something near him die. He reached out and controlled the energy to attack the plant that was engulfing him.
Immediately the plant withered and dropped him to the ground, which was also covered with vines. As he did, many other vines started assailing him. He absorbed the death energy from the plant he just destroyed and started expanding the death energy, killing the next vine and the next.
His body was still paralyzed but he could control the death energy with his mind. Each vine that he attacked with death energy, the whole plant dies, so he could start to see more and more plants dying. He looked to the side and saw a dead elf that must have been the source of the initial death energy.
He cleared a area of 10 meters all around him, all the vines that continued to attack him all withered and perished. Under him he felt water and discovered that he was in a swamp.
He controlled the water to wash off the digestive fluids from his body, and he discovered that he was naked except for his indestructible belt made from Baldur's skin, his bracelet and his Merchantile ring. Every other piece of clothing was dissolved.
He slowly got up and walked blindly towards a random direction, killing all the plants within a 10 meters of him. He couldn't see where he was heading anywhere as vines continuously attacked from all directions.
As he walked, he heard a thud behind him. One of the elves was lying dead, naked and partially digested. He must have fallen from one of the pitchers full of digestive fluids. He shook his head and continued walking.
He wondered what happened to Alissa, if she had already met a similar fate. Collecting the death energies all around him, he suddenly surged his attack and exhausted 90% of all the death energy he had collected. A radius of 500 meters all around him all died.
"Damn" he thought to himself as several other dead elves fell to the ground. If they were not already dead, his release of energy certainly killed them. He absorbed what ever other death energies he could.
As he looked towards the outer ring of dead plants, he noticed one of the pitchers with what looked like someone still inside. He was unable to see who that person was, or even if they were alive or dead, but he rushed over nevertheless and killed the plant.
As the pitcher fell to the ground, Alissa's naked body poured out together with the digestive chemicals of the plant. Cyril immediately rushed over and started cleaning her body of the paralyzing fluids.
She was not breathing and Cyril immediately started giving her CPR, blowing into her pretty mouth and pressing on her naked chest, trying to pump air into her body. Finally, she started breathing, but it was shallow and she was still unconscious.
The vines started attacking again, but he couldn't put up his shield of death indiscriminately without killing Alissa. He immediately placed Alissa into his stasis bracelet together with Violet and started his defensive death shield again.
Suddenly a loud voice boomed from the air "Who dares?" asked a female voice from the distance.
In an instant a large vine approached him with a woman on it. She was naked and had light green skin and dark green hair that was long enough to touch the ground and carried herself with an arrogance that commands fear and respect.
"I dare. I am Cyril Soulsong, who are you?" asked Cyril.
"I am Nepenthia, Master of this Vine and guardian of life in this realm. Why do you bring death here?" she asked with an arrogant tone.
"Guardian of life? You brought death to my companions. Your vines brought us here!" yelled Cyrus.
"Insolence!" cried Nepenthia as she controlled two gigantic vines to smash at him. Although they were as large as the vines that snatched the giant eagle, they withered to nothingness whenever they entered within 50 meters of Cyril.
He summoned Hela and Drasul out of the Nexus, and together they unleashed enormous waves of death evergy, killing everything in sight.
Cyril could only control existing energies, but he could not generate any himself. However, Drasul emanated pure death energy, and Hela was death impersonate.
The swamp turned black with dead plants for 100 km around, leaving nothing alive except for Nepenthia writhing in pain near Cyril. She emanated immensely powerful life energies and was thus not easily killed.
"Please... I submit... spare me and I will serve you..forever" she cried, her beautiful body spasming in pain.
"Why did you attack us?" Cyril demanded
"I... I need powerful life energies to survive but my might is not something to look down on. I devoured everything in this world as I conquered every living thing here. I needed to feed, thats why I attacked your party, as I had with other worlds." she admitted.
"What do you mean you will serve me?" asked Cyril, intrigued.
"I will bind with you, then my body and my vines will be yours forever" she answered.
Cyril raised his hand as Hela and Drasul stopped emitting death energies. The vines were still outside the black circle of dead plants.
Nepenthia got off the ground and walked towards Cyril, who was mesmerized by her beauty.
He got aroused as the beauty embraced him and kissed him passionately. As she did, he felt energies of life flowing into him, healing all his wounds.
"Amazing" he thought as indeed Nepenthia was very powerful in life energies. Suddenly, he felt her engulf her from below as they joined as one. Life energies suddenly flowed between them as they were intertwined physically.
He felt something enter him from the back and merged with his prostate deep in his body. "This is my seed, and where I will dwell for as long as you live" she whispered directly into his mind.
They intertwined for hours, and when they were done, Cyril lay exhausted with Nepenthia laying in his arms.
The entire planet was bare as all the vines disappeared. Only Hela and Drasul stood there still and unmoving. Hela smirked and winked at him "Nice one"
Cyril smiled at her and opened the portal for Hela and Drasul.
Just as he was about to follow them, he suddenly asked Nepenthia "You can open portals to other realms?"
"Yes, portals are not beyond me" she answered. "Can you open a portal to where we were taken?" he asked.
She smiled and held his hand. As she her hand intertwined with his, a huge portal opened.
She disappeared into the seed, and he shut his Nexus portal. Looking at the dead planet, he looked in amazement at how powerful Nepenthia was.
Then he flew himself into the portal.
