Rhodos didn't want to believe that was happening. How come he was put against the wall against a weaker enemy? Even before when he had draconic powers, the difference in strength was noticeable. Still, now… the difference was even greater, and that feeble man was winning.
"Stop it!" Rhodos said. "… If you do it, I will release your friend."
"Oh, you can talk?" Ryan frowned. "I could swear you didn't have a voice."
Rhodos was using Telepathy to speak, but the voice someone hears via Telepathy was the same when they use their own vocal cords… as weird as that sounded. Ryan didn't feel like stopping, but he wouldn't lose anything by taking his sweet time to fire in the end. After all, he will have more time to charge his arrow with energy.
"If you want to negotiate, then you need my terms as well," Ryan said. "Once I confirm that my friend is alive and well, I will let you guys go. Bring her to me now, you have five seconds."
Rhodos hesitated in answering that. In the end, Ryan already knew what he was planning. He noticed that his brothers stopped fighting fiercely just a few seconds ago. Ryan fired his arrow, and then Rhodos moved his arms to stop it. In the next moment, his brothers also appeared to prevent all the damage the projectile will cause. Rhodos stopped the projectile, and then it exploded, but Ryan didn't stay there to see what was going to happen.
The massive explosion made the oceans tremble and the water moved in all directions. Despite that, the energy unleashed was far from over. Rhodos and his brothers tried to prevent the explosion from damaging Poseidon's castle. Ryan decided to bet that they would succeed, and then he appeared right in front of the biggest tower of the castle. Going downward had been rather easy since his attack made most of the water around the castle move away or evaporate.
At the bottom of the tower, Ryan saw a massive cave and a throne right above it. Poseidon certainly had weird tastes… Regardless, Ryan found an odd glass cage at the side of the throne, and inside of it, he found an odd light-blue sphere. It was probably Femradiel, but Ryan couldn't feel her presence. Ryan touched the glass, and then he felt his mana being sucked. That was a troublesome cage.
"You should hurry, Poseidon felt his attack and retreated," Isis suddenly said. "You don't have more than a couple of seconds."
"Well, we have a problem here," Ryan said.
"This cage is… what a troublesome fellow," Isis said after a sigh. "This cage is like a dominion that can absorb mana of those that try to attack it. Your only option here is to cause more damage than you can give more mana to it."
It seemed like a very complex cage to break, but Ryan quickly found a weakness. He created several hammers and hit them while using a Concentrated Strike. He was using more stamina than mana, so he quickly saw some results. However, he stopped for a while when he saw a powerful presence approaching at an insane speed… it was Poseidon. He was much more powerful than anything Ryan has seen so far, more than Lilith, more than Mephisto…
Ryan hurried to free Femradiel, and in the end, the box broke. However, Ryan couldn't hear anything coming from the transparent spear, nor could he feel anything coming from it. Ryan made the sphere enter his body, and it was quickly absorbed. He felt the power that he once lost returning, and Femradiel's presence was finally back, but she didn't say anything.
"Are you alright?" Ryan asked.
"… Yeah, I am fine," Femradiel said, but she sounded weird. "… Thanks for coming for me."
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