AT. DEMON SLAYER
chapter 27 - The Holy Sepulchre of Erl Marline 2

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Xavier, kenz, artemis, and feeya continued down the small row of circular steps that seemed endless, for they had been down long enough but they had not yet found their ground.

While the more they go down, the air layer turns more moist and cooler making them almost exposed to hypothermia.

" Feeya is not strong anymore...! " excited the shivering feeya who immediately flew into the robe of the kenz.

" Why is this room so cold? "

" My blood seems to stop flowing" said Artemis weakly and her lips began to turn blue.

" How much deeper is it actually? " kenz looked up at the ceiling of the stairs they had passed.

All was no longer clearly visible anymore, all seemed to be covered by a layer of extremely cold air.

" I don't know, I also don't understand why my magic can't be used in this place" replied xavier.

" No way, I can't go down anymore. "

" The lower the colder the colder "so continued the artemis who seemed to shake his head, trying to keep himself conscious.

" Hosh...! "

" If this is how long we are exposed to hypothermia. "advanced artemis whose eyes begin to lose focus, his eyes begin to look blurred.

" What's wrong with you? " xavier looked towards the artemis who was beginning to lose consciousness.

" Are you okay? " ask xavier.

" I am. I am well. "unfinished artemis said his words, he suddenly lost his balance.

" Y...! "

" Be careful...! " chanted xavier and kenz together, but at that moment artemis fell on the side of the stairs.

Xavier and Kenz who saw it immediately caught the hand of artemis, and their situation was very bad.

Artemis was unconscious and in a hanging position with both hands refuted and held by xavier and kenz.

" Hey, sober up...! " cry kenz.

" Artemis wake up...! " xavier also tried to resuscitate artemis, but apparently artemis remained unconscious.

" How is this ? " take little kenz.

" We try to pull him up first" said xavier, who then they both try to lift the body artemis together.

...•••...

Not long after the body of artemis was lifted up...

Xavier and Kenz dropped themselves sitting leaning against the edge of the staircase wall.

Hosh... hosh...!

There was the sound of breathing sounds of the two of them who also began to fatigue, even the condensation of the wisps of smoke that their breath exhaled seemed to be getting thicker.

" It's so strange, really so strange" said kenz in his tiredness.

" What's up? " tanya xavier turned towards kenz.

" I don't know why the air around this place is getting colder, but we don't go downstairs." replied Kenz, who then entered his hand into the robe he was wearing.

" Hmmm.., you're right kenz. "

" I also feel there is something strange about this place. "xavier studied

" I also feel that the air circulation here is turning colder in a fraction of a minute. "

" As if this is not just ordinary cold air, the temperature condensation in this place has exceeded the limit of human body temperature resistance in the usual." xavier's room felt the oddity.

" Even to the body temperature pressure of the demons as well? " ask kenz.

" No, not like that. "

" But in this place we have been changed like humans in the usual. "

" You understand what that means, don't you? " answer xavier turned around affirming his question.

" No way, you mean we're here to be like ordinary people? "

" How can...? " kenz seemed to not believe the new experience he felt this time.

" I don't really know the clarity that's going on here, but you can feel it too, can you? "

" The state of endurance in our bodies, plus the loss of strength we have. "

" Then now the condensation of air temperature that feels increasingly cold, there is a possibility that the temperature conditions in our bodies become normal like humans usually." xavier asserted clarify their circumstances.

" But I can't be too sure about that, and don't know if there's anything that makes this happen" xavier continued.

" Do you think anyone's responsible for what happened here? " kenz asked ktitis.

" Would anyone try to control it or make something happen here? "

" But surely everything that happens here is not as normal as if someone designed it all. "xavier seemed to wonder in his own mind.

But not long ago all the predictions and questions in xavier's mind were solved by the cry of kenz's voice.

" Ohawat...! "

" Feeya...?! " kenz's two hands back immediately fumbled all over his robe, "feeya is gone...! " continue kenz.

" Is the feeya missing?! " excited xavier who was surprised.

" How is it possible?! "

" Try to be searched again, he hid under your cloak. "continue xavier said, staring anxiously.

" I saw him enter into your cloak earlier. "turn back firmly xavier.

" So he was here, but from the moment Artemis would fall I did not feel it anymore" said kenz, hesitating at the words he had just spoken.

" You sure? "

" Check back. "exavier said.

" Nothing, I've checked over and over again. "

" I didn't feel her movements from earlier, so I checked her. "

" But I didn't find him" said Kenz, who tried to find his re-altered feeya.

" What is possible...? "

" Could it be that she fell down while we were trying to pull up the body of the artemis earlier? " ask kenz in doubt.

Uncertain Kenz looked at each other with xavier, and they hurried to look down, but they both saw nothing but a thick plume of cold gas smoke and began to envelop the room.

" How is this? "

" Did it really fall down? " little question kenz seems uncertain.

Then Kenz immediately opened the secigan, and tried to use his sutansu style for long-distance viewing.

But all of that was also in vain, because of the entire ability of the two of them, even magic that was mastered by xavier could not be used at all.

In that room they were all like ordinary humans, without any more power.

" Damn...! " little kenz, he exclaimed.

" My strength is also gone, not working at all" said kenz again, looking at xavier.

Kenz with an expression of cold eyes, he clenched tightly his palms restraining emotions and trying to remain calm.

" Phew... "

" Even if we try it many times, the result is still the same. "

" Our ability is not at all working in this place" said xavier.

" Why does our ability not work at all? " ask kenz.

" The tombs of the nobles and noblesse. "little chirp xavier.

" The tomb of the people... Nobles, noblesse, you mean? " kenz seemed confused by xavier's answer.

" In ancient times there was a massacre of all the nobles and noblesse. "

" All dead are not left, and it happened to your demon beast race.

" Since this place became the scariest blood hell, no one has dared to approach this place including demon beasts like you." xavier explained.

" I don't understand, nobles, noblesse, what's the difference? isn't it the same? " ask kenz a little confused.

" After all when that happened, it was because the demon beast race like us had reached the peak of glory. "

" Where the strong are the powerful" said Kenz emphatically, "and it proves that our race is stronger than the noblesse like you. "again.

" You sure? "

" Are you sure you're stronger than noblesse? " xavier tried to affirm his words.

...***...

Their two views seem hostile, kenz does not understand what happened in the past and the reason why the loss of the nobles and noblesse.

However, the generations of the demon beast race confirmed that the noblesse noblesse noblesses were the strongest, but all ended after the demon beast race defeated them.

" Of course I'm sure...! "

" Throughout the history of demon beasts, we have been the strongest people. "

" The presence of queen azarya itself is proof that we have conquered the noblesse nobles like you. "

" Even now we have surpassed you and are at the peak of the supreme power" said Kenz, who was proud of the demon beast race.

Xavier gave a small sneer to his smile, "when it happened we were not in this underground world yet, you can not be sure if all the history you recorded is true. " cetus xavier is a little cynical.

" What do you mean?! " call kenz asked.

But suddenly, there was a rumbling sound in the room...

Shhhhh...!

" Hear." xavier signals kenz to be quiet.

" just listen to me. "xavier comes back one more time while gesturing.

They tried to listen even more clearly, "this...! " call cry kenz.

" This voice is like a rumbling sound" said kenz, then they glanced at each other at the same time.

" Ti.. couldn't it be that this sound was a snowstorm? " kenz said back, the two of them couldn't stop staring at each other.

" I think so, too, but his voice roared louder and louder." said xavier.

" If this is really a big snowstorm, it will be dangerous for us" xavier said.

" How, how can? "

" A room like this? " kenz looked around, his brain thought and wondered, "how could there be a blizzard in a closed room, if no one made it" he thought.

" Nothing is impossible. "

" You see the structure of this building in a circular shape, even though this room is closed but there is a cold wind that boils... "

" Where the gap of the vent is located, so it can make a swirl at some point." replied xavier who stopped when trying to explain, but not finished xavier said.

The rumbling sounds they were listening to were getting stronger and closer to them.

" Ohawat...! "

" His voice is coming from below and is heading up...! " suddenly they were astonished in shock, which suddenly the footing of the stairs where they stood 'was also trembling.

" I understand now! " excited xavier.

" This whole place, all made in order to create this cold storm." cried xavier because of the thunderous noise.

" It's all polar vortex formations. "exertively xavier on kenz.

" Polar vortex?! " ask kenz who is shocked and confused.

Xavier looked at the crown prince's baby who was in a thick blanket in his arms, "only this thing can give him a little bit of warmth from earlier. " xavier said inwardly as he watched the baby, and the blue moon jade that still shone along with the crown prince from inside the thick blanket wrapped around the crown prince's body.

" Don't know if this splinter could make you survive" xavier thought critically, worrying about the baby.

" If only this were still intact." he murmured again.

...•••...

But xavier looked around, and he saw that Artemis was lying unconscious, while the eagle he was carrying earlier seemed to start stiff because the cold air that increasingly enveloped almost made them all freeze.

Not to mention the disappearance of the feeya which is not clear where it is now, and now only they are alone with the baby crown prince.

"Huff...! hah.". "hisses a sigh in a very cold kenz smile.

Kenz casually behaved to stay calm, but in his mind implied a little bit of a feeling of fear to feel like laughing at himself.

In kenz's heart he said, "how could I be rendered helpless like this, all the demon beast power that was inside me just disappeared...! " an annoyance rages in his heart and mind simultaneously.

" Is this what it feels like to be a normal human being? "

" It is fitting that we were so desperate to pursue and so longed for limitless power" murmured little kenz in his mind.

" Man is weak, but from that weakness there is an infinite power that we do not have" xavier said, breaking the kenz paradigm as if xavier could read the contents of the kenz's head.

Kenz was dumbfounded in shock, in his heart saying, "he can hear my thoughts? " kenz was confused.

" Can he really read my mind? "

" No, maybe it was just a coincidence" said Kenz back in his heart, but implied a thin smile from xavier's lips that was diverted with another conversation.

" badai polar vortex ini semakin membesar dan semakin naik keatas. " ucap xavier mengalihkan pembicaraan.

" It is also impossible for us to go back up. "xavier looked up.

" Do you think we can get out of here? " intera kenz looked down at the whirlwind that was rising up towards them.

" It looks like we're going to end up here "spontaneously said Kenz with his cold face that was very flat.

" Yes, if we are swept by this polar vortex storm. "sahut xavier who again saw a vines that spread on the wall around the stairs.

Kenz turned to xavier and saw what he was doing.

Kenz turned back and closed his eyes as if no matter what xavier was working on, because to him looking at the wall was a waste.

" Hey, kenz ! " call xavier.

" Yes...! " answer a brief kenz, and still unwilling to look towards xavier.

" Do you know what it's like to be swept away by a blizzard? " charm xavier tries to break the silence.

" ...? " though Kenz was silent, "what kind of stupid question is that? " think kenz who remains silent does not answer the silly question of xavier.

" Kenz, may I ask you a question? " ask xavier back.

" Why did you betray the trust of the Demon Beast King? " xavier asked again.

Kenz who heard xavier's words opened his eyelids, again a silly question in kenz's mind.

" I did not betray the trust of the Demon Beast King"." replied flat kenz.

But xavier, who saw the plants propagating on the surface of a very large and convoluted wall, suddenly got an idea to get out of the problem he was facing.

" I can't believe that I can't face the storm" said xavier, thinking firmly in his mind.

But before that, xavier thought about testing kenz first by giving him the question he just asked earlier.