Aika had never in her short life felt so much fear, she for over a couple of millennia had worked as a maid for The Royal Family of Ayindril, after a long and arduous journey she had succeeded in reaching her position of Senior Maid. In Ayindril the maids are all divided into 5 categories, 'Apprentice Maid', 'Junior Maid', 'Maid', 'Senior Maid', 'Head Maid', currently she was Senior Maid as such she was well accustomed to the punishments and rewards granted to the people of Ayindril, and she knew she had failed she should have gone with the others and now even death seems like mercy to her.
She took with great speed towards the Imoogi with intense hatred in her eyes, at least if she bring backs the Imoogi's head the Royal Family might just grant her a swift painless death, only to stop as the Imoogi gave a painful roar as it twisted and turned before it crashed on the ground with a loud bang.
It thrashed on the ground hard causing earthquake strong enough to shake the village, as it painful roar brought chill in everyone's spine. Suddenly it breathed out huge columns of smoke as blood poured out of its mouth before it vomited hard, a small human shaped person fell out of its mouth as the Imoogi regurgitated the contents of its stomach.
Aika did not give the Imoogi any chance as her spear found itself impaling the Imoogi through its skull, as a loud explosion near the stomach area of the Imoogi occurred effectively killing it, she dashed towards the person who was on all four she did not show any form of disdain as the unbearable stench hit her nostrils as from the digestive fluid covered Ryuu, who was now emptying his stomach as the smell was too much for him, she just kneeled beside him as she gently rubbed his back as he vomitied.
She asked with great concern, "Your Highness are you alright, do you need any help?"
Ryuu just shook his head negatively, as he went to retort her angrily as such he opened his mouth to speak,'Bllluurrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhh', was the only noise that came out of his mouth as he emptied his stomach.
A couple of minutes ago, Ryuu was swallowed by the thrice damned Imoogi, as he was send down the ooey gooey slippery caverns which was the esophagus of the Immogi as he got coated by the saliva he used his sword to stab hard inside the Imoogi's flesh stopping his descend, he simple used his Ki to lit a fire which showed that he was near the stomach of the beast only a large fleshy lower esophageal sphincter separating him from the stomach, a cold sweat dripped from his brow he was so glad that he was not inside the stomach itself as a quick plan came into his mind as he gave a devilish smirk.
Ryuu spoke in a tone laced with anger, "You cheap imitation of a dragon you had the audacity to eat me, I will punish you for your insolence."
Using the sword as a support he spoke with a devilish grin, "Let us all burn."
Soon enough he became the very representation of human torch, a simple skill which was available to him after he gained enough insight in the Supreme Dao of Fire, at first he thought it was a unique trait only to have his joy doused by his teachers as anyone with enough mastery of the five basic elemental Dao could utilize it in such a way.
Currently he was covered in a very powerful conflagration which was visibly roasting the beast from the inside out, suddenly another roar came which caused his ears to start to ringing, he knew he could not hold it for long his Ki was depleting at a visible space, but he did not give up as he started etching a powerful explosion Array on the beast's flesh, then all of a sudden without warning the stomach acid came out along with partly digested carcass of food it had consumed before as Ryuu was carried along with it outside, all the while taking Ryuu a tumble up the esophagus in a rather violent manner causing him to forcefully ingest a bit of those stomach fluids, as soon as he was outside Ryuu detonated array ripping the insides of the Imoogi killing it but then it hit him he was completely drenched in foul smelling stomach fluids of the beast, normally because of his high level he could easily hold his breath up to more than an hour but during his escape he had somehow ingested the disgusted stomach liquid coupled with the smell caused him to vomit, he was feeling sick and dirty his vision stated to swim and soon he lost conciousness.
Ryuu slowly opened his eyes as he saw the smiling visage of his 3rd oldest Sister Shamiran, "So how are you doing Ryuu we heard how got eaten by an Imoogi are you alright now."
Ryuu gave a tired smile as he spoke with a hoarse voice, "I am fine big sister."
Shamiran gave a smirk as she spoke, "So did you enjoy taking a dip in Imoogi's stomach fluids?"
Ryuu's face turned an interesting shade of green as he quickly put his hands on his mouth trying to contain the bile that was rising up his throat, as he send a glare towards his sister, the last thing he needed now was to be reminded of his terrible ordeal.
Shamiran picked a glass of as she helped her brother drink it.
Ryuu: "So when di you arrive big sister?"
Shamiran: "I arrived within a few minutes after you lost your consciousness, you're other sisters wanted to be here but their wok prevented them arriving here. It was unfortunate that you had to go through such an ordeal rest assured those maids will be severely punished for their incompetence."
Upon hearing about punishment Ryuu's blood froze, after spending so many years he knew that his sisters were ruthless while punishing someone, and tend to go overboard sometimes, he still remembers a few years ago one of the maids accidently broke a favorite vase of one of his sisters, she was sentenced to a thousand whip lashes.
Ryuu spoke with a kind smile, "I know sister but they were not at fault we were just caught by surprised, as such the accident took place."
Shamiran just shook her head as she replied, "No brother they were slacking plain and simple as such they should be punished."
Ryuu argued back, "Sister they were ordered to lower their strength to low Primal Daoist level, as such they were caught off guard as .....", he stopped speaking receiving a slight glare from Shamiran.
Shamiran, "A cultivator just because they lowered their strength does not mean their awareness should drop as well, they were ordered to prevent any life threatening scenario from happening, yet not only had they failed to react they even got blindsided by a low Primal Daoist level beasts when they could slap an Immortal to death, such a folly is inexcusable."
Ryuu tried to argue, "But sister...….", only to flinch back as he lowered his eyes never had his sister had glared back so much with such anger.
Shamiran spoke with anger, "Ryuu, since when did you become above the Law and Rules of Ayindril, what made you so cocky to try and by pass the laws."
Seeing Ryuu had his head down, Shamiran spoke harshly, "If you have something to say speak up, Ryuu and look at my eyes when I am speaking."
Ryuu spoke with teary eyes, as his sisters were treating him so harshly, "Sisters, I know they broke laws but please I know them from when I was a child so please do not punish them so harshly."
Shamiran looked at Ryuu with a complete stoic look on her face, 'In any other person were present they would not have bothered with it on the contrary they would have called for even harsher punishment, but Ryuu only reluctantly agreed to the punishment because I acted harshly with him.'
Shamiran as such gave a soft smile to Ryuu as she spoke, "I give my words I will make sure they are treated as leniently as possible."
Ryuu nodded at that although he was not happy with that but beggars cannot be choosers and he knows how stubborn his sisters are.
Shamiran: "Well if there is nothing more I will be taking my leave, although you have been asleep for more than an entire day I recommend a couple of days of rest as it will do you more good."
Ryuu nodded but he remembered something, "Sister is there any way to get a few cultivation methods and couple skills."
Shamiran raised her delicate brow in confusion as she asked, "Why do you need them brother?"
Ryuu: "Well I made some friends in Tardide, who I want to help as such I want to gift them a couple of Cultivation manuals, as well as couple of techniques, nothing to precious as most of them have less than 40 spirit wells open in them, giving them stronger techniques will not only be wastage but will bring calamity for them, as for techniques they strongest they have is an axe based technique which barely qualifies as a level 2, I just wish if possible to donate something to them."
Shamiran, 'Well we do not run any form of charity, but since my brother asked it will for his very first friend well we can easily procure something for him, but really he is sly he may not be allowed to spread Ayindril's teachings, neither he is allowed to take students but deliver from sources outside of Ayindril's library it is very clever tactics.', "Well I will definitely deliver couple of low leveled cultivation manuals, and some low leveled techniques from Shangri-La. But now just take some rest I will be sending someone with some food try eating as much as you can.", with that she left leaving Ryuu alone in his room, but not before poking some fun on his horrendous experience, "Bye Bye Vomit Boy!"
Ryuu froze as he heard his older sister's teasing, as such he swore out loud enough for the entire household to hear, "Someday I will prank you so hard that you will all suffer terrible nightmares for eternity."
His sister responded with a loud laugh as voice came floating to his ears, "Have fun trying to prank us in your dreams, 'V-O-M-I-T B-O-Y'."
Ryuu shuddered with anger before he took deep breaths to calm his nerves, 'someday, someday there will be reckoning.', he thought as he clenched his fists.
Inside a dark dungeon 6 figures were hung from the ceiling with their hands tied with the help of meet hooks, they were stripped of any clothing and their body was covered with various bruises and welts some of them fresh as they were still bleeding, their beautiful face nowhere recognizable.
Suddenly a person entered the room picked a buckets as the contents were splashed on them waking them up.
The figure spoke with a light giggle, "So how does it feel to be bathed in the same liquid that caused my brother to become sick.", the liquid caused them to feel intense pain but they were unable to speak after hours of intense punishments their voice were to hoarse to speak, as such no sound escaped their lips.
If Ryuu was present here he could have recognized the people as his teammates with exception to Aika as she was the one who chose them for the mission.
Antariskh stepped in front of them, with Shamiran and Sylvana flanking her, "Well it seems our baby brother does not want to punish you, in fact he fought for your you lot to be exempt from any form of punishment but unfortunately because of the laws we cannot overlook it as such your punishment is as follows...."