Arlo wakes up after his soul was sent back to his body, he opens his eyes and sees everyone circled around him, they all had frightened expressions (except Bjorn, he had an amazed expression). They were all silent and Alice was the first to break the silence.
"Are you ok brother? You were freaking out and screaming before collapsing. Do you need help with something?"
Arlo tried wiping the blood off his face, but after touching his face he realized that all the blood and wounds were gone. "Was it an illusion? Or did he just change me back into a skeleton?" he thought. His body felt a bit different than before, his smile was permanent by this point but that wasn't what felt off. His body felt different from both his boneman one and the original one. He noticed Alice's concerned expression and answered her.
"I'm alright, sorry for making you all worry. This is just the consequence of using that power (Also when did I become your brother?)" said Arlo with a bone chilling creepy smile.
"So you're telling us that the power you used wasn't your own? And borrowing that power has a penalty?" Asked Octavia with a questioning expression.
"Yes, that is correct! I'll need some time alone to lessen the burden of this penalty, so don't disturb me. I'll be back in a few hours"
Arlo went out of the pyramid and did some experiments on his body. First he checked if he had a heartbeat, there was no heartbeat. Then he cut himself on the wrist and it made him bleed, but it definitely wasn't real blood. It looked real enough to trick anyone else, but it just didn't feel right to Arlo. Maybe it was just Arlo's false assumption so he cut deep into his thigh to look at the flesh. It had the texture of human flesh, but it felt synthetic to him. He thought that maybe he was just paranoid so he did more experiments. He tried eating some sand. The sand didn't fall through his body this time, instead it seemed to disappear inside of him. He definitely didn't digest the sand, it was more like a void in his body consumed it. He found it weird so he picked up more sand and began eating away. It was the same, a void definitely took the sand away.
"WOULD YOU STOP THAT!?!?! YOU'RE FILLING MY BEAUTIFUL HOME WITH SAND!!!" Shouted the abyssal voice with a tone of exasperation.
"No I did nothing wrong (Guilt [removed])"
Arlo began having a feast of sand, he consumed all the sand he could find. He even made sand cake and a sand chicken dinner.
"ARGHHH!!! WILL YOU STOP (WHAT HAPPENED TO FFF- ANGER: - ALWAYS THINKS RATIONALLY?). FINE I'LL GIVE YOU ANSWERS ABOUT YOUR BODY JUST STOP EATING SAND!!!" Shouted the Abyss with the tone of someone on the verge of tears
Arlo stopped eating sand and waited for the explanations.
"THE BODY I GAVE YOU IS A SYNTHETIC BODY THAT I MADE FOR YOU (I MADE IT FOR MYSELF). THE STOMACH IS BOUND TO THE ABYSS SO YOU'D BETTER ONLY EAT DELICIOUS FOOD!!! (THE FOOD GOES TO ME. I JUST WANTED TO EAT NUMMIES -_-)"
Arlo became very suspicious of just how much power the abyssal voice had, so asked him about the Demi Boneman body that he got prior (He threatened him with eating more sand).
"THAT WAS JUST AN ILLUSION I MADE TO FOOL YOU, I DON'T HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE RACES. NOW PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE!!!"
Arlo tried asking the abyss more questions, but there was no response. He was satisfied enough with the knowledge he had gained, so went back to the dungeon and met with the rest of the party.
"Carlos, where did you get those wounds from? Henry heal him up quickly!!!!" Shouted Octavia with a concerned expression.
Henry rushed over to Arlo to heal him. Arlo was quite curious to see if Henry could heal his synthetic body and watched.
Henry opened his Grimoire and found the spell immediately.
"THORNS OF CLOSING WOUNDS"
Thorns appeared on Arlo's thigh and stitched his wound shut. Then Henry casted another spell.
"ALOE TOUCH"
Any evidence of the wound had disappeared after Henry healed him, the spell was successful.
Arlo had a thought afterwards "So this synthetic body can get healed by spells? Interesting"
"Looks like you're all healed up, let's head further in the dungeon. Everyone just finished packing up" said Octavia while helping Arlo stand up.
They got ready and went further into the dungeon. After reaching the second room, they noticed something. There were only three paths, Alice's story said there were five.
"Looks like the layout changed for this part as well" said Octavia with a frustrated expression.
"Let's split up and meet back here later"
"If we're splitting up, I'm going with brother" said Alice with an intransigent expression (expression of refusal to compromise)
They split up in groups and each chose a path. Alice and Arlo went to the right, because Alice thought that the spiders were still in the left room. Bjorn and Henry went to the middle and Octavia went to the right.
ARLO AND ALICE GROUP
They went right and made their way further into the path. The dungeon became darker the further they went, so they used Arlo's sword as a light source. Alice was sticking close to Arlo, she started feeling somewhat anxious and started biting her nails. She knew where they were.
"Carlos, we must head back. I know where we are, the spiders are going to appear soon" said Alice with a frightened expression.
She went running straight to were they had come from, but Arlo caught up to her and grabbed the back of the collar of her robes. A spider web appeared in front of her and a huge spider went running down from it. Alice's face became filled with fear after seeing it, she couldn't even move from the fear so Arlo threw her backwards and struck the spider with his sword. The sword flew back with recoil, it was like the spider was made out of metal. He jumped back to regroup with Alice, but he looked behind him and saw Alice crying in the fetal position. A spider was ready to bare it's fangs into Alice. Arlo grabbed it's fang and threw it over his shoulder. They were surrounded by spiders, Arlo tried attacking them but was met with more diminishing returns. There was nothing he could do, he tried using abyss powers, but there was no response from the abyssal voice.
After struggling some more, the spiders made a path for something. Walking out of the darkness was a humanoid figure, as the figure got closer it was easier to see how it looked like. It was a little girl, she had long black silky hair with bangs and in pigtails, her eyes were as red as rubies and the skin on her face was so smooth, there were no marks or blemishes. She wore a beautiful black dress with red ruffles. If you'd describe her appearance than all you could say is that she looked like a porcelain doll. She made her way towards Arlo, he grips his sword firmly to get ready for a big battle.
"You're the one that had looked into the abyss are you not? That means you're a top contender for Greed"
"Why are you so on guard, don't worry my children won't attack you anymore (Also what's with that creepy smile O_O)"
She stopped near Arlo and greeted him before introducing herself.
"Heya, names Dorothy. I'm the demon lord of gluttony"