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“I see you’re all still here. Dinner is ready. Let’s get going.”
A person approaches us and speaks to us in a calm tone.
A neat-looking woman in a nun’s dress.
–It was Sister Ruka.
I braced myself and glanced at the young dragon.
Shabazo is standing in front of me, protecting Hina, and he is snarling in alarm at Ruka.
Is she “Mors” after all?
However, she does not possess the “Magic Sword Ansalar,” which is his identity.
Based on previous cases, he may have hidden it somewhere around the house.
“Seti, be careful. That sister wasn’t in the church until just now. And she didn’t show her face until now.”
Pairon also advised me to be careful.
Does that mean that she was somehow infected by Mors after she left?
But isn’t that too short a period of time?
But Pairon is a top-notch assassin of the same level as me.
It’s almost a certainty.
“Shabazzo, that’s enough, just retreat! Kale, protect Hina with your Wall-Preventing Magic and use your Smoke Concealment magic to protect her!”
“Gawa!”
“Yes, sir!”
Shabazo falls back and stays close to Hina.
Kale casts a “barrier spell” on Hina and Shabazo, creating a circular magical barrier.
The barrier space was covered in blackness by the dark magic “Smoke Hiding”.
“What’s going on, Seti-sama? What on earth are you doing?”
Ruka tilted her head curiously at our alarming behavior.
“This person is playing dumb! I’ll seal her up with my “Prison Brand”! Or do you want me to quarantine Atum and finish him off?”
If Ruka is infected with Mors, she should avoid contact with Atum, the main “source of infection”.
If this is the case, then sealing Ruka first and then killing Atum would eliminate the power of Mors, which has lost its main body, and Ruka would be released.
But I am hesitant to kill Atum.
At this stage …… damn it.
“–Oh dear. I’m disillusioned that you would be dismayed by this level of …… humaneness, Seti.”
Suddenly, Ruka’s face contorted into a sneer.
“Y-you! You’re Mors after all!”
“Yes, that’s right. I didn’t expect to be forced to come to such a remote place,……, but it was hard to get around.”
“How did you do it in just two days……?”
“It’s easy. I transferred from Murand body to the Spy Raven and came this far. After that, the virus was transmitted to this woman through a villager. Today is a day when a lot of people gather, so it’s easy.”
So, in disguise, he infected Sister Ruka?
But isn’t it weird?
“Mors …… you can’t take over the bodies of non-humanoid species!”
“You already know my true identity, right? It’s an animal-borne infectious disease. Even if I can’t take over an animal’s body, I can at least attach bacteria to it. Don’t underestimate the virus.”
“Even if it is, it’s coming too fast! Even if you took a short cut through the air, it would take more than two weeks to get here from the Holy Land of Grateka!”
“I’ve given my spy raven the super speed travel skill. I gave the spy raven the destination in advance and flew all the way here.”
“Then what happened to the ‘Magic Sword Ansalar’?
“Oh, this?”
Ruka held out her right arm, and a geometric magic circle emerged from her palm and spread out in a circular pattern.
The “Magic Sword Ansalar” appeared as if it had grown out of it, and Ruka gripped the hilt and received it.
“Transference magic?! You’re not even a magician!”
“No, no. The “Magic Sword Ansalar” appeared and Ruka took it by the handle. I can take away the grace skill of the infected person. And I can transfer it to the carrier.”
I didn’t know that. ……”Four Pillars of Hell” guys, and Grove and Turk also said that they “got the skill from the boss”.
Had they taken the skills from those who had previously taken over their bodies and handed them over to those subordinates as carriers?
Perhaps the same is true of my biofunction amplification and enhancement.
“– [Prison Brand]!”
Catching him by surprise, Pairon activates her own skill.
She aimed it at Ruka, who had turned into Mors.
Immediately after, a transparent wall appears around Mors. He was isolated and contained within a hexagonal pillar.
“This is the ability of the new Dark Nine Dragon boss, the White Dragon. …… Well, this is certainly a nasty effect that no particulate seems to be able to escape from.”
“Seti! get to the source of the infection while I still can–“
“It’s too late! ”
The moment Pairon shouted, the “Magic Sword Ansalar” disappeared from Mors’ hand.
“What the hell?!”
“Behind you, Seti!”
I turned around at Mors’ words and saw Atum behind me acting in a funny manner.
He was holding out his arm as Mors had done earlier, and a similar magic circle was floating from his palm.
“Dad!?”
“W-Wha …… no, Seto …… arm …… my body is doing …… on its own.”
Even Atum himself is unaware of what he is doing?
I’m quite upset and panicked.
“That person is the ‘infection source’ of my main body. Isn’t it natural that we share skills? Even if escape is impossible, I can operate skills remotely – ‘Different Space Storage’!”
Mors activated his Grace skill.
The “Magic Sword Ansalar” appears from Atum’s magic circle, and he takes the magic sword in his hand with an unconscious movement.
It is an ability different from transference or instantaneous movement. It is the ability to share subspace and move stored objects in and out at will, even if they are at the end of the universe. Even if you are at the edge of the universe, as long as you can share, you can move in and out.
Does this mean that Pairon’s skills are invincible against humanoid types, but weak against installation and interspatial types?
While Grace-type skills are absolute, they are always equipped with some kind of disadvantage and weakness.
Mors seemed to understand this at a glance and dealt with it.
“Dad! Let go of that thing, that magic sword!”
“I-I’m sorry, Seto,……, my body is going to go into a daze on its own,…….”
“–Escape the ‘Magic Sword Ansalar’, Atum. Follow your pact with me and transfer your body to me.”
“Giyaaaaahhhhhh —- ugh!!!”
Atum let out a roar that bordered on insanity and pulled the “Magic Sword Ansalar” from its sheath.
The moment the blade is exposed, the sword body turns a dusky jet-black color, and at the same time, negative magical power is released all at once from the whole body.
Atum’s eyes turned white and he cowered as if he had lost all power.
Meanwhile, Sister Ruka, sealed inside the “Prison Brand,” turns her eyes white as well and collapses on the spot.
“Dad!”
As I try to run to him, Atum looks down and flashes his magic sword at me.
“Ggh!”
I reflexively backed away and managed to evade.
Atum slowly looked up with his whole body covered in “negative” magic power.
The expression on his face is not the gentle and calm one that I used to call “father” just a moment ago.
It is an insane and bizarre smile that deceives and ridicules others.
It is the personality of Mors.
“Long time no see, I am Mors, the ‘source of infection’. Nice to meet you, Seti?”
“…… father. No, where’s Atum san?”
“He’s gone. He was originally dead. He was a dead man, a pseudo-personality I revived. So there’s nothing for you to worry about.”
“That’s right. 15 years ago… Atum, who was being chased, escaped to the Demon Cave where I was sealed away, severely injured in an attack by assassins. By that time, the light of life had already been destroyed. It was starting to disappear though…”
Mors’ story goes like this.
Atum, who was on the verge of death, was led deep into the cave, where he found the sword Ansalar and unsealed it.
“At that time, Atum was a man full of hatred because he had been betrayed by his country and lost his beloved wife. His negative feelings were on the same wavelength as mine. So I proposed an alliance, and he fell for it.”
“A pact?”
“Yes–to become my possessor and take revenge. But Atum died right after agreeing to it, but it didn’t matter. Once the contract is concluded, I can take over the body of any dead person. “
Mors revived Atum’s wounded body with his “biofunctional amplification and enhancement,” and then turned the tables on the assassins who were chasing him.
“I-I’m ……not son to that man?”
“Don’t worry, Seti. You two are a fine parent and child. When Atum was seriously injured by the assassins, he took advantage of the escape and made you hide in a different place as a child. I than took over his body. After that, I followed this guy’s memory, retrieved you, and washed you up on the Grand Line continent.The rest is just as you heard from Atum.”
“I have no memory of those days. …… Mors, did you mess with me?”
“That’s right, Seti. An assassin who is supposed to be the best of the best doesn’t need memories, does he? You are hesitant to kill Atum because you know he’s your father! You just got your feelings back! What a stupid …… stupid thing! I’m deeply disappointed in you, setiiiii! Hahaha!!”
Mors laughed and readied his “Magic Sword Ansalar”.
The “negative” magic power emanating from his entire body further expands and roils like a serpent as it rises.
It is a fearless sense of pressure and pressure that I have never felt before.
Is this the serious mode that I am witnessing for the first time …… the full form of Mors ……?
I was astonished and shuddered in front of the fully formed Mors, the source of the infection.
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