Chapter 49: Nameless Shadow
In the room, a humanoid figure wandered among the shadows, cracks, and debris fallen as a result of the explosion and battle of Theos and the Curse.
The figure, totally shrouded in darkness, could not be seen exactly, but it did not appear to be small, about two meters tall and a muscular figure.
He looked at the large crater caused by the explosion of the curse, he commented with a frown. “Well, it went rather better than I expected hahaha,” he laughed madly, but despite the mad laughter, they sounded like little bells that could hypnotize any mortal just by listening to them.
But the laughter stopped abruptly, as if from one moment to the next his amusement had turned to anger. “That bastard… He’s moving too fast, faster than I first imagined,” he remarked solemnly, drawing closer to one of the hundreds of scattered pieces of the curse.
A small piece of meat stood out, with a pale reddish hue; the figure grabbed it with his very hands, and as he observed the piece of meat a little more, the smile on his face grew wider. “Not bad at all,” he commented, crushing the piece of meat in his hand.
Anyone would have imagined that the piece of meat would have scattered into pieces, but quite the opposite, the piece of meat suddenly came out as a white liquid that fell to the ground through the hole he intentionally created in his fist.
*Drip*
The white liquid fell drop by drop on the ground, each drop moving on its own, gathering with other drops and merging in a process that seemed to create a new being or mass.
“Be born, my little son,” the voice declared, the drops forming little by little finally generating a figure, a mass of flesh but one that seemed to force itself to take shape… To a humanoid form.
As if it had waited for that moment, the figure smiled wider in a twisted, macabre smile; its elegance and subtlety had been set aside so that from its body it would expel Mana, but a Mana very different from common Mana, also different from the negative energy of Theos…
Mana of a transparent white color, even having celestial sparkles that seemed to be the cosmos itself covered the figure.
He further widened the range of his Mana, covering the newly born white mass as well.
“Hiiiiiiii,” in less than a second, the white mass managed to develop a large mouth full of fangs, beginning to shriek eerily; at the same time as from its body, it absorbed more of this mysterious Mana.
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, that’s it, grow my son,” the man began to laugh maniacally like a psychopath, his mad eyes watching with each passing second as the mass grew more and more, thus forming a more humanoid creature.
Unlike his previous body, it only took a few seconds for his power to multiply several times what he had before.
From a Master rank, he became a Grandmaster, and not only that but in power,r, he even became a Peak Grandmaster, being monstrously powerful.
The very ground began to tremble from the great power released by both the man and the white mass that looked more and more like a human.
“Let’s continue this somewhere else,” suddenly declared the man, stopping his Mana, and thus the creature stopped its constant evolution, growling a little.
“Oh Did you growl at me?” the man asked with a wide grin that could be anything but friendly.
The large murderous intent made even the curse shrink back in fear, choosing to shake his head from side to side.
“Oh, that’s good to know, and always keep in mind, I am your lord and master; at any time, I will make you disappear if I want to,” he stated with his smile slowly fading, ending in a neutral and emotionless expression.
“Now, let’s get out of here; we already drew too much attention, he probably recognized us, but that doesn’t matter for now.” Extending his hand in a position as if his hand was a sword, he made a slash with his hand, managing to slowly break through the same… Reality, a gap of reality inside the room where total darkness could be seen, infinite darkness.
“Tsk, this expends a lot of mental energy,” clutching his head, he groaned, but that didn’t stop his course of action. Grabbing the curse, still cowering in fear with his other hand, he leaped toward the hole.
Upon entering, the hole closed instantly, leaving no trace of his existence.
As if nothing had happened…
…
“We’re out,” sighed Luna, relieved to be out of danger, her face and body completely sweaty from exhaustion.
“Yes, fortunately…”, Theos commented, looking back at the cave he had come out of. ‘That power from a moment ago… It was from a Peak Grand Master,’ he thought, his eyes fixed there.
“Oh, Theos What’s wrong?” asked Luna beside Theos, getting up from the ground.
She hadn’t noticed that he all the while seemed to be looking back, with concern for his mere state of health or future danger she wondered.
“I recently sensed a great power, even much greater than that curse, a power beyond Grandmaster rank,” he declared in a serious voice, startling Luna.
“A Grandmaster? Are they coming for us?” she asked nervously.
One had to know that a Grandmaster rank opponent is different from a Master, and if it’s a Peak Grandmaster, it’s a hell of a lot worse; she didn’t even have the slightest hope that Theos would face something like that and defeat it.
Fortunately, her heart regulated her pulse as he watched Theos shake his head from side to side. “No, that monstrous power disappeared a while ago as if it never existed in the first place.”
“Ahhh… I see,” with her head down, she couldn’t say much, her fear stopped, but every time she analyzed… She got even more scared. “Theos… You know what that means, don’t you?” she asked with difficulty speaking, a lump in her throat settling in her throat.
Instead, Theos nodded quietly with his eyes growing colder and colder. “Yes… This only strengthens my theory that we were controlled or manipulated by another, more powerful being.”
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