Chapter 189: Change in the Grimoire of the Dead (2/2)
Having harvested seven Red Lotuses, I rushed back with Mo Na. No.3 and Big 4 were still heavily injured and these fruits would most likely speed up their recovery. On the trip back however, my worries grew as I suddenly realized that the Grimoire of the Dead was a little too quiet.
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Up till now, the grimoire acted in an almost sentient manner. It would float of its own accord, pull some pranks and even block attacks for me at critical moments. However, when One-eye betrayed me, it remained silent throughout, not even floating about at all…
Giving a quick toss with my bone chain, I found that it was really inert…perhaps it didn’t take too well to the local climate?
I then experimented by opening up the grimoire and checking its content; they were the same as before, I could only flip up to the third page and nothing more.
“What’re you doing Mama?” Just as I was fiddling with the grimoire, the little scamp on my shoulders turned on her curious mode and bent down to ask me: “Mama, is this a book?”
Instantly, my mood improved. Although the silence of the grimoire left me rather sullen, the birth of Mo Na was nothing but a huge piece of good news for me. She reduced the sense of loss I felt towards the grimoire’s silence and as I ruffled her little head, I couldn’t help but smile.
“That’s right, that’s an important book of Papa’s.”
“Can Mo Na have a look, Mama?”
“Sure.” I handed the grimoire over without any hesitation.
‘My precious daughter, no matter what you want, Papa will do his best to give it to you as long as he has it.”
The moment Mo Na came into contact with it however, the grimoire actually freed itself of my bone chains before turning into a thick cloud of black smoke. The smoky mass immediately wrapped itself around Mo Na and by the time I reacted to that, it had already tunnelled itself into her via her nostrils and mouth…
“Mo Na! What happened to you? Mo Na?!”
I frantically reached out and hugged Mo Na, clearly spooked by the change in the grimoire. Her skin started to undergo a series of bizarre changes, from red to black, to green and sometimes to grey…
My heart leapt into my mouth as I watched the sudden changes unfold before my very eyes. What if something were to happen to her? Was the first thought that ran through my mind. Thankfully, nothing happened and after a couple rounds of color changes, her skin finally returned to its normal pinkish hue. Her heaving chest began to settle down and upon touching her forehead, I found her temperature to be normal.
‘Seems like she’s just asleep. At least, she should be fine now but the grimoire is gone…’
With nothing else to be done about that however, I had no choice but to return to No.3 and Big 4.
The two of them laid there on the ground just as I had left them. Given that their limbs were broken, they couldn’t move anyway. Thank the stars nothing happened while I was gone. I fed them the Red Lotuses, two each to be exact. Right away, their injuries began to recover at a speed visible to the naked eyes and soon they even started to evolve…
No.3 and Big 4 were already Three-stars, so another evolution would mean that they would become flame demon childes…why did it suddenly feel like I was losing out to my sidekicks…
“Master…” Unlike One-eye, the two of them didn’t try to revolt just because they were now of a higher evolution form, instead they knelt before me weeping: “We’re useless, we’ve failed the Master and even allowed the Master to suffer such a humiliation…*weep*…”
“Alright, alright, get up you two, stop kneeling.”
“Okay.”Seeing that annoyed look on my face, the both of them immediately got to their feet.
“Master, is the little Master asleep?” Asked No.3 in soft voice, eyeing the little scamp in my arms as he did so.
“You mean Mo Na…?” Now that he reminded me of that matter, I couldn’t help but suffer another headache again. “Probably…”
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