Chapter 46 Part4 (1/2)

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”Huaah! Uooooh!”

”Oh, granny's got a nice voice!”

He was really worried about Prince and Kratia too, but with Jin and Arema fighting against the Annihilation Flame Sword G.o.d, he should have enough time. Moreover, Kratia had harmonized with her orb, temporarily boosting her abilities above their limit, so she wouldn't die, regardless of how the situation progressed.

”Uuuuaaaaaaah!”

'I have to focus on saving this old lady now.'

Lee s.h.i.+n Woo observed the disparate energy deep within her and his expression soured. He'd learned three innate elements, so he'd thought it would be easy to save her, but things were a lot different from what he'd expected.

”Seagald, you b.a.s.t.a.r.d.”

Seagald hadn't killed his sister just because he was a crazy b.a.s.t.a.r.d.

He inflicted a grievous injury onto Seira and had simultaneously infused Annihilation Flame into her. The Annihilation Flame and the undead curse, which would transform one into the undead depending on how close they were to death, had overlapped and had become something else entirely. And that was...

'Anti-Skull...?'

That's right. He thought he'd felt this energy before, but it was similar to Seagald Von Retadane's mana. In other words, this was a ceremony that turned someone into a member of Anti-Skull. Seagald had attempted to kill his sister and induct her into Anti-Skull!

He said something about 'losing her way' or that he'd 'show her the right path', but how could Anti-Skull be the right path!? He was willing to go so far as to kill his own little sister to ensure that she was on his side!?

'As I thought, all these undead b.a.s.t.a.r.ds are crazy! ...But wait a sec.'

But as the different energies interfered with each other, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo came to another realization. The Annihilation Flame element had eliminated a portion of the undead curse's mana and had changed its inherent properties, creating something entirely new... It was similar to his Pauls' mana. He felt as though he was struck by lightning when he came to a realization.

'Was the reason they came into contact with the Pauls to perfect the Anti-Skull experiment...? So I'm the reason Anti-Skull was perfected?'

His Pauls had told him that they'd met with Seagald, yet they had left unscathed. If that's the case, then why did they come into contact with Pauls that weren't under the direct command of the Heaven Defying General? It made sense if they were used as data to perfect the Anti-Skull test.

If that's the case, then was the reason Seagald chose now to act because he'd gotten inspiration from the way Lee s.h.i.+n Woo created the Pauls and managed to complete the Anti-Skull test? So he'd led his own little sister to Bayran, and had even led the other forces here to cause chaos!

”Guuuuu. Huaaaaaaah!”

”If you were smart enough to make that call, then you should've just told your little sister how to live. You may have copied my methods, but at the end of the day, you're still undead...!”

Once he understood Seira's condition, he attempted to reverse her condition with each of his innate elements one-by-one.

He tried Dark Shadow first. It would've been easy if he could sever cause-and-effect, reversing her death, but... He'd somewhat expected this himself, but he wasn't at the level where he could do that yet. It was similar to bringing a dead person back to life. If he could do this, then he would've given Jin a human body already.

He tried his Dark Flame next. He wanted to 'steal' the curse that ate away at her, but because of what Seagald had done, her mana, the undead curse, and Seagald's Annihilation Flame element were mixing together and becoming something else entirely. Unless he stole all of her mana, there was nothing he could do.

If he were to steal all of her mana, she would vanish without a trace. The s.h.i.+ning Flame was also out of the question using the same logic.

'What about light? Eh, this won't work either. Seagald's Annihilation Flame element devoured Seira's light and actually became stronger. He prepared this specifically for Seira... Though my darkness should work.'

So long as the curse was, at its core, based on the darkness element, it had no choice but to be controlled by it. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had already achieved peak darkness mastery, and if he linked himself with Seira's mana, which filled her body to the brim and was bursting, then he could cause her mana to change in a completely different direction!

...But it would still change her into an undead. He would stop her from becoming a part of Anti-Skull, but would in-turn turn her into an undead like the Pauls.

'Then... What other options do I have? Sacrifice?'

In the past, when he'd saved Ye Jin Jin, he'd gained a skill called Sacrifice due to his karma. It was a skill that allowed him to kill himself to save someone on the brink of death.

He'd acc.u.mulated 164 lives as if they were mileage, so he decided to test out the skill. But then...

[The target is changing due to a status ailment. Thus, you cannot target them with this skill.]

”How can you call this a status ailment!? You said I could save someone on the brink of death! She's clearly dying! So does it only work when they're dying from something physical!? A case like that'd be hard to find. What a s.h.i.+tty skill!”

”Uuuaaah!”

As expected of Anti-Skull's leader. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had mastered several abilities, yet even he was hard-pressed to deal with this.

Then again, it was because Seagald was this skilled that he was able to free the undead from the curse and turn them into Anti-Skull in the first place! He was so skilled that it p.i.s.sed Lee s.h.i.+n Woo off!

'...Alright. Let's give up on saving her. Granny, you lived a long life.'

He boldly decided to give up on her. Plus, he didn't really cherish her enough to risk his life to save her. He just thought that it'd be better to save her. But because it wouldn't work, he had to give up on it!

But if he just left her like this, she would definitely become a powerful ally to Seagald in the future (for a level 8, she didn't seem like much, but she might get stronger as an undead), so rather than let that happen, it would be better to kill her here and now.

And if it were possible, then...

”Sseup. What should I do with you...”

”Uuuaaaah.”

Even now, Seira was doing her best to resist the transformation, but her screams were getting louder and louder. The Annihilation Flame element, which was attempting to remake her, the undead curse, which had undergone a special evolution that made it more offensive, and her own mana, which wasn't capable of mounting a proper resistance and was being influenced by the two...

'Why did he have to pierce her heart, not only infusing his Annihilation Flame element into her, but also contaminating all of her veins and arteries. ...This b.a.s.t.a.r.d. He even antic.i.p.ated my intervention.'

Moreover, Seira was the hero that had operated in the Underground Empire the longest, so she had acc.u.mulated the most of the undead curse within her body. All those factors worked together to cause the worst possible outcome.