After arriving at the Daxhoull Oscar and Izumi directly went to the cave. Izumi was surprised to see the cave and the magical lake. She was even more surprised after seeing Kairi. It was her first time meeting a spirit."Oscar, welcome back. I see you brought a friend with you.""She is Izumi. I will tell you details later but for now, she has to stay here until I get the ingredients I need."Kairi didn't say anything but looked into Oscar's eyes. She could feel the sadness of Oscar. She was worried because of his extreme emotions for the last week."Are you sure about this? What you are planning to do is... it something will change you forever.""I already crossed the point of no return. I already killed three people."Kairi released a heavy sigh. She didn't want him to shoulder this kind of burden. But it was already too late for this. The first person he killed was turned to dust and the others were cleaned up by Akane.The gentle kid was already gone at this point. The Oscar that
"Everything is almost ready. I get the ingredients and the formation is almost complete. I just need to add the last touches."I muttered to myself. I'm nervous about the ritual. It's too important, I'm going to use it to resurrect Mason. The formation I'm using is my own creation as I inspected and decoded many formations recorded in the library. Those were especially about the soul and death. It's dangerous but there is no other way to bring someone back from death. It's something unpracticed as I'm the one who created it a few days ago. Well, Mason is already dead and there is no other way so there is also nothing to lose."What are we really doing now?"Izumi asked me with a clear curiosity on her face... That's right. I haven't told her about the plans I have. Kairi raised her brows and looked at me. Oh, I think I should tell her about the Mason and what we are going to do.I told her about Mason and how he died in my arms. Just talking about his death made me clench my fists. I
"We made it!""No, Oscar. You made it yourself. You worked for it and finally manage to pull it off."Ah, I really did it. My body hurts all over but it is worth it. The formation worked as intended and we successfully put Mason's soul back into his body. Kairi healed him again when we are done so he is really back to life.I finally fixed my mistake of letting my friend die. It will take some time for him to wake up but he will. Ah... I woke up after passing out due to exhaustion earlier but it seems like I still need some time to rest my body.***When I woke up I was underwater. No, this is not water. It's liquid mana. Kairi must have put me here to let me recover quickly. I guess that worked. I feel like almost all of my earlier exhaustion is gone now. I swam out of the lake. When I reached the little shore of the lake I saw Kairi and Izumi sitting somewhere close and chatting with each other."Hey, girls. How long I was out?""A little more than five hours. I had to help your bod
There stood a giant toad with blue skin in front of me. Its big eyes were focused on me. With its height of five or six meters, it was a quite menacing sight for normal humans. But I'm not going to be affected by this."This spirit almost confirms everything. Also, I can see blood-covered cabins. I guess they really were doing human experiments. You are also responsible for the deaths of many people who died because of the explosions that corrupted spirit caused before."I'm not nervous this time. Unlike my prior, battles against spirits or those who are influenced by them, this time I came prepared for anything. I took a deep breath and attacked the spirit with all of my might.***A few hours ago, before Oscar went to Houll Family's mansion."It's been three days since the operation. My energy channels are completely safe to use and they are working really efficiently."I inspected his energy channels with his mana eyes. It's been three days since the ritual and I was making sure ev
My name is Zara Houll and I think I'm about to die if I can't escape this house on time. I'm having this bad feeling since the morning and it just gets worsening as time goes on. I always trust my instincts so I trusted them this time too. I secretly left the mansion just before nightfall. No one will notice my absence for a long time. When there is something interesting and new all of the Houlls are immediately focused on it. Except for me and my little cousin Charlotte.We both were different from the other Houlls while we grow up. We didn't have this obsessive curiosity in our family. And I'm glad about it. When they focus on something they easily forget the world around them. Just like the last couple of days. We decipher the data of Andrew's experiments which I uploaded to our system previously to attract my uncle's attention. James Houll, my uncle, is the current head of our family. We can't disobey him as he controls everything our family has.About three weeks ago I was doing
'It was... easier than I thought.'Oscar looked at the dissipating corpse of the toad spirit. He first thought that it was going to be another life and death battle but when he tried to measure the amount of mana his opponent has he was surprised. That toad spirit only has a mana amount of an Inferior Class. The only problem was its troublesome ability of it. Being able to release shockwaves and doing it with the entirety of its body was something he didn't expect to face.He would have easily died because of the shockwaves damaging his internal organs. But thankfully his mana and hex strengthened body was able to withstand the shockwaves. Since the toad didn't have any other abilities he easily killed it by stabbing its core with a water spear. He took the spiritual core that was left from the vanishing corpse."It's really unfortunate that all of the people here just died because of the effects of our short battle. I would have liked to interrogate some of them."The basement was in
Evelyn took a deep breath. Her legs were shaking. The scene in front of her was both shocking and horrifying for her. There were crimson flames everywhere burning anything in their path. She could also see heavily injured people scattered around. "M-m-monster..." A single word fell from her lips albeit barely. Her eyes were focused on the back of the young boy. He was on his knees and passed out while standing like that. He was also the center and the reason for these crimson flames that can burn everything. She gulped and take a step forward. Her target was the person who was checking on the boy. At her every step her tension grew and eventually, she stopped just a few meters away from both the boy and his grandfather. "M-master..." She called out to the older person. She was still scared of the intensely burning crimson flames around. The older man looked at her with a serious face. The face she always saw was filled with kindness and sincere emotions but now there wasn't any tr
(Zara's POV)Luna Edgar. Someone who owes me a debt. She is also the daughter of one of the strongest families in the Daxhoull. A year ago she asked me for help. To cover something she had done. She killed an ordinary high schooler, Nora Crest. It was weird. I didn't understand why she asked for help with something as easy as covering the death of someone ordinary.I soon understand why she asked for help. All of the family heads in the Daxhoull begin searching for one who is responsible for the death of Nora Crest in a panic. Turns out she was related to someone scary enough to make every influential family. I never learned who that person was. My uncle kept refusing to talk about it. He looked scared to death whenever I tried to talk to him about this so I stopped before he did something stupid because of his fear.I can't help but remember that night. Luna first called me just before nine. She told me that she needed my help. When I went to the place she told me to, I saw her and s