"Okay… I won't harm myself, unless it is extremely necessary," I said as I looked at her…
Though I wondered…. When did I become so attached to people that I started caring about their emotions…
'The Life Magic!' My eyes opened wide as I realised a few changes that have occurred in me… I no longer care about Lucia… though I still hate her but… I am not constantly plagued by her thoughts as I used to?
Did the Life Magic do something? That is the only answer I could think of… otherwise, I had always been someone with minimal emotions. Hmmm….
"You won't?" I looked at Elle who had a surprised expression as well… looking at her, it doesn't seem like she is reading my thoughts right now…
"You don't want me to?" I asked with a bit of confused expression at which she started stuttering as she looked at me again trying to speak coherently,"No, I mean… yes… you aren't… this doesn't fit your character."
I looked at her, trying to make up her mind to say the right words, and I then pondered again before speaking,"It is fine… I think it has something to do with life magic and Hygeia."
She looks at me for a few moments and makes a confused expression, but I ignore her before looking at Amon again and speaking.
"Now that all has been more or less done… there is something important that I want to ask of you, Amon."
Elle wanted to speak something but looking at me with a serious expression, she shut her mouth immediately and then I saw another message from Amon.
[First deal with that child]
Which finally made me turn to look at the kid playing with his sword as he kept swinging it on his own. I then saw a few other new faces at a distance doing their own job without minding our business.
'Isn't this relaxing?' I thought with an awkward expression, as I see the place becoming more and more crowded every time I come here. I then concentrated back on the child as I moved towards him and he turned at me before pointing his sword at me.
"Do you know what I want?" he asked with a serious face and I answered playing along with him, as,"no, I do not."
"Then how are you going to solve my problems?" He asked again with his expression not changing one bit and I answered again,"I will think of a way that you can't even think about even if it takes your whole life," which kinda made him smile a little before he nodded.
"Save my dead sister," he spoke before he gazed into my eyes, while I kept looking at him, and then he continued again,"find her. Save her. I don't know where she is. I have no idea where they have taken her or who has taken her. I don't even know whether she is real or just a conjecture of my imagination… but I want to save her. Though now that I can't save her because I am here, I want you to do that for me. Can you do that for me?"
I look at him before thinking about the situation,'to save someone who may or may not even exist? Now isn't that interesting,' and I smiled a little before speaking,"I will give my utmost best."
He looked at me before nodding and then moving back as he spoke,"I will be watching over you. If you need any help… you can ask me," and I kept looking at him before turning back to Amon and Elle, who were just observing me silently.
While it may sound impossible… there is no harm in trying… Let's do it when we return to Bryxton later. For now…
"What do you know about Parasites?" I asked Amon with a serious expression and a chart came in front of me showing grades and numbers of parasites..
[Parasite King: 1
Heaven's Guard Parasites: 3
Royal Guard Parasites: 8
Duke Parasites: 250
Viscount Parasites: 12782
Count Parasites: 108979
General Parasites:51089304
Captain Parasites: 2786158134
Scout Parasites: ???
These are their current numbers in the entire universe combined.
If you want anything more specific, tell me the details and I will tell you about it briefly… though not too much, cause it might alert a few primordials and that isn't what we want right now]
I saw the numbers and message with a blanked out face… while I knew about them being a lot in numbers… but isn't that like just too many? Just… What kind of force did we end up fighting against?
"What does that question mark denote?" I asked as I looked at it, at which another message appeared
[Scout parasites have another form, called dormant form, where their system does not work. So I can't count on them. For example, one of the dormant forms would be the one living inside Bernette right now]
I saw the message and sighed before pondering about something, and then speaking once again,
"Can you tell me anything about the Parasite King?" at which Amon messages
[I can't give you any information on that right now]
Which actually made me even more curious about the Parasite King…. Just who is he… or what kind of entity is he?
I then sat down on the ground as I closed my eyes before pondering over something deeply….
'Hmmm… There are multiple ways to fight against a parasite, but when we add Bernette to the equation, this makes things much trickier than usual. What would be the best way…. to show as least power as possible while simultaneously also saving Bernette and killing the scout? Is there any way I can use the scout? Nope, couldn't do it before… I don't have the capability to do it now either… ' and then I kept pondering over it…. again and again… to make sure I missed nothing…
And after I was done thinking…
"Amon, create a Parasite Scout of one tenth of its power level."
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