Chapter 960 An Accursed Power
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"I can feel your pain, Eustace…" Maria sighed, her power surging from within her, Lightning melded with Moonlight, sharp pink and purple-colored shocks of electricity surging from within her Divine Aura. "You died gruesomely, did you not?"
"RAAAARRRGH!"
Eustace was completely berserk, his sword clashing against Maria in a second, an explosion of darkness and black flames engulfed everything around them!
CRAAAAASSHH!!
The black smoke slowly dissipated, to reveal Eustace's blade being locked by Maria's bare hands, tightly stopping the blade from slicing through her soul.
"GRRRHHH… GRAAAH!"
Eustace had completely lost his sanity at this point, going utterly insane as he continued groaning and roaring like a rabid dog.
Maria tried to scout his soul but could only find an endless darkness and a sea of black flames, his memories deep within it.
She had seen souls in similar state, but never such a powerful curse.
"Is this the Curse of the Dark Pest?!" Wondered Maria. "Just what is that thing to inflict such a horrendous curse into someone souls? Wait… This goes deeper than the Soul!"
Maria quickly recalled her encounter with another Necromancer that seemed to have been stronger than her in the Necromancy Department.
That Vampire wearing the mask at Tear's Tower, capable of controlling and reviving Souls through their Origin, the very depth of a Soul that no mortal can access to.
"This is not only a Soul Curse, but also a Curse to the very Origin of his Soul!"
Origins, from what she has figured out, where the deepest part of a soul, the Core of it all, once it shattered, a person's existence would be completely destroyed.
By manipulating it, it was possible to bring back people that had their souls destroyed even, as long as a contract into an Origin was previously made!
It was such an intrinsic power that surpassed most logic of what Maria ever thought as possible through Necromancy.
It was something that perhaps surpassed even this world's own laws…
"Whoever this Dark Pest bastard was… He was someone incredibly powerful!"
As these thoughts flashed through her mind, Eustace quickly attacked her, kicking her away with a powerful strike using his armored boots.
BAAAAAMM!!
"Ugh…!"
Maria took mostly no damage but felt the flames of his curse spreading over her body, which she found rather dangerous.
However, not for her!
"Unlike your Soul and Origin, mine is all mixed and weird, and corrupted to the core." Maria smiled, the flames slowly were assimilated and completely absorbed, surprising the mad knight. "I've been looking at my soul for a while now, it's really weird."
Unlike most conventional Souls, whose Origin resembled a marble of white or golden color, Maria's Origin was dark purple, with a pitch-black center.
To make things weirder, it wasn't in the form of a marble, but a mass of slime, spreading countless tentacles as roots across the rest of her soul.
This might be because her Origin had evolved alongside her, twisting the very pillar of her existence into something of eldritch levels.
However, although it was disturbing, it was also beneficial!
"RAAAAGGH!"
Eustace quickly chased after her, his sword swinging several times against Maria, releasing countless waves of slicing darkness and cursed flames.
SLAASH! SLAASH! SLAASH! SLAASH!
Maria was about to evade the powerful attacks and then retaliate with her mirror, but a flash of bright light appeared before her, Jonathan!
"I won't let you touch Maria with your accursed flames! [Divine Sunshine Blade Arts]: [Heavenly Sun's Judgement]!" Jonathan roared with fury, swinging his gigantic Divine Sword and unleashing a massive slash of pure divine power against the knight!
BOOOOMMM!!
The beam clashed against the waves of darkness, both techniques cancelling one another as an explosion of light and darkness sent a strong enough shockwave to force us to step back!
"Jonathan! Thanks, but I can handle well on my own too." Maria said. "My weapons are still in the process of being upgraded, but I am pretty overgeared now!"
"I know, but that knight… I don't think you should take it on your own." Said Jonathan. "It is too strong, and it is constantly growing stronger!"
"GRAAAAHHH!"
As Jonathan said those words, that just happened. The corrupted black knight's entire aura erupted like an endless sea of darkness, spreading everywhere and filling his surroundings with dark purple glass born from the sand burning from his black flames.
TRUUUUMMM…!!!
"The crystals!" Emeraldine pointed at them. "They're transforming?!"
"Shit, this bastard's bringing a whole army with him now?!" Partner said.
As they said, the crystals quickly started to transform, Maria's eyes widened as she saw Eustace wield the Curse inflicted upon him as if it were a weapon.
The crystals transformed into giant, insect-like monsters, each one exuding the power of powerful A+++ Rank Monsters!
"SHAAAAH!"
Worst of all, they were almost a hundred, each one at least being four meters big, with the largest at seven!
"RAAAH!"
With a mighty and commanding roar, Eustace pointed his sword at our entire group, his army of Accursed Crystal Beasts quickly started rushing towards us.
"And to think I wanted a solo fight for once…" Maria sighed. "Alright, everyone! Let's wreck them like we always do! We can't let Eustace go berserk and get his army of critters close to the village."
With a few words of leadership, Maria's entire party was pumped up for battle, everyone rushing in and clashing against the powerful crystal beasts.
Lucifer and Partner were the first to step forwards after Maria and Jonathan, utilizing their abilities and magic to bombard the monsters and shatter them into pieces.
The Dragon King used his sharp claws and Abyssal Death Flames to set ablaze his foes, weakening them before cutting them into pieces.
Partner used the power of her two newly reinforced spears to pierce through the monster army, explosions of crimson blood energy and darkness erupting one after another.
"KILL… DARK PEST… RAAAGGGH!"
With a furious scream, the knight didn't remain in one place while summoning his endless waves of monsters, leaping into the air and then descending like a blazing black meteor.
And he pointed his sword at nobody else than Celes!
"CELES!"
CRAAAAASSSHH!!
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