Cursed spirit
She believed that she had my flas contained because of her barrier but the truth was that much like a wild tiger given a juicy steak she had only slowed it down while it savored it's al. We hurried as fast as we could without directly carrying her which wasn't very fast at all for an adventurer at my level. In fact it was almost annoyingly slow to but Hephaestus was stuck in a normal if rather athletic mortal body so nothing for it really. I got so odd looks from her familia mbers as we reached Babel and ascended it's floors.-
Much like the Freya familia the Hephaestus familia lived and operated out of the massive tower though Freya lived at the top while the bottom and middle floors were occupied by Hephaestus. The ironic part was that unlike the vast majority of adventurers I had NEVER set foot on any of these floors until now. I simply had no need for anything that could be found here since only equipnt and magic items were found here which I tended to just make myself. That said you could practically feel the wealth of the hephaestus familia with the vast amount of workshops and stores active on each floor.-
We ignored all that however as we went up the stairs between each floor of the tower until we reached the floor where Hephaestus herself had her workshop and office.
"Looks like we are just in ti." I said as we entered and I saw those familiar black flas slowly consuming the disintegrating barrier.
"Stop it already!" Hephaestus said panicked.
"Calm yourself, it's not that simple anymore. They've had enough ti and fuel to beco partially independent, a bit like a naughty child. I need to coax them into behaving and being obedient again." I say relaxed as I approach the blaze.
The black flas seed to pause slightly as I approached and I could just barely feel a sort of attention being placed on from it. I didn't attempt to force the flas to obey or even summoned more to subsu these ones back into myself. That would be such a waste in my opinion as this set of flas had almost reached the point of solidifying into a cursed spirit. I held out my hand into the flas that flowed over my skin almost curiously before the blaze began to condense upon my palm.-
I added the smallest bit of my own energy to the condensing fla to give it that last little push to becoming a cursed spirit and watched with a growing grin as it started solidifying. Soon a small kitten with glossy pitch black fur and eyes sat on my palm purring away. -
W-what IS that?" Hephaestus asked with a slight nervous stamr.
I held the little curse carefully as I turned to her "This little one is a newly born cursed spirit, a being born when cursed energy grows to a certain point and tends to be the manifested embodint of a thing or concept. Not much different than the spirits of old you gods created with a unique difference, the ability to grow." I explained with a happy smile as I stroked the small feline with a finger idly.
"This is forbidden! Mortals aren't allowed to create new life!" she hissed with a horrified expression.
"I am not the one who made this little one, you are. Sure I provided the final touches with my power but you are the one who fed it, nurtured it and refined it into what it is." I said honestly.
"I don't understand how this could have happened though." she said confused but cald down since a god making new life wasn't forbidden.
"I'm not surprised you don't since you aren't familiar with cursed energy beyond myself and my tools. Cursed energy isn't passive like mana it's closer to the soul and thus more active. It's fueled by mostly negative emotions but not unaffected by positive ones despite this. This little one was born because of your own emotions when you tried to use it and fed it mana. Curiosity, love and excitent all mixed with the innate predatory nature of my flas to take this form when actualized, a cat." I explained casually.
Cats weren't harmless creatures despite what a great many people seed to believe, quite the opposite in fact. Most felines were extrely prodigious hunters by nature even if they didn't need to. In addition to this cats saw nearly everything as prey which aligned perfectly with my flas. When I said love I didn't an like that between a couple or a parent to their child but the love Hephaestus held for crafting.-
The context here however didn't matter as it was rely that warmth she felt about crafting sothing with the flas that worked into them. After eating an amount of mana great enough to hold a level six it was little surprise that the flas had grown dense enough to almost self actualize into a cursed spirit on their own. What I did at the end there was give them the last little push needed to finish that process since if I wasn't wrong this world didn't have any experience with cursed spirits and thus couldn't do it passively like in JJK.-
If you are wondering whether this cat was dangerous as a cursed spirit then that was also thankfully not an issue due to the uniqueness of this situation. See the flas ca from and were actualized by so naturally this cursed spirit was also bound to quite intimately. The best way to describe it would be that it was now like a familiar was for a mage, under control but it's own thing at the sa ti. That said if I fed it regularly it's power would grow equal to and perhaps even greater than my own as far as fire was concerned.-
Unlike the [hell fire] cursed technique was it's innate technique and that ant it's potential with it was likely higher than my own as my main focus was on my [Hell's forge] innate technique. Right now it's firepower(pun intended) was quite weak as a new born cursed spirit but as it developed it could absolutely reach Special grade.
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