Back in HellFire Forest, Ancient tis Planet Vermillion, The Gate Of Avalon…. Current Tiline.
Flare then followed behind towards the forest as we reached a little distance away from the settlent. I made sure that there was no one watching us and finally, when I was sure there was on one, I looked at Flare before speaking.
"Blood Assimilation Magic."
While I did learn Blood Assimilation's initial stages from Alaric, I modified it according to my own needs. The original Blood Assimilation could control the blood flow of a person at the sa ti also maintaining the structural and functional capabilities of that blood… it just wasn't for .
Alaric had his own system helping him out, doing more than half of the work without him needing to do anything at all, while I needed to do everything manually. Though… Now that I think about it, the fact I could control all the functions and structures properly was really sothing else…
What I modified was I let my mana flow into the blood, along with the recipient's, to see his or her blood flow. I could forcefully make changes in the blood flow but it would naturally result in a painful death of the person, so I generally prefer to keep it mana oriented only, that too at a low intensity just enough to know the way the blood functions in an organism, monsters and races alike.
It kind of helped understand their basic physiology and how they use mana, which in turn helped find their weak/strong points which, sotis, they themselves did not know about.
I added one more function to it, and that was to change the constituent of the bloods ever so slightly… mostly because it would help set a charm magic deep within the very blood system of the person with whom I am dealing with.
Looking at Flare, who was just timidly standing there, I proceeded to touch her shoulder, which I pricked slightly to let enough blood flow. I then, using shadow magic, pricked my own finger to physically connect so amount of my blood with hers.
Closing my eyes, I traced the mana flow into her body and see if her blood is still flowing like a human or has it changed its direction to that similar to a minotaur.
For the next 15 minutes… I kept observing and analysing it from all the angles and after I was done observing and analysing, I sighed a little.
'Her blood flow is a complete ss… it is neither properly a human's nor it belongs to a minotaur's… it feels like the whole body was separated and then combined with another body forcefully creating sothing else entirely…' I thought with a really complex face as I looked at it.
No amount of healing can settle this… what this needs is a miracle…
I… felt odd again. I really thought I could save her to be honest… if it was just a simple case of attachnt of a Minatour's head with a human's body with a little bit of ss around the neck, I would have probably been able to set it apart and change her face using one thing or another. At worst, I could have carved her face with an artefact or sothing, resulting in her living a life close to that of a human, but now… what should I even do…
'Do… I have no option but to kill her?' I thought as I separated my finger from her shoulders. I looked at her and wondered if I could do anything… anything at all… but no matter what I thought, I.. couldn't co up with a solution.
'Even if I create a charm circle on her face, making her seem like a human to anyone who sees her… anyone above S level could easily see through the magic… and that doesn't change her ways of living and other stuff too… ' I kept thinking of ways but still it wasn't really sothing I could think of…
'Should I just kill her… or take my ti to create a charm magic that would allow her to live among humans without any problems…' I thought and thought…. And in the end… I decided that…
'It will be better to kill her,' I finally decided after looking at it from every possible angle…
I then looked at her Minatour face, which was curiously looking at . She wasn't doing anything but standing there watching and I sighed before proceeding to take out my scythe… however.. before I could do so…
The scene changed suddenly… everything turned white and then… everything turned black as I lost consciousness…
….
"Do you think he is dead?" I heard a slightly confused yet unamused voice. It sounded familiar… Where have I heard that voice again?
"If he was dead, he wouldn't have been brought here but outside," a child-like voice answered the question of the first voice and once again I felt like I had heard this voice too… sowhere?
"Oh! Looks like he is waking up," the childish voice spoke and I slowly opened up my eyes, only to find a white floor and white majestic pillars all around . There were two figures in front of . One was a white-haired white-winged guy, who was looking at with a slightly amused face as he spoke,"You are alive! Wow!"
The child… who was as white as possible, looked at with a relaxed expression as he spoke,"do I take it as you finished the job and acquired the Space Fragnt?"
Lucifer, the white-winged handso guy and Amon, the white child… too bright!
For the next few monts, I focused on recollecting my thoughts as I looked at them while also recalling the past one month and whatever happened… hmmm… I guess I understand what just happened… probably…
"No, I didn't even get to see the fragnt," I answered Amon, whose expression turned a bit unsatisfied with my answer, but still he asked again,"can you explain what happened?"
"Many things… let's just say that there is a ti limit inside that gate… exactly 1 month, to be precise. I was there for one month and as soon as the ti limit was over, I was pushed out… though I didn't know about it beforehand," I spoke up my mind clearly because ti was one of the factors I was ticulously calculating inside that Gate of Avalon.
"Hmmm… so did you find anything at all?" Amon asked again, a bit worried, and I nodded at him as I spoke,"two leads… I think one of them will surely lead to Space fragnt. I was about to reach that lead when the ti was up."
Amon kept gazing at for the next few monts, before he sighed and spoke,"all right… that is better than you dying, at least."
'Trust a little, you prick,' I thought with a smile on my face and he glared at a little before sighing again.
"I guess, I just have to enter that place again," I said as I tried to see the entrance of the temple… but it wasn't there?! Huh?
"True that… but you need to find another Gate of Avalon for that… Do you know of any other gate?" Lucifer chid in as he observed and I kind of looked at him blankly for a second as he asked,"you don't know?"
"I do but…" I stopped midway as I thought,'I do, but I didn't know that you can enter one gate only once… how much ti does that give ? 3 months? That too if I got the chance to enter all the three gates, which I know of…'
Lucifer looked at and asked again,"but?"
"It's nothing. I know of another couple of gates so that should give 2 more months… hmmm… I guess I will keep the ti in mind next ti," I spoke, and he narrowed his eyes at again.
"What?" I asked, a bit confused this ti and he spoke,"no.. It's just that… you know a bit too much… Just what kind of life did you live?"
"I would rather not say anything," I spoke before looking at Amon, who was silently watching our interaction and then speaking,"what happened to Dolos and Janus?"
"Janus is keeping hold of Dolos using his magic. Of course, we helped him to make that magic more secure. Enough to last for eternity unless soone equally strong as us cos to break it," Amon answered with a smile and then spoke,
"I guess you should be going back now. Is there anything else you would like to know?"
I was irked by his sudden polite nature but still I spoke,"a few things… but probably later… Ah! Can you do sothing about the people outside? It would be a pain to explain all the things I did, so that would be a great help."
Amon looked at for a few monts before pondering and then looking at Lucifer as he spoke,"is it okay if we do that?"
Lucifer kind of got irritated at that before speaking,"if I wasn't really involved in this ss so deep, I would have directly rejected it but… well, I guess I can do it for once. How much do you want to do?"
"Leave that to ," Amon spoke with a bright smile before he touched my right shoulder and Lucifer too moved and touched my left shoulder, then they both began chanting sothing. I wanted to ask what the f*ck were they both doing… but for so reason, they were so deeply engrossed that I decided it would be better not to disturb them.
After a few monts, Amon simply spoke,"you are smart enough to understand what is going on, so I won't explain. Let's et later, okay?"
Lucifer simply spoke,"don't forget your promise, human."
And before I knew it, the scene changed yet again as I found myself standing in front of another familiar person, in an oddly familiar place as that person, Bernette Leeway, spoke with a serious expression,
"Would you like to co with sowhere?"
[Volu 2: The War of Avalon(Prologue) Ends here]
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