Elias had already finished rging with eleven soul beasts. He could feel his body changing. But unlike before, his body didn't grow larger or stronger. Instead, for so reason, he beca younger.
With the bones of the beast of decay transforming into the essence of a fable and moving to his heart, his physique began returning to its state before the rger.
From looking like soone in his teens, Elias returned to the appearance he had when he first entered the academy, matching the physique of a twelve-year-old.
His clothes had beco loose again, but he didn't even register it. He shifted his attention to the last fable, which was also different from the other eleven shadows.
At first, all twelve fables looked nothing more than shadows to him. But after accepting eleven fables, when he looked at the last fable's essence, he saw sothing that wasn't a shadow.
He could see the complete physique of the fable, as if it was truly living existence. He could see her face as well, which made him rember her. She was one of the last few people that were sent by Zesten.
It was also the person that he had killed at absolute priority since she was stronger than the rest of the fables that he had seen until that point, especially her long range ability.
The last fable approached Elias, as if she couldn't control herself either. She was being controlled by an unknown force that it couldn't resist, being pulled towards the rger. She didn't try to resist either, as she was certain that she had already died.
The woman stopped before Elias, looking at him with her snake-like pupils. Her gaze fell on the object that had long since fallen out of Elias's pocket after his clothes beca looser. It was an emblem, with a symbol of a snake devouring its own tail.
"Are you..." She uttered a few words, as her hands moved on her own towards Elias's hands.
Elias looked in the direction that she was looking at, and saw the emblem of his family.
"Even in death, you people don't leave us alone." She gave a self-deprecating smile, as her fingers touched Elias's fingers. She could feel her remnants being absorbed, with her existence being erased completely, with no chance of returning to life ever.
"If there is any justice in this world, then I curse you... You will suffer a fate worse than death in the future. All the sins of yours and your family, will return to you a hundredfold to you. You will pray for death, but death will not be rciful enough to co for you..."
Elias looked at the woman with lifeless eyes, hearing her curse. His eyes looked tired, and in pain, all his tears having dried off. But he didn't take his eyes off her, watching her fade into business.
"I accept your curse." He opened his lips, as his hands gently closed to hold her hands. However, before he could grab her hand properly, she disappeared, turning into a lifeless essence of a fable.
The twelve soul beast's essence was also taken by his body, and moved straight to his heart. The fourteen essences, each coming from a different soul beasts, had gathered at the sa place, each having a different characteristics and past associated with it.
Many of them even countered each other like fire and water. But strangely enough, all of them remained in Elias's heart silently, being held together by sothing that was strong enough to counter their resistance.
The storm around Elias beca more fierce than ever, as if it was a wild beast that was trying to devour heaven itself.
Lightning started fiercely flickering across the storm. Spatial cracks also appeared all around it, as the rger within the storm had reached the last step. Just like the person within the storm, the storm also seed to have multiple characteristics to itself.
Sotis, it was a lightning storm, but the next second, it was like a whirlpool made of water. Other tis, it was a tornado of flas, and so tis, it was even worse.
Within the storm, Elias felt the emotions becoming unbearable. At tis, he even felt like putting an end to everything, and just letting everything go and sleep in peace forever.
"Even if I want to die, death won't be rciful..." He mumbled the worst of the curse that he had heard from the last fable. He reached out his hand towards the emblem of the Asbborn Family.
He gazed at the carving on the emblem, depicting an ouroboros. Sohow, he felt extre familiarity with the mythical beast that was on the emblem of the Ashborn Family.
Just like the Beast was devouring its own tail, he was devouring his own existence to beco sothing that he was never ant to be.
"If death isn't rciful to , then let it be... I will accept all the sins..." He closed his hands, holding the emblem gently before standing up.
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"What is this strange feeling? Why do I feel like sothing really bad is going to happen?" Still underground, the old man had not noticed the storm that was visible across the entire land of fables.
He was still working on completing his life's work, but suddenly, he was starting to feel sothing strange. He didn't know if it was his instincts, or just the unease of getting close to completion.
anwhile, there was another person right above, who was peacefully sleeping in the hut, even during such a chaotic ti.
It was only when the windows were swung open with thud due to winds that her eyes suddenly opened. She also sat up, wondering why the weather was suddenly so bad.
She tried to leave the hut to check, but as soon as she got off the bed, she noticed sothing lying on the ground next to the beg's leg.
"What is this?" She reached out her hand, picking a small bead-like object that seed to have a faint trace of dried up blood on the surface.
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