Instants after feeling the orb go down his throat, Luke heard the voice in his head:
[Sun Appearance Gene ingested, you have gained the simple ability ! Now you can use signs of this elent].
"You... ate? I thought you believed that was sorcery." Nathalia said, finding the boy's decision strange.
The half-wolf ignored her since internally he was still conflicted about whether the decision he made was the right one or not.
Just as it happened the first ti, the voice didn't explain how to use the ability, and he had no idea how to use them either. He couldn't even ntalize what those 'Normal Inventory' and 'Vind' skills were, so he gave in and questioned:
"Do you know soone who can teach how to use the skills?"
Nathalia did not act like a teenager after being ignored, and promptly began to analyze who might be a good instructor for soone as serious as Luke.
"I believe Shiro could help you with that, or maybe my mother."
Without a second thought, Luke said, "Your mother, then."
"Erghh... Wasn't that answer too quick?" The Elf inflated her cheeks and said, looking away in a corner.
"N-not that! It's just that she's simply the best!" The boy tried to straighten things out quickly.
"What do you an, 'best'?" This ti, she had her hands on her waist and was squinting her eyes.
"I believe she has more experience and..."
"Hahaha, I'm kidding! You take things too seriously... I don't mind it if I stay with my mom, after all, she's always focusing on work and family, and well... my dad is long gone."
The mood of the conversation got a little awkward after that, because it was the first ti Luke had heard Nathalia ntion her father, and he didn't know how to comfort soone in a situation like that.
When they got back to the busy streets leading to downtown Vasconcelos, he dared to ask. "How was your father? You seem to miss him."
"Uh? No, you got wrong. I don't miss my father specifically, just what he stood for. I'm not proud to say this, but he was not a good man."
Since it seed to be a touchy subject for the girl, Luke didn't push it further.
"By the way, I found a piece of paper while the monster was dispersing, can you read it to ?" said Luke, after pulling the small sliver of paper from his pocket.
Nathalia nodded, took the item carefully from the boy's hand, and read the note aloud.
"Latnfar Kriolo Segundo."
After hearing these words, the Elf and the half-wolf looked at each other and ca to the sa conclusion. Without further ado, they started running towards the Necrotery, luckily they were not too far away, so they arrived quickly.
At the corner of the empty alley, Luke already slled blood so fresh he could almost see it. Precautious, he drew his curved saber and stayed alert.
When they reached the tal door of the morgue, the boy didn't even communicate his intention to Nathalia as he blew the door open with a kick, which startled her.
With a violent montum, Luke seed to blend in with the shadows of the compound and, because of the aid of his sense of sll, he went towards the monster there, however, he stopped his blade at the last second before decapitating the creature.
"You are alive. Great..." said Luke, looking at the big man in front of him.
Kriolo's two fists were stained with the blood of three lesser goblins, who were slumped around him. He punched them so hard that the monsters were unrecognizable, and their sll had soaked into his clothes.
The brute turned away and, looking serious, he questioned, "You ca back...why?"
"We followed the lead we got on the dead man's body an-" Before Nathalia could continue her explanation, Luke interrupted her with his arm.
"He doesn't care about the whole story." The boy spoke, staring at Kriolo inexpressively. "We found a clue with your na on it and ran here." He then handed the man the piece of paper he had just obtained.
It was clear that the man had his misgivings about the duo's sudden appearance, all the more so because Luke scared him with the noise.
The mont Kriolo read the na on the paper, his expression transmuted from skeptical to terrify.
"They really found ..." He stared at the item in his hand.
The half-wolf stepped back as he realized that the danger had subsided, and Nathalia approached the man.
"Who found you?" she inquired of him.
"Before we had children, my wife and I faced many difficulties, both financial and personal. Although we were newlyweds, we didn't even have a ho, and when all seed lost, we found a 'they'."
"Who is 'they?"
"We're not proud of it, but... they were a cult, or rather a sect. Their na was Followers of Chaos."
For the adventuring duo, it was impossible not to connect that na with the ssage written on the wall of the Dark One.
'Chaos is just beginning. Chaos will reign.' Luke repeated to himself.
"What were your activities?" the Elf asked for elucidation, not least because the na of the cult was self-explanatory.
"You may not believe , but all we did was pray. Granted, we were just acolytes and had no contact with the higher-level followers. And well, over ti our lives improved, however, the cult gradually demanded more and more from us. To the point that we chose to not remain in it."
"Let guess, they didn't allow that, right?"
Kriolo nodded as he looked down.
"Fucking proselytizers..." Luke cursed.
"We managed to escape from New Yukiat and since then it's been almost ten years. I never thought they would co looking for after so long."
"How do you know they are the ones who did this?" The half-wolf questioned, after all, the lout only needed to look at the paper and already connected the dots with his past trauma.
Kriolo looked at Luke in confusion and questioned, "Can't you hear?" He then held out the paper to the boy, who opened his palm, into which the paper was dropped. "Put it in your ear, and you will know what I am talking about."
Nathalia, who was just watching, suddenly grabbed the half-wolf's wrist, before he had a chance to take the paper.
"Why are you trying to fool us? Do you think we're idiots?" Imdiately after that, the girl summoned her Spear-type Panspermia Weapon.
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