Chapter 246: One Winged Angel

“Wait… this type of corruption, something is weird about it. Mefisto is the calculating and sinister type so he would never let his appearance be merely just for me earlier. I felled him easily today but if my impression of him being insidious is not wrong, then considering his hatred for me…”

As his thoughts travelled in this direction, he just became more wary of her.

There was a nagging thought in his mind.

“Could he be…”

There was a familiar impression of something very sinister about this situation. In Siva’s mind, he recalled a few unfamiliar faces, unfamiliar events, unfamiliar places… and then for some reason, he suddenly recalled that mysteriously familiar yet unfamiliar girl, Samantha.

“Why did I think of her just now? Why does it feel painful when I recall of her?”

Because of this odd familiar feeling, Siva recalled that moment back in that tiny hidden village north of Dragona.

He saw her die… and that single moment made him recall a vision about Terra.

“Why did she remind of Terra? Who is Terra?”

That name… that person, despite its unfamiliarity, felt closely familiar to him.

And even more, it felt that she was family to him.

It felt that it has all and every bit of things to do with this current situation.

“Following this [impression]’s nagging thought, then there really is something wrong with this kind of transformation.”

He wanted to be wrong about the nagging itch in his mind in regards to this corruption but he can’t help but feel he was right with this prickling feeling.

BANG!

“WHOOOOOAAAAAAA….!!!”

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A loud explosion attracted his attention.

Siva drew his sight on that direction and saw Akhenaton just pushed off of the Colossi.

A dark-purple light engulfed the Colossi’s body like an aura and it began to pulse and reject everything around it with a frightening amount of fluctuating ripples.

“Not good!” Siva wanted to help but it was futile.

Even though he never knew how he became aware of these nagging prickling things that could send his spider sense astray with warnings, he still had the notion to trust that feeling because it will save his life.

As things stands, he had no choice but to move in accord to the flow of things.

“Just how did these things suddenly turned into my head?!” Once again, he chewed over at the glaring fact of him knowing these things without him actually knowing how.

He was beginning to worry about the stability of his own mind.

Yet, as things stood, he didn’t have a choice but to abandon thinking over it for now because this wasn’t the right moment to think about them.

The woman was heavily injured. The core of the corruption element should be starting to heal its vessel any moment now. Thanks for reading on ManaNovel!

But as things turned out, the first to reach that state was actually the Colossi.

“Keep the pressure!” Siva glanced over the direction of Akhenaton and ordered, “Deal in more damage to that Colossi. The corruption curse will show its opening when it reached the limit… strike without pause!”

“Shah!”

After acknowledging the command, Akhenaton morphed his golden staff into a spear and began to assault and give more pressure to the Colossi.

Siva’s focus drifted to his fight and gave one last batch of thought-commands to his reapers.

He shouted: “If you can hear me, I will give you the chance to free yourself from that curse but you have to do the rest yourself…”

Having yelled this, Siva proceeded.

The gun-reaper continuously shot bullets on her, pushing the limits of her vitality. Every bullet accurately stabbed any open skin but the [burning] effect didn’t happen for some reason.

Any person with watchful keen eyes would know that this is a sign of something else.

The hammer and heavy sword continued to torture her when she was already reduced to a mangled state…

BANG!

The fist-end of the Grand Ender slammed her ruthlessly towards the ground; bullets followed her descent; and as if to serve its purpose, the hammer nailed her even faster with a resounding explosive-sounding smash.

BOOM!

Her bloodily mangled near-corpse body slammed heavily to the forest floor as huge and small cracks rippled from her crater, spreading out widely in all directions.

The forest shaking, the trees parting away, dust clouds filled the crater as the crashing sound of her fall came into Siva’s ears.

And yet… Siva knew that she was perfectly alive.

“Here it comes!”

And it was at that moment… a loud explosion of Mana occurred from the crater. Following that was the wild vibration of air.

~~HUMMMMMM

The air seems to tremble as the dust clouds that filled the surface of her crater parted with a black-purple light spreading out like a beautifully blooming flower that covered the 40m area surrounding her location.

“This is Dark Element…” Siva murmured.

He then shouted, “Woman, use this chance! Fight the darkness’ corruption! Don’t let it consume you! You have to fight it or you will fall victim to Mana Depravity!”

Really?! Mana Depravity?

Whatever…

Siva was beginning to get used to the fact that he was spouting things that doesn’t mean a thing to him. It only serves to prove that his earlier hypotheses were all correct: there were sets of unknown memories downloaded on his mind and he was finding these memories rather confusing, the more he unearthed them.

–RUMBLE——–!!!

The trembling air could be seen by the naked eye and the rumbling sounds it produced were also being recorded by the camera drones that spied on the two of them.

Within the next few seconds, the rumbling continued on and the blooming flower of dark colored rippling energy became even more sinfully beautiful and tantalizing to the eyes.

And it was also at that moment that Siva’s skin felt the unique sensation of danger… as a familiar name and a familiar ‘hate’ suddenly erupted from the deepest depths of his heart.

“This feeling…” His eyes went wide. For some odd reason, again, he was nagged by a feeling that something was very wrong in this situation.

He hovered towards the ground, towards the south, and slowly descended as he watched what was happening.

BOOM!

With a final burst of visible rippling space, a black-purple pillar of light erupted from the crater and the petals of the giant flower exploded outwards, disintegrating into countless specks of glowing black-purple particles, serving to give the shape of small petals that drifts freely into the air.

Siva slowed his descent as he hovered into a stop on the now decimated forest.

“This is not a healing…!!”

Although he wasn’t sure how he could tell, but the nagging feeling in his heart told him so and so far, these nagging feelings have always been able to give some sort of plausible explanation to these abnormality within the game.

Thus, he didn’t doubt that this ‘healing’ was not as he assumed it to be.

“Not good! Akhenaton, destroy that—” He wanted to continue but couldn’t. His gaze fixed on the not too far offed distance… he saw the Colossi has already finished transforming at almost the same time as the woman did.

Through the accompaniment of countless floating, drifting glowing black-purple petals, through the steam that covers the area around the Colossi, was a giant mountainous silhouette 1.5km in size with spikes on its shoulders… and a robust build.

Although it was merely a silhouette, Siva could still see the giant’s now seemingly over-sized head and unbalanced larger upper body.

Its like it has transformed into a gorilla.

His mind reeled at a name he recalled for some reason as he somehow felt a deep ‘hate’ and also a bone-deep dread for it for some reason.

“Gyoolu…” he murmured the name and swallowed a mouthful of courage to power his churning gut.

Sweat beads off his forehead, he glances over the swordswoman’s direction.

The explosion of energy and this unprecedented change didn’t only happen with the Colossi, it also happened to the swordswoman.

While the Colossi’s change was akin to a mountain where its already huge built became stockier and its frame bulged for more muscles to cover its entire silhouette, the swordswoman’s [change] is elegantly and eye-catchingly, and flashily adorned and decorated by the black-purple flower petals.

Siva focused his gaze at her direction.

He could somehow hear a hymn of an orchestra playing some sort of background music to the advent of this being.

It has a fast tempo but a very requiem-ish feeling to its notes while all the while the lyrics sung of praises for this being.

The words of that song were calling for someone”

“Sefirah…”

Another mysterious name popped out of his mind.

But while he somewhat dreaded the name he called that mountainous figure of the Colossi, the name he just whispered to himself, Sefirah, was spoken with an underlying hate in it…

It was a hate he was very familiar with.

When Jack Stone betrayed him in Anazon Forest, he felt this surging hate burn deep in his bones as if it was a source of life’s meaning.

That same amount of hate layered his voice when he somehow recalled and spoken that name.

Sefirah… the singular being… the so called [First Child] within the Legion of the LAGRAM Alliance.

SWOOOOOSSSHHHH…!!!

Wind blew, carrying a rare majestic yet uncanny sensation of a ghoulish existence’s coming.

The black-purple petal particles drifted freely within the nearest 20km around them and it was like some form of resplendently glowing black ashes from a volcano’s explosion that kept falling non-stop from the now greying, cloud-filled sky.

Siva looked up, and in his and everyone else’s visions, dark-grey rainclouds had started forming to darken and fill the horizon.

Its origin and center, however, was their very own battlefield and not a place from afar.

Again, that prickling familiar sinister feeling rose in his mind regarding the change that happened to the Colossi and the swordswoman…

“When a True Demon arrives, the world trembles as darkness rise…” this line may sound good but it doesn’t carry any good intentions.

Only a bad omen.

The black-purple petals also served to add more creepy sensations to their skins as from the crater now rose… a devilish beauty with an angelic face.

FLAP!!!

A single black-purplish feathered wing unfurled beautifully on her left shoulder, shedding glittering black-purple specks of light as if they were akin to bird feathers, while dispelling the dust clouds and misty airs that had formed as aftereffects of her [Transformation].

She walked gently, as if absentmindedly, arising from the not so deep crater with steps akin to a fox walking gracefully on a runway.

While this was happening, everyone was beginning to hear that hymn that Siva had almost been hearing all this time.

And yet, there really is no hymn playing as music to announce her arrival. It was wholly illusory and was only produced in their minds naturally by her proud and seductively undeniable charms.

“Sefirah…. the Prideful…”

When the words left Siva’s mouth, the woman had then completely emerged from the crater and almost instantly, she became the focus of the two attentive worlds…

Her clothes —no, her single piece ‘swimsuit’ that covered half of her proudly upright healthy chests as if they’re hands— was too eye-catching and what more, she doesn’t have any shoes.

She was walking on invisible steps with her smooth and blemish-free pinkish-white-skin feet.

Her every step spelled destruction to any kingdom who’d be graced by her presence.

She was the center of attention yet the most eye-catching of all on her wasn’t her revealing clothes but the resplendently shiny long silvery-greyish sword that had a purple glow on its blade edge wrested softly yet elegantly on her left hand.

It was lowered, resting, inclined effortlessly yet very imposingly with its tip pointing towards the shattered forest ground.

She floated there without using her wings and just slowly walked on those invisible steps towards the southeastern horizon where the now also fully formed Colossi Monster Siva called “Gyoolu” had just finished its great transformation.

TAP…

……TAP…

……….TAP…

Her slow soft steps were reverberating in every soul’s ears although they actually can’t hear any sort of sound from it.

Whether they were back home or in a place where they could connect to the net…

All of them, male or female, were embedding this beautiful woman’s sight into their minds.

Then she stopped when her beautiful bare feet with no blemishes touched the solid ground.

Her eyes gaining a strange light of life, she then turns a lust-full glance over at Siva’s direction and her pinkish red tongue licked her lips as if she was about to savor a delicacy.

“Aaahhh…” a seemingly long but extremely short moan escaped from her, while her right hand then traced the magnetic curves of her chest.

At that moment, Siva knew that he was in deeper troubled waters.

“So the woman became Sefirah’s vessel.” Siva bitterly thought after seeing her.

Again, he was surprised himself as to how he even knew who she was.

“Siva.” Her sweet and anger-inducing voice called while tracing her cleavage with a finger while she bit her lower lip, turning to face him and walking forwards without a care to the eyeing world.

He tensed up.

For some reason, he could feel that he hated this existence more than anything in this planet.

Although he knew that this battle was going to be more difficult, he also felt that, for some reason, he was in the presence of one of his greatest enemies.

“Do you remember me?” she spoke with obvious yet undeniable attempt to seduce him.

“I don’t.” Siva replied coldly and ordered his four reapers to put up a defensive line between the two of them.

Step by step she strode and the distance between them were slowly closing from over 100m into a short distance of tens of meters apart.

She giggled and displayed a teasing pout. “Aww… too bad…. since I remember you very clearly. You killed me, and Envy, and Lust, and Sloth, and… in fact you killed everyone in our side back then. Oh, and you were as happy and excited as you did it like a drunkard drunk in the bloods of his enemies. You were very… very powerful and handsome… and delicious too while you did me that time. But you’re so weak now… what happened to you? Wait, more importantly… I remember you not being this ugly before… ah, so this is your pet’s curse… what happened? Did he betray you as well?”

As well?

If it would be visible, Siva’s brows will be seen in a high altitude right now… twitching. For some odd reason, every word this ‘person’ said was akin to lava on his skin, igniting his very ire.

Her intent doesn’t even have an ounce or a sliver of a trace of concern despite her choice of words and her seemingly sweet tone of voice.

Giggling as she walked, her charming voice didn’t diminish for a moment and the imposing presence of her long sword only made her insidiously malevolent intent further illuminate just how dangerous she really was.

Upon her words, Siva felt the unknown hatred on his bones burn even hotter.

He could feel it on his gut that she was enemy.

A very hated enemy that even though he doesn’t know how and why… he could still feel that this hate is very deep and very important to him.

He replied, “I don’t know you, lady.”

“Lady?”

She stopped walking, then, she took a step.

ZOOM!

The sound of wind being torn apart came late as she seemed to teleport with a single step right in front of him.

With but a moment, she arrived in front of Siva, her finger pressing softly on his lips.

“Wha—aghk!!!”

Following her action was pain that came from him falling on his back to the ground while his right shoulder was stabbed with her long sword and nailed him like a piece of wood on the decimated forest floor.

Siva wasn’t even able to react.