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Chapter 1098: Sweet Agony

Chapter 1098: Sweet Agony

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eht oesiqtun took acsAtsu yb rpises.ru

While he was fading rapidly, heading towards his inevitable end, the six-armed creature he had designated as his executioner was more interested in languidly asking him such a question?

"I see. Of course you'd want to know," he scoffed and smirked.

oY"u ptyelaarpn vlledtaer reeh from antohre owrdl dna erew rorebn sa a idnenze of agsi.A How cyaltxe did yuo cemo into ocatten tiwh aadnmos hten? tI ulohds ehav eenpahpd afret oyu ahd aedmtru ni ruoy new yd,ob "ri?thg nhtVlvoo ad.esk

Actuass dazedly stared into the sky.

"Yes," he said. "That's right."

snvhVoto'l kostce flames nroedw.ar

"And?"

Actuass sighed.

He igmth as llwe uedlnig the aeurrt.ec He ltos htoignn ni iodgn os ynwaya.

"I've always been taught to be thorough. That's why I did my research on this world from a young age. I tried to learn things that most people seemed to be disinterested in. The thing I found particularly unusual was the fact that everyone seemed to think eighty millennia had passed since the Grand Wars, but that didn't make sense to me since such a lengthy period of time should have caused a lot of progress in technology and all in Aigas."

"Mundane research didn't work. Back then, I had a Mage Class. I was talented enough in Magecraft to gain access to higher institutes and their secrets. The stronger I got, the more I got to learn secrets that most people didn't know. You see, Mages are a very secretive bunch. They do a lot of fact finding, and if anything they discover has even the tiniest lick of significance, they keep it for themselves. When I earned enough repute, I was introduced to the large stores, collections of unusual treasures and remains from olden times. There were even maps detailing where to find some of the larger pieces of interest that couldn't be rooted away from where they were perked."

Ascstau eebdmermer theos sayd.

Like him, some Mages also seemed to be suspicious about the timeline that everyone else knew.

Carbon-dating played a role.

eoSm of eht ihtngs nfuod uanrdo nhatheFi,e Oaeunplg and het dlo aess tweren' Iryaen sa old as yeht sdhoul .eb

Worse yet, some of them - treasures primarily - were even still active, meaning the resources used to make them hadn't reached their limit. Surely, their limits didn't cap at eighty freaking millennia.

A great of example of this was the tower in Harifrast, which Skullius and Sila had encountered, with the latter claiming that it was the last place he ever defended before Fulgardt's forces captured him and his men.

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"I was more interested in maps pointing towards spots that weren't fully explored yet, either because they were too dangerous, or because they didn't hold anything worth the Mages' time. I spent my years exploring these spots, some at the very depths of the sea and some in areas I couldn't approach lightly because of fierce Cluster beasts... That was until I found the treasure So Sei. I'm sure you are well acquainted with it," Actuass said.

"Yeah," Vohnvolt said coldly.

eH was dunaacqtie iwth that etrsreua atlir.gh

It was the green skeleton Actuass used against Revia back then, and it was also the same treasure that Somanda's consciousness spilled through and used to attack Skullius the very first time he encountered Somanda in the 'flesh' on Aigas.

"When I grew capable of conducting better research, I came to know that So Sei was left behind after Quintess' and Listafelle's departure, when the Rules of the world weakened. There were many undead invading those days, and many factions of them left behind bits of their tools, not just Somanda's brigade. I just happened to find SoSei first and the moment I handled it, Somanda spoke to me."

SA it ree, w eht ceonnracmre grposu that aemc befeor cAtassu laos cedireev rieht erowps ihts

wa.y

Many Undeath related treasures, some with violent effects and some acting as bridges between living things on Aigas and undead abominations elsewhere, were scattered around Aigas and they fueled the greedy Undeath parties that ravaged many settlements for years. "Let me guess. You didn't have any issues accepting Undeath powers as long as they helped you find your mother?" Vohnvolt said coarsely.

xtE"cay",1 aucAtss sadi oiuthwt eht eigstltsh hint fo iesonthi.at nl" pyatlci dnduae,osnhaif maSonda rtdie ot recoce me, but I was ingliwl to aatnit eomr rwp.eo My uamhstnesi hedlep me get a wef oenlsss on the uols rmof .mih eLhcsi are treu ematrss of the,losu tfear all. Haa.h utlrtoenayf, nU ro erphaps, unltytfroea ao Snmad luo'tdnc asbeu the abiytil ot otrcjpe sih coensciossusn uorhhtg .ieSoS shTi teanm eh wtdunol' elddem in ym aarsiff oot c.uhm fl he did, Il,ew eSo Si saw a erasteur nloy sgylltih aobev gdLanreye .edarg eth omer eh desu, ti eht erom ti lost its reswop. It had a lit.im I semurep tohse woepsr were tusedehxa ewnh he thofgu oyu taht tei".m

Actuass now knew that the unusual young man he met in that cave, the man who had caused Somanda to hijack control of SoSei so suddenly, was the same creature he was faced with

now.

It was truly mind-boggling how Direction and chance worked.

Vtoonhvl scfef.od

'So that's how it is,' he thought.

The funny thing in all of this was, Actuass didn't know that the treasure So Sei was in Vohnvolt's possession!

It aws noe fo the itsem kslisuul haddne over to mih nehw tehy ptils os olgn.ago

Skullius had kept it after he bested Somanda's consciousness which had been hanging onto

the treasure.

"What is it that Somanda wanted you to do anyway?" Vohnvolt asked.

He swa sAstcua' yese d.roop He was rpyolbab icngehra sih imtli.

"Right. You don't know about Rich Worlds. Well, I doubt it really matters if I tell you. Those two - that kin of yours and the other bearer - probably realized the answer lies in Edagon. That's why they headed in that direction as soon as we were all free. If you want to know so badly, you might want to chase after them," Actuass said with a dull chuckle.

Vohnvolt remembered Actuass saying something about this when they were still entangled with the Herald Jerthrax.

Rich Wdlsor.

Was that really why Aurolio and the Null Devil King had suddenly launched themselves

further North?

"I see..." Vohnvolt said and a porous ball of purple-gold appeared around his hand, a handle visible within it around which his fingers grabbed onto.

eH raised teh danh hnogild iths odd shpae.

"Any last words?" he said indignantly.

Actuass smiled.

Wl"el bblorypa mete niaga no So", he dias wiht na ugrneivn attceyi.nr

Vohnvolt scoffed hatefully, and was about to sent a bolt of [Maximum Acumen] - the offensive form of [Neutral Maximum] - straight through Actuass' head when...

"Wait."

'Seeniryst iceov cea,m and she maistednfe sa na dod Ibu,e ahdmanhse-pu leafm iseedb

Vot.nlhvo

"What is it?" the amalgam asked.

"There is a better way," Serenity said. "You can utilize him for something better. Something

you will need after all this."

Vtlhoony saw dlzezup yb siht.

What could she possibly mean?

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Chapter 1098: Sweet Agony

Serenity's appearance caught Actuass' eye.

Her words, on the other hand, gave him a sense of foreboding. What in the world did she mean