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Chapter 71 What Just Happened?
Chapter 71 What Just Happened?
My strings whipped down from the meteor high up in the sky, pressing down through the air and then wrapping around myself and the woman behind me.
"S-STOP! YOU INSANE BASTARD! I CAN'T BELIEVE I ACTUALLY LISTENED TO YOU! I'VE ALWAYS HATED YOU! I'VE ALWAYS DESPISED YOU!" The elf shouted, feeling her existence literally begin to cease from life and death itself.
Slowly, my head turned toward the woman, giving her a full smile while my lips cracked open, the black eye in the middle of my forehead cracking open until it bled golden tears.
"I don't give a shit!" I cackled before staring up at the meteor now inches away from my face, its blazing heat practically tearing my skin apart already.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM
My vision suddenly went dark as the feeling of every molecule in my body being ripped apart flooded every corner of my mind.
I attempted to scream with pain but couldn't as I had no mouth and I had nobody to even redirect such pain towards.
It hurt. It hurt so much… until it suddenly disappeared, leaving me to open my eyes.
From the beginning, it was brighter than staring at the surface of the sun, but it soon dimmed until a massive moon hung in the sky, just above me.
The stars warped around it like a halo, slowly swirling around it until formed rings akin to that of Saturn and its hula hoop of space dust.
My head slowly rolled over to see a slowly regenerating body. My body, in fact, yet for some reason, I felt no pain as my limbs were broken and torn, only to be put back into place.
"Man. You really are immortal," A voice called out to me.
I rolled my head even further, adjusting my fingers as I just barely obtained somewhat of a feeling in them.
"What? Don't you remember me? Your good old friend?" A bright white smile slowly backed up from my face, revealing a man cloaked with darkness, his dull-gray eyes vibrating as if he had just snorted a line of cocaine.
"Ugh… whatever. I lose," I muttered but the man just stood above me, staring down at my hand as I regained feeling in my now put-together arm.
"And you want me to believe you? You took away the best bet I had on becoming a god… she would have been a good nourishment for my soul if she had just been reborn as a demon,"
The man had a pair of black horns protruding from the top of his head, and in tandem with such towering appendages, he had two leathery black wings slowly flapping behind him, acting like some kind of heartbeat to the heartless being before me.
"Yeah, I lost… but you lost as well," I grinned from ear to ear, causing the man to grin back at me, his eyebrows creasing with a touch of anger.
"Nice… nice… well, you wanted this, right? No need to conjure it up. I'll just hand it to you,"
The man gazed down at me, gently placing the most beautiful black violin against my neck and handing me the bow, which seemed to be made from the universe itself.
"I'm not even this guy. Why would I know how to play this?" I smirked but couldn't shake both pieces off of my body.
It was as if the instrument itself was glued to my neck and shoulder while my fingers cramped around the bow.
Bzzzzzt
A strange electrocuting sound buzzed through my ears, going in one end and out the other, leaving me with enough chills to cover an entire mountain.
"What are you talking about? You are Se- bzzzt… Cyrus. The Nine Ringed Celestial."
Bzzzzt
…
I snapped my eyes wide open, gasping for air as if I had just been forced underwater, purposely filling my lungs with liquid that still seemingly began to clog my breathing.
"Ugh… ugh… ack… *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough*..."
Upon coughing up whatever was clogging my lungs, I felt much better but still could feel something hovering within my chest, beating some strange tangible substance through my mana veins.
"You're finally awake,"
?Status?
[Name: Cyrus]
[Race: Human]
[Class: Aether Magician]
[Level: 0/50] (0/100) XP Needed
[HP: 50/50 MP: 30/30 SP: 15/15] - Normal Human
[Strength: 10] - Normal Human
[Defense: 5] - Normal Human
[Magic: 15] - Normal Human
[Speed: 10] - Normal Human
[Aether: 20] - Non Human
[Skills: [Tidal Strike] [Water Magic] [Water Ring] [Poison Murky Water] [Mana Control]
[Aetheric Infusion] [Aether Control] [Aether Explosion] [Aether Creation]
[Runic Skills: [Fingers: Water Strings]
[Passive Skills: [Water Body] [Light Allied Aura] [Dark Enemy Aura] [Trait: Aether] [Angel Core]
[Master of Mana: [Foreign Mana Control]
…
My status was normal, but the memories that I had kept me on the edge of my seat while I was currently recovering.
Sweat constantly dripped from the top of my head, lathering my forehead, cheeks, and neck until the woman lightly slapped my cheeks, fully waking me up.
"Hey! Mister Librarian! Tell me quickly! What's up with him now!?"
"H-He should be in a bit of shock upon feeling all of his mana sapped out of him, only to be replaced by aether. There aren't many users nowadays, so he's a lucky boy. They're rare but powerful. I've only seen one before, and it's a general in the temple's forces,"
"How come I have never heard of it before? I've never heard of such a substance,"
"Well, I'm sure you haven't. Nobody has ever lived to tell the tale of such a substance…."
The librarian's voice slowly trailed off, with the ringing of bells soon filling my ears, the power pulsating through my chest, adapting to my own body.
[You have completed the Side Quest: Live]
[Reward has been granted]
Suddenly, something seared into my mind and seared into the back of my hand, forming a jagged knife-like pattern that was painful but nowhere near as painful as being conscious while your entire body is torn apart.