Chapter 212 Black Wings

Mikuriya lost her shape. Instead, pieces of her soul swirled around me.

What will happen? As I watched on, I realized this soul reconstruction doesnt seem as gentle as I thought.

The fragment of her soul becomes sharpened like a needle.

[No waythats]

My prediction was correct.

My body was pierced by countless needles. The pain was beyond anything Ive ever felt beforeits painful.

From the surface of my body to internal organs, all seemed to be churning all over.

Breaking it down and reassembling it. The pain my soul experienced was reflected in my body. It was a different kind of danger than suffering from the Gluttony skills starvation state. My body also started to change in lieu with the changes occurring in my soul.

The malformed wings on my back began to grow and tore my jacket apart. Two wings spread out as if they were vigorously reaching to the heavens.

Ohh, two wings! I thought to myself, but then two more wings sprouted out from my back. I originally only had two malformed wings, but now four actually grew.

Four wings that match the angelic Roxy. The fact that the color is jet black, which happen to also be her exact opposite, is proof that I am my dads son.

[Thats right, Im still me.]

My spirit hasnt changed much. My other self was nowhere to be found as well.

(The other you didnt want to be one. I simply connected the road. From here on, its up to you)

[Mikuriya.]

(Its okay. You can do it. Because you were originally one existence Please believe in your other self.)

[To think that he and I can find something in common]

(I will watch over you just like Kairos Now, hurry up with those wings. Before it all ends)

I couldnt hear Mikuriyas voice anymore. But the warmth of her soul still remains in me. It proved her words.

Lets go, Fate

[Yeah, with these wings.]

I spread my four wings wide. At that time, I had a slight headache.

Its as if my other self is rebelling against me. No, thats exactly what it is.

Even so, I can still move my wings. Im sorry, but let me use your power as a sacred beastkin.

When I flapped my wings, my feet left the ground. I strangely know how to fly already. Should I say this is instinctive?

My body already knows what to do, just like a bird can flap its wings without being taught how to fly.

Can you fly?

[Of course.]

I rushed up at once. In the blink of an eye, I felt my body become weightless, as if I have become one with the winds.

The path we should take is beyond the horizonthe end of the souls. Weaving through the wreckage of the building.

Faster faster, even faster.

After passing through the wreckage of the building, swirling souls appeared. It deviated from the original flow and created a different flow. It swallowed any soul that tried to pass by.

At its center, a black cube was spinning at high speed. Furthermore, there was more than one black cube creating the vortex.

[Is that!?]

Something hasnt changed, but I have a bad feeling about it

[Is it a stumbling block set by LibraTch.]

No idea..its coming!

With the black cube as the core, it is formed from souls as materials.

An insubstantial thinga demon whose flesh and blood is a red, transparent soul.

So ugly and hideous

[Is it collecting the souls of monsters]

Each one was irregular and had no fixed shape. Its a figure that gathers monsters around the core and forcibly connects them.

Thats why there are countless heads, hands, legs, torsos, everything.

Even so, all the various eyes were looking at me. It was as if they had a unified understanding of who they should fight and who they should defeat.

I changed my weapon into a black bow and shot magic arrows to keep them in check.

[Tsk.]

The opponent is comprised of souls. It has no substance

[In other words, the attack has no effect?]

Its like that. In that case, you should destroy the cores that make up it, but

The black cube has the same indestructible attribute as the black sword.

If theres a way to break such a core, its the only one.

[The secret technique of the 6th formonly Revolt Brionac can do it.]

However, it will significantly lower your stats

I cant afford to do that before I fight Libra. If I use Revolt Brionac here, I will be helpless against Libra with my paltry remaining stats.

Perhaps Libra knew that, and thus prepared these soul monsters.

There were more than 30 soul demons, even if I just counted them as far as I could see. I could feel more presence coming from behind. There are still many more.

So were surrounded in all directions?

[After dying, left only with soulonly to be used like this.]

..Fate

[Its sad.]

This may be the first time Ive felt sorry for a monster. Tracing their ancestors, it is said that those souls were humans.

A being planted with a seed called skill, whose soul could not endure it and lost its human form. Due to the seed that sprouted, the soul was mutated and transformed into a figure that suited it. They lost their soul as a humantheir heart, and only their hatred for humans who were able to adapt to their skills remained.

In the world of humans, there was a tremendous disparity in skill supremacy between those who had it and those who didnt.

However, the biggest victims may be those who have turned into monsters. Those soul monsters probably dont have the heart to understand even thatbut still.

Its coming! Why arent you moving?

Ignoring Greeds voice, I stared at the attacking soul monsters.

Thats not a living creature. If the opponents soul was released from the body, wouldnt it be possible to devour it with the power of the Gluttony skill?

And since Im assimilated with the Gluttony skill, I feel like I can do more than that. Coming to this soul-filled world, and going through Mikuriyas help, Im beginning to feel something Ive never felt before.

Thinking that, I pointed my hand at the one monster approaching in front of me. The moment I touched it, I heard an inorganic voice in my head.

The soul monsters were scattered in an instant, leaving only the black cubes. And the liberated souls travel in the direction opposite to the horizon.

Fate. It looked like the Gluttony skill was activated, but what did you do?

Greed asked in surprise. Meanwhile I was dispatching the soul monsters that were approaching one after another,

[I didnt eat the soul, I tried eating only the skill and status.]

Thats something tricky you did there

It was the skill that caused them to become monsters. And their status is also a by-product of skills.

I expected that if I could remove only these things that affect the soul, they might lose their power and be freed from the shackles of the Black Cube. Even if it doesnt, a weak soul wouldnt be a threat.

You can eat only the skills and status from the soul? The if we could get power from all those souls

[Thats impossible.]

How come?

[I cant eat without their consentor something like that.]

The soul monster that attacked me was just forced to fight by the Black Cube.

Its true that those soul demons had hatred in their eyes. However, at the same time, those eyes looked a lot like those of the dead who were trapped by the Gluttony skill.

They were looking for help.

I just removed the monsters burden by eating it. By it I mean their skills and status.

[I still dont know what this power represents.]

The souls, whose skills and stats had been devoured by me, flew off in the direction we came from. Against the flow.

Seeing that, Greed nodded.

I seeyou showed me the liberation of the soul.

[Liberation of the soul?]

Do you remember? Back at the Great Green Valley

Gallias monsters had gathered to seek a place to die. From time immemorial, countless monsters have slept there.