Chapter 1044: Moving (1)

Chapter 1044: Moving (1)



Radiant stars appeared all around the group, summoned by the Penetrator through [Brilliant King's Adoring Stars]. They shot bolts of Levin that swam through him and rejuvenated both his shattered bones and his partly molten armour.

The Null Life Essence Replicus had dispensed while keeping it tethered to his body also slowly slithered back into him at his will.

"The third eye, huh?" the Penetrator said as he started to rise and stand over the odd silk sheet. His socket flames burst with a greater degree of liveliness than before. He looked at Yuyui's palm.

Within it was an eye with dark sclera, its iris spotting an ice blue hue.

Replicus was a little confused.

Wasn't this just Yuyui's Eye of Dispersal?

The green-haired girl, more ancient than she looked, possessed a Hidden Class called the Pinnacle Occuluthon.

As far as Replicus knew, it was a Hidden Class forged by a cultish group of twelve powerful women from millennia ago, from Fulgardt's time; the Order of the Trodden Rose.

The cult started in response to the intense rise in misogyny when the terror Fulgardt inspired became too deep, causing already established forms of social evil to witness a new high. Of course, this 'just' movement turned into an unhealthy obsession that merely replaced the oppression of women, leaving many settlements on the continent of Feinheath littered with the desecrated corpses of boys and men, most of them innocent.

After these twelve women were driven back by authorities in that time, they, of course, combined their efforts to create a legacy for someone who would inherit their will one day. They guaranteed that that certain someone would have a lot of options against whatever stood in their path, thus the birth of the Diverse Occulus; a power that offered 12 eyes, each with different, overwhelming properties.

Unfortunately, for the Oder of the Trodden Rose, the one who inherited their powers, was... "Oh! Sorry about that! It's this," Yuyui said, revealing her other palm, which had an eye spotting an iris that looked distinctly like a purple arrow. "It's called the Eye of Moving." Replicus tilted his head.

"The Eye of Moving?"

"Yu?" a sluggish voice came from behind, interrupting the conversation.

Grim was the first to recover out of the other three. He had reverted back to his human form, and he, for the most part, looked stellar. Since they were out of the hazardous part of the battlefield, the area dictated by Jerthrax's invisible field of oppression, he was able to use this chance to activate Granted Restoration, healing his wounds.

He looked at Yuyui with a befuddled expression.

Yuyui gave the Unlimited a big smile.

"Why do you look so surprised? Are you impressed that I travelled halfway across the world - actually more than that - to save your furry butt?" she said with her chest pushing out from her odd gear.

Grim didn't even know what to say.

Thankfully, Pherdanta and Baddan rising while healing themselves, covered for his stunned silence. The former healed in the same way he did while Baddan used the healing potions Replicus had provided him since he wouldn't accept a Granted Armament of his own.

Pherdanta expressed the same degree of surprise.

The Penetrator had feared that Allora's soul had been affected by whatever Em-Sul used against her and thus decided to ask the two Spirits if that was the case.

His time in the Severed Union had led to him understanding what Spirits really were, though. Aside from Bassbion and Yagrina, Replicus, as Skullius, had seen one other Spirit.

It was Sera, who had been Bek's beloved before she died.

Somehow, Bek, the Spirit Warden had managed to not only revive himself after his own death, but he had also revived Sera, though, by then she had become a mutated denizen of the afterlife, the Yormuness.

As Replicus understood it, Spirits were caretakers of the Yormuness. They received and tended to souls that landed within the layers of the Yormuness. He didn't know how the Order of the Trodden Rose had extracted Yagrina and Bassbion from their duties there so that they could be incorporated as aides into the Pinnacle Occuluthon's power set, but he had thought they

had a solution.

He was wrong.

However...

"I...I think I can save her," Yuyui said with an intense fire in her eyes.

Replicus turned to the girl.

For a few seconds, the two exchanged no words and only kept staring at each other.

Yuyui seemed so determined that Replicus could hardly master the strength to ask how she could help. Seeing her so confident, or at least displaying such resolve to power through obstacles made him realise that she had changed quite a bit.

'No wonder I didn't recognise her presence until I saw her face...' he thought.

"Do what you can then," he urged her.

Yuyui nodded, and took a few deep breaths.

"Do you need help with anything?" Grim asked with a sombre tone. Yuyui smiled at him, and

then her eyes avoiding his.

"I don't think you'd want to help for what I'm about to do. It might get messy. It's going to

get messy," she said, and planted her palm, the one which Replicus recognized to hold the so-called Eye of Moving on Allora's chest.

A moment later, Yuyui removed her hand, and to everyone's surprise, on Allora's chest was a

blue eye with a golden slit as its pupil.

That was...the Inhumane Eye!