Chapter 47: Winners

The battle was over...

The lower half of the subject's body fell to the floor without any life.

The other upper part of his body had practically exploded, and all the flesh, blood, and organs were scattered all over the room.

"We won," Theos muttered weakly with a smile, his two eyes trying to close from exhaustion.

The negative Mana was slowly diminishing from his body, while the darkness was turning into particles tering again from his body.

Slowly, his body fell to the g from exhaustion. He couldn't ev protect himself from the impact or at least move a little to protect his head.

"Theos!" shouted Luna, quickly running towards where Theos was going to fall to catch him in mid-air, protecting him from the impact.

"I'm sorry... I can't move," with those weak words, his vision going black and blurry. But the next momt, he felt a cold liquid ter his mouth.

As if it were divine grace itself, Theos' eyes regained their clarity as his body regained vitality, ev though his bones ached, he felt that they were no longer completely brok as before, and ev the skin torn from his arm no longer burned in the slightest.

"What was that?" he asked with his gaze fixed on Luna, who smiled happily, her hands reaching out to reveal a luxurious but slder glass bottle, with a label with the letter (S) on it that made it more special.

"¡!" Theos, was startled at the sight of the bottle's label. "S-grade bottle!" he asked in shock.

"Hehehe, the very same," she replied with a bright smile of happiness.

"Why are you laughing, do you know how expsive that is for you? Besides, you hav't healed your wounds yet," he explained, trying to make her understand what she had spt.

An S-rank healing bottle is rare in the world; very few have it, only Dukes and Kings of a kingdom.

"That's it," Theos smiled, separating from Luna's arms, he stood up to look a the currt room... In the aftermath of the battle. 'It certainly was an intse battle,' he concluded with an amused smile, feeling satisfied.

For the first time, he had used all his power and was still inferior to his emy; if Luna had not be there or the battle had lasted a minute longer, he would have lost.

Although he had a recovery potion, the curse was no fool, not ev in the greatest miracles could he take that potion without the curse prevting him.

The whole room, previously spotless, was now no more reduced to rubble and cracks everywhere; if Theos' calculations wer't wrong, the room wouldn't last more than a couple of days firmly but would collapse to pieces.

"Luna," he called without turning to look at her. "Thank you so much for putting yourself on the line like that for me. You are a very strong and smart person; you knew how to handle the little negative Mana I gave you to make the spear stronger. Good job," Theos thanked and congratulated her sincerely.

"No need to thank me so much; after all, you did most of the work; without your weird Mana, I wouldn't have destroyed that guy," she confessed honestly with a small blush, making Theos smile.

"Well, we'd better hurry, we have one thing left before we leave here."

"Yes?"

"We should look for traces of that mass of flesh that was on that guy's head, I'm sure it wasn't destroyed with that attack," he confessed, making Luna startle with fear.

Seeing her reaction, Theos smiled amused. "Don't worry, without a body, she's harmless; just help me look for her; she won't be able to accept anyone; she's in a weak and vulnerable state," he explained, making Luna relieved.

She nodded, getting up with her body rewed without any scars or wounds, the two began the search for the curse.

They lifted debris, investigated every corner of the room, ev the capsule destroyed to pieces, but in the d...

In a deep crevice, they found it.

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