Chapter 48: Escape

"So you're here," laughed Theos as he saw the mass of flesh, the curse, hidd in one of the hundreds of crevices in the room.

Because of the depth of the crevice, it was almost impossible to tell if something was inside without carefully observing its interior.

Fortunately, he and Luna decided to carefully investigate the tire room in depth. Theos knew how dangerous a loose curse could be, especially one that, on its first day of birth, is much stronger than an Advanced Peak like Theos.

"Arrkk," growled the curse, showing its misshap, sharp teeth but provoking no reaction from Theos, not ev Luna.

It simply looked like a harmless creature that, with just one blow, would be destroyed to pieces.

"Answer me one question... Who created you?" this time, Theos' voice echoed throughout the room with coldness and indifferce, ev an intse murderous intt sured and pressed down on the curse that could only squirm to defd itself.

"No one" growled the curse, causing Theos to frown.

'What a big lie,' he thought, further increasing the intsity of his murderous intt, as a user of Death Mana, his murderous intt was more than controlled, being able to increase and decrease it as he pleased, obviously, up to a certain limit.

But... Why such a question? Because he knew more than anyone else that a curse wouldn't appear as early in the novel as this, that he hasn't ev started the academy.

In fact, in the novel, the curses started to make their appearances after the academy, at first not being much of a threat, but evtually, right after finishing the first year at the academy, the curses became known to everyone after that accidt...

"Ahhhh... I just-", the curse growled, but before he could say another word, Theos' left eye glowed brightly as blood gushed from it.

"Forget Loyalty," he commanded, using the only ability he had on his Path of Oblivion.

The curse was slowly affected by the command, forgetting the very concept of loyalty.

After the great battle that they won wh questioning the curse, it exploded at the mtion of the word or named "HIM."

Everything up to that point could be a coincidce or the prevtion of the guy who invted the curse; possibly, that curse was an artificial curse with a program not to reveal his name.

But... He couldn't leave everything to chance wh just the big rock split in two as he tried to flee.

"It's as if someone knew all my steps... Or directly, manipulated all my steps," he muttered with a bit of anger as he felt that feeling he hated with all his soul.

He hadn't accepted a system precisely because of that, but now, it seemed as if someone was guiding him... And the worst thing is that if he was guiding him, it didn't bring anything beficial to Theos, making it more frustrating.

"Theos, are you okay?" Luna asked with concern as she saw the quiet Theos, who gradually had a darker and solemn face.

"Yes...," he nodded, but Luna pinched his leg.

"Tell me the truth, honestly," she demanded with her eyes fixed on him. Making Theos sigh deeply.

"If I'm honest with you, Luna... No, I'm not well at all, but it's something I'll tell you about later... This battle didn't feel natural, and now that I think more deeply." Theos swallowed a little as he now thought not only of the currt battle but of the days before.

He continued. "Now that I think more deeply, I think that... I don't know, I feel like I was guided and manipulated to come here," he stated, causing Luna to be surprised.

She didn't know how to respond to Theos' words, and now that he said it, she felt that it could be true, nothing was natural at all.

At least she was glad to know that he trusted her to tell her such things, so the two of them left the cave in silce and thought with Luna in Theos' arms.

Unaware that in the room, a shadow was slowly revealing itself.

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