Chapter 827 Life-and-Death

Chapter 827 Life-and-Death

His brothers were obsessed with him, and that had been fine for a while. Eren thought it was obvious to desire vengeance. They might not even know what their parents did to Eren, as they had been too young to remember anything. Or, if they knew what happened, they might consider it the only feasible way to salvage Eren.

His brothers wouldn't be the first ones to believe that Curses were impossible to control and that all Curses would transform you into a monster. While it was certainly possible for a Curse to transform you into a monstrosity if you allowed it to consume you whole, that rarely happened under the Nest's supervision.

The Nest ensured that every Cursed Child would be taught about the dangers of Curses, Cursed Seals, Major Seals, and Cursed Arts. They were taught everything that had to be taught before their Curse would awaken. Their future progress would depend on the extent of their control over their Curse and how their souls would respond to gaining access to more Cursed Seals.

Eren never lost control of himself. He and the Silver Dragon Curse were perfectly compatible. They suffered together for decades and overcame all obstacles together as well. Slyver wasn't dangerous. If anything, Slyver was the best thing that could have happened to Eren.

Unfortunately, that didn't mean others would think the same way. His family wanted to exorcise Slyver, and his brothers wanted to kill him to rescue him. At least, that was what they'd always said. It was also the reason Eren spared them whenever they clashed.

However, Eren was done with that. He was done sparing their lives. Not after what he'd witnessed them doing over the last decades. He heard enough about their actions to know they transformed into people who shouldn't be spared. The best evidence was the Vyrlaen Seal and the Carnage Portal. The Blaze Patriarch received his brothers' necessary resources and devices to activate the Seal and manifest the Carnage Portal. Eren's brothers were at fault for the death of hundreds of millions.

Their grace period ended at last.

Eren released a beam of silver energy toward the Blaze Patriarch. The silver beam was about to strike the man, obliterating him before he could react, when Phylis made his move. He appeared before the Blaze Patriarch, a green barrier conjuring before him.

The green barrier was semi-translucent and shaped like an Aegis. It didn't look too special but was strong enough to block the silver beam.

The silver energy coursed through his body and channeled into the Longsword Artifact that expanded. He slashed at the blazing bullet in a seemingly simple manner and cut it in half.

A moment later, Eren pushed forward and appeared before Klose, whose body expanded and transformed into a bipedal Behemoth. The thick scales of a dragon covered his body, only for a second layer of tough hide to grow above it.

Simultaneously, several Aegis shields formed before Klose, protecting the young Divine Lifeform from the slash Eren executed a moment later. The barriers were cut in half alongside the space around Klose. The fabric of space was pulled and distorted, but it wasn't torn apart. A deep gash was engraved deep into Klose's chest, but it regenerated at blinding speed. It looked like the injury didn't exist mere seconds after Eren's attack.

Eren disappeared from the spot and appeared before Phylis, who'd manifested hundreds of greenish disks to throw at Eren.

He applied the Primordial Bloodline technique and accelerated in a burst, evading the incoming attack before releasing the barrier disks at his older brother. Eren expected this and released the same number of silver droplets toward the center of the barrier disks, shattering them instantaneously.

"Not bad," Eren nodded, his expression grim.

Phylis and Klose were much stronger than they used to be. Maybe it was also problematic that Eren couldn't contact Slyver and that the Vylraen Seal affected him more than the last time. One way or another, Phylis' Ancient Barrier Soultrait was nothing like it used to be. Phylis upgraded it using the Achievement Shop or purchased another Soultrait, which allowed him to alter the Ancient Barrier into a razor-sharp disk.

The disks could cut through everything. That was certainly not great. If he didn't shatter them fast enough, Eren had to pay attention to avoid them. Even the repellent silver barrier nearly failed to destroy a single barrier disk. It would be a problem to repel dozens of them at once.

"We reached perfect mastery," Phylis announced, his expression glowing, "Just what we needed to kill you!"