CH 116

After washing the dishes, Yaphisor and Curtisno sat down again at the round table.

Yaphisor’s house was not large, with a large space at the entrance and no other compartments except for a separate bathroom.

A desk, a bookcase, a bed, a dining table, a few chairs, a kitchen and nothing else.

On the cream dining table was a round vase of vivid blue roses in full bloom.

There were no extra decorations, no-frills, but everything was warm and bright.

Cusi looked enviously at the house, which he had not been in for a long time; how long had it been since he had been in Yaphisor’s house?

Ever since he had become an intermediate priest last year, he had gradually begun to distance himself from Yaphisor, and although he still talked to him openly, he had grown to look down and despise his former friend in his heart.

His head bowed in shame, Cusi regretted his thoughts at the time.

Yaphisor sat down and looked at Cusi, “Cusi, what did you want to see me about?”

Cusi looked up suddenly, his eyes drifting for a moment.

Yes, what was he here for? Oh yes, to apologize to Yaphisor.

“Yaphisor,” Cusi said sincerely, in a guilty tone, “I’m sorry for what happened yesterday. I had spoken out of turn and almost hurt you because of my slip of the tongue. ”

Yaphisor smiled, “It’s alright. The matter of my succeeding as the next Cardinal Archbishop as a low-ranking priest had already caused discontent among the priests. So, even without you stepping in, others would have. But thanks to you, I was able to deter them.”

“Yaphisor…..,” said Cusi, his eyes red and swollen, his heart feeling even more ashamed.

“Speaking of which, you swore an oath to the true gods yesterday. Does your chest still hurt?” Yaphisor asked.

“Ah, it’s fine already.” Cusi blushed slightly. There were some things that both of them knew by heart but should not be made public, “Strange to say, yesterday Orvis said some comforting words to me for a while, and I had no burning pain in my chest afterwards. Not only that, I no longer feel pain. ”

Yaphisor frowned slightly at that and shared a glance with Curtisno.

No pain?

Only a mental attack could make a person feel no pain.

Curtisno had attacked the Blood King’s body that day after seeing his consciousness detached from his physical body. Once the body died, even the most powerful soul would fade away as it had no vessel to carry it.

But from Cusi’s words, it seemed that things were not quite as they had envisaged; the Blood King’s body had indeed died, but the Blood King had taken over Orvis’s body and replaced him.

Curtisno’s voice came to his head at the right time, [I guessed as much. I did not realize that the Blood King had gone through the book I had left behind to that extent.]

Yaphisor replied, [This will go on endlessly. Even if we kill Orvis, the Blood King will seek the next body, and if he hides, we will never be able to find him again. How can we pull the kettle out of the barrel?]

[The barrel?] Curtisno’s voice paused in Yaphisor’s mind and returned, [I do have an idea. If I can get the Blood King to integrate his consciousness into my mind of his own accord, I will be able to lock him in so that he has nowhere to escape].

Yaphisor’s expression was slightly stunned, [Wouldn’t you be in danger?]

[No, my mental power is far superior to his. Taking him down is not a problem at all. There is just one problem, how do I lure the Blood King in?]

[Don’t worry, the Blood King is no fool. The moment Orvis fled, he should have known that he was wanted by the entire Blood race. I’m afraid that his appropriation of Orvis’s body was premeditated, otherwise, he couldn’t have favoured him that much for all these years. He was not doting on Orvis, he was saving him for the future. However, the Blood King was used to having the world. It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality. He is probably getting tired of living like a street rat and must be looking for his next target.]

[Mmm, baby, you’re so smart, I can’t get enough of you.]

Yaphisor:”… ”

Can you not suddenly go into heat when we are talking about business?

Pushing Curtisno’s thoughts out of his mind, Yaphisor suddenly reached out and grabbed Cusi’s arm with one hand and twisted it hard. “Does it hurt?”

The arm was already a little red and swollen, but Cusi shook his head with an unchanged face, “No, it doesn’t hurt, I can’t feel it.”

“If you can’t feel pain, how do you know if you’re in reality or a dream now?” Yaphisor thought for a moment and tickled his palm again, “Does it tickle?”

Cusi’s face took on a tangled expression, “It tickles!”

Yaphisor understood and let go of Cusi’s arm, saying, “Cusi, there is something I think you need to know.”

“There is an ability in this world called a mental attack, and there is only one person among the Bloods who has it, and that is the Blood King, or rather the Blood King who was killed by Orvis. Mental attacks corrupt your brain and change your mind so that you become less of yourself. The highest level can help one detach their soul and board it into another person’s body, killing that person and replacing them. ”

“In addition to that, I have to tell you another thing. How did Orvis explain my disappearance when the three of us were travelling together that day? ”

Cusi froze, with a vague unease in his heart, but said calmly, “He said he didn’t know where you had gone and that he couldn’t see you when he opened his eyes.”

“Heh, the opposite is true.” Yaphisor sneered, “That night, I unintentionally woke up and found him sucking your blood. I screamed at you in an attempt to wake you up, but Orvis’s powers were too strong, and you seemed to have fallen into an unusual slumber.”

“ Not only that, but he even used his alchemy to conjure up a demon to try and disembowel me. Seeing that the situation was not right, I fled deep into the dense forest, and it was then that I was saved by Curtisno. As you can see, Curtisno is indeed a Blood, a Sixth Generation Blood.” Yaphisor paused and said seriously, “This secret concerns Curtisno’s safety in the human world, and I want you to keep this secret and tell no one. Can you?”

Cusi’s eyes swept between Yaphisor and Curtisno and said, “Well, yes, got it! But I don’t understand how you managed to hide it from the Bloods and became a seventh-generation Blood at that time in the Blood realm. Could it be that you are also…..”

“No, I am not.” Yaphisor glanced at Curtisno and smiled, “It’s thanks to Curtisno. He got me some blood from a seventh-generation Blood, and when I applied that blood to my body, it covered the human aura, so I was able to hide among the Bloods.”

Cusi nodded, realization dawning, “So that’s what happened.”

Cusi’s soul was now straddling the line between light and darkness. Having grown up in the church since he was a child, his soul was originally pure.

But it was because it was so pure that it was more easily assimilated into the darkness.

His soul was now gradually being eroded by the Blood King, and his personality had changed. He was no longer the original Cusi.

But Cusi was not completely blackened; deep down he still retained his faith in the light and worshipped the true God.

Looking down at the table, the expression in Cusi’s eyes changed.

Orvis, the Blood King, the Blood King, Orvis.

“What a good child. Come here, let me reward you so that it doesn’t hurt.”

“You will feel no pain from any wound that appears on your body.”

Orvis never called him “child”, he only called him “Cusi”.

Who was the man he spent so much time with?

Although Orvis was a Blood and an alchemist, he had never shown signs of being able to do mental attacks until he had escaped from the Blood realm.

Cusi suddenly remembered his time with Orvis yesterday. He’d suspected it yesterday, hadn’t he?

He suspected that Orvis wasn’t Orvis, and that was before he knew about the whole mental attack thing.

No, he was aware of it.

In the Church’s description of the Blood King and Princes, there was a description of their abilities, and for the Blood King, it was mental attacks.

But why hadn’t he thought of it?

Thinking about his unusual behaviour over the past few days and his tendency to lose his temper, Cusi became increasingly frightened.

Could he have been corrupted by a mental attack and not even know it?

Gulping, Cusi looked up at Yaphisor and asked pleadingly, “What are you trying to mean by saying these things?”

Yaphisor sighed, “I just want to tell you that Orvis is not the right man for you, not before, not now, and not in the future. You are pure of heart; he is cunning and sinister. You are kind; he is murderous. Even if you were together, you would only be incompatible; either he would be assimilated by you or you would be assimilated by him. Do you have the confidence to assimilate him? No. Before even that, are you still sure that Orvis is still Orvis? ”

Cusi shuddered, and Yaphisor’s warning was exactly what he had been dreading in his heart.

Was Orvis Orvis, or was he the Blood King?

The answer was already in his mind, and Cusi’s fear was doubled when he remembered the two of them having mad, desperate sex in the cave a few days before, and the way Orvis had penetrated him again and again.

He covered his mouth, tears in his eyes, and panicked, “Yaphisor, I am no longer pure. I have lied to the true God, I have even defiled my body. Oh my God! Yaphisor, what have I done.”

Yaphisor glanced at Curtisno, who nodded and quietly injected a little mental power into Cusi’s brain to calm him down.

Yaphisor stood up and came behind Cusi, gently untying the scarf and placing his hand on his chest from behind, “Cusi, believe me, the body is only the vessel. As long as your heart remains the same, then you are still the purest of believers. The true God is forgiving, and instead of blaming you, He will comfort you. It is not the body that matters, it is what you say and do and how you behave that matters.”

“In a thousand years, when we have all returned to just souls and our flesh is reduced to a shovelful of dust, history will only record our deeds and our bodies will be a thing of the past. Cusi, remember what I have said today.”