“Huh??”
“Huh? What are you looking at?! This is one of my forms if you don’t know!”
“Boss, is this homunculus corruption? It’s fucking ugly!”
“I don’t like your tongue kiddo! You want me to banish you?”
“Hold up! You can do that?”
“Of course, silly, look.”
The homunculus corruption summoned a sinister spirit, then it went our way to attack, but the homunculus corruption suddenly burned the sinister spirit until no trace was left.
“See, the one I demonstrate is the slow version, because in actuality, you can’t see the action as if nothing happened. So, have manners you punk.”
“Well it’s true that your form is ugly, No other form?”
“I have other forms, but this form is the normal one, whenever I undo something. Look, the water is back to its original form.”
“Ewwww! Why it’s black? Even the water looks thick.. Did you mean I was submerged in this?! Also who farted?! It’s fucking bad!”
“This water is the water of Casiondara, A witch from the past. It's said in the past that this water is made from her tears with malice because her lover was killed by the townsfolk. Upon contact with this water, your skin will be dry until it falls off and your body will smell like decay. After that, your mind slowly descends to madness. But the truth about this water is that it was one of the key ingredients to make an elixir of millennia.”
“So, who is Casiondara? It feels like it has more story around her.”
“Ah, that person? I just made it up.”
“Huh???”
“Anyway, this water really is the real deal, after all, once you take a dip here all of your problems when it comes to your body disappear. The reason it's stinky is because someone accidentally put some potion here. But don’t worry the water itself can cleanse the bad property so yeah.”
“Now take another form, you look like shit.”
“How rude! Anyway I will take this form now.”
Even when turning into another form it feels thick and sticky.. Then it became a round squishy being, not gonna lie it’s cute.
“Here is my other form! Look how cute I am!”
“Woah! You are really cute this time. Also you’re squishy enough to be a pillow!”
‘See! If I want I can do it flawlessly.”
“Boss, can we also hold it?”
“Sure, just don’t stress it.”
Everyone takes turns and it seems they are happy. I didn’t expect that they would like cute things. Then after that we go to the next course which is the town and along the way we see many more beast and grotesque creatures which is interesting because they don’t fight with each other.
“Ayaka, did you know that those creatures are man-made?”
“Man-made?! How?”
“If you fiddle enough with your work you can create life which is not forbidden by the world, It’s only forbidden because of how powerful a being can exploit it. But nature always welcomes new life.”
“So, what is this place all about?”
“This place is the last bastion of life in this world, and those creatures are the key component if life on the surface and water cease to exist. Just think that those creatures in the near future can be human or other beings. Like how evolution works.”
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“Ooooh! That’s good then, honestly I’m inclining on how madman this person is creating life here. But your reason seems good enough. Also how did they know that will lead to human evolution?”
“If you peak in the future or have a real time tracking ability of how life evolves then you’re set. Simple as that, but warning, you must brace yourselves because every evolution can lead to a different path. So sacrifice is inevitable and that is still ok, it's just that you also need to fight those creatures.”
“Ahhhh, I understand why you need to fight them..”
“Welcome!”
“Are you sure you are the corruption?”
“Yes! If I want I can do it but I don’t have any reason to do bad things even if that’s my work. I can be the reason you know.”
Then we arrived at the town and as I expected the town itself is a desolate place, then a sign popped up in front. According to the sign, we need to live here and take down the intruders for 3 days and 2 nights and only 1 person can kill the intruders but if that one person dies another will be replaced and it will reset the days. Since it will be long and even if it’s 3 days and 2 nights we prepare like always, we set a camp near the exit because it will be easier to spot the enemies and we can exit easily after this. I set multiple barriers and some traps. Then a timer shows up and I have only 1 minute to organize everything. Then after that many enemies are spawning outside and inside of the town. When I face them I see a formless figure as if a nightmare in video games. They’re laughing and they're all full of murderous aura.
All of them are so fast that normal beings can be killed instantly like in a horror video game. Since I’m strong, I can fight them all at once. But when I attack them with magic some of them are perished but most of them absorb the magic I threw at them. Then all of them are laughing then someone throws the magic I cast earlier. I managed to block it but after that one, multiple magic are directed to me. But it’s not an issue to me, then I attack them physically and not effectively like my magic and few of them are eliminated. Same with my magic, they threw the raw power of my physical attacks. Then I try to coat both of my ki and mana together, so that when it hits the enemy it can still damage them.
After hitting all of them, they still survive but this time they attack me and they’re furious. I continue this way until it becomes night, Many more are spawning and flooding the town. Then I cast a low tier magic intentionally because I got bored. Then suddenly all of them are dead.
“Huh? They’re dead with just low tier magic?!”
“I think the night makes them weak at magic, you can try the physical attacks since your magic is effective.”
“Aight, will try!”
Then I try the physical attacks and it works like my magic! Since both of them are effective now under the night. I can easily defeat these creatures. I slaughter them like bugs and can’t believe that I’m struggling earlier defeating multiple enemies but now it is like you killing a colony of ants just using water. Then sunrise came and I noticed that only my magic is effective on them and not physical strike this time. Also I see that their form is changing into bulk form, I suspect that my physical attacks make them turn into these formless forms of bulk. Since I used them more frequently than my magic. Just like yesterday, I cheesed this in the daylight and it continued at night.
The last day came and all of those creatures united and made their final form, which is a small one creature, then a countdown appeared above and instructed me to endure until sunset.
“Endure of wh-”
That creature managed to strike me fast but I evaded it and then the real fight began. Each of the strikes that creature generates seems like it was creating a vortex and it was sucking the building and me. But before it tried to suck everything I sliced those moves. I also cast some barriers to the building and the wall so that it prevents unnecessary events. Then I try a different method to handle this guy and that is to replicate what it's doing. Whenever our fists contact each other, this guy pushes the force to me and the way I counter that is to scatter the force. Travelling to my fist and sending them to my feet, so that I can release them. Every time I do that the land is always breaking but I always fix it.
The sunset is almost there and now this guy is gathering a large amount of energy and then a small ball of tremendous energy has been formed. Then it immediately struck that energy to the land but I managed to counter it by my magic and then it still pushes that ball. I reinforced another layer of defense just to be sure. Then out of nowhere that creature redirects its attack to me with that ball. But that move is their fatal weakness because I also create stronger energy by using my marbles. Our energy collides and at that moment no light or explosion has been formed because when our energy balls contact each other I devour the energy and make it mine. After that I vanish my energy and settle it to my body as a marble. The creature just stands and a few seconds later it goes to the top of the building and sits while viewing the sunset. It looks at me and it smiles and that smile is filled with satisfaction and happiness. Then disappear like how the wind goes.
“Hoooo! It’s done! Wahooo!”
I began to run to my comrade where the station is.
“Congratulations Boss!!!”
“Congrats Ayaka! Can’t believe you fight that long!”
“Thank you guys! At first I’m pissed because I can’t defeat them in one hit and when the first night comes, all of my irritation and boredom are gone and things go smoothly until the final boss. Rest is history, but I didn’t get any notification that I finished this!”
“Boss! Patience is a virtue!”
“True! Just wait. What are you 1 shotter player?”
“Huh?!”
I patiently waited for the announcement until the sunrise came and after that a sign near the exit popped up congratulating me. It also has a chest for the completion of the quest. I opened it and a ball of black essence is the prize for this quest. A note also in that chest, it said that consuming this essence can interact with the beings from the other side and can harness their power if you try enough to befriend them. I consumed the black essence and I feel nothing which is great. Then we go to the final place where the last creature is located.
Chapter 20 End