Alexia

It takes me several hours to recover my soul back to its full capacity. And after doing so, I immediately make my way towards the heart once more. A trip that that spans at least a few hours due to the parasites that seemed to have been left behind when the others no doubt returned to the heart.

Fortunately for me, they also serve as some test subjects for what the parasites inside that little ‘heart chamber’ – as I will call it – are like. Their strengths. Their weaknesses. And their powers.

For one, the parasites vary. There are about five different types. One is very resistant to physical damage yet uses magical attacks that are called val parasites. One is resistant to magical damage yet uses physical attacks that are called mal parasites. One is a glass cannon that uses magical attacks and is weak to any sort of damage, which also happens to be the smallest of the bunch at three meters in height. And it’s called a val-blak parasite. One is a glass cannon that uses physical attacks and is weak to any sort of damage, which happens to be the largest of the bunch in the form of a disgusting solidified flesh blob thing spanning a couple dozen meters in length. And it’s called a mal-blak parasite. And one is like a boss version which is just strong and equal in every manner called a horrific heart parasite.

That last one pretty much proving my theory that the black organ thing is The Horror’s heart.

Overall, the val parasites are easy to kill since my main focus is using magic to kill. Especially since all of my attacks are infused with quantum energy whether I use magic or not. The mal parasites are easy to kill since they can’t even touch me. What with them using physical attacks.

So I mostly just ignored those after killing a couple on the way to the heart chamber.

The val-blak parasites are annoying since they only use magic and are rather powerful. Their magic being even stronger than some of my own spells despite my being Class S and them being the equivalent of Class A.

But the mal-blaks are just big teddy bears to me. Since they can’t really do anything to me other than take up space.

The horrific heart parasites are annoying though. Spanning at about five meters in height with a vaguely humanoid appearance yet still flesh and a body made out of the same parasitey and wormy flesh as the other parasites, they creep me the hell out.

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What parasites have arms and legs after all?

They don’t have heads though.

Probably best not to question it.

When I finally get back to the heart chamber, though, I can’t help but feel a shiver run down my spine at the sight of even more parasites than when I first arrive here.

As if they’d multiplied somehow.

And it doesn’t take me long to spot how that happened. What with the few large, black droplets dripping off of the black heart before conforming into the shape of parasites.

A rather disturbing sight, to say the least.

But at least I know where these parasites are coming from.

Seriously though… what creature creates parasites and spreads them around its own body?

That’s just… then again, I should probably not use logic when dealing with something whose name is literally ‘The Horror’.

After regaining my bearings again, I teleport away from the swarms of parasites moving through the very shallow black liquid on the ground to appear a few dozen meters in front of the heart. At which point I send several Quantum Bolts straight at it.

But the heart merely swings backwards before coming forwards again until it returns to a resting position. Kind of like a punching bag.

My brows furrow as I teleport away from the parasites chasing me. Then I look down below the black heart to find quite a few more black droplets falling to form more parasites that join the chase. All of whom are parasites of the five different species in the chamber.

The hell? Is it just immune to magical damage or something?

Or… wait, I really hope that’s not the case.

From what I understand, immunity to a broad type of damage is impossible unless you’re of a few rare affinities, like quantum affinity. Or space affinity.

The only full immunity someone can have is towards other affinities. Not an entire type of damage like magical or physical.

So to test the theory I just came up with, I teleport high up into the chamber to get away from the parasites before stabbing my polearm into the ceiling to hold me here for a moment. Briefly feeling the corner of my mouth quirking upwards ever so slightly by the mere fact that I’m strong enough to pierce The Horror’s flesh even just a tiny bit now. Enough to get a little bit of my polearm stuck in there.

But then I just close my eyes and raise my other hand, making a spell form in front of me to fire off a fireball at the large black heart.

I open my eyes again to look at the result, only to find another few black droplets fall from the heart as it swings without taking any damage again.

Guess that’s it then.

The outer membrane must have some sort of full immunity towards magic, but the entire thing can’t have that. Hence why the parasites are being forced out when I attack.

So what about physical attacks?

I teleport forwards, ripping my polearm out of the ceiling in the process before slicing straight at the heart. And having my polearm bouncing off with a pinging sound.

Full immunity to physical damage as well.

But… I look down to find more parasites coming out from that attack.

How about I see what’ll happen when I drain that thing dry of parasites.