Ch#06 Possession
“The decrease in my soul points should have been the backlash from that golden macron”
Leaving the women with his two withered victims Brian started to move out of the dark alley, but instead of following the conventional path he decided to use his ability as a ghost.
“The amount of Mana I received from those two is 2.5 each
“but how come the light MARON gave me whole 5 points of mana, when its purity was less than the old women’s which means it wasn’t a level 2”
“Maybe it has to do with me lending a hand”
“And what is essence?”
Brain scratched his head in frustration “ah, no need to confuse my head with things that I can’t understand”
He then glanced at the pendant hanging by his neck, his eyes shone with a mysterious light
“I hope you have some answers for me”
In his thoughts Brian seemed to forget about what was happening around him, he had walked to the middle of a road, a brown colored SUV was approaching him in high speeds. Brian was jerked into reality by the sound of the running engine, wanting to jump away he found that it was too late.
Shit!
Brian held his hand over his head
“Oh wait. Why should I care, I am a soul after all”
VROOM
Brains lower half vanished into the SUV’s front bonnet, but then something happened that even Brian had not expected, he came into contact with the women driving the car, the moment his soul touched the women’s body he could feel a similar existence like himself hiding in the females body , shivered up in the corner looking at him with dread. The MACRON over her neck also started to rapidly pound like a beating heart
“Hmm is this her soul?”
Brian could feel that as long as he tried he could suppress the existing soul even destroy it
“User has made contact with a low tier lv1 human soul”
“User has the ability to possess”
The pendant gave the notification in red
Brian eyes shone with a white and black light as he approached the hosts soul, the soul itself was almost transparent with a hint of golden and a bit black at the heart region completely different from his gray soul with a deep black vortex in the center
In response to brains approach the soul started to shiver and shrink in the end it became the size of an infant’s fist and levitated in the head region, the women’s eyes started to lose focus and her eyes turned dull, when Brian looked he saw a golden strand connecting the soul with the MACRON the strand was occasionally shimmering with a faint black and white light
As if hit by a sudden enlightenment he grabbed the strand and broke it then pushed the other end to his head, when the stand touched his head, Brian was assaulted by a piercing pain a stand of white energy pierced out of his head similarly a stand of black energy came out from the vortex and melded with the golden strand, both the three strands melded in to a mysterious runic symbol, it was a circular symbol with golden outer corners and various black and white patterns intersecting with each other.
Astonished he studied the runic symbol, the black and white pattern appeared to be some ancient wordings but regretfully even with his knowledge regarding archeology he couldn’t find a matching language.
“What is this” he muttered
“Soul spell pattern established”
“User soul is connected with the body”
“Possession successful… adjusting the body to required standard”
The women’s body started to physically change, her skin turned from yellow to pale white while her hair turned to a pure snow white with only her eyes retaining their original black pupils but the blackness had a mysterious depth to it, it looked like the pupils of a devil dark and sinister
Brian could feel the connection between him and the body, but the impression he got was like sitting in a robot that would move according to his thoughts. It felt extremely bizarre.
“Is this how it feels to possess someone?” bran checked his newly obtained body when the SUV started to shake by sliding off the road.
Damn the car!
Brian hurriedly stepped on the brakes the tires gave a squealing noise as the rubbed against the rubble then after blowing some dirt it came to an abrupt stop.
“Phew that was close”
The locket gave a red light
“Transformation successful”
“Transferring memories”
“memories?” Brian felt a bit baffled but then his soul was assaulted by a severe pain as huge amounts of data started pouring into him
After a few seconds Brian felt that if this transfer continued any longer he would explode from the sheer amount of information
Assume a normal human being, although the brain is filled with various information about things he experienced and heard throughout his life, but most of this information remains buried deep within the brain. Right now all that information was sent into Brian in the span of few seconds so the sheer amount of pressure he felt was immense
“Memories transfer complete”
A notification popped in front of Brian
“Finally” Brian felt his inner state return to normal. When he looked at the rune floating in front of him the words on the symbol seemed much more complex.
“It’s over” Brian muttered rubbing his forehead
He could tell that all the memories seemed to have been absorbed by the soul rune. As long as his consciousness touched it he will be able to access those memories
“How peculiar and interesting” Brian’s consciousness drifted along the golden strand towards the rune.
“let’s see what these memories hold” when his consciousness touched the rune an attractive force emerged from it all Brian felt was his sight spinning and everything going blurry when his vision cleared he found himself in a dark space with lights flickering at various places like stars in the black sky. When he focused on a particular light it started to float towards him. What he saw next left him stunned for a brief moment
“What the hell”
The light was a fragment of the women’s memory. It displayed the memory like a movie
“Ho-w? How is this possible” Brian stuttered as he shouted
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“The more I learn the more absurd it gets”
Brian felt astonished as he looked at the memory fragment. The fragment was about the early ages of the female. Brian felt it was unnecessary for him to look at it so he proceeded to focus on other fragments.
When he diverted his attention to other fragments the previous fragment stated to disintegrate into nothing causing his eyes to shimmer.
“So the memory fragment that I don’t need is deleted from this space” Brian looked around he noticed that some of the lights were much bigger than the others also there were few lights which were connected to each other via a white line.
“Seems like I have to look at all the fragments one by one” brain started to go through the various scattered memory fragments, it took him about an hour of search before he managed to get a fragment that had some useful information
“Finally!” brian let out a long breath
The fragment showed a recent part of the women’s life. Brian came to this conclusion after analyzing the pattern by which the fragments were arranged. The arrangement seemed like a tree with a shining golden light for the base and various white fragments branched out of it. Brian noticed that there were still some fragments which roamed the dark space like metros in the starry sky.
The memory fragment in front of Brian showed a TV in which a reporter was reporting breaking news
“Since the past year supernatural incidents related to espers have drastically increased”
“Esper related crimes are increasing day by day. Today on Tanakawa Street a 32 year old male with his 8 year old child were found brutally murdered by the notorious esper Black Blood”
“According to the spoke person Mr. James Yazura of the national bureau of Esper control (NBEC) they are very close to finding the real identity of the culprit”
“now… the question remains. Are we truly safe in this new era of espers? Can we truly trust the bureau and put our lives in their hands?”
“This is Azu Tanaka reporting from Tazakawa”
Brian was stunned after viewing the memory fragment
“1 year ago? Espers!? What in the world has happened?”
Brian focused on the calendar which hung beside the TV
“2020!” he drew a deep breath “that’s 2 years after my death”
“Which means the incidents started happening a year after my demise”
Brian felt it somewhat weird “but why surface now? They have been hiding from the humans for hundreds of years why show themselves now”
After racking his Brian for some answers he sighed, “No point in stressing my mind. What I am curious is that so called bureau but this fragment won’t give me anything about it”
Bran glanced at the hundreds of lights in the dark space “guess I’ll have to look through all of them”
This time it took Brian almost 5 hours before he finished going through the rest of the fragments
“Nothing!” Brian muttered heavily
“Other than a few names this women seems to know nothing about the bureau and judging from her daily activities she seems much informed”
“Seems like this bureau is quite secretive, the information given to the civilians is limited to just the spoke persons, even the information regarding the espers have been tightly confined”
“No wonder the people seemed so distressed”
Brian then shifted his sharp gaze towards the bright golden light
“Of all the fragments as long as my consciousness wills it they come floating towards me. As for that golden light no matter how much I tried it won’t budge from its place”
He started to well his consciousness to flow towards the golden light. As he got closer instead of finding a memory fragment he only felt the golden light getting more and more intense and piercing. When he was just a meter away from the light an attractive force similar to the one that sucked his consciousness appeared and swept his consciousness inside the golden light
All Brian could see was piercing golden light then everything went blank. When Brian recovered his vision he was sitting in a car his hands on the steering drenched in sweat his body burning like a furnace
Brian looked around confirming his whereabouts “phew… that was intense”
“Hmm… let’s see”
Brian touched the screen attached to the front of the car. Responding to his touch the screen showed a list of options. Brian pressed the news option which automatically set the radio frequency of the car to a news station
“Earlier this evening in the bustling street of Tokyo a 40 year old man was found dead”
“According to the authorities the culprit for this murder is a new esper they are calling him the ‘devourer’ based on the condition of the victims body”
“The investigators on site are waiting for the special unit from the national bureau of esper containment”
“As expected” muttered Brian
“The body I left is a little problem” Brian had a grave look on his face “I don’t know what methods they have in tracking me. I have to be more careful from now on”
Brian proceeded to open the GPS system of the car
“Now where was my house… right!” Brian typed a few words then a destination popped up on the screen
Washizawa, Tokyo
***
Brrrr
The skies started to rumble as black clouds emerged from the west obscuring the rising sun making the city plunge in to darkness. Water started to pour from the skies drenching the land the occasional lightning thundered in the skies like roaring dragons
A black colored bike was speeding on a road, its sleek body giving a unique sense of beauty.
“Fuck!”
“Of all the times, it had to rain now” muttered the man driving the bike dressed completely in a black leather suit wearing a red helmet
“Hey Roxy how much time left till I reach the crime scene”
The man pressed a button on his helmet and shouted
“Robin don’t be so impatient” rang a sweet female voice in robins ear, ”You are almost there, judging from your current speed you will reach destination in half an hour”
“For god’s sake why am I so unlucky” Robin rolled the accelerator and tore through the rain in much high speeds
After a period of high speed driving robin saw red and blue lights glowing in the distance closing in he saw a few police cars parked in various places on the street. A yellow lane was placed for restricting the citizens with police officers standing guard
Unperturbed Robin drove his bike towards the crime scene. Only to come to a screeching stop just a few meters away leaving a long black trail on the drenched road
He lifted the lid of his helmet showing his red eyes which glowed with a sinister black light
“Roxy can you trace the mana”
“Nope… you have to approach the body so that I can analyze the Mana pattern of devourer and trace the disturbance of elemental particles created from his Mana signature radiation”
“Alright”
Getting off his bike and went towards the crime scene. Seeing robin approach the police officer on duty shouted
“YOU STOP! This is a crime scene. Citizens are not allowed to pass through”
Robin’s eyes flashed with coldness as he glanced at the officer. The officer’s heart shuddered when he saw the cold red eyes.
Robin flashed his bronze colored badge hidden beneath his leather jacket. The badge had a single star inscribed on top of it with the initials NBEC inscribed in the middle
The officer expression went through a tremendous change. He backed up his face pale
“b-be-bureau”
“Sir plea-se sorry for my previous offense” the officer know towed towards robin expressing his guilt in shame
“It’s alright. Take me to the body” saying this robin followed the officer inside the barricade where lied a withered corpse
“Attention! The case has been taken up by the bureau. I am robin Vanhaulen. I am a bronze officer and I would like to request you to please leave and clear the premises so I may able to do my job”
Hearing robin the surrounding officers started whisper
“What the bureau”
“So now they come eh-”
“shh… look at his eyes… how scary”
“Ah… Umm. Mr. Robin don’t you want our help in something. You know all my officers have been here for the past 6 hours” a glasses wearing man spoke as he glanced towards robin trying his very best to make eye contact
“No need! As for your compensation the bureau will handle it”
Hearing Robin a flicker of excitement flashed in everyone’s eyes
“Yes, yes… thank you very much” the officers started to shout dispersing the surrounding unwanted spectators
Seeing the officers leave robin let out a long breath “finally some peace and quiet”
Standing in front of the corpse he started to stretch his body, looking at the corpse his eyes became focused. Extending his right hand towards the corpse he started to mumble some strange words
~wo-hs-mur-shaman~
“Spell rank 1 inspect”
“ACTIVATE!” large amounts of dark Mana started to leak from his body which then formed a complex black rune in front of him. Robin pointed his finger which had a smaller version of the Rune continuously spinning. Various tentacles started to come out of the black rune which started to fumble through the corpse with some penetrating it
Controlling the rune through his consciousness he moved the tentacles, after swiping the area with the black tentacles the rune on Robin’s finger disintegrated leaving two wisps of black mana twirling on top of the body
“Hmm that’s weird… according to the data we only had a single being now there are two energy marks here”
“What do you mean, robin”
Robin pushed a button on his tracker. A blue beam of light enveloped the two wisps for a few breaths of time. After a beep the light retracted
“did you get the data”
“ya got it”
“You are right these are two signatures, but according to the sensors one of them belongs to our dead man”
A deep frown emerged on robin’s forehead his complexion went grim
“It means we have ourselves a wretched soul… this is bad”
“ya it is… there have been two eruptions of Mana undulations of the same signature as our devourer. The first one is 500 meters to your west in an alley and the second one is more intense and the point of origin is 1km from the second eruption”
“What! More intense, which level was it?”
“It was probably between lv 2 to 3 which means we have an evolving wretch”
Meanwhile a brown SUV stopped in front of a 3 floored building. The building itself looked abandoned with broken windows and a rusted front gate the rumbling thunder in the sky coupled with the heavy rain made the building look more haunted