Regress and Eat

You cannot guarantee that immortals know this skill.

But I couldn't just kill him without asking.

The similarity between the Seed of Mercadius and the immortal is too coincidental.

If he says he doesn't know or shows any strange signs, he asks while preparing to be sucked into [Mana Drain].

However, the answer is · · ·.

- Merca · · · What?

It's ruined.

I empowered my fingers because I had no intention of paying attention, whether I really didn't know it or just played a trick.

Suddenly, he spills out his telepathy.

- Wait, wait, wait! Wait! Do you have any idea how many skills there are in the world? Combined with your unique skills, it's impossible to know everything! But there is always a pattern. Tell me more!

I think about it for a while.

And he said,

- Let's start with what I can infer! The unique noun has been entered into the name, so the skill itself is someone's unique skill, or even if it is not now, its origin was a unique skill. It also means that the Awakener has modified or changed his skills by trading with the system!

Wait, what are you talking about?

“A unique skill modification? Change?”

As I became interested in this information, he quickly poured more detailed meaning into my brain.

-Selection to meet special conditions at the end of the tutorial! Trading conditions are the system's retrieval of the unique skills acquired at the moment of Awakening. The Awakened have nothing to lose. The system opens up and helps Awakened get a new enhanced version instead of the unique skills they recovered or turn it into a completely different type of unique skill.

A story I never imagined.

- Unique skills recovered by the system are set to reduce performance and convert to a normal skill card to learn other Awakenings. I only know how many skill cards I can make and how many dimensions I can scatter them in.

It was information I did not know in my previous life that I did not finish the tutorial.

Two more facts could be deduced from the immortal's words now.

Unique skills means that the system cannot create itself. Then we don't even have to trade with the Awakeners to recover it. If possible, you can just make those skills yourself.

And one more thing. Even the very popular skills that Hunters are currently learning through cards may be in fact the unique skills of Awakened Awakened that exist in another dimension far back.

“You can also trade skills that have already been modified or replaced with a unique noun? ”

- Possible! Anything with a unique noun among common skills is made that way.

[Artha's Swordsman] must be the case.

I remember when Mage looked at my sword and immediately recited the name 'Lord Artha'.

“Is the aphrodisiac in the skill name your own name, the Awakener who modified or changed the skill? ”

Is the name of the man who cast this curse upon me "Mercadius"?

- Not necessarily. Depending on the Awakening's intentions, they are named after mythical and legendary beings that are passed on to the world instead of their own names, and they are named after regions, countries, and certain unique concepts.

You're blurry.

But the more I thought about it, the more my head ached.

A unique skill modification is an option only available in the world after the tutorial ends?

My body's curse is a unique skill unfolded by the founder himself, not in the normal skill transformation version when viewed in Mana's color.

So the cursed object is not an Earthling after all.

This is so fucked up. Even if they can't, they have to know to be prepared. ’

I asked.

“Have you ever heard of Mercadius? ”

-Nothing.

I tossed a few keywords to the immortal to specify a skill called [Mercadius' Seed].

“Have you ever seen this kind of unique skill? Something like that?”

Then he sends a turbulent Telepathy with a brief silence, perhaps a slight shock.

- · · · What the hell.

It is too similar even to its own existence.

- I don't know who the caster is, but he's a tremendous awakener. May not have modified a unique skill once or twice. You consider this skill to be ‘brainwashing’ and ‘parasitic’, but what should be more noted is that the presence of a parasitic, lifelike phenomenon in the host is associated with the skill.

A red tentacle-like creature that makes the beast cry whenever it is subdued by [Successor's Eye].

A seed that clumps together like a thread and hides in the host's heart.

- You do not have the skills to create life, but it is possible to modify what already exists. A very rare and massive Mana consumption skill.

Who the hell is that?

“How do I identify the subject of a skill? ”

- It is not easy to cast a permanent curse.

[Dominating Touch] is subject to various penalties and will consume Mana the entire time it is activated.

However, this skill has been sustained for decades.

- would have met special conditions to plant the curse. Therefore · · ·.

He said it like he had a chance.

- Even if it means finding him, you have to let me live!

What the fuck is this?

- Allow me to remain with this host or prepare another Awakening Body for me to use as a host if that's not possible. She can't have her heart ripped out. Restoring the host's body is possible once I have settled in my heart.

I don't even think about the man who gives me bread, but my demands are too exaggerated.

- Listen, I can dig through the memories of life and see what they've been through. There must be something special that triggered the curse, even if you are not aware of it yourself! Search through the memories of the cursed hosts to find common ground! Following that link will reveal the skill's true nature!

I know what you mean.

Seo Jin-wook from Han Seol, Park Chang-hee, and the original.

And a high chance to reach Seo Kyu-chul.

If you look at the memories of all of them, there must be a similar mechanism.

- I can pull out memories that I've forgotten so much. So you have to save me!

Immortals will already know why I asked you this.

No, I decided in the beginning that I didn't have his [dominant touch] because I had a different kind of brainwashing.

That's why I was beaten up.

But · · ·.

Am I crazy? Release you to Earth? ’

He spills into one ear and asks.

“Can you read the memories of the dead? ”

- · · · Not possible. But if you bring me all the suspects that are still alive!

It's pointless.

I asked him a few more questions, but he gave me almost speculative answers.

General concepts of this kind of curse, rather than [Seed of Mercadius] skills. Unknown knowledge of the Earth in my past life has been quite helpful.

By the time I was sure that I had almost all the information I needed.

I suddenly had an idea.

“One more thing. ”

May be the last question.

“What is the population of your species? How many more are there than you? ”

There was something I did not understand when I heard the description of the sword.

It is because immortals say that there is only one creature in all known dimensions.

The xenophiles answered with a brief silence.

- From the moment I first came to my senses, Orloth was alone. Of course, I don't remember anything before I existed as myself. Individuals of the same species have traveled through many worlds and have never seen one.

There is only one species from beginning to end.

Of course, it's not normal.

There is only one reason why there are species that are not normal.

“Someone touched your hand. ”

- What?

Among the immortal descriptions, there is a notion that remains in the brain.

Unique skill has a type that modifies life.

The parasite associated with [Mercadius' Seed], that is, the seed, has been converted into such a creature.

If so · · ·.

I called him an incantation I thought was more appropriate than an immortal name.

“Parasitic, you may also be modulated by someone's skills. Your very existence could be a byproduct of some skill. ”

The moment I spit it out, I knew it was his disgust.

- · · · · · ·!

Telepathy that is not verbal is spilled. The boiling fury swirled and pierced my mind like a thorn. [Accessory's Eye] You couldn't do me any harm.

There is no way that the parasite itself could not have remembered what I had deduced.

For a long time, he would have reached any possibility through self-reflection.

You know, the idea that you could be the product of any skill.

What's the difference between a seed and its presence and its intelligence?

Is he the same person who created my curse? The idea itself is very similar. We don't know that at this stage. ’

Moreover, this interrogation could no longer continue.

I found a frenzied parasite sending Mana's smoke out of her heart.

‘Let's finish this. ’

He doesn't know I can see Mana.

[Hidden] thinks you were caught by the Detection System Skill.

The gaps in that information have led immortals to meaningless attempts.

Phew!

Stick a finger in the heart.

- Damn it!

Once it becomes clear that the host will be lost, he quickly escapes.

- Even if the host did, it's not that easy to destroy my body!

I trigger skills.

[Mana Drain!]

At that moment.

- Aaaah!

The screams of the soul as if it were being torn out alive resounded in my brain.

- Hey, what's this? No, no, no!

The vortex of suction starting at my fingertips began to absorb Mana cores like smoke.

Into the body of a parasite, integrated with it!

- No, my existence! My existence!

A parable of a living creature with a body: Does it feel like it's being eaten by carnivores while maintaining consciousness?

It was at a different rate than usual when absorbing Mana cores.

The Mana core mixed with the parasite was slowly absorbed into my fingertips because of the specificity of its presence.

As the absorption progresses, his screaming telepathy becomes dull and faint.

- No. It works. It eats away.

The walls between emotions, thoughts, memories and accidents crumble. Mix and disintegrate.

- I am. I · · · · · · · · ·.

It was never a pleasant experience to clearly witness the collapse of the spirit of a being.

Everything that constitutes his world melts and disintegrates, leaving behind a very light and thin mass.

- · · · · · · · · I.

And even that moment was absorbed through my fingers.

The silence surrounded me like a lie.

“ · · · · · ·. ”

He mutters in the fog. I said it on purpose.

“It's over.”

A lifetime of bad news ended here.

*

After finishing off Angelica, you approach Hansul's body.

‘The common denominator of the three who are sure to be cursed. You need to find it in your memory, right? ’

Even if you're not aware of it.

I think of Park Chang-hee's end.

‘If something similar happens then. ’

When I pierced Snow's heart, I only confirmed the existence of the curse, and I opened the distance from the body immediately.

I didn't want to create a situation where seeds fight with seeds in the yard to fight the xenogens right now.

Is it gone? ’

Looking down at the corpse of Hansul.

It tilted.

‘It's glowing. ’

I can hear it in my ears.

"Queek, queek!" ’

A red aura is echoing through the broken heart.

Observe its size.

‘It's almost similar to what Park Chang-hee had. ’

Hiding in my heart was only twice the size of the first time I saw it or now.

This means that it does not vary in size depending on the host's potential Mana, nor does it increase or increase with brain progress.

"Yuck, yuck, yuck!"

A cry that resembles that of a small beast flows from the seed that has lost its host.

Sounds like a seizure.

Will that run to me, too?

Thinking about it · · · ·.

This time it was different.

Hwa-oh!

Like a predator in front of the prey, the curse that hid in my heart reached out to the red tentacles outside my body.

I knew something similar was gonna happen from now on.

‘Destroy that seed as you did then. ’

When Park Chang-hee's seed was dying, Park Chang-hee's memory was projected into my mind. Literally the whole life of one person.

It's a lot of content and speed you can't all remember once you see it · ·.

‘I'm different. ’

Once you look at it, you can remember it. No matter how big the story is.

‘The original Seo Jin-wook's memory is gradually returning, and Park Chang-hee's memory. And the memory of Han Seol. ’

When we compare all of these memories, we will find common ground.

Who put this curse on you? ’