Cursed Immortality



The ethereal black devil's face suddenly churned the moment, Immortika's eerie voice rang, and the infinity pendant was now hooked into its ethereal figure from Jacob's neck.

"W-wait… what is happening!? Who are you? How could you resist the Lord's Despair Spirit Trap?!" Again, the eldritch voice rang from the devil's face empty mouth, and this time, it was filled with terror as it tried to escape away from Jacob, but it failed.

Immortika's impish voice sounded, "Hehehe… I admit this is a rather cumbersome trap, and only a few people could escape it. Even then, retrieving what is sealed inside the altar would be tough.

"But you idiots have no idea who this treasure originated from, nor did the person who asked your 'Lord' to seal it after not being able to control it itself seem to tell you that one day I might come looking for it.

"Ha…no worries, no worries, everyone seemed to be underestimating me and forgot who I am just because I was playing by their rules. But, unfortunately, those rules are too dull, and now I'm bored out of my mind.

"This way, it is more fun and interesting. But it's a pity you won't be able to remain alive to watch any of it, and no one will know the so-called unbreakable seal of the Dark Beings has been broken, and the only thing that could bring doom to their existence has returned to its rightful owner…." Immortika's voice was extremely chilly at the end, almost sounding like death itself.

"Just who in the world are you? And how can you know this forbidden treasure belonged to you?! No one can use it without getting killed!" The devil's face shrilled in disbelief and unwillingness, "No, this must be an illusion. No one is stronger than the Lord! No one can harm the Dark Begins. I will never die, never!"

"Hehehehe… what a loyal dog, and you also believe that a Dark Being like yourself can't be killed no matter what. As for controlling that treasure, you fools don't even know it's just a component of mine, and without me, it is nothing but a catastrophe.

"It is also the only thing in existence that can bring the downfall of the dark beings. I don't go through all those troubles to connect this place here, and now you will serve your true purpose, which is to become an auxiliary material to repair this component.

"And don't you worry, my little material, you will be the first of many to be turned into auxiliary materials to repair this component to its peak, which the Dark Beings broke in the first place. This is what they called it; you reap what you sow. Ahahahahah!"

Under Immortika's hysteric laughter, the chained altar under the ghostly figure suddenly started shaking violently before cracks appeared on the chains. Unfortunately, even the altar wasn't any better, and those cracks were increasing.

The devil-face finally panicked as it yelled in horror, "Y-you! You Lunatic, what are you doing!? Stop this instinct, and I'll you and your pet go o-or everything will die!"

However, his voice was utterly suppressed under Immortika's horrifying wanton laughter, and both the chains and the altar were at breaking point as if something wanted to come out of it.

"Stop! Please stop, I beg you, just stop! My Lord, I was blind, but please stop! If you released this seal, I'm speaking the truth. No one will be able to escape alive! I-I'll give you an entry to the Median Plains. Just stop! Damn, you!"

No reply was given as if Immortika wasn't hearing any of it, and right at this moment,

"Boom!"

A terrifying explosion happened as the chain and altar were finally blasted apart, but no debris or tremor was raised except for the sound.

Instead, after the explosion, the ethereal figure started to scream hysterically before it suddenly started to compress, and its antagonizing voice started to get fainter and fainter.

The entire process was so fast that it didn't even get the chance to escape its agony and figure out what was happening as it was entirely compressed into the darkly gleaming Infinity Pendant.

The entire black chain around Jacob's neck was glowing darkly, and if looked carefully, tiny glyphs were starting to get engraved on the chain components.

But surprisingly, only half of the chain was filled with glyphs while the other half was completely empty like before.

However, the true change was noticeable on the pitch-black, four-centimeter vivid snake ring that was eating its own tail as its eyes were glowing in crimson. It seemed as if it had come alive.

An even more eye-catching thing right now was within the snake ring. The white infinity symbol, which was completely empty before, was no longer empty.

Because mysteriously, a Crimson Gem, which perfectly fits in one of the empty infinity symbol sockets, has appeared on the left empty socket. The crimson gem gave off an evil aura as it glimmered in a black hue.

But it wasn't the end of it because right at this moment, the clothes over Jacob's torso ripped into shreds, and the infinity pendant suddenly moved toward Jacob's left breast and stuck over right above his heart.

After that, the crimson gem lit up even more brightly, and 36 tiny dark glyphs covered in crimson sheen appeared over Jacob's left breast. They were the same glyphs he had formed when he completed the Cursed Heart Emergence stage.

Now, the infinity pendant was placed right in the middle of those 36 glyphs as the crimson gem seemed to emit some mysterious energy when half of those glyphs suddenly started releasing the same energy as the crimson gem.

Right at this moment, within Jacob's cursed heart, like the infinity pendant, one of the empty sockets of his heart started to become active, and gleaming crimson energy began to compress in its center.

Jacob would be over the moon if he were awake because this is the process of magic core condensing!

Immortika's ethereal voice rang again as the process of magic core forming started: "He's probably going to presume that the dream was some test or become even more paranoid, but this was the only way to protect him from coming in contact with that guardian.

"But he will be happy when he reads all those memories about the magic core he has awakened, so he might not suspect anything… well, not pleased about all of them, at least, especially when he learns that now he has to go against the Dark Beings as well.

"He will also know that the infinity pendant is incomplete and another essential part is still missing!

"But that part will not be retrievable as easily as this one. It is not as nefarious as the Cursed Path Glory Gem and is in use by someone. But now I can detect its general location, which is not in the Lesser Plains.

"This will make it even more entertaining for me, hehehe…."

Immortika's impish voice trailed off with its laughter before completely vanishing without a trace!