“Why is that...? Huh?”
Simone frowned, closed her eyes, then opened them again and looked at the sky.
It wasn't a hallucination, there really was a car flying in the sky.
Uh... How did this happen?
This is ridiculous.
In none of the original works that Simone had seen had she ever seen a story about cars driving around in this world, or even flying.
“What is that? A carriage?”
“A carriage? That thing? It looks unusual for something like that. And it flies.”
As evidence, aren't the people in the group also speaking as if they were surprised by the means of transportation they were seeing for the first time?
“Simone, do you know what that is?”
"...Don't mind."
Simone lowered her head, trying to shake off her complicated thoughts.
A car that shouldn't be in the sky flying?
It's amazing. No, it's not just amazing, it's astonishing.
But that doesn't matter right now.
'It must be some kind of curse.'
She doesn't know why it's a modern artifact, but for now, it's just one of the cursed phenomena. If she doesn't plan on chasing it and ending it, then rather than focusing on it, she should first find out what the curse is.
“Isn’t there anything else in this room besides that?”
Bianchi nodded at Simone's question.
“That’s right, there’s nothing. I searched everywhere except the places you guys looked. There wasn’t anything special.”
“Then let’s go.”
As Simone stepped out of the study, her companions followed her.
“It must have happened so suddenly.”
“That’s right. I thought there would be something in the Grand Duke’s room.”
They were sure that the Grand Duke of Illeston had left a message for Simone.
How could this crazy curse spread so quickly that the Grand Duke couldn't even do that? How powerful of a curse could it possibly be?
Abel's face took on a rare look of annoyance.
“Orkan and Master Jace? Can they be apart?”
Abel nodded to Bianchi's question.
“Orkan is strong. Even if Jace has a special constitution, he will protect him well. More importantly, look at that.”
Abel raised his hand and pointed in front of Simone, who was walking ahead.
A hallway that feels ominous. The space she had visited dozens of times while staying here before seemed different from her memories.
And then she sees blurry dolls, wandering around the hallways with their eyes wide open and their souls gone.
Its presence was so faint that it seemed like it would just fall apart if she touched it.
It's as if the souls of the dead are wandering around aimlessly.
Even the dullest person can understand something like that.
That's not a person.
The hallway was jam-packed with something that wasn't human, completely blocking the path.
“Abel, can we get through there?”
“Well, they’re not aggressive and they look like they could just pass by.”
But it wasn't exactly a pleasant thing to have to pass through what looked like human souls.
Meanwhile, Simone, who was in the lead, fiddled with the magic stone in her hand. Seeing this, Geneon tapped Simone's calf with his forefoot.
“Simone, can you do it?”
“Even if I can’t do it, I have to try.”
Simone glared at the souls in front of her with a solemn expression. Geneon snickered.
“You don’t have to be so nervous. Rather, since you have so many souls, you can test yourself to your heart’s content.”
Simone nodded.
“I was thinking that too.”
“Just do as I taught you.”
If she stays at El's house and follows the theory Geneon taught her, she should be able to absorb her soul into the magic stone without any problems.
In that sense, this is a very good place to experience real-world experience.
It was also a treasure trove where more souls could be absorbed.
Simone closed her eyes quietly. Then she began to pour enormous strength into the magic stone in her hand.
It consumed as much magical power as when attacking the ghost in the doll, but its form was different than before.
“Oh, you’re good at it.”
Geneon said with satisfaction.
The destructive power is reduced, and instead, the death mana that flows out more smoothly and delicately is quickly absorbed into the magic stone.
It was a marked difference from Simone's previous destructive and eccentric use of mana.
Mana is perfectly controlled despite not being able to practice at all due to recovering the body.
It was evidence that she had understood Geneon's lessons well.
After a short while, the magic stone, which had been a beautiful blue-green color, gradually lost its color and soon turned completely black. This meant that Simone’s mana had completely taken over the magic stone’s magical power.
Her eyes, which were slowly opening, were glowing red.
The number of visible spirits is countless. Fortunately, however, the spirits of those who appear to be from the mansion were not present.
In short, just sweep it all away.
The idea was immediately put into action.
Kwaaaaang! Kwaddeuk!
"...Oh my God."
Bianchi let out an exclamation without realizing it.
Souls scream in pain as they are burned in the black flames and the corridors fly away in an instant.
They became like a giant swarm, floating in the air and struggling to escape.
“They’re running away. We have to catch them quickly-”
Abel, who had been drawing his sword, stopped talking and stood upright. The direction in which the spirits were running away in fear was strange.
It wasn't running from the end of the hallway but towards Simone. Then, it disappeared as if it was sucked somewhere right in front of Simone.
Souls blinded by pain instinctively absorbed themselves into the magic stone with the strongest energy of death.
“It was absorbed?”
After all the burned souls disappeared, Simone looked at the black magic stone and asked, and Geneon nodded and said.
“Absorb as much as you can. The cursed energy is ominous.”
The power of a necromancer comes from the enormous mana and number of souls he possesses.
To counter this ridiculously heavy curse, it would be a good idea to absorb a lot of souls here.
Geneon looked across the open hallway with a serious expression.
'Weird.'
Even if it was a necromancer's curse, how could it have such a strong aura?
Geneon knows the power of Anasis best.
No matter how strong Anasis is, she cannot create a curse of this magnitude on her own.
'Is this really a curse?'
He can't guarantee anything for now, but he has a feeling that neither Simone nor Abel will be able to overcome this hardship easily.
Square- Square-
People who run away in search of a place to live soon find out.
That there is nowhere in this world to escape to.
The air became heavy. Soon, a black poisonous wind blew across the air, sweeping away thousands of people once again.
The souls of those who died from poison flow and flow towards the King of the Underworld.
Square- Square-
When the world is in ruins, the King's servants will descend to the earth and take the lives of the heroes who prevent the King's resurrection.
When Simone, Abel, and Bianchi finished investigating the second floor and came down to the first floor, Orkan and Jace were having a serious conversation with someone.
“Crown Prince?”
Why is Louis here?
As Simone tilted her head and muttered, the three stopped their conversation and approached her urgently.
Orkan said with a frown.
“Simone, it seems like it’s not just the mansion that’s in trouble.”
“What is that...”
At her question, Louis opened his mouth with a stiff face.
“Lady Simone, the situation in the castle and the capital is bad, so I came to ask for your help, but it seems that the situation is not only bad in the capital.”
Louis gritted his teeth and looked around.
They said that the Grand Duke and his wife and all of their servants were dead.
The corpses on the first floor were nowhere to be seen, as if Orkan and Jace had moved them somewhere, but the pools of blood on the floor told him that something unusual had happened.
“The situation in the capital is not good?”
Louis said in response to Simone's question.
“It’s the same here. A lot of people die in an instant, and their corpses walk around in dismembered and twisted form, looking for the living and killing them. Some things look like human spirits standing everywhere.”
'It's like...'
It seems like the world is heading towards its worst possible destruction.
“If things continue like this, most people will die.”
“What did you say?”
“It’s dangerous. Simone’s help-”
“What are you saying, Louis?”
"...Yes?"
Louis stopped talking and looked at Simone. She was looking at him with an expression that seemed to not understand Louis at all.
“Why does this happen outside the mansion too?”
Simone really couldn't understand what he was saying.
What if this same thing were happening outside the mansion?
'Then this is...'
Isn't this something that happened because of the curse of the Illeston family?
Simone frowned, closed her eyes, then opened them again and looked at the sky.
It wasn't a hallucination, there really was a car flying in the sky.
Uh... How did this happen?
This is ridiculous.
In none of the original works that Simone had seen had she ever seen a story about cars driving around in this world, or even flying.
“What is that? A carriage?”
“A carriage? That thing? It looks unusual for something like that. And it flies.”
As evidence, aren't the people in the group also speaking as if they were surprised by the means of transportation they were seeing for the first time?
“Simone, do you know what that is?”
"...Don't mind."
Simone lowered her head, trying to shake off her complicated thoughts.
A car that shouldn't be in the sky flying?
It's amazing. No, it's not just amazing, it's astonishing.
But that doesn't matter right now.
'It must be some kind of curse.'
She doesn't know why it's a modern artifact, but for now, it's just one of the cursed phenomena. If she doesn't plan on chasing it and ending it, then rather than focusing on it, she should first find out what the curse is.
“Isn’t there anything else in this room besides that?”
Bianchi nodded at Simone's question.
“That’s right, there’s nothing. I searched everywhere except the places you guys looked. There wasn’t anything special.”
“Then let’s go.”
As Simone stepped out of the study, her companions followed her.
“It must have happened so suddenly.”
“That’s right. I thought there would be something in the Grand Duke’s room.”
They were sure that the Grand Duke of Illeston had left a message for Simone.
How could this crazy curse spread so quickly that the Grand Duke couldn't even do that? How powerful of a curse could it possibly be?
Abel's face took on a rare look of annoyance.
“Orkan and Master Jace? Can they be apart?”
Abel nodded to Bianchi's question.
“Orkan is strong. Even if Jace has a special constitution, he will protect him well. More importantly, look at that.”
Abel raised his hand and pointed in front of Simone, who was walking ahead.
A hallway that feels ominous. The space she had visited dozens of times while staying here before seemed different from her memories.
And then she sees blurry dolls, wandering around the hallways with their eyes wide open and their souls gone.
Its presence was so faint that it seemed like it would just fall apart if she touched it.
It's as if the souls of the dead are wandering around aimlessly.
Even the dullest person can understand something like that.
That's not a person.
The hallway was jam-packed with something that wasn't human, completely blocking the path.
“Abel, can we get through there?”
“Well, they’re not aggressive and they look like they could just pass by.”
But it wasn't exactly a pleasant thing to have to pass through what looked like human souls.
Meanwhile, Simone, who was in the lead, fiddled with the magic stone in her hand. Seeing this, Geneon tapped Simone's calf with his forefoot.
“Simone, can you do it?”
“Even if I can’t do it, I have to try.”
Simone glared at the souls in front of her with a solemn expression. Geneon snickered.
“You don’t have to be so nervous. Rather, since you have so many souls, you can test yourself to your heart’s content.”
Simone nodded.
“I was thinking that too.”
“Just do as I taught you.”
If she stays at El's house and follows the theory Geneon taught her, she should be able to absorb her soul into the magic stone without any problems.
In that sense, this is a very good place to experience real-world experience.
It was also a treasure trove where more souls could be absorbed.
Simone closed her eyes quietly. Then she began to pour enormous strength into the magic stone in her hand.
It consumed as much magical power as when attacking the ghost in the doll, but its form was different than before.
“Oh, you’re good at it.”
Geneon said with satisfaction.
The destructive power is reduced, and instead, the death mana that flows out more smoothly and delicately is quickly absorbed into the magic stone.
It was a marked difference from Simone's previous destructive and eccentric use of mana.
Mana is perfectly controlled despite not being able to practice at all due to recovering the body.
It was evidence that she had understood Geneon's lessons well.
After a short while, the magic stone, which had been a beautiful blue-green color, gradually lost its color and soon turned completely black. This meant that Simone’s mana had completely taken over the magic stone’s magical power.
Her eyes, which were slowly opening, were glowing red.
The number of visible spirits is countless. Fortunately, however, the spirits of those who appear to be from the mansion were not present.
In short, just sweep it all away.
The idea was immediately put into action.
Kwaaaaang! Kwaddeuk!
"...Oh my God."
Bianchi let out an exclamation without realizing it.
Souls scream in pain as they are burned in the black flames and the corridors fly away in an instant.
They became like a giant swarm, floating in the air and struggling to escape.
“They’re running away. We have to catch them quickly-”
Abel, who had been drawing his sword, stopped talking and stood upright. The direction in which the spirits were running away in fear was strange.
It wasn't running from the end of the hallway but towards Simone. Then, it disappeared as if it was sucked somewhere right in front of Simone.
Souls blinded by pain instinctively absorbed themselves into the magic stone with the strongest energy of death.
“It was absorbed?”
After all the burned souls disappeared, Simone looked at the black magic stone and asked, and Geneon nodded and said.
“Absorb as much as you can. The cursed energy is ominous.”
The power of a necromancer comes from the enormous mana and number of souls he possesses.
To counter this ridiculously heavy curse, it would be a good idea to absorb a lot of souls here.
Geneon looked across the open hallway with a serious expression.
'Weird.'
Even if it was a necromancer's curse, how could it have such a strong aura?
Geneon knows the power of Anasis best.
No matter how strong Anasis is, she cannot create a curse of this magnitude on her own.
'Is this really a curse?'
He can't guarantee anything for now, but he has a feeling that neither Simone nor Abel will be able to overcome this hardship easily.
***
Square- Square-
People who run away in search of a place to live soon find out.
That there is nowhere in this world to escape to.
The air became heavy. Soon, a black poisonous wind blew across the air, sweeping away thousands of people once again.
The souls of those who died from poison flow and flow towards the King of the Underworld.
Square- Square-
When the world is in ruins, the King's servants will descend to the earth and take the lives of the heroes who prevent the King's resurrection.
***
When Simone, Abel, and Bianchi finished investigating the second floor and came down to the first floor, Orkan and Jace were having a serious conversation with someone.
“Crown Prince?”
Why is Louis here?
As Simone tilted her head and muttered, the three stopped their conversation and approached her urgently.
Orkan said with a frown.
“Simone, it seems like it’s not just the mansion that’s in trouble.”
“What is that...”
At her question, Louis opened his mouth with a stiff face.
“Lady Simone, the situation in the castle and the capital is bad, so I came to ask for your help, but it seems that the situation is not only bad in the capital.”
Louis gritted his teeth and looked around.
They said that the Grand Duke and his wife and all of their servants were dead.
The corpses on the first floor were nowhere to be seen, as if Orkan and Jace had moved them somewhere, but the pools of blood on the floor told him that something unusual had happened.
“The situation in the capital is not good?”
Louis said in response to Simone's question.
“It’s the same here. A lot of people die in an instant, and their corpses walk around in dismembered and twisted form, looking for the living and killing them. Some things look like human spirits standing everywhere.”
Louis came to Simone without any plan because he was in a situation that he couldn't handle, and he didn't expect that she would be in the same situation.
'It's like...'
It seems like the world is heading towards its worst possible destruction.
“If things continue like this, most people will die.”
“What did you say?”
“It’s dangerous. Simone’s help-”
“What are you saying, Louis?”
"...Yes?"
Louis stopped talking and looked at Simone. She was looking at him with an expression that seemed to not understand Louis at all.
“Why does this happen outside the mansion too?”
Simone really couldn't understand what he was saying.
What if this same thing were happening outside the mansion?
'Then this is...'
Isn't this something that happened because of the curse of the Illeston family?
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