Bro, I'm not an Undead! Chapter 1311: Amalgam of Disease (1)



Elita took a deep breath before glaring at the orifice on the wall. She had expected the old geezer to say sothing to spout so remark about how she was still a fake Paladin Champion despite the display of her strength just now. However, no words ca forth. The shadow she could see was still - unmoving.

"He's dead," Skullius said, answering Elita's unspoken question. "Well, at least he's no longer residing in that body. The life energy in him just ran out."

"I see," Elita said and she stowed her weapons. "I'm not surprised the nine would do all this with their lust for control, but they went too far when they imprisoned the souls of the Champions who fought for them."

"Seems to like they chose to stand with the... nine, first though," Skullius said.

Elita looked defiant.

"Yes, but they wouldn't have known they were being led astray. It's not their fault," she said, her voice growing smaller with each word she said.

"You are going to trust HER words?"

Elita was taken aback.

"You heard our conversation?" she asked the Hybrid Warmoth. He was referring to the Fourth ranked Champion.

Skullius shrugged, or at least Elita thought he did; it was hard to tell with the great nimbus he

wore.

"I'm very good at sensing matters relating to souls. I felt your soul get connected to hers just now and there was no hostility. Logic would suggest you two communicated in either hers or your Reflection of the soul."

Skullius walked forward and analysed the hand lathered with boils, stuck to the wall. Elita's sword had sliced the two fingers which had been keeping the tall woman's Divine Blessing active, but the whole of it remained untouched.

"You think she'd lie to even in that state?" Elita asked.

"Discerning the intentions of others is a very hard thing. Perhaps I'm wrong. I'm a master of souls, not hearts," the Warmoth said.

Elita gave the remains of the Paladin Champions a sombre look.

"They were killed by Revia first," she said. "She's here."

"I figured. Well, if I had to hazard a guess, then perhaps she is the person below us - the one with the unusual presence of Undeath. If she fought Actuass then..." Skullius was all but certain at this point. Below them, the pressure from the Treasure he had sensed was powerful, whipping against his senses, but he could feel things around it well enough. If the individual he was sensing was Revia, she was just outside its range.

Skullius could have confird it and obliterated the pressure from the Treasure in one go by using the [Legion Eyes], but he hadn't done so for two distinct reasons: one was that the [Legion Eyes] cost Amras to maintain, and so far, he hadn't used them against any enemy that could resist; he knew for a fact that would cost him more Amras. Additionally, because of the many varying constructs that had been in the way between him and the Treasure below all the way from the tower above, he had feared eliminating things he'd wish he hadn't later. (The Legion Eyes were dangerous, after all.)

Skullius urged Elita down to the levels below. There were many more corpses around, Skullius sensed so far off, in what was probably the Purity Knights Barrion that Elita had ntioned. He sensed soone alive there as well right then. It was almost as though the person had just sprung to life. Skullius hadn't sensed anything before now.

The features on the individual told him that it was a Paladin Champion. Skullius told Elita about it.

"I see. If they are actually alive... then I think it's soone really powerful. More powerful than the Fourth and possibly more powerful than Revia," she said afterwards.

The fact that Revia had defeated both the Fourth and Eight ranked Paladin Champions had been suspicious to Elita. Revia had been the Fifth-ranked Champion before, as even with her powerful Divine Blessing, she wasn't a match for the Champions above her, who were all Incandescent Stagers while she was rely a Master. This had to an she'd grown stronger - much stronger.

The pressure from the Treasure grew more and more as the two dove down. When they finally reached the level Skullius had referenced before, everything beca clear.

The floor on this level was torn, and only the bare remnants of it could be seen attached to the ends. In the certain of it was a giant, aty, boil-infested lump that reached out into the lower levels. It had thick veins of reddish-green coursing through its whole and it throbbed like so ssed up beating heart, releasing a pressure that was mostly obscured - hidden from the senses.

Skullius narrowed his eyes.

What obscured the presence of the large, hideous mass was a barrier erected around it, expelling bursts of purple-blue light in lens-flare-like rays. The barrier looked as though it were ford by tens of thousands of hexagonal shapes that flickered between material and immaterial.

This was the effect of the Treasure Skullius had sensed.

"Revia!" Elita suddenly cried and dashed towards the remains of the floor on this level.

There, looking to be unconscious or perhaps dead - in the final sense - was Revia, lying on her side.

Elita shook her, a look of dread on her face.

She seed to note sothing from Revia and then look towards Skullius.

"Please..." she begged, near tears. "You could reverse her condition, couldn't you? Just like you did earlier."

Skullius considered the matter.

Indeed, he still had access to the properties of Maximum Catalyst, which he had used before - when explaining everything that'd happened to him since coming to Aigas in the Empyrean Bosom to demonstrate that he really had been an Undead skeleton before.

Skullius had also used Maximum Catalyst back when he was sward by Undead minions during the battle with Actuass. He had changed the Undeath energy streaming through the Undead minions into life energy.

(A/N: Refer to Ch.1058).

But would that work for Revia? She was different from typical undead minions and as Skullius recalled, in the instance when he used Maximum Catalyst against the Undead enemies, they died imdiately after because of the wounds they had sustained before.

'Might as well try,' Skullius thought.

He had extended one of his hands towards Revia when the throbbing flesh bag with boils shuddered. It caused the entire Purity headquarter to tremble.

Suddenly, the vast pressure of its mass beca more pronounced and an instant later, Skullius noticed sothing struggle free from within it!