Book 5: Chapter 12: The Root of Corruption

Book 5: Chapter 12: The Root of Corruption

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The very moment I turn the skill towards my Sin of Pride curse, I feel it clicking somehow. Like my skill locked onto the curse.

And as soon as I activate Bane of Corruption, I hear a shattering sound that echoes throughout the clearing were in, followed shortly by what appear to be red, purple, and black chains manifesting in the air while locked onto me. Then the chains themselves shatter under the eyes of all of the demons nearby, and along with them all of the powerful urges brought to me by the Sin.

I blink as I look at the remains of the chains of light falling to the ground before looking at my own hands.

Well? Tar asks while floating down in front of me. How does it feel?

I continue looking at my hands, simply turning them back and forth for a few seconds before eventually raising my head to Tar.

It feels liberating. My sense of pride is still here, but the uncontrollable impulses that came along with it are gone. And the pride itself has been significantly decreased as well. To a level even lower than it was before I contracted.

The leftover is probably just your own natural pride, nothing more, Tar comments while floating around me as if studying me. Does anything else feel different?

I purse my lips while looking down and then turning my head around to get a view of my current appearance, but nothing stands out as different physically. Even when I close my eyes and look inwards I dont find anything really different.

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I raise my head to look at the Nobles around me, each of whom seem like theyre waiting for me to say something. And interestingly enough, I can tell just from a glance that I would be perfectly fine with running away from them now if necessary. Which its not necessary.

Interesting. And likely will lead to me being in fewer dangerous situations.

I nullified my own Sin of Pride curse, I finally tell them, making all of the demons immediately start cheering. But to my surprise, some of them even start crying out of what Im assuming is relief.

So after realizing that I cant deal with his curse, at least not yet, I follow along the root to the tree itself.

And immediately regret it as I feel my knees dropping out from beneath me as I cough out a mouthful of blood, my eyes shooting open.

The vampire quickly gets up and grabs my shoulders as he helps me stand, but I just raise a hand after a second and stand up myself.

What happened?! he exclaims. Meanwhile I find all of the other Nobles looking worried. Likely both about me and whether Ill be able to nullify their curses.

I use my Blood Manipulation to grab the blood that had left my mouth and partially covered my lips and chin before storing it into my Bloodwell for later use in combat. Then I look up at the Nobles and answer, It looks like Im not strong enough to nullify other demons curses yet. And when I tried to follow the curse back to its source you saw what happened.

They all begin to grow a lot more depressed at my words.

Ill probably be able to nullify individual demons curses in a hundred or two hundred more levels, I tell them, bringing their hopes back up. But without using the skill as a ritual skill I likely wont be able to nullify the curse on demonkind itself. And even with a ritual usage, I probably wont be able to pull it off until Im at least a viscountess.

They all feel conflicted, but in the end most of them seem happy with the results.

Well, none of them really expected to ever be able to erase their curse in their lifetimes, Tar comments, making me nod my head in agreement.

Yeah.

Ill go level up a hundred or so times and then head to Tartarus to nullify the Lord of Hellfires curse, I tell them, making the count nod his head before bowing again.

We have direction now.

And Im curse free.