‘Strange. Is the information about 100% Synchro World not known to common public?’
‘I shouldn’t talk about it if it’s confidential information.’
“Oh, sorry, I must be wrong. I read it in a book, but it looks like the book was fake.”
“Don’t read weird books like Clara here.”
While she was looking at Arthur, her hand moved swiftly, and she grabbed the book Clara was hiding below the table.
“Ah!”
Felix ignored Clara’s surprised face and read the title of the book.
Crunch
“God of Death and Sleep, ■, and His Battle Against the Olympian Gods.”
Some of the words were unintelligible.
Felix read what could be read and looked up at Clara.
Crunch
“Clara, I’m pretty sure we are here to find out about the weaknesses of Death and Darkness element users so we can fight Neo when he returns.”
“Y-yes.”
“Then why are you reading a novel?”
Crunch
Clara turned to Arthur, then Sean for help, but they avoided her gaze.
They had no intention of being scolded with her.
Crunch
A vein popped in Felix’s neck.
She could no longer ignore the crunching noise.
She looked at the Morrigan, who was eating crusties with no care in the world.
“Morrigan, you too! Go back if you aren’t going to study! And stop eating in the library!”
…
Arzew City, Algeria, Memory Shadow World
Neo sat atop the city walls alone.
He was looking at the sea of statue monsters rushing towards the city.
“Seems like the information I got from wanderers about these monsters is true.”
His face contorted.
“Fuck, why does my life keep going from shit to shitter?”
As if it was not bad enough, he was burning through his Divine Energy elixirs, and his Death element mastery was decreasing, he had to worry about these monsters on top of that.
“Anomaly #79: Look At Me Not. They will ignore you as long as you don’t look at their face, but once you do, they won’t stop until they kill you.”
Neo had tried searching for where these monsters were coming from, but it was useless.
In the end, he had to use divine energy elixirs to recover the divine energy he lost fighting these monsters every day.
On top of that, his decreasing mastery of Death had dealt a huge blow to his combat strength.
“The only good thing is I was able to train my Spells and Incantations, and this…”
[Akashic Record Interface upgrade complete.]
His status screen finally updated.
“Let’s see what changed.”
“Status.”
[ Neo Hargraves ]
[ Rank: Grade 5 Mythic ]
[ Divine Energy Purity: Grade 2 Mythic ]
[ Stats ]
﹂ Strength: 186
﹂ Speed: 176
﹂ Dexterity: 171
﹂ Constitution: 198
﹂ Luck: 0
[ Affinity ]
﹂ Death, Shadow, Darkness, Void, Water, Time
[ Magic Spell ]
﹂ Necrotic Touch, Ocean’s Embrace, Essence Breath, Rewind Enchantment
[ Incantations ]
﹂ O Death, Be My Hands, Crush My Enemies
﹂ O Death, Become My Blade
[ Trait ]
﹂ Bloodline Trait: Monarch of Death
﹂ Fragmented Trait: Mind Invasion
[ Quest ]
﹂ Complete Barbatos’ Training (Part 1), Completed 3/5
﹂ Find a way to assimilate the Mind Invasion Trait (Fragmented) into yourself permanently
He ignored the sea of statue monsters – they were too far and would take a few seconds before reaching him – and focused on the status screen.
“Finally, I can see my masteries of my Elements, Spells, and Incantations.”
[ Death ]
Mastery: Adept (Peak) (Sealed) → Adept (Lowest)
Concept progress: 80%
Neo’s brows creased.
“Looks like I can still build my concept even though my mastery of Death is falling.”
His mastery had been reduced from the peak of Adept rank to the lowest.
Any more, and he would fall back to Apprentice rank.
“Dammit, my mastery is decreasing just because I think ‘Impartial Death’ is wrong.”
When he realized Death was the final rest of the dead and they shouldn’t be revived, his mastery of Death had increased.
Because Final Death was a concept imbued in Neo’s bloodline.
And he had become closer to the concept.
But now?
He was rejecting the Concept of ‘Impartial Death’ imbued in his bloodline.
Since his bloodline was the foundation of his Death elemental, rejecting the concepts imbued in his bloodline was harming him.
Impartial Death.
Sinners or Innocent, Death should judge their life, punishing the sinners and rewarding the Innocent.
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The judge must remain Impartial.
“…”
Neo knew it, but his life was shit.
The punishment he had given Anomaly #33 was weighing on his mind.
Was it correct to punish Anomaly #33 even though it only harmed criminals?
“Hahaha, look at me, using Anomaly #33 as a shield, when in truth I hate Impartial Death because of personal reasons.”
If Neo accepted Impartial Death, didn’t it mean he would have to punish his own brother when he went berserk in the future?
Not just his brother.
Elizabeth, who was a tyrant.
Felix, who would become an Apocalypse because she had bonded with a God Slayer Weapon.
Jack, who was a Necromancer.
Accepting Impartial Death meant Neo would have to send each one of them to Hell.
Because they were sinners.
Because he was supposed to be an Impartial Judge.
“Impartial Death can go fuck itself. I’m not accepting it.”
He winced when he sensed his mastery of Death decrease again.
After confirming his Death element mastery, he checked Darkness element.
[ Darkness ]
Mastery: Adept (Peak)
Concept progress: 20%
“My concept progress in Darkness is 20%?”
Neo was surprised.
He had not decided what kind of Concept of Darkness he wanted.
“This is weird. How is it possible to have built 20% of the Concept without realizing it?
“I don’t even know what kind of concept this is.”
He decided to question Barbatos or Paimon next time he met them.
Next, he checked Shadow element.
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[ Shadow ]
Awakening progress: 1/33
“….”
Neo’s face scrunched up.
“I’m pretty sure, the awakening progress of Shadow element is supposed to be either 0/1 when it’s not awakened.
“And 1/1 when it awakens.
“Why the hell do I have 1/33?”
One thing was clear.
The reason he couldn’t use his Shadow element was related to this.
[ Water ]
Mastery: Apprentice (Mid)
[ Time ]
Mastery: Apprentice (High)
Neo was surprised to see he had Mid Apprentice mastery in Water and High Apprentice mastery in Time.
He had expected to have Low or Mid at best.
“This status interface is a lot better since it shows everything in detail.
“Until now, I couldn’t tell if I was making any progress. But this makes it clear that my efforts weren’t in vain.”
Neo shifted his gaze.
“Now….”