Chapter 167: Controlling Revis!
Sarah looked at the surrounding scorpion duplicates, but she did not care much. If Revis had to die anyway, then it was better to make full use of her. After all, Sarah was looking forward to seeing what Scorpio would look like once it truly grew up.
After all, she was an "Avenger," and the target of her revenge was humanity.
"W-Wait…"
Revis struggled as Sarah gripped her throat, especially with all those hungry scorpions surrounding her from every direction. However, no one listened to her. Whether it was Scorpio or Sarah, neither of them had any goodwill toward this uninvited guest.
"Wait a moment."
At that moment, Ethan's voice suddenly rang out. In an instant, both Scorpio and Sarah looked toward him, and all the scorpions stopped as well.
Revis also looked at Ethan at this time. Only now did she realize that Ethan was the boss here, and from the looks of it, he was even the leader-level figure.
"Put her down first."
Plop.
Hearing Ethan's words, Sarah directly let go, and Revis fell to the ground. A red mark had appeared around her pale neck, showing just how much strength Sarah had used just now.
"Cough, cough…"
After coughing a few times, Revis climbed back up. When she raised her head and looked at Ethan, she seemed to see endless darkness in an instant, like an abyssal hell that filled her with fear from the bottom of her heart.
As for herself, she felt like a tiny human drowning in the sea, only able to sink helplessly beneath the waves.
"You should be able to control those 'caterpillars' and 'man-eating flowers,' right?"
"Mm! Hm?"
Hearing Ethan's words, Revis nodded subconsciously, only to raise her head in shock right after. How did he know about this? Had she been exposed long ago?
"That makes things easy. Anyway, those guys are like 'soldier ants.' It doesn't matter who eats them, right?"
"You want to snatch food from the tiger's mouth?"
The words slipped out before Revis could stop them, and she immediately regretted it. Her life was still in the other party's hands, so if she was killed because she said the wrong thing, that would be a terrible loss.
"Snatch food from the tiger's mouth? No, no, no. Those monsters are running wild in the Dungeon and causing a large number of deaths and injuries. I'm helping people here."
Revis did not believe a single word of Ethan's grand-sounding excuse.
However, those new-type monsters were not easy to kill. Their body fluids were horribly corrosive, and their numbers were huge. On top of that, those special magic stones had no real benefit for ordinary monsters.
They had been created as tools to collect magical energy in the first place. To avoid being intercepted, their magic stones were naturally different as well.
Pshk—
At that moment, Ethan suddenly made his move. His hand pierced straight through Revis's chest.
"W-Why…"
Revis's face was full of disbelief. Hadn't he wanted her to help him intercept those monsters? Why was he turning around and killing her instead?
Ethan did not explain. The black mud inside his body began pouring into Revis through his hand, directly wrapping around the magic stone within her.
As a creature transformed into something monster-like, Revis herself was similar to a puppet. Her body had already been modified, allowing her to strengthen herself by devouring magic stones. At the same time, this body also required large amounts of magic stones to keep running.
"Puppet Manipulation!"
Ethan smiled. His guess had been right. The current Revis was similar to a "puppet." As long as he controlled her with his own magical energy, he could turn her into his Cursed Corpse.
And just like Paimon, the Abrupt-Mutation Cursed Corpse, she became a Cursed Corpse with her own will.
"You…"
A moment later, after realizing what Ethan had done to her, Revis looked at him in shock. She, who had been revived and controlled by that monster, had actually been freed?
However, calling it freedom was not quite right. She had simply changed "masters," and this time, her new master seemed even more terrifying than that monster.
"From now on, you are mine, Revis. Oh, and here's some good news. From this point forward, I'll handle the magical energy needed to run that body of yours. You only need to focus on becoming stronger."
As someone who possessed a Holy Grail, Ethan lacked magical energy least of all. Forget one Revis. Even ten or eight more would not be a problem.
Hearing Ethan's words, Sarah showed an expression that said, "As expected."
"Master."
Before Ethan, Revis knelt on one knee and spoke with absolute respect.
Unlike the relationship between her and the corrupted spirit, the "contract" Ethan formed with her was an absolute master-servant contract. As a Cursed Corpse, Revis could not disobey Ethan at all.
"All right. Take us to the deep floors. It's time to hunt."
"Yes, Master."
Although there was some sadness in her heart, Revis had no other choice. She was weak, and in front of the strong, she could only be handled however they wished. Even if she was enslaved again and again, she had no way to resist unless she was willing to give up this hard-earned life.
But for Revis, who had already "died" once, her desire to "live" was incredibly strong.
Just like that, the hunting party gained one more member.
Adventurer, Avenger, Summoner, and now a Tamer had been added as well. This team was truly becoming larger and larger.
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"What did you say? You want me to ask Freya to have her child teach Ais?!"
Inside the Loki Familia, Loki's shocked cry rang through the entire Twilight Manor.
In the hall, Riveria looked helpless. With this goddess, who had always had "improper designs" on her 'daughter', there was no way she would easily agree to let Ais receive training from Ethan.
To be more accurate, Loki did not want any man getting close to Ais.
"Loki, calm down. This is Ais's own wish."
"Then you should stop her, Mama! Do you know that brat Ethan isn't a good person? He already has someone in his Familia, and his relationships with Freya and Artemis are unclear too. If Ais goes over there, isn't that basically delivering her straight to his door?"
"Who is your mama? Also, Ethan is not that kind of person."
During the journey before, Riveria had observed Ethan quite a bit. She had not seen even a trace of the behavior Loki described.
Both she and Ais were great beauties in Orario, yet Ethan had not given them any improper looks at all. Especially with Ais, who had practically been about to stick herself to him, Ethan had still not cared. He had even seemed a little displeased.
How could someone like that be the same kind of person Loki described? Riveria directly treated Loki's words as "slander" against Ethan.
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