all the souls of the dead.
-Thanks to the success of Miracle Nursing, you’ve received the title of Oberium’s Caretaker.
Your fame as a Caretaker has increased, so you will receive praises from many patients.
* As a title bonus, all stats increase by 2.
*Fame increases by 50.
‘Miracle Nursing! Stat bonuses!’
It was an excellent choice to see it through to the end. When Miracle Nursing was used, all the souls were vomited out. With all the souls vomited out, Karma was worthless now. The black sphere was unable to maintain its form and crumpled.
‘Although I can’t deal any more damage with Nursing now that the souls are gone, there are also no ways to attack me. I can just relax and use Elemental Sword until it’s over.’
“Come, shall I finish this? Elemental sword, Fire attribute!”
Ark smiled cruelly and used his magic sword.
-Kukuku…..you stupid fellow!
Then hundreds of tentacles suddenly extended from Karma and wrapped around Razak and the souls. However, Ark just snorted and laughed.
“Bah, do you want to commit suicide?”
The ‘Purification’ effect of Miracle Nursing also applied to Razak. Even if Karma swallowed the soul, it would just deal damage and he would have to vomit it out again. Swallowing the soul was like committing suicide. However, Karma didn’t swallow the souls again. After Karma captured the soul, he suddenly grew to an extravagant size.
“Huk, how come? Haven’t all the souls been vomited?”
Karma had a vague smile at Ark’s confusion.
-Huhuhu…you fool…..still don’t know…..these souls are all affected by my magic……despite them exiting, I had time to absorb the souls……but the magic fell off the souls once they were purified…..where do you think all that magic went?
“Don’t tell me…..?”
-That’s right…..because of you, all the magic separated from the souls was absorbed by me……it was exactly what I wanted…..I’ll show you what my grudge for hundreds of years can do!
Ark’s face stiffened at the messages that appeared continuously.
-Karma’s chaos energy has been 100% charged and the ‘Chain Disappearance’ skill used.
When ‘Chain Disappearance’ is used, all the undead connected with Karma will disappear together. After the soul disappears, it will cause a chain explosion that will deal x100 damage to all living things.
‘Chain Disappearance……!’
Ark then recalled the words that Karma shouted in the crypt. Karma had fallen into despair after Ark took away his precious gem. And this was the ruin that Karma wanted! Karma had gathered the chaos energy in order to completely ruin Oberium. His use of Miracle Nursing had actually helped Karma instead. He needed the chaos energy to be charged before he could use the curse magic. Karma had taken advantage of the energy from Miracle Nursing to charge the chaos energy. The price of his mistake was ruin…..!
“A-Ark-nim!”
The floating eyeball shouted in a desperate voice. In fact, Buksil had been watching the battle from the opposite side of the river. But Chain Disappearance was a skill which dealt x100 damage by the number of souls to all living things within Oberium. There were hundreds of souls within Oberium. It was a nuclear bomb which would deal thousands of damage with one blow. Ark and even Buksil who was on the outskirts would be blown apart.
“Damn, do we have to leave?”
Ark ran forward and swung his sword.
Sakak-!
Karma’s body was struck and a black piece struck off. But although there was a black piece on the ground, the main body just grew back again. It was the same with his tentacles. No matter how many times the tentacles around Razak were cut down, they just grew back again.
“We’re screwed. Should I have run away sooner?’
But it was already too late. Now that the skill was used, Ark and Buksil wouldn’t be able to escape from Oberium within 3 minutes.
“Racard, what are you staring blankly at? Stop him!”
“But none of my attacks hit.”
“Damn, who told you to stop cutting the tentacles? Continue cutting them until they can’t combine anymore!”
“U-understood.”
Racard picked up a stone and brought it down on the black chunks. However, the stone just passed through the blackness like Ark’s sword. Karma looked at Ark and Racard and shouted.
-Hahaha, it’s impossible……now the only thing left is death…..everything will die!
In the end the stone was just thrown away. Racard who was looking around suddenly noticed something strange in a corner and flew to Ark.
“Eh? Master, look at that!”
“Can’t you see I’m a bit busy? Hyaaaaa!”
“It’s not that. Look over there?”
“Damn, what is it? Eh? What the, that is?”
Ark frowned as he turned around but his expression soon changed to match Racard’s. Ark frantically swung his sword and sliced off chunks of blackness. But the black lumps soon re-joined with the main body once cut off. However, there were some chunks which couldn’t re-join. The place where Ark was hacking at Karma was in the centre of Oberium where the dead merchant engaged in business. When the black chunks that Ark cut off fell onto the merchant’s stall, the black chunks were absorbed by the japtem.
‘What on earth is going on? The black lumps are pure magic so why are they absorbed by the items?’
Ark stared at it with amazement for a while before he remembered something.
‘Wait…..the black lumps were originally a part of Karma. Karma had reassembled his body from the bones that Anguradon discarded in the underground crypt which had absorbed the magic for a long time. Ah, I see!’
He realized that he had forgotten a simple fact. It was Anguradon’s body in the underground crypt, but the discarded bones were just japtem. Karma had used the magic collected in the japtem to create himself. Karma sucked the surrounding magic from the underground crypt in order to become strong enough to threaten Anguradon. Anyway, the answer was simple when considering Karma’s background. The amount of magic that could be absorbed depended on certain conditions.
‘When it falls off Karma’s body, it is just lumps of magic. Then just like the magic poured into the bones in the crypt the first time, wouldn’t the magic be poured into the japtem? If all the magic was concentrated in one place then another monster similar to Karma might develop. But if I distribute the cut pieces…..ok, it is worth a try!’
He had to try something instead of doing nothing.
“Racard, satellite mode. Display all the japtem present in the area!”
“Ohhh, understood!”
Racard flew upwards at Ark’s command. At the same time, a small mini map appeared on the top right of Ark and marked the location of all the japtem.
“Okay, Riposte!”
Ark used Riposte in the direction all the japtem was gathered. Karma’s body flew like pudding in every direction. Some of the lumps fell on the ground and re-joined the body but other magic lumps fell on the japtem and disappeared after being absorbed. The japtem which absorbed the magic turned black. After the magic was absorbed, the nature of the item was changed. Anyway, it was still japtem. No matter how much the japtem changed, there was no reason to pay attention to it.
“It has an effect. The main body is shrinking!”
-Ugh….t-this bastard…..what are you…..stop it!
“You idiot, do you think I would stop? Riposte!”
Every time the skill was used, Karma’s body scattered all over the square. Every time the surrounding japtem turned black and the body became smaller. When the size became smaller, the tentacles broke one by one. The black chunk slowly decreased from 10 metres, 5 metres, 3 metres……when it reached 10 centimetres, all the tentacles broke. Eventually even the main body was split into two and absorbed by the japtem. Karma who had changed to the size of a finger cursed.
-Yes…..you….dare…..I…..can’t forgive you…..
-The Chain Disappearance skill has been completed!
When the time limit ended, Karma’s body split. And……bang! Karma exploded like a small pea. Chain Disappearance was a soul destruction skill which caused souls to self-destruct together. However, Karma’s body had changed to the size of a pea and there were no souls attached so the explosion was small. In the end his final move meant nothing.
-Your level has risen.
-Your level has risen.