511
Chapter 511
The Nostra Family Boss clapped his hands and said.
"Wow. Excellent. If possible, I'd like to make you a certificate. Detective of the Year Award! Something like that."
At that moment, another round of applause was heard from behind.
Sure enough, another Nostra Family Boss appeared.
"Bravo! Long live the Knight of Salvation!"
Nostra Family Bosses walked out from different directions.
But the masks they wore were different from each other.
One wore a mask with a broad smile, while the other wore a mask with a tear drop at the corner of the eye.
The two Nostra Family Boss duplicates took turns speaking.
"Zeke Draker."
"Even if you've discovered our secret."
"There's nothing you can really do about it."
Zeke looked at the two Nostra Family Bosses and said.
"Where is Abel Draker?"
At those words, the two Nostra Family Bosses began laughing, holding their stomachs.
"HAHAHAHAHA!"
The Nostra Family Bosses who had been laughing simultaneously suddenly straightened their backs with serious expressions.
"DAMN, this BASTARD."
"Does he think we're just some damned fool?"
TSUTSUTSUTSU!
Bloodline abilities activated in the bodies of the two Nostra Family Bosses.
But then.
KWADEUDEUREUK!
With a disturbing dissonance, the upper body of one of the Nostra Family Boss duplicates completely disappeared.
"Huh?"
The other duplicate who saw this stepped back in shock.
A giant mouth opened wide from the flickering black shadow next to Zeke.
His eyes gleamed coldly.
"Go ahead, try to escape if you can. I'll chase you to the end and swallow you."
Seeing Zeke's cold gaze, the Nostra Family Boss duplicate stepped back in confusion.
'Wh-what?'
He couldn't comprehend the identity of the giant mouth in the shadow that instantly devoured one of the duplicates.
They were undefined beings created by the power of chaos.
That's why they became Irregulars, and with that power, they could absorb the abilities of blood lineage users and use them through the power of chaos.
Having lived for many years, they were beings who knew far more than they didn't know.
Nevertheless, they had no idea about the giant mouth that swallowed the duplicate.
'Is it the authority of the Flesh-Eating Emperor Ajitahaka? No. I've already seen that through Abel Draker. That's different from this.'
Zeke raised the power of shadows to bring out Devour and pressured the Nostra Family Boss duplicate.
Devour was also a power difficult to control, but it was an unavoidable choice to subdue the Nostra Family Boss who possessed the power of chaos.
Fortunately, one of the duplicates was helplessly eaten by Devour, and seeing the confusion at that sight, Zeke knew his strategy had worked.
The Nostra Family Boss duplicate looked at Zeke and said.
"...What on earth is that?"
"Curious? If you get eaten yourself, you'll find out what it is."
Consumption, approaching the Nostra Family Boss with its mouth wide open, was sufficiently threatening.
The Nostra Family Boss judged it difficult to identify its nature immediately and decided to escape from here first, stepping backward.
PAJIJIK!
He tried to escape through spatial movement, but couldn't use his ability due to Zeke's mana reversal technique.
'Damn it. What kind of ability does this guy have…?'
From an enemy's perspective, there was no one as difficult to deal with as Zeke.
He could use swordsmanship, magic, authorities, blood lineage abilities, and even unique techniques of other races, plus he had the power of immortality, so he practically had no weaknesses.
The Nostra Family Boss changed his attitude as he watched Zeke gradually approaching.
"Alright, Zeke Draker. You win."
He raised his hands high above his head and continued.
"I surrender. Tell me what you want."
Zeke opened his mouth, seeing the Nostra Family Boss give up more easily than expected.
"You're talking nonsense. There's no way you'd just surrender."
The Nostra Family Boss shook his head at Zeke's words.
"What can I do in this situation? Although I'm a duplicate, I'm still a being with a soul. I've lost my original identity and self due to being mixed up in various ways."
Their beginning was the six princes of the fallen kingdom.
But through the curse they placed on the Kingdom of Thebea, second sons died for generations, and they grew in power by absorbing the vengeful spirits created through this.
And when absorbing the vengeful spirits of unjustly killed second sons, the undeveloped self of newborn babies had no choice but to be swept up into them as well.
Having absorbed such vengeful spirits for over a thousand years, it was understandable that their sense of self-identity had become dim.
The Nostra Family Boss duplicate looked at Zeke and said.
"We are already different beings from back then. Since the main body cannot move easily, we had no choice but to put split souls into dolls to move around."
He turned his neck round and said.
"Of course, dolls also develop personalities after a long time. We have already settled into these dolls and developed individual personalities. We have become beings different from the main body."
Souls merging, splitting, and then becoming independent as new souls.
Zeke remembered a constellation with a similar authority.
'Mammon, the endless devourer. He also split and multiplied his soul, then created duplicates to use as incarnate bodies.'
The power of chaos seemed to have given such power to the cursed princes of the fallen kingdom.
The Nostra Family Boss duplicate slowly approached Zeke.
"You know, we've been searching for a very long time. For a body strong enough to contain us."
The reason why the Nostra family searched for blood lineage users, manufactured strengthening agents, and conducted chimera experiments.
It was to find vessels to contain their souls.
His eyes flashed as he spoke.
"That body is right here now?"
Suddenly, the Nostra Family Boss duplicate lunged at Zeke.
JJEOJEOJEOK!
The mask he was wearing split and, like a living creature, moved to cover Zeke's face.
CHWARORAROK!
The mask attached to Zeke's face wriggled and settled into place.
The duplicate's voice echoed in Zeke's mind.
[The main body coveted your body and tried to hold back. But I just can't let this go.]
The Nostra Family Boss duplicate, using the mask as a medium to dominate Zeke's body, burrowed into Zeke's mental world as a mental entity.
TSUTSUTSUTSU!
As the tightly closed mental world opened, the duplicate's mental entity quickly burrowed inside.
[KAHAHAHA! I did it! This body is now mine!]
By burrowing into the mental world and absorbing just Zeke's soul, he could control this powerful body as he wished.
The duplicate had been absorbing the souls of powerful blood lineage users to grow stronger in this way.
As the mental entity became too powerful, ordinary ability users' bodies could no longer withstand it, which is why it had been residing in dolls made of blood stone.
But a powerful body like Zeke's would clearly be enough to endure his mental entity.
Filled with anticipation, he passed through the tunnel-like passage of the mental world and burrowed into the deep layer where Zeke's soul resided.
A huge hole appeared before the quickly burrowing mental entity.
It was a hole connecting to Zeke's deep layer.
The duplicate was startled at the sight of the hole.
'What is that?'
As part of the cursed mental entity, he had burrowed into hundreds of minds and devoured souls from their deep layers.
But he had never seen such a sight anywhere.
An entrance incomparably larger than a normal deep layer world.
Looking at the distant darkness inside that entrance, the mental entity felt an instinctive fear.
'If I enter there... I'll never be able to come out.'
He realized that he had stepped into a place where he shouldn't have entered.
He needed to get out of here as quickly as possible.
Just as he realized this and was about to turn back.
"Where are you trying to go in such a hurry?"
Somehow, Zeke had taken form within his own mental world and revealed himself.
The mental entity, in the form of hazy smoke, was flustered at the sight of Zeke.
TSUTSUTSUTSU!
He quickly transformed into the appearance of a suited man wearing a mask.
[Get out of my waaaay!]
The duplicate's mental entity shouted and reached out toward Zeke.
But unlike in reality, his abilities didn't activate at all here.
Zeke slowly approached the mental entity.
"This is my mental world. Did you think you could use the petty abilities you stole from other ability users here?"
Realizing that no matter how much he tried to use his abilities, they wouldn't activate, the mental entity changed his plan.
'I'll escape from here immediately and return to the main body.'
He decided that he needed to forcibly escape from the mental world and return to the main body.
TSUTSUTSUTSU!
His form blurred again as the mental entity itself tried to escape from Zeke's body.
But then……
KIIIIING!
The mental entity trying to escape from Zeke's mental world was caught like in a net and couldn't escape from the physical body.
[H-how is this possible…?!]
The mental entity, in panic, was forced to return to his original form.
Zeke walked up to him.
"Your decision to enter here was a very stupid choice."
Zeke, an Immortal class with an immortal body, possessed mental strength more powerful than any other being.
Even Blood King Caligula, the king of Shambhala and ruler of the third-eye clan, couldn't withstand Zeke's mental world and was absorbed by him.
Even for a cursed being that had lived for a thousand years, it was impossible to penetrate Zeke's mental world.
Zeke reached out toward the Nostra Family Boss's duplicate.
At the same time, Solomon's chains sprang from the empty space.
CHWARALARAK!
The spiritual chains constrained even the mental entity.
The Nostra Family Boss duplicate, with his limbs bound by chains, screamed.
[DAMN IT! LET GO! LET ME GO!]
Zeke tightened the chains more firmly as he looked at the Nostra Family Boss.
"You'll soon meet your main body, so don't feel too bad."
TSUTSUTSUTSU
The ground beneath the chained Nostra Family Boss changed like a black swamp.
The mental entity was gradually sucked down into it.
[N-NO! NOOOOO!]
The Nostra Family Boss screamed as he sank deeper and eventually disappeared completely.
A part of the Nostra Family Boss's duplicate had been absorbed into Zeke's mental world.
Soon, a message appeared before Zeke's eyes.
[You have absorbed part of a cursed being's mental entity containing the power of chaos.]
[Your depleted health, mental power, and mana are being restored.]
[Multiple blood lineage abilities are being absorbed from the mental entity.]
[15,000 karma points are awarded as compensation.]
The blood lineage abilities contained in the mental entity were recorded in the list in the form of skills.
However, since most of them weren't very effective for Zeke to use now, he decided to convert them to karma points or transfer them to his summons.
Still, by absorbing the duplicate's mental entity, it became possible to restore some of the previously uninterpreted karma data information.
Through this, Zeke could sense where the Nostra Family Boss's main body was located.
'The main body exists in the deepest underground of this labyrinth.'
He emerged from the mental world and returned to reality.
TUDUDUDUK!
The mask that had been covering his face crumbled into powder and fell off.
Before moving on, Zeke stared at the doll body where the duplicate had resided.
'Lord Hades would probably like it if I brought this to him. It could be helpful for research.'
He put the empty shell of a doll into his inventory.
Then he set coordinates for a location close to the underground space where the main body was.
'Abel will be where he is.'
Zeke's body disappeared into the portal with a flash of light.
* * *
At that time, Hades was staying at Agamemnon Castle in Mycenae, focusing on researching power suits.
He was improving his research results while looking at the Book of Hyperion that Zeke had given him.
"Ha, I didn't know it worked like this. Lord Hyperion is truly amazing..."
But then.
Felix burst into Hades' laboratory.
"L-Lord Hades, something terrible has happened!"
Hades, who hated having his research interrupted the most, frowned and glared at Felix.
"Felix, you insolent human. Didn't I tell you not to barge in when I'm researching?!"
He raised his magical power and floated his body in the air.
"You brat, you think you can take a dragon lightly. You need to see my majestic true form to come to your senses..."
"ARGH! That's not it! Demons are invading Mycenae right now!"
Hades was shocked by Felix's words.
"What? Demons?"
Hades finally came to his senses and checked the surveillance artifact he had set up outside the castle.
He could see something floating in the sky above Mycenae.
"What the hell...?"
A huge gate had opened in the sky, and tens of thousands of monsters were pouring out of it.