Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 1315: Spectrum (1)



Elita was both surprised and unsurprised by the sudden attack. The force of Uyuniya flying and knocking into the wall behind her sent a ruthless gust pushing against her back. The former Paladin Champion couldn't have said her friend didn't have it coming though. Even with the language barrier, it wasn't too difficult to discern the meaning of what someone else was saying if you added sneers, leers and grins. She sighed behind her mask.

Revia turned pale.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

She was already lost to what was happening here, but the frightening power she had sensed just now almost sent her over the edge. She felt goosebumps on her skin, something she hadn't felt in a very long while. She truly was alive.

The restrictive ice on her legs suddenly melted away, and Skullius began walking towards Elita. Revia didn't know what to do or say to this. While she got that Skullius likely wasn't her enemy, it did seem as though some hostility was brewing between him and Elita.

"Your friend has a big mouth," Skullius said to Elita once he was close to her.

The former Paladin Champion pulled her sword from the ground.

"She's not very friendly to anomalies outside our spectrum. Though she's never encountered a Null Lifeform like you, that doesn't mean she'll entertain your presence. She views you the same as she does Undead creatures. My friendliness towards you is also... unacceptable to her," she said.

"I see," Skullius said. So, that's what all that bark was about. He looked at Elita's Broodweiler. "I don't want to fight you over this."

"Neither do I, Skullius. Like I said, I never meant to hurt you. I just didn't think you'd understand. And well, you don't. That's fine. I couldn't ask you to fast track your understanding of who I am now." She looked at Revia. "Or you, Revia."

The Spirit Warden didn't know what kind of face to make nor which of her thousands of questions to ask first.

Skullius breathed out a chilled breath.

Something faster than light came zipping his way, brandishing a great sword malevolently!

Uyuniya swung the blade once she was only two meters away from Skullius!

...But she was forced to stop.

A layer of frost and stitches instantly covered her body, killing her momentum and zeal simultaneously; the [Entropy's Harmonising Nimbus] wouldn't allow her approach its master. It couldn't bind her sword, however. It alone remained unfrozen and unstitched while still in Uyuniya's grip.

Elita flinched.

Skullius merely looked at the iced subject with distaste.

"You know, it's going to be pretty difficult for me NOT to kill her if she keeps provoking me

like this," Skullius said, and his senses searched Elita thoroughly for her response. "You must know this already, Elita. I can't do half measures when it comes to other Divines."

If Elita's face wasn't hidden, Skullius would have seen the conflict and strain on it.

"Uyuniya is..." she began, but Skullius didn't hear the rest.

...!!!

The Hybrid Warmoth was suddenly smacked ten meters backwards and into the wall, much to his astonishment!

'Huh?'

He had been hit!

But by what?

Something had bypassed the protection from his nimbus!

Uyuniya immediately unthawed, Voided Death Essence blazing around her. Soon, her tall, naked figure was standing tall and proud, that arrogant grin back on her face.

Skullius pushed himself out of the wall, frowning. Something unseen had struck him just now. It was not a typical attack, otherwise his nimbus would have made an attempt to stop it. He was sure it wasn't from Uyuniya's great sword or some application of Voided Death Essence. He saw Elita rush up to Uyuniya and yell something at her, but the tall woman merely scoffed. She hissed something back that was probably a rejection of whatever idea Elita had presented. It was fast becoming clear to Skullius that Elita didn't have any hold over her friend, and in that case...

"I'm guessing a fight is unavoidable?" he said to the former Paladin Champion.

"Please wait!" Elita said to Skullius before nudging Uyuniya and appealing to her again. The woman gave a dark gaze and barked something that made Elita melt. Uyuniya pointed at Skullius with her great sword and then at herself.

The Hybrid Warmoth saw Elita's tense shoulders slump. He didn't like the look of that.

"Well?" he asked.

Elita let out a frustrated breath.

"Please don't fight her, Skullius," she begged. "Even though she's just become Divine, she knows more than you and me combined when it comes to Divine powers."

Skullius shook his head.

"I'm not the hostile one here. And do you really think I'd lose to her?" he said.

Elita hesitated only for a moment.

"No. And that's why I'm appealing to you."

"Appeal to her."

"She's not the type to listen to someone beneath her! She wasn't some average powerhouse in her world. She was a princess. And she is well older than me," Elita said, agitated.

Uyuniya seemed to be enjoying their squabble. She snapped her fingers and Skullius sensed something too thin for the naked eye to see wafting towards her from the air, condensing and forming clothing for her.

To his surprise, it was viruses of different natures!

They merged with bizarre particles in the air to form a battle dress for Uyuniya. It flickered between odd shades of crimson, purple and poison green, with a faint checkered design to its entirety. It was rather long, with a large ribbon around its waist that flailed like a whip behind Uyuniya. The dress hugged her plump breasts but left her shoulders, arms and most of her abdomen free.

Uyuniya seemed rather satisfied with it, judging by the twinkle in her three-pupiled eyes, but Skullius looked appalled.

'Did she acquire the ability to control plagues?' he thought.

He wasn't sure how exactly Elita had orchestrated everything here from outside Aigas - how she smuggled Uyuniya and the Treasures into Aigas, for instance - but the properties of Uyuniya's great sword, the Deceptive Incubating Masterpiece, did reveal one thing: Uyuniya had been bonded to the Second ranked Paladin Champion while she was 'incubating' in the sword. (The remains of the Champion were still visible in the large blob of an organ.) Uyuniya seemed ready for battle. She gave a daring look to Elita and said something else that seemed to shake her faith.

Revia found herself confused when Elita suddenly brandished her sword against Skullius in the next instant.

"I'm sorry, Skullius," she said and didn't elaborate.

"I see," Skullius said, but hid his thoughts. With one of his hands, he pulled from his nimbus the golden gauntlet, a Realm Rank Treasure, the Malefic Gold Hand