Chapter 56: Trying to revive the dead (2)
Sometime later, Miss Camille said, "The magic circle is right. Now we just need your mother's corpse…"
"I have her right here." Nina said as she retrieved a coffin from her Spatial Ring before placing the coffin right in the center of the magic circle.
"Leo, we're ready to resurrect my mother now!" She said to him.
Leo rubbed his eyes and took several deep breaths before approaching the bloody magic circle.
When he got close enough to the magic circle, he noticed the dried up corpse inside the coffin that was in a really bad condition, sending chills all over his body.
'My god… This feels like something straight out of a horror movie!' He cried inwardly.
"Here you go, Leo." Nina approached him and handed him the Mana Crystal.
"Let me know when you're ready."
Leo turned to look at Miss Camille, who said, "Before you begin, let me say something."
"Nina, if your mother becomes a zombie— a monster, then I will have no choice but to destroy her."
After a moment of silence, Nina nodded with a serious expression on her face, "I understand."
Miss Camille turned to look at Leo next and said, "Even though I said that I will destroy her, you're going to be the one who's actually going to do it."
"What?! Why me?!" He exclaimed.
"Because you agreed to help her."
"B-But that's because of…"
"I know, and I don't care. It won't change the fact that you're helping her. Consider this part of your training."
Seeing the stubborn look on her face, Leo gave up on trying to convince her.
Sometime later, Leo spoke with a resolute expression on his face, "Alright, I am ready."
Nina nodded and said, "Place your hands on the crystal and activate the magic circle. You'll have to stand in the magic circle and release your mana. Make sure you don't step on the magic circle because even the slightest mistake could ruin the whole thing."
"Seriously…?" Leo looked at the magic circle and the corpse in the middle of it.
After taking a deep breath, he started walking into the magic circle while making sure he didn't accidentally step on the blood on the floor.
Once he was in the center of the magic circle and standing right beside the coffin with the corpse, Leo closed his eyes and began releasing his mana.
"Good luck, Leo." Lilith said as she hovered above him.
The magic circle started reacting the moment it sensed Leo's mana, quickly absorbing his mana.
Unbeknownst to Leo, the blood on the floor started to levitate off the floor and floated around him and the coffin.
Nina swallowed nervously as she watched, her heart throbbing like crazy.
Leo could feel his mana quickly being absorbed, running out of mana within half a minute, but thanks to the Mana Crystal, he was able to keep on feeding the magic circle with mana.
A few more minutes later, once the Mana Crystal was on the verge of running out of mana, the magic circle suddenly shone with light.
"Leo! Get out of the magic circle! It's going to activate!" Miss Camille shouted at him.
Leo immediately opened his eyes and rushed out of the magic circle.
Once he was out of the magic circle, Leo watched as the blood flew towards the coffin, almost as though it was being absorbed by the corpse inside.
The room was completely silent as everyone there waited for the results.
A moment later, Leo suddenly felt a wave of bloodlust sweep the room— the same kind of bloodlust he felt when encountering monsters but much worse.
His heart began throbbing loudly, almost as though he'd just finished running a marathon, and his back was soaked in cold sweat.
Suddenly, just like a horror movie, a pale hand came out of the coffin, grabbing the side of the box.
"M-Mother!" Tears flowed from Nina's eyes when she saw this, but when she tried to rush to the coffin, Miss Camille stepped in front of her and blocked her path.
And without saying anything to Nina, she spoke in a cold voice, "Leo, kill it."
"What?" Leo raised his eyebrows, but before he could ask any questions, the corpse in the coffin suddenly jumped out and pounced at him.
"What the fuck?!" He cursed out loud as he subconsciously jumped backward.
Once he landed several meters away, he looked at the thing that just tried to attack him.
"Holy shit…" He muttered in a dazed voice as his gaze landed on the 'human' that stood in the location that he'd just retreated from. However, besides having the figure of a human, the rest of this entity looked anything but human with holes all over its body, not to mention the color of its skin that resembled rotten meat.
"Leo! What are you doing standing there?! Hurry up and kill it before it kills you!" Miss Camille shouted at him when he stood there in a daze, snapping him awake.
"R-Right!" Leo quickly composed himself before shooting a Black Bullet at Nina's mother, who was just a soulless zombie that was filled with bloodlust.
However, the Black Bullet was nowhere close to hitting the target, missing her head by several inches.
Even though the entity before him wasn't a human, she was still Nina's mother, and Leo has never tried to attack another human with the intention to kill before.
"No! Don't hurt her! She's my mother!" Nina started shouting.
"Are you blind? Does that thing look like a human being to you? She's turned into a zombie! Forget about being your mother, she's no different than a monster now!"
"N-No! I'm sure my mother is in there somewhere! Just let me speak with her! Please!" Nina begged her with teary eyes.
"I refuse." Miss Camille coldly said.
"I will talk to her no matter what!"
Nina suddenly activated her mana and summoned an army of skeletons inside the room, surrounding Miss Camille.
"You think you can stop me with this?" Miss Camille sneered.
Her body suddenly emitted a bright and golden light. When the skeletons were exposed to this golden light, their entire body quickly turned black before disintegrating until there was nothing left.
As for the zombie, it started screaming in pain even though the golden light was nowhere near it.
"No! Stop it! You're hurting her!" Nina started running towards her zombie mother.
"H-Hey! That's dangerous!" Leo wanted to stop her, but he suddenly heard Miss Camille's voice.
"Leo! Don't stop her. If she wants to die, let her die. We will kill the zombie afterward."
Leo's body froze after hearing Miss Camille's ruthless words.
He turned to look at her with a perplexed expression on his face.
He turned to look at Nina a moment later, who had just arrived before her mother.
"Mother… It's me, Nina, your daughter… Do you remember me?" Nina approached her rotting mother with an emotion expression on her face.
"Please… I don't want to lose you again… You promised that you would start a new life with me in this city— Ah!"
Nina screamed when her mother suddenly struck her, causing her to fall to the floor.
However, she quickly got back up and approached her mother again, ignoring the blood that was flowing down her arm.
"Mother… We left the city to start a new life— to lead a better life. We can still do it… You and me… Please—"
"Arrrgh!"
Her mother suddenly lunged forward with her mouth wide open, seemingly trying to take a chunk of flesh out of Nina's body.
Nina closed her eyes, but she didn't run away.
"Are you really going to let her kill you?!" Leo's voice suddenly resounded.
Nina subconsciously opened her eyes to see that her mother was actually frozen in a place. Her mother was hanging in air.
Nina herself wasn't able to move at all. It was like her whole body was tightly trapped inside a room with no space. Even the drops of tears from her face had stopped at a place.
Same was with Leo. Leo had his arm raised with a magic circle and a black bullet that was stuck in front of his finger.
Even Lilith was unable to move at all.
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