Wraith
The woman didn't have any reaction toward Ethan's blatant threat. It was like she hadn't even heard anything at all.
She soon twisted her arms in strange angles no human would be able to do. Her bones cracked under the immense pressure and she threw a powerful punch at Ethan that was a step away from her.
*Boom
Ethan easily caught her punch with his left palm like an adult playing with a child. His expression was still a mixture of coldness and amusement as he slowly closed his hand.
*CRACK!
The woman's fist was crushed like a piece of glass, her bones turning into shards as they scraped the illusory scales under his skin. The brutality of the scene could make a common person faint from the blood gushing everywhere.
"Congratulations. Thanks to you, I'll have to use my Psychiatrist's Beyonder characteristic to manipulate the cleaning service into believing this much blood isn't anything to care about." Ethan's tone was as calm and emotionless as ever as he joked with the person controlling the zombie in front of him.
The zombie woman didn't show any change of expression as her punch was easily blocked and her hand destroyed. She rotated her arm 360º as she pulled back, her crushed hand being displaced from the rest of her arm.
She looked at Ethan with confusion etched in her eyes. Soon enough, she turned her body and started running away from him, seemingly intending to jump from the ship's balcony in front of Ethan's room.
However, before she could jump into the water, *Snap
Her body suddenly burst into dark-green flames as the sound of snapping fingers rang out through the semi-open corridor. The woman's body was quickly consumed by the cursed fire that suddenly appeared around her.
As the woman was being consumed by the cursed fire, Ethan pointed at his cane close to the wardrobe on the other side of the room, "Demonic chant, a zephyr's curse,
Bardic's verse, winds' power immerse."
A strong gust of wind suddenly appeared around the cane, topping it down to the ground and dragging it through the floor toward Ethan.
Ethan picked up the cane, put it vertically touching the ground, held the crushed hand atop it, and whispered an incantation in ancient Hermes a total of seven times, "The controller of its owner."
When he said so all seven times, he let go of the cane and observed the direction it fell towards. The cane soon fell to the west side of Ethan's room.
He didn't waste a single second before removing his dark-red silver-rimmed glasses and looking to the west. Ethan soon saw all colors become even more vibrant than before, he could easily understand the secrets behind the composition of the ship's walls, floor, furniture, and many other things.
Ethan ignored the huge amount of information his brain was receiving from many sources and focused on searching for the person that was controlling the zombie from before.
As the side he had to search for was reduced by a lot from his previous divination, Ethan soon found his target. It was the strange, translucent form of a man with grayish-black hair and blue eyes. He was using the surface reflection of different mirrors to leave the area around Ethan's room.
'A Wraith? This might be more difficult than I expected… should I go after him? If I let him leave, the Rose School of Thought will probably come after me in no time… Why is he running, though? Killing a mere Sequence 8 zombie shouldn't have scared a Sequence 5 so much…'
…
Joseph was a very cautious man. He has been so ever since becoming a member of the Pirates of the Tree of Flesh and Blood, an organization that worshipped the powerful Mother Tree of Desire.
This time, he was just relaxing in a luxurious cruiser before his next mission in Bayam. However, one of his artifacts alerted him of a Beyonder with the characteristics of the Prisoner Pathway close by.
The Sealed Artifact looked like the branch of a small tree, and it had the power to detect if there were Beyonders or Beyonder characteristics that had powers similar to the holder.
When Joseph used one of his zombies to start looking for that individual, he found out the man had powers equivalent to that of a Lunatic. And considering the zombie he was using had been ritualistically enchanted with strength equivalent to a Sequence 8, also being controlled by himself, he decided to engage in combat with the white-haired youth.
What he couldn't have ever expected was that the man was far stronger than the zombie. He was able to easily destroy the zombie's hand like it was a little toy. Even more terrifying than that was the fact that he suddenly conjured incomprehensibly powerful flames that completely consumed the zombie in mere moments.
Considering the enemy had already been alerted of his presence, Joseph decided the best outcome was to temporarily leave and come back later to try things out again.
'Those weren't the powers of a Lunatic at all… Is he using some high-level Sealed Artifact…?' Joseph used the mirror surfaces around him to quickly leave the area while trying to understand his previous opponent's capabilities.
After a minute or two, he entered his room on the other side of the ship once more. 'It's best to leave this ship now that the target knows about my presence here. I'll control the zombies to go to the bottom of the ship and sink it while I'm leaving, this way, the enemy will be distracted and I'll have more time to understand the situation.'
With this, Joseph started controlling some of the zombies that were dressed as attendants and maids around him, making them move towards the captain's cabin where the stairs to the boiling room were.
*Swish
However, just as the zombies were about to leave the room and follow through with the plan, Joseph saw a big dart of dark-green flames flying with great speed in his direction.
*Boom!
He barely had the time to use one of his zombies as a shield as the flames exploded around the room, their cursed and dark aura tainted with a golden and holy glow that easily incinerated his undead servants.
'What!? Light Supplicant's purification? How!?' The flames rapidly spread all around the room, burning everything around them, also corroding many reflective surfaces all around Joseph.
'Fuck!!! How did he find me so fast!?' Joseph tried his best to avoid the powerful flames that had a holy but still dark aura, knowing they could easily hurt him in his current Wraith form.
He quickly observed his surroundings, searching for the enemy that had followed him to his room's location. It didn't take long for him to find the white-haired youth from before.
Surrounded by dark green fire, the youth stood in the middle of the corridor that led to the only exit from the area, all the reflective surfaces around him had been corroded and lost their characteristics.
When Joseph saw this scene, he couldn't help but frown. 'You think standing in the way will stop me from leaving? DREAM ON!'
He then used his Spirit Body form to phase through the ceiling above and leave the closed corridor. However, as soon as his body appeared above the corridor's ceiling, *Boom
"AHHH!!" A huge explosion of dark-green fire caught Joseph before he could properly react. The twisting bodies of a young couple were quickly consumed by the cursed flames as Joseph screamed in pain.
'He used the lives of innocents as a trap!?' He wasn't really surprised by the immorality of the actions, as he would do similar things himself, but that his opponent had the time to set such a trap.
The flames around Joseph burned with dark and holy powers as he saw his opponent suddenly phase through the ceiling just like he did, but by using powers that were very similar to those of an Apprentice.
With his opponent getting so close to him, Joseph was about to run away when suddenly, "Such a weak Sequence 5. Aren't you ashamed of calling yourself Beyonder?"
His mind was affected by a strong rage, even when it wasn't very powerful and he should have been able to resist, there was something about those words that made him comply and attack his enemy right away.
Joseph turned around and threw a punch at the white-haired youth's stomach while using his Wraith's Shriek to affect the youth's Spirit Body.
The youth seemed to be affected for just a moment, but it was enough for Joseph. His punch pierced the youth's stomach, his arm bursting through the enemy's back.
With this, Joseph also used his control over ice to freeze his opponent into an ice sculpture, completely ending the battle right there and then. As the white-haired young man was being turned into a perfectly designed sculpture of ice, Joseph couldn't help but curl his lips into an ugly smile of pleasure.
"You should have let me leave when I tried to, kid. I don't know how you have so many powers, but it doesn't matter anymore. I'll use your corpse as a nice little valet for myself! HAHAHAHAHA" He was so happy his voice crackled with indescribable pleasure.
"How marvelous." The dying youth's voice was filled with an indescribable tone of coldness and pleasure.
Joseph was a little bit surprised that his opponent could still be alive after his previous attack and all while being frozen to death, but he was still confident the kid would die very soon.
"What is so 'marvelous' to you?" He asked with a tone filled with arrogance.
"I had never killed a Sequence 5 before." The kid seemed to be babbling insanities from the pain of being close to death.
"Thank you, Wraith. You shall be my first Sequence 5 victim." Hearing the strange words, Joseph couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine.
He had finally noticed a problem. His spiritual intuition hadn't alerted him of a possible enemy attack at any moment. As a Wraith, his direct connection to the Spirit World should allow him to have a great sense of danger and spiritual intuition.
However, he didn't feel anything amiss when he attacked the youth in his room, even when he easily overpowered his zombie; he didn't feel anything when the youth easily tracked him and sneakily attacked him; he didn't feel anything when he traversed the wall and was attacked by the powerful flames that weakened him so much; and he didn't feel anything right now.
Coming to this realization, Joseph's expression froze. Just as he was about to remove his arm from the youth's abdomen, *SWISH
His figure that was already burning with the dark-green flames, even if in a small amount, flared up with a terrifying green glow.
Joseph's body, which was already weak from the cursed fire consuming his spirituality, couldn't take the blow of the stronger flames. His last thought was to try to possess the youth in front of him to mitigate the powerful tongue of fire.
However, he soon realized the youth had his eyes closed all this time. 'I… I didn't even notice his eyes closed all this time… I didn't use my control over ice to try to run away before… I didn't use my Wraith's Shriek to stop his momentum and flee. He… He completely manipulated my thoughts…'
Joseph suddenly realized all his mistakes from the previous fight. Everything he did was beneficial to his opponent, it was like he was doing everything to help his enemy win.
His expression contorted in extreme fear, his thoughts freezing from the approaching grasp of death.
The last thing Joseph saw was his enemy's eyes, which opened with a terrifying precision to not allow him to even have the time to perform a possession. The piercing dark-green, demonic eyes looked at Joseph with absolute indifference, his burning figure reflected in those eyes showed Joseph's current emotions; the fear of being a mere pawn in someone else's game; the horror of looking directly at an entity, so corrupted by power, it couldn't even be called human anymore; the despair of being gazed as if a mere worm being crushed under an infinitely big darkness.
*SWISH
Joseph's figure was completely consumed by the flames. His whole
existence burned to nothingness.
The white-haired youth, who stood still on the ground waiting for the ice around him to melt, suddenly put his right hand inside his pierced stomach, pulling a pale white piece of bone that shone with a bloody-dark aura from inside.
He looked at the pale piece of bone while saying with an indifferent tone tainted with cold pleasure, "Serial Killer, digested."
Status Power Mingguan
-- Peringkat
Power 
-- Power
stone