“Reverse Cursed Teique…”

  Aleph was immersed in learning the new cept Kashimo introduced to him. If learned, his fighting power would increase to a terrifying degree.

  Up until now, he didn’t have a close call by choosing what he fights. Aside from the Nagazora City i, all of his battles were against honkai beasts or humans whose dangers could be handled if prepared well. Even his act of one-shotting the fourth Herrscher was the result of preparing aremely deadly strike.

  However, things couldn’t be predicted iure. On the off ce he had a dangerous fight, the Reverse Cursed Teique will be an a the hole.

  “Collision of ive cursed energy…”

  The more he thought of its cept, the more he found how simple it was.

  Yet…

  “How should I do that..?”

  Aleph became stumped by something that blocked tless other sorcerers.

  *****

  A night had passed. Due to safety s, Aleph didn’t choose to stay up. He still had an important job to take care of.

  Although he only wore dark blue long sleeves ihis freezing cold room, his body didn’t feel unfortable.

  Klein, who was helping Mobius get dressed, finally ehe room.

  Right before he asked her something, he saw Mobius oher side. For a moment, he fell silent.

  ‘...’

  Different from her usual attire that sisted of a baggy coat and rge long sleeves, Mobius wore nothing but a pair of underwear made of syic fabric. Even so, one could see their struggle to hold her promi parts.

  ‘...This is totally different from what I saw.’

  Iure, Mobius’ body turned into a child with each death she suffered. That resulted in her image being a brat who couldn’t even reach the level of his neck.

  It was the future. These deaths haven't happened yet.

  Her body was still that of an adult’s. Moreover, it was that curvaceous. It was to the point that Aleph's knowledge of his past life was pletely overturned.

  Although he didn’t have any practibsp;experience when it es to the opposite gender, he still sighted the “golden ratios” all over her body.

  “She’s ready?”

  He turned his ba the huge gss window as he looked towards Klein.

  “Yes, Sir Aleph. “

  “Then…”

  Once his surge of emotions died down, he began synizing with Klein. These were the preparatory tasks to the surgery, such as system checks and other mae diagnostics.

  He got into his professional side swiftly.

  Of course, there was someone who noticed everything. She had nothing to do except ehe chamber ahe mask. It was natural she could see Aleph’s as at that time.

  ‘...He act like that.’

  Yesterday, the two tacitly avoided any topics reted to Aleph being almost naked. It would’ve been fine if the two didn’t know each other that much, but it would’ve been awkward had one of them pressed it on.

  For a moment, a strange feeling came to her.

  ‘...How ridiculous.’

  Her thoughts became chaotic. Evehe ahesia was ied, it couldn’t put her to sleep immediately.

  Aleph and Klein had no way of knowing her internal thoughts. They were proceeding with the surgery as it is.

  ‘How high is her success rate?’

  {Result: From the probability calcuted, there is a 84.56% ce of success. Possible mutations may occur at a rate of…}

  Great Sage h’s main reliance when it came to pi things. In a se could be sidered as a sed brain that could do all sorts of calcutions and predis on its own.

  Aleph’s own success rate was nearly 99%, which was how he got the fideo duct the surgery on Mobius.

  At this moment, Great Sage guided him to beore thh in the process. Each of his movements were extremely precise, akin to a mae’s. Mobius’ statistics were dispyed to him more thhly in the form of ‘texts’ in his sight. It was simir to when his [Achievement Hunter] made a prompt.

  Tick.

  Tick.

  Tick.

  The positions of the two were reversed. Aleph was the one fog ihe surgery room while Mobius slept peacefully ihe gss .

  One minute.

  Two minutes.

  Three minutes.

  …

  More than ten minutes had passed. It was lohan Aleph’s surgery. At the same time, it wasn’t as stable as his. There are times they had to read use the honkai gene suppressors to ralize the honkai beast genome inside her body.

  “Hm.”

  Just then, a familiar rea occurred. The honkai energy tration began to sharply increase.

  “It’s the final stage.”

  The MANTIS Surgery sisted of two parts: adaptation and bination. Adaptation was the stage where the body would undergo an induced mutation to better aodate the ICHOR. It was akin to making the frame stronger.

  The bination phase, oher hand, involved iing the ICHOR itself to the body. It was the body’s acceptao the honkai beast genes, which grants a human the ability to manipute honkai energy with their own body as well as receive the associated powers with it.

  It was the first step in evolution humans had to undergo in this world pgued with honkai.

  Aleph easily breezed through these two stages due to his sheer strength, more so when his body adapted through one of the cursed teiques stored within his so-called [Embryonic Power System].

  However, it was different for others.

  Hum.

  ‘For the en minutes, I won’t use my cursed teique. I won’t move.…’

  Aleph initiated his binding vow. He pced harsh restris on himself.

  What he got iurn was the enha of his Sphere Boundary’s radius.

  Five meters.

  Teers.

  Fifteeers.

  By the time the two rooms were covered, numerous phenomeed to the honkai were slowly cealed. It was a forceful yet effective way of "hiding" a small-scale honkai eruption when needed.

  Sweat started appearing on Aleph’s forehead. The amount of trol he had to exert was enough to take up more than half of his “brain space”. That included Great Sage’s mied skills.

  Hum-!

  Bam-!

  Crack-!

  Shatter-!

  Although the phenomena slowly disappeared, Sphere Boundary couldn’t affect its in. The best it could do was to ceal the honkai’s presence.

  The gss chamber inside shattered. Even the reinforced gss in the trol room had cracks all over it.

  Amidst it all, a naked woman was surrounded by the broken shards of gss as well as the spilled medical solution. She was using her arms in an attempt to stand up. By doing sah glimpsed her eyes.

  Her gray irises turned elongated akin to a snake’s.

  This time, it was his heart’s turn to skip.

  ‘It’s her.’

  The Mobius in front of him overpped with the one he knew from the game. One look and he could see a unique aura belonging to her.

  It’s just that…

  ‘...No. The seventh Herrscher was the first trigger. Klein’s death broke her down. Elysia's death doubled it down. She’s different from that version of herself.’ He thought. 'She's far more crazy, unhinged, and uricted pared to now.'

  Once again, Aleph was reminded why he had to ge this world’s future.