Life Hunter

Meanwhile, Flavio was getting fl.u.s.tered in a corner. The reason he was complaining was that Arima had told Chulainn he could go back to the gate but not him. At that point, Arima knew exactly was what going on with the Téra and thought that Chulainn"s new strength would bring some help.

"I still need your help with something." Arima replied without opening his eyes.

Flavio frowned hard. "With what? I don"t think I can help in with anything right now."

"It"s quite simple. I just need you to use your ability on me."

"What?" Flavio"s expression changed instantly. It went from confused to shocked. "What kind of modification do you want?"

"I want a transplant." Arima smiled and Flavio furrowed. "A heart-transplant. To be exact, I want you to give me a second heart."

"Impossible." The surgeon immediately retorted. "I don"t know for what reason you would want a second heart. But I cannot do that. Although you"re a freaking monster, you"re still human technically. Transplanting a second heart when your body has not what it takes to make use of it is unfeasible."

"It isn"t. You know it." Arima smirked and Flavio"s eye twitched.

"…Do you seriously want to do that? For that operation, I will need you to lower every defense. Even your immune system will have to be restrained. And the success rate of that surgery is no more than 1%. The exact average is probably lower."

"Of course, I want to do it. I wouldn"t have told you to stay otherwise."

Flavio sighed and took out his gla.s.ses to rub his face. "Fine. If you die, that"s not my responsibility. So? Where is the heart you want me to transplant?"

"It"s still beating in the chest of a certain person."

"Who?"

"A unique individual even across the different realities. He"s the third Pillar here." Arima grinned. "One of the rare persons who have the right to call themselves true immortals."

Flavio"s eyes narrowed. "You…want to attain immortality?"

"I at least need that to confront the Creators. But there"s nothing really immortal in this world. The Creators can without a doubt kill immortals by either using OWL"s or special "authorities". Even myself, I probably can kill one with Natus"s ability." Arima said and the pentagrams appeared on his irises.

"These eyes can a.n.a.lyze an "existence" and destroy it if it"s possible. It means that I can scan "immortality" and render it useless." He added. "Furthermore, my Ancient Demon form empowers Natus thanks to the four irises."

Flavio closed his mouth and waited for Arima to finish. "The reason I want to get immortality is that it will make me stronger. I do not care about never aging or dying. I just want the advantages that immortality can add to my theories. Also, having two hearts will increase the physical output of my body by at least a fold. And finally, with that immortal heart, I think I will be able to refine an organic factory."

"A factory?" Flavio wore a strange expression.

"That heart will be the factory."

"Of what?"

"Elixir." Arima casually responded and Flavio froze.

"…Are you talking about "the" elixir?" He muttered shakenly. When one talks about elixirs it can mean many things. Especially in a world filled with magic craft and alchemy. But for someone at the level of Arima and Flavio, it only referred to one thing, the Elixir of Life. The most sought concoction in the entire existence. A potion capable of giving the one who drinks it eternal youth and true immortality whilst also curing every disease and injury. It"s even said to be possible to bring back the dead with a single drop of that liquid.

"{There"s only one case recorded of an Elixir being successfully made}" Krynox commented. "{And it technically wasn"t even made by intelligent species but by mother nature. That single vial worth of Elixir took exactly 345 877 924 years to be created. It happened because thousands of G.o.dly beings bought legendary ingredients from all over the world and mixed them up in a single place which was surrounded by the most majestic stars ever born. It"s definitely not something you can produce easily. How do you want to do that?}"

Arima smiled. "I"m not going to gather any ingredient whatsoever. Nor am I going to use any fancy knowledge or technique. I"m basically going to break down the concept of immortality from that heart and transform it into a "factory" which will slowly turn my blood into an Elixir."

Flavio was stunned. "…If you really manage to do that, you"ll be the worst nightmares of us doctors. If your blood becomes Elixir, your injuries may close before you can even see them… Are you perhaps going to engage in a war of attrition against the Creators? With your infinite mana, and possibly infinite Elixir, there are chances that you can stand your ground even without immortality."

"That"s one part of the plan, yes." Arima nodded and opened his eyes. He stood up and cracked his neck. "But for now, we have to prepare. I"ll go for the weaker Guardians and Pillars first. Although even they could be as strong or stronger than me. But it should be alright."

Flavio sighed. "How can you be so sure?"

Arima smiled at him. "Well, if things go really bad, then I may need to go back temporarily and bring Night and Karma back with me. With them, I would be at least two times stronger. But for now, I"ll do what I"m the best at."

"Which is?"

"Don"t you know?" Arima smirked and summoned Superore. The double-barreled hand cannon shined. "I"m originally an a.s.sa.s.sin. I"m not really supposed to attack up-front. It"s normally a one-hit kill or nothing."

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Arima"s first target was the tenth Guardian. Since he had fused with Krynox, he perfectly knew where the Guardians were. Although he couldn"t track their movement in real time because Krynox was not connected to the "World" anymore, he still managed to find his target pretty easily.

Arima stared at the red-skinned Orc who was inside a castle which was around fifty million miles away and mused. It was really rare to see a species such as an Orc climb to the ranks of the Guardians. This was a fascinating situation. Arima thought and raised his palm. Flavio watched calmly at first but when Arima started condensing something above his hand. He started to sweat.

A tremendous amount of energy and mana was being compressed inside a bullet. Arima continued until it was about to break apart. Flavio paled and took his distance. But he knew that it was useless to just step back by a few meters. The energy in that bullet could very well annihilate galaxies. Even Arima seemed to be quite tired after he made it.

He sighed and slowly loaded the bullet inside Superore. Flavio watched carefully then opened his mouth. "Are you sure it will be enough with that weapon?"

Arima snickered. "Don"t underestimate guns, Flavio. This thing can be a lot stronger than you can imagine. Without Karma around, this guy is definitely my strongest weapon." He said and vapor suddenly came out of his body and a green energy entered the barrel of Superore.

"That"s…!" Flavio remembered something. While Arima was still limited by the magic circuits, he had managed to tear off the wings of thousands of angels through s.p.a.ce manipulation. And now that he was free of that handicap and had acquired the Akashic Records, how much could he control? And to what extent?

Arima breathed in and pointed his gun at the Orc. He then channeled a demonic power inside his body and called two names, "Indra Vayu, Mithandruj. Come out." Two phantoms immediately answered the call and manifested themselves around Arima. Flavio shuddered and held his breath.

Arima beckoned with his eyes and the two phantoms cried before going inside the gun"s barrel. They fused with the bullet inside. When that was done, Arima used Natus and scanned the trajectory until the Orc as well as the many magic barriers in the way.

Finally, Arima chanted something and thunder rumbled around him. Black and red lightning sparked around him and filled the gun"s barrel with plasma and electricity, "[Ratione detester leges transcendere] (I defy all laws and transcend reason)."

"[Im "exitium voluntatem Dei manifestaretur] (I"m the will of destruction made manifest)."

"[Veluta aeim, quifa quifa]"

"[Samda maa kaav]"

"[Fourth Cryptic Art, Magna Blast, Exist]"

Arima pressed the trigger and the bullet was propelled out of the barrel. The recoil made Arima"s hands tremble and even almost broke his bones. His feet had sunk on the ground and everything that was around the cannon had become powder.

The Orc instantly sensed something and only took half a second to spot both Arima and the bullet he had fired. The Plane Guardian saw the bullet coming toward him and sneered. It was too slow. He could avoid it without a problem. But the moment he a.s.sumed that something reached his head and he raised a confused voice in his last moment.

In the next instant, Indra Vayu screamed and the Orc"s head exploded. The bullet also broke apart and imploded. At first, it attracted everything around it and even the sound was m.u.f.fled. Then in the next second, the entire planet exploded.

Arima deployed his wings and grabbed Flavio before flying off to escape the range of the explosion. He was standing on one of the moons of the enormous planet. Mixed with that explosion, there was an ominous presence that killed everything without discrimination.

What happened was very simple. Arima first injected raw energy into a bullet which was bound to his soul. That alone would have produced this explosion. Then he imbued the bullet with his spatial energy power which he had gained thanks to the amber star in his soul. Before firing, he also ordered two of his Evil Spirits to go inside the bullet then used the Fourth Cryptic Art to finally attack.

When he pressed the trigger, Arima destroyed every magic defense with Natus. At the same time, Mithandruj, the Spirit of dishonesty and lies, cast a pa.s.sive illusion on the bullet just before Arima"s spatial ability teleported the bullet closer to its target. Like that, since the Orc would focus on the illusion far away, he would get confident and lose focus.

Then finally, when the bullet touched the Orc, Indra Vayu acted and made sure that the target died before the bullet burst to obliterate everything around.

This was, unquestionably, the strongest bullet Arima had ever shot.

Arima absorbed all of the life force that was present on that planet elatedly. He grinned as he observed his clenched hand. "Only 19 left."