Chapter 146

Chapter 146: Resurrection

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The battle is too short.

Translator: Raizu

Editor: Mirp

Chapter 146 – Dean and Fate

[Good boy.]

Seemingly in a good mood, Dad tried to stroke my head.

Avoiding his hand, I plained because we're still in the middle of battle.

[I'm not… a kid anymore.]

[Hahaha. If that's really the case, then you would've defeated the sacred beast on your own.]

[Kuh…Dad!]

I was treated like a child, of course I would get mad. Ever since my dad passed away, I'd been forced to desperately stay alive for as long as five years.

Then he suddenly came back, unaware of what I've been through… Naturally, there will be a big gap between us.

But Dad could see through that feelings of mine as well.

[Oi oi, don't give me that face. We're gonna fight sacred beast together, but we won't be able to cooperate if it's like this.]

[I'm stronger now. More than you might think, Dad.]

[Sure you have a high stat. But isn't that something you obtained from gluttony skill? There is more to that skill than you might think.]

[That is…]

[You can obtain the stats and skill of any enemy you defeated. At a glance it's certainly a powerful skill. But it's not without any price to pay. Fate, the mortal sin skill… do you think why and for whom those skills were originally created?]

I certainly couldn't answer Dad's question. On the other hand, I could hear him mutter [I see…] when I didn't give him any answer.

After that, I kept my mouth shut.

The sacred beast had began to make its move.

Despite everything, I was actually nervous, this being the first time I fight alongside my dad. That caused me to respond too late to the sacred beast' attack. I was about to be struck right on my still recovering side.

[Fate!]

Dad pierced his black spear into the ground, generating huge ice stalagmites that encased the sacred beast in place.

That brief pause gave me enough time to react.

[What's wrong? Do you want to rest on the sideline with them instead?]

[Kuu…]

I grasped the black sword in my hand tighter, and swung at the sacred beast that already managed to break through the icy confinement.

Not to fcomet, I reactivated 《Spirit Union》 and clad Greed with fire magic once more.

『Again with the fire ball magic? You really have no sense of art.』

[Wrong. It's the mutated version.]

『Do not overuse the power of gluttony skill though.』

I mutated the fire ball magic, and finely infusing its fire element into the black sword.

The flame cladding the black sword increased its brightness as its color grew even closer to golden. At the same time, blood gushing out from my right eye.

After the fight against Rafal, I was informed that the Gluttony skill is slowly mutating my body. Now it's just up to blood gushing out from my right eye. Later on… I really have no idea.

I had Raine to research on it. But she was kidnapped by my dad before the research reached any conclusion.

The fire clad sword collided with the empowered sacred beast's pincer.

I still couldn't cut through it huh… Even after raising the power this far.

The fire spread out and enveloped the sacred beast whole. My slash didn't really cut through its carapace. Even so, the mutated fire magic, further empowered by spirit union, seemed to inflict some damage to the beast.

Shaking its body left and right, the sacred beast tried to extinguish the fire burning its body. When it realized that it didn't work, it began burrowing into the sands.

[As if I'll let you.]

Dad made a follow up, striking with his spear. Apparently he's building up power while I was attacking.

Pointing his weapon at the sacred beast, the spear tip emitted a freezing light.