Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 1237: Explaining Everything (5)



In all honesty, Replicus didn't buy it. Maybe it was because he didn't really have much information about the Purity and its current status quo, but still...

There were many reasons why the Purity could want to do something like creating a Divine weapon of some kind for their own use, especially with the threat of Boron to all life in the world. But did they have the means? They probably didn't have...

At once, Replicus' eyes opened wide.

"Oh damn..." he said.

Maybe the Purity did have the means!

Had he not just narrated the tale about how a Grand Priest Yuyui killed had been casually walking around with an artefact that had enough genuine Divine energy to purge the UNCoddled curse?

There were many Grand Priests all around Feinheath, and if one had such a thing, wasn't it reasonable to assume that others, and even the Higher Order Priests, had access to such power as well?

Priests in general, had the ability to naturally generate Divine energy. Their Class was the only one that allowed them to produce such energy, even if most started by utilising the lowest form of Divine energy: Primus.

But wait... what about the motive of the Purity especially when paired with the kind of Divine weapon they could create to eradicate their problems? Based on the timeline Elita had established, the Purity would have probably been trying to deal with the Evenfall - Boron's worshippers - and the necromancers.

To be fair, both these groups had been a huge thorn in the Purity's side - as Replicus had learned back when he was in Inhone City - but was that enough motivation? Wouldn't the Purity do things with the guidance of Suzamete in mind? This didn't seem to have anything to do with her.

Perhaps the Purity had been anticipating Boron's rise before it happened? They must have had powerful Diviners, right? Or did the Priests receive word from Suzamete that they needed to beware?

No, that didn't make sense.

Even Erlton the Herald said that Suzamete hadn't addressed him directly in a while. He had claimed that the last time she did, was when the Undead minion Skullius and Elita fought had wrecked Eofel. He had only been mildly warned about the chaos Actuass would invite on the world, most probably.

The Progeny took a breath.

"How sure are you about all this?" he asked Elita.

The former Champion stared him dead in the eye.

"It's all conjecture, but I trust my instincts. My mind got a lot sharper, you know. At the very least, my theory isn't baseless. There's no organisation on Aigas - including this Severed Union you mentioned - that is as ambitious as the Purity. Believe me," she said firmly.

Replicus considered her.

"You're sure the anger you've bottled up for so long against the prejudice you received as a Cursed Blood from the Purity isn't what's leading you on?" he asked.

"I'm not that petty. I couldn't be, not after what I've gone through. I'm more concerned with the bigger picture. If the Purity and their ambitions have grown as great as I think... it won't be about me anymore, will it?"

Replicus narrowed his eyes. Elita was still looking at him with a steady gaze, almost as though to prove that she wasn't lying or hiding anything.

Everyone else around them seemed to have left the floor to the two, choosing not to add or subtract anything. They were content merely listening, after all, there was little they could

add.

Well, Soidon seemed to think he had something he could pass.

"Maybe the lady has a point," he said somewhat meekly. Replicus and Elita turned to him.

"How so?" the former asked.

The former Lich sat upright.

"Erlton visited the Purity a while back, before the Premium Age whatever ended. He told me this in passing and never elaborated, but I think he did warn them about a crisis - don't know which one," he said. "On top of this, when we were trying to convince Karima to help us rally the other beasts, he spoke against the Purity."

"Since the Great Trembling began, the Purity hasn't shown its forces as much as one would expect. The Six Houses of Pelian, the Capital Service... they have been out and about, but the Purity hasn't mobilised much of their strength. Perhaps they have indeed been scheming something in the background."

Replicus wiggled the fingers of all his hands. More strength had returned to him.

"Is that so?" he said.

This was indeed a curious detail. A small one but curious nonetheless. It added to Elita's theory ever so slightly.

The Progeny turned from Soidon to Elita.

"What kind of Divine weapon do you think the Purity would create?" he asked Elita.

"I'm not sure, but I think it would take advantage of the fact that Cursed Bloods receive and empower all manner of illnesses in their bodies," she said. "I have never tested this - and I'm sure none of the other Cursed Bloods have either - but our bodies could perhaps play host to other kinds of afflictions that aren't common diseases. Evil forces, perhaps. If the bodies of Cursed Bloods can enhance dark powers too..."

"I see," Replicus said. "And that Paladin Champion you mentioned who can control plagues, you think he might have a hand in this?"

"Possibly."

There was a pause.

The Progeny was starting to see some kind of validity in Elita's theory. Maybe she was right.

But if she was, did this mean that now there was yet another thing that needed solving on Aigas? Or did this even need solving? If the Purity was trying to create their own Divine weapon against Aigas' enemies, was that such a bad thing?

The way they were going about it was wrong, but the result - at least to them - seemed

righteous.

Replicus sighed.

He didn't want to argue with Elita over her reason for storming down to Aigas right now.

Thus...

"Speaking of reasons why you returned to Aigas, isn't that Revia you mentioned another reason? You wanted to save her before you left, right?"

Elita's unwavering gaze finally faltered.

She retrieved the Book of Alignment into an unknown storage.

"I've had her on my mind, but honestly, I sort of lost hope the longer I was away from Aigas. If she was in the enemy's possession before I left, I doubted that the Purity could find her, especially if her captor was someone like the masked man. From the description you gave me of this necromancer, I don't see how she could have gotten out alive," she said. "But I still intend to find out what became of her though."

"If there is any way I can help with that, I will," Replicus said. He moved his fingers more vigorously. Yuyui and Red Rage were entranced by their movements.

Replicus then gave Elita a sharp look and for a moment, it seemed as though he was about to

say something. He turned away, however.

Now wasn't the right time. He turned to Yuyui.

A large, golden key appeared in his hand. He gave it to the lime-haired girl.

"I think the others have long served their detention after using the Timemould Mirror Box. Go

and bring them here. Oh, and please tell them to bath first. We have guests," he said. Yuyui wore a bright smile, took the key to the Warmoth's Treasury and vanished out of sight with a few Strawlers following after her.

Replicus then turned to Elita, Silrat and Theurien.

"I feel that sitting around and talking without end may get a bit too tedious. To keep things fresh while also saving time, I'd rather handle the many introductions necessary for what we must do while also preparing for my merge," he said.

"Yuyui has just gone to fetch the rest of my noble crew. In the meantime" - Replicus found

the strength to stand, though with difficulty, and paced among the flowers towards Skullius' body "why don't we hear your tale, Soidon? I feel like it should be very interesting, if

Erlton's words are anything to go by."

And indeed, it was.

As Soidon narrated, everyone was stricken aghast.