Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

[Eon's POV: ]

[{ "You back?" }]

[{ "Thanks to you, dear ungrateful miss. Yes, I am." }]

He stood up and both of them came back to us as I lifted the illusion screen I had created with Solnova.

It was difficult to maintain as they knew it as well, so they didn't waste much time.

[{ "I'm sorry for that. I just… couldn't control myself after seeing that thing again." }]

We knew our president for a while now.

And we came to knew a good lot about him after that war we fought together.

There were a lot of interesting things about him but the most important of them was the fact that he was from a world different from this one…

[{ "This thing… my friend… SanSan's mom called it Fragmantin. A curse that was created by the ancient evils." }]

President Zodiac, or as he was known by his Real name given to him by his only known family and SanSan's late mother: Longjia Raon.

He was born in a world that prominently resembled eastern content and the culture of that place.

'As he had told us, that place very much resembled the east that we knew. But at the same time, that world did not have anything like different continents or a western or northern land.'

There was only one single continent there and though it was divided into many nations and provenances, there were not many things like what we had here in the west and north of this world.

'It was a completely different world.'

People used Internal energy there, and they called it Qi. There was a certain kind of cultivation method that was naturally learned by every individual being born on those lands through which they could enhance their physical abilities and recovery powers.

It was a natural kind of knowledge that was common to everyone, however many sects, much like the east of this world, taught them various special cultivation techniques.

But, the President wasn't part of any of those sects. If anything, it wasn't even part of any particular prefecture.

His parents had died in an accident ever since he was young, the ones that had took him in were bastards that wanted to sell him off, so he ran away from them, and then he ended up in a deep forest of that land.

'He was pretty young back then, so he might have died to the dangerous beasts that were present in that deep forest.'

But perhaps it was luck or Fate as he considered it, but instead of meeting any simple kind of dangerous beast, he met a being that was much, much more dangerous than just a simple beast.

[{ "Fragmantin was the reason the entire nation, one of the strongest of that world, beside the forest we lived in was destroyed.

And also a curse… that became the reason for her death." }]

He wasn't that deep into the forest but it was deep enough for a child, but by the time he realised it, he was standing before the ruler of that forest- a complete, fully grown Ocagi that had already transcended the bounds of that world.

'She found him interesting even though there was not much interesting about him.'

He certainly possessed three innate skills but, it wasn't that surprising since the standards for the skills in that world were the same as the ones in this world.

'But the kind of skills he had made him interesting to that being.'

She took him with her to her nest, and there, she nurtured the individual that soon became the [Demon of Heavenly authority].'

She raised him, fed him the best things that one could find in that forest, and she taught him things that one couldn't have learned from humans… however, she was only a beast, so she didn't know what the weapon arts or Magical knowledge was.

'She taught him how to sense, how to see, how to not do something, and how to hunt. She taught him what makes him the person he is right now, and for that, he is eternally grateful for her.'

Sadly, he didn't have too long with her…

[{ "We don't know where that thing came from since even she had never come across something like that, but she had learned from a true Dragon about a divine curse that targeted one's very mind, something that ate away at the Astral Aura of any living individual it was attached to, something that stayed stuck with that living being like a parasite until they consumed them whole." }]

His voice was grave so we could understand well just what kind of bad experience he has had with this thing.

He was practically shivering right now, and he wanted to shove his sword into that thing to destroy it.

He wanted that, with all his heart, but since he knew the consequences of doing something foolish, he restrained himself.

[{ "The ancient dragon told her a story about how the Old Gods needed something to counter the growing population of demons and in their endeavours to destroy the demon kind, they ended up giving birth to this monstrosity.

I don't know how much of it applies to this world, but I know for sure that thing we are seeing right there is the same." }]

He was certain about it, and he was angry.

[{ "That curse turned the beings that it consumed into mindless evil creatures that destroyed anything and everything that existed around them.

One wouldn't notice anything wrong happening with them aside from occasional dizziness and fatigue, and instead, they would feel better thanks to the energy that this parasite-like curse released.

I never got to know how this damned curse spreads, but I know for sure it is unlike the virus or bacteria that we know of." }]

He took a deep breath and looked straight at the children that were affected by this curse.

[{ "They are affected by it so it means someone that had the original body of this thing, the one that perhaps also was the one that caused that disaster in that world, is planning something similar." }]

There was a reason he Developed his Light Sword to this degree and there was a reason he learned swordsmanship that was focused on the light… it was all making sense now.

[{ "Looks like we have a bigger problem on our hands than we had expected and… I'm pretty sure it's bigger than the Saint of Meyat being part of those demonic cultists.

We have to report this ASAP.

I say we go talk with the Grand order here after talking with the headmaster." }]

According to what he was saying, when that curse consumes the entire Astral bodies of these children and replaces its entire self with theirs, it would mature and turn into a being that wants to destroy everything around it.

'This might not happen right now, but, perhaps in the future, this might cause more trouble than we anticipate.'

But then again, if we are talking about something that is attached to the mind, the chances of there being more people that have this curse placed on them is quite high.

'We'll have to check things again.'

But before that, I needed to confirm something.

'Lucy.'

[{ *Master?* }]

'Verbal testimony isn't a valid source of knowledge, dear. Even someone like President might be mistaken about something.'

We were talking about a curse that could kill even divinities, and to kill the divinities, it actually meant erasing every bit of evidence about those beings, or erasing them from the memories and stories of every individual present in this nature.

'Which is funnily not something any 'curse' is capable of.'

By nature, a curse was something that added or removed some kind of property from something that already existed in nature.

Now, if we are talking about a curse that could kill divinities, it would be better to say that this curse was strong enough to single-handedly destroy that entirety of the world.

[{ *Right. I understand…* }]

[{ "Celes, replace me and block the light that will come out of my hand." }]

[{ Yes master! }]

This curse looked sinister but, we couldn't feel anything from it even after observing it closely in the astral realm.

There was a number of interesting things about it, but by definition, it was a dangerous thing and was only visible momentarily when the possessor of this curse was in an extremely unstable mental condition.

'He might have been mistaken.'

That's why we had to confirm it with the data that we had received from him.

-Oooong.

The silver bird was released from my palm and this time, instead of going in a certain object, since the chosen target was the curse itself, the bird passed through all three of the children.

Then, after a moment of continuously passing through all three of them that they most certainly did not notice at all, it came back to me.

And…

[{ *Masrer…* }]

It didn't take too long for Lucy to finish the analysis.

[{ *This thing strangely is what the President says it to be.* }]

In our innate Mind space, she shows me the cumulative data that she had gathered from the thing that was present on them and, also how she had to stop the Analysis process midway because of a life like fight back from the analysis target.

'This was strange…'

Though, what was stranger here was not the fact that we confirmed it to be something related to the divinities.

[{ *They… are the ones who placed it there.* }]

She could sense Divine power and the nature of divine power now, something I yet wasn't capable of.

But she could do it, so she could tell for certain that the parasitic tumour like sinister blobs that we were looking at, were in fact… placed there by the divinities that the Temple served.

And this new fact, has now made this whole investigation even more complicated.