My next goal was supposed to be lust in France, but instead I changed my destination from France to Greece where I decided to take care of sloth first.
This was due to several reasons, the most important of which is that while the goal of lust is to collect the largest number of slaves and assistants, the goal of sloth is to eat as many people as possible, in terms of the risk measure, I believe sloth is one step above lust.
I could not have guessed any abilities that sloth might have, given that his name is somewhat mischievous, however, I do not think he would be so strong, especially against someone like me.
None of the sins were really weak, the reason I was able to defeat them without any real difficulty was that I was very strong. First, my combat style was based on taking advantage of all my physical abilities with reinforcement magecraft, and it was based on predicting opponent movements and analyzing his style of Fighting and build an effective counter strategy while absorbing his fighting style in mine at the same time.
In addition to possessing both thought acceleration, rapid reflexes and instinct, this makes it difficult for most of my opponents who are physically stronger than me to even think about touching me.
As a magus, I'm also very powerful, my modern magecraft has reached a level where its destructive power is compared to true magic, and I also learned the special kind of magecraft that medea used that was as powerful as true magic too, and I developed it further, and Do not forget that I also possess true magic from the age of the gods that controls teleportation.
In modern times, only the Holy Grail in the Wars of the Holy Grail can use something close to teleportation, and even then the teleportation of the Holy Grail is not 'real' and does not follow any logic.
The difference between the true magic from the age of the gods and the true magic from the human era is that the latter is acquired by approaching the root, and the first is by using formulas and rules to make true miracles that normal magecraft can't do.
The teleportation that I use works by passing through the fourth dimension to move from point A to point B in an instant, Medea needed to attract mana from Ryoudou temple in order to move through the fourth dimension, but my od is more than enough for that.
My necklace also works like command seals, so it can move me without any rule as long as some mana is provided.
On the other hand, true magic in modern times works by making the creation of a real miracle without following any physical rules or laws, such as how the second magic can move between parallel universes and timelines.
Of course, even true magic from the modern era has its occurrence, such as how zelretch cannot get out of parallel universes and go to the cthuli universe or to the earth from which I came.
While true magic can be used to push Magus abilities beyond natural limits, they are not absolute. Zelretch is lucky that he ingested the blood of the crimson moon or he would have died from his injuries, and even if he survived he would have died of old age afterwards.
Also, even the true magicians still have to use their magic circuits, so Kiritsugu can defeat them if he can hit them with a bullet of his origin.
And if kirei is given both the black barrel and the command seals and the black keys he can defeat the zelretch if he is lucky and use certain strategies, after all zelretch still a dead apostle.
True magicians are not very over powerful as some believe, yes, they may be able to travel through time, or move between parallel universes, or remain in the physical plane after the death of their bodies, but this does not mean that they cannot be killed by any other powerful person.
On the other hand, I can only imagine how strong I will be after obtaining true magic like the third magic, only then will I be able to benefit from my full potential.
Not so long ago, I started using my time element in a similar way to Kiritsugu, by creating a fake reality marble inside my body to accelerate or slow down my inner time, with some additions, due to the massive amount of mana, I could have stopped or slowed time in the area surrounding me for several Moments, when I get heaven's feel, I may be able to pause time in the entire universe, at that time it does not matter whether you own magic blue or kelaidoscope.
Also, obtaining the third magic is not a big problem for me, but let's go back to the main topic, the situation in Greece was very dangerous, there was an epidemic that spread quickly and in the surrounding countries so the borders were closed and there was a quarantine.
The epidemic itself was not fatal, instead it causes humans to lose their rationality and attack any sane person close to them, so that doctors could not detect the epidemic in the bodies of patients.
When I analyzed the patients, I discovered that they do not possess spirits within them and their bodies are moved due to a rare and spread curse, then I began to notice that there are many other Mages looking at the subject.
Upon studying the curse up close, I noticed that she was not killing the person afflicted with her, but rather transforming his soul into energy that is transported somewhere.
When using predictive rituals I could not find the place of laziness anywhere because there are millions of people with a curse, so I had to kidnap some of the injured to perform a lot of ritual return to origin in order to know where the magic energy derived from burning human lives is transferred.
sloth was a creature that had to be destroyed, if it was left for several more months the entire humanity would be destroyed, Mephisto is truly a genius, in order to ensure that the alaya did not send a counter guardian so early that he created the spiritual essence of the sins from human souls, and gave each one a real body linked to nature and not made with mana.
Like that wrath was a dragon, that envy was a worm and greed was a phantasm beast, and as for sloth it seemed to be a slime.
He had high physical resistance because of his own body, but he was very slow, and while I could not harm him physically, I was able to burn him completely.
By killing him I gained independent action A and subversive activities B, and also NP is called the apocalypse's Curse, which is basically the same curse that quickly spread.
For all magical energy, it seems that the sloth has a skill whose only goal is to send the magical energy collected from human souls to Mephisto ... It is hard to imagine what he would do with all that energy, but I suppose it is a problem for another day.