Chapter 167 - DECEPTION

Yue's body, bathed in blinding white light, peacefully ascended to the ceiling of the room as though gravity didn't exist. She stared silently to the world outside the beam of light, her eyes empty before she felt her movements become more and more constricted.

And that's when she knew it was time to give up control. She closed her eyes, and readied herself for Ivan's next move. A smile painting her face which had been expressionless this whole time despite the growing isolation encasing her.

Then, the light completely disappeared.

*PLOP*

The room became silent as her body fell to the ground. One second went by and she wasn't moving, then two, then five, but it was at the tenth second that something remarkable happened.

'Yue' bent her waist forward and along with it the upper half of 'her' body. 'She' looked around disgruntled before clenching her open palms again and again.

"Lord Ehit, my creator! My mission was a success~ Now you have the body you have coveted for centuries, and with it the ability to roam the mortal world and play with it as you like!"

Yes, the person who inhabitied 'Yue's' body was in fact Ehit, the self proclaimed god of Tortus. Previous to this ceremony he was just a conscious orb surveying heaven, a fate he brought upon himself accidentally when he converted the faith of the people into his strength.

Desperate to gain a body again, he was elated to discover Yue. Who had both the talent he wanted and regeneration. As such he was devastated to know that she had been killed before he could steal her body.

Originally, his plan by summoning the students was to cultivate one of them into a suitable vessel, and he had in fact succeeded with that. If he didn't find out that Yue was alive he would've instead gone for Kouki's body, the student with the most talent and powerful class.

And he must admit that when finding out that she was alive he became a little hasty in his plans. A haste he blamed the current blunder on.

He stared at the Irregular that forced him to such levels, the grin his supposedly prey adorned on his face couldn't help but piss off the ego of the false god.

Ehit knew for a fact he had been duped, or more accurately it was his servant that had been deceived.

He glared at Alva for a few seconds before standing to his feet, the body was incredibly short and weaker physically than what he had been when he still had a body, even though he too was a mage.

It would take time to get used to, but time he wouldn't do as he knew he'd have to transfer bodies again the moment he ended the current situation.

"My Lord?" Alva's ecstaticism turned to confusion as his creator took somber steps toward him, his expression carrying an unamused smile and happiness that didn't quite reach his eyes.

And then— Alva felt a hand stab right through his stomach.

"W-Why…?" Alva uttered with the only word he could think of, his confusion at the certain circumstances painfully apparent. He had completed his mission, and now his lord wanted to kill him. His body slumped forward as he felt the energy in his body disappear. If it was from his creator, even a god such as himself couldn't regenerate.

"Isn't it obvious, you failed. Even with the skills I passed down to you, you were unable to complete the very important task I delegated to you. But don't worry, when this all blows over I'll build you back again, and this time I won't make an error…"

*PUCHI*

Ehit removed his fair slender white hand from Alva's torso, licking his blood soaked fingers as blood spewed from the gaping corpse.

"As I thought…" His servant had inherited the body of a vampire, and through his words Ehit was able to come to an understanding about their constitutions. Such as the state their body goes through when consuming blood.

However none of the signs his servant had told him about appeared in the moment he consumed blood. Instead, there was only an oppressive silence.

"Where is she, Irregular…?" His eyes gleamed with a horrifying light, the air around him whined against the immense pressure his body was releasing. Even his voice reached a low octave he hadn't used in centuries. Though the effect of that wasn't apparent to Ivan, who only heard the voice of a pissed off little girl.

"If you're asking where Yue is, she's right here~!" Ivan got off the ground as the 'wounds' and 'damage' his armor sustained completely vanished. His helmet appeared on his hand as he adorned it once more.

A blue crystal sat in the palm of his other hand, with a little force he crushed it as the dust blew in Ehit's direction.

And then a blue portal appeared behind Ivan, and out of it came the real Yue.

Her eyes burning with anger, a metallic ball hanging from her neck, in front of her stood the man that took everything away from her just because he wanted to use her as a vessel. If it weren't for him her uncle wouldn't have had to slaughter everyone she knew for the sake of fooling the bastard god, if it wasn't for him she wouldn't have had to spend three hundreds years in a dark hole, but if it wasn't for him… she turned to look at Ivan, who nodded and smiled as she returned a dazzling expression.

She had one thing to thank Ehit for, and that was for helping her meet Ivan.

"But this and that are different matters. Fake god, I am here to avenge my uncle who you terrorized and toyed with… I could give less of a damn about saving this world, it'll just be a little bonus for me."

Her golden mana flared and illuminated the room, space contorted as blue lightning encased her body.

For Ivan it was an odd sight, he had molded a fake body of Yue for Ehit to take over. In order to make sure that he wouldn't be seen through, he sculpted it to be as realistic as possible. He even hid the plan from everyone else in the group just in case Ehit or any of his goons possessed mind reading magic.

As for weaknesses, he didn't input any. It ran on an apostle core in case Yue needed to control it for longer than they thought as well as to processes ancient magic needed to keep the illusion of her regenerating which was actually just restoration magic.

She controlled it from a remote distance with spatial magic and spirit magic. In terms of magic talent though, the fake body was only good at restoration magic. Essentially crippling the fake god's expertise in magic.

All of this was enough to fool Alva, but not Ehit. From the moment he was put into the body he knew something was up. But as the spirit was being transported he couldn't do anything to stop the ceremony.

But considering ancient magic was inscribed into a person's soul, Ivan knew better than to underestimate the fake god in front of him.

"Ah… time and time again you've stood in my way, Irregular. I should have killed you the moment someone with a class I didn't force on them appeared. In the end it was my curiosity that brought upon this situation… But I don't intend on letting things end here…"

He was a god, at least in his mind, he had lived for millennia. A setback like this was nothing big in the grand scheme of things, he still had control over his apostles. All he would need to do was capture the vampire queen for real this time and have his apostles commence the ceremony in exchange for their life force.

The Irregular and his vessel had resisted his Edict before, so all he had to rely on were his own skills and experiences.

An array of spatial portals appeared behind him as a wave of apostles entered the scene. Things had strayed from his original plan, he was no longer keen on playing around in the current condition he was in.

"I want both of them alive, the Irregular will be mine to kill. But only after I made him wish he was never even conceived."

With the wave of his arm, the wall of apostles soared toward the target of their lord's obsession, the two mortals standing back to back as if ready to fight the entire world.

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