" Where am I? " I say to myself as I wake up and see myself back in the field filled with cherry blossoms or should I just say it sakura's to be more simple.
When I see the field of Sakura, I then see the Large Sakura Fox Tree and immediately realized where I am as I see dead bodies that looked like me I immediately noticed that those are me or my dead corpses.
" I'm inside the
Seeing the notifications, I decided to shut off the System while suddenly the memories of my previous slaughter by the Living Divine Curse then come again as it seems the memories show me that it is been hours long since I have entered here.
" It's been 6 hours in this place and I've already died 169 times huh? " I said as the System notifies me.
< Divine Curse: Yakan Thunder Sakura Hunter Fox notices has returned >
"( Oh damn, here we go again? )" I say to myself while the System updates me about Twelve's work outside including what he just gained at the time which gives me joy for a bit until above me comes the large shadow coming from behind, a shadow of a being that I despised the most.
" Hello dear, have you awakened from your slumber? " the Yakan Curse greets me by licking my face and kissing my forehead while 'she' wiggles her fox tail and ears due to her great joy of seeing me awake.
"( She really wants to torture me for eternity, isn't she? )" I think to myself as I see the System reminding the Quest yet again.
< (!) Message (!) >
< (!) Quest (!) >
< [Punishment Quest: Fight the Beast] >
< Target: Fight the Beast until time runs out. >
< Time: 9 hours >
< Time Remaining: 3 H 58 MIN 46 SEC >
Seeing that, I raise my body up to face the Living Curse yet again while she patiently waits for me to stand up and be ready.
" That's right dear, get up steadily... fufufu. " she giggles while seeing me standing up while I prepare to fight her with my fist since, in this place, my items are locked which means I have to fight her without any equipment at all.
Seeing me prepare my stances, the Yakan Curse burstingly laughs mocking my defiance as she tells me that I already tried that many times for six hours and ask if I think that this time it will be different.
" Are you still defying me, dear mortal?
" Did you not know that in front of me, no matter how many powers and skills the System lets you gather, all of it will mean nothing in front of me. "
" For my existential purpose is to fulfill my Diviner's duty to Divinely Punish anyone from their powers and everything that they have. "
" Torturing their life for eternity until they die," she says as she then attacks me while attacking she bites me like I'm a little bird as she bites my body with her very teeth.
While she bites me, I begin to muster the thing that the System told me that is available inside the Punishment Zone besides my Active Skills and Items which is.
< Skill: Aether Unleashed [Passive] -- LVL.1 >
As I release the recently gathered 'Aether' power source, the Yakan Immediately felt the sting in her mouth as she spits me off from her very mouth while she pats her own tongue.
" GARRGGGKKKHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY MOUTH !!!!!! " the living Divine Curse screams in pain as she feels the 'Aether's taste in her own Divine Curse's tongue.
" WHAT DID YOU JUST DO!!!? " she screams in anger as she then attacks me with full rage as I did the damage to her which somehow made her cry a bit even though I now had to deal with her rage which kills me many times as I was revived again by the system, get killed, be revived, get killed again and be revived again.
" That's the Aether, O Divine Curse. " I tell her as I briefly explained why Twelve wanted to me to go into the Ruin in the first place which is to let me have the 'Aether' as my power source to combat the Divine Curse's very power and influence in my body.
" The very thing that I hoped can hurt you. " I tell the Divine Curse as the System tells me that the punishment is enough since the time is over.
< (!) ALARM (!) >
< The [Punishment Zone] session is over, the Player will be switched back into the Player's very body. >
< Switching Back initialized >
.........
( Back in the Ruins. )
" You returned, I was afraid that you begin to enjoy your time with your Divine Curse. " Twelve says to me as I can see him in his Soul Form, flying around as a spirit should be in front of me.
As I returned, the System then informs me about Dainsleif that Twelve had acquired earlier he then explains to me that the sword is for us to wield since both I and Twelve are the ones who killed the sword's previous user.
" Wait a minute, don't tell me the reason why you let William take the sword before, because you ..? "
" Because I know from the future that I ... that 'we' will kill William after he pulled out the sword Dainsleif. "
" Of course I do. "
" The [Twelve Eye of Time] already showed me all. " Twelve explains as he tells me to prepare for there are still many enemies lurking around in the Ruins, human enemies.
" The [Vulture Guild], they're here aren't they? " I ask Twelve since I noticed the Vulture Symbol on both William and Hugo's clothes earlier and remember that the Vulture Guild always comes in groups after their spy members killed the other Hunters in a Party, making them easy to take the treasures from every Dungeon and gain profits from it.
Just as we talked, both of us then hear a voice from afar and we then think that the Vulture Guild Hunters are coming to our place. I immediately decided to hide while equipping the