THE SEED OF DELIRIUM
"That could also be another reason Delirium never asked you to help him break his curse", Chash told me.
"I can understand the agony of being cursed and I did think on many occasions to end my life before when I was cursed. If I was Delirium, I might rather end my life to have my curse removed", Rinna said to us about her feelings on the matter.
Rinna was once cursed by the Blood Queen Euaemon and for thousands of years, she became a cursed serpent. Only with time and her effort that she could break away from the curse.
"I won't harm you to end your curse even if it's the only way to stop it", I told her.
"I know", Rinna said to me.
"I believe Delirium thinks the same way. Otherwise, he wouldn't let you in here. Delirium doesn't appear to be someone who would die for his curse", Sara opined.
"Then Delirium must believe there is a way to help him break his curse without killing him", I said to them.
"That is for you to find out. I've wasted enough processing power on your mundane tasks. Don't ask for more from me", Sara replied to me and walked away.
"What are we going to do now?" Melroy asked us.
"Well, we still don't know yet what we are supposed to do here, and we can't get back out without the cat. We stay for a while and maybe help the children when they gather their shine while we figure it out", I told them.
"Okay we will stay here for the time being. This realm and its magic are quite fascinating to me too", Rinna said to me.
"And I can have my honeymoon with my wives here, this is a perfect place for romantic picnics", Melroy said to us as his wives took turns to kiss him.
"Gross. You'll lose all your hair again if they continue to lick you", Sara told the once bald Magus who quickly stopped his wives kissing him when he heard the rude girl's evil curse.
"Your curse doesn't work on me", Melroy replied to her.
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The next day we escorted the sprites to the fields to gather shine.
Suddenly the field was attacked again but not by locusts but by the Worm, Perspicuity again.
"Something has changed, we've never been attacked during the shine before by the worm. Run", Nicklas told us.
Usually, the worm of Perspicuity would not attack the sprites during the middle of the day, but they have become more aggressive now.
"Perhaps it's because we killed the other worm the day before", Melroy told us his opinion.
However, after the previous battle, the worm wasn't so much of a threat because we knew what we were dealing with, and I've recovered the use of my powerful divine artifact.
I waited for the worm to approach us before I released my divine bell.
"Chasing Blood Guillotine"
However, the worm easily dodged my powerful guillotine. It was as if the worm knew how to dodge my powerful and surprising attack.
"Damn, the worms are learning from the killing before this", I complained to them.
"Some beings have psychic connection that allows some experiences to be shared between their close kins", Rinna told me about the worms.
"Try to dodge this", Chash shouted out as a large sword was summoned in the sky that fell on the worm, Perspicuity, stopping it momentarily and stunning it.
At the same time, my Blood Guillotine rushed toward the worm before engulfing its head. My artifact struck the head of the worm before quenching it bloodily, destroying it in a shower of blood.
"This is an extremely violent weapon if you ask me", Melroy commented to me about my artifact weapon.
"It is quick and direct. It saves us a lot of time, but I couldn't have killed the worm without Chash's help", I replied to him before my Malevolent Knight returned to me with another Seed of Chaos.
"Great another seed", I said to myself.
"How can you kill another Worm of Perspicuity so easily?" Nicklas asked me in wonderment.
"The worm is strong, but I have a greater weapon to use against it. More than that I have friends", I told Nicklas and the children sprites.
"Yes, I'm sorry I forgot. You are the Beast. You won't be if you can't deal with the worms", he reminded me.
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We stayed in Delirium for many days.
We continued to escort the children's sprites for their daily shine and stopped the worms from attacking the children. However, worm attacks have become more frequent.
And more worms appeared together to attack us.
The worms probably learned from their previous defeats and changed their tactics before attacking us. The worms would no longer attack us alone but in packs.
Sometimes up to three worms attacked at once but we managed to deal with them because I was getting better at using my Blood Guillotine. Chash's Dominon sword was also good at disabling the worms while I killed the worms.
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"Hey guys look what I've found", Ratatouille told us one day as he showed us a magical bean that he found while checking out the castle.
"The concentration of Neutronium particles in the seed is immense and condensed", Sara told us about the bean, but my friends don't understand her explanation.
Sara could detect the concentration of magic with her scientific instruments although that technology wasn't known in this world.
"That means it is a powerful magical bean", I translated to them for Sara.
"What is this bean?" Rinna asked Nicklas.
Nicklas came to us to check the bean that we found.
"Oh, where did you find it? It's the Seed of Delirium. We have been looking everywhere for it", he asked us.
"Seed of Delirium, what does it do?" I asked him.
"It will undo Delirium's curse", he replied to me.
"So how do we use the seed?" Cassandra asked him excitedly.
"Well, we can't use it on Delirium, only on Lucidity", he told us.