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    *Click*


    The runes shone on the cor, before a green screen appeared before Ss'' eyes.


    [An unknown energy is entering your body]


    [ve item detected]


    [Your volition me is retaliating]


    [Your mind is retaliating]


    [Your body is retaliating]


    [Your soul is retaliating]


    [Your resistance to ve items has increased]


    Ss could feel the mana inside his body consuming the mana that was entering through the cor.


    It was happening at a tremendous pace, but from the words that were appearing on the screen, Ss was worried that retaliating might mean that his body, mind, and soul might fight back and possibly destroy the cor.


    Looking down, Ss realized that he couldn''t take it off on his own without breaking it. These kinds of cors had a function that made it impossible for anyone other than the person who had put the cor on to take them off.


    However, right as he was about to ask Jessica to take it off before his body destroyed it, he heard a maniacalughe from her.


    She looked a little crazy whileughing, but Ss couldn''t help but feel a tiny sliver of attraction toward her.


    ''Ah... These weird feelings of attraction will get me in trouble one day.'' Ss thought, pinpointing exactly what he found attractive about her at that moment...


    "You idiot... You absolute moron! You''re so stupid! Oh my god I can''t believe this." She spoke with enthusiasm and joy in her voice.


    "I get to both survive and have a ve all to myself. Greed doesn''t have to know about you. I''ll keep you a secret. Maybe I''ll tell her that you died due to the mission." She jumped up and down like an excited little girl awaiting her Christmas presents.


    "Now! Kneel before your queen!" She shouted with hands on her hips and her chin pointing toward the sky.


    "Take the cor off." Ssmanded, yet she justughed again.


    "You think you can order- Oof." Yet, just before she could finish her sentence, she felt like she had been hit in the abdomen by a charging bull.


    Her body was immediately flung back, shooting through several trees before dropping to the ground and puking everything in her stomach.


    "Take... It... Off." Ss spoke, this time pausing between each word in order to emphasize them.


    "B-But... How." She muttered, yet her random ramblings only served her with another beating.


    After a few minutes of this, Jessica found herselfying against a tree, her entire body having been beaten, bruised, and bloodied after Ss had bashed her around for the 10th time.


    "Take it off." Ss ordered again, however, this time he held an icicle in his hand and ced it over her heart.


    This time she yielded and did as he ordered. A few secondster, she was the one with a cor around her neck, and the moment Ss heard the click that indicated it was closed, he picked her up by the hair and looked her in the eyes.


    "Does this ve cor have a cloaking feature?" Ss asked.


    At that moment, her eyes glowed blue for a moment before she spoke.


    "Yes, sir. You can find it near thetch."


    Ss looked at the area she pointed out before narrowing his eyes and tilting his head.


    "How do I activate it?" Ss asked.


    "Just tap on the right and left-hand side of thetch at the same time."


    *Beep*


    Doing what she said, Ss watched as the cor disappeared before his far eyes, bing extremely thin before eventually putting itself into her skin and bing one with it.


    "Alright. Here''s the n. If anyone asks you anything about the mission, you''re going to tell them this..."


    ***


    Ss walked down the bridge connected to the elevator-like tform. Jessica was walking right behind him, and now she seemed a lot more like her real self.<novelsnext></novelsnext>


    Ss had made sure that her personality didn''t change. When he had ced the cor on her, she had be a robot. Even her eyes felt like they had be hollow as if there was no life in them.


    However, now she looked exactly like how she was before. Hell, even her wounds were healing for a reason she couldn''t understand.


    Yet, there were some differences in how she would act, not that anyone else other than Ss would notice.


    Ss had ordered her to swearplete loyalty to him. Anything that might in any way betray him was prohibited for her to do. He then told her what to say when people asked her how the mission went, while also spying on Greed for him and telling him everything about her that she knew.


    "Oh. Mr. Evergreen?" A man asked as Ss beeped his card at the front booth. This was something required for everyone to do even though people already do hand scans before entering the city.


    "Yes?" Ss asked with a tilt of the head. He had his hood on to make sure people didn''t see his ck hair. It was also to make sure that his previous identity as Ss Skrk would remain safe.


    "Sir. Themander has ordered us to tell you to go to his office when you return from your mission." The man exined.


    "Alright. Will do." Ss raised his hand as a way of telling the man ''farewell'' before walking away from the booth.


    After a while, Ss said goodbye to Jessica as well as she walked toward the mercenary hall to give her report in. Of course, Ss had ced some precautions in ce that ensured Jessica wouldn''t say a thing if the cor was somehow removed.


    Looking at her through his mystic eyes, Ss sighed and walked in the direction of Arichie''s office.


    However, as he walked in that direction, he chose to look at his status screen, yet when he saw what had changed on it, he couldn''t help but widen his eyes.


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    Name: Seth Evergreen


    Age: 6 years 8 months


    Race: ???


    Core: Solid-Topaz


    Affinities: Mana (Earth, Fire, Water, Air), Life Equation, Light, Darkness


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    Bloodlines:


    Shadow Walker - 1%


    Mist Walker - 8%


    Pink Python - 24%


    Thundertusk - 23%


    Sonic Bat - 38%


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    Bloodline Abilities:


    Sonic Screech - (Creates a powerful screech capable of destruction, incapacitation, injury, and killing.)


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    Blessings/Curses:


    Evolution - (Your body, mind, and soul have been sculpted to transform you into the peak life form. Everything you do, and everything that is done to you, shall affect how you evolve.)


    Deathlock: Ensures your enemies can never escape you. If your enemy attempts to escape, they are cursed with the "Deathlock" curse that allows you to know their position at all times. This curse is not applied to those you deem allies and those you give mercy to.


    If you choose to run away from a battle, you will be cursed as well, halving the strength of all your bloodlines, abilities, mana, etc.


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