Sakura's younger sister—Crimson Jade Maru, or rather Ling, what exactly was her situation?
Lucas needed to figure it out.
Even if it meant dying once, it didn't matter.
Of course...
After hearing the rules Kosma just mentioned, he had a feeling—this guy wouldn't kill him.
Instead, he would take the opportunity to leave the Bronze Bell.
Although St. Freya Academy having an extra Kosma who was only a head would be troublesome.
But even if the other party escaped, it was no big deal.
Anyway, Lucas would die once.
Kosma would return to the inside of the Bronze Bell.
Unlike the Herrscher of Corruption released by Welt Yang, which was a done deal and could only be captured by Lucas.
Hmm...
All of this had to wait until Crimson Jade Maru was found; he didn't know where she had gone.
Lucas hadn't noticed the slightest abnormality in ninety-nine cycles of reincarnation.
She was the type who could hide very well.
If Crimson Jade Maru wasn't inside Theresa.
Then she was probably hiding in some place Lucas hadn't been to, or rarely went to.
It was even possible she had left St. Freya Academy.
Their eyes met.
Kosma looked at Lucas's scrutinizing gaze and said, "It seems... you don't agree with my statement."
"Yes, as far as I know—Ling is very likely the contamination source, and you say she's innocent; I really can't agree."
Lucas looked directly at Kosma without fear.
The young man with horns on his head smiled.
"You're questioning me... You're questioning me! Hahaha... Haven't I told you? I don't lie... Hehe, I don't lie, why don't you believe it?"
"Don't believe..."
"You will pay the price!"
With a crisp sound, Kosma's spine, which connected him to the Bronze Bell, broke.
The massive head, accompanied by the pale white spine, coiled around him.
Lucas's pupils constricted sharply.
"Kosma didn't lie?"
This question flashed through his mind.
Lucas was momentarily confused; Ling, as the contamination source, was innocent.
Was this Kosma's subjective conjecture?
Or was it that...
Ling was truly innocent, and the culprit was another contamination source?
In a flash.
Kosma, with a section of spine below his head, coiled around Lucas; he was like a snake, tightly constricting the man's neck.
Everything happened too fast.
Lucas had no time to stop him and was also very surprised.
"Kosma isn't planning to leave? It looks like he wants to... kill me instead."
If he dies, he dies.
At most, he would just start over.
Lucas had this thought, but he quickly realized he was wrong, and terribly so.
His neck was entwined by the pale white spine.
Lucas's face turned red then blue, and he fell to the ground weakly, and just as he thought he was about to suffocate.
The spine wrapped around his neck loosened slightly.
Allowing him to breathe.
At this moment, a sharp pain came from the back of his head, as if something was drilling inside.
That was...
Kosma's spine.
The bone that had just entered his body met Lucas's original bones.
The two split and reorganized.
The intense pain was like someone smashing each of his vertebrae with a hammer.
Lucas was powerless to stop it; he was like someone having an epileptic seizure, trembling on the ground.
The moment Kosma attacked, he had already lost control of his body.
He could only quietly await fate's judgment.
"So that's it... Kosma, he wants to control my body, truly worthy of an Ember... to be able to do such a thing."
Noticing the foreign object invading.
The disheveled Lucas's gaze was cold.
Kosma laughed wildly, "Your body is mine, your body is mine!"
"Lucas… Lucas!"
"You can rest easy, I, Kosma, will save the world in your place. I will succeed… I will become a true hero!"
The bones wrapped around his neck had completely loosened.
Following a series of mysterious protrusions on the man's back.
Kosma's spine moved down inch by inch, and his head quickly rooted itself completely in Lucas's nape.
In that instant…
Lucas clearly felt an awareness that didn't belong to him constantly assailing his brain.
Kosma wanted to completely seize control of this body.
Even to devour him.
Perhaps because their bodies were connected, Lucas could now faintly sense Kosma's inner thoughts.
It was somewhat chilling.
"You're insane," Lucas said through gritted teeth, lying on the ground.
Kosma gently turned his head, baring his teeth and roaring, spittle flying everywhere.
"I'm not crazy! I'm not crazy! You're the crazy ones… they are! Hehehe…"
"Don't struggle anymore, Lucas…"
"Give everything you have to me!"
Kosma accelerated his attack speed.
Waves of mental power assailed him one after another.
Lucas's head spun, as if he had encountered an attack from the Herrscher of Sentience.
"Kosma, if you stop now… it might still be in time," Lucas's voice grew colder.
Facing the Ember of the Previous Civilization, he truly couldn't withstand the onslaught.
However…
Lucas didn't believe he would truly be devoured by the other party; after all, even the contamination source couldn't do anything to him.
How could Kosma succeed?
The worst-case scenario was merely reincarnation.
Kosma chuckled, "Don't bluff, Lucas… It's come to this point, do you think I'll still stop? Humph humph… Hahahaha! I will become a hero, a hero who saves the world!"
"And you… you just need to watch from below."
Kosma was very rampant.
Lucas felt as if an alien object had crashed into his brain, and he knew—the other party was about to succeed.
At this point.
He could only go all out.
Lucas sternly said, "Kosma, since you're so stubborn, then let's try… let's see whose will is stronger!"
Abandoning defense, he met the attack head-on.
Lucas felt a sharp pain Attack from deep within his brain.
The world in his eyes spun, instantly plunging into darkness.
This was—the consciousness space. The Herrscher of Sentience had also pulled Lucas in here last time.
Clearly…
Lucas was about to have his final showdown with Kosma here.
Winner takes all, loser eats dust.
When Judah returned to the Bronze Bell.
He didn't see any sign of Lucas.
"Strange… Where did the human go? Could it be… that he was captured by a Valkyrie…?"
Judah stroked his chin.
After a careful observation, the white-haired, blue-eyed Armed Doll finally noticed something.
"Eh… How did this Bronze Bell fall down? The human couldn't have been trapped inside, could he?"
Judah's little brain spun very quickly.
He easily guessed the correct answer.
"Hey, human, are you in there?"
Judah knocked on the Bronze Bell that had fallen to the ground.
Silence.
The surroundings were quiet, with no response.
"What exactly happened here just now…?"
Judah scratched his head. Puzzled, he decided to wait here for a while.
If Lucas didn't appear for a long time.
Judah would go directly to the Valkyrie Dormitory to wait for him.
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