Cursed Immortality

"Use your Puppet Poison on me!"

The moment this command left Jacob's mouth, the static Brain Hunter suddenly started to churn, which made Jacob's eyes narrow in astonishment, 'Is it resisting?'

The tattoo over Jacob's chest was burning even more fiercely like magma, and those foreign thoughts were now becoming chaotic again.

"Humph, stop resisting, and do as you were told!" Jacob coldly uttered as he felt now more confident about Immortika's information that the Brain Hunter would rather die than use its first poison on someone like him.

This only made him want to make it use it even more, but in the end, it was still a matter of whether the enslavement array was powerful enough to make the Brain Hunter goes against its free will.

The moment Jacob tried to inflict more force with his order, the Brain Hunter, who was trembling, finally moved toward his finger only an inch away from its position.

However, when its fangs were about to touch Jacob's skin, it shook violently as Jacob suddenly felt the urge to clutch his chest, which was now bead red. That tattoo was now suddenly started to emit a black sheen, and black veins started to spread over Jacob's body.

It was like something wanted to dig that tattoo out of his chest, and not only that but kill Jacob in that process as well. Furthermore, a strange force suddenly attacks his mind, wanting to crush him entirely. This sent him into a state of mental shock, and he almost pressed the red button!

But right at this moment, "Hehehe, how could a universal limitation be broken so easily? But you are very close; all that is left is to preserve and use more willpower to force it to use the puppet poison…"

Jacob suddenly heard Immortika's eerie voice in his head, which he hadn't heard for a long time, and that damn spooky voice seemed to do the trick as Jacob was instantly awake from that painful state.

With bloodshot eyes, he roared in his head, "Use the Puppet Poison, damn it!"

The next moment, the trembling Bran Hunter again moved its retracted fangs toward Jacob's finger, and under Jacob's bloodshot look, it finally pierced into it!

Despite Jacob's current physical strength, the Brain Hunters' tiny fangs were easily passed through it like a tiny needle.

The next moment, Jacob, who was feeling like his mind would break at any moment or his chest would blow off, suddenly felt a strange chill over his finger before it vanished without a trace.

Thereby, the pain in his head and the heat over his chest started to fade away.

But it was far from over as just that pain faded; Jacob suddenly experienced blankness creeping into his eye, and he lost his vision.

He heard an emotionless and majestic voice at this moment, "Heretic…"

However, he was only able to hear that single word which almost made his mind shattered before his vision returned as if nothing had happened, and Immortika's voice rang instead,

"Hahhahaha… you were finally able to do it. I must congratulate you on your succession with my own voice for acquiring an Eternal Slave like the Eclipse Alipes Imhoff, ranked 18th in Fantastic Insects!

"Right now, it is Rare Tier-6 and has 1-Star Puppet Poison Magic Core, which should be enough even to affect 9-star beings. It will awaken its bloodline memories as it grows stronger. But never forget that its true strength lies in Brain Hunting!

"Oh, since I speak with you, my time is up for today, see you next time, and I look forward to what you will do with this new pet of yours. Entertain me well… hahahahh…!"

Before Jacob could even recover from his stupor Immortika's eerie voice fades with its spooky laughter as well as the book also vanishes.

'What was that voice? Did Immortika not notice it, or was it deliberately avoiding this question… what just happened. I only remembered 'Heretic,' and that word almost crushed me…' Jacob was bewildered as well as he felt a strange terror coming from his heart, and it was all because he heard that word from that strange voice.

It took him a while to calm down and finally focus on the matter at hand, which was what Immortika told him before vanishing.

Furthermore, he just discovered that the Atomic Grenade was lying on the floor as it should've fallen from his hand at some moment, and his 20X acceleration was also canceled somehow, which made him smile in self-mockery.

'So much for blowing up everyone with me if something were to happen. How foolish of me to think I could even stand a chance against a book that could make someone Immortal if it wants to harm me…' He could only feel bitter about it.

Still, that feeling was only fleeting as he had really profited big time as Immortika said he now had a fantastic insect as his eternal slave. It might never have happened before since I experienced firsthand just how resilient Brian Hunter was despite the enslavement array in the place.

If not for Immortika speaking in a timely manner, he could've lost his mind without even realizing it. It won't be an understatement that Immortika practically helped him big time, and he also had this feeling that he escaped that voice because of Immortika as well.

However, Jacob had no time to inquire about it, nor did Immortika want to comment on it, so this matter was as good as buried since he might not ever know what that was not anytime soon.

Anyway, Jacob looked toward the cauldron before he noticed something astonishing, his single vision had turned normal, which made him shocked, and when he touched his chard eyes, he discovered it had somehow recovered completely!

"But how?" Jacob was bewildered as he looked down and finally noticed the tattoo over his chest had also vanished.

But this didn't make him panicked at all because right now, he could literally tell where Brian Hunter was and what kind of intention or thought it had, and their connection was even clearer than before, and not only that, but he could still summon or unsummon it.

It's just that he didn't need the Blood Insect Enslavement Ritual Array anymore as he was now fully in control of the Brain Hunter ever move. He could even change its entire thought process and manipulate it like a puppet.

This was what it means to have an Eternal Salve which cannot betray you, no matter what!