Cursed Immortality

The reports of terrifying explosions that had taken place at the Dead Faction Territory quickly reached all the way to the Unique Plains, causing a huge ruckus.

Furthermore, another announcement that sent the Dark Beings into depth of despair was made the very day. The Neutral Faction and Life Faction joined hands against the Dead Faction, and a kill order against Dark Beings was issued.

The Dark Beings on the Unique Plains tried to contact the headquarters in their territory, but they failed.

Not only that, but the Unique Plains Trial was still active, and the three factions had just reached a common ground about how to extract resources from the kingdom-type trial. But now, that treaty has been voided, and the Dark Beings were suffering massive waves of large-scale attacks from all directions.

The chaotic, unique plains become even more chaotic after this while the others are still looking forward to the news from the Dead Faction. The most enthusiastic and gleeful in the Dead Faction were naturally the Life Faction.

Although no one knows who provoked this calamity, everyone was calling this daring person a hero in Life Faction without even realizing that even a bigger storm was brewing.

At this moment, in the depths of Star Ocean, there was nothing but darkness here and terrible gravity force that could leave even a tier-1 unique rank physique in crushing despair; a giant body lay on the ocean floor without moving.

The giant was extremely skinny, almost looking like a skeleton with a layer of skin.

Suddenly, the unconscious giant's eyes flattered before his eyelids snapped open, revealing a pair of amber eyes. Jacob looked confused for a moment before Nyx's anxious voice rang in his head, "Ah, finally you're awake. I thought we were going to die."

Jacob finally came to his senses as he remembered that he used the spirit water escape ability, turning into water and fleeing from the terrible explosion. Although he managed to escape because of the features of the spirit water escape ability and his resilient body, he exhausted all the mana and lots of physical energy, so before he realized it, he fell into slumber.

Jacob tried standing up and soon found that he was under at least 500-G force and surrounded by water and darkness.

Furthermore, a terrifying hunger washed over him, and the effect of Wyvern's endurance long vanished after he reached the peak of unique-tier-9, so his hunger was now back and with revenge.

But he wouldn't eat here if he didn't want to drown in water, and he had no energy to move even. So, with some difficulty, he managed to take out injections with the healing liquid he had prepared with the healing potions he found in Captain Free Sword's treasures.

Fighting against gravity, he managed to inject the potion and felt a warm current and some energy returning to his body. Still, he was far more at his optimal condition, so taking advantage of his somewhat better condition, he injected ten more healing injections before he finally felt he could move under this force.

"How long was I unconscious?" Jacob asked Nyx.

"How do I know? I can't see anything unless you are awake. But it should be around ten days. You were very reckless back then. That explosion can easily incinerate you. We have tested it in the nightmare realm many times. If not for the presence of the water, you would've died. At least think about my little life before you take such a reckless action…!" Nyx began to rant on like crazy, as it was the first time she felt she was going to die.

Before, she thought she had taken a very powerful nightmare contractor, and with Jacob's performance, she felt even more assured. Yet, now she found that Jacob wasn't omnipotent and omniscient and almost died with his own hand, so she was getting very anxious.

After all, her life was now connected to Jacob, and if he died, she'd die as well. Furthermore, since Jacob was unconscious, she was completely trapped in the Nightmare Realm and cut off from the outside world. It was a terrible feeling to keep waiting for her death, and only when Jacob was awake was she able to feel relief.

Still, she was very afraid now, and so she started to lecture Jacob.

Jacob, on the other hand, completely ignored the wailing voice in his head after he got the answer he was looking for. Still, he felt lingering fear, and he had really been extremely reckless with his new toy.

But it wasn't like he didn't have a way to escape, and he only took that risk because he knew the Spirit Water Escape would work. If the ocean wasn't present, he might've really surrendered and tried his luck as he did with the Captain Free Sword.

However, it was his last resort since he knew Necro was far more troublesome than Necro, and he wasn't as desperate as him. He might not even give him a chance after getting what he wanted, so this was the safest choice, and he had no regret since he was able to escape in the end.

Jacob then looked at his bony body and smiled bitterly. Although the advanced, unique rank healing potion provided him with energy, he was only 5% recovered, and his mana reserves were completely depleted except for the hex core.

'I need to recover my water mana, and then I can easily escape this place.' Jacob thought as he down the 500-G force wasn't a problem for him to endure, but swimming against it was a pipe dream with his condition, so water magic was his only choice.

There was also no mana in this depth of the star ocean, but Jacob wasn't too worried as a palm-size white translucent crystal appeared in his hand. It was an advanced unique rank Magic Gem, and he quickly began to absorb the mana in it, and replenished in water mana.

However, at this moment, Jacob was shocked because just as he absorbed the mana from the magic gem into his body, it didn't go towards his water magic core; instead, his Cursed Heart suddenly began to bet and begin to circulate the mana and convert it into energy and his body begin to heal!

It had never happened before, so Jacob was bewildered. His eyes began to glow brilliantly with elation, 'Could it be this only became possible after my body reached the Unique Rank? No, it should be the Cursed Blood. The heart is transforming the mana into blood, and then my blood is converting it into nutrition and healing my body!'

The changes in his body after he completed the stages of cursed immortality were still complete mysteries for him, especially the cursed blood. He still knows somewhat about the cursed heart, but the cursed blood is still a complete mystery.

Now, he accidentally found that his blood could convert mana into physical power and heal his body. This was a huge discovery and boon for someone like Jacob, who needed a huge amount of energy because of fluid acceleration as well as the Cursed Immortality's strange hunger.

Without hesitation, Jacob continued to absorb the pure mana into his body, and just as he thought, the cursed heart was channeling the mana into his blood before the cursed blood converted it into energy and healing him.

A pale grin appeared on his face as if he had discovered a treasure, 'Terrific!'