New Life, New Task: I'll Be A Mom Then!!!



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Note: From this point onward we shall call the Vesala Ancestor, Lord Raven, and the spirit fighting Eli, Birsha. As you know Birsha and Lord Raven's spirit melded but was forcefully separated by Eli's powers.

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As Leon thought of this, his body moved to defend against Lord Raven's attacks. From the outside, one could see that both of them were on par with each other, and breaking the stalemate would still be far from reality. 

The strength of the opponent's attack could potentially destroy half of the continent with a wave of his hand!

If not for Leon also exerting great efforts to dampen the impact of the other party's attack with his monstrous mana control, the surrounding allies would have been caught in the crossfire. 

'His curse power seemed to have been endless…' Leon's eyes dimmed. 

The thought of Lord Raven freely taking away the life force of someone made his heart grow anxious. 

So far, Lord Raven only gets his curse power on the dead people around. But who knows when he would think of getting power over living people as well?

  'I cannot wait for him to do that…' Leon finally decided in his heart. 

He has to try if his theory is correct so that he can stop the Vesala Ancestor, Lord Raven, and all the members of the demonoid army from sucking life force to feed their curse power. 

Boom!

Harsh sonic waves and hundreds of rubble and dust exploded once more as Leon and Lord Raven's attacks clashed. 

"Heavens…" The soldiers near them could not help but retreat because how it was increasingly becoming more dangerous and intense their fight was. 

In the process, there were also a lot of demonoid soldiers who were destroyed because they no longer have a sense of danger. However, that does not make the battle favor Leon's side for the two of the strongest beings on the enemy side are still alive and well. 

Taking advantage of the cover that the dust and rubble made for him, he leaped backward to create a distance between himself and Lord Raven.

'It's time to test my theory…' Leon abandoned his weapons at hand and immediately focused on controlling the 'Essence of Life' that makes Prasinos able to have an abundance of magic. 

"Essence which gives Prasinos life…"

"Life which gives everyone the blessing of mana…" 

"If life itself could not be stolen and refused to be openly used by anyone, would it become food for the curse?" 

That is what Leon was thinking at the moment. 

And so he immediately activated his power from the Tree of Life. 

Voooong!!!

His vision suddenly changed. Everything around him seemed to have stopped. Except for two people who were still busy fighting on their own battlefield, Eli and Birsha.

Even so, that was not Leon's priority at the moment- it was at the frozen figure, Lord Raven who looked like it was vigilantly searching for him among the cloud of dust and rubble. 

Lord Raven's body had countless amounts of purple threads spearing out from all directions. May it be high up in the air, or down deep in the ground these threads were connected everywhere. 

May it be a puny little grass in the hill or his own demonoids, all life forms were connected to him by these purple threads. 

The only ones who seemed to be unconnected were him and a select few of the warriors from their side, including the Grand Masters. 

This meant that all those that were attached in the life threads could be a source of life essence to Lord Raven! He could steal all of these and convert them all to his curse power! 

Leon continued to look around and observe more. He also noticed that all curse users had similar cases, albeit, the span to which their threads reached was on a limited area and their threads were thinner and fainter.

"It's time to cut these off!" Leon looked at the threads and summoned the mystic power of the three of life." 

As he lifted his hand, something in his heart resonated. "Badump!" 

Little wisps of gentle green light came forth from the ground, the air, and the sky. 

Somewhere inside the most secretive part of the Seirende Imperial Palace, the Leprechaun closed the book which he was reading and looked at the gloomy light from the stained glass window of the Imperial Archives. 

The old Leprechaun had a relaxed smile on his face as he mumbled, "Alas… the young Seirende managed to get the approval of my dear mother Prasinos…"

At the same time, in the deepest part of Seirende Central Bank, a crystalline-looking lake suddenly showed movements. The usually gentle and calm lake shuddered, creating ripples in the water. 

Countless memory crystals circulated into the waves as they slowly created a whirlpool at the center of the lake. 

Just when it seemed like the lake would be destroyed by a sudden tempest, a figure appeared in the middle of the whirlpool and also mumbled in a childish voice, "Mother Prasinos had bestowed power to someone…" 

Then the figure turned and faced a direction that could have been where Leon was facing from miles away, "The lad from the Seirende… he better be using the power to finally end the evil in my mother's land." 

Also at the same time, deep in the abyss, the ancient spirit dragon opened his eyes and looked at the Tree of Life, which was the same tree that Leon saw at the End of Paths. 

"See, Prasinos… I did not bring the wrong child to you, am I?" The Ancient Spirit Dragon asked with a proud tone in his voice. 

The angel that guards the Tree of Life replied, "The Great Prasinos says that it thanks you for bringing the young man to her side…" 

"En… I hope that he, and the chosen one of the heavens, will win this time… I no longer want to see people perish because of the rebellious being that took root in the land." The Ancient Spirit Dragon replied as they watched how Leon would use Prasinos's permission to control the 'Essence of Life'. 

Oblivious to the fact that many are now watching and observing his movement, Leon immediately swung his hand, in a gesture to cut something as he bellowed, 

"Every living thing… and all that has received Prasinos in this land reject you, Oh Curse that steals!" 

"Begone and never take control of our lives again!" Leon coldly shouted. 

Snap!

As soon as he finished his word and gesture, the cold saw millions of threads suddenly snapping before his eyes.

Then as soon as it happened, the time resumed once more. 

Lord Raven immediately felt something was wrong. He suddenly felt like his body no longer moved as he wished and that his vision seemed to have made it so that he was involuntarily falling on the ground. 

"What on earth…" Lord Raven mumbled and tried to circulate his mana but to his surprise, he could no longer feel mana on his body.

"This can't be!" He exclaimed in disbelief. 

Then he searched around and saw Leon's calm figure. 

With the residual curse power he had on his body, he wielded his weapon and charged at Leon saying, "You! What did you do!" 

He was panicking, because while he was using his curse power, he could feel that the boundless power he had been enjoying earlier suddenly drained like a sinking ship. 

'This can't be! This can't be! This can't be!' 

He looked at Leon crazily and swung his sword haphazardly, but the other party only calmly responded to his attack and waited for an opening to deal with the final blow. 

Lord Raven saw that he could no longer replenish his curse power and could not even access the mana around him. 

He is basically a magicless person once the remainder of his curse power stored in his body would totally deplete. 

But what made him even more crazy was that his hands and skin slowly started to wither. 

As the Vesala Ancestor, he had been feeding with curse power to maintain his old body for thousands of years. And so without curse power… his body would surely decay and crumble to dust!

"Arrrgh!! Curse you!!!" He looked at Leon full of hatred and launched the strongest attack he could do at the moment. 

Seeing the opening that he was waiting for, Leon moved to stretch his sword to deal with the final strike. 

The sword that was made of various metals was rushing toward Leon's heart as he in turn also twisted his body to initially dodge the attack and execute a counterattack. 

Leon stretched out his right hand to swing on Lord Raven's neck and then snapped his fingers on his left hand. 

Simultaneously, the sword in his hand slashed away Lord Raven's neck, and a spatial portal appeared on the tip of Lord Raven's sword then the other end of the sword went out on another portal that is right in front of his chest, piercing his heart directly. 

Lord Raven looked at Leon in disbelief as he felt his head being separated from his body and his heart being pierced by his own sword!