Chapter 100: Ragnarok.
Octina simply couldn’t understand the recklessness of this boy. She had decided to manifest against the will of her contractor simply to separate this boy from her naive contractor.
From everything Rwar had told her after returning, this boy was somehow making her contractor happier.
He was even making her jealous, despite the fact that they had barely known each other for a few weeks.
Octina herself had heard about him through the rumors spreading across the Spirit Realm.
Although nobody knew exactly why, the Spirit King himself had declared this boy an Anomaly and a dangerous one at that.
The Spirit King was the progenitor of all spirits, an entity that had existed since the beginning of time and he could never make a mistake.
So, all the spirits had decided to keep this Anomaly as far away from their contractors as possible.
Even when Rwar resisted, they had trapped her within the Spirit Realm for a while, forcing Octina to return to her place.
But that didn’t mean she wanted to kill him.
She knew how disastrous it was to meddle with fate, let alone with someone whose relationship with fate was already so complicated.
So, her plan had simply been to scare the boy away.
After all, she didn’t believe that this boy truly loved her contractor that much.
How could love even bloom when you knew almost nothing about another person?
Especially in such a short span of time?
She had tried to scare him in the outside world but instead, he entered her stomach.
She had tried to scare him with her cells but instead, he fought his way through the complicated tunnels of her manifested body with a familiarity that made no sense.
In the end, she had appeared before him herself and given him a warning but despite knowing the overwhelming difference in their strength, he still refused to back down.
Not to mention, he even slowly adapted to her attacks while she was holding back.
Finally, she had no choice but to use as much of her suppressed strength as she could just to put him down.
Even though she knew doing so would place an enormous burden on the pitiful amount of mana her contractor currently possessed.
She could feel most of the bones in the boy’s body breaking and yet, despite everything she had done, the boy still raised his broken body through sheer determination.
Why was he trying so hard?
Did he truly love her contractor that much?
Or did he want something else?
But somehow, deep within her soul, she could feel it.
His soul was far from being pure, she could see it carrying too many scars, too many secrets and too much blood but there was one thing within it that felt incredibly bright.
His love for Lily.
What she couldn’t understand was how such emotions could even exist when he had barely known someone for such a short time.
Just then, an ancient voice echoed within her mind.
[What is bound beyond your sight was never yours to sever.]
The voice came from the deepest part of her soul as she recognized it immediately.
"S-Spirit King?!"
The words escaped her lips unconsciously as her entire body began to tremble. She immediately understood the mistake she had made.
But before she could do anything else, a massive shockwave erupted across the entire area.
Her eyes snapped towards the front.
The boy who had been standing there with his broken body was still standing, his limbs glowing with an intense blue light.
Slowly, the blue light shifted into strange runic patterns with blue flames covering it.
And then, the blue light coating his legs erupted outward like a ring of shockwaves, propelling him towards her at an incredible speed.
Even with her heightened perception, she could barely see him coming towards her.
Her body, already restricted by her suppressed strength, was simply too slow to react to such incredible speed.
And then a clear voice reached her ears.
The voice belonged to the boy whose voice had been barely audible only a second ago.
"Ragnarok!"
Both of his fists were pulled back as he flew through the air before slamming them into her stomach simultaneously.
The air was knocked out of her lungs almost immediately.
And despite being a manifested spirit, she felt an incredible amount of pain erupt throughout her entire soul...
As if it were being burned in some kind of hell.
"Guaaahhhhhh!"
The momentum came a second later as she shot backwards like a bullet before crashing into the wall of her own manifested body.
For a moment, her vision went blank but when it returned, she couldn’t move.
"What was that attack...?"
She couldn’t understand it.
The boy had been using strange techniques to move around and manipulate his momentum throughout the battle, but all this time, she had assumed it was simply some kind of Talent he possessed.
But that attack...
That was definitely an affinity.
An affinity that even she, a Primordial Spirit who had existed for thousands of years, had never seen before.
Her gaze shifted towards the boy, who was now barely a few steps away from Lily as he crawled towards her desperately.
She didn’t know what had happened to her body but she couldn’t build even the slightest bit of momentum, let alone take a small step forward.
What did he do?
But even if she could move, she had no intention of doing so because she had already received a warning from the King and she had no intention to incur their King’s wrath any further.
More importantly, she was curious to see what the boy was planning to do.
Lily was currently in a deep sleep and only by nudging her soul or by Octina giving up her manifestation could she wake up.
But nudging someone’s soul was nearly impossible because, unlike the body, the soul existed in a completely different place.
And to nudge it, one had to give the soul an incredible memory or some kind of stimulation it could never forget.
So, she wondered what this strange boy was planning to do.