Curse Returns: Eight Extraordinary Skills? I lack nothing.

"Did you notice?"

A voice slowly drifted from deep within the factory.

Yuuto looked up abruptly and saw a figure slowly walking out of the darkness, followed by about forty monsters.

The ones in the front row were almost the same as those we had just killed, but the ones in the back row were much larger and darker in color, with one or two even having a dark silver sheen.

The man leading the group stopped twenty meters away; he looked no different from a human.

He was in his early twenties, dressed in a suit, with a smile on his face, and a faint blue light emanating from his chest, just like those of the monsters.

“My name is Plague, and I am what you humans call a cursed spirit.”

He bowed slightly to Yuuto, performing a standard Western greeting, a faint smile on his face, but his gaze towards Yuuto held an eerie quality.

Chapter 30: Once a monster, always a monster

Yu Ren looked at the plague with a wary expression, thinking to himself: This time I'm probably going to fail.

With such a highly intelligent cursed spirit, it must be at least a top-tier one. Wouldn't it treat me like a roadside fish, easily toyed with?

He was already prepared to flee.

Even if it costs me everything and I have to burn my lifeblood, I must survive.

He has not yet realized his ultimate dream.

But with the mindset of never giving up until the very last moment, Yuuto still tentatively probed the fluctuations of the plague's curse power.

It would have been better if they hadn't investigated; after the investigation, Yuuto's imposing aura instantly returned.

"You're pretending to be your mother!"

A beam of light formed from lightning suddenly appeared beside Yuuto and shot straight toward the plague.

Plague clearly hadn't expected Yuuto to suddenly attack. By the time he reacted and dodged to the side, it was too late, and a huge hole was blasted into his left shoulder.

Yu Ren stared at the guy, inwardly cursing himself for being too cautious, almost letting this level two curse spirit get away with it.

However, since the opponent is an intelligent cursed spirit, we still need to be careful.

If the enemy doesn't move, I won't move either; I'll wait for him to make the first move.

Call for backup.

Yuuto looked at Fushiguro Megumi standing to the side, who immediately understood and took out her phone to contact the people at the high school.

"You, come here." Plague casually pointed to a monster nearby, called it to his side, and then placed his hand on the monster.

In an instant, the monster turned into a pool of blood, while Plague's shoulder was completely healed.

After doing all this, the plague looked at Yuuto again, somewhat bewildered.

In the past, as soon as he appeared and spoke, those extraordinary individuals would flee in terror.

This guy not only didn't run away, but instead attacked me.

But he had a second trick up his sleeve.

This tactic is always effective; it can subdue the enemy without a fight, completely destroying their will to resist.

He first patted his clothes, then slowly began to introduce himself:

"I am a conceptual curse spirit formed from humanity's collective fear of plague, infection, zombification, apocalypse, and loss of self."

"My abilities are also closely related to my birth. The most basic and important one is that I can transform humans into Kabane, an infected species."

"Therefore, what you just killed was not a cursed spirit, nor any other species, but..."

"Humans!"

After discussing the plague, we stood still to observe and wait.

At this time in the past, the person opposite would have already turned pale and their hands would be trembling.

Or they would collapse to their knees and weep bitterly:

"What have I done?!"

But the person in front of him didn't react at all.

Yuuto glanced down at the corpse on the ground, then at the system announcement, before looking up at it again.

His gaze remained unchanged from beginning to end.

The plague squinted, took two steps forward, and said somewhat impatiently:

Didn't you hear me?

The thirty-odd people you just killed weren't cursed spirits, they were humans!

They might have been workers, students, or the pillars of their families; before they became like that, they could still breathe, speak, and think.

Yuuto remained silent, only staring coldly at him:

"Are you done talking?"

Plague was taken aback, clearly not expecting Yuuto to react this way.

Yuuto stared at the Kabane, transformed from humans, behind the Plague, his anger tempered with extreme calm, and he shouted:

"It's all your fault, you monster, you're the one who caused all of this."

"You killed them, you turned them into this."

The plague broke through its defenses and cried out, "They used to be human!"

Yu Ren pointed his blade directly at the plague:

"They have always been human, not just in the past."

But the real ones are long dead; these are just monsters you created.

Once a monster, always a monster, and never to be human again.

I want to avenge them, and to take responsibility for all of humanity.

As Yuuto spoke, six dark figures slowly appeared behind him.

These were the five special level-two cursed spirits that Youren had subdued using the Spirit Binding Technique, as well as the quasi-level-two cursed spirit that he had just subdued.

Having caught his breath, Fushiguro Megumi walked to Yuuto's side and summoned ten shikigami with shadow magic, ready to fight side by side.

The plague looked at the two people in front of him, and his face turned completely gloomy.

He thought that psychological warfare tactics would work; even if they couldn't completely defeat the opponent, they could at least make them hesitate for a moment.

But the person in front of me wasn't buying it at all.

"All of you, charge!"

With a wave of its hand, the plague sent over forty Kabane roaring in unison, swarming in from all directions.

Yuuto glanced at it and quickly estimated in his mind.

The ones in the front row are about the same level as those we just killed, level three curse spirits.

Mixed in behind were several larger ones with darker skin, and two of them even had a dark silver hue, their combat power was at least equivalent to a near-second-level fighter.

Yuuto turned to look at Fushiguro Megumi: "You stay in the back and support with your shikigami, don't get close."

Fuhei Hui naturally wouldn't cause any more trouble, and took a few steps back, saying, "Understood."

"kill."

Yuuto was the first to rush out, and the first wave of contact erupted three seconds later.

Five of the fastest ordinary Kabane pounced on him, and Yuuto unleashed a flurry of attacks with his twin swords.

With a horizontal slash and a diagonal sweep as it fell into the water, enhanced by lightning magic, the blade sliced ​​through the steel-like outer membrane as easily as cutting paper.

Two Kabane heads flew off, one was severed at the waist, and the other two were pierced through the chest.

But more Kabane surged forward, and Yuuto did not stop, unleashing the Niten Ichi-ryu: Continuous Flash Slash, alternating between his two swords, each strike faster than the last.

The six cursed spirits controlled by the Spirit Binding General also made their move at the same time.

The speed-type Kabane vanished in a blur, its twin scythes sweeping across, instantly decapitating two ordinary Kabane.

The shapeshifter stretched its body into a black curtain, enveloping the three Kabane and shredding them within. The strongest of the two Quasi-Level Two Cursed Spirits grabbed a Kabane and tore it in two.

Fushiguro Megumi controlled the shikigami from the rear, and the Tamaguchi charged into the Kabane horde, smashing and tearing apart one enemy after another.

The melee lasted for two minutes, and the ground was already littered with the remains of Kabane.

Of the three level-three cursed spirits under Youren's command, not all survived this battle; in fact, two died, which was a great pity and a waste of forty points.

Let's go back one minute.

The plague stared at Youren, its expression growing increasingly grim.

It had thought that these Kabane would be enough to exhaust the opponent's curse power, and even if it couldn't kill him, it would keep him busy.

But this guy got fiercer and fiercer as he killed, showing no signs of getting tired at all.

Seeing that neither fighting nor persuading could work, the plague made a very decisive decision.

He's going to run.

A blue crystal resembling a small spider detached from its chest and fled towards the sewer.

Before disappearing into the sewers, the plague turned and glanced at Yuuto one last time:

"Just wait, I will definitely turn you into a Kabane."

Chapter 31 Conservation of Total Cursed Power

Yuuto stared at the empty shell left behind by the Plague Curse Spirit after it fled, then looked at the dark, deep sewer entrance, his brows furrowed and his expression grave.

He clearly realized that because of his arrival, the trajectory of this world had quietly deviated from the original story.

There is an ironclad rule in the world of sorcery.

The total amount of magical power is conserved.