Chapter 263: Viscous Black Substance "What...what is this...
"What...what is this?" Scarlu asked stutteringly.
"I don't know either, but..." Looking at the black substance tangled like spider silk, the player pondered for a moment before his eyes lit up. He immediately poked Scarlu's hand and asked, "Hey, Scarlu, do you remember the second mission we did?"
"Mission? What mission? I don't remember anything." Scarlu opened his big, clear eyes and stared at Aurora blankly.
Player: "...You idiot, can you even forget something like this?"
"The mission Aurora mentioned should be the mission about finding Xiaoyu that the mysterious man with the checkered face once gave us." Reborn's face appeared on the big screen of the submarine at the right time.
"Reborn, Feng, and Coronillo, it's great to see you."
The player waved to the Rainbow Children on the other side of the screen, ignoring the noisy background noise, and sighed sincerely, "I really don't feel any chemistry when I'm doing missions with Scarlu."
"Well, after all, that guy's only advantage is his strong vitality." Reborn sneered with a half-smile.
"What? Are you laughing at me? Damn Reborn... Reborn-senpai." Under Reborn's cold gaze, Scarlu, who was originally shouting in dissatisfaction, became quieter and quieter.
"Scarlett, if you want us to respect you, you need to be more serious." Kronero was very helpless about Scarlett's incompetence. He turned to look at Aurora and asked, "So, why did you mention that mission? Kola!"
"Wait a moment. I'll send you what the detector scanned." The player typed on the keyboard and sent a photo of the dense, spider-web-like black substance to Reborn. "Look, doesn't this look a bit like the black energy the Grand Mage mentioned?"
"The Jade Queen who had the tattoo gave people the same gloomy feeling, and so did that devil." The player thought of the lone girl Terry - when she was about to lose her dark power, the action she took was beyond the player's imagination.
However, I wonder if she received any punishment from Uncle Long after everything was over.
"Huh, indeed, this black substance that can become sticky into silk threads in the sea gives people a feeling of discomfort." Feng looked at the photos and frowned slightly.
"I've never seen anything like this..." Colonillo looked at the sticky black spider web and couldn't help but clench his fists.
"Compared to the black energy on Cheng Xiaoyu and that demon, this thing looks more rigid, as if..." Reborn frowned, holding his chin, and thought, "As if it is simply an accumulation of negative emotions."
"The accumulation of negative emotions? It sounds... a lot like a curse..." The player, who was thinking along the clues thrown by Reborn, spoke subconsciously.
[Congratulations to the player for discovering a new species - Curse]
[Curse: Something formed by the negative emotions that humans have towards a specific object, and seems to be a product of another world.
Note: Curses can be removed with the power of negative emotions, or melted with the power of positive emotions.
【Random mission completed】
[Task rewards have been distributed to players' backpacks]
New dungeon clue: This is a turbulent fantasy world. Horrifying cursed spirits, formed from humanity's overflowing negative emotions, and the sorcerers who can detect and eliminate them have been in conflict for millennia, until a perfect opportunity to break the stalemate arrives.
[Players unlock a new power system: Mantra Power (blocked)]
[Player's Comprehended Talent Field: Space Field (Blocked)]
Players who stumbled upon it by mistake: “!!!”
Wow! The player is a genius!
"What's wrong? Aurora, have you thought of something?" Feng asked after seeing the black-haired girl suddenly change from her pensive state to extremely excited in surprise.
"If it's a buildup of negative emotions, maybe the Flame of Death can solve it." The player, who had already put on a diving suit, took out an oxygen cylinder from the prepared equipment and handed the lighter one to Scarlu.
The player said as he put on the oxygen tank, "The Flame of Death is a special power born from the human body. It is closely related to human life and can only be stimulated by strong faith and will."
"Sister Aurora, why are you suddenly saying this? Isn't this something everyone knows?" Scarlu, with his oxygen tank on, stood there like a little figurine. Even though he said something stupid, it made the players more patient.
"Stupid Skarlu." The player poked the purple-haired kid's head and explained, "The curse and the flame of death, one is a negative emotion, the other is a positive emotion, so naturally they're at loggerheads!"
"Maybe these two things can cancel each other out and melt!"
"Huh, Aurora is right. We can give it a try." Feng looked at these uncomfortable photos and nodded.
"Then let Skarlu go down and explore the way first." Reborn curled up a malicious smile.
The player gave a thumbs-up to the big screen: "I thought so too!"
Reborn's words really touched the hearts of the players!
As he said that, the player put a breathing mask on the purple-haired kid, then opened the door of the submarine and threw Skarluk out before he could react.
"Ugh! Why... why am I the unlucky one again?!" Skarlu was spinning and floating away, filled with grief and indignation.
"I'm sorry, Scarlu." The player spread his hands helplessly, tears streaming down his face, and said, "Because I'm really not good at things like water!"
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Skarlu, despite cursing, finally swam towards the sticky black substance in front of him reluctantly under the constant urging of the four people.
Skarlu swam to his destination.
Skarlu stopped.
Skarlu ignited the Cloud Death Flame.
Skarluk burned the sticky black substance.
Skarlu's flames increased the value of the sticky black substance!
"Ahhh! Sister Aurora, why are there more and more of them?! What should I do now?!" Scarlu, in a panic, began to escape aimlessly, "Help, help! Help me!"
"Nothing else matters, but the Death Flame does work, kola!"
"Oh, if only those magic weapons were still there, kola!" Konelo ignored Scarlu's miserable cry for help, nodded first, and let out a long sigh.
"Well, let me tell you, is it okay for us to just leave Scarlu alone?" Feng felt a little worried when he heard Scarlu's voice.
"That's fine. If he can't avoid even this little bit of noise, I think he shouldn't be a military advisor anymore. Going home early to raise octopuses is a good idea." Reborn glanced at the pretentious purple-haired boy and said indifferently, "Let's continue our previous discussion."
"It seems that Scarlu can still handle it for the time being..." Seeing the purple-haired boy nimbly dodge several attacks, Feng nodded and joined the subsequent conversation.
"If the Death Flame is effective against something like a curse, then the most effective Death Flame should be the Great Sky Death Flame and the Mist Death Flame, kola!" Koniro analyzed.
"One harmonizes, the other decomposes... that seems to make sense." The player who was pulling the rope that tied Skarlu said thoughtfully.
"Calming Rain can only slow it down, but Active Sunshine might make it more active. As for Constructing Mist...it doesn't look like it has a brain."
Colanillo looked around and thought the black substance looked like a lump of melted dark chocolate. He grumbled, "Perhaps the Hardening Thunder could be of some use—in terms of making myself more resilient."
"It looks like Scarlu can't be of much help."
Feng Qing sipped his tea and sighed regretfully, "What a shame! If it weren't for the fact that my supervisor, Hayato Gokuji, was undergoing the Guardian Trial today, I would have really wanted to go with Aurora to witness this unprecedented thing."
A hint of interest flashed across the face of the black-haired, red-robed boy, and Richie, who was sitting upright above him, also shouted happily twice.
"Don't think about it, Feng. You can't get there now. Besides, Tsuna and the others are in a critical test right now. We can't alert the enemy. Now, we can only let Aurora come." Reborn was multitasking. While directing Aurora's actions, he also did not forget to observe the movements in Tsunayoshi Sawada's classroom.
"You have seen and learned the characteristics of the Great Sky Death Flame long ago, Aurora." Reborn pressed the brim of his black hat and hinted vaguely.
The player, who understood everything immediately, stood tall and straight, patting his chest confidently: "Just leave it to me!"
"I'm off!" After pulling Skarluk back with a rope, parking the submarine and setting up the observer, the player took a deep breath, held Skarluk and swam out again.
Skarlu gasped for less than a second: "...No, is that right?"
However, he had always been extremely afraid of Lal Milch and Aurora, and he was no exception now.
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"Seeing it from inside a submarine is a completely different experience than seeing it directly with your own eyes..." With Scarlu's help, the player gradually stood firm and walked in front of the sticky black substance. "And..."
"And what?" Scarlu, who was circling around the black-haired girl, asked in confusion.
"Do you feel like there's something wrong with this thing? This sticky black substance seems to be expanding outwards at a very slow speed."
The player paused, then continued, "I came here because the fishermen were gradually running out of fish. Before this thing appeared, this place was almost the place with the richest variety and largest number of fish in this area."
"But I haven't heard any familiar creatures swimming around here, which means..." The player's eyes glared before he finished speaking. He took a few steps back, dodging the tentacles that suddenly emerged from the seabed. "Danger, danger! Is this curse pretending to be dead to lure us into exploring in person?"
"What?! This thing actually has intelligence!" Scarlu's scream was transmitted through the communicator to the ears of the Rainbow Children at Namimori Junior High School, making the three of them feel depressed.
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