Chapter 2629: Reversal

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Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Southern Capital, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse No. 234, Limitless Celestial Domain, Gainover Manor, Unparalleled Arena

"How is that statue moving, and why is it hostile toward you?" Anna exclaimed in astonishment. She had never known that the statues of her ancestors could move within the unparalleled arena. Had she known, she would have asked them to fight her battles back when she was still a mortal. That way, she could have slain demigods while she was only a card master, just like her young groom could.

The statue rushing toward us slowed as it drew near, noticing that Gainover’s flesh infestation, which had spread across 99.99 percent of Anna’s body, had suddenly halted, unable to complete the final 0.01 percent of its expansion. Anna’s other symptoms also appeared to have stabilized, neither worsening nor improving.

The statue immediately realized it had acted impulsively, understanding that I was most likely treating Anna’s condition in a manner unknown to them. Otherwise, Anna would have been devoured by Gainover by now.

"I think the statue is hostile toward you because you entered the unparalleled arena illegally and are intruding in the battle," Anna speculated based on her observations, before instantly cursing at the statue. "Damn you old fools. Are your rules more important than my life?"

Being misunderstood by its descendant, the statue turned its gaze toward me and used soul whispers to explain that Anna’s speculation was only half correct. It was able to move because of my intrusion into her battle, but it was not hostile toward me for breaking the rules. Rather, it had misunderstood the situation, believing that I was in cahoots with Gainover, since I was not lifting a finger to help Anna despite them informing me of how to cure her. It wanted me to convey this to Anna on its behalf and also urge her to master soul whisper as soon as possible.

Ignoring its request, I commented to Anna, "It looks like all your ancestors are a bunch of stuck-up snobs."

The statue’s eyes flashed in shock, a sense of betrayal washing over it. It knew I was doing it on purpose, but it could not prove it unless it planned to force me into admitting that I could hear and understand their soul whispers.

Helpless, it turned around and left, having noticed that the symptoms of Anna’s condition were finally showing signs of improvement. This meant that whatever method was being used to help her was working, though how effective the cure would be, only time would tell.

"You said it best," Anna said with indignation, eyeing the back of the retreating statue. That was when I noticed the change in her. She had cursed her ancestors and called them old fools. Only the Anna I knew and had fallen in love with would use such rude speech toward her ancestors without a care in the world.

I wanted to hug her, but she did not let me come near. Right now, she looked like a hideous abomination, with hair and teeth protruding from her skin. She had long since abandoned my embrace and was hiding her entire body behind a thin veil keeping her distance from me.

"Wyatt, I feel this sinister yet harmless energy entering my body. What should I do?" Anna asked. The drained, exhausted sensation she had felt ever since Gainover’s flesh latched onto her body had vanished. In its place, a sinister energy began to fill her instead.

"Don’t resist it. Just trust the process and hand over your body to it," I ordered Anna, not going into detail about what was happening to her body at that moment, as I knew we would not see eye to eye on this matter. Moreover, some might find it disgusting and revolting, whereas I considered it no different from a child resorbing its twin in the mother’s womb. Only here, it was a father and daughter duo. If you asked me, it was pure, unbridled nature at work. There was nothing disgusting about it.

By now, having noticed the changes in Anna’s body, her ancestors’ wills had deduced the route I had taken to cure her, though they were still at a loss as to how I was accomplishing it. They realized that I was helping Anna’s body devour Gainover’s, the exact opposite of what Gainover had intended.

Once again, I was immediately bombarded by Anna’s ancestors’ soul whispers. Their reactions were mixed. Some called me a heathen, others a dark genius. Some were satisfied with the end I had chosen for Gainover, feeling it was only fitting that the bastard who tried to eat his own daughter to further his pursuit of transcendence would instead become nourished in his daughter’s pursuit of love and freedom. Yet all of them agreed on one thing: they were grateful that I had protected the Unparalleled bloodline.

Because once Gainover obtained the unparalleled bloodline by devouring Anna, he would not have been content with just that. He would have used the same method to hunt down others with the unparalleled bloodline, devouring them to further increase his bloodline prowess until none were left.

In doing so, the unparalleled bloodline, long regarded as the strongest bloodline across all five regions, would have been reduced to prey within its own territory. To them, nothing could have been more shameful than that.

Anna’s ancestors’ recognition and complaints meant nothing to me. I was not doing this for them, but for myself, to save my lover. Some of the things those assholes said about what I was doing to Anna were deeply offensive, not just to me, but to Anna as well. If not for my desire to keep them unaware that I could hear their soul whispers, I would have argued with them long ago. As it stood, I could only overlook their words, considering they were fossils bound by eroded norms.

"Wyatt, I’m feeling bloated. There’s too much energy," Anna suddenly blurted out in panic, fearing she might explode from ingesting so much energy.

"Just share the excess with Anne and Ann through your origin card," I advised, knowing that Anna lacked the devour rule’s gluttony aspect that Gainover had used to forge the Cannibalism rune. However, there were three of her, and all of them practiced extreme paths. Overeating would not be a problem for them.

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