With the Contestant gone, the Item couldn't exist, either.
Under the silent gaze of Black Ghost, the Orochimaru he held between his left hand's fingers, blurred before disappearing altogether. It was as if some greater mystery had just decided to erase him from the world on a whim.
Black Ghost certainly blamed this Greater Mystery for Orochimaru and others' existence, narrowing his eyes.
The Supreme was dead. This much, as a 12th-floor powerhouse, he had already confirmed.
Now, as soon as these lingering effects of an Item vanished, he would get the System's notification, too.
Black Ghost looked up and found the Jaeger, Striker Eureka, vanishing. He smiled.
So, it was the special effect of the Item itself. Otherwise, the Jaeger wouldn't have disappeared.
Anytime, now… Black Ghost patiently waited for the notification, throwing another lollipop into his mouth.
His new Summons had already disappeared.
It was hard for Black Ghost to keep three different Characters from the Cyborg 009 Random World as Summons, especially when they all demanded an exorbitant amount of Chakra.
In the distance, the bronze warrior let out a sigh as the titanic phantom behind him melted him into the air. The warrior itself then began blurring, just like Orochimaru clutched between his fingers, Black Ghost noticed.
The shadowy figure fared the worst in his eyes, though.
Black Ghost scoffed as he saw her crying tears of blood.
Then, like a foolish apparition, she pounced towards him.
What happened next, made Black Ghost's brows jump, his heart skipping a beat.
It was as if the limitations of her magical existence or the distance between her and Black Ghost didn't matter anymore, the shadowy wraith appeared right in front of the Mad Commander in a fraction of a moment.
It was like she had walked out of the unseen shadows and stood next to Black Ghost.
She lunged at him, her Haki tearing through the world.
Alas!
She vanished.
…
"Whoa…" Black Ghost mumbled, realizing he had stepped back just now. "These bugs were persistent… The Supreme was something, yeah?
"It's like the guy is dying a slow death, moment by moment. When did Items begin lasting after a Contestant's death? Tch! Anyway…"
Suddenly, Black Ghost, the Mad Commander of the Millennial Magical Alliance, frowned.
The bronze warrior had disappeared. The pilot, falling out of the Jaeger, had disappeared. The bitch had disappeared as well. Then…
… then why was Orochimaru still here, grinning like a maniac between his fingers?
As if his frown wasn't enough, Black Ghost suddenly felt an itch on his left cheek. Then the itch intensified, making him wince.
Black Ghost lifted his hand and touched the flesh, and smelled the awful, nauseating odor.
"Did she…?" A chill ran down Black Ghost's spine. "Did she touch me?! How?! No… It can't be… No one has ever touched me!! Me!!! Me!!!!!!!!!!!
"YOU CAN'T TOUCH ME!!!! MEEEEEEEEEEEE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! AHAAAAHA HAHAHA HAA AAA AAAA AAA!!!!! DAJFFEHFHAHFE UFAJFHAFHAH FAEFADO FADKfhadifhvdih adfhdfdfhd iofdhafadDAAHF DAHFADHFDH!"
It happened, then.
…
Kai was the last person who worried about the destruction of his body.
Ba-dump!
He could cut out a chunk of his flesh, infuse it with his core memories, and then forget about it, if necessary.
Baa-dump!!
Once he lost his body, the Ad Infinitum could literally turn the flesh he had cut off into the original one using Biokinesis, given he had an ample amount of Calorific Value stored within that flesh.
Ba-dum-pp!!!
What was crucial in this method was to not let the cut-off flesh die.
As long as the flesh remained alive, the yellow crystals within would keep bobbing up and down, waiting to carry out the pre-programmed functions.
Boommmmmmmmmm!
A mass of tumor, hidden within Orochimaru, exploded.
The Characters behaved as true flesh and blood beings as long as they didn't disappear back to the Grimoire. So, the tumor had been keeping itself alive using the legendary Sannin's existence.
But that wouldn't have been enough to give a true sense of death to Black Ghost, Kai knew.
So, just before the moment of his death, he had switched Blood Essence to Deoxys Normal Forme, letting the Deoxys Core appear within the tumor.
The moment Kai's entire 15ft tall body got obliterated, he materialized around the core, fusing with the tumor he had planted inside Orochimaru.
As the Biokinesis worked its charm, Kai began regenerating, switching Blood Essence again to Kaiju, boosting his Stamina.
The regeneration was so fast, in fact, that it couldn't even be quantified.
Even saying time had stopped wasn't enough to describe the speed with which Kai regained his body.
He needed to be fast, Kai had analyzed through the Blood Prophecy.
Extremely fast. Kai had been counting on this moment - the brief moment of madness to erupt within Black Ghost.
That's why he hadn't told the Characters his plan, either.
All Kai had done was to implant Orochimaru with the tumor; like a ticking time-bomb.
Before getting obliterated by Black Ghost, Kai had already sent most of his Items back to the Inventory as they couldn't be seen anyway.
The second thing he had done was to call back the Jaeger to the Shadow Realm.
It was crucial for him to not let the 12th-floor Commander pick up on the subtle irregularities.
And with Cersei playing by the script, vanishing after leaving her mark on Black Ghost's face, Kai knew his Luck had finally taken over.
What remained now was to not let the opportunity go to waste.
Room…
The Ad Infinitum activated the skill with the speed of light.
The Cursed Vault of Ice was technically a room, fulfilling one of the stringent requirements of the Skill - My House, My Rules.
It was also the Skill Kai had experimenting and having fun with the most.
…
[
Skill: My House, My Rules
Grade: C- (Growth)
Specification: Declare any room as the House Common Room
Requirement:
— Hogwarts Student
— Advance Magical Aptitude
— 1st Threshold
— Correspondence >40
— Worth >20
— Luck >10
— A Room
Attributes:
— Mana Consumption: 0.5 MP per square feet
— Min Area: 400 square feet
— Max Area: 900 square feet
— Mana Depletion: 10 MP per hour
Effect:
— The Contestant can declare any room, with a max limit, as House Common Room
— The Contestant can reject any one Rule within the House Common Room
— The Contestant can impose any one Rule within the House Common Room
— In the Contestant's absence, the Rules will persist till the Skill ends
— Only one Room can be declared as the House Common Room at a time
Skill Upgradation Conditions - 1st Year:
— Win a total of 100 Points for your House
— Your House—Gryffindor—must win the House Cup
— Prevent Slytherin from winning the Hogwarts Quidditch Cup
WARNING:
— The Contestant can cancel the Skill anytime before the Skill's auto-deactivation
— The House Common Room will continuously lose Mana
— The Contestant will be affected by the Rules as well
]
…
A space of 900 square feet lit up with Kai as the center.
Golden-blue rays of light shot up and down, reaching the deepest hell to the highest heaven.
There was not one part of the Vault that the ridiculous Skill didn't cover, entrapping all the beings within its confinement.
…
[
Skill My House, My Rules is applicable in the assigned space — House Common Room
State 1 Rule the Contestant would like to reject…
]
…
The Ad Infinitum was functioning at its maximum output.
Just who knew how much time the Mad Commander would need to come out of his momentary madness and react to the sudden presence of the Supreme?
Even speed itself would need Kai's permission to exist here; he would make sure of it.
[Conservation of Momentum] The AI beeped.
The System acknowledged the request faster than light as if it had decided to overdo the Ad Infinitum in a contest of processing powers.
…
[State 1 Rule the Contestant would like to impose…]
…
Kai's eyes reflected the dull gray notification.
And, even in this time-stagnated moment, a sly grin dared to surface on his face, his purple-rimmed reptilian eyes letting out a thriving, demonic glow.
"Intensify the sense of…" they imposed, "… Touch… by a million times!"
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