Chapter 68: Chapter 68 Scapegoat
Esma retracting her wings into her back,
"Here I am wasting my worries I guess" she paused has she looks between Stupi head and body on top.
To see the small air bubbles popping up in the middle. She was more than ready to cuss him out; once he came out of the pool of slime he went in… a few minutes later he still didn't emerge. Stooping down to her knees, with her hands on the ground she then sighed and said to herself.
"Well even if you say that, you and I both know you always find yourself in the middle of it".
(Sfx Splurge)
Moments after finishing that statement, came Lieg jumping out of the pool; this time covered in slime landing on the ground with his legs separated from the pool.
"You need to learn how to use your words… great now I'm covered in poisonous slime, can you give me back my control before, I don't know… I die from the poison" Lieg asked not even trying to hide his anger.
He started flashing off the slime from his arm vigorously holding them apart, a light chuckle could be heard from Esma but has Lieg focus shift from wiping off his face towards her; she immediately stop chuckling turning her face to the side as if she wasn't the one doing it.
"Fine then, but I still don't see why you kept that body?" Esma asked, breaking her chuckling returning to being serious.
Lieg body made of light dark flicker in aura, as the motion of the wiping his face with both arms; cause all the slime the splash off his body solidifying the ground beneath his feet. He then slowly took up Stupi's head covered with the slime that came from his body, that splashed all over it and the body has well.
"These mountains are rich in Mana, so while it isn't really rare for slimes to here; the chances of a poisonous slime multiplying enough to create a creeping fear, would draw way too many questions than answers" Lieg explained.
"I get that, so what are you going to use Stupi's corpse?. And frame him to be the culprit… I don't think a previous Deacon is strong enough to cast a spell, of this magnitude who's going to buy that?" Esma question.
He followed her questions with a low sigh but stop mid way, has the gooey slime that was all over the head slowly started to encroach within every crevice it could find.
Lieg continued "Did I say he was the only culprit, did you forget he wasn't the one that invaded this Village. Someone else invaded this Village, used a powerful poison spell, in the Mist reported to his country and killed all the civilians. And being the Valiant hero of a deacon he was, after fighting the invasion manage to kill the weakest general of the Beretta Kingdom at the expense of his life. It's only unfortunate that he succumb to the poison, not only that; but only god know why he had to also suffered at the hands of the creeping fear that turned them into".
Has he was explaining to Esma in his hand was Stupi's head and corpse, and it was in the process of a massive transformation. The head now covered in slime started to change drastically the flesh tearing off, leaving only the left top side of the eye and the rest only skeleton what the lower jaw absorb into the slime.
And the body now covered in slime, was stripped of All Flesh leaving only muscles; the scars from previous battles were now embedded into the muscles forming bright gray patterns all over the body has the muscles turn purple ligaments black.
"There are some flaws in that story for example he would have already known about the Beretta's Invasion he was a part of the plan after all. And stripping him of his muscles and face now will definitely hide his identity",
"Those two problems are easily fix, first of all I just gave them a perfect story to tell the people of the Holy Kingdom who didn't know about the two kingdoms working together, secondly they won't have to see the dead body to know that he had some involvement in this as well as knowing that he had fought the Beretta General" Lieg replied.
As Stupi's body started to slowly began getting up on it's own, to face Lieg as he gently place Stupi's head firmly onto the neck; small thread like slime immediately stitched it together.
"And how are you going to show any proof of the two of them fighting, when the general was already killed from yesterday no less by you" Esma wondered,
"That's why I kept the souvenir",
Has he pulls out from his pockets a dark Crystal, holding it out in his hands while firmly placing his other on Stupi's corpse still having some slimes covering certain areas of the body.
"That's",
"Yup, forbidden Magic witchfire",
"Something like that, just for a corpse… but how did you know you were going to use this".
As he then smiled and said "I'm not planning on having a corpse statue, he's going to be as useful to me as he was alive a warrior Without a Cause".
He then places the Crystal into the hole that was the tear in his chest from when he pulled out his own core; and upon placing it within his chest the hand that was on top of Stupi's head started to Glow in a pitch black aura has he whispered in its ears.
"Xýpna stratióti"
A low humming pulse started to awaken within the body, the Slime beneath its feet started to engulf the body rapidly; upon touching the leg formed battered and broken off in some parts armored leggings, going up made underneath, a black old torned up holy Kingdom military pants with two bone holding it like a belt.
In his open chest an armored plates on each abs with the tear in the middle of his chest now forming a protruding diamond shaped crystals, with the inside glowing as if there was a purple fire still Ablaze within, on each arm there were four plate of Crystal like armor: on the shoulder top, at the back of the shoulder blade, the bicep and tricep interlocking, and arounded the knuckles forming spikes all stitched in into the muscles.
The scars that were visible across the body started to glow in a dim gray lights, with the huge cross glowing the brightest simmering even. The witch's gray and black eye from the fire spell appeared on the last piece of Flesh remaining on his face. Lieg took a step back to admire is creation, as it just stood still shaking his head in approval.
"Not bad for a deacon level corpse, well I guess the Forbidden spell did add-on marks of curse on the slime… anyhow… bended the knee" Lieg commanded, and without a moment of hesitation.
(Sfx Thud!)
It kneeled in full subservient it's motion alone vibrated the entire area,
(That's a top tier A class?… no, it's even more. A normal slime Warrior can take down a small castle alone, but this one has enough power to take down a small Kingdom).
Esma thought as looked at it from a distance, it's twisted mana swirling outwards in small light gray and purple smoke on the floor.
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