Chapter 18: Endless Bath
He didn't think to immerse himself for so long in researching 2 things that seemed small and were so important, but 2 days later, he came out of his research stupor.
'Interesting...' He thought.
He hadn't found many valuable things in this core, but he noticed several interesting things.
Each person or beast understands cursed energy differently. But, in fact, beasts not only understand it differently, but they understand it in the opposite direction, or at least he could see that at this point.
'Is it possible that the Power System of this world is based on the Cartesian Plane?' he wondered.
From what he has seen these days, it is not that the cursed beasts understand a different energy; the energy is the same, and both they and the Cursed Class sorcerers understand the cursed energy.
But somehow, the beasts have an interesting peculiarity that he realized just now: They understand the negative part of energy. Maybe that's why their Power System is called 'Corruption of Understanding'.
He realized that within this Core, there was an understanding of the Cursed Energy, but all in the sense of negative emotions centered on one type of bad emotion like fear or, in this case, Anger. Everything bad about Anger and out of control was specified in this Core. While it is true that it is on an almost superficial level, the truth is that it didn't have a shred of good stuff in it.
If he connected the wires, he could try to explain this using a Cartesian Plane.
There is a 0-point there, the origin of energy. But the cursed beasts only comprehend from that 0-point to the left, all in a negative sense. If he thought about that, it created a reason why the two names 'Corruption of Comprehension' and 'Corrupted Core of Comprehension' exist.
In such a case, then the Sorcerers, who are the opposite of the beasts, but study the same thing, should study the cursed energy in a positive sense. From the 0 point to the right, looking for the positive in it.
Since he did not have a teacher to learn from, finding the motive that enveloped the strength of these two types of beings by himself was a good sign for him. While it seemed that this would not help him in his mission, it was actually very useful to know this.
If you can know what the beasts understand, you may be able to know what they plan when you fight them since anything negative is something that humans can see with frightening ease.
That's why Klaus was satisfied after finishing this, and the last Cursed Core disappeared from his hand.
He smiled, but suddenly, a system window saying the same thing flooded his eyes.
[The Cursed Energy is looking at you! Warning! Warning! The Cursed Energy is strongly attracted to you, which has angered it; be careful!]
Klaus felt shocked, and his brain reacted quickly, but suddenly, a large attack of Cursed Energy hit him from behind.
'Holy shit... That hurts.' He looked behind him in shock; he didn't expect a cursed energy attack to hurt so much, but what his eyes saw was terrifying.
A huge wave of cursed energy was accelerating rapidly towards him, ready to strike.
'This is going to hurt...'
He put his feet firmly on the ground and began to run a little further into the cave. He knew he couldn't dodge the attack; it was impossible to dodge the Cursed Energy Bath, but he at least wanted to be ready to receive it.
Still, after running a little further inside, he stood still.
'I'm trapped.'
From the front came one, a bit smaller but powerful, rushing towards him.
Not moving allowed the energy coming from behind to quickly reach him, and soon, he felt the impact of two rather powerful energy waves, which engulfed him and tried to kill him. Within those huge energy waves came smaller waves that hit Klaus's ferocity.
"Buagh..." A gush of blood spurted out of his mouth, but he gritted his teeth after this and endured it with strength. He even summoned his knife to be prepared in case someone wanted to attack him in such a vulnerable state as this.
Still, the only thing that wanted to hit him was the cursed energy.
Even the System kept warning him about it.
'I've drawn the attention of the cursed energy... I saw that before, but I didn't expect it to be like this.' He thought.
The amount of cursed energy entering his body didn't harmonize with the rest; somehow, it looked aggressive. When Klaus looked inside his body, he felt that this energy was trying to do something strange.
'Is it trying to release the energy that is now in my body?' he thought.
The movement looked similar to that.
That made Klaus smile. 'Hehe, soon you'll be in there too, strengthening me. Let me see how strong you are, cursed energy. Do you want to attack me? Fine, come forward.' He thought and began to move to the front.
The continuous waves of cursed energy slamming into him were getting stronger and stronger as he walked outward.
It made him frown. 'Doesn't it end?' He thought, gritting his teeth with difficulty.
Suddenly, a shrill, annoying sound invaded his ears, and some system windows appeared in front of him.
[Ding]
[Ding]
[Attracting cursed energy is not always a good thing in this world. Sometimes, that can trigger one of the greatest fears in this world]
[Ding]
The sound was a bit annoying for Klaus, as he had to endure listening to this stressful sound in his head while seeing confusing words appear in front of him, and the energy continuously hit him.
Still, he kept his attention firmly ahead, wanting to find out what was going on with this massive amount of energy hitting him.
[Endless Bath has been activated]
[System enters Alert Phase]
[Aspirant Klaus, in his First Bath, has triggered an Endless Bath].
[Mission's time limit begins]
[Ding]
[23:59:59]
[This is an alert for everyone present in the same test: Complete the mission within the time limit if you don't want to die]