The ascent of the SSS rank primordial of corruption-Chapter 37: A blessing in disguise

"Ethan, you have to stop him, now!" Victoria shouted, her eyes wide as she finally snapped out of her daze and remembered Gobini’s plans.

In the next second, Ethan took off running while clutching his sword.

He didn’t know what Gobini wanted to do, but he could feel the power of that energy and knew well that to interest someone like David Stormerga, that crystal must carry a frightening secret.

[You have completed the quest: An undercover human trafficking scheme, your rewards are ready to be redeemed at any time]

[System: A new quest is available to you!

{An unholy ritual

Description: After breaking into Gobini’s lair, you find out about an unholy ritual to access powers that are beyond your comprehension, stop the ritual before it’s too late!

Difficulty: B

Rewards: 10,000 points from the corruption store, 1x random item}.

Unfortunately, it was already too late.

When Ethan got to within ten meters of Gobini, a colossal pressure fell on him, interrupting his run and making him struggle just to stay on his feet.

"What the fuck?" Ethan gritted his teeth as he tried to move.

His mana was being repressed back into his mana heart and his body seemed to lose more and more strength by the second.

With difficulty, he raised his head, his eyes hateful as he looked at Gobini and felt the energy around him.

It was strange, but also familiar, as if the Seraphar energy in his body reacted to that energy with disgust and contempt, as if the power of an old enemy he had never met fell upon him.

Gobini pointed in Ethan’s direction and an even more powerful energy fell on him, his knees almost buckling.

"Fuck you, you filthy little thing." Ethan grunted with difficulty as he tried to stay awake under that gigantic pressure.

Not far from him and out of Gobini’s field of vision, Victoria was going through something similar, although on a very different scale to Ethan.

Her breathing was heavy and she felt as if her body was about to be crushed by that golden energy.

Fighting her urge to just surrender, she looked around, noticing that the golden energy was slowly converging on the center of the room.

"Nghnn..." Victoria let a girlish grunt come out of her mouth as she bit her plump lips, her teeth digging into her flesh.

Using that pain, Victoria crept around the corners of the room until she found a rusty old sword without a handle lying on the floor.

She then grabbed the sword by the blade , her delicate hands tearing with her grip.

but she still held on with all her strength as she dragged herself up to Gobini, who was standing on a platform with his sight completely focused on Ethan.

’I need to be strong if I want to be happy...’ She repeated to herself, her weak flesh unable to resist and tearing under the force of the energy.

When she finally reached the top of the altar, her body had been completely dyed red and all she could do was give one last thrust, her blade meeting Gobini’s back.

"I don’t know what you did to my daughter, but you’ll suffer for it-" Gobini’s roar suddenly ceased, replaced by a miserable scream.

His eyes carried a mixture of terror, pain and surprise as his body collapsed forward, that energy slipping out of his control.

A control he tried to regain, but failed when Ethan’s blade met his neck and threw his head into the air.

"Victoria!" Ethan roared as he jumped towards her, trying to get her out of the center of that energy as quickly as possible, but it was too late.

All the energy converged on Victoria’s body and Ethan was thrown backwards, stopping only when his back hit the wall of the room.

His eyes took on an even more intense blood-red hue and he threw himself forward once more, trying to get her out of there at all costs.

[Don’t go near her! Stopping the ritual now would be terrible for her, and this energy might not necessarily be a bad thing, maybe even a blessing in disguise.]

Hearing the system, Ethan stopped, looking at Victoria reluctantly before finally stopping his steps and walking away.

At the epicenter of it all, Victoria’s mutilated body was slowly being remolded by the golden energy.

The prisoners just above the formation had long since been reduced to corpses, and soon even their skin, bones and flesh were completely consumed by the formation, leaving nothing but their clothes behind.

"The energy is diminishing..." Ethan muttered as he felt the intensity of the energy around him drop rapidly and Victoria’s body, which was levitating a few meters off the ground, begin to descend slowly.

Realizing this, Ethan moved in large strides, closing the distance between himself and Victoria in a few seconds before catching her in his arms, preventing her from hitting the ground.

At the same moment, the golden energy dissipated completely, finally revealing Victoria’s naked body to Ethan.

She had changed a lot, to say the least.

Any scars on her body had been erased and although she still retained her voluptuous figure with huge breasts, the accumulations of fat on her abdomen had been completely eliminated, revealing a perfect, slightly toned belly.

In fact, even her skin had changed, with small age marks and flaws that she tried to hide with make-up disappearing completely, revealing a youthful figure whose attraction went beyond her absurd proportions, skin as perfect as porcelain.

Victoria’s beautiful eyes opened, and a gentle smile took over her beautiful face as she raised her hand, touching Ethan’s bloodied face and pinching it lightly, as if trying to figure out if she was dreaming or not.

"Thank you... husband..." Victoria’s voice faltered and Ethan felt the woman’s sweet touch drift away as her beautiful green eyes closed.

"Victoria? Is everything all right?" Ethan’s eyes widened and he shook the woman’s body as he tried to wake her, but there was no response.

Slowly, he could feel her breathing getting weaker and weaker and the little energy she had flowing through her body fading away.

"System, what the fuck is going on?" Ethan asked, a little desperation in his eyes as he felt he was losing her.

[That golden energy was probably from a bloodline transfer formation, Victoria’s body is simply too weak to withstand the bloodline she’s received and without any energy to fight the corrosion, she’ll die].

"Damn... is there anything we can do? Something in the system store."

[Not with your current power.]

"Shit! Shit! Shit!" Ethan pondered hundreds of possibilities in his head, but all he could do was think of David.

Gritting his teeth, he grabbed the talisman he had received from the powerful lord of Stormerga and infused it with his energy.