Whoosh! Whoosh!
Sharp whistles tore through the air in rapid succession. Two figures, wrapped in blood-red arcs of light, darted and chased through the dense forest. Wherever they passed, it was as though a Category Twelve typhoon had swept through—grass and trees snapped, while sand and stone shattered.
At that moment, the little girl named Aresia had her originally azure eyes turn scarlet as her blood energy surged. Another consciousness hidden deep within her soul quietly surfaced.
That woman found me this quickly? She really won't stay dead!
Damn it, this was too sudden. Nothing is ready yet...
The little girl Aresia—no, more precisely, Akasha Serpent Michael Roa Valdamjong—looked back at the blood-red streak relentlessly pursuing him. His brows furrowed as he cursed inwardly.
As the infamous "eternal reincarnator," Roa's signature ability was to transcribe his soul's information into a chosen infant after his main body died. Once the victim had grown to a certain stage, he would corrupt their soul and transform their body into a Dead Apostle.
In fact, he had already used this technique to escape extermination by his archenemy Arcueid more than ten times.
The body destroyed by the White Princess on Amingo Island several years ago had been his fifteenth vessel.
Generally speaking, Roa's first criterion for choosing a reincarnation target was high social status. Once he gradually took control of that body, he could swiftly seize control of the region using the victim's identity and resources. Physical aptitude came second.
However, because his body had collapsed too abruptly in that battle, Roa had not had time to select a reincarnation vessel. He could only use the spell he had inscribed in advance on Amingo Island, spreading Bloodkin and creating chaos on one hand while randomly teleporting his soul and transcribing it into a body