Screams rang out outside.
Although she could not hear them clearly.
Jiu could still tell that they were the sounds of many people screaming together.
She listened for a while, then paid them no further attention.
The most important thing right now was to practice the Sainthood Method.
Yet she had only practiced for a short while when a knock came at the door of the Solitary Confinement Room.
"Come in."
Jiu spoke.
The door of the Solitary Confinement Room slowly opened.
A pitch-black humanoid being with a single horn on its head walked in.
"Mother."
The humanoid being spoke respectfully.
Mother?
Jiu was caught somewhat off guard.
But she had weathered her share of storms, and soon formed a guess.
"Are you that curse?"
Jiu asked.
The black, single-horned figure spoke:
"You separated me from an endless combination of Spellcraft. Thanks to that act, I developed an independent consciousness-"
"I truly came into existence."
Jiu fell silent.
She saw that the two guards outside the door of the Solitary Confinement Room had blank expressions, seemingly unaware of anything.
On the clock hanging on the wall, the hour, minute, and second hands had all stopped.
A speck of dust hung motionless in the dim light.
The warning runes on the walls showed no response.
The laws had fallen silent.
Like a flock of docile sheep-
In this moment when everything had frozen, they dared do nothing.
A chill surged up her spine.
Damn it.
Why was an inexplicable chill shrouding her heart, refusing to fade?
Jiu steadied herself.
Clearly, this being was the curse she had drawn out of "Wang."
-Could a curse develop consciousness too, becoming something like a "person"?
How bizarre.
"Mother, please nourish me."
The curse spoke.
Nourish...
Jiu instinctively glanced down at her chest.
No.
*That