Camille's Origin - Braham - Crypt - Presence of the Goddess of Curses

Philip went back to the past and saw himself in the middle of a village. There were ten ordinary houses and a manor in the middle. In front of the manor are burnt wood and charred bones

He came to the village that Camille described. The only difference is that there was her remains and that the village looked barren

It was already daytime and there are still knights patrolling and stationed around the village. A temporary tent was set up for the captain and his armored horse to stay. He wasn't arrogant enough to demand housing in the manor of the leader of the village, even if he offered it

Even if there were knights patrolling, as usual, ordinary beings aren't able to see Philip. Only higher beings like gods are able to see him

Philip felt safe that he could move around with more freedom, unlike before. But little did Philip know, he was being watched

「 ... 」

Just then, the knights started to go into a commotion. It was because a person came in walking in the perimeter of the village

Philip figured that this person was Braham because of how Camille described him. Short black messy hair, red eyes, stunning black suit, but this time, his face is full of dread

He also knew that it was Braham because of his abilities that can identify him

"Identify yourself!"

"Where did you come from?!"

"Who are you?!"

The knights shouted in a different language, but Philip could understand them because of ⟨⟨ Earth Language Translator ⟩⟩ ability

Braham ignored them and continued to walk forward. The villagers and the knights captain was woken up. They watched the man ignore the knights

The witnesses from last night screamed that he was the monster that they saw together with Camille. As they shouted, they were immediately taken down by a few men of the village with the ladies keeping the girl quiet

But the captain heard them and he immediately stepped in front of Braham

"Cease, monster!"

He brandished his sword and pointed it to Braham

"..."

Everyone was quiet and Braham only looked straight at the captain with his mournful glowing red eyes

Braham then lifted his right hand and held the sword in his hands. He clenched his hands and folded the blade and bent it towards the captain

The captain was startled and he immediately let go of his sword and stepped back

"Incapacitate him!!!"

The knights thrusted their spears at Braham but it has no effect because their spears weren't able to pierce his skin, even his clothes

Brahan turned around and grabbed their spear with one hand. He rotated once again and hit all the knights with their own spears. The force was powerful enough that it either folded their heads aling with the iron helmets or their heads were completely decapitated

Fear and dread immediately filled the hearts of villagers. Others started crying, others began to hide, and other started to flee from the village

Braham continued walking forward but the captain still blocked his way. Braham kept staring straight as the ends of his hair was slightly hovering around and while the captain is looking down on him. Brahan was looking straight at the captain's chest

"Hupp!"

The captain pulled his arm to his back and released it to send a right hook towards Braham. He still has the courage even after seeing his troops getting obliterated by Braham

*Smack*

The captain's fist landed on Braham's head, but he wasn't fazed at all. His eyes were extremely cold and his face was expressionless

"BLAARGHH!"

The captain then elt out a painful scream as he vomited out blood. He began to shake and he immediately lost consciousness

"AHHHHHH!!"

All the women that saw what just happened screamed and the surviving knights lost their will to fight and ran away to escape

"MONSTER!!!"

What Braham did was that he penetrated the captain's chest and gouged his heart out. He puleld back his arm and let the lifeless corpse of the captain to fall

He then raised his left hand and strings of blood shot out from his body and aimed for the fleeing knights, killing them in one fell swoop

Seeing Braham's capability, the villagers had no choice but to stand still as the women began to weep

He continued walking towards the charred wood and ash with the charred bones of Camille

When he arrived at the edge of the burn, he extended his right hand and squeezed the heart of the captain. Blood spilled from the heart and gushed to the ground

"Mister, my condolences to the death of Camille..."

A voice was heard to the right of Braham as the leader of the village approached and spoke to him

"We tried to stop her purge, but we were stopped. A few of our men were killed on the spot with little signs of resistance"

"..."

"Please... Spare my village... We offer you our lives and services"

The leader kneeled in front of Braham. Rustles was then heard behind him as all the villagers followed the leader. In order to survive and to keep seeing their loved ones, they were willing to give their lives into the man's hands

As all the villagers kneeled, they also lowered their heads to the ground, as a sign of full pledge and obedience

Braham turned around and looked at all the villagers sideways. He lifted his arm and aimed his hand at nothing. He rotated his hand in a way that it's as if he was lifting the air

By then, three of the villagers suddenly hovered in the air, as if they were choking. They were the three witnesses that spread the news of Camille meeting with Braham, which caused the death of Camille

The villagers didn't dare lift their heads or stop Braham from hurting the three individuals

"Why? Why do you have to be so scared when Camille accepted me for who I am... I gave her my love and she took care of it... But now, she's gone and I will never get her back!"

"AAAGGGHHH--"

"GUAAAGGHHH--"

"AAAAAAAAAHHH--"

The three individuals screamed and was cut off as their bodies were melded and fused together into a ball of flesh. The flesh hovered above the ash and charred wood

"But I can bring her back with a few sacrifices... The one who tasked to kill her, and the ones who lead to her demise... Blood and flesh"

The ball of flesh then fell and splattered across the ground

"Heh..."

Braham then smirked at the leader and called out to him

"You are a great and humble leader of the village. Don't let anything change the way you are and lead your village to prosperity by usong my protection..."

"T-thank you..."

The leader muttered without lifting his head up

"For Camille's revival, I sacrifice my life..."

Braham bit the tip of his finger and flicked it towards the ground. The blood glowed and the blood from the heart of the captain, the flesh of the three villagers, and Camille's charred bones showed signs of change

The ground bulged and opened, eating the four ingredients used to revive Camille

"Protect this sanctuary at all cost..."

Braham spoke his last words when the ground finally ate him and burried everything, except for the village and villagers. A stone structure then rose from the ground that resembles a church or an ordinary house with several stone pillars surrounding the structure

A sanctuary was erected and inside the structure was unknown since there were no windows and there was a locked door

"Hm?"

Philip exclaimed with interest and confusion

"What is this power? How did he erect a physical sanctuary in this day and age? Did he have a special ability as a pureblooded vampire prince? What's happening here?"

The seeking of origin is practically over as Philip already seen how Camille came back to life

"But, how did Camille regain consciousness and found herself in a crypt?"

Philip looked around the village to look some signs of a crypt and the setting that Camille described to him earlier

"Towards the west, there was the forest and the lake should be beyond that... Did the sanctuary and the village evolved into a crypt???"

Philip went ahead and touched the stone pillars surrounding the sanctuary

"If so... How did it turned into ruins? Was the countey alerted of this place and brought it to ruins? Or did the vampire kingdom found about the sacrifice of their prince and brought this place into ruins?"

"..."

"So many questions..."

Philip looked around once more

"Emily... Is there a way where we can accelerate time at this point forward to see what happened here?"

「 No, there's none... Although, you can go back to the present and come back at the moment she woke up. Though, you won't see the process on how she woke up in the crypt or how her body came to be 」

"Hm... It's not worth coming back then... What do we do here..."

「 What is your goal now? 」

"Hm... Technically, I have learned how Camille was revived. I can't do anything about the reason she was being used in a cult... I guess I should learn about the source of her curse now?"

"Curse? What curse?"

"!!!"

「 !!! 」

Philip and Emily were startled and as they heard a playful voice that whispered on Philip's right ear. Shivers went through his spine and he jumped to the left and then faced her. He subconsciously extended his two right fingers to prepare to attack and use Sword Concept. He saw a little girl, almost the same size as Sai

"Teehee! Who are you and who were you talking to?"

The little girl asked and caught Philip talking to himself, to which he is actually talking to Emily, but the little girl wouldn't know that

Philip was confused as to why the little girl was able to see him and talk to him, but he instantly realized what was going on

"Are you a divine being?"

"Oh? Why yes! How'd you know?"

The little girl confirmed Philip's suspicion. She crossed her arms and took interest on Philip

"Well... The humans around here aren't able to see me, but you are. Which leads me to believe that you are a god"

Philip immediately thought of an alibi. He won't reveal that he could travel through time to a divine being. He won't sabotage himself if this divine being will tell the Divine Realm of his capabilities

"That's strange... Humans aren't able to see me also. If they did, they would've gathered around me and become suspicious..."

"!!!"

Philip suddenly realized as the little girl mentioned it. The little girl had a point, the villagers wasn't giving her any attention at all even though she was practically in front of all of them

"If you're able to see me... You're either a higher being or a god! But if you're a god, you don't seem familiar after out living almost all of the divine beings in the Divine Realm. So, answer my question, who are you?"

Philip was taken aback and he didn't really want to reveal his identity

'Emily, what is happening here?'

「 As the God of Darkness, you are able to see her. It's because you're both gods 」

'Ah...'

Emily stated the obvious, but Philip knows that he also asked a question with an obvious answer. He forgot that Emily and the system won't reveal anything until ot was introduced to him or he learned about it

"I am the God of Darkness"

Philip told the little girl the truth. He couldn't answer in a roundabout way because if he lied in any way, he will be caught, considering the facts that were thrown out

Just then, Philip widened his eyes and sweat dripped from his forehead. He felt as if an overwhelming entity was very close looking over him. The feeling was heavy, dense, and murky

It was then that the little girl spoke

"The God of Darkness? But you're not Tenebris, are you? You don't dare lie to me, do you?"

Philip was taken aback once again. He doesn't know the identity of the goddess in front of him, so he can't do anything

He racked his brain to think of something and looked closely at the little girl on front of him

The little girl has long black swirly twin tails. She wears a black cropped top blouse with maroon colored frills and a torn maroon knee skirt. She also wears black sandals and several tight rings across her legs, thighs, and arms. She has swirling maroon eyes that makes her look like she's crazy or depressed

Her skin also seemed to be lacerated or cut, showing marks and scars that aren't healing. There are also seemed to be large band-aids or parchment on both her shoulders. She also has bandages wrapped around her neck and her face looked like a doll

Nothing looked special on her except for her missing left hand and two missing fingers on her right hand, the index and the middle fingers

'Wait!'

Philip had a sudden realization

"Are you the Goddess of Curses?"

"Hm? You mean you didn't know my identity initially? Last chance, who are you?"

The little girl basically confirmed that she is the Goddess of Curses. Philip knew her identity because of her missing fingers, particularly the index finger, because the Cursed Finger in his room seemed identical to her other fingers. Also, it would make sense that the little girl in front of her is the Goddess of Curse if Ken cut one of her fingers, which coincides to the little girl missing her fingers

Philip let out a deep breath and relaxed himself. Now that his information is complete, he exactly knows what to do and by logic, he will ace this obstacle once again

"My name is Philip, I came from the future and I am the Fate Controller"

"Oh really?"

"Yes..."

「 Philip?! 」

Emily called out to Philip in a way that she was flabbergasted and questioned Philip like he was insane or a madman

'What's up--'

Philip spoke in his mind but he was paralyzed and petrified. His body hardened and and he began to feel like his body was about to explode

"You figured my identity as the Goddess of Curses and yet you gave me your name... How reckless of you... Even if we just met, do you trust me that much? Well, fortunately, you didn't give me your last name, so I can't curse you completely... But the Fate Controller? What are you doing here?"

The Goddess of Curses had her left arm raised and the stump on her wrist was black

"---"

Philip couldn't talk because his body was being overloaded. The pain that he's experiencing is greater than anything before as his saliva started to drip from his mouth and foam almost started to form

His eyes were bulging and it was full of veins. His negative energy wanted to scream and get out of his body, but only traces were forming behind his back until it dissipated. His anger already reached the 5th gate, but he still couldn't do anything

"Also, you came from the future? I don't know any gods who are capable of that... There are no Time Deities after all"

"---!!!"

"Even if what you're saying that you're the God of Darkness, you shouldn't be able to travel through time. Also, I know you're lying because the real God of Darkness Tenebris is still alive... Which means, you're lying!"

Parts of Philip's body began to pop as blood started to gush out and drip from his pores. The Pureblood also seemed to be affected by the curse

"Wait... If you're from the future, then it's possible that you are really the new God of Darkness... But how did that brat die? Did you kill him?"

The Goddess of Curses came close to Philip and glared at his eyes and looked into him if he did kill Tenebris

"--!!!!!"

A mysterious unnoticeable silhouette grew behind Philip as his eyes were slowly fading in golden color

"Oh my... What intense killing intent... It makes me shiver"

She then lowered her head and stepped backwards

"Hm, I guess you can't answer my questions when you're experience 100 curses at the same time, huh... Curse Cancel"

The Goddess of Curses raised her left stump to remove all the curses that she put on Philip

"Well, introductions first... My name is Katara--"

*Ting*

The Goddess of Curses, Katara, frowned when Philip's hand stopped just a few inches in front of her face. A maroon forcefield formed around her when Philip tried to attack her. The forcefield automatically activated after Katara's sixth sense acknowledged Philip's killing intent

Katara's face was full of dread after her forcefield was surrounded by a mysterious pale black aura and sharp blood needles. Everything was trying to attack her

Philip hair turned golden and his eyes were gleaming and blaring with golden light and violet light on his right eye and red light on his left eye

The forcefield was screaming after the negative energy was trying to squeeze it and the hundreds of sharp and long needles that were originating from his body was trying to penetrate it. Though, the forcefield seemed to be unfazed

It was then that the weather changed around the village and rain immediately swooped the village. Strong winds blew their houses and tornadoes were formed. A large constant lightning strike connected to Katara and all the wind directions and rain trajectory seemed to be pointed towards her

The sanctuary was unaffected though

"Hm... I guess this is why all the beings that I meet always wanted to kill me after I release them or run away when they see me, huh? I guess I owe you an apology..."