Ikuta asked Ratatoskr about Niflheim after he finished his story about how he got his lightning " Niflheim is a perilous place because it's the place of primordial ice any magic that goes into it won't be able to move as a result of the frozen lands "
Ratatoskr thinks of the possible magic that could remain effective in the realm of primordial ice " But if you have the eternal flames of Muspelheim you won't have to worry about it or if you have any affinity close to Niflheim so you are likely to survive "
Ikuta thought about his Niflheim affinity and tried to freeze magic. " Ikuta, are you ready? " Druk asked. " Yep." Druk released lightning and Ikuta froze the magic , but only the magic while keeping anyone safe from the freezing function of his affinity , showing a beautiful display.
" Keep it that way I need to picture this " Nisse took a photo while Ikuta tried to move his dark mana ' I can move dark mana but I have to control it ' he trained to manifest dark mana in any form while making sure he was still controlling it and strategizes a way to utilize the freezing of magic to his advantage .
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Ikuta finds the spell that keeps the cold from reaching the park using a barrier and freezes it stopping its functions . Nisse noticed a snowflake and looked up " Huh ? it's snowing " she felt familiar thinking about Ikuta freezing their surroundings but not making it any colder .
Niflheim's frost had been attracted to Ikuta when he came to the amusement park so now there was plenty of Niflheim's frost that he could absorb " Keeva come here let's wear this just in case it gets colder "
Amber was confused about what was happening " It might just be the weather preservation spell wearing out " Nisse said " So does that mean that we are not going to the rides anymore ? "
Faulks using Louis's body grabbed Ikuta's bag tossing the console not thinking much of it and absorbed the prizes that he made with white mana " I need more " He walked while everyone was completely unaware of what was happening or why .
The staff stopped the rides as soon as they took notice of the change in weather and some of them went to check the device . Ikuta ran and Faulks took notice of Ikuta's work not knowing he had an ice affinity , he only assumed that Ikuta destroyed it to make everyone go down the rides .
" I still have other places I can take white mana from " He reached to the ground ready to absorb it and watched the ground freeze up keeping the white mana inside " What is this ? " He was confused since he never knew about Ikuta's affinity to ice .
" I found you " Ikuta said and Faulks smiled " You wouldn't hurt someone you know r " Ikuta kicked Louis through the park with no hesitation that it surprised Faulks . His friends were surprised that Louis flew past them , Ikuta picked up the console and ran to his friends .
" Ikuta what happened ? " Amber asked afraid of the scene unfolding " Nisse remember that you were suspicious about Faulks ? " Ikuta asked and Nisse connected the dots and asked with so much curiosity " You found some dirt on him ? "
Ikuta nodded " Yeah it turns out he wanted to replace me by occupying my body with his soul " " Yes I was right to be suspicious " Druk was confused by how calm Nisse was .
" So you nearly died !? " Druk asked and Ikuta nodded " But I'm fine now but I don't think Louis is I saw that he used a weird spell probably to make sure he could occupy my body but I wasn't near the gift he gave me so now he is in Louis but I'm still not sure "
Faulks gets up using the leftover mana to heal himself and takes out the hourglass " Don't think you have won " the park visitors were surprised to see a visitor acting like this . Faulks turned all of the park carnival games and shot a beam of light at Ikuta .
" Watch out " Everyone was worried and Ikuta used his ice affinity and froze the attack " Guys please run " " Got it " Nisse took Keeva while Druk and Ezio ran with Amber . Ikuta looked up and saw Faulks ready to continue their fight .
Ikuta threw a whip of dark mana and pulled Faulks down kicking him into the beam of light and undoing the freezing letting the attack shoot at it's intended direction causing Faulks to feel the full force of his own attack " Are you okay kid ? " Some security came ready to keep Ikuta from getting hurt .
" Go back kid we'll take care of this " Ikuta looked at Faulks on his knees waiting for the guards to get closer " Sir stop " Faulks took the weapons security had and turned them to white mana .
Ikuta passed security and swung a blade to parry Faulks " Get out of Louis's body " " So you do care " Ikuta grabbed Louis's belt and used it as leverage to swing him away " Kid " the security felt guilty seeing Ikuta do their job .
Ikuta turned to them ' they wouldn't believe me until this was over ' " That person is supposed to be Louis but I think he is possessed like a ghost is in him " the security was confused hearing this .
Nisse and Keeva ran away and stopped to take a break " Nisse what was that ? " " I don't know but maybe something is wrong with Louis it's weird that he is attacking Ikuta , I heard he trains at home by fighting with him but it's weird to do that now "
Amber , Ezio and Druk were just running and yelled at the security " Help someone possessed our friend " Ezio yelled at the guard who asked for more details " He was shooting some weird light beam at Ikuta which he shouldn't be doing because he doesn't have that kind of affinity "
" So that means that someone did possess him " the security called for backup from outside " It will take awhile hopefully we can manage this "the news spread while Ikuta ran to Faulks to keep him from getting stronger .
" You are as annoying as those ghosts " " But they left you alone " " No more like they followed me " Faulks emitted a wave of white mana and revealed the hourglass .
Ikuta sensed the suffering selves supplying Faulks with black mana that was being derived by the spell Ikuta installed and the familiar joyous self giving up a source of white mana .
Faulks only knew white magic and decided to use black mana to strike an attack at Ikuta . Ikuta manifested a shield made from ice and dark affinities blocking it , the shield crumbled at the corrupting power of black mana used on a white magic spell .
Faulks let the hourglass float releasing the black mana and compressing it into a ball before releasing it into streams of darkness . Ikuta removed the dark mana from the bits of shield and parried the streams of black mana .
The streams flew to the sky scaring all the park visitors and an announcement was made " Visitors please evacuate the park and make sure to wear your winter clothes " Faulks appeared behind Ikuta and the hourglass turned around giving him white mana .
He strengthened his fist to punch Ikuta sending Ikuta away , Ikuta felt his insides bleed and quickly mended his body with white magic " You're good it's too bad I didn't get your body " Faulks still wanted to possess Ikuta's body due to the potential Ikuta had .
Ikuta sent a message to Yukina ' Yukina can you grab this sword for me " he sent an image and Yukina was worried about why he would need a weapon " Ratatoskr can you please get this sword "
Ratatoskr was confused since he didn't know what was going on but since this was Yukina asking for it " Of course young mistress , what does the sword look like ? " " Uhm I'm not sure " " Oh it's okay just think of it and I'll see what I can find " Ratatoskr touched Yukina and felt the image of the sword .
" Oh I'll take it " ' I'll create a dark flame in my room just toss it into that place " Yukina waited and a dark flame appeared in Ikuta's room " Young mistress I have it as you asked " Ikuta watched Faulks fully strengthen Louis's body .
" Looks like I'm going to remake Paradise and create Purgatory " Faulks starts floating to the sky turning Louis's ragged clothes into a robe with black and white color . Ikuta felt the sword appear in the midnight mansion and seized it using the dark flame to open a portal to the sword ' Perfect '
He grasped the katana's handle taking it out of the midnight mansion and Faulks raised his hand with the hourglass tilted sideways " Give up young man " he pointed down and made spell circles appear pointing in the direction of all the people at the amusement park " I hope you enjoy your stay "
He snapped his fingers activating the soul-eviction spell at all the inhabitants and at the same moment Ikuta unsheathed his blade with the characters 反魔法 on the disenchanting blade .
He recalls the memories of creating the anti-magic blade that his father helped create " Hohoho let's see if you can harness the ore that holds my power " he hammered away from the ore breathing its dust losing his old affinity but accomplished his goal and made the disenchanting blade .
Now he held the blade he had prepared so he could use his father's power and completely unsheathed the blade . He disappeared forming platforms near the magic circle and in that instant , he hopped through all of them destroying all the soul eviction spells .
" What ? " He was surprised by the speed Ikuta took to dissolve all of his spells and looked at the sword " You pesky little " Ikuta swung the blade cutting Faulks only through the skin but canceled his magic .
' His soul possession spell is engraved elsewhere ' as Faulks fell the hourglass floated Ikuta thought of doing it but knew he would be suspected of knowing more than he'd rather reveal .
He sheathed the disenchanting katana , pounced downward with dark mana on his fist and prepared to Faulks into the ground .
" Wait Ikuta it's m " Ikuta punched Faulks " If it was Louis he could've dodged that " he whispered to himself . Knowing he can't take advantage of Ikuta's relationship with Louis Faulks took the hourglass to his hand and tilted it again " Then I'll have to eliminate you first "
He shot an unstable blast of black and white mana , Ikuta drew out the katana and slashed through it removing the magic ' I'm almost out of anti-magic soon ' Faulks thought of escaping and brought the hourglass behind him and shot through the sky .
Ikuta made platforms to jump on since he still had the disenchanting blade with him . He made platforms appear the moment he needed them and upon jumping out they crumbled because of the blade's properties . Parrying any attacks that would come to him .
After reaching a good enough height , he dropped his blade and threw a black whip at Louis's legs . He tugged it pulling Faulks down slamming him back into the ground and finally gathered enough white mana to finish his white magic spell : Exorcism .
The momentum from the whip gave him enough force to slam into Louis and punch Faulks out of Louis's body " Ha " he sighed seeing as Louis returned to his hollowed shell protected by the exorcism spell and white mana to keep Faulks from possessing him again .
" Louis , are you okay ? " Ikuta put his ear on his chest to hear his heartbeat " Oh thank goodness ' he looked at the disenchanting blade that stabbed the ground and at the security that ran " Are you okay kid ? "
Ikuta nodded " How did you get this in ? " " Uhm I teleported it " he admitted knowing people would question how he stopped the spell that Faulks intended to use " You pesky little brat " he was surprised to hear the voice and turned to see the hourglass raise up and Louis's body rolled to the other side .
" If I can't have my fortune forever , YOU CAN'T EITHER " Faulks charged up an attack and pointed it down as he raised up . The blast was too unstable for Ikuta to be sure he could guarantee everyone's safety he thought fast , remembering the frost he left on the barrier and quickly removed it .
The barrier spell starts to form from the sides up to the center . Faulks took notice and quickened the charged ' No there won't be enough time ' Ikuta grabbed his sword and used his mana to jump up using the same kind of idea forming platforms and destroying them due to the blade's properties thus emptying the supply of anti-magic from his blade .
Faulks completed his charge and blasted into the barrier a small fraction of the unstable attack dove into the gap and Ikuta swung his sword causing the ore the blade was made of to absorb the unstable magic .
" NOOOOOO " Everyone heard Faulks's voice loud and clear unsure why that happened especially those who knew that Faulks was dead hearing his voice curse at Ikuta . The blast ended and Ikuta looked at the hourglass of the souls that had been trapped .
" I made a promise " As he fell with the blade he sheathed it and landed . The hourglass fell and he watched it spin slowly descending to the ground he heard Faulks's voice get louder and drew his blade swung it upwards and cut the hourglass in between shattering only the glass in the middle .
Faulks's voice was no longer heard but Ikuta could tell that his soul was inside the blade and the hourglass fell freeing the souls and the security nearby heard the words .
" thank you boy " " Finally " Ikuta fell back and was caught by Louis " Louis I wanna eat something " he yawned and said with his voice getting smaller " And I want to sleep "
For now , he wanted to take a break from stopping Faulks and writing a magnificent story . Ikuta opened his eyes at the hotel " Hungry " " IKUTA " He covered his sensitive ears turning to see Ezio " Ezio don't shout " Nisse said " Are you okay ? " Amber asked worried and Ikuta checked his arm .
" Ahhh where is my sword ? " Ikuta asked " Why are you more worried about your sword than your own body ? " Druk asked " Because I worked so hard for it , it's the reason why I lost my affinity to make that sword you know "
Druk looked at the sword and the characters engraved into the blade " Anti magic ? " " Yeah but now it lost all of that I probably didn't get the right ore but it worked out " Ikuta held his hand out wanting to get his blade and Druk gave it to him .
Ikuta hugged it as if it were his emotional support animal " You were so cool fighting Louis , but it's not Louis right ? " Ikuta nodded " He is stuck at the hospital with so many injuries " Nisse said .
" Oh uhm I'm sorry I was just used to fighting with Louis in our training " " Hey no don't apologize " Nisse said " If you weren't used to fighting you wouldn't have beaten him by the way who was possessing Louis in the first place ? "
Ikuta remembered that Faulks was inside his sword now and put it away " Uhm it's surprising but it was Faulks " " YES " Nisse cheered " You sound a lot like Ezio "
Druk pointed out " Because just like Ezio who probably won against Ikuta I finally found dirt in Faulks's name too bad they would want to tell you to shut up about it "
Nisse said and Keeva was curious " Why ? " " Because they wouldn't want their philanthropist to be a fraud instead " Nisse said " It was really scary , good thing it's all over " Amber said , they heard a knock at the door and saw Nisse's older cousin .
" Hey someone wants to talk to Ikuta you kids get out and wait in the other room " " Hey if you threaten Ikuta I'll ask her to postthe dirty secret on social media " Nisse said pointing at her older cousin " That was the plan we were going to ask more details about it "
The secretary came inside with a few other people " Ikuta Seishin right ? " Ikuta nodded " My name is Petra " Ikuta observed Petra who was a species of beastfolks more specifically the feline species of a brown panther .
" We would like to ask more about Faulks we wanna know what kind of man he truly was , it's okay you don't have to lie we won't blame you " Ikuta omitted some details more specifically the details that the hourglass was a globe beforehand .
He told her about the ghost he heard and freed confirming that was what the security had heard when they were near Ikuta after he destroyed the hourglass , Faulks's plan to possess Ikuta's body and his back up plan and using Louis as the other vessel .
" To think the president was that kind of a man " Petra was disappointed and so were the other staff members " So that's why he wrote a will to entrust all his possessions " " It's okay if you don't get it " even though Ikuta was smart he didn't understand the problem of not inheriting it .
" No we will follow his will even though he wanted to keep his wealth we still have to follow it , it's legally binding afterall " Petra pointed out hoping Ikuta could take it .
" But I'm a kid " " It's okay you don't have to work we'll be in charge of managing his inheritance but you can use it for whatever you want we have the contacts of different adventurers for example "
Ikuta thought about Niflheim " Okay I'll think about it " Petra took their leave and Nisse watched them leave with Druk both had stayed out of curiosity " Ohohohooo " Druk felt uneasy hearing Nisse pray for the downfall of Faulks's reputation .
" But doesn't that mean you own Faulks's fortune and power ? she did say that he wrote a will " Nisse said " Uhm yeah I do and I kinda do want to get to Niflheim and knowing about the adventurers they are in contact with I kinda want to get the runes for Niflheim more now "
" That's good " Nisse said " if you hadn't accepted the will you would've put them in a bad place " Nisse said " Ehh why ? " Druk was confused about how clueless Ikuta was but figured he never really kept up with global news .
" Because they plan to come clean with the dirt on Faulks that you dug up " Nisse said " Since Faulks was generous to them people might think they are just like Faulks with some dirty secrets to hide , but if you accepted all of Faulks's fortune and power let's just say they will be protected having a hero like you at the top " Nisse said .
" Wow , are you sure they will be fine even though they are all nice people " Nisse was confused " How can you tell ? " Ikuta thinks for a while to word his reasonings " I can't I just think they are " " How anti-climatic but we still have to go back home soon we do have school "
Nisse said annoyed " Yeah I also want to go back home , it's too bad all the prizes I got turned to white mana " they both could hear the disappointment in Ikuta's voice " How about that ? " Nisse pointed at the broken hourglass with the black and white sand spilled at the side .
" Ohhh I wanted this " " What's that ? " Ikuta knew it could be bad for them to think that he would exploit Faulks' soul for a steady supply but his grasp on the cult was weakening so he had to " It used to store souls but if you look at it there is no more magic but I still like the effect of the sands "
' I might be able to seal Faulks's soul away into the broken hourglass ' " I could make it float or freeze it with my ice affinity " " that sounds nice " they flew back home and rested after Claire chased the media away .
" Tonight's news the Faulks company had revealed the dirty secret of billionaire philanthropist Faulks Niko . The company came clean after the disaster at the amusement park Faulks had invited several people into . The staff speaks of a child who dug the plot out after he was chosen as the next victim in Faulks's long line of body's . "
His father watched the news happy to see Ikuta beat Faulks up . Ikuta walked down to get a drink from the fridge " Good job kid " Ikuta walked upstairs pretending to be unaware of his father ' I survived '
" Young master you don't have to go down I can fetch you the drink anytime " Ratatoskr said " No it's okay I wanted to see if Louis was still okay " " Alright so I see that you plan to use this inheritance of yours to bring back Nidhogg and Vedrfolnir from Niflheim ? " Ratatoskr asked " Yeah I think so but will I be able to get the runes ? "
" No I believe you have to search for that on your own " Ikuta looked at the roots " Yukina are you okay ? " " Yep I'm fine but uhm " Yukina's branch stretched closer " About Hestia " Yukina told Ikuta about the problem " That's inevitable even gods get weaker everyday "
But he was confused if his father would remain constant ' I'll think of a way to fix that " he knew that would be hard as he thought of a way to solve Hestia's problem ' For now I should fix this ' he grabbed his sword thinking if his father would suspect him for something but hasn't asked a thing yet .
' I should just pretend I was able to do it and pretend I don't know about the midnight mansion ' he prepared the excuse of how he teleported this katana to him from the house to amusement park and sets the katana that contained Faulks's soul .
He grabbed the broken hourglass and asked for some wood . He attached the glasses to the wood and freezes the air before he flicks the shards into the center and freezes the rest of the air .
He grabbed his sword and targeted his exorcism target pushing Faulks's soul into the middle where the shards of glass started to glow imprisoning Faulks's soul .
He watched black sand drip into the black sand pile and decided to complete it and recreate the paradise that was partly damaged fixing the magic circle and watching white sand flow into the white sand pile .
" It worked " he held the hourglass satisfied to see a steady supply of black mana and white mana " ' now to deal with the cultist ' he burned the hourglass with the dark flames sending it into a gathering of the black sun cults .
All their souls were taken away and their bodies fell into the ground .T he shards flew showing it ' Now I just need to remove the memories ' he commanded paradise to deprive the cultist and Faulks of their magical knowledge .
He had it on his hands but sealed it into the blade . He planned to hide it away because it had contained valuable knowledge .
He held the blade to see its reflection showing messy text that couldn't be read ' I'll fix this problem maybe I can ask for all of Faulks's magic books to organize these ' he spots a memory that also flew with him and saw his father's image .
He pretended it was just a fake thing and sensed that his father was still downstairs ' Right at least now Nyx is the third person to have learned this knowledge '
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Ryela's head aches to hear the news announced more of Ikuta's presence ' He is stirring the pot too much ' she was annoyed not because Ikuta showed his strength to the world but had done nothing to hide it from the world ' It won't be time until they realized that he has been controlling the cultist '
Morst calls Ryela " Uhm the cult members just died " Ryela is surprised to hear this " They all just fell into the ground and died " she asked with surprise , the instant these cultists were dealt with gave her a sigh of relief " Haaaa to think I have to watch a kid like this "
She felt like she was working overtime stalking Ikuta and keeping him in check " At least I confirmed that he doesn't plan to use the cult for anything , Morst makes sure those corpses are discovered so we can take care of it " Ryela brings the file to announce that there is no more need to spy on Ikuta .
' He won't do anything for a while and Moreover that company isn't that easy to control when it comes to hiding things ' thinking that spying on Ikuta had ended she made an official report .
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