The ethereal ck devil''s face suddenly churned the moment, Immortika''s eerie voice rang, and the infinity pendant was now hooked into its ethereal figure from Jacob''s neck.


    "W-wait… what is happening!? Who are you? How could you resist the Lord''s Despair Spirit Trap?!" Again, the eldritch voice rang from the devil''s face empty mouth, and this time, it was filled with terror as it tried to escape away from Jacob, but it failed.


    Immortika''s impish voice sounded, "Hehehe… I admit this is a rather cumbersome trap, and only a few people could escape it. Even then, retrieving what is sealed inside the altar would be tough.


    "But you idiots have no idea who this treasure originated from, nor did the person who asked your ''Lord'' to seal it after not being able to control it itself seem to tell you that one day I mighte looking for it.


    "Ha…no worries, no worries, everyone seemed to be underestimating me and forgot who I am just because I was ying by their rules. But, unfortunately, those rules are too dull, and now I''m bored out of my mind.


    "This way, it is more fun and interesting. But it''s a pity you won''t be able to remain alive to watch any of it, and no one will know the so-called unbreakable seal of the Dark Beings has been broken, and the only thing that could bring doom to their existence has returned to its rightful owner…." Immortika''s voice was extremely chilly at the end, almost sounding like death itself.


    "Just who in the world are you? And how can you know this forbidden treasure belonged to you?! No one can use it without getting killed!" The devil''s face shrilled in disbelief and unwillingness, "No, this must be an illusion. No one is stronger than the Lord! No one can harm the Dark Begins. I will never die, never!"


    "Hehehehe… what a loyal dog, and you also believe that a Dark Being like yourself can''t be killed no matter what. As for controlling that treasure, you fools don''t even know it''s just aponent of mine, and without me, it is nothing but a catastrophe.


    "It is also the only thing in existence that can bring the downfall of the dark beings. I don''t go through all those troubles to connect this ce here, and now you will serve your true purpose, which is to be an auxiliary material to repair thisponent.


    "And don''t you worry, my little material, you will be the first of many to be turned into auxiliary materials to repair thisponent to its peak, which the Dark Beings broke in the first ce. This is what they called it; you reap what you sow. Ahahahahah!"


    Under Immortika''s hystericughter, the chained altar under the ghostly figure suddenly started shaking violently before cracks appeared on the chains. Unfortunately, even the altar wasn''t any better, and those cracks were increasing.


    The devil-face finally panicked as it yelled in horror, "Y-you! You Lunatic, what are you doing!? Stop this instinct, and I''ll you and your pet go o-or everything will die!"


    However, his voice was utterly suppressed under Immortika''s horrifying wantonughter, and both the chains and the altar were at breaking point as if something wanted toe out of it.


    "Stop! Please stop, I beg you, just stop! My Lord, I was blind, but please stop! If you released this seal, I''m speaking the truth. No one will be able to escape alive! I-I''ll give you an entry to the Median ins. Just stop! Damn, you!"


    No reply was given as if Immortika wasn''t hearing any of it, and right at this moment,


    "Boom!"


    A terrifying explosion happened as the chain and altar were finally sted apart, but no debris or tremor was raised except for the sound.


    Instead, after the explosion, the ethereal figure started to scream hysterically before it suddenly started topress, and its antagonizing voice started to get fainter and fainter.<novelsnext></novelsnext>


    The entire process was so fast that it didn''t even get the chance to escape its agony and figure out what was happening as it was entirelypressed into the darkly gleaming Infinity Pendant.


    The entire ck chain around Jacob''s neck was glowing darkly, and if looked carefully, tiny glyphs were starting to get engraved on the chainponents.


    But surprisingly, only half of the chain was filled with glyphs while the other half waspletely empty like before.


    However, the true change was noticeable on the pitch-ck, four-centimeter vivid snake ring that was eating its own tail as its eyes were glowing in crimson. It seemed as if it hade alive.


    An even more eye-catching thing right now was within the snake ring. The white infinity symbol, which waspletely empty before, was no longer empty.


    Because mysteriously, a Crimson Gem, which perfectly fits in one of the empty infinity symbol sockets, has appeared on the left empty socket. The crimson gem gave off an evil aura as it glimmered in a ck hue.


    But it wasn''t the end of it because right at this moment, the clothes over Jacob''s torso ripped into shreds, and the infinity pendant suddenly moved toward Jacob''s left breast and stuck over right above his heart.


    After that, the crimson gem lit up even more brightly, and 36 tiny dark glyphs covered in crimson sheen appeared over Jacob''s left breast. They were the same glyphs he had formed when hepleted the Cursed Heart Emergence stage.


    Now, the infinity pendant was ced right in the middle of those 36 glyphs as the crimson gem seemed to emit some mysterious energy when half of those glyphs suddenly started releasing the same energy as the crimson gem.


    Right at this moment, within Jacob''s cursed heart, like the infinity pendant, one of the empty sockets of his heart started to be active, and gleaming crimson energy began topress in its center.


    Jacob would be over the moon if he were awake because this is the process of magic core condensing!


    Immortika''s ethereal voice rang again as the process of magic core forming started: "He''s probably going to presume that the dream was some test or be even more paranoid, but this was the only way to protect him froming in contact with that guardian.


    "But he will be happy when he reads all those memories about the magic core he has awakened, so he might not suspect anything… well, not pleased about all of them, at least, especially when he learns that now he has to go against the Dark Beings as well.


    "He will also know that the infinity pendant is iplete and another essential part is still missing!


    "But that part will not be retrievable as easily as this one. It is not as nefarious as the Cursed Path Glory Gem and is in use by someone. But now I can detect its general location, which is not in the Lesser ins.


    "This will make it even more entertaining for me, hehehe…."


    Immortika''s impish voice trailed off with itsughter beforepletely vanishing without a trace!