The 'Low-rank Demon General' who just lost his head, suddenly had a huge hole in his abdomen suddenly open up as if it was perforated from the inside as his black blood gushed out like a fountain, which I hurriedly avoided.

'This is…'

My earlier thought was supposedly him commiting suicide, but was it really possible to commit suicide in this freakish way?

"Hehehehehehehe…" the Shaman, also known as dark, who hasn't opened his mouth till this moment, followed the ominous scene by a rather creepy laugh as it was very apparent at this point that he was likely to be the cause of the general's untimely death…

'I should act carefully for now…'

Making sure that nothing strange might sprout from the dead body of the general, I was about to dash towards the Shaman and also rid him of his creepy head, but it seemed like he had another say in this…

Just like he somehow managed to leave the side of the general instantaneously, the Shaman disappeared as he appeared much further away, before…

Splash!

His hands, which were held in a strange way against his heart spawned a black dagger that formed out of nowhere as soon as he retreated, which he didn't hesitate to thrust it into his own heart, splattering dark red blood out, showing a color that was different to that of normal demons…

'Is this to be supposed some sort of witchcraft?!'

Panicking for the first time in a while, I was incapable of having a grasp of the situation and what might possibly be happening, as the body of the Shaman simply disintegrated as soon as the blood splattered out…

What followed only made it much worse, the corpse of the headless general also started burning with a purple colored flame that looked like the most ominous part that took place today. I was normally not the sort of person that had a faint heart when watching horror movies, in fact, had it been some sort of a movie back in reality, I would have just laughed it off.

However, knowing about how things worked out in the 'Lost Realm', where countless mystical abilities that manifested from elements, weapon energy and other sorts of abilities like mind abilities, I was somewhat terrified by what was taking place, which was mostly due to me not understanding what it was…

'Eye of Knowledge' helped with nothing, nor did my perception help me understand its process just like it did with the Overseer's 'Dark Restricting Cloud', the whole strange phenomenon only threw my mind into confusion...

It was then that…

'No!'

Spotting what seemed to be a tiny spec of blood that suddenly appeared on the back of my hand, the spec that was likely to have somehow come off the Demon General's body started to burn…

After witnessing what happened to the corpse of the Demon General, I decisively cut off my hand, which seemed to be the best solution as I didn't want the fire to consume my body like it did to his, after all, I could recover my hand easily with 'Unbound Vitality', but if that strange fire managed to spread, the result was likely to be much worse than a recoverable cut-off hand….

However, as soon as I cut my hand off, the flame suddenly started burning in the flesh where the clean cut took place, in a very incomprehensible way as if it was trying to prove that whatever I did won't be enough to get rid of it...

'Just how?! I'm pretty sure that I didn't sense any bit of that blood touch my body…'

Throwing away the idea of cutting another part of my arm as the first try only made it spread faster, I could only watch the fire spread slowly. This strange spec of blood was definitely either completely stealthy for me to not notice it till it actually started burning, either that or it could have possibly used the same way that the Shaman retreated from both my attacks, which seemed to be a strange type of unconventional teleportation...

'Dragon Scales!'

After thinking about possible solutions, only using 'Dragon Scales' to try and stop the burning came to my mind, after all, they were supposed to be the toughest type of scales in the 'Lost Realm', they should be able to stop these witch flames, right?

'No effect…?'

The purple flames continued spreading over, just like they were doing even before I encased my body with the dragon scales, seemingly as if material defenses proved of no use against it...

Trying to emmit ice elements didn't help, neither did trying to fight fire with fire work. Activating 'Body of Elements' in all of its forms and elements resulted in nothing, the purple fire completely ignored whatever I tried at this point. I was finally starting to experience a type of feeling that I almost completely forgot about… desperation…

The fire didn't actually hurt, but it was disintegrating the burnt parts bit by bit, if this thing continued on, then I was likely to be consumed as a whole in a few hours…

"AAAAAHHHH…"

I could suddenly feel the pain spreading through my arm after a few minutes had passed, screaming out impulsively, I somewhat understood that it acted like a slow effect poison of some sort... The fire's burn which felt like a thousand times stronger than normal fire was close to turning me insane after a few seconds of my realising its effect…

[ You have been inflicted by the 'Bloodline Burning Curse' (Unique)! ]

Seeing the system notif with a hazy mind, I didn't know how to react, if this continued, I was likely to lose my mind and kill myself to relieve myself from the pain…

Not even one of my immunity skills leveled, and my advanced 'Fire Immunity' seemed useless so far, which meant that none of the abilities that came to mind were likely to work as well, so what was the solution… Was I really supposed to die in this crappy base that had no proper Overseer after surviving through the last one that I overcame even in my weaker state…?

'Stay calm, there must be a solution, somehow… I must stay calm…'

Holding on to the last drop of my sanity and trying to suppress all the suicidal thoughts or the blackouts that wished to take place seemed like the hardest battle I fought so far, hope seemed to have given up on me, and the worst part was that… the pain I was almost dying off at the point resulted from only half my arms being burned so far…

It had only reached the dragon tattoo which no longer felt like something important at this moment… I was slowly succumbing to…

'Yeah, I should probably give up, nothing is worth going through that much pain for it…'

"ROAAAARRRRRR!"

At the last moment of me giving up, and just as I was going to grab my dropped sword to stab my own heart to die as quickly as possible, the loud dragon roar brought me one last moment of rationality…

[ your blood companion, 'Pseudo Sky Dragon' has been alerted by the 'Bloodline Burning Curse' (Unique)! ]

[ 'Pseudo Sky Dragon' (Blood Companion) has initiated the ability 'Dragon Blood' for the user's protection! ]

[ Allowing the interference of 'Pseudo Sky Dragon' (Blood Companion) for the user's safety… ]

[ 'Dragon Blood' has been activated! ]