Lucy and Wendy looked at the maggot humanoid with extremely serious expressions.
Since they first arrived at the Academic City, they had been investigating various information related to the Grand Library.
The Grand Library was hidden among every library within the city, and there were over a hundred libraries of differing scales throughout the Academic City.
Anyone who stepped foot into one of these hundred libraries had the possibility of entering the Grand Library, expanding their vision using the vast knowledge inside, and even taking one of the books inside back with them, which made all the libraries of the Academic City hotspots of activity.
Naturally, those from the House of Mages had their own way to access the library.
Gaining access to this information was much easier than they had thought, as anyone who had entered the Grand Library would leave certain traces that any investigators with proper motivation would be able to find.
Not too long before, the Dean of the Mobis Institute had allegedly made a trip to the Grand Library, after which various strange occurrences appeared in the Mobis Institute. Several janitors had confirmed with one another and reported that they could occasionally hear strange noises from the underground pipelines, as well as a faint foul stench.
These strange occurrences as well as rumors of the Dean's trip to the Grand Library prompted these twin sisters to infiltrate the Mobis Institute in order to restrain the Dean and obtain the information he received from the Grand Library.
The results were obvious, the Dean was nowhere to be found inside the institute, or rather, the twin sisters couldn't find him. They were instead ambushed by this maggot humanoid; their battle caused a huge commotion and dragged several people from the institute into it.
Having not expected to cause such a scene, the twin sisters could only leave as soon as possible to avoid the maggot humanoid's pursuit and the approaching bunch from the House of Mages.
Lucy and Wendy's abilities originated from one of Negary's experiments on the power of Impurity and Error property.
The power of Impurity was the power born from the trend of everything to go from order to chaos, a sign of the universe's ever-increasing entropy, power from the chaotic aspect of reality.
Meanwhile, the power of Error came from the discoordination of things or people with the Truth or correctness of the world, a power originating from mistakes. Among them, the easiest way to produce this power came from the discoordination of Personal Truth against the World's Truth.
The increase in Impurity was prone to producing mistakes. After all, whenever the order of something collapsed, internal mistakes would continuously manifest within, which then led to further collapse of order and more power of Impurity. From a theoretical standpoint, these two powers could coexist and perfectly aid one another.
However, the experiment to integrate these two powers into one had always ended in failure. The fusion of these two powers would result in a force that could not be controlled, causing everything in the vicinity to immediately be destroyed under its influence, which manifested as an immense explosion.
As long as these two powers did not fuse, even if they were left mixed inside a vial, nothing would occur at all. But as soon as there was a catalyst for fusion, these two powers would immediately explode on contact. Even Negary himself could not simultaneously utilize the Dragon of Eternal Sin form and the power of Impurity; he would have to separately use these two powers on different parts of his body.
After discovering that having a single individual wielding the fused force was impractical, Negary contemplated the possibility of having more than one individual wielding this force, thus gaining control of it.
In the end, Lucy and Wendy became the successful products of this experiment. As they were twins, their telepathy was extremely miraculous, allowing them to share even their mental power.
The older sister Lucy could fuse her mental power with the power of Impurity, while the younger sister Wendy could use the power of Error to affect anything within a certain range that contained her older sister's power of Impurity, using their shared mental power as the catalyst for the two powers to react.
Combined, the twin sisters could easily create huge explosions, of course, other than explosions, they also gained a few other powers. For example, by releasing their powers through their aura, they were able to disturb the traces they left behind; through testing, it had been found that not even a master mage would be able to discover them through their traces using magical means. Naturally, they could also use these powers on their own to easily destroy the structure of anything.
The maggot humanoid's head had nothing but maggots in it, there wasn't even a proper face to look at, but the voice was indeed coming from its body, a voice that sounded like someone was ripping and tearing insects apart to produce noises underwater:
「 Remain, become my hotbeds, breed more offspring me for 」
The maggot humanoid swung its hand, sending a large number of maggots and mucus flying towards the twin sisters.
Lucy threw several throwing knives into the air, then pulled her younger sister along as she ran forward. Wendy focused her gaze on the throwing knives, sending the power of Error from her body into the air and contacted the power of Impurity within the throwing knives.
However, the resulting explosion did not have the power it usually did. A small maggot even managed to borrow the explosion shockwaves to fly onto Lucy's left calf. Although it was quickly shaken off and crushed, a painful sensation could still be felt from the point of contact.
That power again!
The twin sisters were extremely irritated. In the past, the explosions they created could easily destroy everything within its vicinity, but wouldn't cause shockwaves that were too intense.
However, as they fought this maggot humanoid, some sort of power was affecting the power of Impurity, or rather, affecting Lucy's mental power that was mixed with the power of Impurity, causing the fusion catalyst to be incomplete and greatly lessened the power of their explosions.
Enduring the pain from her left calf, Lucy infused the power of Impurity into a brick under her feet while still maintaining telepathy. After they had taken enough distance, Wendy immediately detonated it with her power of Error.
Boom…
Another explosion occurred, the intense shockwaves destroyed an entire wall and blasted the pursuing maggot humanoid apart. The maggot humanoid's body scattered everywhere into countless maggots, but these maggots quickly gathered again into humanoid form to pursue the twin sisters, seemingly obsessed with them.
Lucy suddenly tripped and fell due to the intense pain coming from her left leg. When she looked down at her foot, she found that it had become completely swollen. Bags of putrid mucus had formed around her entire feet, some of them were even leaking yellow pus, if one looked carefully, one could even see some tiny maggots moving within.
Lucy used her power of Impurity in an attempt to destroy these things but found that the maggots had adapted extremely well to Impurity. Not only did they quickly grow up, but the blisters on her feet were also rapidly expanding, so Lucy hurriedly stopped using Impurity.
After that, Wendy also tried using Error to kill them but found that while the power of Error managed to stop these maggots from growing and spreading, it wasn't enough to kill them.
The foul stench once again emanated from behind them, that monster seemed to be able to accurately locate them. The twin sisters had no choice but to temporarily give up on resolving the issue on Lucy's feet and focused on escaping. That monster was somehow countering their powers, if their explosion powers could be exerted normally, even ten maggot humanoids would have already been blasted to dust.
There are still others from the Hermit Order who accepted this mission, let's find a chance to contact them.
We're not going to be able to complete this mission alone.
As the twin sisters escaped the small alleyway, more and more people began to gather around. The foul stench also gradually receded, but their sharp mental senses were able to recognize the monster's eyes still focusing on them, seeming to tell them that this wasn't over.
