Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Fortune.

"Impossible!"

Skullius cried out loud.

There was just no way.

"How does that even work...?!"

Ferex who was at his side shrugged, unable to find a response.

Even he was surprised but not more than Skullius.

How could something like this happen right under his nose?!

The Hybrid Luman could not believe it.

As his senses stretched out over a vast region, his dark sight penetrating the into the depths of the sea within Fortune, he was forced to believe it but...

"He's really gone?!" he exclaimed in shock.

Indeed.

Red Rage was gone.

*

Fifteen minutes ago.

Skullius eventually cast aside his suspicions over the peculiar feeling he got after leaving the hall.

He was still convinced that he wasn't mistaken. Something had happened and it made him vigilant.

His first thought was that perhaps the horrendous luck was starting to manifest and he had started to mobilise his prepared card which was the patch on his soul but...

Nothing followed after that strange feeling.

Slowly, he had put a pin on this and warily rushed back to Bryne Residence and entered his room with Yuyui.

Since Yuyui was clueless about anything related to this issue, he decided that alerting her would not do him any good. If anything, making her worry would be to his disadvantage.

Therefore, after arriving at the mansion, Skullius had instantly jumped into Fortune, Yuyui following after him as she said she also had matters to attend to, no doubt in the Temple of Unlusted Tears.

The two had left Ferex in Fortune, the Elimparidis Stone Staff being kept in a safe spot within the room, when attending the 'launch' of the Premium Age Royale as he seemed to be really interested in the corpse of the Grand Flame Bringer.

Even as they appeared minutes ago, the Limitless Body Null Demon Hound was still staring at the corpse. At least that was what he looked like he was doing.

"I need to talk to Bassbion about something," Yuyui said with a serious face. Skullius was the control freak type and for good reason, so she had to state where she was going.

Not to mention he literally owned her.

"Alright. Don't forget that you'll be teleported to the venue tomorrow. Don't get caught off guard," Skullius instructed sternly.

"Right," Yuyui said with a nod before she rushed towards the large building erected atop the white pedestal.

Skullius then turned his attention to Ferex as he asked.

"What are you doing?"

The Hound turned to him with its luminous sockets before releasing tendrils of Unliving Thread from its body that wrapped around one of the scales of the black corpse before it.

With the activation of [Amorphous Sampling], the Hound was able to create a replica of the scale but then came the wait.

"You're waiting for the cooldown of the skill?" Skullius asked before checking the Hound's status.

The skill [Amorphous Sampling] and [GENIUS] were closed to evolving while all the others were past the halfway mark. This may have seemed slow compared to how Skullius had consistently levelled up but given the timeline, Ferex was fairly quick. He was roughly eleven days old after all.

The Apostle also seemed to have some grand plans that occupied his time so he decided to leave Ferex to his own devices. He had his own plans, after all.

And come to think of it...

"Speaking of Apostles with grand plans, there's that little bastard who has been in retreat. What's he still doing down there?" Skullius said as he walked over to the expansive sea that reeked of condensed mana.

Ferex followed after him.

He was really interested in seeing his senior after all and without permission he wouldn't just swim down to the bottom of the sea where Red Rage just to take a look. He could disturb important activity.

As Skullius was about to call out his first Apostle, he suddenly realised...

His link with Red Rage... was severed.

The flesh?!

This would only happen when the Apostle was too far away or if perhaps if he was dead but Skullius doubted something like that would happen without him getting a notification.

Also, given how close he was to where Red Rage was before i.e. the sea, there was no way he wouldn't be able to register the presence of the damn Pelvis Boar-Man!

"No way!" Skullius said as he dove down into the sea, his mana bursting out as he used his special property of weight to make himself extremely heavy, his figure sinking rapidly until he reached the bottom.

After a quick and thorough search, Skullius found nothing.

Red Rage wasn't there.

Furthermore, the eggs the Apostle had sought to protect were gone too!

A dreadful thought suddenly swam into Skullius' mind.

Did Red Rage leave Fortune then?

But how?

Not only would he have to get out of Fortune, he would also have to leave the spatial storage ring that the Elimparidis Stone Staff was stored in!

Skullius exited the deep waters and stood on the dry ground.

His mind churned as he thought of possibilities upon possibilities.

The only thing that he knew about Red Rage that gave him peculiar abilities beyond his understanding was his control of Null Life Essence!

With it, he had been able to, as he explained it, 'watch the outside world through Skullius' eyes while within the spatial storage ring'.

Surely that was unique but breaking the rules of spatial storage networks within the Staff and ring purely with Null Life Essence...

"Impossible!" Skullius tried to convince himself.

"How does that even work...?!"

*

In the current time Skullius slapped his face.

Just thinking about that golden bastard marching as he pleased within Genhuis City...

With those Diviners...

With the second sun which would rise in the morning...

He shuddered.

Maybe Red Rage was still in Fortune...somewhere.

Maybe he just couldn't establish a mental link right.

Skullius zipped from place to place within Fortune at a ridiculous speed, with each spot he searched leaving with a darker expression on his face than the last.

Red Rage wasn't here.

Skullius' last stop was the mountain range.

At this point, he had completely given up on Red Rage being here but...

Hope.

With a furious expression he exited Fortune and was about to race outside, searching the streets thoroughly when...

His Hybrid Luman form gave out with the notification that [High Cosmetic Body] had timed out.

The fearsome form of the Eternal Storm Veil Penetrator emerged and Skullius cursed as he sank himself back into Fortune, flaring flame dancing in his sockets!

His appearance in the already well lit space of this mini-world, made the area around him four times brighter as the glowing sheen in his sockets dominated!

Levin in its most condensed and sharpest form raged as storm clouds appeared and disappeared around Skullius, his lone, powerful presence painting him as the exalted of this space.

The partially ethereal robe he wore, tattered around its glowing blue rims and billowing in a non-existent wind, contrasted Skullius' fury right now.

The Penetrator looked up and furiously roared into the skies...

"RED RAAAAAGEEEEE!!!"