After Veangeance was eliminated from the tournament,The battles kept on happening, During this time,the most noticeable event was when Love fought Zetten and managed to defeat him,this wasn't totally out of expectations,but most people had thought that Zetten would be stronger than her,And now,Love stood in the middle of the arena, opposite to her was Vyncent, Someone who most would also previously have considered to be stronger than her,but now, whoever was stronger between them became a very hot topic...
Love Herself didn't really care about that too much,she just desired enough strength to be able to help her clan and family, being the strongest wasn't important.
Love who currently wore a long red robe and brown sandals was looking attentively at Vyncent,he was certain to be a dangerous opponent, he was a 2nd Origin just like her,he had a very difficult to deal with ability of Resurrection,and was actually very proficient in combat,he was good with a longsword,a spear and a short sword,he had used these weapons throughout the tournament.
In the tournament,it was possible to choose three different weapons and use them in a battle, this was because this tournament mirrored real life and in the outside world,There were three different types of weapons widely used,Spears, swords,and short blades.
Spears were mostly used in war and battlefields, swords were mostly used in duels and short swords were used in tight spaces.
However, most of the students in the tournament could only use one weapon per battle, Vyncent was an anomaly in that he could use them all,This was because of his bloodline,The bloodline of War,
It gave him a natural affinity for combat and weapons,this is Also the reason of why he can summon his weapons.
Love Herself was using a sword,this is the weapon usually used in duels, Even Vyncent rarely used the spear,He was currently holding a long sword in his right hand and a shield in his left hand.
After the professor's words,the two of them started their battle.
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In a worn down training area,A youth with white hair stood before a beggar looking middle aged man, Veangeance who had just been eliminated from the tournament Was currently in the process of practicing suicide Succession Severing,he only had about a month before he would need to face the Trial of Asura, Every moment was of importance.
The method to train suicide Succession Severing was one that comprised of the Immortal committing suicide inside the memories of the one they connected their souls with,One could say it was like they were "possessing" the past version of their trainer except that their actual memories wouldn't be part of the possession process, instead,only their willpower will be transferred,this willpower would then need to overwhelm that of the Trainer's past version and force them to commit suicide,This entire process was very difficult,not only because overwhelming the willpower of someone who could teach suicide Succession Severing was extremely difficult,but also because humans in general have an instinct to survive,if the only thing left of them is their willpower,that willpower will naturally have an instinct to "survive" and will not desire to perish, Which is why the only people who become Asuras are usually sort of insane,their minds didn't work the same way as that of most,the part of their brains responsible for processing danger and fear was less active than that of others,the same went for the part that is responsible for empathy and emotions.
It turns out that Veangeance was no exception to this,In these 5 months of training suicide Succession Severing,he Managed to find out why exactly his personality underwent a significant change,It was a condition called "Natchez",This was a sort of mutation in the brain and soul that essentially gave certain psychopathic traits to the individuals who had the condition.
Veangeance was familiar with this condition,it was something well known after all,this was because these individuals tend to be very dangerous to human society as a whole,Human society is built upon the base of shared ideas,laws and nature,it is a sort of machine that depends on all the separate parts to work together in harmony in order to prevail, people who are "Natchez" diverge significantly from the rest,their way of viewing the world wasn't compatible with society as a whole,they were like an defective part that would place the "survival" of the machine in danger, because of this, knowledge about them is spread in order for others to learn how to spot and deal with them.
Natchez can be very dangerous since they are an inside treath,monsters and aberrations are frightening to most,but at least they were clearly distinct from people,so one would know if they were being preyed upon by them,but the Natchez are even more frightening since they look just like humans,and can behave similarly,so it's possible to be in danger without even realizing it.
The reason as to why Veangeance hadn't considered this as a possibility before was because Natchez were usually born that way, lacking empathy and emotions in general,and Veangeance knew very clearly that this didn't apply to him,He had plenty of emotions and desires before,Love ,hatred, pride,lust etc...
And even now,it wasn't like he didn't have any emotions or desires, However, they were very numbed down, Although he still had certain human morals and values,he could also clearly feel a sort of eerie apathy constantly growing inside him,like he was becoming less human by the day.
This situation wasn't one he was familiar with, Which is why he couldn't be sure if he truly was a Natchez,But the parts of his mind responsible for Human emotions was clearly the exact same as that of the Natchez, humans generally have bright shining minds when being shown through the "Self",his on the other hand was purely grey.
And being a Natchez would also explain his personality shift, Veangeance found it odd that he would change so much simply because of the things that happened to him, after all, although it's indeed true that he lost his talent,status," friends" and even the person he liked had left him, those weren't extremely traumatic events,he didn't really know if this was enough to make someone's personality become as antisocial as his current one,Yet it's also sort of strange that he started changing not long after those things had happened...
Fortunately for him,the Nameless Slave didn't seem to have figured out that he was a Natchez, otherwise things might end up being complicated...
'If this continues, won't I Eventually lose all my emotions and become completely inhuman...?'