Wicked Reincarnation

Inside a house, the six of them settled on the ground.

"Mika, can you create more of these?" Lia pointed at the compass dangling from their neck.

Surprisingly, Mika nodded and started to summon five more. Mika's summon power worked only for things that existed, as long as it existed, he could summon. If something didn't exist and was only made up of imagination, Mika couldn't summon it. Summoning was his power and not creation.

He gave the four compass to the others and kept one for himself.

"This isn't what I imagined it to be but it's still exciting," Nana's cheerful voice didn't fit the atmosphere, however, it was a given she'd be excited for anything as everything was new and strange to her.

"It's not," Mika wasn't in a good mood, "Does the T family really live here?"

He asked what everyone thought.

"No doubt, Maria has contact with the T family," Xavi reassured.

"Lia, do you feel alright? Do you need anything? A massage?" Lia turned to Susa and the memory of Susa calling Lia 'her master' resurfaced. Lia quickly shook her head, "It's alright."

"Young master, do you need anything?" Lily couldn't lose. She was a better attendant than Susa who just became one. Lily couldn't be a disgrace to Xavi.

"I'm fine," Xavi also quickly rejected.

"We should rest as much as possible," Lia told them as she still had the nagging feeling that something was wrong with the ghosts.

"Agreed," with that Mika laid on the floor and closed his eyes. Only Lia and Susa didn't.

Lia walked out of the house and sat at the stairs leading towards the entrance door. She observed the ghosts.

"Can you use your power?" Lia asked Susa as she sat next to Lia.

"Do you mean looking into the future?"

Lia nodded.

"Not really. I can only gain info about certain things. The vision I got before was just brief and rare."

"I see."

"Is something worrying you? Is it the ghosts?"

"Don't you also think they're unusual?"

"Yes."

Lia turned surprised to Susa.

"When I talked about the spell I was lying. I thought it'd be best not to unsettle everyone but the ghosts aren't coming in out of their own volition."

"I thought so. We need to keep an eye on them."

"Yes."

"You aren't tired?"

"No," Susa smiled, "I'd like to keep you company."

For a while, both of them chatted and then sat in silence looking at the ominous brewing sky.

Suddenly, out of the eye corner, Lia noticed movements.

"They're coming," she said and pulled Susa with her inside the house.

"Everyone! Wake up!" Susa hurriedly shook everyone awake but it took some time while Lia grabbed her weapons.

When everyone awoke, the ghosts already surrounded the house yet didn't enter. They just looked from the door and windows at the immortals inside.

"What the hell?" Mika cursed and Nana hid behind him, "Why are they here? What's going on?"

Lily shielded Xavi and held up her knife, "They aren't coming?"

"They seem to be waiting," Lia concluded but it was very strange. Just like how they waited outside this village, they now waited outside the house. As if someone was controlling them or as if they waited for the order to attack.

But Lia didn't want to trust her thoughts and pushed it away. It didn't matter now, the important thing was to purge the ghosts. Yet as if to mock Lia, the ghosts flew into the house at an insane speed.

Lia raised her knife but didn't anticipate the ghost swatting the knife out of her hand. Left puzzled Lia stared at the knife on the ground before her line of sight moved to the smirk of the ghost.

What was going on? The ghosts had intelligence? They could think on their own?

Not giving Lia any more time to think, it attacked her. Lia dodged to her right and saw that the others were also struck in wonder.

"Don't think about it now! Get rid of them!" Lia's shout awoke them and they got out of the ghosts' range.

A sinister atmosphere covered the house and was thicker than the mist outside. With the ghosts being able to think on their own and their deadly thirst, they were an unfavourable matchup against immortals.

Vengeful ghosts on their own were already dangerous but being able to possess at least a consciousness was almost a death sentence. Simply trying to purge them wasn't going to work anymore.

Any attack on them was invaded by the ghosts who seemed to have the same agility and speed as Lia and the others who trained. They were crowded in the house and had no escape route with the ghosts sealing off any way outside.

The six of them were forced to retreat to the middle until they bumped against each other. Lia made a decision, "We have to split up and run at the same time to escape here."

"No!" Susa immediately rejected the idea, "I told you it's dangerous to split up."

"We have no other choice," Lia pointed to her knife on the ground and assessed the route to the entrance door, "If we stay together, we'll be easy prey. If we split up, they'll have a harder time to decide who to attack."

"I agree," Mika thought Lia's suggestion was logical.

"They've gained intelligence, it's unfathomable," Xavi was at a loss.

"We'll go in pairs. If we can't find each other, we'll meet at the T family's mansion. You all have the compass, no?"

The others hummed in agreement and Susa couldn't interject anymore. She saw that something bad would happen to some of them but if Lia deemed this was the best route, she would follow her judgement.

"On three."

As the said number was reached, each two bolted into three different directions. Lia ran and swept off the knife from the ground and slipped through the ghosts at the entrance door while her knife gilded vertically and cut the ghosts into half.

From behind, Mika took care of another ghost and ran side by side with Lia towards the mist. Three more ghosts came in pursuit.

Before entering the mist, Lia briefly saw Susa and Xavi going to the right while Nana and Lily headed towards the back.

Then all of them vanished inside the mist. There was no doubt that they'd find each other again unshared. Lia believed in it.

Heading to the mist didn't seem like a great idea but just as the mist obstructed Lia, it also appeared to hinder the ghosts. At least in the mist, they attacked them brainlessly like always. The experience in the village was too frightening. Was there something that could've prompted the ghosts to briefly think on their own?

Lia and Mika headed quickly through the mist. With only two people it was easier to navigate and take care of the ghosts at the same time. Lia didn't dare to use her soul and only fought with the knife Mika previously gave her. The pain of having her soul leave her body exceeded a point beyond unbearable.

If Lia didn't give powers to others then she wouldn't use her power anymore.

"Here," Mika handed Lia another knife.

"Did you just-"

"Yes," Mika interrupted and looked away, "In case you lose the other or we get separated, so… you don't have to resort to using your power."

Mika was being considered. Lia knew Mika still thought it was his fault that Lia had to suffer through this, "Thank you."contemporary romance

Mika took notice of her smile but pretended not to see it. He only continued killing the ghosts that swarmed them like ants. When would this stop?

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