God of Tricksters

"Huh?" Nadia was amused when Theo stole the crown from the mummy. At the same time, she somehow felt a certain similarity in his fighting style despite having such a cover. "Moving together with a clone, using an illusion and tricks, and having a good head to execute all that…"

Even though she was overseas, she still watched Alea's performance in the Grand Gaia Competition. And as expected, Theo took her attention as well.

Not many guys would appear in this place with this kind of prowess and appearance, so she instantly recognized the guy's identity.

She thought inwardly, 'That boy is Theodore Griffith, huh? It's normal for Father to know that kid since they have collaborated once. Still, has he been hiding his identity this whole time? He…'

Nadia felt something weird within Theo and it was his choice to keep his cover instead of using it to fight for his life.

'He seems to have a problem in the head…' She shook her head helplessly while shouting with a poker face. "Oi, don't steal the artifact. You can't use it, you know.. But if you're thinking about helping me killing this monster, then I guess—"

Before she finished her words, Theo turned around as if he planned to face the mummy himself.

The mummy was angered to the limit as he growled, "You are one ignorant human. You don't know the power of Death and you shall suffer from it!"

He raised his hand and stimulated the crown once more.

"Not good!" Realizing what happened, Nadia shouted to Theo. "Boy, drop that crown right now!"

Unfortunately, Theo had no intention of dropping it.

The crown released a huge amount of black-colored energy from the ceramic, enveloping him.

Nadia quickly formed a small wind tornado and leaped toward Theo. "I'm going to save you."

The mummy king obviously didn't let her. He intercepted her by creating a black smoke that gave a sense of dread to Nadia's heart.

Nadia waved her glaive to strike the mummy king, but the latter still managed to dodge it while moving closer to Theo.

"You start panicking, human." The mummy king chuckled as if enjoying her desperation when she saw someone dying.

Nadia never thought that Theo would be in this situation because of the artifact. Even so, she remained calm and said, "You will be fine, I will neutralize whatever energy it is."

"It's impossible. Only the dead can gain the power of Death. He shall become the deceased…"

Both of them turned to Theo, watching how Theo would be killed by the power of Death, or that was what was supposed to happen.

On the contrary, Theo simply stood there with the black energy floating around him in harmony.

"What?!" The mummy king dropped his jaw when he saw how calm the energy was.

"What is happening?" Nadia was also shocked by this development.

Little did they know, Theo had the protection of the Goddess of Death. There was no way he would be affected by all this.

In fact, he had been trying to hold a conversation with her.

After seeing how the black energy didn't even move, Theo stopped and asked, "I have gotten the crown. What should I do?"

There was no answer from the Goddess while Theo wondered what would happen to him.

Luckily, he maintained his calm until he got the answer from her.

[Bonding with the power of Death.]

[Bonding failed.]

[Obedience is required.]

[Underworld Dominion is activated.]

"What is this?" Theo opened his eyes wide as he never thought there would be this kind of message. This was the first time Theo saw the notifications coming in succession.

Suddenly, another notification shocked him to the core.

[Blessing Enhancement.]

[A skill will be temporarily lent.]

[Acquired Underworld Dominion Skill (Temporary).]

Skill: Underworld Dominion: Death Avatar (S)

Effect: Personification of Death, the ruler of the Underworld. Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, and Unknown.

[Absorbing the power of Death.]

The crown suddenly released an even more intense power of Death to the surrounding. The grass started to wither, and the dry dirt solidified as if their lives were taken away by the energy.

Not long after, cracks appeared all over the crown as the latter shattered into pieces, revealing a floating blue ceramic.

The ceramic soon followed the fate of the crown, breaking into pieces. All the energy stored inside it burst out.

[Absorbing the power of Death.]

[The power is too low. Fully activation is canceled.]

[The user is too weak. The Sealing Process starts.]

Skill: Underworld Dominion: Death Avatar (B) – Sealed Form

Effect: Personification of Death, the ruler of the Underworld. Unknown.

Theo obviously had no idea what was going on. However, the energy around him started to feel a bit familiar to him.

"What is this…" Theo gulped down and raised his head, finding the shocked faces of Nadia and the mummy king.

The mummy king shouted in anger. "Impossible. How can you control the power of Death? You bastard, who are you?!"

Meanwhile, Nadia glanced at him while taking what the mummy king said into account. She muttered inwardly, 'People said he has a God Rank Blessing and from what the mummy said, he can control the power of Death. It must be related to his blessing, which should come from God or Goddess of Death.

'However, which God blessed him? He has been talking about Osiris… But is it truly him?' Nadia gulped down.

Unfortunately, Theo had no idea of what he was saying. It turned out the black-colored energy had isolated him from the rest.

Theo also wanted to know because he experienced this weird phenomenon for the first time.

[Creating a new Death Avatar.]

[Matching the user's personality and character.]

[Forming the Death Avatar.]

The black-colored energy suddenly spun around like that of a tornado and gradually formed a figure behind Theo.

The figure reached fifteen feet above the ground and connected to Theo's shadow as the avatar didn't have feet.

The Death Avatar had a black magician hat and a white and black mask. The eyes behind the mask were purple. It wore a white shirt and a black vest, covered with a long red robe.

All the black energy disappeared to create this avatar, who looked down on all people in this area.

[Underworld Dominion: Death Avatar (Activated)]