Chapter 16: Chapter 16 - Becoming Sukuna’s Vessel
As Jake reached the villa, he found Satoru Gojo playing with one of Sukuna's fingers, throwing it up and down. As Jake got closer, Satoru Gojo went up to Jake and asked him how he was doing.
"I've been doing good, have you agreed to let me eat Sukuna's fingers?" Jake replied before asking excitedly.
"Yes, I am allowing you to, but this is only because your lovely brother Satoru Gojo killed Kenjaku, making you have the minimum risk of something going wrong," Satoru Gojo said to Jake.
"Okay, let me unpack first before I eat it," Jake said before rushing to unpack his things.
After Jake has unpacked his things and went back to the living room, Satoru Gojo was waiting. As Jake was about to be handed the finger by Satoru Gojo, Satoru Gojo paused before saying, "Jake, I have 3 conditions for you to be allowed to eat Sukuna's fingers, 1st condition is to only be able to eat 1 at a time, 2nd condition is that you are only allowed to eat a finger or fight with Sukuna's soul if I am watching you to make sure nothing happens, and the 3rd condition is that you are only allowed to eat a finger 1 day after you destroy Sukuna's soul in the fingers you have eaten before."
"I agree, when can I take the first one?" Jake agreed before asking.
"Right now," Satoru Gojo said to Jake before throwing him the finger he was holding.
"Okay, I will take it right now," Jake replied to Satoru Gojo before shoving the finger down his throat, swallowing it quickly.
As Jake swallowed the finger, he felt the cursed energy in the finger begin to rampage in his body, as a soul tried to take over control. He used the full strength of his soul to block the foreign soul from taking control, as he waited for the rampaging cursed energy to stop.
After the rampaging cursed energy stopped, Jake told Satoru Gojo that he was about to fight Sukuna's soul. As Jake entered the soul space of Sukuna, he saw a mirror image of his body with black striped tattoos all over his body sitting atop a mountain of bones.
The black striped tattooed Jake, which is Sukuna's soul, said to the normal Jake, "Why can you prevent me from taking over your body?"
"It's because you are weak, now let me kill your soul so that I don't have to bother about you," Jake replied to Sukuna.
"You little kid, I don't know how you prevented me from taking over your body, but it doesn't matter if I kill you right here!" Sukuna yelled angrily, as he activated his shrine cursed technique, using dismantle, sending an invisible slash at Jake.
Jake quickly dodged the invisible slash easily, sensing it with his [Divine Universal Perception] Skill, as he turned into a blur, appearing in front of Sukuna as he created a plasma sword using his blood manipulation cursed technique.
Jake slashed at Sukuna using the plasma sword, as Sukuna at the same time sends multiple dismantles at Jake, which Jake lets hit him because they could only scratch him.
Jake's slash hit Sukuna, slicing him in two before Jake made extremely rapid slashes, continuing to cut Sukuna into tiny pieces, killing this part of his soul.
Jake opened his eyes, as he went to have a look in the mirror, with Satoru Gojo following him, Satoru Gojo asked him, "Are you so afraid that eating Sukuna's fingers would change your body?"
"Of course, my face is so handsome that I can't let anything happen to it!" Jake said to Satoru Gojo with an excited tone, as he looked into the mirror, seeing that his face didn't change with him temporarily becoming Sukuna's vessel.
"Okay, don't make such a big fuss," Satoru Gojo responded to Jake helplessly.
"Big Bro Satoru, how has the new students at the high school going?" Jake asked changing the subject.
"Well, we have another new student who has come to the school, and he has been cursed with a special grade vengeful cursed spirit, though you already know that," Satoru Gojo told Jake.
"Yeah, if you don't need me for anything else, I will take Night to the other world and get a bit further in conquering the Great Devil's Nest again," Jake told Satoru Gojo after chatting for a while longer, as he went to the other world.
——————— Dividing Line ———————
In the other world, Jake and Night are deep in the Great Devil's Nest and are currently finishing up fighting a horde of Titanium-Adamantite Boars. Jake pierced the 2nd to last boar with the wooden spear, leaving a gaping hole through it's side, killing it instantly.
Titanium-Adamantite Boars are 3x the size of Mithril Boars, have crimson red fur colour that is made out of adamantite and it is much more shiny and looks much heavier than Mithril Boars. The front of its face has 4 massive, shiny, dark-gray tusks that are made out of titanium that can pierce through almost anything. It has small spikes on the side of its face, that are extremely sharp and can penetrate most things and are made out of titanium. Its hooves are made out of titanium, with its eyes, ears, nose, and mouth being made out of adamantite. It's status are:
[Titanium-Adamantite Boar]
Level: 300
Magic: 200,000
Attack: 400,000
Defense: 400,000
Agility: 250,000
Intelligence: 150,000
Luck: 10,000
Skills:
Reflect Magic: Level 8
Reflect Physical Attack: Level 8
Super Senses: Level 8
Reflect Abnormal Status: Level 8
Self-Regeneration: Max Level
Charge: Max Level
Iron Wall: Max Level
Adamantite Defense: Level 3
Titanium Sharpness: Level 3
Immovable Wall: Level 3
Night cut the last remaining boar with its claws, cutting off its tusks and legs, before biting its neck, causing it to bleed profusely as Night continued to attack the boar. After about 10 seconds of the boar bleeding, it died, leaving behind some drop items. Jake and Night began to pick up the drop items that the whole hoard of around 50 boars, including 1 King Adamantite-Titanium Boar dropped.
[Peerless Adamantite] - Adamantite-Titanium Boar
Adamantite of beyond top quality but below best quality, able to sell 1kg of this item for a country. It is one of the best natural metals for forging equipment, with the other best natural metal being titanium of the same quality. Peerless Adamantite can negate a minimum of 80% of the damage taken by the user from magic and physical attacks, removing all the shocks the user takes, and increases the damage negated the weaker the attack is, with it being able to nullify most attacks. It is practically impossible to scratch it, unless it is strongly attacked by top quality weapons made out of peerless titanium or weapons that are stronger than that.
[Peerless Titanium] - Adamantite-Titanium Boar
Titanium of beyond top quality but below best quality, able to sell 1kg of this item for a country. It is one of the best natural metals for forging equipment, with the other best natural metal being adamantite of the same quality. Perfect Titanium nullifies a minimum of 80% total defense, and almost no attacks can scratch it, it nullifies more defense the weaker the defense is, with it completely nullifying almost all defences.
[Perfect Adamantite] - King Adamantite-Titanium Boar
Adamantite of the best quality, able to sell 1kg of this item for a kingdom. It is one of the best natural metals for forging equipment, with the other best natural metal being titanium of the same quality. Perfect Adamantite can negate a minimum of 90% of the damage taken by the user from magic and physical attacks, removing all the shocks the user takes, and increases the damage negated the weaker the attack is, with it being able to nullify almost all attacks. It is practically impossible to scratch it, unless it is strongly attacked by top quality weapons made out of perfect titanium or weapons that are stronger than that.
[Perfect Titanium] - King Adamantite-Titanium Boar
Titanium of the best quality, able to sell 1kg of this item for a kingdom. It is one of the best natural metals for forging equipment, with the other best natural metal being adamantite of the same quality. Perfect Titanium nullifies a minimum of 90% total defense, and almost no attacks can scratch it, it nullifies more defense the weaker the defense is, with it completely nullifying almost all defences.
[Large Tusk of the Adamantite-Titanium Boar]
The large tusk of the Adamantite-Titanium Boar.
The tusk is comprised of Peerless Titanium, which nullifies a minimum of 80% total defense, and almost no attacks can scratch it, it nullifies more defense the weaker the defense is, with it completely nullifying most defences. Special techniques are required to process it into a weapon, but if it is, the weapon will nullify a minimum of 80% total defense of the defense of targets when attacked using this weapon, with it nullifying more defense the weaker the defense is, with it completely nullifying most defences.
[Great Hide of the Adamantite-Titanium Boar]
Great hide of the Adamantite-Titanium Boar.
The skin is comprised of Peerless Adamantite, which nullifies a minimum of 80% damage taken and the shocks from attacks, it nullifies more damage the weaker the attack is, with it completely nullifying most attacks. As it is a hide and not adamantite in it's natural state, it's lighter in comparison. It is practically impossible to scratch it, unless it is strongly attacked by top quality weapons made out of peerless titanium or weapons that are stronger than that. For that reason, adventurers treat defensive equipment made from the hide as mythical masterpieces.
[Great Hide of the King Adamantite-Titanium Boar]
Great hide of the King Adamantite-Titanium Boar.
The skin is comprised of Perfect Adamantite, which nullifies a minimum of 90% damage taken and the shocks from attacks, it nullifies more damage the weaker the attack is, with it completely nullifying almost all attacks. As it is a hide and not adamantite in it's natural state, it's lighter in comparison. It is practically impossible to scratch it, unless it is strongly attacked by top quality weapons made out of perfect titanium or weapons that are stronger than that. For that reason, adventurers treat defensive equipment made from the hide as beyond mythical masterpieces.
[Large Tusk of the King Adamantite-Titanium Boar]
The large tusk of the King Adamantite-Titanium Boar.
The tusk is comprised of Perfect Titanium, which nullifies a minimum of 90% total defense, and almost no attacks can scratch it, it nullifies more defense the weaker the defense is, with it completely nullifying almost all defences.Special techniques are required to process it into a weapon, but if it is, the weapon will nullify a minimum of 90% total defense of the defense of targets when attacked using this weapon, with it nullifying more defense the weaker the defense is, with it completely nullifying almost all defences.
[Magic Stone: SSS] - Adamantite-Titanium Boar
Rank: SSS
[Magic Stone: EX] - King Adamantite-Titanium Boar
Rank: EX
[Meat of the Adamantite-Titanium Boar]
The meat of the Adamantite-Titanium Boar.
It has a slightly unusual flavour, but once you've tried it, you'll crave the taste of it. The meat only comes up for auction once every few thousand years, but those who know the taste will do anything to obtain this foodstuff.
[Meat of the King Adamantite-Titanium Boar]
The meat of the King Adamantite-Titanium Boar.
It has a slightly unusual flavour, but once you've tried it, you'll crave the taste of it. The meat only comes up for auction once every few tens of thousands years, but those who know the taste will do anything to obtain this foodstuff.
After they picked everything up, Jake and Night began to go to where Lexia and Owen said they would meet him to take him to the royal palace. As they were going to the place to meet, Jake and Night found a Bloody Ogre Lord, which is the leader of a pack of Bloody Ogres.
Jake threw a wooden spear he created, piercing its head, killing it instantly. As Jake threw the spear at the Bloody Ogre Lord, Night used a wide range lightning magic to kill the rest of the Bloody Ogres.
Jake continued on his way, quickly arriving at the place to meet Lexia and Owen. After he got there, he waited for a few minutes as he saw a carriage over the horizon.
As the carriage got closer, Jake saw Owen wearing the equipment he gave to him when they last met. Owen and some other knights are guarding the carriage, preventing danger to Lexia.
Owen's equipment, is a blue-black knights armour with dark green lines to set off the definitions. The sword has a blue-black blade, with ominous green lines that start from the hilt and extend close to the tip of the sword. The handle of the sword looks like a deadly snake, that seems to pop out as if alive. The shield looks like a turtle shell, with a green-black primary colour, and a blue colour in the crevices of the turtle shell looking shield.
As the carriage reached Jake, Owen said to Jake, "Jake, thank you very much for the equipment, it has made my job a lot easier."
"It's okay, your welcome," Jake replied.
After the carriage stopped, Owen and the knights got off their horses and Lexia exited the carriage, and with Owen, Lexia walked up to Jake.
"Jake it's been a long time, why are you holding a wooden spear?" Lexia asked Jake.
"It's because I have been training some skills that allow the possessor of these skills to, depending on the use of a weapon, allows the possessor to either cut, pierce, bludgeon, or bind anything even using a toothpick or stuff like that if the level of the skill is high enough," Jake explained to Lexia.
"That's amazing!" Lexia said excitedly with her eyes shining.
"Am I to assume that you have concluded your business and are now willing to accompany us back to the castle?" Owen asked Jake.
"Yeah, I've finished everything I have to do, let's go," Jake responded to Owen.
"Good, then Lexia, if you would please," Owen said to Lexia as he and the knights saluted.
Lexia lifts up her dress and curtsies at Jake while saying, "We are extremely grateful you have accepted our invitation to meet with his highness the king, most esteemed guest, we will now escort you to the royal palace."
"Um, you don't have to be so formal Lexia," Jake said awkwardly.
Lexia ignored Jake's comment and said, "If you would, follow us."
"If you would, I have a-," Jake was saying before he noticed a string.
He noticed that the string was cutting a tree, which is aimed to fall at Lexia's position. He quickly picked up Lexia and dodged back to his original position, as the tree fell.
"Jake, release her highness immediately!" Owen said firmly before drawing his sword along with the guards, "I don't want to fight you but you have to explain this offence!"
"Owen, the tree fell in her original position, she wasn't wearing the equipment I gave her so she would be hurt," Jake explained to Owen, while gently putting Lexia back to the ground.
"Oh, Jake, you are so romantic," Lexia mumbled to herself.
"Owen, can you protect Lexia, I'm going to look for something," Jake asked Owen before running off, as he realised that the threads used to cut the tree were the threads he gave to Luna.
After the assailant realised that they failed, they put away the threads before escaping. After they stopped escaping, Jake quickly kicked them, knocking them through several trees.
The assailant was wearing a mask that fell off during the aftermath of Jake's kick, showing Luna's face.
Jake's eyes visibly shook, as he said, "Luna, why did you do this?"
Behind Jake, Lexia ran up behind him, asking him, "Why did you run off?"
After she reached Jake, she continued to ask, "Who is this?"
"It's the assassin, the person who was trying to kill you," Jake said with a slight frown on his face.
"The way you're acting, you know who she is, don't you?" Lexia asked Jake.
"Yeah, I do," Jake responded.
"If you don't mind, I'm going to take her to the cabin, so that I can treat her," Jake told Lexia.
"That's okay, however I'm going as well," Lexia said.
"Fine, if you want, but can you let me speak to her one last time?" Jake asked Lexia.
"That's okay," Lexia replied.
At this time, they both heard a shout, "Lexia, answer me, are you trying to get me in trouble, please stop going off on your own!" It was Owen who was anxiously looking for Lexia.
"Don't be like that Owen, Jake and I are going to his house for a bit!" Lexia replied.
"Your what!" They shouted in shock, as Lexia began to laugh.