Extra's POV: My Obsessive Villainous Fiancee Is The Game's Final Boss-Chapter 242: Death Of A Plague

"What the fuck?" Thorn stepped forward. "Is that even possible?"

"Apparently." Ren stared at Vesper's body. A soul was growing. Not fast enough to be instant, but not slow enough to take a long time.

"So, what do we do?" Lilith asked.

"If we kill his body, he still comes back. I already tried that." Ren said. And if we rip out his soul, he grows a new one. This must be because he's tied to the Red Tree."

Thorn frowned thoughtfully, staring at Vesper's body.

"Guys?" Elias spoke up from where he stood before the Blood Chosen's cell. "Can we focus on this for a minute?"

"Oh. Yeah." They all turned back to the door.

The door to the Blood Chosen's cell could be described as cold. Not just metaphorically, but literally.

Elias placed a hand on it and hissed, drawing it back. "It's freezing."

"An effect of the resonance defenses." Ren said as he placed a hand on it, feeling the searing cold. But he could also feel the vibration of the door. Resonances of containment.

He frowned as he tried to exert his resonance upon it. A barrier of compressed resonance fought back, stopping his Push resonance from going far.

"We need to break it down." He said, stepping back. "Being delicate wouldn't work. We don't have the key for this."

He turned to Lilith. "Over to you."

With a nod, Lilith stepped forward, raising a hand. Soul Dominion reared up inside her, soul threads weaving through the air and digging slowly through the stones, the resonances trying to destabilize them.

Then, two giant clawed hands of soul energy materialized.

Lilith wound the soul threads around her arms, the clawed hands struggling to get a grip on the door. When it finally dug in, she set her feet and began to pull.

She roared as she pulled. The stone around the door began to crack, the crack spreading through the other walls around it.

With a loud crash, the cell door exploded outward.

Dust filled the air, sending Ren into a coughing fit. They waved through the dust as they staggered inside.

That was when they saw him.

The Blood Chosen.

He lay crumpled on the ground, chains encircling every limb. He was thin and unnaturally pale, the lines of his veins standing out beneath his skin. His breathing was shallow, and his eyes were closed.

Ren rushed forward and knelt beside him, placing two fingers against the man's throat. There was a pulse.

"Still alive." He murmured. "Unconscious, but stable."

He could feel the resonance around the man's brain, keeping him unconscious.

Lilith approached, her expression hard. "Can we wake him?"

Ren shook his head. "Doesn't matter. I have an idea."

He stood and faced her. "If we wake him up, his resonance could misfire. It'll take only a thought for him to kill anybody in this room. I can't risk that."

"But resonance can affect resonance, and we can use that." He said. "We don't need him awake to use his power. We just need to amplify it."

Lilith blinked. Then her eyes widened.

"You want me to Pull on his resonance."

"Exactly. Build a loop. Stir it up. Make it boil."

Lilith looked down at the sleeping man. She inhaled deeply, then placed her hands on his chest.

With a nod to Ren, she Pulled.

The man twitched. Then it trembled.

The veins in his body flared with blood-red light, pulsing like a drumbeat. The very air darkened, as if the resonance around him recoiled.

Lilith grit her teeth, sweat beading on her brow. "His resonance... it's fighting me."

"Push through." Ren said. "You're not trying to control it. Just guide it."

She nodded, closing her eyes. This was different from the ways she'd used resonance magic before but she could do it. She twisted as she Pulled, and the Blood Chosen's body arched.

A wave of pressure exploded outward, knocking over loose debris. The red light from his veins erupted as his resonance had awakened.

Lilith fell back, breathing hard as she maintained the loop, building it. She kept Pulling, faster than natural, building a loop that was more like a storm. It fluctuated, trying to slip away, but she held it firm, gritting her teeth.

"It's ready." She forced out.

Ren stepped forward. He placed a hand on the Blood Chosen's chest, then turned to look at Vesper.

Vesper's body was twitching now, his new soul still bubbling, still forming. Time was short.

"You want to…" Lilith's eyes went wide as she followed his gaze.

Ren turned back to the Blood Chosen with an exhale, syncing his growing loop of Push resonance with the resonance swirling there.

He aligned himself with the rhythm, feeling the heartbeat of the Blood resonance thundering through the unconscious man.

"Now." He whispered. Then, he Pushed.

The air in the room wavered as the resonance fired outward in a beam of red energy, launching from the Blood Chosen's chest, through the hallway, and straight into Vesper's almost completed soul.

Vesper screamed.

His body convulsed as the Blood resonance invaded him.

But it didn't stop there.

Through Vesper's soul, which was still bound to the Red Tree, the resonance spread like wildfire.

It moved through the threads that connected everyone that held the plague, and across Edenhold, the infected screamed.

The resonance attacked their blood, and they died.

One by one, they collapsed, from the smallest rat to the monstrous infected. Their blood boiled. Their souls combusted. The connection to the Red Tree ruptured.

They'd killed all carriers. The Red Plague was gone.

"Holy hell." Thorn whispered. "You did it!" He laughed giddily, slapping Ren on the back.

"No, we did it." Ren laughed.

"Nah. You guys did it." Elias stepped forward. "Thorn and I were just dead weight. Since the moment we left Albion, if you remove Thorn and I from everything, the result won't change a bit."

"Yeah." Thorn nodded with a grin. "What he said."

"Alright." Ren chuckled. "Let's agree to disagr—"

Then, the world exploded.