Morpheus couldn't help but chuckle when he learned about Wesker's new virus.
From the original T-Virus to the Blacklight Virus, then the MK Virus targeting men, and now the Gastrea Virus specifically aimed at humans.
The Umbrella Corporation in this world was practically very powerful.
Were they planning to recreate every virus from every other world?
Was it because they thought humanity wasn't dying fast enough?
No, correction—it wasn't Umbrella itself, but the devil behind Umbrella, eager to see humanity perish quickly.
That devil was practically pushing his luck.
Morpheus's eyes glinted, his killing intent toward Umbrella Corporation rising another notch.
Just as he was about to contact Rias Gremory to check on her brother's progress, Rias reached out to him first.
And she didn't just call—she came straight from Kuoh Academy to Tokyo, intercepting Morpheus at the entrance of Umbrella's Tokyo branch.
"My brother's gone missing," Rias said, her opening words catching Morpheus off guard.
"What happened?" Morpheus asked, bewildered.
Rias, visibly anxious, explained, "Not long ago, my brother contacted me, saying he'd found traces of the devil behind Umbrella. He said it wouldn't be long before he pinpointed their exact location."
"But yesterday, Lady Serafall reached out to me, saying my brother had vanished."
"She said she was going to rescue him, and if she didn't contact me within twelve hours, I should come find you."
Rias gave a bitter smile before continuing, "As of now, it's been eleven hours since Lady Serafall last contacted me."
"We're down to the last hour of our agreed time."
Morpheus let out a thoughtful "Oh," choosing not to question why Rias hadn't come to him sooner. Instead, he asked, "Where did your brother and Serafall disappear?"
Rias replied, "Silent Hill."
At the mention of that name, Morpheus's eyes flickered.
He was all too familiar with it.
Though he'd never played the Silent Hill game, its fame had led him to look up the general plot online.
Morpheus recalled that Silent Hill had a church led by a high priestess named Dahlia, who was fanatically devoted to the god her cult worshipped. At 32, Dahlia gave birth to a daughter.
He couldn't quite remember the daughter's name—Alessa or Alyssa, something like that.
Regardless, this daughter was born with extraordinary powers: telekinesis, precognition, and astral projection.
These abilities allowed her to read minds and even kill people with a thought.
But in this world, such gifts often marked someone as a freak, leading to bullying and ostracization. As a child, the girl was shunned by her peers.
Worse still, her mother, the high priestess, was no saint.
She was an obsessive occultist, utterly consumed by her beliefs.
Dahlia was convinced she could summon her cult's god into the world through a specific method of conception, creating a paradise free of pain.
So, she began experimenting with using her daughter's body as a vessel to birth this god.
After failing with several abducted teenage girls, Dahlia concluded that her daughter, born with immense magical power, was the ideal vessel.
What a monster.
No, that wasn't right—there was a saying that even tigers don't eat their own cubs.
Yet this deranged priestess was willing to sacrifice her own daughter.
What made it even more infuriating was that the girl was only seven years old when Dahlia tried to use her as a sacrificial offering.
The sheer audacity of it made Morpheus's blood boil.
This was worse than monstrous.
When the plan commenced, Dahlia first used a weapon to seal her daughter's powers, then confined her to their home. She set fire to the second floor, intending to sacrifice her daughter's body in the flames to allow the god to take form in her womb.
But the plan failed due to the girl's fierce resistance.
The girl split her soul in two, sending one half out to a highway beyond Silent Hill, where it was taken away by a passing couple.
Her physical body, meanwhile, fell into a coma.
Though the ritual didn't succeed, the embryo of the god formed within the girl's body.
However, because her soul was divided, the god's embryo couldn't fully manifest and remained dormant inside her.
Later, the girl's mother, the deranged priestess, publicly claimed her daughter was dead.
In reality, she imprisoned her in a hospital.
Because of the god's embryo within her, the girl couldn't die, but her wounds wouldn't heal either. She suffered constant high fevers, and the god's gestation caused her unimaginable torment.
To make matters worse, her mother used magic to force the other half of her soul back to Silent Hill, intensifying her pain.
The girl's soul was trapped in an endless nightmare, never waking, until seven years later, at age fourteen, when her other soul half returned to Silent Hill.
That's where the story of Silent Hill unfolded.
Morpheus recalled that the game had multiple endings.
In the best one, the girl's soul finally gave rise to the so-called "god."
It was a monstrous creature with a goat's head, a human body, no abdomen, and bat-like wings, known as the Incubus.
The Incubus emerged from the girl's back, tearing through her, and took to the skies, striking down her mother—the vile priestess—with lightning.
In the end, the Incubus faced off against the game's male protagonist in a final battle.
And was killed by the protagonist with a shotgun.
That part always cracked Morpheus up—a demon taken down by a shotgun?
It was absurd no matter how you looked at it.
But it was a game, so it made sense.
Show a health bar, and players could take down even a god, let alone a mere Incubus.
The problem was, this world wasn't a game.
Whether the protagonist could kill an Incubus with a gun was questionable at best, unless the shotgun was imbued with holy magic capable of harming demons.
But Morpheus's main concern wasn't whether a shotgun could kill an Incubus.
It was that Sirzechs and Serafall were trapped in Silent Hill. That was almost unbelievable.
Could that place really hold two powerful devils?
It was unthinkable, incomprehensible. No matter how you sliced it, Silent Hill didn't seem like a place capable of trapping them.
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100 Power Stones = 1 BC
300 Power Stones = 2 BC
500 Power Stones = 3 BC
700 Power Stones = 4 BC
1000 Power Stones = 5 BC
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