I stepped out of the bathroom.
It’s been roughly one hour since the plane took off.

I am... I guess in this scenario I should address myself as a bounty hunter.
Not the type you see in star war or any other movies mind you, nor the ones that hunts rare animal or criminals.
the ones I hunt are... a little different.

I return to my seat, my preliminary scouting tells me this plane is completely packed with passengers; it’s a little abnormal since it’s the off season for traveling,
but, then again, with the economy the way it is, there won’t be a flight unless the plane is packed.

I sit down, the person I share the seat with was a young female, I was going to talk to her, to see what info I can get, (she is with a group of tourists)
but, too bad she’s already asleep.

According to the contract info and the intel I’ve gathered myself, my target is indeed on this flight, but I don’t know who, gender nor what the person’s appreance.

My target, were said to be an Or’no Vian or, a plague spreader in English vocab, as its name suggests, these types of “people” were either insane scientists or occultists who’s skilled in chemistry or alchemy －－and are dedicated to produce powerful plagues that can easily wipe out thousands.
...as much as this may sounded like one of those nuclear weapon or bio weapon or whatever types of mass destruction stuff that some president can pull out of their behind, but this is something that’s lot worse.
For whose who falls victims to this plague doesn’t stay dead, they return to life as ghouls or powerful undead.
And yes, you probably have already guessed that these “guys” doesn’t work alone, they were all part of 『Shadows of the Past』
－－ a set of undead weavers, ancient liches and possessed or insane human acolytes.

...but enough of the background history, the contract mentioned that my target posses one of those newly developed ghoulification brew, a potent magical brew that can turn any imbiber into mindless flesh hungry ghouls, I guess that’s why I was appointed for this contract...

『Excuse me, sir?』

A sweet voice interrupted my train of thoughts, a stewardess with a big professional smile stood next to me.
I didn’t reply, I just looked at her with a puzzled expression.

『Could you close the blinds? The other customers were about to take a nap,..』

As she was speaking, I looked out into the window, the sun is high up, yet the clouds remain black.

『sir?』
『um?』

『 ...if you need lights to read, please use the personal light above you.』
『oh, right, sorry.』

I reached over and closed the blind.
『Oh, Sir, I almost forgot...』
As the stewardess begins to walk away, she turned to me and bowed with the usual professional smile.
『...Thank you for taking air asia, please enjoy your flight.』

After I am sure there won’t be any further interruptions.
I closed my eyes, begin to meditate.
There’s still 10 hours until we arrive at the destination, there is no point to rush, plus, I have already checked out all the people in the first class and the pilots,
the only suspects that’s left on my list now are the people in the economy class and the stewardess that serves them.

I let loose a deep breath.

『Ji O’kni』
I muttered to myself.
That phrase is not a word of power nor a spell component.
It works just like a mental switch, that I switched on to gain access to the...『other』part of myself.

『Celous, Den 1000111 x4』
As the phrase was spoken in my mind, I can clearly feel my surrounding begins to slow down.
The sensation is like watching a movie that has its speed decreased several times.
The more energy I channeled from the cosmos, the greater the sensation is.
It may sounds like the time around me is slowed down, but in fact; It was I who was speeded up.

I know that sounds physically impossible, but there are just things that are ever unexplainable by the laws of physics nor the so called modern science,
Like the power possess by people like the weavers who can easily manipulate the energy hidden in their soul,
and people like us: with ability to manipulate time and space.

What I just did earlier, was nothing but an simple example of time and space manipulation,
I accelerated the my own speed of time, with it, I obtained heightened senses and may other positive effects like reflexes that is many times quicker than any human,
and if one is so gifted in the ways of time and space manipulation, their body became timeless, as eternal as the cosmos itself...

As of now, I fix my heightened hearing in the cabinet, if anything strange occured, I would be the first to know...

...My neighbor’s heavy breath draws my attention away from the rest of the crowd.
It seems like she is experiencing great pain; her skin is almost as pale as death itself.
Her heavy breath begins to intermix with bestial grunt and grow.

The Ghoulification brew!
It was the first thing that came into my mind.

But how?
I have already tested the food and drinks before they were loaded onto the plane,
and they all turned out clean!

Several other heavy breaths begin to draw away my attention.
Shit! Don’t tell me everyone on this thing is infected!
But how did the brew got into these passengers?

Damn it!
Where are those stewardesses?!

I rushed into the kitchen and noticed all of the stewardesses now either lies on the floor or slump against a cart...all with the same deathly pale look.

I was stunned for a second.
『How in the name of...』
I took a deep breath, calms myself down, casting all the swear words and murderous anger aside.
My instinct tells me that I am no longer the predator in prowl; I am the prey now....

....I closed the cockpit door behind me.
The pilots and the people in the first class are fine, but, strangely, they are all fast asleep.
Perhaps this is the first symptom before the transformation?
I guess I should double check on the people in economy class and
...put down any that would pose a threat.

...The door to economy class opens before me.
My neighbor stood in the doorway, staring at me, her eyes focus less and murky, her skin looks as if she is covered in a grey shroud.
－－its the sign of undeath, the sign of eternal curse.

The sounds of liquid dripping attract my eyes to her hands.
She was stained in blood, her once elegant finger now deformed into a crab like monstrosity.
I would have guessed she already had her first meal, and now she wants more.

『RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARR!』

She growls, dash and leaped towards me with such amazing speed, her claws were already inches close to my body because I can manage to duck out of the way.
My clothing ripped, skin lacerated, drops of my blood hits the floor.
I swear if I weren’t still under the effect of the time flow acceleration, I would have died, right here.

I tumbled back to balance, barely escaped her initial strike with my life.
Its not like I’ve never fought a ghoul before, but ones that had the ability to move this fast?
Never.

With a thunderous bang, the cockpit door exploded into bitst as my neighbor landed on it.
She rolls into the cockpit along with some large pieces of the door.
Followed by loud screams and sickly crushing and snapping sound, my neighbor emerged from the doorway with new paints all over her.

The growling coming from the economy class became louder; my guess is that the others are beginning to go thru transformation as well,
I must finish this quick, it not going to be pretty to fight several of these new types at once.

『RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARR!』

She attacks again, but this time, I am prepared.

『Celous, Kir Lo’or 10111010』

To be honest, I don’t’ have any real means to destroy an undead,
Even though I controls the time and space, but its meaningless against something that’s timeless.
The best I can do is cripple them so severely, so that they lose all mobility... thus unable to do anymore harm and damage.
or I can set the whole plane explode or on fire which also works... but this is out of the question...at least, for now.

...My palm slices thru air; it resonates like a sharp metal blade, I’ve hasten my palm so that when I slices air,
it creates a void that is sharp enough to cut thru dense rock.

Her body now lies on the floor, in pieces, yet restless.
Watching them twitch makes my stomach churn.
Her eyes were still fixed on me, even if I begin to walk towards the economy class.

I tries to ignore it the best I can.
...you just can’t get used this.
No matter how many undead you’ve put down.

The bestial sound from the economy class begins to turn into howling,
There’s a lot more work to be done.

...The last ghoul is cornered.
I crippled its leg during the fight, now it lies on the floor, propped up by its arms, snarling at me.

－－－『Oh g..d, hisssss, ple...e , hisssss,don....』

My hand frozed in mid air, I was about to finish this ghoul off with a final blow.
...Is it just me or did this ghoul just talked?

I stared at it again, wanted to make sure what I heard wasn’t just my mind going crazy.
－－－
－－－－－－－
－－－－－－－－－－－
Nothing.
There were nothing special about this ghoul.

－－－－hisssss

No matter how I look, this ghoul looked the same as the others.
Symptoms, mutations, it all clearly indicates the sign of eternal curse and undeath.

－－－－－－hisssss

Maybe this one had adapted mind manipulative psyche powers?

－－－－『Why....hiiissssss....wh... are you... d...ing this.. hissss』

This time, I can clearly hear the strange hissing sound between its words..
It sounded like an old radio that can’t pickup any broadcasting signal...

The air plane begins to tremble.
The world begins to melt away.

I feel a greenish haze begins to fade, my surrounding beings to regain opacity, like when a thick fog begins to dissipate.
All I see now is carnage.
Blood, parts, ligament and the like hanged and scattered everywhere.

The ghoul I cornered earlier is now a completely healthy person, free of the sign, free of the curse.
『Why......me..... Why us?!』
The passenger slumped on the floor, died from severe hemorrhage...

The young man screamed from the top of his lung.
He realized what he had done, 300 lives, all butchered by his hand.

『How, how could this....』
He screamed in anguish.
『the oath.... I have broken the oath...that I shall never raise arm against those who are defenseless....』
He dropped onto his knee, covered his face with his hand.
『 I.... I have failed...』
Tears dropped onto a puddle of blood, quickly devoured by it.

『 and so it was true, warpers ARE immune to poison and disease...』

A stewardess paced out from the corner, with a familiar professional smile.
『 but, it seems that they are not immune to hallucination.』
She snicker quickly burst into loud laughter.

－－－－『Oh, Sir, I almost forgot...Thank you for taking air asia, please enjoy your flight.『

『YOU!』
He exclaimed with a burning hatred.
His fists tighten with anger; his nail pierces into his hands.

『Aww, don’t be angry, dear,』
She grins, savoring his expression like she was enjoying something delectable.
『you did a good job killing all these ... “people”, you see, they were already cursed long before they got on this plane.』
『What ?!』
He was disconcerted; he grips onto his anger and shoves it back down, for the info he gathered here would prove to be important.

『yess, they were gathered here to be transported to another facility for further.... “experiments”, but there was a change of plan,
yesss, since you decided to join us for the ride, so we decided to run some.... simple tests to see how the new feature work.』

『 ....new feature?』
He was disconcerted; he grips onto his anger and shoves it back down, for the info he gathered here would prove to be important.

『 oh yes, we are working on a type of undead that is ... um, how do I even explain this in English since
it clearly does not have the words that is close to even being able to describe... I guess we can just call this type of undead that is... morph-able.
That they can be easily combine to one another to become something far greater than any...』

『... Like a golem?』
The very thought of it sickens him, he spits out the word in disgust.

『...no, not just that, but think of the possibilities!!』
She exclaims with excitement.
『 ...the possibility are just endless! They could easily morph into ANYTHING! Like animals, machines, monsters! and if one so wishes,
They can have ETERNAL YOUTH AND BEAUTY! AHAHAHAHAHA!』

『I WILL PUT AN END TO THIS MADNESS!』
He Howled.
The air around him begins to crackle; tiny pockets of void begin to manifest itself, the broken gaps of space begins to sucking in air and any object that is loose.

Si’nori  Imn
Vanishing...  

Suddenly, a huge void punctures open the space and devoured his body, everything loose were quickly sucked into the gap before it closes.
The carpet below the gap were burnet and charred, the chair around it were twisted and bent by the twisting void.

The warper reappeared right behind the acolyte as he rips open the frame of space.

『Wha...』
The acolyte gasps, but before she can react, his palm already pressed on her back.

Le’ Kor Vin!
Dragon...

Powerful chrono turbulence shakes the air plane; its metallic frame screams and whines under the sudden burst of force.
The acolyte’s body got launched in air, spinning like a set of propeller broke free from the confines of the motor.
her body shattered the kitchen wall with a thunderous bang, fluids, parts, metal crates and blood splashes were everywhere.

The warper dropped onto his knees, gasping for air.
His face pale, twisted from exhaustion, sweat flows down his cheek like rain.

『HAHAHAHAHAHA....』

He perks his face up towards the maniacal laughter.
『How...』
He muttered with bewilderment and traces of fear.

『YESS!! THIS IS IT!! THIS IS WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR!!』

Brownish ooze slowly flows out of the pile of debris, shoving and push aside anything that bars its way.
Once it’s free of bonds, it recollected itself into a dough like shape and begins to reform itself into a humanoid like thing.

『YESSS!! Now, rise! My childrenss!!』

The warper quick come to his feet, his face was twitching with horror.
The once lifeless carcasses begin to recollect and forming into the humanoid thing they once were.

『Don’t you think this is fabulous ?』
The now reformed acolyte stands naked in front of the warper.
She looks ... different than her former self... its like as if she had went thru severe.... plastic surgery to completely remodeled and beautified herself.

『look at us! There is no more aging, no more death, nothing but ETERNAL YOUTH, BEAUTY AND LIFE!!』
『so...』
The acolyte runs her finger seductively along his cheek.
『....what do you say?』
She glees as all of the passenger on the plane has reformed into their remodeled, beautified self.