Beginnings of a cult

"Gojo we've been walking for ages. My legs feel wobbly."

"We're almost done. We should just finish this floor and we'll only have 5 left."

We took two ends of the hall and opened up the rooms.

On the 13th room, I felt something emanating from the room. I placed a hand on my Katana and opened the door.

The room was infested with curses. A breeding spot maybe? There had to be 35 curses in here at least. Most of them were on the lower spectrum of grades but a few were dangerous.

I fully took my blade out as all of the curses in the room jumped out at and aimed to attack me.

"Repulsion of the forsaken one." With a swing of my sword, I concentrated the gravity on the edge of my sword and sent it out creating a pushing invisible force.

Most of the curses were pushed back but some were able to resist it.

I could sense Gojo doing something from behind me so I moved out of the way.

"Cursed technique lapse: Ao-azure."

The curses who managed to resist the gravity were all attracted to a point in the room.

"By creating a situation where negative one apples have been created the word is forced to fill in the negative space causing everything to be pulled to at the point of the impossibility."

"How cool. How'd you come up with that name?" I wonder if I have to name my attacks.

"Sadly I didn't. It's a technique that was handed down the Gojo family. If I had the choice to name it would way cooler."

"I don't know how you'd one up that." I doubted he could. "I wonder how this many curses managed to come here without being detected. They must have managed to keep a low profile."

"They aren't really anything special but just the amount is enough to cause problems and they'll on get stronger as the floors increase."

We continued walking and searching the floors making sure nothing escaped our eyes.

Nothing was noticed until the 50th floor where the aura was enough to destroy a building. The 50th floor was the biggest. It had no rooms just a giant floor that had a few stalls and shops for things to be sold. It was as big as a football pitch so there was room for movement.

I opened the door which would reveal the 50th floor and there was nothing but darkness in the room. A few candles lit the floor and all that was in the room.

The room stank of blood. Blood was all that you could smell.

It was obvious to see why. This was a shrine.

A cursed womb was surrounded by 3 curses all sitting cross-legged around it.

The bodies of around 50 naked people were hung up on the walls all nailed to the wall with all their eyes had been gauged out and there was a mark on the stomach of the victims.

A mark of a snake.

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"Nothing on this floor. We've finished here." Shoko said.

"We should go and meet up with Gojo and Kojima-san."

A shake.

Getou and Shoko both felt a shake that went through the entire building and broke all the windows.

"That should give us a rough idea of where they are."

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The three curses were all grade 1 which was a big problem. The curse womb would more than likely become a special grade so we had to look out for that. If it's 3 grade 1 curses and special grade we'll probably have to run.

I took out my sword and swung it forward as quickly as possible.

A massive wave of horizontal gravity emerged out of the blade and destroyed everything on the other side of where I was standing.

The wave travelled until it completely engulfed everything in gravity including the curses. It was impossible to dodge gravity. It couldn't be seen and travelled incredibly fast.

The attack was actually much more than I thought it would be and completely broke the wall. The curses alongside the Womb fell out the building and went outside

"Well you know what to do." Gojo said.

I laughed at what he said. It was obvious.

I grabbed his shoulder and jumped the hole that was made. We were at the 50th floor so we were quite high up. 150 metres high to be exact.

I took off my gloves and let them fly into the air. I didn't need them.

Down below I could see that the curses had all survived.

They all stood up and grabbed each others arms and a bright glow came of their bodies.

The slowly began to merge with each other, their flesh slowly contorting together. This new creation had 9 arms and 3 faces. It's faces had nothing on them. No eyes, no ears, no mout and no nose. Just a blank white face.

It's arms were muscly as if they were tree trunks. If one of those arms hit me I'd probably die. My physical body isn't as strong as it should

If I had to guess, this curse was born out of a fear of being kidnapped. Hotels seemed to be a hotspot for kidnappings these days. It's quite easy to kidnap people who are vulnerable.

"Are you.... interested.... in... coming to .... church?" I could hear it mutter.

It was one of those kind of loonies huh?

Gojo and I finally landed on the ground with a small landing.

"Lets hurry this up Gojo, that cursed womb could hatch at any time."

"Gotcha. Getou and Shoko should arrive very soon."

The curse ran towards us at blinding speeds and aimed a punch at my gut but I managed to get out of the way in the last moment.

Gojo landed a kick to it's face and sent it away.

While running the curse was saying a few weird things.

"Please... read.... our.... pamphflet."

The curse touched the ground and as I landed on the floor it was as if the ground was sucking my foot in.

"I.... stole..... the..... hardness.... of..... ground. That..... Is.... my... power..... I.. can.... steal... anything."

While it was rambling about it's abilities a familiar snake looking curse appeared behind it and wrapped itself around the curses body.

"Sorry for showing up so late. But I'm here." Getou said with Shoko standing behind him posing like a superhero.

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The four first years believed they'd have a simple time on this mission. But the heavens had other ideas.

The events that unfolded were not foreseen by anyone.