Chapter 32: The difference between a King and a God.
Chapter 32: The difference between a King and a God.
[1]
~
He sat near him and placed both his palms atop him. One on his dantian and the other on his bloody forehead.
He whispered in Derek's ears with a low voice but everyone near him heard.
An unnatural gust of wind blew in the area making everyone shiver as an ominous feeling started to brood over them.
"You no longer need to be bound by the chains of humanity...."
Golden light exploded from Derek's entire body!
All the blood on his body started to evaporate. Sweat started to form on his entire body, he slowly opened his eyes. He could only see a blurred figure, but it was enough for him to make out who it was.
"Master..r.." He croaked looking at Rael's blurred body which was shining with specks of purplish golden light.
"Shhhh...don't speak...go to sleep, you have done enough stalling." He smiled with a gentle expression.
For the first time since his memories got unsealed, Rael had given a real smile.
He gently pressed his hands on his forehead and pressed it.
*BOOM!*
Intense energy exploded inside the entire domain. Golden lights lit up the entire black domain! Rael's entire aura turned purple and Derek's golden.
Rael's icy jade eyes turned golden in color, his entire body transparent as he kept on injecting the other world energy!
"Asursa ritual...." Ishtar muttered under her breath.
'How can he use it?! I have heard that only Imperial bloodlines, the offspring's of the 'Nobility Law' can use it!'
"B-but how can he be a noble bloodline, this is just the lower world...how can something so divine exist here!!!!
Finally, Rael stopped the ritual, he stood up, a little bit wobbly, and fell on his butt.
Derek was still emitting the golden light from his body, all sweat and blood had already evaporated.
All his injuries slowly started to heal! The aura at once stopped and started to get absorbed by his forehead leaving an Asura mark.
His ears immediately started to twitch and became pointed like elven ears. They were not half pointed like how Rael's were.
He slowly opened his eyes, his eyes flickered with many colors with black irises inside. They were rainbow in color!
" M-master...." His eyes were heavy and were constantly closing.
"Don't worry, I will handle it from here...I told you didn't I that you just have to rest." He went back to his expressionless apathetic face with a slight smirk on his face.
He nodded and closed his eyes. His consciousness immediately drifted into the darkness of his dreams.
Rael stood up from beside Derek and locked his eyes with Ishtar.
'This kid....he is practically begging me to kill him' She gave out an estranged smile and clenched her fists.
"Are you someone with a Godly Constitution?" She asked him with a gentle smile on her face.
Rael feigned ignorance and lied, "I don't know."
Ishtar was flabbergasted!
"Then how did you know how to do the Asura ritual?!"
"Do I really have to tell you? I don't think that you are my wife or my lover..." He smirked and licked his lips on purpose to provoke her.
Ishtar stared at him for a second and didn't believe what she was hearing! This kid didn't even fear a shit of her!
"I already know that you are a clone....you are just 1 millionth of your true power.....I believe that it is possible for me to defeat you..."
Ishtar bit her lips and looked at him with a crazed expression!
"You are really testing my limits!"
Rael smirked at her and replied, "Then show me what you got...."
She flicked her hand and thousands of shadows raised from the ground, all of them looking at Rael with intense anger.
'So those puppets of hers at showing the emotions she is not showing on her face huh.... an interesting technique I must say...'
She gave a smug smile in Rael's direction, very proud of her techniques.
He simply raised his eyebrows and looked at them with a little interest.
"So....how is it?..." Ishtar asked expecting a fearful reply or a revered tone from him.
"Is that all? Then I don't care....even my little slave here can defeat them all..." Rael smiled evilly and pointed towards Shi.
"Hahahaha...." Ishtar burst into a series of cute giggles wiping the tears slightly coming out from her eyes.
"Interesting...interesting you really are a funny guy..."
Rael had a nonchalant expression and just raised his eyebrows.
"But I was serious...."
Her giggles stopped as she looked at Rael with vexation in her eyes.
Rael looked at Shi who was almost pissing his pants not even daring to look at the black-haired girl.
"My slave....are you going to fight them now?" He smiled innocently and pointed towards the army of shadows and the young ex-devil commanding them.
"W..who's your slave!" Shi wanted to cry but he didn't, if he showed any more anxiety then he was sure that pissing himself was not a far-fetched dream.
"Well, I can't see anyone else here, except you..." Rael smiled while closing his eyes, giving the perfect scary innocent look.
Shi stared at the enormous army and gulped his saliva.
"I don't think I will be able to defeat them all myself including that overpowered devil!"
"Don't worry...I know that you are lying and have been hiding your true strength..."
'This bastard of a brat!'
"I don't know what this Nobility is and all that shit but you better explain to me during the investigation..."
"Sure...if you can stay alive then..." Rael muttered under his breath, laughing inwardly.
"I heard that!" Shi yelled.
Shi started to stretch his body and crack his bones, although he was feeling very anxious, even he knew that during a fight he was supposed to be emotionless.
He flicked his hands and looked at the crowd in front of him emotionless. His hair started to flutter amd his irises went white in color.
Out of nowhere, balls of light appeared and started to shower upon all of them.
*Swoosh!*
**Boom! Boom! Boom!**
All the shadows were struck with light magic spells and fell down.
Thousands of black warriors fell with the light beam struck in their hearts.
"Good you were able to guess good that, Light element could defeat them....did you calculate this already?" She asked Rael with admiration in her heart.
He simply smirked and stared at Shi with a burden surprise, he absolutely had no idea that he could use light magic...it was just that Rael wasn't sure if he could defeat all of them with the state he was in currently.
Shi's Light Magic had progressed to an amazing degree especially for an Elf from the Lower Word.
'He is still young...if he is trained properly then there is a chance for him to grow stronger than the current generation and catch up to the power level of Puck in a few thousand years.' Rael thought as he wondered what way to use to make him his slave.
The air inside the Domain coiled up and the atmosphere started to get intense. The light element started to brighten the Domain up and spread warmth in the entire interior.
Shi who was standing in the middle of the domain with a clenched fist pointed his hand towards the sky and opened his palms.
A small white ball slowly flew into the air, slowly reaching the clouds shining with bright light.
Both Rael and Ishtar stared at the ball which was in slow motion intrigued.
*Boom! BOOM!*
The entire small ball, it came in contact with clouds of light and an intense blast took place.
Air got pulled towards it like a vacuum cleaner and imploded back with ferocious velocity blowing everything away!
**Crack...Crack...Crack!**
The entire Domain fell apart!
They were back to the world of humans, inside the ruined city.
They were all standing inside a crater, with Shi in the middle.
As soon as the Domain broke, all the black humanoid figures disappeared leaving only Rael, Shi, Ishtar, and the devil behind.
'I knew that he was not fighting at full power with me but I didn't know that he was hiding so much!'
At that moment all Rael felt a bit of admiration for him. Most people would become arrogant after becoming strong but this elf, even after being strong was not at all overbearing!
Although Shi was still a frog in a well, he could easily come as one of the top figures in the Lower World.
Ishtar had some dust on her clothes and clearly looked angry about her Domain breaking.
'I have already exhausted the power of the ring... and I might have to fight them myself if this idiot of a devil dies!'
She looked at the Devil and pointed towards Shi.
"Go!"
She was no longer the woman who was amused and was instead very annoyed by them now. She was curious about Rael but had thus far decided that she would make him spit out everything he knew by her various psychotic means.
The devil rushed towards Shi, a line of fissure crazily extended outwards on the ground. Yet when facing this incomparably terrifying strike from the air, Shi appeared extremely relaxed.
He lifted his white hand, and slowly pointed a light mana sword above the devil. On top of the sword tip, a small sun shined in silence. But this Sun was not crystal clear, and instead carried the dusk sky's orange color.
*Boom!!*
The devil's claw and Shi's mini-sun collided in midair. A thundering noise resounded throughout the entire area.
The velvet-colored blazing energy storm completely shrouded the surrounding space, and the mini-sun also completely exploded, raining down sparks and mist that covered the sky.
All of a sudden, the two's bodies were completely shrouded by cyan-colored and light-blue-colored mana, making one unable to see even a hint of their figure. They could only hear the two waves of exploded intense energy crazily colliding...
It was only after an entire ten breaths of time, did the cyan light and orange light finally dispersed completely. The swords of the two had also finished their last collision, and they respectively retreated backward under collision's impact.
There was not the slightest hint of change in Shi's expression, and his pair of charming eyes were still as clear and silent as water.
Let alone injuries, his clothes weren't even tainted by a single speck of dust. Trees started to sprout from the ground surrounding him.
It was also the same for the Devil who was on the opposite side. Other than his long hair that appeared slightly disordered, there weren't any wounds at all on his entire body. During that intense collision of ultimate skills earlier, miraculously, neither of the two actually received any hint of injuries.
But just by judging from the expression, the expressionless devil was finally showing emotions, which clearly showed that he wasn't as calm as Shi.
He totally did not expect that such a result would happen. He used his ultimate move that had just achieved an initial success, but during that collision earlier, all of his soul force and gust were blocked by the opponent one after another and didn't even touch a single hair on her head.
This made him secretly shocked in his heart, and at the same time made him feel greatly ashamed.
In this situation, he understood that there would be no chance for him to win!
Ishtar looked at the devil with shocked eyes! he was actually losing! Looking at Ishtar's expression Rael gave out a mocking smile.
Shi looked at the devil and smiled with fighting spirit. He raised his hands, and made a gun gesture on his hand, and said,
"Bam!" While doing the gun recoil gesture.
Thousands of light beams appeared and rushed towards the Devil! Many roots broke through the ground, all of the constraining him like chains, while the light attacks crashed into him!
Swoosh!! Swoosh!! Swoosh!!
There were more than thirty holes on his body, all of them were very deep. All of them aiming at the acupuncture points of his body, ruining them all so that he would not be able to regenerate.
The devil coughed blood as he fell onto his knees. His black hair turned into his original red ones, tears were pouring out from his eyes, which indicated that he was back to normal.
Unfortunately, his soul would return to the Underworld, only to be in slumber for millions of years until it regains its original strength.
His body started to turn into dust, his tears still pouring out. He looked at Shi with gratitude and muttered in a low whisper,
"Thank you..."
His voice was very low but still, everyone heard it properly. Shi had successfully freed his poor soul from the grasp of the devilish woman.
Shi fell onto his knees panting, he had exhausted himself a lot and extreme fatigue had come over him. Even the backlash of overusing mana was near him.
He had already overexerted himself dealing with the earlier zombies, he turned his head and looked at Rael.
"It's now your chance."
Saying that he passed out on one knee.
Rael met Ishtar's gaze and immediately felt his hand go numb. His legs were shivering but not the glint of passion in his eyes.
He took out his faith swords and activated both of them.
Immediately the two ethereal blades appeared floating beside him.
First Faith Sword!
Stimulating Property of Provocation!
Second Faith Sword!
Properties of Divine Essence!
He immediately started to circulate the Heaven Splitting Sword energy upon the second faith sword and rushed towards Ishtar.
He immediately came behind her using Ghost Phantasm and used blood arts.
Slash!
A claw mark appeared on her body!
She frowned as she saw the blood on her back and subconsciously touched it.
"Blood...I am bleeding..."
She stared at Rael and licked the blood on her hands.
Her impression of Rael had immensely changed after she saw his slave win and how he made his subordinate an Asura which showed that he had a pure noble bloodline and the 'Law of Nobility' directly gave birth to him and not normal parents.
Asuras are creatures who are the Shadows of the people with Godly Constitution.
They are not classified as any species and are special in their own way being one of a kind.
*Crack...crack...crack..*
Black raven wings started to sprout from her back!
They were lascivious and looked amazingly luxurious and royal. It gave out a profound aura of suppression.
Her eyes turned red which was easily noticeable through her veil as they were shining in the dark.
Her wings flapped once creating an intense gust!
*Swoosh!*
She appeared behind the invisible Rael who was using the first form of his Ghost Phantasm hoping to fool her.
"You think such petty tricks can work against me?" She smiled amusingly.
*Slash!!*
A trident slashed his body apart in mere milliseconds.
He fell down on the ground bleeding, surprisingly he could not move even an inch. His invisibility also came off, enabling Ishtar to look at him properly.
"The blade is coated with poison you see..." She smirked looking at the fallen down Rael. She knelt down on her knees, her two hands holding her face.
She was like a child sitting on the ground looking at some interesting creature.
'Is this the end.....'
Rael had many thoughts going through his mind, in his last life his death was more like an immediate death but this was even more humiliating.
'I can't die so fast now....right?'
He sighed and looked at the sky, it was most probably five in the morning.
He looked up at the blanket of stars that stretched to infinity.
He found the darkness strange.
The millions of bright stars were dotted on the black canvas of night, yet none of that light seemed to filter far enough down to make any difference when he turned his eyes away.
This was a blackness that he could recall seeing before - one that was almost absolute!
"The abyss..." He muttered.
Ishtar looked at him and thought that he had done crazy due to the shock.
''There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky. Then why should I care...?" He chuckled bitterly.
Ishtar was listening to him with keen ears and couldn't help but agree with him.
He started to laugh like a psycho in a low voice with a bitter expression,
'At least I managed to save Derek...
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
FUCK THIS!
FUCK IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't die here... I can't...I can't...'
For one of the first times in his life... a single tear came out from his eyes as if he was crying.
Many want to die but when death approaches they are all scared of it.
At that moment no matter how good your life is or how shitty it is, you will be scared.
For,
Death is fair to everyone.
He was also laughing at the same time,
"To think a day would come when I would be so pathetic...."
Deep inside Rael's heart....something opened up....a part of his soul which he knew about but was too mysterious for him to research upon.
Inside the deep clear sky of his Soul Sea, a seed started to take birth.
The seed quickly grew up a shoot and then turned into a plant.
The plant kept on growing and growing and became a tree.
The tree kept on growing, its branches started to bear more branches which started to bear leaves.
On one particular branch, a clear white-colored flower bloomed.
It looked like the million lights of the milky way, it was the whitest of all the white. From the flower, a drop of liquid fell onto the ground slowly.
*Drop!*
RIPPLES FORMED IN THE ENTIRE SOUL SEA making it erratic!
The zillions of words that Rael had read in 'nothingness' flashed through his mind.
Every word hurt him.
There was immense pain that was striking his astral body once again.
However, a few sentences had been translated for him and they flashed through his mind engraving itself on his Soul and Mind.
'The ego is impatient because time is limited...But the spirit is patient because it is eternal....'
*BOOM!!!*
Energy fluctuations increased in the air. Ishtar immediately took a step away from Rael.
'Did he gain an enlightenment on the verge of death?' Ishtar wondered.
Rael's body floated into the air, ethereal golden butterflies started to surround it flapping their wings happily.
His hair started to grow to show no signs of stopping! His silver hair was longer than even that of Rapunzel.
He slowly opened his eyes which were now golden in color instead of his usual violet.
They were giving out a profound aura that of his years of experience.
Under his eyes, everything bowed!
All the insects and animals nearby fell into silence!
The trees started to sway in his direction to kotow!
The wind stopped blowing to pay its respects!
The dry ground started to give birth to plants, trees, and flowers!
He touched one of the butterflies with his long fingers and, it broke into many more butterflies.
His face was like snow, cold but beautiful!
He gave out an amused smile....ohhh that smile! Damn!
People would die for that smile!
Beauties and men from all the realms, be it the Celestial or the Godly! All would fall in love with him!
*Swoosh!*
Suddenly a pair of beautiful butterfly wings sprouted from his back!
They were the most beautiful wings ever...it put all winged creatures to shame!
All the butterflies started to merge and a halo-crown was formed which floated atop his head.
What does a King do?
He rules.
What does a God do?
He does whatever the hell he wants to do.
THIS CHAPTER UPLOAD FIRST AT NOVELBIN.COM