Extra's Path To Demon King-Chapter 79: The Revelation of Despair [2]

"From now on, the Rune Tower shall declare war on the berserker sect and get to the end of this conspiracy; none shall be spared, all those who are behind it, the same goes for the Sage Tower since they were to protect your brother."

"Again, I am sorry for your loss, my disciple," stated Axel’s master, Cedric, in a slightly sad tone.

[Self Awareness: 7% >> 10%]

"It seems I was unable to keep the promise to my mother in the end," stated Axel in a hollow voice. "But I, yes, I couldn’t protect my brother, but I will make sure to avenge him. So, thank you, master."

[Self Awareness: 10% >> 12%]

"But there is one thing, master, one thing that I don’t understand. Why is it that the emotion I feel coming from you is ’ridicule’? Why master?"

Cedric frowned as he said, "Disciple, what are you talking about?"

"Please, master, I can feel it, there it is, ’Mockery’, ’Contempt’, ’Disgust’, why is it that I feel those emotions coming from you, and they are clearly directed at me?" stated Axel while looking at his master with a piercing gaze.

Cedric had a frowning look on his face, but soon his regal and composed demeanor cracked for the first time; he showed a sinister smile and spoke,

"Who knew you were actually sensitive to emotions, but maybe it was better this way? You don’t seem to be affected by your brother’s death that much. Let me guess, you’ve regained some awareness of your real self? Tch, what a pity."

Cedric chuckled, "Well, that’s how it goes for you otherworlders."

A visible shock appeared on Axel’s face hearing that. His eyes narrowed in rage, it seems he was in the palm of his master’s hand from the very start.

Cedric revealed again with a smile,

"Yes, my disciple, you have been in the palm of my hand from the very start. The reason why that boy Rugen had believed you as a kind of hero and symbol of justice is because Leroy had long brainwashed the boy with his illusions."

"The reason why the protective artifacts given by you to your brother did not work, is because Leroy had fooled the very artifacts of yours with illusions, it wasn’t too hard to do considering both, Leroy and I knew of the methods and procedures of your engravings. While they are fundamentally strong, they are lacking in terms of complex operations."

"The reason why you had that argument with your detective friend back then is also because of Leroy’s illusions that altered the detective’s mindset abruptly."

"Librarian Leroy, in truth, was never a runecaster, but rather one of the strongest illusionists."

"Oh, and the so-called Cancer, which you call it, is also created by me. It was something created accidentally when experimenting on living humans in Bio-rune engravings."

"Why else do you think I was able to provide you with a temporary artifact in just 10 minutes. That artifact was nothing, it just had something that stops the parasites from working, it receives an order from the source of the hive."

Axel stumbled back step after step with every single revelation that he heard; it was he who was experiencing terror at this moment, but he did not understand why? why go so far? why do all these shenanigans?

It was the old will that resided in his mind that answered,

"Because that is the best way to deal with the outsiders, by breaking them mentally, and these natives think that they might be able to break the oppression of the world, by studying the anatomy of the outsiders. And they cannot openly do anything to the outsiders until they reach a certain level of strength."

"Otherwise, the world Will shall interfere, and no, the natives do not know about this will of mine; in fact, it is the only thing that they might not know of."

Cedric clapped his hands and said in a sinister voice, "Oh, there’s one last thing, which I must reveal, the most important thing."

Axel’s eyes narrowed and tension grew within him for some unknown reason, his master brought out the female runic construct which he gifted him after the competition, putting his hand on the smooth mask of the runic robot, he took off the mask from it, the face of the human within became visible to Axel, his knees hit the ground in utter despair, seeing that face.

The runic pattern on his eyes changed dramatically. Looking towards the figure, he laughed, he laughed madly, it was the laughter of a deranged madman overflowing with despair.

"Heh... heh-heh... HEE-hee-HEE-HEE-HA..."

Cedric smiled contentedly, seeing the madness spreading within Axel and breaking him piece by piece.

The female figure inside the construct was his mother, her face was emotionless like how a machine should be, there were runic patterns on her face, and maybe all over her body.

The poor woman was likely tortured to the very last moment of her death.... frёewebηovel.cѳm

[Self-awareness has crossed 15%, the host has regained a trace of his true self.]

[The demon bloodline has been reconnected to the host.]

[The demon bloodline is awakening]

Finally, the threshold of rage that cannot be contained by a human was broken within Axel. He stood up, his skin turned dark, and two small red horns protruded from the sides of his forehead. His hair turned pitch black in color, even his height and build changed, unbelievable amounts of power coursed through his veins like never before.

But Cedric stepped back in shock, his nonchalant expression turned absolutely serious, Axel’s red eyes took on a deeper and more evil color. The runic pattern on his eyes shimmered in gold. His two canine teeth’s grew slightly longer.

Killing intent spread out of his demonic figure, tainting the world in red, but it was not just his killing intent anymore; it was his will. It was his authority. Cedric’s expression turned ugly seeing that, inspecting carefully, Axel was still a peak 4th circle mage, but how could he conjure a pseudo-domain?

But what made him anxious was this unknown form of his disciple, it was that of a demon depicted in the myths. Demons did not exist in this world in reality, but only in books, fantasies, and myths. And the power radiating from the demonic figure was too violent and terrifying even for him.

Author Notes -

[1] Librarian Leroy was hinted to be an illusionist at Chapter 64.

[2] Cedric Stormscribe gave the cancer suppression artifact to Axel in Chapter 46.

[3] The cancer in the trial was revealed to have an external source and be parasitic in nature in Chapter 74.

[4] The female combat construct, which was made of Ashborn’s mother, was gifted to him by Cedric at the end of Chapter 64.