A Forgotten Hero - Volume 1 Chapter 33 Tale Of The Book 3
After Jack’s battle with his son, which resulted in most of his castle to be completely frozen in purple ice, Jack collapsed after a few minutes. When he woke up, he noticed he was asleep on his bed and the whole castle was completely fine with the exception of a small dark purple crystal with a shape of an octahedron, and a small purple energy ball in the centre. Jack tried to examine the crystal but all he found was that the energy ball inside the crystal had a significant amount of energy. Unfortunately, he was unable to break the crystal itself in order to tap into the energy, so he decided to store it inside one of his pockets.
Afterwards, Jack asked the midget about what happened during his battle against his son, and he was told his son tried a few ice type spells which had no effect on him and after, Jack apparently froze his son, making him an ice sculpture. It appeared that the castle was never frozen nor did anyone except his son get frozen. It was like Jack’s account of the battle never existed, wiped clean or never occurred at all. This led to Jack to think that he might not be able to do anything he wishes in this book and that the book is following a story which he cannot make drastic changes in.
To test his theory, Jack killed everyone in the castle and he fell unconscious afterwards to wake up from his bed again. However this time, no crystal hovered above him and he still had the crystal from before in his pocket. Just like before, his actions seem to have never happened to these demons. Jack went to try and fly away from his castle to check other locations of the demonic continent, but after travelling a far distance away from the castle he ended up on the same route and ended up back at the castle.
He was sure he flew straight without turning, yet he still returned to the castle. So Jack tried a different direction to which the same result happened. He went straight and took a turn but he still ended up at the castle. Jack even tried to shoot several ice beams in different directions to see if they would end up back to him but they did not. Another idea Jack tried was creating a trail of ice balls while flying to which when he ended back at the castle where there were no ice balls in front or behind him….as if he never used his magic.
After Jack’s many failed attempts to leave the proximity of his castle, he tried to release all of his body’s energy into a beam towards the sky hoping it would break it or something. His actions began to take a turn from effective to stupidity as he started to do anything that came to mind, no matter how ridiculous it seemed.
For the last three days, Jack had been trying to break out of the story and even when the midget requested assistance that is required of it, he flat out refused him and just became a lazy demon lord for a day, hoping that the book will let him leave if he just blatantly refused the story it followed. This led to the world to be stagnated as every time Jack woke up, he would be greeted with the same dialogues and small events that happened in the castle. So you could say Jack did technically break the story as it showed its flaws for three more days.
However a change did occur afterwards…
Jack’s body had become transparent!
As he tried to figure out what was going on, he realized how much of a dilemma he was in when he remembered that the voice told him he was on a time limit before his soul was destroyed. Clearly his body becoming like this was a sign that he better find a way out or else he will truly die. Strange thing is that the other demons still treat him the same and he could still feel pain as if his body was still fully physical.
Jack began to read more books about this continent and life in general in this world compared to books of magic, but was discouraged to find out that a lot of these books had blank pages. When he informed the maids, they looked at him with a puzzled expression, wondering if their demon lord lacked sleep to ask such an odd question. If it wasn’t for the fact that there were some books that did have words in the pages, Jack would never have bothered to go through them.
Jack pushed away the thought of panicking and instead took time to read a bunch of books. He had been trying to get out for the past few days but still failed, and if trying to use brute force to break free fails then he had to think of a different way to get out. He didn’t feel the need to panic since he knew there was a way to leave since the voice in his head hinted that there is a way out.
Jack spent another full day locked in his room, reading the last collection of available books but only about twenty of them were readable. He learnt about the previous demon lord of ice was a truly fierce powerhouse to humans due to his supreme ice magic that could eternally freeze anyone that it touches. Even the other demon lords had to be careful around him as he was the closest to becoming a true demon king of the continent. It was going so well for the previous ice lord but as all powerful beings, he felt lonely and sought out a lover. The book didn’t talk much about the lover and all it stated was that he found one and had a child with her.
After having a child, the previous demon lord took him back home but without bringing his lover, no demon knew who his lover was and only knew that he had a child now. It could be due to fatherly instincts that kicked in the previous demon lord but after he returned, he was much more tame and less tyrannical towards the human or demons. He raised the child for 200 years but his past records could not disappear and was eventually killed by an army of humans. Of course, the previous demon lord had slaughtered many of his attackers causing a significant blow on the humans and many prodigies on their side were killed but the numbers overwhelmed the demon lord and he died.
The child immediately took his position as though only 200 years of age, his power grew leaps and bounds very quickly that the other ice demons of his generation had no chance. So the child became the youngest demon lord for 100 years years where he grew to a standard demon lord level but as the other 3 demon lords from his father’s generation were still alive, he was the weakest.
Jack knew he was currently the child of the previous demon lord and it seemed that this demon lord had his own child after his father’s death and he learnt that his son is only 100 years old. That begs the question…where is his wife? Is it a common trope for a demon lord of ice to have secret lovers? Jack found this family to be an odd bunch.Though Jack himself can’t talk about being odd as he never even slept with any girls that threw themselves at him. At least these demon lords look for a woman unlike Jack.
Another book was about the wars the demon continent had with humanity and other species. The demon continent was the largest out of the 7 and it had a lot of uncharted ground that even the other demon lords wouldn’t venture in carelessly but there are a lot of valuables materials and treasures in the demon continent that are eyed by humans and other species. Another reason for all these wars is due to the arrogance that demons have and how most of them want to conquer the entire world. Thanks to a demon’s physique, their bodies are tougher than humans and have a much smoother process of gaining power that a horribly talented demon would be a high mid-grade talent to the humans. Though they have such advantages, every species including demons have a drawback to balance them. For demons, any user with the holy element would be able crush demons far easier even if they are a higher level than them. The blood in all demons hate anything to do with the holy element which some theories say is due to demons being born to defy heaven and law.
Some of the other books had useless information that Jack read just for leisure reading time. He found out more about the different demonic treasures like the crimson molten gauntlets worn by the fire demon lord, the abysse, a piercing bow held by the wind demon lord, the black lightning orb held by the lightning demon lord and the purple ice lotus obtained by the demon lord of ice. This very ice lotus is the reason for the purple ice energy held by the previous and current ice demon lord.
Jack was amazed when he learnt of these treasures that the demon lords possessed and wondered if they were stronger than his so-called god-tier equipment. The new info allowed him to understand why his son’s ice was blue like normal yet his was purple and that all had to do with the ice lotus. From the limited description he learnt, before breaking through a tier to be considered demon lord level, if you used the purple ice lotus during the breakthrough, it would elevate your ice element to a higher tier than perfect.
After Jack finished all the books, the ground began to shake violently and another purple crystal appeared from thin air with the shape of the previous crystal in his pocket.