Conquer - Chapter 182

“Demon King? I doubt I’m fit for that title.” I’m incredibly confused on what’s happening.

“I came inside your soul because you’re fit to be one. Strong, a leader and overall, wishes for destruction. You wanted power? I gave it to you. In that fight. With the Lich from Tartarus.”

“So you’re the reason why Armor of the Bloodfallen evolved into Devil’s Advocate?”

“That’s right. I gave you my power that time. But I instead got sealed in that blade of yours. I got overpowered by the souls inside of that weapon. Their numbers are far from what I expected. Not as many as hell itself, but all the monsters sealed there are incredibly strong. I even saw the previous demon king in there. He seems to be the leader of all the souls. They seem to be keen on taking on your whole body.”

“I didn’t know that.” I was talking to the previous demon king when the Bloodlust were talking to me?

“Well, the new ones always topples the old ones. It wasn’t really that much of a challenge. That’s why you can’t summon your Bloodlust anymore. I was going to summon you the moment the souls from your sword disappeared but you have a higher mental power than I thought. That’s why I couldn’t pull you in here.”

“So… why now?”

“Well, you’re unconscious so bringing you in here is easy. Right now I can kill you if I want to since you don’t have control here. But as I said, I need you. That’s why I’ll mold you into a Demon King.”

“How can you mold me into one if I can’t use anything here?” I can’t even open up my status.

“Use it. The Demon Sword, Acabar. Call for it. And it’ll answer.”

I closed my eyes, “Come to me… Demon Sword, Acabar!” And as I opened my eyes, I felt like I was holding something. But nothing was there. It was only the outline of the sword. And it gets reconstructed one by one. As it completed, I could feel the power surging through my whole body. And as I looked at the sword, I could see hell itself engraved onto the cracks of this sword.

“Good. Now your new form.”

“What?”

“Just do it. Activate the sword’s second skill.”

I can’t even see my status… How will I know what’s the properties of this sword… “I don’t even know what this does. Do I just say activate Demon King form or something?” A sudden sharp pain went through my whole body. “P… pain?” Hot… Its absolutely hot. Like I’m being burnt alive. Is it this sword? I haven’t felt pain in years. This is such a weird feeling. It… burns so much.

I tried to toss away the sword but I couldn’t. Its attached to my hand. And it is slowly burning off the skin of my hand revealing the dark rustic skin under it. The moment that I tried to reach over to it with my hand, it automatically attached to the handle of the sword as if I’m being pulled by a magnet.

The pain got instantly worse. “ARGHHH!!!” Why the hell am I feeling pain!? I thought I couldn’t anymore.

The flame crept up to my hands, up to my elbows, tearing the skin off. Until it reached to my shoulders, and it spread down my body. To my chest, stomach, then to my feet. Then as if everything got together, I felt my whole chest being torn open. “ARGHHHH!!! WHAT THE HELL!?!?!”

This absurd pain. As if someone has dugged into my chest and ripped it open for everyone to see.

Then… a sharp pain was felt throughout my whole body again. “ARGHHHH WHY!?” As if a knife going through my whole body, etching markings throughout.

And then in a moment, the pain stopped.

Then something inside me…

Exploded.

A giant flaming orb of blue fire was in the middle of my chest. The lines outside it were illuminated by the purple flames as it flowed through the etchings from my whole body.

My sword roared in flames as the color of it changed into a violet flaming and a volatile lightning of purple around it.

Horns grew out of my forehead stretching as long as the span of my hands and it branched into several more horns forming on what seems to be the horns of an elk. It was glowing with a violet forming a lighter shade of it.

Wings emerged from my back as it mimicked the form of a dragon wing.

Then my whole body changed into a dark, charred skin. The only thing luminating my whole body were the flames that I summoned.

I could feel the power everywhere. To the point that if I stay too long in this form, I might get too drunk on this amazing strength I’m feeling.

As the burns got much worse and worse, I could feel myself adapting..? No. That’s not the right word. I feel myself being ONE with the flame itself.

The pain subsided and something in me just snaps.

“Haha…” I couldn’t help but laugh. This is amazing. “HAHAHAHA!” I noticed that my voice also got deeper. It was menacing and scary even if I’m the one speaking. I felt like, I wasn’t myself. But a part of me also felt that this is what I truly want or feel.

“Amazing.” The former Demon King exclaimed. “You have an absolutely beautiful form. I have to admit, yours is better than mine.”

“So this is my form as a Demon King..?”

“But to think you got a violet flame… Well, that’s not my problem. Alright then, its time to mold you into a true Demon King.”

“What do you mean by that?”

“I want you to kill all of these.” With a single wave of his hand, thousands of demons were suddenly spawned in.

“Wait what!? How can you summon your demons here!?”

“This isn’t mine. Its yours. It came from the Bloodlust. Now that I’ve absorbed them, I can release them whenever I want. And I’m using them all on you. I want you to live all of these.”

“You’re saying that but…” Isn’t that an ogre, cyclops, basilisk and FIVE DRAGONS BEHIND THEM ALL!? AND OTHER CREATURES THAT I HAVEN’T SEEN BEFORE?

“Now…” The former Demon King raised his hand. “Go!”

All the demons and other monsters went rushing up to me. I didn’t know what to do. So the first hellhound that got to me, all I did was swing my weapon.

And then in that one swing. I eradicated at least a hundred monsters.

“Five hundred monsters in one go… Interesting.” He summoned more monsters. “Go!”

“That’s five hundred in one swing..?” How powerful is this weapon!?

I now have grown confidence in myself. But thousands of hellhounds, the fastest monsters in the packs that he’s summoning began to surround me incredibly quick.

Suddenly, I felt like this armor is guiding me. So I just let it do its own thing. I stomped the non-existent ground and cracks appeared out of nowhere. And within those cracks, purple flames came rising up burning all the hellhounds all around me.

I need to experiment with this more. “Lightning Body!” I wanted to increse my speed further but nothing is happening.

“It doesn’t work. In this dimension, only the Demon King’s Form and the Sword of Acabar are the only things that can function correctly here. You must overcome this with your new powers.” The former demon king replied.

“Now… you must overcome this trial by yourself. So that’s why I’m releasing everything. The thousands of souls you’ve gathered. They’ll all be released.” The dragon eating its own tail tattoo on the former demon king’s chest suddenly glowed. “I have to use a lot of mana for this so I’m using this.” Dark red flames emerged from his hands and there it spawned the thousands of evil monsters and demons.

Just now, I could feel myself getting controlled by the armor. Just like before, I let it do its own thing. It grabbed the sword with both hands and faced it in front of him. As I closed my eyes and reopened, the thousands of monsters coming at me were suddenly pushed away by a mysterious force completely obliterating lower level demons.

“You are being guided by the former demon kings. Control it! Don’t let it control you!”

You’re saying that but… the previous demon kings are wrecking havoc!

I just stood in the middle as thousands of demons jumped at me. But I’m getting redirected by the flow of the previous demon kings.

The armor guided me to raise my weapon and as I did, a purple flame of the same sword was created. But it wasn’t exactly the same. Only the shape.

It then launched itself to a random demon and as it died, it exploded with it.

The former Demon King smiled, “There are still 95 functions left. Let’s discover it all shall we?”