The Dark Demon Lord - Chapter 94

Slaughter continued in the river as many tried to escape. Arnin’s aura kept rising, getting higher and higher, however, his body was still very thin. Canae and Sinfallel were watching from afar with fearful expressions.

“What is going on sis? Although this person is a beast and ruthless, he isn’t stupid enough to make everyone his enemy, right?” Sinfallel looked at Canae with a fearful expression on her face.

Canae took a deep breath before shaking her head. “Although he isn’t scared from making enemies with everyone, he probably wouldn’t do it without a good reason. Look at him closely, he seems to be in a berserk state, something that usually happens during a failure in cultivation.” Although she said this, even she was reluctant to believe that Arnin failed in cultivation. It wasn’t because she felt close to Arnin now, rather to her Arnin was just too monstrous to fail in his cultivation.

Plus, she could see that his aura was rising and that he seemed conscious. ‘Maybe the thinning of his body is the cause of this?’ She was able to clearly see that Arnin’s body was thinning rapidly. She could even see some of his bones, which was not a pleasant sight.

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Arnin continued his slaughter. He didn’t stop and kept killing anyone in sight. He didn’t care how many people would want to kill him later on. Only if he lived would that matter.

‘More, More, MORE!’ He was unable to stop killing. Suddenly, in front of him a new person that was much stronger than the others appeared. An Essence Manifest – Hell cultivator.

He wouldn’t be scared even if a person at Elemental Formation realm came and attacked him, let alone someone at Essence Manifest – Hell. He bared his teeth and jumped towards the Essence Manifest – Hell cultivator.

The latter snorted and pulled out a weapon. With a slash, a small cut appeared on Arnin’s arm, however, he didn’t stop there. He aimed for Arnin’s legs next, but what shocked him was that Arnin vanished from his vision.

He looked around and then smelt some stench from behind him. Turning around, he saw Arnin looking straight at him with a frown. Just as he was about to jump back, Arnin reached for the latter’s blade and took for his own. He then slashed the cultivators head, beheading him.

This time, the blood wasn’t instantly absorbed, and his body was even slightly rosy. ‘I need to find stronger prey. I can’t keep killing these ants.’

Arnin then rushed out the river, slashing anyone in sight. He had only killed a single Essence Manifest – Hell cultivator, but he knew that he would need more.

Looking around, he found a group of people exuding a strong aura gathering together. They looked at him with apprehension yet sharpness. Adilis was also a part of this group. A wicked smile appeared on this face as he stared directly at them.

“I FOUND YOU!” With a low roar, he sprinted towards the group.

The group was startled and some of them even took a few steps back. Adilis saw this and he grabbed the hand of his fiancee. “Go and hide, I will try and hold him back for now.” Adilis wasn’t one to hide, he was just cautious. But if someone came knocking at his door, he would gladly host them.

The girl nodded her head as she looked at Arnin in horror. ‘So strong. So frightening.’ She looked at Adilis once more, who gently smiled her way.

After he turned his head and looked at incoming Arnin, a sharpness that only belonged to the top twenty exuded from him. With a push from his feet, he flew towards Arnin with a saber in hand.

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Far away from Arnin slaughter grounds, a group of people watched everything with cold eyes. “So that is the infamous Demonic Joker? He doesn’t seem like much.”

A young man spoke coldly as he looked at Arnin. He looked around the same age as Canae but the aura that he exuded was that of Essence Manifest – Sky, much stronger than even Adilis’.

A girl stood beside him and also smiled. “He is definitely strong, but can he match up to any of us? That’s probably giving him too much credit.” The girl also looked around the same age as the boy, but her aura was much stronger than his. Essence Manifest – Hell!

This group consisted of many young people who released auras far beyond their ages. They were none other some of the top ten cultivators. The real geniuses on the battlefield.

“Whatever, I am going to go back and cultivate, I can feel that I am about to breakthrough soon.” After saying those words, he leaped back into the Elemental River and closed his eyes, not paying attention to anyone else.

The girl shook her head before also leaping into the river and closing her eyes, followed by the rest of the group.

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Arnin didn’t know that he was noticed by people in the top ten and how strong they were. He was too buys facing off with Adilis and a few other Essence Manifest – Hell cultivators. His whole body was covered in small cuts.

He was too worried about his internal body that he was only able to half pay attention to his opponents or else they would have died multiple times over.

Adilis looked at Arnin in shock as he breathed heavily. There were a few claw-like marks on his arms and chest. His clothes were ripped to shreds, showing his refined body on the inside. His fiancee, Clareena, watched from afar. Her face was sweating as she watched the fight. She was pregnant with worry, especially seeing how horrible her fiance looked.

“You are extremely strong, enough to even be in the top twenty, but is this your true strength? Are you going to depend on such a life-threatening method to fight us?” Adilis looked at Arnin and spoke loudly. He was still under the assumption that Arnin was using other means to fight him, little did he know that he hadn’t even seen Arnin’s full strength.

Ignoring the Adilis’ speech, Arnin launched another sequence of attacks. This time, he avoided the annoying Adilis and aimed for the weaker people.

“AH!” One of them was slain in an instant. Arnin quickly absorbed his blood and his body began to slowly return to its normal state, however it wasn’t there yet. He was in extreme pain, but excitement couldn’t be hidden from his eyes. Not only was his physical body being baptized, but his orb was also growing larger as his threads were making a swift recovery.

‘Just a bit more and I should be good.’ Arnin continued to slaughter the people as he avoided Adilis. The latter wasn’t just strong, but he was also extremely resilient. There was a reason he was in the top twenty. He was in no way weak.

A few more were killed and suddenly, a black beam shot out of Arnin’s body, slowly turning grey. Arnin stopped what he was doing and ran back into the Elemental River. He began to absorb the essence as quickly as possible. The black beam became darker and darker, while a white smoke escaped Arnin’s body.

It slowly sunk into the river. Vitality began to appear inside his body, however, it wasn’t the same vitality that could strengthen his physical body, rather it was primarily for his threads.

“AOOO!” A howl escaped his mouth as his mouth as a bursting pain came from his threads. It felt as though they were about to explode under the intense green light. Just as he was about to pass out, Arnin saw the black beam surround the threads as well, as a grey light escaped from the threads and began to eject through the black light.

The process was long, however, Arnin was getting more and more excited as he watched everything. He was healing. His body was finally going to heal.

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Unlike the excitement that Arnin faced, everyone outside watched him in horror. Even Adilis watched Arnin with trembling hands. “W-what the hell is that?”

In front of everyone’s eyes. The black beam that was being shot from Arnin’s body took the form of a three-horned demon. Its eyes contained nothing but mockery for the world, while the power it exuded was stronger than the heavens themselves.

The white smoke turned into a white saber that the demon held onto. As if angered by the heaviness of the Elemental River, the Demon began to slice it apart. Causing drops to fall onto the patches of ground. Waves formed around Arnin as the Demon caused havoc.

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Inside the cave where the elders and the headmistress were gathered, they watched the scene in the Elemental River with sharp eyes.

The headmistress released a deep breath as she spoke heavily. “This aura, it seems to be unimaginably strong. I don’t know if it is from the boy or not, but we have to investigate this further.” She then turned her head and looked a fae who was also watching the scene with shock. “Are you hiding anything else from us?”

Fae was lost for a second before she released a sigh. “I wasn’t hiding anything since it is also something that I can’t truly understand myself. On our way” Fae began to recall what happened on their way to Thorn Academy and how she saw a similar sight.

The headmistress’s face hardened and her eyebrows knit into a frown. “It seems that this boy either has a special physique or some other secret. We should try and figure it out before he causes future problems for u–”

“No!” The headmistress looked at Fae weirdly. “What I mean is that, isn’t this similar to what happened to me in the past? Although it wasn’t as crazy as this, the effects were somewhat similar. I pink mist surrounded me and took the form of a weird creature. It might just be he is awakening a physique similar to mine.”

Fae, for some unknown reason, did not want Arnin to be harmed by anyone. She herself felt some fear towards him from the bottom of the heart, but still, she couldn’t bear to see him harmed by others. It was a weird feeling, but it came from the depths of her soul.

Plus, she was not lying about herself experiencing something similar. Her experience wasn’t as chaotic or frightening as Arnin’s but it wasn’t any less terrifying. Back then, she was covered by a pink mist that forced others to sleep, no matter their strengths. Then they would turn into bones as their energy was transferred over to her. It was so terrifying that everyone at a three-kilometer radius was put to sleep and then silently absorbed.

The headmistress frowned before nodding her head. “It seems like you are right, it resembles your physique awakening quite a bit. Alright, when he is done, I will have you watch over him and make sure he doesn’t cause any problems. Remember, we want him to be useful to us, not harmful. I will leave that to you. As for Elder Kocyte, you can take him as a disciple as well, but make sure to bring him to our side voluntarily, I don’t want any mishaps.”

Others didn’t know the significance of Arnin’s terrifying event, ut the headmistress knew it all too well. She had seen the event that Fae had displayed and how her power skyrocketed right after. She was far from their cultivation realms, but her power was very close to theirs. If she could have another person like Fae under her then that would be a terrifying force. Something that could allow her to trample other schools easily.

Although the event that Arni caused was terrifying, it had a very large difference from the one that Fae had. Fae was awakening her physique that even Arnin wanted to possess, however, the latter was just healing himself and getting rid of any residual Demon Lord powers that were hidden in his threads.

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Back at the Elemental River, Arnin continued to cause havoc. It even got to the point where the top ten cultivators who were cultivating nearby had to temporarily evacuate away from Arnin.

They were seething with anger, but they couldn’t do anything about it since the power that Arnin was erupting with was just too strong.

Adilis had also moved much further back and was laying beside a rock while Clareena tended to his wounds with swollen eyes. “It’s alright Clareena, I am not going to die.” He smiled at his fiancee who only glared back at him.

“Stop talking, he could have killed you. If you died, then I would have been a widow, do you know that?” Clareena berated Adilis with anger, however, the latter actually felt some happiness. Even though he did not love Clareena yet, it was only a matter of time. Plus, no one would like to see their wives looking at them with mockery at all times.

He turned and looked at the chaotic area where Arnin was and he couldn’t help but feel some gratitude. ‘Although you almost killed me and are frightening as hell, at least you allowed me to get a little closer to my fiancee, Clareena.’

Canae and Sinfallel looked at the shadowy Demon Lord that appeared around Arnin. They felt more and more fear towards him, while their hope of being saved was completely extinguished. Who could save them from such a monster?

“Maybe this is for the best. Although he had killed out sister unfairly and my hatred for him will never lessen, it was our fault for even attacking him. Maybe this is our retribution, and also an opportunity to become much stronger.” Canae spoke silently as she watched the river around Arnin split over and over again.

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Arnin’s body was constantly being fed with great amounts of essence. Although the slashing of the river may seem like just an act of rage, it was anything but that. Using the residual energy of the Demon Lord powers, Arnin wanted to absorb the essence in the Elemental River by cutting it with the white saber which had the special property of absorbing the essence of any and every kind.

Inside his body, things were going very smoothly. His threads were almost completely healed and all of his elemental seeds and elemental marks recovered. He needed just a little more time and he would be completely healed. He would also be at the peak of Orb Birth – Heaven.