LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 25: The Archfiend of Chaos!
The Mirror Dimension disappeared.
The Night of Truce ended. With it ended the misery of the hundreds of Contestants. They were all dead.
Kai sat back on his throne, lifting his yellow hood.
Tina gasped. She had gone pale. Now, the world twisted in her eyes. One could see trauma birthing in her eyes. A trauma so hideous that she wouldn't forget it for the rest of her life.
The top-class 8th-floor Contestant stumbled back, her blue eyes reflecting Kai's original appearance. But it was his eyes that had made her gasp, for those eyes were not only demonic, but evil to the core.
Kai smiled at her.
Tina spun around. To run away? Perhaps. Perhaps not. She didn't even know what she was doing. But then her tiny figure slammed against a chest.
She looked up and found Calm looking back at her with its dead, black gaze.
Black too smiled at her.
Suddenly, as if the reality and trauma had turned her mad, distorting her personality, Tina stepped back and…
… and she smiled back at both Kai and Black.
"I am still alive, my lord," Tina said, tears rolling down her cheeks, her smile becoming a twisted grin. "What are your orders?"
"Impressive!" Kai praised, sensing the changes going on in her mind using Ad Infinitum's sub-AI.
Black nodded. "Not bad…"
Another throne appeared just right next to Kai's high-back one. Black patted Tina's head again, sending a shiver running down her spine. His butler clothing churned in coils. When he took the throne, he was wearing his signature black jacket, black jeans, and black shoes.
Swishsssss!
Figures began appearing one by one then.
Item-M blurred into existence. She took off her hood, letting her beautiful red-brown curls fall down her cheeks. She looked a bit breathless, her Mana running dry because of the Lesser Bounded Field.
Red Sun appeared on Item-M's left, wearing a tight, white t-shirt and blue jeans shorts. He eyed the hundreds of petrified beings and puddles of blood becoming a lake behind him. Then he looked forward and began picking his nose.
To Red Sun's left appeared Item-S in her Spawn form. Her red cloak billowed with a life of its own, ignoring the gusts of wind.
A giant serpent with draconic white scales slithered towards them from behind. On the Time Devourer's forehead, a murky, yellow eye glowed with unmatchable intelligence.
Silvery, white bundles of mist churned around Kai's throne and the Space Devourer took form. Her long white hair danced as she sat on Kai's throne's armrest. Her stony-eyes were hidden behind her closed eyelids, but she still shifted her head left and right as if she could sense each of them.
Boom!
From high in the sky, the third sister fell like a boulder, shattering the earth and bursting into mist. The mist slithered toward Black and when she regained her form, the short, white-haired girl was sitting on his back, with her legs around his shoulders.
-Kneel!- the Life Devourer hissed, an evil, devouring instinct bursting out of her wormy, black eyes.
As if understanding the hiss, the White Serpent Pirates together fell on their knees, their heads down.
"YOUR MAJESTY!"
Kai eyed them silently.
Suddenly, Tina rushed to stand next to Item-S and began kneeling. A force locked her motion, though.
"You do not deserve a position there, child," Kai said, smiling.
Tina grinned, her heart almost thumping out of her chest. Even though her sense of reality had twisted beyond redemption just now, she could still tell she wouldn't survive the night if she didn't even kneel.
"I will become a top-class 9th-floor Contestant," Tina said, promising to the world. "I have an Inheritance. There's no other Contestant in the entire 2nd Set of both Order's Peak and Chaos' Valley who can surpass my knowledge of Magecraft.
"I recognized the Bounded Field runes the moment I saw them. I am still learning, but I can best any Contestant in the field of Magical Runes and Crests. I…"
Black lifted his hand.
"Give me a reason to let you live, Tina Slovaker," Kai said, his smile gone. "All you have… now already belongs to me."
Two yellow crystals bobbed up and down in Tina's eyes, finally hacking into the tight security zone hiding the Multiverse ID of a Fate Timeline.
Tina also knew what had just happened.
All her shrewdness and survival instincts failed at this moment. If it was anyone else… just any other man, she would have even thought of giving him her body. But the moment she had laid her eyes on those demonic, slitted pupils, Tina knew she wasn't dealing with a human being at all.
"I…" Tina said, walking behind Item-M, and finally kneeling, "… I can be a convenience for you, my lord. A mere convenience."
Kai narrowed his eyes. He didn't want to kill her. The Compass had pointed the needle at her. Though he had guessed the Compass meant the Multiverse ID she possessed, there was no way to confirm the truth.
Unless he cleared his doubts related to the crazy girl, it wouldn't hurt him to have an extra convenient tool at his disposal.
"Very well," Black said. "Item-M. She's your responsibility."
"As you wish, master." Item-M looked over her shoulder and gave a flat look to Tina. The blue-haired girl smiled back wickedly.
"She's broken…" Red Sun whispered in Item-S' ears.
Item-S got up and moved a bit away from Red Sun.
The corner of Kai's mouth twitched ruefully.
Suddenly, Kai looked to his right and eyed the Life Devourer. "Stand here," he said, pointing to the ground between him and the others.
Behind the kneeling Contestants, the Time Devourer hissed, coiling around itself, refusing to assume the false humane form.
-Tch!- the short-haired Selene jumped off Black's shoulders and landed where Kai commanded her to.
-We could sense your Luck, master,- Selene, sitting next to Kai, hissed. -Also, we can't use Unlucky Gossip unless all three Consciousness take part in the gossip.-
She threw her hands around Kai's shoulder and then melted inside him.
Kai felt a chill inside his bones, his soul resting as if tired from working for an eternity.
She still has Soul Chill… like Dementor's inherent coldness… he reflected, taking a deep relaxing breath.
-What a bitch!- the Life Devourer cursed, throwing her hands inside her white jeans' pockets.
Black snapped.
He lifted his right hand and unfurled his fingers.
The Selene standing in the middle must have sensed the doom coming for her. She instantly tried to burst into a cloud of mist.
Too late!
A thousand yellow crystals danced in her eyes. The Ad Infinitum could already manipulate Consciousness as it was one of its core strengths. Now it began nudging the Life Devourer ever so slightly, enhancing her desire to become mist.
The short-haired Selene couldn't hold back her desire and exploded into a cloud of mist.
The silvery, white mist churned furiously and then melted into the body of the Time Devourer.
At first, the giant white serpent had only one head. Now, slowly, a second head began taking shape, with a vertical, hideous black eye in the middle of its forehead.
The Life Devourer thrashed its head, but no matter what it did, it couldn't escape the two-headed mist form. Nor could it let out any hiss as if it had lost its voice.
Kai let out a sigh. "Children…"
"Don't tell me…" Red Sun rolled his eyes.
Item-M lifted her head and gaped at Red Sun as if she hadn't met a greater fool than him in her entire life.
"Take her," Kai said, ignoring the bickering.
A blue-black vortex opened up behind Black as he stood up. The Two-Headed Devourer became mist and entered his chest.
The moment Black disappeared, though, the world shook.
HUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!
Kai shot up to his feet. "What's going on?!"
"We can't sense anything, master," Item-M said concernedly.
It was then Kai realized it wasn't the world, but his vision. It wasn't the sky that was gaining a dull-gray color, but his eyes.
It wasn't the stars taking the form of words, but a notification.
…
[
Congratulations Contestant Kai Stormborn
You have gained a Title
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Title: Traitor
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Title: Supreme Betrayer
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Title: Serial Killer
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Title: Genocidal Maniac
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Title: Sorcerer Slayer
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Congratulations Contestant Kai Stormborn
Your Titles are eligible for fusion
Fusing Titles…
…
You have gained a High Title
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High Title: The Archfiend of Chaos
…
]
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