The strength to keep going with Xue Ren! How good is that? Alise definitely felt good as she even joked about taking Xue Ren for whole week for herself! This joke was accompanied by her pure smile and innocence that shook Xue Ren which resulted in him taking another day with beauty.
This 'Pocket Realm Creator' was good boosting artifact as it had high power of nature! But controlling it was hard, and even now, it was slowly floating next to them as its energies simply seeped out from it.
Thus, it couldn't be used in battle. But Xue Ren had another uses in mind which became buried in his mind as he had to take care of an lady.
"Your hair is becoming more and more white..."
"What's up with that worried look? I ain't dying because of that."
"Because... even though your body can hold various energies, I still hope you will be careful."
"...I will. Don't worry."
His whole face was already mix between black and white hair which wasn't looking bad, but because it was too sudden and the ladies could feel that Xue Ren himself is bothered by it, they themselves couldn't help, but get worried as well.
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"We are going. Moonrose, don't even try to stalk me."
"S-stalk?! Like I would stalk! If I wanted to go that much, then I would've forced my way in!"
Proud dragon wouldn't stalk! Moonrose pouted, then checked his clothes before letting Xue Ren go. Miya herself was ready to go as she held her necklace tightly. With Xue Ren abilities, there was slight hope for her father to survive...
Being poisoned for all those years, The Emperor changed from brutal and vicious demon as Miya herself influenced him with her fluff.
And so, the journey of two began as Xue Ren, in the end, decided to go with Miya only. They walked like couple of adventures holding each other hands tightly. After passing through the borders of Violae Emprie, Xue Ren hadn't even looked at the dark violet sky....
All seemed natural...
Soon, they arrived in the dark forest that seemed as if contaminated. Exposing her necklace, Miya opened the hidden passage which lead them straight to the palace of the emperor himself. Of course, this passage was filled with traps, but her necklacke neglected all of this.
Except rather expected visitors.
"Oh, you are finally here... Traitor."
"B...brother."
"How could you bring this piece of sh*t here?"
The man whose looks were similar to the one Xue Ren had fought with appeared before them. They just moved for less than ten minutes yet there was already someone waiting for them...
"Anyway! You should be happy sister. Father is still alive as he fights with Lord's posion desperately, so you both can die together! Haha~~ You have spent your whole life with him, aren't you glad?"
"You know... it's the lord's going?"
"Yeahhhhh~~ It's fine, right? Sarcifice the emperor for whole race advancement!"
The brother spread his arms wide as talking about this filled his heart with pride! Thanks to his father his race could advance! With such twisted logic, the brother took out pendant that was different than Miya's.
"The same sh*t all over again. Fucking mindless dogsh*ts."
And Xue Ren couldn't care less about this. He pounced forward with clear intent which was to quickly take care of this moron. But before he could approach him close enough, the walls of passage trembled.
Then, released sharp objects soaked in hell's energy as if poison. This pendant allowed this violae bastard to activate the traps hidden here...
"I should have expected-"
Xue Ren spoke as his blood art already crawled wholy around his body. However, as the sharp objects got closer to him, they immediately exploded vanishing into air like nothing...
"What?"
"Hah~~ You have to rechange your traps, mindless fools!"
Xue Ren had no way knowing... that the hell's energy surrendered to him the moment it felt his body... Of course, he soon realized it as he grabbed the face of his opponent whose face was filled with horror.
"No... But... Lord himself... had enhanced those traps... No!"
He was just simply holding his head, but it was enough to evoke confusion in his mind... Then, the brother began thrashing around as he began fighting inwardly...
"Lord... For Lord! For... our race... Lor-d... Lord... Ru-shai."
"..."
Xue Ren took step back unconsciously... Just peeking at the eyes of this man was enough to know what had happened... Soon, this very man slowly stood up, and knelt greeting Xue Ren...
"I greet Your Highness."
""...""
This corruption was simply too much for Xue Ren, but thinking about it deeply, it was rather inevitable when it comes to demons... Calming down his killing intent, Xue Ren opened his mouth slowly demanding him.
"Where is 'The Lord' that promised to save your race?"
"Reporting. He has announced his rest in the emperor's chamber."
"Emperor's chamber? Then where is your father?"
"He has been transfered to the basement... All because he, who already should be dead, is still fighting against the poison."
"I see. Kill yourself."
"As you wish, Lord."
Without any hesistancy, the man grabbed his throat and began clenching it tightly as no sound left out his mouth... Soon, he killed himself this way leaving the dead body with smile... He was smiling as he could fulfill the wishes of his lord...
'This is too twisted... What is this bloodline?!'
"Miya... are you fine?"
"I am fine. Isn't father fighting right now? I am more than fine."
Xue Ren nodded as he could see her resolution. Then, for the last time he looked at the body of dead demonic man... Why hadn't he entered the convertion? Shouldn't he become hell's energy already and go to the lord's artifact?
Was it also because of him?
Thinking about it...
'Should I... corrupt this whole empire?'
Such thought popped out. Although it was scary as Xue Ren felt like losing control at any time, it would be good if he could made those fools to fight between themselves...
"No need to kill those mindless idiots from now on... Let's send them to their brothers for nice talk. Hah!"
In the end, Miya's father had priority. Xue Ren knew that on his way to the basement, he will meet another bastards so it was all fine... He will corrupt them, and send them to fight their own brothers and so on!
"Let's go."