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Chapter 288: Part 6

Chapter 288: <ERASE> Part 6

Present time on Erok.

Akira’s POV:

Slowly, a tall figure in normal yet modern-looking clothing came out of the portal with a woman with green eyes. She was holding onto that man’s arm and looked very excited.

Surprisingly, that man looked almost like Viktor, their professor but there were some differences.

Viktor, their professor, had white hair with a hint of silver on it. He looked nice, friendly and had a good aura around him. But the man he was looking at had no silvery hair. It was pure white and he had a bad, evil type look on his face. His eyes were sharp, more like Asian and his body build was far different than Viktor’s.

Akira was a sharp man who had eyes on every detail of his surroundings. Seeing that man walking out of the portal really drilled a hole inside his head because there were also lots of similarities with his professor.

Not to mention, the boss sign that man had above his head was more suspicious.

Liz, who was also there, saw that man and said he was indeed Viktor. Because Viktor had a habit of closing both his hands behind him when he stood. It wasn’t the only evidence. Viktor had two moles on his neck that resembled vampire bites. And it was found on that man’s neck.

Thus, both of them came to their well-assumed conclusion. It was indeed Viktor and he looked like he was possessed by someone else.

But the aura Viktor had, they couldn’t feel it. It was almost as if Viktor was never there. There was no shadow under his body or he was breathing or had a beating heart.

It was almost as if he was dead and alive at the same time.

"Liz, are you seeing what I am seeing?"

Liz on the other hand was shocked as well. He couldn’t believe his eyes. All these years, he respected Viktor because he killed the evil dragon and sacrificed his life for everyone, right in front of his eyes. But seeing those men summoning him from the exact place he died was terrifying.

Because he could be Viktor or not at the same time.

"Yes, are you sure that’s our professor?"

"I.. I am not sure. But you can see the red sign above his head, right? My system is telling me he is the final boss."

"Same here. But why does he look like our professor? Does that mean he betrayed us for all this time?"

"We can’t be sure yet. Professor died right in front of us and it has been 10 years since he died. This is a magical world, things like this can’t be defined with simple knowledge, Liz. The group of black magicians must use some type of black magic to summon him again from the afterlife, or it’s just his shell that resembles our professor. Inside, it must be a different person, and the person who we are supposed to kill."

Liz stepped back and called Akira, "Let’s head back. Do you remember what the quest was? There is no duration to the quest. And we will die anyway when we are old. Moreover, we fled the country. We are no longer heroes. Things like this shouldn’t be handled by us. Let’s go back. We will leave this country tonight."

"I guess you are right. There is no point in fighting it. We are no longer heroes."

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Viktor’s POV:

"Hah... it’s been a while since I smelt this air. It’s filled with pure.. hum? Evil energy?" Looking around, Viktor found himself in the place where he faked his death to leave Erok. There were a group of men standing around him. They were all human, not demons and they were trying to summon an evil spirit, but ended up summoning a gorgeous man with another gorgeous woman.

One of the men said, "Wait, who are you? You don’t look like an evil spirit!"

Viktor read through their intentions and took out his scythe. In a second, all of their heads fell onto the ground, leading the summoning place to a bloodbath. He let off an evil smile and swung his weapon to clean the blood on it.

"Hehehe... summon the devil to grant a wish? What are they, kids?"

Meanwhile, Raphael was shocked to see Viktor like that for the first time. She knew Viktor was cold, calculating and a strict man. He was also a man of his word but he never expected him to be that curle who kills for nothing.

Raphael killed only one human for the sake of her naming ceremony ritual. But seeing Viktor killing more than 20 mortals without any reason made her think about Viktor’s actual personality twice.

Viktor was kind and cruel at the same time.

"Man, it’s been a while since I let go of my anger and stress on people. 100 years, huh? It’s been 100 years since I stretched my arms. Um.. Raphael, this planet is called Erok, closer to the Helsia realm. That’s why the mana of this planet is denser than Arcadia. Also, there are monsters here but there isn’t any dungeon where you can see any system controlling it."

"So this is the world where you previously visited for your quest? It’s really backdated. More like a world in its stone age."

"Um, compared to the world you stayed in, this world is indeed in its stone age. Anyway, I sensed the heroes around here a few minutes ago but they ran away as soon as we made eye contact.

But we won’t be staying here anyway. We are heading to the demonic realm. I have a tiny brat to meet up with."

Azazel’s POV:

’10 years is a long time for mortals. I remember the day I came here with a mission. The mission is to protect the demonic realm and its people.

My master said a country is not just a piece of land, but also its people. And I must protect it as long as this world lives. But it wasn’t an easy task.

After I came here, my master told me one day that he would be gone for a few years. He said he would be back soon, and won’t take more than 20 years. But he didn’t leave without giving me an additional mission.

My mission was to conquer the seat of the demon king. Since I entered the demonic realm with the fake identity, they all treated me like the actual demon lord and listened to everything I said. But like I said, there are always obstacles that you have to overcome in your life in order to reach your goal.

And the sons of the demon king were my obstacles.

I was treated like a demon lord for my power but there were some who didn’t accept me as one and challenged me. They never wanted peace and wanted to conquer the human realm. Their decision was hasty and since my master told me not to do anything stupid before he came back, I had to fight them and kill them in the process to shut others up.

I had to lock the gate to the mortal realm secretly, ensuring nobody went in or out without my permission.

After testing their strength, I found out they were not as strong as a demon I heard from the saint. Master is a god so I can’t possibly compare his powers with some mere morals.

Azazel walked out of his room and found two demons guarding his door. They were guards from the 1st Prince of the demon lord.

"Good afternoon, my lord."

Azazel looked above and saw they were really tall. Compared to his small figure, those guards looked like a tree to him.

Azazel frowned; "I don’t remember asking for guards to guard my room."

"It was the Prince’s suggestion. Please ignore our presence."

’So they don’t have any intention of leaving me alone. How funny. I may look like a child because of my small child-like figure. But in a world where magic and mythical creatures like, look can be pretty deceiving.’

Azazel shook his head and walked out of the manor to reach the library. His guards were still following him. Even so, he paid no attention to it and decided to read some books about technology.

At that moment, he felt a sudden throb in his heart, a pain that wasn’t painful; it felt like something had reconnected.

’My lord?’ he muttered under his breath.

*Azazel ... long time no see.*

*My Lord, you’re back.* he was panting in excitement.

*Yes, yes. I had to visit you because I promised, didn’t I? I’m a man of words after all. You did well in these 10 years. Good job.*

*M..my lord, I’m not worthy of your praise.*

*Hahaha. You’ve changed, Azazel. Well, sometimes change is a good thing for starting a new life. So? How is the progress?*

*Erm.. will it be okay if we talk about the progress face-to-face?*

*Sure. I was already thinking of meeting with you. My daughter is also here so I thought it might be great to visit the demon’s realm once we are finished travelling on Erok.*

*Daughter... my lord. You have a daughter..*

*She’s adopted..*

*Oh. I apologise.*

*Hahahaha. It’s fine. Azazel, I’ll talk to you later. My daughter wants to catch some fish.*

*Sure. I will be waiting for your arrival, my lord.*

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Viktor’s POV:::

Viktor sighed and looked at Raphael who was bullying some monsters she found lying.

"Bwahahah! Come at me! Let me see how weak you are!" Raphael yelled and jumped at the fluffy looking monsters.

Viktor sat on a tree branch and waited for her to finish. He was also looking through the system 001. There were more than millions of links running at the same time so Viktor was carefully examined then, pinpointing the worlds connected to them.

Raphael looked at Viktor and saw a very complex structure of technology he was working with. She wanted to see through that but due to weak divine qi, she failed.

"Dad, what are you doing?"

Looking at Raphael, he answered, "Hum..how do I explain.."

"You don’t know what you’re doing?"

"No, you can say I’m watching."

"What are you watching?"

Viktor smiled, "Everything." he replied.