Chapter 270 Suicide Bomber
Nial's entire behavior seemed to have changed. It was as if his personality had changed for the worse.
However, he was not able to tell what was going on either. Nial felt that something was changing when he set foot in the cave with the energy devouring crystals.
'Finally, I can let loose,' Nial thought at that moment as his worries slowly vanished into thin air.
The more dark energy he controlled and the intenser both the black miasma and dark energy became, the more control Nial had over everything around him.
His emotions were drastically restricted due to the dark energy's unique properties. He was not able to feel any mercy toward his opponents, and he couldn't emphasize with them.
They were his enemies and their death was inevitable. What would be the use of having empathy for the dead in front of him?
The dark energy influenced his mind the more Nial released it. When the entire cave was overflowing with the highly potent dark energy that covered the walls, the ground, and the ceiling, Nial was not even able to perceive the influence of the energy anymore.
It was just doing whatever it wanted, bringing forth the transformation Nial currently faced. Instead of feeling odd, or as if something was wrong, Nial's entire body was overflowing with power.
Since the compressed darkness had engulfed him and merged with his body, Nial felt much better than before. It was as if the restrictions on his mortal body were slowly being released. This feeling was addictive and Nial wanted to embrace it with all his might.
"I don't like to repeat myself. What did you do to your body? Answer me!" Nial's voice resounded within the dark miasma that filled the interior of the entire cave, with the sole exception of a small patch between Nial and Silvian.
Silvian was supposed to see him. He ought to realize that his last day had finally arrived and that he would have to die.
"Y-You...how did you summon Kaeldur?!?" Silvian could only scream in shock, not answering Nial's question in the slightest.
'Kaeldur? Is that what this is called? It sounds somewhat familiar...' Nial wondered for a moment, clearly understanding that something had changed with the darkness around him when the Odyssey seed had released the essence of his dark energy.
Tremendous amounts of mana were required, along with horrifyingly accurate control over mana and his dark energy, and he had to be mentally prepared for the influence of the dark energy he would temporarily fuse with.
Nial had understood this by now, but he had also noted that Silvian didn't answer his question. This angered him. The darkness that had fused with Nial enlarged, and a grimace formed on Nial's face as arms of darkness protruded out of the ground.
They grasped Silvian's leg and held him tightly, preventing him from moving.
"W-what are you doing?!" Silvian screamed out in return, using his [Holy Spear] ability in connection to his [Holy Blessing]. However, instead of summoning a holy white spear, it was greenish-dark and overflowing with energy that was dead.
Silvian's mana had properties of the death element. Nonetheless, he was still alive.
"You really are incorrigible... How long has it been since someone whooped your ass for how stupid you are?" Nial asked in an amused voice and continued, "...The Ruler of Darkness was probably the last one. What a coincidence..."
The dark miasma slowly crawled upon Silvian. It weakened his senses and his control over mana. Despite that, Silvian was still able to throw the Death-attributed Holy spear toward Nial.
Kaeldur, the darkness that had fused with him, seemed to enjoy the sight of the Death Holy spear in front of him.
Instead of creating huge walls of dark energy that would have shot out of the ceiling and the ground by now, Nial's mind was eerily calm.
He manifested a huge fist with the Darkness Essence and used Kaeldur to punch out.
[Kaeldur is not just any darkness, not powerful armor, and neither an ordinary weapon to use. Kaeldur is made out of the Essence of Darkness, your most loyal--]
The moment Nial punched out, the voice of the God of Darkness resounded in his mind. Nial had no idea why this suddenly happened, but he knew that the Ankh continued to glow brighter the more time passed. He knew that things were changing within him and that everything happened because of a reason.
Thus, he embraced the knowledge the God of Darkness wanted to share with him, even if he received it in parts.
'Most loyal...subordinate? Well, whatever,' Nial didn't have the time to give it much thought. Nial had merged with the thing he presumed to be Kaeldur. He could control it completely, and he had punched out with the energy he provided it to grow.
Kaeldur didn't seem sentient to Nial, but he couldn't be certain that it didn't have any sentience. Something was weird but he couldn't put his finger on it.
At that moment, the Death Holy Spear collided with Kaeldur's humongous fist. A shockwave of energies was created upon impact.
If not for the dark energy, Nial would have been pushed back a step but luckily, it kept his feet firmly planted on the ground. Silvian was also unmoving but this was due to the fact that he was tightly secured in Nial's dark energy and his dark miasma.
It slowly weakened Silvian to the point where he was not even able to move anymore.
"I-I will answer your question, calm down, Damian!!!" Silvian screamed the moment he saw that the Death Holy Spear cracked. It disintegrated into countless pieces before the remnants of energy shot through the cavern hall.
However, even before the remnants of death-attributed mana could hit anyone, the dark miasma had devoured everything.
"Speak," Nial ordered the moment Kaeldur's huge fist dispersed. The darkness belonging to Kaeldur returned to Nial's right hand.
While Nial's entire personality seemed to have changed since he entered the cave, the exact same could be said about Silvian. He didn't expect Nial to find him that fast, let alone be able to summon Kaeldur so quickly.
This should only be possible after advancing past the Prometheus rank. Terrifying memories of the past haunted Silvian, and in his weakened state he was not confident about facing Kaeldur, let alone all the dark energy Nial seemed to accumulate at a terrifying speed.
For a short time, Silvian had forgotten who he was facing, and this was the biggest mistake he could have made when he chose to hide from Nial. For that, he picked no other place than the cave that held numerous energy-devouring crystals, at that.
It was one of the biggest mistakes he made, caused by his greed to recuperate faster, to revive the last trace of Cursed Divine energy he found in the deepest parts of his soul.
"Y-You asked what happened to my body, right?" Silvian asked, trembling in fear. Nial nodded his head at that. He was sure that Silvian was not that afraid of him.
In fact, if he were to be afraid of him, Silvian would have never attempted to bring him inside the Dimension rift.
'He fears the dark energy and Kaeldur because he knows that he cannot fight it.' Nial concluded, understanding the situation clearly.
However, the dark energy and Kaeldur were now part of him and not Damian. Parts of him might be influenced by Damian's life and past memories, but Nial Orin was not the Ruler of Darkness, it was Damian!
"I...sacrificed parts of my mortal body to repair my mana core and mana veins," Silvian suddenly blurted for the sake of saving himself, revealing what he ought to hide as he continued,
"With this sacrifice, my mortal shell was nearly destroyed, and I'm closer to death than life. You should have noticed that."
Silvian sounded extremely calm but a devilish smile appeared on his face at this moment. He was doing something, and Nial had no idea what it was.
Nial could barely sense that something tiny within Silvian's body had been released, something with tremendous energy.
"In return for sacrificing my mortal shell, I was also able to regain something other than my mana core and mana vein, something that will allow me to take you with me!!" Silvian seemed to have gone insane. His entire body was writhing in pain as he allowed the tiny thing within himself to circulate through his body.
It reached Silvian's mana core before it entered a place that was invisible to the naked eye.
"The Soul is the Anchor of Life, while the body is the vessel of the Soul that secures it from harm. In that case, how about I drag your entire existence down with my body??" Silvian began to laugh maniacally when he finished speaking.
Meanwhile, Nial was still standing further away from Silvian. His expression was sour because he thought that Silvian's sanity had been drastically damaged when he sacrificed his mortal shell.
This was the only thing that made sense for Nial as he kept using his [Mana Sense] to keep watch on the tiny thing with unimaginable power within Silvian's body.
'That's not a divinity, so it's the last remnants of his Cursed Divine power in the body of the Sacred Knights leader?' Nial deduced with a faint smile on his lips.
As a reaction to Nial's deduction, Kaeldur reacted instinctively, piercing out with his flat hand. Razor-sharp claws grew out of Nial's hand, while his entire arm enlarged.
The moment Silvian felt that his body was pierced by Nial, he noticed that something was off. He coughed up blood but that was not something he noticed.
"W-what did you do?!?!" Silvian's self-destruction and the Soul transfer he had initiated with the Cursed Divine energy he had just replenished were stopped the moment Kaeldur's claws pierced his body.
This frightened Silvian because he could tell that something was entirely different to how it had always been in the past.
"You...are not Damian, are you?" Silvian asked in a shaky voice.
"You fucking piece of shit, listen when others speak!! I told you that a few times by now," Nial growled in a deep voice before he disappeared from his former position.
He reappeared right in front of Silvian's face, shocking him. Kaeldur's horrifying grimace stared down at Silvian as he continued,
"My name is Nial Orin, you bitch!"
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