A Peacock Husband of Five Princesses by day, a Noble Assassin by Night Chapter 108: Resurrection of the Monarch of Darkness (2/4)

The priest, his face frozen in disbelief, was the first to react. "That's the Zurin's Wheel of Light. How is it possible?" His hands trembled, his mouth dry, unable to comprehend what had just happened.

anwhile, Kael could feel his mana reserves boosted to the level of a Supre Being. He shifted his focus to the demon's heart that had yet to be rged with the young man.

And in that instant, sothing unexpected happened. The heart flickered, a surge of malevolent energy pulsing from it as if reacting to the wheel.

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Kael's grip tightened around the sword. He poured his mana into the fragnted wheel of light along with adding his primordial dark attribute to it, unleashing a beam toward the demon's heart.

"You damn, Moonstone." Jagger angered, was about to move. However, the priest, who had been unnervingly silent, suddenly raised a hand, his expression unreadable.

Jagger hesitated, and the priest's blank stare fixed on Kael turned into a grin. "Activate."

The single word shattered the tension in the air.

Just as the fragnted wheel of light was about to release the concentrated beam of primordial dark energy, in an instant, a massive seal blazed to life, inscribed into the very floor beneath them.

The intricate markings, glowing with an eerie light, pulsed outward, expanding into a wide, circular formation, enveloping the hooded clown mages. Their life force began to absorb into the seal.

All along, Kael thought those markings drawn by the dragon blood were for the sake of ritual but no, he suddenly realized that it was for the sake of creating a trap.

A wave of oppressive energy surged through the chamber.

Kael felt it imdiately. His mana—his very life force—was being locked away, true for this ti.

His body stiffened. His breath caught in his throat. The wheel of light turned into specks of light, separating into the sword and a pendant, the sword crashing onto the floor while the pendant disappeared into Mia's body.

"Argh…"

His vision blurred as a sudden weight crushed down on him. He could feel the mana inside his body, still there, still burning—but it was caged, sealed away. He tried to move, but his muscles wouldn't respond.

His mind was fully conscious, his thoughts racing, but his body was frozen in place.

For the first ti since he had arrived here, Kael felt true panic.

The priest smiled.

"Ah, how perfect," he said, his voice dripping with satisfaction. "You thought you were in control. You thought you could disrupt our plans. Do you think I haven't prepared against a Tier-9 such as yourself, Lord Moonstone? No, I thought of sothing better."

His dark eyes glead as he stepped forward, his gaze locked onto Kael's immobilized form.

"At first, I thought just getting rid of you will be for the best. But then I realized, why waste such a perfect vessel?"

Kael's breathing was shallow. His heart pounded in his chest. "A vessel?"

"It will be you," the priest continued, his voice almost reverent, "who attains the privilege of becoming the host to our Monarch, not this stupid rank-2 Clown lying over here."

Jagger's eyes widened slightly in realization. His lips pressed into a thin line, muttering under his breath. "Moonstone was the vessel? Supre Pontiff didn't even tell about it."

Kael could only watch, helpless, as the demon's heart slowly floated towards him, under the priest's control.

Dark tendrils of energy coiled upward from it, swirling unnaturally in the air.

"Once the heart fuses with your body," the priest said, his tone full of grim finality, "you die."

His grin widened.

"And the Monarch will be reborn."

"No. No… No… Not again."

Kael's mind scread as the dark tendrils of the demon heart reached for him, inching closer, almost tasting victory. His body was trapped—frozen, helpless, unable to move or react.

His breath quickened, but it did nothing to shake off the paralyzing force that gripped him. The seal beneath him was suppressing everything—his strength, his magic, his will.

He was helpless. It was a similar thing he experienced in the past when he faced the Necromancer. Back then, despite all that sexual assault, at the very least, he benefited sothing from it. But now, he was going to be a vessel to the Monarch of Darkness? Death didn't matter much to an assassin like him but the thought of his body being used to commit atrocities against the entire world shuddered him to the soul.

He can accept anything but that.

"No, I will never hand over my body to a demon. I will destroy you…" He was screaming but those words were stuck in his throat and only resonated in his head.

As if his calls for the plea had been answered, out of nowhere, an explosive presence erupted inside Kael's mind. His senses flared as the familiar black cat spirit responded to his call, its voice echoing in his mind, sharp and commanding.

"Kael, let help you!"

As soon as those words filled his mind, the shackles on his mana suddenly broke and the primordial dark attribute itself took over his consciousness, his spirit returning to mindscape and becoming a spectator for a few monts.

The tendrils from the demon's heart that tried to take over Kael's heart have been expelled from his body. Kael, now being covered by thick dark energy, stared blankly at the priest.

In the sa breath, sothing else materialized—a presence so familiar, yet distant—his energy clone.

With a pulse of effort, the clone teleported, arriving at Kael's side from a thousand kiloters away.

"Wha…" The priest was taken aback by the sudden change of events. He was forced to halt the ritual, holding the demon's heart a bit tighter.

Kael raised his hand, the sword of Zurin floating above and falling into his hands and the pendant was forcefully summoned from Mia's mindscape. The two weapons collided and instantly returned to their rged form, the fragnted wheel of light.

The Priest's face hardened. "This… it's an elental possession. Damn it. I underestimated the cat. It released the elental's will."

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