Star Genesis and Sebastian watched the decapitated head in their Soul Spaces with terror.
The relay! What was going on?!
It was screaming and dissolving!
BANG!
Sebastian's Elemental shot towards the west at full speed, its body shaking under the intense fluctuations.
Kyle's eyes widened in shock as he noticed the Elemental fleeing towards the west.
'What the fuck?' he thought as he sent bolts of lightning towards it, telling it to stop moving.
Yet, the Elemental didn't slow down at all. It kept flying towards the west at its full speed.
'Fuck! Sebastian knows that his Elemental is faster than mine! He knows that I will lose my only safe way to get back to the Main Dimension if we lose sight of each other!'
'Something must have happened!'
Kyle charged after the Elemental. At this moment, he threw caution to the wind and overcharged his own Elemental with his Energy, forcefully increasing its speed. Doing something like this was risky, but not as risky as losing his only safe way back to the Main Dimension.
"What's your choice?!" Fierce Breaker shouted. "Make your choice! Will you kill me?!"
Earlier, the humanoid Demon would have felt unsure about Fierce Breaker's words, but this was no longer the case.
This time, the humanoid Demon was calm. After all, it had realized what Fierce Breaker was trying to do.
Two dangers. Getting rid of either danger would make it harder to deal with the other one.
That was his goal.
He was trying to get the Demons to stop investigating. He wanted to appear even more dangerous than whatever the group was planning to do.
He was no threat.
He was bluffing.
"You may speak," the humanoid Demon spoke calmly.
Fierce Breaker looked at the Demon, and a moment later, a sneer appeared on his face.
"Look at how confident you suddenly are," he mented.
The humanoid Demon just calmly looked at Fierce Breaker. It didn't say anything.
A moment later, Fierce Breaker laughed. "Wow, it's actually crazy."
The humanoid Demon didn't say anything and just waited for Fierce Breaker to divulge more information.
"Swamp Dragon predicted all of this. Everything!" Fierce Breaker said. "It's almost like Manny is back. I don't know what this strange inheritance contains, but it must be something amazing! As soon as he digested all the information inside, BANG, he started making all kinds of crazy predictions and plans!"
"He told me what to say to you, and you acted just like Swamp Dragon had said you would!"
The humanoid Demon remained calm as it listened to more important information being divulged.
"Funny thing: As soon as you've abducted me, we've gained an advantage. You think you can gain an advantage over us, but you can't. No matter what you do, it will benefit us."
The humanoid Demon stayed silent. This was just a meaningless show of defiance by the victim before desperation would set in.
"If you kill me, you will lose your only lead. If only you hear about my information, you will end up joining us. If the Overseer hears about the information, we will be even safer than we are right now. No matter what happens, it will work out."
The humanoid Demon stayed quiet.
Meanwhile, Sebastian's Elemental was shooting lightning everywhere. It was almost like it wanted to create a huge ruckus.
Kyle noticed, gritted his teeth, and appeared in front of the Elemental.
The Elemental stopped attacking its surroundings and sent a concentrated stream of lightning towards the west.
Kyle knew what it was trying to say.
'Fuck! Fine!' he thought as his Elemental grabbed Sebastian's Elemental.
Then, Kyle started teleporting towards the west at his full speed, taking Sebastian's Elemental with him.
At this point, he wasn't even trying to stay hidden. Only humans and a select few Demons could teleport. Teleporting inside the Elemental Dimension was insanely risky. If anyone saw them, they would realize that Kyle was a human.
Yet, Kyle believed Sebastian.
"Alright," Fierce Breaker said after laughing some more. "I think that's enough gloating. I just wanted to have a little bit of agency before my life ends."
Fierce Breaker looked to the side, a lost expression on his face. Memories of his life shot through his mind.
He had been an unimportant nobody in the Supreme World. He had believed himself to be amazing, but when he had met Kyle and his group, he had realized how wrong he had been.
He remembered how powerful he had bee afterward.
Poison coursed through Fierce Breaker's mind. The humanoid Demon wanted to encourage Fierce Breaker to keep talking.
Yet, it seemed like the poison didn't even affect Fierce Breaker. Even though the pain was loud and bright, to Fierce Breaker, it felt like someone else was experiencing it.
Fierce Breaker remembered entering Ayuvar, and he remembered how his ranking in the team had risen. He used to be the weakest member, but when the group had met again, he had risen all the way to second place. Only Kyle had been stronger.
"My life is no longer in your hands," Fierce Breaker said, glancing at the humanoid Demon.
The humanoid Demon didn't react.
"You felt it, right?" Fierce Breaker asked. "You felt the wave of fragmented Energy that washed over the world just now."
"There was no such wave," the humanoid Demon said.
"Why keep acting mysterious?" Fierce Breaker asked.
The humanoid Demon wasn't sure what Fierce Breaker was talking about.
Then, its body turned into dust as a different, humanoid figure appeared in front of Fierce Breaker.
Fierce Breaker looked at the newer, who didn't say anything.
"You want a way to get out of here, right? You want to go out and experience the Supreme World," he said.
The figure didn't say anything.
"You know that there is a way out," he continued. "You know what to do. You're just not willing to take the risk."
The figure remained silent.
"You want security, but sometimes, there is no security. Life is inherently a risk. No Seeker has bee a Demigod by playing it safe. You know you can only leave by allowing a more powerful Seeker to enter this world. You need their help to escape."
The figure remained silent.
"Fine," Fierce Breaker said. "You won't take the risk. I get it. In that case, I will give you an opportunity. Your chances at success are vanishingly small, but that's still more than zero."
"Get rid of the Formation Array that blocks oaths. I want you to believe my next words."
A moment later, the Heaven Clouding Formation Array vanished.
Fierce Breaker chuckled calmly. "I swear on my life that everything I'm going to say next is the truth."
He spoke very slowly.
"It is possible to corrupt the World Wall with a force called Death. You can gain access to Death in three ways. One, you have to harvest it from the Primordial Chaos. Two, you need to prehend the Minor Law of Death. Three, you need to prehend the Major Law of Death."
Fierce Breaker paused to show that he hadn't lied.
"Regarding the first method: It's not feasible to harvest Death from the Primordial Chaos. You need far more power than whatever you can possibly have access to in a Primary World."
"Regarding the second method: You need to witness a dead world, but it's not enough to just look at its corpse. You must be familiar with it. You must know how it was when it was still alive. By feeling the contrast between life and death, you can prehend Death."
"If you want to use that method to break out..."
"You have to end all life in Ayuvar."
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