Courting Death System-Chapter 35: Anti-life Monarch

Lucius didn’t immediately respond but calmed himself down, allowing his cold temperament to take over.

"What do you mean by Avatar?"

[Exactly what I said. As my Avatar, you shall inherit my Law and grow stronger with it. So what do you say?] said the scarlet eyed figure in a deep and hoarse voice.

"Why me? We’ve just met."

[It’s obviously because of your potential. Once strong enough, I believe that you’ll become an existence that very few would go against. And when you reach that level, I want you to help free me.]

"Free you? You don’t seem to trapped to me so from what should I free you?" asked Lucius.

[In Existence, I go by the title of Plague Monarch but everyone else knows me as the Anti-life Monarch because of existence goes against life itself. On the day I was supposed to advance to Godhood, I was ambushed by Gods, who separated my Soul from my body, destroyed my Law and sealed me in an unknown location. Once you’re strong enough with my Law, you’ll be able to sense where exactly my body was sealed and break the seal for me.]

"Anti-life Monarch, what a cool title. I only have one last question for you, how dangerous will it be after I become your Avatar?"

[As long as my Law is masked and you don’t reveal your identity as my Avatar, you should be fine for a while. But once your identity is discovered, you’ll be hunted down for as long as you live.] said the figure in a sombre tone.

"Great! I mean, I agree to become your Avatar. So, what should I do?"

[Although I said you’ll inherit my Law, it’s not a complete Law but a Law Fragment that I managed to send away before I was completely sealed. It’s power has also weakened over the years and has dropped all the way down to the Principle level.] said the figure as his body started to shrink and change into what looked like a piece of glass, dark green in colour.

[Don’t resist. Allow the fragment to fuse with your Soul.] a voice sounded from the fragment. Lucius did as he was told and didn’t resist when the fragment entered his forehead and disappeared into it. It then reappeared inside Lucius’s conscience where his Soul resided and began to fuse with his Soul.

When the fusion began, Lucius started to receive memories of the scarlet eyed being, at first, he could read through the memories of this person but as more time passed, the memories slowly began to overwhelm Lucius’s Soul and soon, Lucius’s Soul was completely overwhelmed by the memories.

If anyone looked at Lucius’s Soul state, they’d be shocked to see that it was completely black and extremely unpure like it carried all the filth in the universe.

[Hahaha! It worked! I finally got the perfect body to possess! Hahaha, with this body, I can definitely go further. Once I devour my Original Body and Soul, my chances of obtaining Godhood will be close to 100% and then, I shall dominate the cosmos!]

’What’s going on? Hey, what have you done to my Soul! This wasn’t part of the deal, aren’t I your Avatar?!’

[Boy, don’t worry. I’ll use your body well so don’t resist and let me devour you! Now die!]

’Stop! You don’t know what’s goo...’ Lucius’s Soul was devoured before he could even finish speaking and with that, he was dead.

...

When Lucius opened his eyes, they were scarlet coloured and released a dangerous glint.

[Congratulations to the Cult Master for obtaining the perfect host and successful rebirth!] The ten people respectfully greeted Lucius who now looked like a vicious and cruel person.

"I’ll be in closed door training and no one is allowed to disturb me. No matter if the sky falls or the ground cracks open, don’t disturb me!" said Lucius coldly as he walked deeper into the underground cavern. His cave was dug very close to this world’s core and after he entered, the boulder closed behind him.

...

’Now, let me check this body’s internal structure.’ thought Anti-life Monarch as he checked his new body.

"Oh my goodness! So many Innate Abilities! Acid Saliva, Toxic Breath, Poison Blood, Piercing Gaze, Heavy and Boundless Aura, Unbreakable Will... this is probably a lie but the rest are true. What a harvest!" exclaimed Anti-life.

CROAK!

"And you? Why didn’t you escape even after knowing that your master has perished, am I missing something? Maybe I should look through the boy’s memories even though it’s beneath someone of my stature." said Anti-life while holding Rainbow.

He then started to look through Lucius’s memories but nothing interesting was happening.

’If I continue like this, I’ll get bored before I even get to see something interesting. Let’s speed things up a little.’ he said inwardly as he increased the speed at which he looked through Lucius’s memories. It was like watching a fast rewinded movie.

While watching the memories, it suddenly became dark and Anti-life immediately stopped speed running the memories.

’What happened here?’ he thought as he waited for something to happen, he didn’t expect to wait for hours before something happened. The image that appeared after the darkness was of Lucius swimming in water before darkness descended again.

’What? Again!’

And just like that, a repetition of scenes where Lucius would be in water for a seconds before descended occurred over and over again. Seeing that the darkness didn’t represent anything interesting, he continued to rewind at an even faster speed because the same thing kept happening.

’What the fuck is this?!’

Anti-life completely stopped looking through Lucius’s memories since it was only darkness. What he didn’t know was that it was exactly these darkness scenes that represented Lucius’s secret. Every darkness scene represented the time Lucius would spend while dead.

’Forget it, let me just improve the Innate Talents that have affinity with my Law Fragment.’

The Law Fragment then broke into three pieces, two pieces were equal in size while the third piece was very small. The two bigger pieces assimilated with the saliva and breath while the smaller piece ssimilated with Lucius’s blood.

’With my current Toxic Breath, I can turn anyone of the same level into the walking dead. As my strength improves, I’ll be able to create an army of the walking dead. That day shall mark the return of the Plague Monarch.’

...

Few hours later, Anti-life was meditating in peace inside his cave aboard when he suddenly opened his scarlet eyes.

’What happened? Why do I suddenly feel a sense of dread? Is there an outside threat? Has someone discovered that I’ve been reborn?’ Many questions appeared on Anti-life’s mind but with no answers to those questions.

Then something completely idealistic occurred, Lucius’s Soul which he had completely devoured started to grow from within his own Soul and it was growing stronger by the second. And it wasn’t just the Soul growing stronger by the second.

"IMPOSSIBLE! ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE! I DEVOURED YOU! I KILLED YOU SO HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?! YOUR BODY IS NOW MINE SO STA... YOUR PRINCIPLE... IS THE SAME AS MINE BUT STRONGER... BUT THAT’S NOT POSSIBLE..."

’What’s impossible is you trying to possess my body. I did try to warn you but you didn’t want to listen. If you want to blame someone, blame yourself.’

"YOU... JUST WHAT ARE YOU?!"

’Your end, I guess."