Rivers of the Night-Chapter 847: Push

Capítulo 847: Push

Theron knew too little about Ayame and the matters that happened back then, but he had questions of his own.

Such a big deal had been made about his own age and the fact that Kings shouldn’t be made before 100 years old, but he had been sure that Ayame was only 16 or 17 when they met. And now she was a King, and it had only been a bit over a year since they last met.

All things considered, they were the exact same age. At least that was what Theron thought.

But Ameridia hadn’t made any attempt to call Ayame forward, as far as Theron knew. Theron had dismissed this, though. He thought that Ameridia had probably already figured out that Ayame had deeper ties with the Demon Corps than he did. And that much was true.

As far as Theron knew, Ayame had a goal to kill one specific person in the Demon Corps, but she didn’t really have ambitions to take the entire operation down. After all, it was where she had grown up before those matters happened with her family.

However, it seemed that there were deeper secrets to Ayame’s existence, matters that Theron knew nothing about—secrets related to why her family was slaughtered and her mother killed back then.

The Flux Mancy Resonance that Ayame had wasn’t normal. It was known by a very specific name.

The Immortality Path.

The truest characteristics of this Path, though, couldn’t be manifested without first practicing the Demon Body Method of Ayame’s Clan, a method that had long been lost to them.

However… they aged a lot slower than others by a large margin.

To Theron, Ayame was just 16 or 17 years old. However, not everyone was as talented as he was. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

In order to make it to the point where Ayame met Theron, she had to work her way up from the weakest Demon Lord, clearing missions before reaching Demon Baron, then Demon Viscount, then Demon Earl, and then Demon Marquis, all before reaching Demon Duke.

Even if a mission was relatively simple, many of them would take months to complete. Just the setup for Ayame’s Demon Duke mission took over half a year because she had to be accepted into the Assassin’s Guild.

So how could she have finished all of this in the span of her life?

To want revenge against a Demon Emperor’s Chosen, she had climbed up slowly, step by step…

But the real question right now was… why had the Demon Emperor’s Chosen done those things back then?

The answer was simple.

They didn’t want a new Demon Emperor to rise. That position was theirs.

Ayame’s mother had been on the verge of a transformation that would have allowed her to transcend Transcendence itself, putting her on equal footing.

Unfortunately, Ayame’s mother had too many weaknesses: a daughter who hadn’t yet grown and a husband who was worthless in every way that was meaningful.

Playing her to death had been all too easy. Snatching the Legacy that would have allowed Ayame to properly gain revenge in the future? Even easier.

Now the Legacy was in that person’s hands…

The worst part of this? Chosen Yonwei’s words about Ayame’s intentions not being nearly as covert as she thought were all too correct.

The Demon Emperor’s Chosen knew that Ayame was still alive. They knew that Ayame was slowly climbing up the ranks. They knew Ayame’s father was still alive as well.

And yet, they had made no move to kill Ayame, despite the fact that it would have been as easy as having the thought.

Granted, part of that was because their actions back then had severely weakened the Demon Corps and were part of the reason they hadn’t launched a final offensive.

An extra Demon Emperor would have completely tilted the balance, and for selfish reasons, this Demon Emperor’s Chosen had decided to snuff that light out.

Even without reaching the level of a Demon Emperor, Ayame’s mother had still been more powerful than the usual Demon King, standing on a level all her own. It would have even been more accurate to give her her own title between Emperor and King… most called her a Demon Queen. They would have called her Empress had they not worried about offending the Demon Emperor.

After all, it was widely known that Ayame’s mother had married a weak man whom she was highly protective of. She didn’t want others to think that she was the woman of the Demon Emperor and didn’t want even the illusion of impropriety.

She was a woman who had always been fiercely protective of her family… right until the very end.

One might wonder why, then, this Demon Emperor’s Chosen was still alive. Well, there were three reasons.

The first… they were the Chosen of a Demon Emperor. For a Demon Emperor to favor someone, one could imagine how rare such a thing was. Whether for talent or love, it didn’t matter.

Such an existence, standing at the pinnacle of the cultivation world, didn’t care about the opinions of others…

Why would you offend a Demon Emperor for the potential of a dead Demon King?

The second… precisely this talent.

While Ayame’s mother had been closer, this Chosen seemed to have the talent to become exactly that as well.

But even so, nothing was guaranteed for them. Ayame’s mother had been as close as a guarantee could allow, especially considering the lifespan her abilities gave her.

This Chosen might never take that step at all… if not for the Demon Body Method they had stolen, that is.

And that left the third reason…

Many were curious… curious about why the Flux Mancy Resonance of a Human would have such close ties with the Demons.

The Demon Body Methods of the Demon Corps only had effects on the body, increasing physical strength exponentially. All effects on Mana were peripheral and far downstream, nothing so direct as allowing this near immortality…

And it seemed that Ayame was the perfect experiment…

For what would happen when the methods of the Lily Clan lost the reins of the Demon Body Method that held them down.

And all it took was a little push from DiBarr.