Chapter 73: I know everything there is to know about demons.

"You are either very brave... or painfully ignorant."

"Probably the second one.

But you still don’t look that strong to me, you just don’t have the vibe, you understand what I am saying?

The vibe’s missing."

Lucian shook his head, almost as if he was dismissing him and Silas—

He finally snapped.

"You disgusting little rat."

He spoke in a far heavier voice than before, the purple energy around him began moving.

"You think drinking lowly blood gives you the right to mock... me?"

His eyes glowed dangerously, the purple veins under his skin spread farther, crawling over his hands now.

"Allow me to show you your true self."

He spoke as he raised one hand, the dense purple energy around him moved and the air in the corridor changed.

It became... warm.

Desire.

The air was filled with thick, intense desire, strong enough for even the strongest Blood-Altered Incubus-Class Human to give in to their hunger and lose control.

And Lucian—

"Agghhh..."

He clenched his fists, trying to fight it.

"Cross!"

Darius shouted in worry.

It didn’t matter, the intense desire continued to take over Lucian’s mind, his shoulders loosened, his breathing became erratic, his violet eyes started glowing.

He was still gritting his teeth, still trying to control himself but...

It wasn’t working.

In the end, to try and control himself, he grabbed his head.

"AAAAGGGHHHHH!!!!"

He screamed, trying to keep a clear head, but the desire in the air was relentless, his body was reacting to it, his hard-on was already visible through his pants, throbbing violently.

"Aaaahh.... Haahhh...

AAAAAGGHHHHHHHHH!!!" 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

He screamed again, his body began losing its balance, he took a step forward to balance himself, then another step forward, all while his body felt like it would fall any moment and lose his mind.

"There it is."

Silas smiled as he saw Lucian’s eyes losing their usual sharpness, his mind was slipping, like the weak blood inside him had finally found something stronger to obey.

"A pathetic being who would bark like a horny dog the moment a little desire is thrown at you.

That is your true self.

That is what you are now.

Embrace it."

He grinned, his violet eyes shone with disdain and amusement.

"AAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

Lucian screamed again, though at this point, even his screams sounded mindless. He took a few more steps forward to try and balance his falling body.

Silas watched him and couldn’t help but laugh at how his body was getting closer to the source of that desire—

Silas himself.

His grin widened—

"As one would expect from a dog, no matter how horny you are, you are still loyal."

He grinned as he extended his hand, trying to rub Lucian’s lower chin, telling him what a good pet he was.

And then it happened.

Lucian’s hazy eyes that seemed to have lost themselves, suddenly became sharper.

Silas noticed that and his eyes widened in surprise, and then horror. He tried to react, he tried to distance himself, or do something, anything to move but—

It was already too late.

Lucian’s demonic energy moved towards his right hand and he—

He punched.

"Huh...?"

When the punch landed, Silas blinked.

For a moment, rather than a punch, it looked more like a tap on his chest, almost as if Lucian had used the last bit of his sanity and had now completely lost control. That thought made Silas smile a little—

Only a little though because the second later—

It happened.

It began with a single wet crack deep in Silas’ core and then—

Every single organ, every single vessel, every single fiber of every single muscle tore apart all at once.

His heart burst open, it was a rupture so violent that his blood flooded through his chest cavity, his lungs collapsed, intestines uncoiled and split apart. His kidneys, liver, spleen, all of it liquefied into ruin, his eyes bulged grotesquely, the veins inside them exploded into bright red webs.

It was a total ruination, all while his skin outside remained pale and smooth as before.

This was one of the three techniques Vivienne had drilled into him during the past month.

One-Inch Dominion.

Unlike the usual flashy techniques with large-scale destruction, One-Inch Dominion was... different, it was the opposite actually.

One-Inch Dominion focused on finding a single point that held everything together, then sending all his strength into that point from almost no distance.

This was the same technique Lucian used to break the entire mechanism of the hidden wall from behind—

And now—

Lucian had used the same technique to ruin Silas’s insides.

And Silas—

He looked at Lucian in horror as he staggered back, he then fell on his knees and thick, dark blood poured out of his mouth in an ungodly amount.

Then—

He fell down with a thud.

It was over.

Lucian stood over Silas and looked at him with clear eyes, his trembling body, loose shoulders, flushed face, and hardened cock, all of it returned to normal and the moment it did, the others realised it—

An act.

It was all an act.

Let alone the guards who had come with Silas, even Lucian’s own party members, including Darius, stared at him in shock and horror.

Lucian looked at them and he tilted his head.

"What? You wanted me to fight a Fifth Veil head-on? I am arrogant I admit, but I am not a fool."

"You... knew what a Fifth Veil was...?"

Tomas couldn’t help but question and Lucian—

His violet eyes shone dangerously.

"I know everything there is to know about demons."

Yes, he was unfamiliar with the supernatural world, there were things even a child related to the supernatural world would know that Lucian probably did not.

But if it was one thing Lucian did know about—

It was demons.

Lucian couldn’t even remember how many questions he had asked about them. He knew about the demonic realm, about the demon hierarchy, he knew how humans summoned demons, how demons themselves tried to influence other races to do their bidding.

He knew what a demon’s existence meant to the supernatural world, he knew what a demon represented.

He knew everything.

Every single thing that could bring him closer to that bastard who killed his parents.

This was also why he knew what a Fifth Veil Host was.

An enemy he shouldn’t have been able to defeat.