23 Hope and Fear

[Space – Time Teleportation Array shifts the space – time continuum to travel, which means it takes less than a second to move through it. It felt like it took months due to the fact that Divine Apostle has very low cultivation level]

[And you felt like you spent centuries watching the memories of the True Chaos Ancestor because of your low level of spiritual cultivation but that was an illusion created by the True Chaos Ancestor to easily transfer the inheritance to his descendants. High Goddess Nebthet also used her divine powers to help you survive the process without any side effects. Thus you only left the planet for a couple of minutes]

When Kael opened his eyes, he found himself standing in the hall of the Hammer mansion as the system showed the all technicality of the teleportation as well as explaining that only a couple of minutes had passed since his departure from Earth which also explained why everything in the hall was the same as to the time he had left the world.

The hall was filled with mangled corpses and body parts along with numerous dark red puddles of blood on the floor.

On the twenty meters long table, lay the ghostly pale dead bodies of the mother-daughter duo and Louise's corpse lay near the table.

The scene looked too traumatizing for most, fortunately, Kael wasn't slightly affected by this, which greatly scared Kael.

\"Have I truly turned into a cold-blooded monster?\" Kael muttered.

\"Well, it doesn't matter what happens to me. It was all worth it for my revenge but what am I supposed to do now that I have achieved my goal?\"

From the torturous pain of the throne to the encounter with the High Goddess Nebthet everything happened as if it was part of some Web novel and he thought that just like MCs of the novels he would be able to live peacefully with Sophia after taking his revenge.

After all, who gives a damn about taking revenge for some old monster and his race nor was it his responsibility to work for some goddess and harvest souls for Exp or Origin Qi or whatever.

But novels have a bad habit of sugar-coating everything that enables them to come to a 'happy ending' but reality doesn't sugar coat things.

And the news of Sophia's death was like a slap that woke Kael up to the cruelty of reality.

His eyes became watery as he started to reminisce about all the time he spent with Sophia and as he remembered her otherworldly beauty and gentle smile that could change a gloomy day to a happy one, a dangerous thought came to his mind.

\"Without Sophia is there any point in living? I can't even go back to my family or they will also consider me a monster just like everyone else\"

*Ding*

Just as he started to think about ending his life a sound stopped him from going on a path to the grave less death.

[A Live Quest has been generated as per the conditions set by the High Goddess of Death Nebthet.]

[Live Quest: Objective -> Locate the Elder of The Great Council and seek his asylum before Mortal organizations reach you]

[Divine Apostle is currently in the Material World. It is necessary for the Apostle to stay away from the reaches of Mortal Organizations or Apostle would end up on a dissection table as you are too weak to even wrestle with kids of your race. If Divine Apostle does not follow this instruction, it will result in the death of Apostle by Dissection and it will also result in failure of Necessary Quest.

Time Remaining: 10 minute]

[Keeping your current predicament and strength into mind, the ability to transform into the human will be rewarded to you and as compensation, the system will not provide you with any reward for this quest as well as deduct the reward of the Trial of Acceptance Quest]

[The souls stored in the system have also been converted into Exp]

[Please check your status for more information]

The threat of failing the Necessary Quest stopped Kael from finding his 'peace' as he wasn't willing to let his family suffer for him.

\"Status\" he said.

[Status: Healthy

Name: Kael Strider

Race: Chaos Demon (Infant)

Level: 0 +

Exp: 64

Exp required to Level up: 10

Type: None

Title: Apostle of High Goddess of Death Nebthet

Lifespan: 500 years Age: 21 years

Strength: 5 Agility: 4

Stamina: 4.9 Vitality: 6

Intelligence: 4

Spirit Energy:? Mana/Qi: 14

(Available points to distribute: 0)

-Chaotic Soul

(Available Skill points to distribute: 0)

Passive skills:

-Humanoid Transformation

Active skills:

-None.]

There were many changes in his status like the addition of Exp and a \"+\" sign button appeared in front of the level but what interested Kael more was the Transformation skill.

And as he touched the Transformation skill, a description appeared in front of his eyes.

[Passive skills: Transformation -> Allows Apostle to transform into a Humanoid of their choosing]

Seeing that the system will provide more information about the skill, he tried to check his Racial Skill whose name scared him.

[Racial Skills: Chaotic Soul -> Allows the Apostle to see the truth of the world without being affected by any falsehood or illusions and remain calculative without being affected by any emotion in any situation, while also allowing an affinity with the seven type of Qi of Chaos (This skill is unable to fully show its effects as it is lacking support of Qi)]

'Does that mean I will lose all of my emotions when I start cultivating the skills in the inheritance of The True Chaos Ancestor?'

This Chaotic Soul Skill scared Kael as he feared that it would turn him into an emotionless monster, after all, only emotions that differentiate humans from 'Monsters'.

Kael who saw the hope of meeting his family after reading the description of Transformation skill was truly scared because of this Chaotic Soul Skill, as it would turn Kael into a monster.

\"At least, I can meet my family with the skill\"

Hope, one of the most powerful emotions powered him to bear with the loss of the love of his life and try to protect his family from the shitty system because he was sure that the system would surely kill his family if he fails the Quest.

\"chuf\"

\"chuf\"

\"chuf\"

Just as Kael strengthens his resolve, he is disturbed by a loud noise that was coming closer to him.