256 Chapter 256: An empire without Derik 1

Kaido and Cyrus were left stunned by Derik's words. Considering how divided the original inhabitants of this world are, they will probably be killed off before they can realize the errors of their ways. These people lacked guardian spirits and were not aware of the current situation of the world.

"And why am I not aware of this? Why do I know so little compared to you?" Cyrus gritted his teeth in anger. All his guardian spirit has ever done for him is grant him enough power for him to survive, it never aimed to strengthen him to a level where he can compete with Derik and it was never willing to grant his key information. All this while he never knew of the soul imprints and the mutant soul until Derik sent Aldora to enlighten him.

Derik naturally knew how Cyrus felt and his reasons for feeling this way. He too found it hard to understand why his guardian spirit's actions are completely different from his own. He didn't have an answer to Cyrus' question and didn't even have a proper reply for him! In the end, Derik could only gaze at his feet while trying to formulate an answer for Cyrus.

Suddenly, darkness spread across the room, blocking away all the forms of light. The temperature of the room suddenly dropped and Derik's aura strengthened while Cyrus' own reduced tremendously while Kaido felt like his life is been threatened by an unknown being. Cyrus felt suppressed and breathing became even hard for him, he couldn't understand what was happened and almost panicked.

"Derik!" He spurted out after putting in so much effort but to his greatest surprise, Derik was as shocked as him.

"It's not me…" Derik said as his visage turned cold and claws began sprouting on his fingers.

"Calm down kid… I was just checking something…." A familiar voice echoed from behind him.

Demos suddenly walked out of Derik's shadow and with a flick of his finger force assaulting Cyrus vanished. The darkness flowed into his angelic black wings and a friendly smile appeared on his face as he walked towards Cyrus.

"Forgive me for my actions… I just couldn't resist… I had to peek" Demos only said those words, not bothering to explain what he meant by that word 'peek'. Cyrus could easily tell the angel of death was not willing to say anything else so he didn't push the matter further. For some reason, he felt he could trust Derik's guardian spirit more than his own so he simply assumed that Demos would never do anything harmful to him… At least as long as Derik is alive and well and he bears no ill intentions for the death mage, the guardian spirit has no reason to act against him.

"It's alright… I'm sure you have your reasons…" Cyrus replied nonchalantly.

"Good…. Concerning your why your guardian spirit is so reserved and refuses to reveal relevant information like this to you is simply because it's on the creator's side." Demos answered slowly.

"On the creator's side? What do you mean? Aren't you on the creator's side?" Cyrus was even more confused by Demos' words.

"Cyrus… these guardian spirits are bound to this planet, not the creator… If they were fully under the creator's commands, the fallen archangel Samael would have been killed easily by the creator since we all carry its soul imprint…. But it's different … This world is called a god vein, meant to create new gods… The guardian spirits are a representation of the powers in this world, that's why even the creator can't decide who the next host is…You and I possess the powers of this world and are destined to be part of the new gods… that's if we don't die anyway…" Derik chuckled lightly as he found his explanation confusing, even to himself.

"What?" As expected, Cyrus and Kaido were stunned by this and got even more confused. They realized they knew nothing about this life and this planet they live in.

Wasn't this planet meant to be the creator's realm?

How are they supposed to be gods?

After a few minutes of continuous bombardment of numerous questions, Cyrus and Kiado roughly understood everything. Why Cyrus was still intrigued by everything he heard, Kaido was disappointed that he is not one of the people destined to become a member of the new gods. Of course, Demos granted him an alternative which Derik completely persuaded Kaido to ignore.

"At a critical moment in the war, should your cosmic spirit be fatally injured, you can take advantage of the opportunity to absorb it and become a new god, taking its place amongst the cosmic spirit!" Demos said with a sly smile on his face.

"Don't even think about this… He's trying to get you killed…" Derik sighed ruefully.

"Come on now, for great power one has to take great risks… is that what you all are planning to do right now? What's the difference?" Demos chuckled while countering Derik's words. Derik in response could only sigh and look away.

"That means my guardian spirit is amongst those siding with the creator, they believe it will prevail above the other gods and become the supreme god, that's why they are adamant on following it and they refuse to give us, relevant information…" Cyrus muttered. He finally realized why his guardian spirit has always kept some distance whenever dealing with him! It was simply because it doesn't want him to know much.

"Exactly… These guardian spirits felt the presence of the creator when it defeated Samael. It has far surpassed the level of the true gods, and very close to entering the king god realm, that's the benefits of leeching off the energy meant for new gods…. That's why I want you all to succeed, kill that greedy being and let the power it has stolen, return to this planet… before it runs dry" Demos said with so much anger and conviction, that Derik and Cyrus were even stunned.

"Before we go into our expedition details… I need to know, Demos…. There have been numerous death magic wielders before me…. And they all died… why didn't you bring them back to life with your power… Why didn't you nurture them as you did for me" Derik suddenly asked with a thoughtful expression on his face.