Chapter 52 - The Way Of A Demon Lord

"Who do you think you are, pointing that dirty finger at my heir?" The Demon Lord's voice echoed, and a translucent figure in a black robe appeared between the old man and Andy.

A smirk was visible on his face, and his red eyes stared at the Old man. Suddenly, he waved his hand, and a barrier formed in the air.

BANG.

The entire hall shook, and an explosion rocked the hall as a white light rammed against the barrier. The dust settled and a dim figure of Demon Lord stood in his same place while smirk was still visible on his face as his red eyes stared at the shocked face of the old man.

"Shocked, isn't it?" Demon Lord's voice echoed in the hall.

"Wh...Who are you?" The old man stammered as he took a step back, his shocked eyes fixed on the figure in front of him.

"Me?" Demon Lord grinned and shook his head. "It doesn't matter. But what matters is that a small peasant of the Gu family dared to attack my heir."

The old man's eyes narrowed but then widened. "Y...You. How could it be you?"

"Why couldn't it be me?" The Demon Lord grinned and strolled towards the altar.

"When I killed your entire family. I thought you would have died. But here you are pointing your dirty finger at my heir."

Horror was visible in the old man's eyes as he stumbled while his eyes stared at the approaching figure.

As Demon Lord took the first step onto the Altar, a look of nostalgia flashed across his eyes for a moment before he grinned. "Do you know? Everyone in your family was quite tasty. Especially those helpless women. I even thought of sparing them and making them my personal maids who would daily serve my bed. But then I remembered."

"You people are not worth saving. What did my son do to you? He was only a child. And you butchered him? Just for his roots? Did you think I'd be afraid of those people wielding sticks they called swords?"

Demon Lord's smile faded as he stood in front of the hovering broken sphere. His eyes stared at it and his finger ran through its rough surface, "You know what happened to them? I skinned them alive. Poked that stick in their bellies and hanged them to die in front of their sect."

As his lost eyes stared at the Demon Lord, the old man trembled. His mouth opened to say something, but the Demon Lord cut him off.

"I didn't think you'd escape your fate and end up here. Otherwise, you could have seen how I played with those little kids. How I snatched their bellies from their stomachs and wrapped them in their own gut. You could have had a good time. Isn't that right, Gu Shan?"

"Ho... How could you do that?" The old man trembled and stuttered.

"How? That's what I wanted to know. How could you do that to my son? And which bitch told you that if you gave this piece to the fated one, you'd achieve nirvana? Do you believe you could have avenged your family after becoming stronger? Do you think that those Dogs from Heavens would help you?" Demon Lord looked up as his red eyes stared at Gu Shan, who was trembling violently.

"You're wondering why no one from the Heavens has noticed my words, right? Do you believe that because I am only a soul, I would be less powerful? Just look up."

The old man looked up unconsciously but froze when he noticed a white barrier covering the entire hall.

He staggered and fell to the ground as his eyes stared at the barrier covering the hall. "How is this possible?"

Demon Lord laughed mockingly. "Do you forget that I walk in the footsteps of the Emperor? An Emperor who would rule everyone. However, I could not locate the sphere's missing piece. Who would have guessed that those dogs would come to your rescue for you to pass this piece to a useless shit?"

Meanwhile, Andy was free from the restraint while his brows were furrowed and his narrowed eyes stared at the scene unfolding before him. His red eyes stared at the fair, white-haired man, whose emotions were visible on his face.

He couldn't understand any of the Demon Lord's words, but his heart thumped as a foreboding feeling filled him. But then he noticed Demon Lord grab the hovering sphere and toss it at him.

And as soon as he caught the broken sphere. Both parts of the sphere started vibrating heavily and pulled towards each other. His brows furrowed, but suddenly, Demon Lord's voice reached his ears.

"Hold it for a while."

Andy looked up to see the Demon Lord standing in front of the Old Man, who sat on the ground with his lost eyes staring at the barrier.

"Don't you think you should give the meeting gift to my heir? This valley would be fine" Demon Lord spoke as his finger touched the forehead of the Old man.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH"

The old man winced in pain, and his vision cleared. "No. You can't do this to me. She said I'd get the nirva..." But the old man's words came to a halt as his body withered and a ball of white light hovered in the air. But Demon Lord also turned almost transparent as if he would disappear any moment.

He stared at the white ball for a moment before his eyes turned to look at Andy.

"Now connect them."

Andy's body shook as he heard those words. His heart thumped as he stared at the almost transparent Demon Lord before turning his gaze to the broken pieces of the sphere in his hand, which were vibrating violently.

His hands moved, and both broken spheres perfectly joined to form a full sphere.. But then, a white light engulfed him for a split second before he found himself on a lonely, majestic throne.