Chapter 115: (End of Volume 1) The Price Of Power

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Thinking about all the wonderful women around him got Azmodeus thinking about the future—a future where he and all these women might become something more than friends.

However, when he recalled the message that he received from the Infinite Evolution System a while back, that slight smile on his face faded away.

[The Host should not get too attached to those close to him. After all, everything in life has a price, and to become the strongest, that price is a major one...]

[You will slowly lose your emotions one by one, no matter if you have Traits that counteract the effects of emotion dulling.]

[It will eventually reach a point where you will lose all sense of your past self as you become stronger and reach further.]

[And there will come a day when you will lose more than just your emotions, as you will begin to feel pain—extreme physical pain beyond anything that you've experienced before. Furthermore, this pain will never subside and will only exponentially increase the stronger you become.]

[This will not be the only price you will need to pay, but that is not for you to know at this point in time, as knowing is also a form of price...]

This was what Azmodeus had received from his system notifications a few years ago, and ever since then, he had been pondering the words of the system.

However, before we get to that topic, let us go over all the things that have changed over the last 40 years.

For his aspects of existence, there was his Sword Aura, which had successfully progressed into the Early-Comet Rank and was even able to solidify itself inside the Middle-Comet Rank!

If he wanted to, then he could quite literally split the entire Northern Spirit Continent in half!

And it wouldn't end with just that, as his full power strike would be completely capable of cleaving sextillions of miles of the Endless Ocean that surrounded the Northern Spirit Continent and the Boundless Archipelago!

He was quite literally a walking calamity with a sword in hand!

Furthermore, that wasn't his only improved aspect of existence, for if he used his Laws in conjunction with his sword technique and Singularity Physique, then it was quite possible that even thousands of miles of land and sea would stand not half a chance at enduring a casual strike from the Crimson Devil Lord!

I have made my choice from the very beginning...

In fact, there was no choice... There never was...

There was only a path forward...

My path forward.

Azmodeus's thoughts stirred as he tenderly caressed the heads of the kind, smart, and beautiful women that had been around him for many years, accompanying him on his journey through Prometheus.

"Although I can't promise you all the life that you deserve, I will treat you the best I can until the moment my silhouette fades away from your memory..." He softly murmured in a voice unable to be heard by the sleeping beauties.

It was in that moment that he understood what his purpose in this life was...

It wasn't the pursuit of money, of worldly pleasures, or even of women...

There was only one thing he was born to become.

"The very best... Unparalleled... The Unparalleled Crimson Devil Lord... That is who I am..."

The Crimson Devil Lord kept on caressing the women snuggled up against him as an indescribable glint flashed past his crimson-colored eyes.

I will become stronger... And on my path of the limitless path of cultivation, I will leave behind me a deep crimson river—a river that will run through all of existence—a river that will leave behind the reflections of everything I have or will do in this renewed life of mine.

OOOM!

A light humming sound seemed to resonate through all of existence, as on a certain day inside a nondescript Cave Abode, a title was created—a title that would etch its way into the hearts of countless beings!

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