Chapter 307 - 301 : The Last Reward 1

"Behind this gate lies the true form of the deal that encompasses Black Grill's cave; the seal of the Demon God's son."

Sato was shocked since he never expected to be brought here. This was the centre of it all, the true form of the seal that held the Demon God's son; a being who could easily face off the more than 10 million players in IR and stand undefeated. Even in the NPC populace, Sato guessed that very few figures were capable of standing up to him. Otherwise, an entire resource map, that hasn't even been fully explored by either players or NPCs, wouldn't be used just to hold him down.

"What, scared?" The phantom of Worrus seemed to smile at Sato's reaction.

Before Sato could answer him, Worrus continued.

"It's understandable. After all, behind these gates lies the remnants of being who had threatened the destruction of the Southern region of the West continent." 

The current world of Infinite Realm consisted of 3 continents; Rhodia, Ilo, and the West continent. The current location of the kingdoms of Fallen Heart, Ashelot, Reiss, Orioma, Maple Leaf, and Belrausia were all located on the South of the West continent. Reiss, Fallen Heart, and Ashelot kingdoms were in the southeastern part to be specific.

To have been a threat to an entire region of a continent was more than enough proof of the Demon God's son's strength.

"You're one of us so I will let you know a bit about the battle back then." Worrus said with a serious tone.

"What do you know about the Chaos War?"

Sato thought on those two words and he recalled that back when he had just spawn into the game for the first time, a six-winged human had explained to him about a war that had ravaged the land, involving a bunch of races fighting over a treasure and caused a lot of lives to be lost.

"From what I know, a lot of races had faced each other to determine the possessor of a legendary treasure. In the end, the All-father lead a legion of gods to defeat all the other races and take control of the treasure, ending the war and bringing peace to the land. Apparently, to prevent the greed of others from rising, he sealed away the treasure and wiped the memory of its location from his mind." Sato reiterated all that he was told back then.

Worrus nodded at the description but he suddenly asked a question.

"Do you believe that is true? The part about the All-father sealing the treasure away and eliminating the memory of its location from himself."

Sato paused as he never expected Worrus to ask him such a question. But as he thought of it, he finally realised something.

"No, I don't."

"And why is it?" Worrus asked as his phantom seemed to smile. 

"The All-father had succeeded in wielding a treasure that could incite the greed of countless races. This means that it could even incite his. While sealing the weapon away seems like the right thing to do, keeping it with himself sounds like the most logical event that had occurred. Even if he did seal it away, there's no way he would wipe the memory away from his brain as that is too risky."

Sato then explained.

"The All-father wouldn't interrupt in such a battle unless he felt threatened by the treasure or it might have garnered his interest. With that in mind, there's a high possibility that other gods desired it too. I'm guessing that the Demon God and the All-father aren't really the best of friends. If all races were interested in this, then even the demon race would be. So I'm guessing that the Demon God would have wanted it too. Rather than hiding the treasure far away, keeping it in his possession sounds way more logical and it minimizes the risk. At the same time, it would help consolidate his position as the All-father. "

"What an interesting analysis." Worrus couldn't help but praise however, he didn't say whether Sato's words were right or wrong.

"This world is more than it seems to be. You should try as much as possible to take everything seriously and take your time in making decisions, lest you make the wrong one." Worrus advised.

"Follow me."

Worrus then began to walk towards the black jade gate, which was a few metres away from him. As he did so, he formed seals with his hands, and with each seal completed, a gray inscription would fly out from his hands and dive into the gate, disappearing without a trace. With each seal that had dissolved into the gate, a strange gray light would blink within the gate. It was as if Worrus was inputting a special kind of password to open the gate.

"The Demon god's son is a crafty yet prideful fellow but also one of the strongest Demi-gods to have ever existed." Worrus began to talk as he approached the black jade gate.

"His strength is one of the greatest in the Demi-god realm. So strong was he that even some of the lower Gods weren't his match. It took the entire strongest of my race, the top Achievers, to be able to barely defeat; at a great cost though." When he reached this point in his talk, Worrus' footsteps slowed down and his voice seemed to have aged by a few years as a depressing air covered the place.

"While we did defeat him, we only managed to separate his soul from his body. Reaching his level, utter destruction of both his body and soul can only be done by a god and no god was willing to offend the Demon god unless when forced to. Even though we didn't kill him, after thousands of years of having been separated from each other, both his body and soul have weakened considerably."

At this point, Worrus stood right in front of the black jade gate. He had stopped forming hand seals a while ago and currently, 106 points on the 20 metres tall gate were glistening with a grey light. Surprisingly though, in this dim environment, the grey spots of light were quite visible. The grey dots of lights were connected by a strange white 'mist' that flowed within the black jade gate, giving the entire gate a mysterious feel to it.

Worrus raised both hands and pushed the gates forward.

"Behind this gate, lies the soul of the Demon god's son."