13: Demonic 13: Demonic Ivor became a demon and lost his senses for a moment but continued to attack Axel nonstop.
Some of his ribs and his leg were also broken.
His one eye was blind, Axel was by far in the worst state of his life.
The only pain that was greater than this was the pain of dying in his previous life.
But with an absolute determination he held, he had to hold on.
He had to survive, and survive he shall.
At one point, the demon came incredibly close to him.
The demon in its mindless state did not think much about its almost dead opponent.
In its head, Axel was as good as dead.
Nor did it think that its opponent could have something that would threaten its life.
Sleek,,,, A disturbing sound of flesh piercing could be heard throughout the mountain.
The demon opened its eyes wide, seeing the sword of its enemy pierce into its throat as large amounts of blood started falling from the wound.
The demon transformation of Ivor slowly started to come undone as his senses slowly returned.
Demons were truly resilient beings; having a sword pierced right through their throat wasn’t enough to kill them.
Despite eating the plant and demon blood coursing through his veins, he was only transformed into a true demon momentarily.
He would have turned to normal after a while.
If he were really a demon, something like this would not have been enough to kill it.
Axel waited for the perfect moment when there was an opening for him to attack one of the weak spots.
A normal human like him couldn’t pierce the tough skin of a demon.
His sword obviously wasn’t normal.
It had a piercing ability in it that could only be activated one time.
And in their entire fight, this was the only attack that Axel was able to land on his opponent.
As Ivor’s size returned to normal, he gasped for breath while he was being bathed in his own blood.
He eventually started crawling on the ground.
His muffled voice could be heard, his desperation, his determination, “No,,, no, no.
I need to live.
I-I must live.
Mother, I need to cure Mother.” His voice became lower and lower as he stopped crawling on the ground, and life soon left his body.
Axel wanted to grit his teeth, but a muffled grunt escaped his mouth since some of his teeth were also broken.
He was in a terrifying pain.
Yet, he did not care about the physical pain.
There was no joy in him, despite getting out of that hopeless situation alive.
It was the first time he had killed someone.
He felt complicated; maybe if it was an unknown man, he would not have felt that way.
But he knew Ivor had his sick mother waiting for him back in his house.
His mother was down in the village in some house.
He honestly did not feel too guilty for killing Ivor, yet hearing his last words made him think.
What Axel did was that he took the life of a son from his hopeless mother.
There is nothing more painful in this world than for a mother to witness her children’s death.
Tears fell from the eye that was still intact as he slowly got up and limped forward toward Ivor’s body.
He couldn’t even take Ivor’s body to her mother.
Because now that the demonic plant was gone, there was only one choice left for him.
He had to eat the heart of the demon.
That was the only way for him to obtain the demon bloodline and the effects of the demonic plant.
If Axel had eaten the plant himself and then later got a demon bloodline, the bloodline would have fully integrated with him with no instability.
Regardless, since he would be eating the heart of Ivor, who only ate the plant a moment ago, some effects of it would pass on to him as well.
It would result in a partial integration; at least it’s better than nothing.
His heart could not help but feel heavy just thinking about Ivor’s mother.
Axel pierced his sword into Ivor’s chest; his hand shook for the atrocity he was committing.
He barely managed to cut out Ivor’s heart.
Looking at the insides of a chest of a human who was alive moments ago made him vomit.
But it was mostly blood that came out.
Axel was holding the heart; both of his hands were covered in bright red blood as a question continued to ring in his head.
‘What the fuck are you even doing Tyler Cross?’ But he shook his head, he had to eat the heart.
The only thing consoling him was that it did not look completely like a human’s heart.
It was more rounded and maybe smaller as well.
Forcing down his disgust, he took a large bite of it.
His stomach instantly convulsed, trying to make him vomit.
But he held on as he took more and more bites and forced down his desire to vomit everything out.
It was disgusting, extremely disgusting beyond measure, but he ate it all.
Half of his face was bloody, and tears kept falling from his one intact eye.
He resembled a man-eating monster at this moment.
But something soon started happening to him.
Axel could feel it, his insides were becoming hotter and hotter.
His impulse to vomit out the heart also vanished.
That hot sensation spread from his stomach towards all his limbs and his own heart.
Axel felt dizzy.
A few moments later, a soul-splitting pain hit every single cell of Axel.
His existence was being forcibly changed.
He could feel some of his blood vessels bursting; even his internal organs and heart were being changed in structure.
His teeth started to grow back.
His injured eye started to itch.
Axel’s skin was being stretched and ripped apart while new ones started to grow.
He kept screaming in such pain that even his sensation of death barely managed to match his misery at this very moment.
Even his leg bone, which was broken, was being rearranged and healed back.
After his body was healed, his skin started to turn darker, his eyes turned red, and his ears started to become pointy.
Red horns grew from his forehead while his hair became longer.
His features became even more handsome.
A crazy laugh escaped from his lips, He started attacking anything and everything around.
All trees, animals, and every single vegetation was being destroyed by his mindless assault.
The demon bloodline had made him lose his mind.
After an unknown amount of time, the opposite side of the human mountain had everything on it destroyed.
Axel laid on the ground, and he reverted to human form.
He was unconscious.
But his mind was showing him something.
Something he would not like to see…… A beautiful garden, filled with flowers and trees he was walking through it.
A beautiful woman with blue hair and light green eyes appeared in front of him.
She called to him, “Come here, Axel, help me clean the garden a bit.” Axel made an annoyed expression on his face.
He stated, “Just ask the servants, I’m not interested.” She laughed, “Oh come on my son, don’t be stubborn.” The scenery abruptly changed as if there was a glitch or something.
Axel was helping his mother get on the carriage, then he got in it as well.
Many guards were accompanying them.
It seemed they were going somewhere important.
Axel asked his mother, “Mother, I don’t like going to these royal banquets.” She smiled helplessly towards him, “Sorry, my dear, but we have to go in this one since your father can’t go.” Axel nodded.
His father was in a different region; he couldn’t reach here in time.
So, they had to go instead.
Mother and son kept chatting about this and that.
There were more than 20 guards with them, and a few of them were in the 1st phase.
While one was a 2nd phase seeker.
Yet, they did not realize the severe danger that was following them.
Out of nowhere, they were attacked viciously by some unknown assailants.
All of them were wearing dark hoods.
There were only about 10.
Axel could not help but panic.
But his mother hugged him and reassured him.
She was also a 1st phase seeker.
If anything happened, she would protect her son first, no matter what.
But the attacker’s strength was far above her expectation.
Only 10 minutes passed, and all their guards were killed, including the 1st and 2nd phase Seekers.
Mira hugged her son tightly.
Axel was also hugging his mother tightly.
Fear overtook his entire being.
Mira took out her sword and pointed towards the door of the carriage.
Soon, a dark figure came and opened the door.
Mira became even tenser and was ready to attack.
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