Chapter 226 What Afkon Did [Part 2]
It would have been impossible to cover a massacre of such level, it was also one that could not be neglected.
But the actual flaw in Afkon's plan this time was that someone saw it happen.
And it was none other than his beloved Helena.
One of the very few people who had stuck with him since day one when he didn't even ask them to.
Afkon knew how precious Helena was, because at this point, the number of students who were the first to arrive were just four, including him and Helena.
Even though Helena saw him massacre ten students in a single night, he couldn't do much about it, all he did was tell her not to get in his way because of what she had seen, as it could be detrimental for both of them.
Helena naturally struggled with making sense of what happened.
To make it worse, she was already at that point where her love for Afkon was diminishing.
The drunkenness of power was slowly beginning to ruin him.
He was no more that caring, purposeful young man that she had known.
After the civil war and they started paying tribute to the Luinngard Empire, Afkon became very cold towards everyone.
He changed.
For several months, she questioned herself, and didn't know what to do.
Regardless, she had to stick with Afkon, she felt he needed her, he was heading towards destruction and she felt her love could be the last good thing he had.
Even amidst this power-drunken state, Helena had seen Afkon break down and cry like a baby, saying he wanted to go home.
She had seen him freak out, screaming:
"You don't know them, it's because you don't know them!! THEY ARE MONSTERS!!!"
"No, they are MUCH WORSE!"
These times had made her wonder what exactly it was that Afkon had gone through with the Luinngard Empire, what exactly had transpired between the two.
But she could also relate to the things he said, after all, before her eyes, three men clad in white armor with a sigil of a red cross engraved broadly on their front single-handedly decimated half the stronghold.
The sight was bone-chilling.
If these people wanted, she was sure they could close all the available gates!
So why were they preventing that from happening?
Why were they preventing Afkon from going?
It baffled her so much, and made her doubt everything she was beginning to see.
On one of the days of these Afkon breakdowns, he told her the one truth that no one was supposed to know.
The truth that Afkon knew about Rughsbourgh's plans.
The old man had promised them that this was a project to make them strong and that when the time was right, they would suddenly come back home.
However, six years later, Afkon had not heard a single message from Rughsbourgh.
And yet every day, he kept feeding students the same lies.
Afkon, however, found out that Rughsbourgh was using the students as gateways.
Every student that knew about his plan was used as some kind of gateway to redirect his teleportation, which meant at the very least, Rughsbourgh could have come to check up on them if he wanted.
But he didn't.
This hell was getting unbearable for them to live in, that man was seeing it happen and didn't care.
Afkon began to rise with rage.
This rage was what caused the massacre of all ten students that came the sixth year.
Afkon killed every other student Rughsbourgh used before, so that the sly old man wouldn't have another alternative to use except him.
He was scared of getting betrayed.
When Helena found out about this, a lot changed, the way she saw Afkon changed. She was ridden with a primal anger; Afkon knew what this place was and still let all of them come.
But at the same time, a part of her understood him.
Because she had watched him take all the burden upon himself, most times single-handedly dealing with things.
Perhaps that was all his guilty conscience and desperate struggle to keep them all alive, even though he still could not.
She understood that Afkon must feel very horrible and responsible for the death of those guys.
While she did try to understand his standpoint, it was impossible for her to trust and follow him anymore.
This began to cause a drift between the two, one that the other two survivors who were his other generals were worried about.
Helena paid heed to no one, explained nothing to anyone and instead just slowly separated herself from them.
The height of this event, however, was the seventh year when Afkon again tried to kill all ten students.
And she, knowing why it was happening, tried to stop him.
Their fight was immense and scene-shattering.
At that time, Afkon was already a Sage while she was on the verge of becoming a Savant.
Hence, she suffered an eye-opening defeat.
One that made her advance to the Maverick rank and become a Savant.
Due to this, she experienced an extraordinary reformation of her body. Afkon could have killed her right there but did not.
Instead, he turned away with just six words:
"Bye Helena, let's never meet again."
And that was the last time they met as friends.
The other time was when Helena tried to stop Afkon from killing all the students, and she always stopped each time.
Even when she became a Sage, she looked forward to the ninth year, she was sure that she'd be able to stop him now.
Only to find Afkon had awakened as a completely different person and had become an Ascendant.
An Ascendant had a vast change in their body. While the lower ranks also affected the body, it was only internal and only affected the physical abilities of the body, tremendously increasing it.
But Ascendants were different; it is said that they have reached a new depth of their soul and touched its true essence, thus awakening something called a Unique Talent.
A Unique Talent was a talent ability that was on a different level as compared to the rest; it was inscribed on their bodies and gave them a unique body property that made them near-
invincible.
They also gained more lifespan.
What happened between Helena and Afkon that day was not a fight.
No, it was no fight.
It was a one-sided, ass-whooping!
Afkon was beating the shit out of Helena while at the same time killing a couple of students.