Chapter 400: The Breakout [Part 3]
Northern could have sworn he was already following the pathway and was sure that the murals were the last journey of the Chaos Prince.
Although he didn't quite see the end, he assumed that whatever end the Chaos Prince met was at that temple, escorted by those maidens.
The reason for that assumption was because that was where the Vestige of the Chaos Prince was found.
Moreover, an entire statue of him was built in the place.
'I thought that was the last timeline... was I wrong?'
The Tower didn't exclusively record anything pertaining to the Chaos Prince's death.
It just mentioned his magnificent deed of seeking out the Void. After the Chaos Prince merged with Void, his downfall started.
Fagnur had written that the Chaos Prince began to change.
But nothing was there about his death and what led to it.
Northern, having read the mural, thought that the Chaos Prince died after splitting the sun. He was killed by the Sun God, or in this case, whatever Origin was attributed to the sun.
But what Koll was explaining to him now scattered all he knew and pointed in another direction.
Moreover, Northern could understand the gravity of a Tyrant becoming an Origin.
'It's like a demon becoming an angel...'
That was the closest description he could find for it. But it wasn't exactly the same thing.
These were concepts of beings that were worlds apart from each other. However, he used this explanation for his own easy understanding.
"Are you going to stand there and gawk all day?"
Only after the boy spoke did Northern jump out of his head.
"I'm, I'm," he stuttered, "I'm just magnified at the scale of the awesomeness of this your master."
Koll frowned, ignoring Northern's sweet compliment, as if he knew exactly what Northern was trying to do.
He continued without batting an eye.
"Since it was impossible to kill Kryos, he was sealed. Sealed between a certain line of reality. That certain, dismissable point where bloodshed transitions into madness."
He clenched his fist, his tone dripping with anger.
"Those clever bastards, they thought it would be impossible to unseal him as far as he was sealed within his own jurisdiction."
Northern was silent at first, then couldn't hold the words anymore.
"How exactly do you plan to free someone that is sealed within the line between bloodshed and madness?"
'If I didn't have Chaos Eyes, I would probably question the possibility of such an act.'
Northern had seen too much to doubt the words that this kid Koll was saying.
"How else? I tried and tried, endlessly weaving wars at a particular place. In order to find the particular line that he was sealed in, I had to use only a couple of places, watch the war grow and continue in that place. Eventually, the people began to go into madness, slowly drifting. I was almost there... until that bastard Sura, dog of the Origins, found me.
"I was captured and imprisoned here, however... some human suddenly tampered with the rift, four rifts at a time, giving me enough cover to slip through these chains. I began to start again, only that this time it was much faster with four rifts at my disposal."
He smiled in satisfaction and focused on Northern.
"You managed to close just one, but even the deed there was done. I continued with the other three, and you humans just made it so easy for me to do. Right now, those monsters are ravaged. They are driven by nothing else but pure madness. It'll only take a while, the line will open soon."
Northern gulped. After all the kid had said, he couldn't even find the words.
'He mentioned Sura, they must all be interconnected. It sounds like he had done a very delicate and meticulous job planning and getting to this point. And all of us humans were just being used as his pawns...'
Something else occurred to him.
'He said someone tampered with the rift. I didn't want to think that four rifts appearing simultaneously just happened to be a coincidence. If indeed the rifts were tampered with, then I believed the person that tampered with it was none other than Rughsbourgh himself. And the Luinngard Empire has something to do with it.'
He ground his teeth furiously. 'Seriously, what is really going on here?'
These series of events only made his anger for Rughsbourgh burn fiercer.
'That crappy thing for a human.'
Kid Koll continued, "I have done you a duly good, explaining things to you. Now, how about we end things here so I can be there to escort my master back to the world."
Northern stayed silent after Koll spoke. Then, after a couple of beats, he washed his hand over his face and said:
"I'm very sorry, Koll. I think what you are trying to do is a noble thing. Nothing concerns me with your master. If anything, I really do hope that you actually rescue your master. Even though I don't really follow the part where he swallowed his own son. But hey, who am I to judge anyone? Even I have done bad things to the government at a time, and I got served my punishment.
"However, the sad thing about all of this is the part where it involves some certain people. Not all of these people do I even care about. But there are some of them whom I feel genuinely care about me, and I don't have a lot of friends like that. So...."
He paused and looked at Kid Koll seriously.
"I'm very sorry, Koll, but it seems I will have to stop you. I can't lose my people. No hard feelings, alright."
The boy frowned first, his eyes went out of focus, then he said with a little grunt,
"If you want to stop me, then go ahead and do it. Why the hell are you giving me your human friendship speech about it?"
Northern shrugged and smiled widely, closing his eyes.
"I just wanted to make sure there's no hard feelings. I might not have been able to take you on alone before, but I tell you, things have changed a thousand times since that time."