Pressure!
Horrifying pressure!
Lucian felt all his bone creaking madly within his body as his body repeatedly made crushing sound. Blood emerged from his ears and eyes as Lucian gaze went cloudy.
But amidst the extreme pain, the clear sound of footstep echoed within the void inching closer to him, but he couldn't see who it was as he couldn't even move a muscle under the pressure.
Lucian felt the footsteps arrive before him as he felt a hand grab his hair and raised him up into the air. He was finally able to see who it was, as before him was the same man which was on the statue.
He was the most handsome man Lucian has ever seen in his life, as his long white hair spread down the man reaching his shoulders.
He was dressed in a white robe, but the white he wore made Lucian heart pound in his chest as it was just too white. So white it didn't comfort him but made him feel fear instead.
His eyes were radiating a crimson glow, his irises vertical like those of a snake.
The man's face was utterly cold revealing no emotion but absolute disdain towards Lucian, something which made him slightly angry.
"I said how do you want to die..." the man said his voice echoing within the space.
"I'm sorry, senior. I..."
"SCRAM, FUCKING AMATEUR..."
Lucian felt himself shoved backwards with horrifying speed as he felt himself tearing through space, his bones shattering to pieces.
Even though they were in an empty part of the void, it was like mysterious walls were present as he slammed into them continuously before a hand grabbed his head forcing him to a stop as his face was slammed into the ground immediately knocking him out cold.
Vather looked at the boy in front of him, which had all his bones twisted but his disdain only grew even more as he muttered to himself.
"Weak and weak-willed."
He grabbed onto the boy's hair as he raised him up into the air.Red energy emanated from his hands passing through Lucian's body, making Lucian's body spasm uncontrollably as he was forcefully awoken again.
Lucian awakened once again, the white handsome face appearing in front of his sight raising him up by his hair with his face of disdain.
A murderous aura emitted from Lucian's body, as he for the first time felt an urge to kill the person in front of him.
"How do you want to die..." the man asked in his blank expression as Lucian replied immediately.
"Fuck you."
The man's blank expression was slowly broken as a smile appeared on his face widening to both his ears as if that word was the most beautiful melody he ever heard.
"Now that's more like it." he muttered but didn't make the urge to kill him in Lucian reduce a little.
"Are you angry you're getting humiliated, are you angry I don't respect you.
Are you angry I called you an amateur.
That's why you forever remain weak, you are angry at me for humiliating you.
Why are you not angry at the fact that you're weak. You want to be treated with respect, but why should your wish be fulfilled if you're so weak. You want my legacy?, are you even worthy of it..." the man said as his hand reached for Lucian's left hand before grabbing on it and tearing it off in one stroke.
Lucian clenched his teeth tightly to the pain, veins wiggling on his face, but he refused to scream for reasons unknown even to him.
The man's smile widened even more, his crimson eyes shining with more light as he looked at the boy in front of him.
"Why aren't you screaming in pain?, don't you no longer feel them?."
Another tearing sound echoed within the void, as Lucian's right arm was torn of too the pain were more than thrice before but he clenched his teeth tightly his eyes bulging with pain as his murderous expression grew so much a red mist started emanating behind him.
"You evolved to an Infernal Apprentice from the Infernal Slave and you finally think you're strong. That the heavens are now supporting you. That you're talented.
But why am I grabbing unto your hair and treating you lesser than a slave, and the only thing you can do is clench your teeth and withstand the pain.
Do you know why you're weak, even if you inherit the most powerful legacy in this world you'll still be trash, do you know why?
Because if anything happens, you only clench your teeth in pain and accept fate, why can't you fight back. Why must you blame it on fate.
Why can't you get up and fight back." the man's voice became a loud voice reverberating through Lucian's entire body as they sank into every part of his body.
He was completely right, when he couldn't awaken a martial spirit, he only clenched his teeth and accepted fate. When he was banished he only clenched his teeth and accepted fate. But why must he accept fate, why can't he go against it.
"The heavens do not accept people like us. We are called trash by all. If you die here right now, do you know anybody who will care.
When others easily grow stronger with so little effort and are called heaven's chosens, what do we get?.
And you tell the heavens are fair, it's so damn biased, you know that deep in your being but you swallow up and accept fate.
Because you're afraid?
What else could you be afraid of, you're called trash by all, none cared if you die or live. Not even the heavens.
Then why do you still surrender to the heavens, why can't you battle against the heavens. If you want to be strong, then Fight!
Get Angry..." Vather said his eyes flaring with so much powerful glow, the entire void was illuminated by them. His long white hair blew erratically behind him, a powerful aura emanating from his being but his face changed when he looked at the boy he was holding in his hands.
"ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR" A primordial roar surged through the void shaking it with so much power, the void repeatedly quivered beneath the power.
A gigantic phantom more than thousands of metres tall covered in a dark mist appeared in the void behind Lucian or what he was before.
Lucian's blue eyes were completely replaced with a revolving dark glow as his raven black hair blew erratically behind him.
His eyes which were like the dark abyss stared at the crimson glow of Vather's eyes unflinchingly as his body stood tall like that of an unbreakable mountain.
A majestic aura emanating from his being but it only lasted a second as the phantom suddenly disappeared as if having been restricted by something while Lucian's body slowly fell down, but was caught by Vather.
Vather stared at the boy as his emotionless face slowly turned into that of shock and sadness.
"You remind me of myself back in the past, unwilling to accept fate but helpless.
We both are cursed by the heavens and it seemed yours was even worse as the Heavenly Restriction was placed directly on your Bloodline." Vather said his eyes tightly knitted together as he studied Lucian well.
"I have said I will never give anyone no matter who it is, my art, but I can't ignore your will to go against fate. So I will pass on to you my Legacy." Vather said as a book appeared in his hands before immediately disappearing into Vather's head.
He stretched his hands forward making a weapon appear in the void.
It was a gigantic dark chain brimming with powerful dark aura, while on both endings was a gigantic crimson coloured knife.
The dark aura of the weapon slowly resided as a restriction rune appeared on it before slowly disappearing from Vather's hand and moving towards Lucian.
A rune of a weapon appeared on Lucian's right palm as the weapon slowly disappeared into the rune on Lucian's hand.
"I have given you my Legacy, a legacy even I am unworthy of: The legacy of the Hegemonic Asuras. Whether you will later bend to its power or you will prevail against it is completely up to you.
A second Hegemonic Asura will appear once again in the Absolute Cosmos. I wish I could be there to watch a second Heaven Defier's rise to power.
But fate...even I still lost to it."
Vather muttered, a tear drop slowly rolling down his eyes as his body slowly turned into energy particules which drifted around Lucian and entered into his body making his torn arm grew back while the rest of the energy entered into his head. Lucian also disappeared away from the space.