He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.
— Beyond Good And Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche.
「Death…」
I heard this term a lot in my two lives.
I had enough of this.
First it was a sniper bullet.
Now it was a false acquisition of killing 19 kids and exiting the devil's underground cave.
I'm a transmigrator.
But I'm forced to do this.
If that Satanic Dragon is within me then I would have a chance to escape.
I just have to test my talent.
Rest. I believe. He'd help me.
Queen Velissa III nodded her head at the guard.
The guard quickly opened the handcuffs around my hands.
I felt happy when my hands got untied.
Under the gazes of everyone, I slowly walked over to the pool.
I kneeled and put my hand in the Pool.
I felt really cold.
I saw everyone was looking at me.
I didn't feel anything.
I looked at the pool.
There wasn't any reaction from it.
Unlike other tests who'd instant reaction from it.
I didn't get anything but the coldness of still water.
『He gotta be kidding me…』
My mother and Silvia are in danger.
And **** The bastard is not helping me.
I'm totally **** up.
My expression darkened and I was in the grip of frustration.
I turned to the strength testing crystal, next to the chamber.
I striked the crystal.
But the crystal didn't budge a bit.
It hurted my fist a lot…
Crystal didn't glow up.
I could feel clearly the helplessness and bitterness.
I wanted power but I lack the strength for it.
No Magic. No Physical strength.
That was my fate…
Damn…
It was true, I was abandoned by gods.
I was born alone without power.
Like in my previous life…
The cycle repeats…
Then Ram Raghav's face appeared before me.
Talent or Lineage.
Without them I'll be nothing.
It's unfair…
I'm a failure who can't protect my mother in two lives.
My heart filled with hatred again.
Everything around me filled black and white.
There was no way I can save my mother being raped by Lord Alfred.
I looked at the Queen.
Then Queen Velissa III looked at me while wearing a maniacal expression.
I looked at others, I still saw the same expression.
They all wanted me to get a death sentence.
Just because I'm a Satan Child.
Winfried was utterly happy.
He laughed.
「Look at him, this Satan's child is a piece of trash. He doesn't have any magical or physical strength, How amusing Hahahaha. He deserved it!」
I lowered my head with disgust.
『If I'd a chance to show him what's real torture is in this world.』
The hatred and helplessness burned in my heart like an inferno.
Others here started murmuring with devious smiles on their faces.
「He has the weakest aptitude in the entire history of this kingdom? How could a person be so useless? Hahaha since he's the sole survivor of Devil's underground cave then imagine a monster run rampt having the power of a demon! Good grace we're fortunate he don't have any slightest bit of talent in him!」
「What you said is right! For a possessed child doesn't deserve to be magi or a knight?!」
「He should fucking die for killing 19 innocent childrens! He should receive a death penalty for his crime!」
「Satan's child! My queen and fellow knights kill him right!」p
「Get the hell out! You murderer!」
Queen Velissa III announced!
「Guards handcuff him and send him to prisons.」
Suddenly a mage used some kind of binding spell on me.
My hands and legs were binded unknown magic.
I fell down in an imbalance.
I struggled to break off from these magical chains which restricted my movements.
One Knight grabbed and pushed my head to the floor.
Irving Sain came forward, he gripped my hair strands and slapped my face hard.
He was torturing me and whispered to me.
「I can't wait to your mother's purity be tarnished by that womanizer!」
I had a fantasy that erupted from my imagination: I'll massacre everyone here in the court and take a blood bath.
『KILL!』
I was pushed to the very limits physically but mentally, I'm far stronger than all of them!
My hatred.
Envy.
Anger.
Bitterness.
Helplessness.
Disgust.
All of the peaks.
Ba dump~ Ba dump~ Ba Dump~
I can't bear all of it.
I said coldly.
"LET ME GO!"
For the last time.
「[I SAID LET ME GO!]」
The two voices became one in an instant.
Then…
The Pool of Chosen Path surging violently.
Colour of the pool became blacker.
Then shades of red colour blended with it.
Suddenly it dried down all of the pool water and with the mana in it.
As a hurricane swirling around the pool.
A blast of violent aura shot out of the pool to destroy the ceiling of the court.
Earthquake started to shake the whole ground.
Everyone was shocked by it and was trembling by the intensity of the aura which was being shot from the pool.
The black red fiery aura turned into the form of a monster.
The black monster's crude face reflected the red markings all over its body!
My and the monster's voices echoed throughout the whole court.
[Hahahaha]
By seeing the monsters the queen velissa III was utterly flabbergasted and stammered.
「B-b-black magic of Zala―?!」
She stopped midway not wanting to continue even further…
[You *** fools, IT'S MY TIME!]
She rose up from the chair feverishly.
After the queen, everyone started to tremble including the Knights, mages, aristocrats and childrens.
Everyone looked at me in fear.
Suddenly my tender arms became crude black red arms of a monster.
I Pushed and breaked all the restraints from above.
Black red aura covered me.
I noticed a change in me.
I'm feeling a sudden gain of power. It feels nice and great.
I'm wearing two black red gauntlets covering my hands within black big clawed nails like monsters.
Hands were emitting black red magic.
「N-no! It can't be black magic… the powerful and rarest magic in the world is emitted from him? How on earth it can even be possible?!」
「A- are you S-sure he's an ordinary peasant? I don't think so?!」
「B- 「It's the magic from that clan… How shit Now I scared of him, he's not only a satan's child anymore?!」
「If we considered storm magic has the strong magic then this magic could be called monstrous!」
「He's far more dangerous than a possessed child… Our kids needed to be weary of him?!」
「Shit were we playing with fire all this time?!」
I smiled.
And the real showdown begins—
Author's Note:
There are few foreshadowing in this chapters from the future chapters of the novel.
Now it became more darker as the chapters scrolled down :]