Requiem Of A Failed Hero

Chapter 327 The End Of The Beginning

"Wow...it feels..."

Beelzebub squeezed his fists, relaxed them, and squeezed again. He stretched his hand and retracted, bent down and up. Made a few jumps, walked, jog on a spot.

"Ah! It is working!! It is perfectly working!! I owe you a lot!"

Beelzebub resounded with joy evident in his tone as he held Raith's shoulders and shook him rigorously.

"Stop! Stop!! stop!!!"

Beelzebub took his hand off Raith and quickly apologized.

"My bad, I was overtaken by the joy of being alive again."

"Make sure you try your best not to touch me. I can kill off the body just with a snap of my finger."

Raith lifted his hand in demonstration which allowed Beelzebub to quiet down.

"Although that was not part of the bargain..."

"How else was I to make sure that you wouldn't betray me or you were not lying to me."

Beelzebub sighed. "You are a thorough man."

"Ah! Is that you?!" Bastien exclaimed as he opened his eyes.

"Yes. Thank you very much for all those times. Thanks to you–

Bastien hugged him halfway through his speech.

"Man, I'm just happy you finally made it"

'It is weird to see a human have a cordial relationship with a demon... well, I am not the one to judge others'

Raith smiled.

"If you are done with your greetings I'd like you to teach me how to fully assimilate with my sin and become a true ruler."

Beelzebub removed himself from Bastien's large hug and moved towards Raith.

"Of course. It is fine by you, can we go someplace secluded."

"Secluded? Why?"

"Do not undermine the process. You will need to be as far away from everyone as you can so as not to corrupt the people."

Raith tilted his head. He was still skeptical.

"You don't trust me, I understand but you have no reason to fear. You can just cut my life if you want to."

"What if you are just trying to take something from me? You are a demon, demons are very nasty."

"Yes. You are right, I am a demon but I do not see as to why I need to use an underhanded method to get things from you. Besides the presence of that sword changes a lot for me. In a thousand years of wandering this earth. This is the first time I have come across a link to my master's. Every Fibre of my being is telling me to stick with you."

Raith pushed his head back a little and wore an irritation on his face.

After a while, he sighed and closed his eyes.

"I don't trust you but I don't want to stay weak either. If there is a certain proportion of strength that I should be exhibiting as a ruler, I want to realize that proportion without being held back by anything or anyone."

He slowly opened his eyes.

"And that is why I will follow you. Because I believe that you have something valuable to offer to me."

"I am not stupid enough to bite the back of my benefactor." Beelzebub made clear.

Afterwards, both of them departed alone. Heading into the mountains which were already free from the snow–warm in fact, their greenness was beginning to outshine and pour around every area like a canopy.

"Is this far enough?"

After walking for an hour, Raith asked.

They were very far away from the settlement. Beelzebub looked around, he could see the settlement like a tiny dot from his vantage point, they had come far, climbing up and down several mountains.

But he was glad throughout the journey. Not only was this body his style of physique, but it also had near-perfect stamina, its nimbleness he had no issue with. The rest he would fix as he continues to get accustomed to the body.

He managed to take his mind off the excitement of this new body and focused on Raith.

He inhaled deeply and began:

"The things I want to tell you are told to me directly by my master the demon lord Baal. In the beginning, there was an entity called sin..."

Raith showed signs of distrust that made Beelzebub pause.

"The story is also a part of it. I bet you have never heard of the things I am about to say to you and you should be very ready because the celestial code will kick in a thousand times."

Hearing Beelzebub say that, made Raith sit up and straighten his face. If Beelzebub was saying that the celestial code would obstruct the flow of this information several times then this is something serious.

"Alright, I'm ready to speak."

Beelzebub nodded after confirming Raith's readiness.

"Okay, there were three primordials that preceded the almighty creator. Light, Darkness, and Sin. Unlike the primordial Light and the primordial Darkness who had a fixated characteristic, Sin was unstable and was more like a younger brother to the two primordials.

Because of the monstrous power that the primordial Sin possessed, the two primordials began to mentor and teach him in different ways and for different purposes. The primordial of light wanted to control him and contain him as he has an astonishing affinity towards evil. While the primordial of darkness wanted to...

[You have died]

[You will take longer than usual to resurrect]

'Oh God, I have been talking without paying attention. The code must have been crushing him from the insides all through.'

Beelzebub thought in his head as he saw Raith collapse to the floor with blood flowing out from his mouth, nose, and ear.

But he has seen this scene before. He patiently waited for the unusual man to wake up.

Meanwhile__

"What do you mean, it will take longer than usual for me to resurrect?!!"

[BE CAREFUL HUMAN, DO NOT WALK THIS PATH]

Raith squinted his eyes, the multiple voices sounded like they were begging.

A grin spread across his face. Was this it? This was all it took for them to break up, this was the reason why they wouldn't share with him.

From the moment Beelzebub began mentioning darkness, Raith had thought of the possibility that the primordial of darkness is the abyss. No, it wasn't that he thought of the possibility–he was sure.

This was the information he needed, with this he would be able to find what exactly it is that the abyss wants.

But the problem was resurrection. If the abyss itself withholds his resurrection, then there is nothing he would be able to do.

Raith frowned as an idea came to mind.

"I suppose you are not ready to let me go right."

[IF YOU WILL CONTINUE TO WALK IN DISOBEDIENCE, THIS PLACE SHALL BE YOUR GRAVE]

Raith was not surprised. Darker than Black was a place that didn't have any use other than just holding him in between life and death. He could delay his coming back to life with it. And now that very place was going to be his grave.

Raith smirked, "I was a big fool for trusting you." He said, even though he never truly trusted the abyss fully. He always knew that he was being used and knew that one day the abyss would flip or possibly betray him.

After the abyss took over his body in Therut when he was confronting the archon, he had begun to fear greatly that the abyss might be aiming to make him reach the pinnacle of straight and hijack his body for itself.

If that was the case then it wouldn't be a bad idea to drop the abyss for good. Even though he might start from the beginning. Raith felt he could just run to some remote place and live a mediocre life away from the rest of the world.

But that was until his body got merged with the crystal of creation. Even now, Raith didn't know the true extent of the new body and power he now possessed. And it wasn't his fault, because the abyss had sealed everything.

Unique skills, Ultimate skills, Origin skills, these were cosmological terminologies that Raith should have been used to by now. The true voice of the world that instructed selected few of their growth but the moment that voice came to Raith, it was blocked out by the abyss never to be heard of again.

The abyss because of its own goal had been keeping Raith confined within a certain limitation since his growth was faster than it had foreseen.

The potential that Raith possessed far surpassed what the abyss envisaged.

And the moment Raith assimilates fully with the sin of greed, everything will be out of control. Raith would stop playing the abyss games and become conscious of the entire game field.

Because the first thing such assimilation will do is... remove the limitations placed by the celestial code. The moment Raith becomes a true ruler; the start of something even bigger. He would be able to completely nullify the celestial code.

That is he would be separated from the group of those that the celestial code restricts from knowing certain things, should there now be an even greater level of celestial code, he would be able to nullify it.

Because assimilation with the sin causes an evolution in the body.