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Epic Of The Demonic Sage

Author: Grand_Void_Daoist

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Chapter 1: Seeker Of Fate

"How much further do we have to go? We won't last long if this keeps on happening…" A man's tired and slightly pain filled voice spoke.

"Roy is right Lucius, we have been here for nearly a week now and still haven't reached the end, our rations are already running low and the mana here is getting more and more unstable." A woman spoke with concern, looking at a man who was busy reading through a notebook.

The man looked up from the book and one could see the frustration on his face for a moment. But as soon as he sensed the gaze of the woman on his face, he calmed down and a smile appeared on his face instead.

"It shouldn't be far. Look…" The man said as he pointed up at the roof. The woman looked up along with the five other people that were there.

"Huh? What is there? Tell me guys, you know I'm the only one who can't see in dark here." Spoke a short man who was wearing a vest packed with pockets.

Meanwhile, the eyes of the woman and the other three people glowed faintly as they tried to read the carvings on the roof. The woman squinted as she found herself unable to recognize the words.

"It's in ancient Akalian, Michal can you translate it?" The woman asked another man who looked to be wearing a pair of square glasses and a utility belt.

"Of course I can! Even if Lucius here is the best researcher, I'm still the expert at ancient history." Michal said as he adjusted his glasses.

"We know, we know, just read for us now, please." A muscular and tall man that was wearing an armor spoke.

"O' seeker of fate, you've come far and survived the trials. For this, you deserve the reward, but know this that what you seek may not be seeking you." Michal translated with furrowed brows.

A silence descended in the dark corridor as the people tried to understand what the words meant. There was darkness everywhere and a normal person would not be able to see anything. But this was not the problem for the people here, for they were no commoners but rather the members of the Great Barrom Clan.

The Barrom Clan was one of the five great powers of the world of Revelia. But that wasn't all, for the members of the clan were all demon worshipers and sourced their magic from hell. Channeling the demonic energies of hell, they could use demonic magic.

This made them the enemy of nearly half of the world. But they had great power, and even after thousands of years, they stood tall and unyielding. If anything, the endless wars and battles had only made their people more strong.

And these people that were here in this ruin were not common members of the clan. They were amongst the topmost candidates that were chosen as captains. Each and every one of them had their different specialties that they were experts in.

But unlike the other four people, Lucius was not a 'true blood', as they were called. No, rather he was of low birth, having servants as his parents. Yet against all odds and defeating hundreds of others, he had reached his current position.

'I need to hurry up or they will figure out the truth. Thankfully, the next chamber should be the right one, but I still need to pick the sacrifices…' Lucius thought as he secretly glanced at the four members of his team.

He couldn't help but remember the joy that he had felt upon finding the document that pointed to the location of the artifact. Lucius also found it to be extremely ridiculous that the clues to the amulet that the Barrom clan had been searching for had been hidden right under their noses.

The true bloods of the clan were far too proud and would never lower themselves to check the libraries of the servant academy. The servant academy was where the new servants of the Barrom clan were trained and educated. Each and every adult servant of the Barrom clan was required to produce at least ten children in their lifetime.

Barrom clan had a large requirement for servants, as they were pretty much used as disposable people. From assassination to sexual pleasure, the uses for servants were endless. Lucius too had been trained in everything that had been required of a servant, and it was during his time at the academy that he had found out about the relic.

He had been planning this for about fifteen years now and finally, it was coming to fruition.

"Now that you all have seen, let's head further, no need to waste more time," Lucius said.

"Wait, a minute! I don't know about you, but that thing written there sounds like a warning." The man named Roy stated.

"So what?" Lucius asked as he grasped Roy's shirt. "Did a true blood like you turn a coward now?"

The expression of others turned tense as they saw the conflict. "Lucius! Control yourself, we can't afford a fight right now, we need everyone's abilities to get back out." The woman urged while trying to hold him back.

"Listen to Mira Lucius, I don't want to go back empty handed either." The muscular man added.

Lucius tightened his grip on Roy's shirt as smoke started coming out of it. "Fine! But one more word and I'll burn that heart of yours out. You all agreed on this beforehand, I want no more pointless words." He said while letting go of Roy's shirt, which now had a hole with singed edges in it.

A tactful silence was followed by everyone as they continued onward. The path in front of them was narrow and a deep chasm could be seen on both its sides. There were no railings or borders to the path, thus if anyone made a mistake they would fall to their deaths.

While walking, Mira stared at the back of Lucius with a complex expression. She bit her lips slightly before letting out a sigh.

"Hopefully, we'll be able to marry once his rank rises…" She muttered to herself.

A gentle smile appeared on her face as she secretly rubbed her stomach. 'I wonder how he'll react later…' She thought.

Meanwhile, Lucius who was completely unaware of Mira's thoughts was focused on the wall that had appeared in front of them, making them stop.

"What now?" Michal questioned.

"Just wait and watch…" Lucius stated before walking up to the wall.

His fingers glowed in yellow light as he started writing on the wall with it. Everywhere his finger went, yellow letters were left behind. But the writing seemed to be complex, with the characters confusing the minds of others.

"No… it can't be…" Mira muttered under her breath.


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Chapter 2: Beginning Of The Conquest

Five minutes passed by as Lucius kept on writing. The letters were now changed to constructs as he started making some diagrams on the wall as well. While the others didn't know what he was writing as it was beyond the purview of their knowledge, they could very well see that it was a spell construct.

The only person here other than Lucius that could somewhat understand what he was writing was none other than Mira. While she wasn't an expert like Lucius, she still knew about a quarter of what Lucius had learned. Even Lucius was unaware that Mira had learned this secretly.

She still remembered the day clearly when they had first met. It was the second assignment that she had ever been on, and it had been twelve years since then. It was similar to the one they were doing right now, except with much lower risk and proper supervision from the higher ups of the clan.

Lucius was the only one who was not a true blood in that group and thus received the usual treatment of a low born. Mira though could not be bothered with what others did and only kept to herself focusing on the mission, which was the retrieval of a few tomes that had been stolen.

Lucius's position in the team was that of a researcher and would be the one to verify the authenticity of the tomes. The other people in the group were not pleased that a mere low born would be given the position of the researcher and despised him, taking advantage and bullying him every chance that they got.

But Lucius was not one to take it without fighting back either. He didn't directly fight them though, no that would be stupidity. The others were not only much stronger than him, but also had a higher rank.

While the Barrom clan was a place where the strong thrived and suppressed the weak, they still had a set of rules that they followed. Blindly fighting and eliciting enmity would only lead to their doom. One such rule was that while might was right, the clan was still the highest priority.

Thus during missions, while they could bully Lucius, they couldn't straight up kill him no matter how much they wanted that. Neither could they injure him greatly nor cripple him. Lucius knew these things clearly and took his revenge cleverly, or rather one could even say effortlessly.

What Lucius did was merely not inform them about the danger that was in front of them. They had casually walked into an area filled with traps and all those that had opposed him had come out injured except for one, Mira.

He pretended as if he had only discovered the trap after it was activated and blocked it when it was about to harm Mira.

It was from that day that she had started noticing him. Eventually, they went on more missions and she realized what a smart man he was while also being ruthless. She was after all, a Barrom woman and there was no way she would reject a quality like that in a man.

Eventually, they got closer and closer and Lucius opened up to her, revealing his plans to her. She knew that he had been looking for the Lost Amulet of Barrom. It was said that it came from the Great Demon King Barrom himself, whom the clan was named after.

But there were very few people that even believed that the amulet existed and only considered it to be a myth now. In the past, hundreds of missions had been commissioned to find the amulet, but not one had come close to it.

Yet an unassuming low born like Lucius had discovered the clue to it, that too right under their noses. It had been with the Barrom clan all along.

Still, just this clue was not enough, and they needed to find a lot more documents to cross reference the location of the amulet. Then they had to find more documents to verify those documents. It was a nearly endless cycle of repetition that spanned fifteen years.

Most people would have given it long ago and would have just accepted it that it did not exist and that the clue they had found was merely a mistake. Yet, Lucius believed it completely, and it was that unyielding personality of his that made Mira fall into love with him.

It was during that time to read these documents Lucius had to learn a lot of ancient languages and dialects along with spell scripts. To help speed up the process and to give him a surprise, Mira had started learning them on her own.

But before she could even reach half of his level, he had already completed his research and had found what he needed. It was a rather bittersweet moment for Mira as the surprise she had prepared for Lucius was wasted, but she was also happy that he had found one of the final clues.

The true goal of this mission was only known to Mira and Lucius, with the others being in the blind about it. They had been only told that they were here for some lost relics and not for the amulet of Barrom himself.

That is why Mira was so shocked upon seeing what was being written on the wall. It was a complex spell construct that combined multiple spell scripts. But the thing that she recognized was a name, 'Ivalos'. This was none other than the true name of the man called Roy.

True names were assigned to every true blood member of the clan at birth and were their source of power. It was their link with hell and each of them was named after a fragment of a demon's true name. By doing this they would be able to channel demonic energy and mana, allowing them to use demonic magic.

This was what made the Barrom clan one of the strongest in the world.

But Mira didn't know how Lucius knew the true name of Roy, even she only knew the name because Roy was technically her cousin by birth. Then she saw the other two names that were written next to it in a triangular construct.

She couldn't read the other two but knew that they were true names as well, belonging to Michal and Luke.


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