Chapter 40: Secrets revealed.
“Whew, that was intense,” said a black-haired man with a face beyond perfection as he casually looked out into the dark night.
‘Although, if I hadn’t promised Luna I’d be here at this hour, I might still be at Alice’s for a few days’ he thought with a smile as he remembered leaving his wife Alice completely unconscious in bed.
They enjoyed several hours of shared love over several rounds. Although at one point Theos simply took pleasure in torturing an Alice who couldn’t take it anymore.
She had started to fight back, but in the end was brutally defeated and knocked out by Theos’ strength.
“Mmm,” Theos mused as he stepped outside the barrier that could not prevent his entry and exit. His gaze fell on each of the guards, who guarded as much territory as possible with erect postures and steady gazes.
“Respect to the Fallen,” the guards said in unison, bowing to Theos as he walked past, ignoring them completely.
His left eye glowed in the dark night, and thanks to his [Hate Attraction] ability, he had enhanced vision that allowed him to see everything from a great distance.
“Found you,” Theos smiled faintly as he saw a small unnatural shadow in the midst of all the darkness. Surrounding it, his negative energy body prepared to go there, but not before saying a few words to the guards.
“Don’t tell my parents about this, or else…” and he didn’t finish the sentence. The next second, he disappeared from the scene completely, leaving only a blur of his image.
The guards? They didn’t react, but people with keen eyes would have seen sweat appearing on their foreheads despite the cold environment.
“Come out, I saw you,” Theos said to one of the hundreds or thousands of forest trees in front of him.
“Tsk!” echoed a click of tongue through the trees, from which emerged a beautiful woman with hair as black as night.
“How did you find me?” she asked, frowning.
“What, were you trying your best to hide? Were you trying to surprise me?” he replied with another question, leaving Luna open-mouthed.
“What…?” but she couldn’t stay surprised for long as her face blushed with embarrassment, this time leaving Theos speechless.
‘Were you seriously trying to impress me with that?’ he was shocked beyond belief.
But he quickly pushed those unnecessary thoughts away. “Well, that’s not for us now. I didn’t go to my birthday party for you, you should at least be grateful,” he said arrogantly and started to walk deeper into the forest.
She rolled her eyes at his words but followed him as well. “You know, for your birthday, I will also get into trouble; there are a lot of nobles; I will create a bad image if I do not go,” she replied.
But Theos smiled even wider. “Don’t worry, I promise it’ll be totally worth it when you get out of here,” he said confidently, making Luna stop her protests.
‘That guy… He always gives me the feeling that he knows everything, that being by his side is the ultimate protection and safety, even when he is in danger, he seems to be prepared for everything,’ she thought with a small blush on her face.
“By the way, do you know where we’re going?” he asked, not knowing Luna’s thoughts, still walking into the dark forest.
“Hmm… Into the forest, is the cult there?” She asked innocently, her little mind hadn’t been exposed to the dangers of the world yet, so she couldn’t imagine much else.
“No, we are going to a mysterious place in this forest that only the Fallen Family knows exists, and you will have the privilege to see it,” Theos said, making Luna’s eyes sparkle with curiosity.
Was it true? Of course not, if it was true and the cult was there, the entire Fallen Family would have eliminated it without a problem. But that was not the case, even though it was close, the place they were going to could not be seen, not even by the most powerful beings in the world.
“Corrupt Zone,” he murmured in a tone so low that even Luna couldn’t hear him.
The Corrupt Zone is described in the novel as one of the most dangerous places because that’s where the sect’s entire concentration center was.
It is strange because the Fallen Zone encompasses the entire territory, but the Corrupt Zone is within that territory, cultivated with the power of the Fallen Family itself.
“Do you know why they have special mana?” he asked, turning to Luna, who shook her head sincerely.
Theos smiled and slowly explained. “The Fallen family is known throughout the world for their extraordinary use of mana, but all of their members are so powerful because they have some kind of secret in mana that makes them extremely powerful…. It’s something in the family’s blood that they received from their ancestors,” he revealed, causing Luna to be shocked.
It was true that the Fallen were known to possess special mana, but everyone believed that their secret lay in some technique, skill, or crazy theory circulating on the Internet. However, she never thought that it could be something that possessed the same blood.
Theos continued, as she already understood where he was going.
“The Death Eater sect is so close to the Fallen Family because they can be more in touch with the mana of the Fallen Family. They have an artifact that allows them to absorb the mana, or the essence of it, from a distance. And do you know why they are so close to my house?”
Theos’ footsteps stopped suddenly, staring at the void itself, but he could see it with his eye…. A large door blocked his way, a door that no one but him could see.
He turned to look at Luna, and his next words sent a shock through her. “Because I am The Fallen, out of all these generations, dozens of generations, I am the one who naturally had the most of this kind of mana in my blood…. And also the purest of all.”
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