Demon King Ascension System

228 Not An Unfamiliar Voice

[A minor pure soul had been eaten. One additional unused status point had been given to the Host.]

[Congratulations! The minor pure soul had helped the system in gathering the nether needed to send Host back to the demon realm! Estimated time will be updated right away!]

[00:18:03]

‘Shit! The time! I haven’t said my goodbyes to Amy yet!’

Blake had already disappeared out of existence without telling her anything once and he did not want to do it again. Especially after he saw how she cried on his chest the moment the two of their eyes met.

Blake wanted to take her back to the demon realm as that was where he felt the safest, it’s where he felt he was at home despite the residents of the realm having an innate desire to slaughter and kill each other to strengthen themselves.

However, just as he said it himself, it was still impossible to bring Amy with him back to the demon realm right now as he was still in his evolution quest and it would not be long before he descended to the next realm where even stronger demons lived and he didn’t know anything about that realm. Bringing Amy, a human, there, would literally be asking herself to be killed by the residents there and Blake couldn’t guarantee her safety yet.

If he just descended, then that probably means that he was the weakest demon in there, and how could he protect Amy when he couldn’t even protect himself?

Just remembering how Jake’s father fared against him, a demon who hadn’t even evolved once, Blake couldn’t imagine how Amy would be able to live and survive in the next demon realm where they could probably kill all three people around him, heck even himself with a snap of their fingers.

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With no chance of bringing her to the demon realm yet so that he would be able to get her to safety, away from the war on the other side of the gate in his world, Blake could only say his goodbye first, then he would need to find a way back to his world and take Amy back with the strength to be able to protect her while she’s there.

Blake was about to run outside the abandoned factory as his time was ticking, and he didn’t have much of them left. But before he went out he saw the two corpses that littered the abandoned factory.

Jake’s corpse had been taken care of by the dark flame, but the other two were killed by his darkness element constructs, their corpses and fresh blood still lingered in the abandoned factory.

‘This might be a problem later on… Better clean it up a little.’

Blake then conjured two sparks of dark flame from both his hands before throwing one each at the two corpses.

The small sparks of dark flame quickly made themselves comfortable, enlarging themselves using the fuel that Blake had given to them. And sooner or later, all the flesh, blood, and bones would be gone, along with the dark flame itself as it would not be able to use concrete and cement as its fuel.

The shine of the growing dark flames lighted up the abandoned factory even more and Blake hurriedly went out of the door the moment he saw the dark flames doing their job properly.

‘I won’t get there in time no matter how fast I try to run there…’

With his Child Of The Dark Flame bloodline power had been activated and his disguise had been torn down because of the excessive use of nether, Blake was currently in his original demon form, complete with the pair of wings on his back.

[00:17:38]

Looking at the time he had left before the portal opened up again, Blake knew that he was in a real hurry.

‘There’s no other way.’

Blake then spread his wings and sent his nether through them. His body then lightened as the wings did their job, making it at least half of the original weight.

Mustering the power in his feet, Blake jumped as high as his feet could take him, which was now at least ten meters tall with his body being lightened by his wings. He let his body shoot upward without doing anything. However, when gravity started to catch up with him and he started to lose momentum, Blake sent his fiery nether down to the bottom of his feet.

Blake sent more and more of his fiery nether to the bottom of his feet. But instead of letting them manifest to create sparks of dark flame, Blake held them in his body still until the very last moment when he was finally about to fall down.

At that moment, Blake released all the gathered fiery nether underneath his feet. Instead of a small spark of dark flame or a dark flame fireball, what instead released from his feet was an explosion that propelled his body up, straight towards the dark night sky.

To make sure that he wasn’t getting too much attention, Blake went flying high enough that he would be an unrecognizable dot in the sky that had the same color as himself. With the color of his body and the color of his flame that was primarily black, Blake would almost be undetected by normal means, except for the sounds that the explosions that propelled his body forward caused.

But still, he was very high up in the sky, it would take people with extraordinary hearing senses to be able to hear him.

Blake thanked the police officers that had half kidnapped him that they did not put any blindfold on his eyes when they were going towards the abandoned factory as now he could trace back the road that he had gone through and followed it while flying.

And by spending more nether than usual, Blake did more of his explosions than what was necessary to keep his altitude up because he needed the boost of speed that the explosions gave him.

Blake was running out of time, and speed was all the things that he needed to beat the time.

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Amy stood on the usual window that Blake had used to stand all the time. She was aware that Blake spent a lot of his time here, just staring at the sky and doing nothing else whenever she didn’t come and ask him to play with her.

She used to wonder what made him like staring into the empty sky so much, but now that she felt her own chest feeling empty and there was this constant unsettling feeling in her heart ever since Blake had disappeared, and it even had intensified the moment she saw Blake had been dragged away from her just a few hours after they had reunited, Amy finally understood the slight easing feeling that she got when looking at the empty sky that seemed so free of clutters.

Something that she would want her mind to feel when it’s clouded by something she didn’t even know of.

Just like Blake who had felt the guilt of lashing out at her, Amy also felt the same. Even though she already knew what Blake went through all his life ever since she was old enough to have her own thoughts, she had selfishly told Blake that he had changed and told him that he was a violent person.

Feeling herself as someone who’s beyond stupid. That was Amy’s current feeling as she looked back to the moment when Blake just turned his body away and disappeared again.

She didn’t know whether he would suddenly disappear again without telling her anything and she wouldn’t know when he would come back, and just thinking that she made him angry earlier, Amy couldn’t believe how stupid she was.

Even though Blake had actually come back and smiled at her earlier, she didn’t have any proper conversations with him before he was taken away by the police officers.

She was afraid that the smile and the few exchanges of words would be the last interaction that the two of them had before Blake disappeared again for she didn’t know how long.

She did ask him whether he would visit her again from time to time, but she didn’t get to hear his answer. However, from the crease in his eyebrows, and the unsureness of his tone when he spoke, Amy doubted that he would come to visit her that often.

Looking through the opened window, feeling the cold night wind, and the dark empty sky, Amy had the urge to jump out the window, climb up the fence, and started running as fast as she could to find Blake.

But the last few bits of sanity still held her body in place. Even if she did all that, she did not know where Blake was currently. In the end, she only hoped that she would be able to talk to him properly before he went back to his new home, where he felt the happiest in his entire life.

Amy’s attention was suddenly pulled to the night sky above her as she noticed something unusual with the usual sky that she stared at almost every night.

Even though it was only slightly, Amy could see a spot in the sky wavered for a split second just like what happened when she saw the spot above a very hot campfire.

She kept her eyes on the spot for a few seconds, trying to see whether it would happen again, but even after staring at it with utter focus, she didn’t see that spot wavering again.

‘How odd… Maybe I began seeing things that weren’t real…’ She thought as she was about to close the opened window.

But before she could move her head back inside the window, she suddenly heard someone calling her name.

“Amy!” And it wasn’t an unfamiliar voice.