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Chapter 55 - Path

Volume 1: Path - [Envy Arc]

Chapter 55: Path

In Caelus's mind space, the butterflies felt the energy coming out from Caelus's soul; they immediately took action by entering into the consciousness of the soul.

Consciousness is where the real mind of the soul is; it is the place where all thoughts happen. Mind space is just a space to attach the soul to a body.

These two are different things.

The butterflies entering the consciousness caused the soul to tremble; inside the mind of Caelus, toxic green-black energy started to form. It is trying to eat the crimson-red-black energy.

The crimson red-black energy is Caelus's consciousness, and the toxic green-black energy is of Zelus; despite his death, his memories are trying to eat Caelus's consciousness.

The butterflies flew over to the two energies, and using their lives as a sacrifice, they mixed in with Caelus's consciousness and started to overpower Zelus's memories.

Envy is one of the strongest negative emotions, and it is hard to suppress. Even if one were to surpass it, it will come back stronger than it was, but right now it is indirectly being suppressed by consciousness, not an ordinary consciousness, but a soul that got mixed with beings who are called the Death's messengers. Envy is not a big deal in front of death, which can end anything in this world.

It was suppressed easily, and Caelus's consciousness won and ate away Zelus's memories in one go and first started to emit toxic energy for a second, but was gone in the next moment and replaced by the crimson red color.

Caelus, who is in the memories of Zelus and was mixed up with Zelus's memories, woke up, and there was no problem in waking up. The feeling Caelus felt, 'Sympathy,' was still there, but due to the butterflies eating Zelus's memories, he didn't feel any resistance when he was escaping.

Caelus opened his eyes; he saw the caterpillars on the ground and the butterflies flying in the air.

Caelus smiled as he said, "Thank you for saving me." When he said that, all these little creatures started dancing, with butterflies flying around him in some kind of way.

Caelus felt some memories flowing through his consciousness; they were the memories of Zelus. Some memories were wiped out and cleaned, but most of them were not.

Caelus felt his attainment in using a sword had increased to a whole different level. There are ranks for weapons, too, but no one actually cares about them, since mostly gaining attainments over elements can increase attainments over a weapon easily.

Since using their elements depends on how they use them, if they use a bow and arrow, they have to increase their attainment of their element and learn themselves how to do it; at that moment, they can increase their attainments, so they attain the weapon at the same time they do the element; it's just that they don't recognize it.

Caelus got all this information from Zelus's memories, and he also got information on who killed his parents, grandfather, and all his family members, leaving him alone.

The Sinners, a group of organizations made by seven people who called themselves the seven sins: pride, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, wrath, and sloth. He didn't see other sins except pride and envy because those memories were lost when these little fellas ate the memories; during the resistance, they got lost.

And Caelus was also dragged out of the memories when he was about to meet someone.

'But at least I know their faces from 7 years ago, which is alright for now. Let's see, I got the attainments of both shadow and mind, and many kinds of elements, and even weapon uses such as spears and swords. These are such valuable things; I didn't understand till now why the hell this guy never used other elements when he had this many. Something is fishy...'

'There's been too much planned, and for an organization strong enough to have rank 5's, this planning is too simple for me to find out about them easily, and this guy who was supposed to be rank 5 died, and mainly with a broken ability like that, he died, and he could easily defeat me if he could have used all the elements he had, but he did not, as if to say, he is destined to die at my hands for a reason. And this is the most confusing part: they are making me a half-demon and awakening me. These two should be the plan they made, and even that asshole outside should not have known about this shit. But he should have known about it; otherwise, how could he take such actions as exposing himself easily in front of me? Or maybe I am just overthinking it. Tsk, the situation just became so complicated; let's think about it later. I need to take control over my body first and wake up.' Caelus looked at the giant sphere of the soul palace; it is in black and red colors now.

'It should have been in a bright color, right? Is it because of the demonization I have in my soul from when I was awakening? It should be the only thing; even Zelus had the same soul palace as him, but it's just a toxic green color. Caelus got the crimson red color as the extra. Black represents the demon, and bright light represents the angel. Angels are just common awakeners; they have a normal bright color, as Caelus had previously.

Caelus jumped into the Soul Palace; the moment he entered, he saw nothing but darkness, and in the middle, there was a throne.

The throne is a towering structure of black, jagged metal, its form rising in sharp, twisting spires that give it a crown-like silhouette. Dark surfaces are etched with glowing crimson veins, the light seeping through cracks. The seat is broad and heavy, its arms thick and shaped with thorn-like ridges, while the back ascends high into a web of blades and curves, fierce yet regal. The ground around it is dark and barren, just like the background, and all around the soul palace is dark.

"Damn, this is sick!" Caelus muttered as he flew through the palace and arrived at the throne; he touched it as he felt jagged metal and dark surfaces with crimson veins.

"I should not waste any time; I can come here anytime I want. Right now, I need to go." Caelus muttered as he sat on the throne. The throne immediately lit up as the light from the throne flew through the space. The light was crimson red, and as it flew up, the palace started to light up with red light.

Soon, the whole soul palace was lit up in red lights, and there was no fire or any light visible, but lightning was forming everywhere.

Caelus looked down below the throne; there was nothing but empty space. "This is creepy as fuck."

Caelus felt his soul being connected to the physical body. He felt the warmth throughout his body and then suddenly sharp pain as if being sealed to the throne.

After a while, the pain was gone as he felt he couldn't move any part of his soul body, and he slowly felt sleepy as his eyes started to close.

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Outside the mind space, in the real world, Aiven was looking at the dead body of Caelus on the sphere. The sphere is now filled with nothing; previously, it was filled with fog inside, but now nothing is there. Even the waters flowing into the cave have stopped and are dispersing into the air.

"As Master said, I completed what I was supposed to do, and he told me to plan a massacre together with Lord Envy, who is going to be resurrected into this boy's body. But with the head bishop in the academy, it is going to be super hard to do it. But for the sake of the revenge, I must do it. I hope the plan goes well." As he was hoping that the plan would go well, Caelus's body started to shake; his body fell from the sphere and landed on the ground. The ground, which was filled with fog, was gone, replaced with only wet ground.

The shadow of Caelus started to move as it surrounded Caelus's body and started to fix the broken bones and regenerate new arms.

Previously, Zelus stole elements from many awakeners who have healing abilities, and due to that, when Caelus took Zelus's ability by devouring his soul, he got the shadow element with the elements Zelus stole.

Zelus's shadow works in a unique way; for example, Zelus stole the deacon's mind element, and Zelus doesn't use a separate mind element. Rather, he stole the element and copied it to the shadow element, causing the shadow element to have the mind element as the sub-element, and attacks of the shadow can be imbued with the mind element.

Caelus's body began to heal itself, and in a few minutes, the healing was complete, with all his body healed. Caelus's fingers moved slightly and started to take support from the ground, and he stood up.

Caelus's crimson eyes returned to normal red eyes, but the emotion that was contained in them was cold, as if he were an emotionless killing machine.

Aiven, who felt that emotion from Caelus's eyes, instantly recognized who was the one in Caelus's body. "Congratulations on your return, Lord Envy." As he said, he bent one of his knees to the wet ground, and as he bowed his head, he cupped his hands.

"Hmm." Caelus just said that and looked around for a second, and said again, "Get up, you did a good job. I will help you get your revenge."

"Thank you, my lord."

"We don't have much time; we should go now. The island will crumble soon; we will continue our conversation on the way." Caelus said with his cold voice.

"Yes, my lord." As Aiven replied he got up and lead the way for both of them to get out, Caelus transformed into Shadow as he moved through the ground and Aiven turned into mist as he flew through the air.

As they were moving Caelus though about what he was going to do in the future, he thought, 'I know revenge was useless to me since I didn't have enough power to get revenge for my family's death, but I have enough power for revenge now, so from this moment forth, I will walk on the path of Revenge and Deception. I don't care what others say; I have emotions, and I love my family more than anything. These guys ruined my childhood and made my life hell, and used me for some unknown reason. Until I kill them all, I won't rest. This is the path I am going to go in.'

[End Of Chapter 53]

[End Of Volume 1 - Path]

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I changed the plot multiple times because the story I chose at first was very difficult, but I still did my best to give a good ending to the novel. I hope you all like it.

This is the weakest volume of all the ones that will come, and from the beginning, I gave all the hints. It was hard to keep up with them. Also, not many side characters are introduced in this volume, but the next one will introduce more, and there will be POV switching.

Next, Path refers to many things; he walked the path of acting, hiding, and deception when he was under watch. He's still on the path of deception, loves his family, and has the power to fight back. Therefore, he's definitely going to take revenge on them.

If you think revenge is useless, I don't know if you would cry if your parents were killed—I will, and this is how I will do it. The main character is human, and humans have emotions. That's all I have to say. I will be back in a week or two with new chapters of Volume 2.

Thank you.

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