Chapter 154 Look Up! [1]

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At the same time, outside in the labyrinth. Alex suddenly stopped moving and trembled in place. Red streams of blood rolled down his cheeks from his trembling eyes as his face contorted with anguish. His eyes were blanked out and wide, and his gaze was cast emptily into the vacant space. "Alex!" Xavier hurriedly responded to Alexander's sudden reaction. He suddenly became like this the moment he heard Nicodemus Kodrey's voice. 'Nicodemus...' Xavier's eyes sharpened and darted forward menacingly. "What did you do to him?" Nicodemus nonchalantly flipped the pages of the strange book as wisps of ominous black smoke continued to billow from his figure. His skin turned paler, and dark vein lines slowly crawled up the sides of his face from below his neck. He slowly took on a more, non-human appearance as a small dark bump putruded from one side of his forehead. Xavier's narrow eyes sharpened with increased wariness. "Demon Possession." It was a twisted and dark forbidden art or technique used by Demon Contractors, often Villains. Xavier grasped his sword tightly as a ghostly hue flowed down his arms and encased the blade of his sword in Aura. The expression on his face became cold and twisted as he gazed disdainfully at Nicodemus unsightly appearance. "You really Contracted with a Demon." The Demon Race were the most notorious and diabolical race in the Multiversal war of supremacy against races from different worlds and realms. It all started with the greed and twisted nature of demoms who desired the worlds of others for their taking. True to their name and race, Demons were a sinister race that were known for often luring and tempting others with promises of desires and vain hopes and power to forming contracts and giving up their humanity and forsaking their race. The human Awakened society called such defects or people, Villains; a dark group of Awakened with negative or opposing intentions towards the human race that differed from the survivability of mankind's norms or standards. Because of this, the Demon races' power and ability was ever on the rise while the others races like the himans were constantly on the fall across time as long as the war persisted. Nicodemus cast an undecipherable gaze at Xavier, unperturbed by his now blatant display of bloodlust and animosity. "That's impossible. That can't be true, Nico would never do something like that!" Chelsea retorted in a sharp voice, her trembling words drawing the gazes and attention of Trise, Xavier, and even Nicodemus. Trise's expression heated up and contorted as her brows furrowed without a single trace of amusement. "Are you dumb, blind, or stupid?! Can't you see what is right before you?" Chelsea gared and snapped back ferociously at Trise. "I don't care! There has to be a mistake!" But first, to raise and increase their chances of survival - or at least, his... Thinking so, Xavier cast an unseen glance at Alex's trembling body... "Nico, are you getting bullied again?" Nicodemus met Chelsea's pleading gaze and lowered his eyes. The dark smoke around him slowly ebbed around his figure. His lips parted with a dreary sigh and a dry voice. "You were never good at picking hints." "What?" Chelsea uttered in confusion at his unexpected words and paled the next second. Before Chelsea could react or blink, Nicodemus vanished into a torrent of formless black smoke. The smoke swirled and churned, then rapidly condensed into a solid figure right in front of Chelsea. Nicodemus re-materialized, his eyes locked onto Chelsea's, and delivered a devastating kick to her gut. -Boom! Chelsea's body, unable to react in time, was hurled backwards across the chamber and smashed into the obsidian rocky wall with a powerful crash. "Chelsea!" Xavier's golden yellow eyes flared as he lunged forward at Nicodemus from the side. Two small pitch black orbs appeared next to both sides of Xavier as he charged. His sword flashed forward in a swift, diagonal arc, aimed squarely at Nicodemus's neck. Time seemed to slow and pull during that moment. Nicodemus's deep black eyes moved to the side and met Xavier's glare. The black book he held in his hand fluttered, but he didn't flinch. Despite the swift blade racing for his neck, Nicodemus leisurely moved his mouth and lips slowly. "I asked him what 'fear' is." Xavier's sword whistled through the air, his eyes momentarily flashing with confusion as he heard Nicodemus continue to say. "I mean Alexander. Perhaps you, too, could show me." Xavier's sword froze in mid air suddenly as he found it hard to move his body. It was like controlled of his limbs and kimd had suddenly been hijacked from. The next second, Everything went black. And then, "What..." Xavier felt horror from his bones.

Chapter 154 Look Up! [1]

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