414: Chapter 413- Legend of the Dead Demon Child

Chapter 413- Legend of the Dead Demon Child

Zach followed the old man, who took him to the end of the city where people lived in huts.0

"Please follow me," the old man said once again.

After walking for a few minutes, the old man entered the hut, and Zach followed him. Inside, a bedridden man was sleeping on the bed, who was missing his legs and one hand.

The old man brought a wooden log for Zach and said, "Please sit."

"Who is this person?" Zach asked as he sat on the wooden log.

"He is my father, who was a high-ranking demon and spent ten years in inner hell," the old man responded.

"I see."

"There are only adults in the inner hell, and every month, a few of the demon lord's personal guards come out of the inner hell and take the women from here. And they leave the newborn demons out on the streets.

The citizens who can afford to raise a child take them in, but some of them die while the rest of them survive as street rats. This has been happening for decades, even before I was born. And I am 69 years old.

My father was one of those personal guards of the demon lord who came to pick up the girls and leave the newborns. When he was 20 years old, he fell in love with a girl from middle hell.

But he knew that her life would soon turn upside down, so he kept her hidden from the other guards. However, the demon lord learned of that somehow and forced my father to bring her to him.

And… the girl eventually became the demon lord's slave, or should I say…. his plaything. He knew that my father loved the girl, so whenever the demon lord was about to have fun with her, he would call my father to watch.

That continued for years until, one day, my father had it enough. He decided to run away with the woman and her newborn baby. But he was caught, and the woman was killed in the process. My father carried a newborn with him without caring for his life and managed to escape from the inner hell.

The guards thought my father had died as he was eaten alive by the demon lord's pet, but he crawled down with missing legs and carried the newborn in his remaining one hand.

And he raised the newborn as his own child." The old man looked into Zach's eyes and said, "I am that child."

"So… you are the son of the demon lord?"

"Heh…" the old man chuckled wryly and said, "Each and every newborn dropped here every month is the demon lord's child."

"...!"

"Talking about the demon lord's pet, it has evolved to peak and can devour the entire middle hell— consisting of twelve cities— in one bite. It's second to the demon lord in terms of strength, and no one in the middle of hell can defeat them," the old man asserted with a gloomy look on his face.

"Where can I find that pet?"

"It guards the gate of the inner hell, and only a few people are allowed to pass through the gates."

"Hmm~" Zach pondered for a while and thought, 'If I kill the pet, I am sure the demon lord would be angry. But would he come to fight me directly or send his minions? I don't want the latter one to happen as I am trying to save time. 

I even used a few MPs at the tower. I kind of wish I had brought Cerberus with me. He would have easily taken care of the pet. I have Layla with me, but there is no way she can fight. And even if she can, I can't let her fight alone.

I came here to know more about the inner hell, and I did get some information to enter, but it's still not enough. Only if I could actually cultivate MP here. Wait… I cannot cultivate MP in the normal way, but what about the other way?

Dual Cultivation is one of the best techniques, or one could say, method, to farm MP. But… for that, I need to have sex with someone, and I don't have anyone right now. Should I just walk around the city and see if I can find a girl who agrees to dual cultivate with me?'

While Zach was lost in his important thoughts, the old man was curious about something.

"Are you truly the dead demon child from the legend?" he asked.

"In the flesh."

"But how is that possible? The dead demon child was nothing but a bedtime story for the kids. If you are real, does that mean you are here to seek revenge and destroy the hell?"

"No. I am only here to destroy Nirn and his army. And then the heavens. I don't plan to do anything with the hell, unless it messes with me and gets on my bad side. As long as they don't get involved with me, they are safe and sound," Zach responded while counting his fingers.

SIGH!

The old man sighed in relief, but it didn't last for long as he recalled something else from the legend.

"Is it true that you are actually dead?"

"Yup. But no. And I was dead for only six hours or so. My soul was kept preserved in the spirit realm, and once the vessel— also known as my body— was made, my heart and soul were added to it."

"But what about the seal?"

"Hmm? What seal?" Zach asked with a curious and confused look on his face.

"The seal that keeps your soul in your body. Legend has it that your soul was too powerful to be contained in a shell, so your father— the supreme lord— had to make a seal for you."

"Hmm~" Zach hummed in wonder and muttered, "I had no idea about this. Did mother Erza purposely skip this part of the legend to keep it a secret from me?"

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