ARC EIGHTH:CH-8.1

WORLD: ENTANGLE.

Ivar stared at the screen before him. He had fulfilled all the mission boards. The total points he have earned in the previous world was quite a lot but....it was still insufficient. He opened a window with a long list of worlds. His eyes scanned the list on the screen.

Choosing a world with the most earning capacity he heaved a long sigh before leaving the black space.

*Screams of people echoed*

The presence of something demonic.....

When Ivar opened his eyes he found himself surrounded by demons. They were kneeling before him. Their heads bowing down to him with their bodies prostrating on the ground. Most of the demons in the front rows were Arc demons and greater demons. The hundreds of others behind them were lesser and new generation demons. Despite the disparity in their powers and rankings all of them were prostrating before him as if he was their absolute king.

"...." Ivar could sense the absolute loyalty these demons had towards the owner of his current body. Their emotions of fear, respect, adoration, loyalty and worship directing towards him was quite a spectacular feeling. Given that this body was actually a half blood.

"Demon Monarch, All the allied troops of the ten sects have trespassed our territory. Currently they are in the outer doomsday forest." A demon reported a rather important news.

When the demons didn't receive the usual reaction from their monarch everyone waited for their king to reply, their eyes shining with bloodlust.

"...."

"Mon...arch? Shall we send our troops to kill those cultivators?"

Ivar stared at the mission board.

Mission 1:Expose Shizun's secrets and crimes to the world.

Mission 2:Build a kingdom for the demons.

Mission 3:Reconcile with Zhen Yang.

"No need."

Their monarch finally broke the silence.

Every demon waited for his next world to fall.

Standing up he gestured with his hands to the demons. All of those kneeling down stood up at his command.

Ivar then said this, loud and clear. Without caring for how his subordinates would react.

"I am surrendering myself to them."

"!!!" Every demon who heard him say those unimaginable words were shocked speechless. Their brains were unable to compute his words for a moment. When they realised that their monarch was not joking all of them reacted with horror in their eyes.

"MONARCH, WE CANNOT ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN!"

"PLEASE GIVE US YOUR WORD AND WE WILL ANNIHILATE THE TEN SECTS! THERE IS NO NEED FOR OUR KING TO SURRENDER HIMSELF TO OUR ENEMYIES!!!"

"DEMON MONARCH! PLEASE RECONSIDER YOUR DECISION!!!"

"MY KING BUT WE CANNOT ALLOW YOU TO SUFFER AT THE HANDS OF THOSE HUMANS!"

Voices of outrage broke out one by one. Everyone began to reject the sudden idea of their king submitting to those lowly humans. The hatred and the grudge those cultivators had towards their king was immense. They would never let their king live if he were to surrender himself.

"DEMON MONARCH...IF SO WE WILL ACCOMPANY....."

Ivar cut them off. "Don't worry. I have no intention of dying."

Each time he spoke the demons quieted down instantly, showing their utmost respect to the owner of this body.

"I have some things to do as the monarch of the demons. In the meantime I want all of you to go into hiding. Never let those damn cultivators find you. Once I am done I will leave at my own will and regroup with you all."

Upon not recieving their answer he repeated himself letting out his demonic aura.

"DO YOU ALL UNDERSTAND?"

"!!!!"

The demons flinched. They all shared a look of understanding between them. The next moment they were all on their knees.

"YOUR WORDS ARE OUR LIFE DUTY, DEMON MONARCH."

Although it was vexing how those damn humans kept accusing them of things they never committed their obedience and loyalty laid with their king. If their king gave them word they would obey it without fail.

Ivar began to walk out of the place. "Don't worry. I won't let them harm even a skin on my body."

His body disappeared from their sight.

Ding!

World name:Entangle.

The name of this world itself reflected the plot of the story.

The son of fate of this world was someone called Zhen Yang. He was the only child of the biggest and the most powerful sect of the Pearl Drop world. The white lily sect. A righteous sect that followed the rules and practices of a virtuous, self sacrificing and devoting cultivator, maintaining and protecting the peace of the Pearl drop world.

Ironically these teachings and the strict rules of the sect caused Zhen Yang to put on a mask in front of people from a very young age.

When Zhen Yang was eight years old he met a boy named Li Jei. It was an accidental meeting. When the ten sects of the Pearl drop world was taking in students an individual with a scandalous background got into the sect. And that individual was the one called Li jei, the male lead of this world.

"Fuck! Who do they think they are? A righteous cultivator should never taste meat in their entire lives?"

He cursed. "Fuck them! Do they think of themselves as gods!?!"

Pffttt...hahaha.

The sound of laughter caused Zhen Yang's body to jump with fright. He had made sure to check that there was no one around this place before he began cursing his fellow sect elders. Surprisingly there was a mouse hiding behind the bushes.

A young mischievous boy with beautiful green haired emerged from the bushes. He laughed staring at the young master of the white lily sect.

"Aren't you amazing for cursing your elders? I thought you were a two goody shoes but it turns out that you are actually a two faced, rich young master."

Zhen Yang glared at the person who have caught onto his darkest secret. He stared at the green haired boy before him.

"Li jei is happy to know somone lively like young master." The green haired boy introduced himself. "Let's get along with each other from now."

That was how the two stars of this world met and became friends. Zhen Yang who have been hiding his true self from others finally found an outlet through Li jei who accepted all his cursing and ranting without complain. The two faced protagonist opened his heart to Li jei as they spent more and more days together. It was inevitable that they became best buddies after spending about fifteen years together.

But fate had something restored for them.

And the key to their restored fate was someone called Shizun. Mo Jung the evil boss of this world.

He was Li Jei's master. A well known, respected elder of the white lily sect.

Mo Jung was a formidable boss. He had perfected his mask of a righteous and self sacrificing cultivator, a loving Shizun to his disciples. To the point that both the main characters failed to notice his true nature until it was a bit too late for them to realise that they had both been manipulated through out their enitre lives by this person.

The ill fate of the two protagonists began with the demise of Zhen Yang's father, the leader of the white lily sect. As the only heir to the seat Zhen Yang took over the seat of the sect leader at the age of twenty three. He was young but was capable enough to sit on the seat of the sect leader. Zhen Yang changed after his father's death. His growing hatred for the murderers of his father along with the shift in his attitude towards those around him caused a rift to appear between him and Li Jei.

As time went by the relationship between the two protagonist began to change taking an extreme turn when Li Jei's true identity was revealed.

Li Jei, the son of the previous demon queen. A child born to a demon mother and a human father.

Misunderstandings arose between the two. And they parted ways without having the chance to clear all those sets of misunderstandings between them. Li jei tried really hard to reconnect with his childhood friend but the other had closed his ears and eyes from him.

Moreover when the identity of his parents's murderers was revealed to be Zhen Yang's father, Li jei, who had promised himself to avenge them did not hesitate to act on his promise.

The two individuals who went shoulder to shoulder once became like fire and ice, like oil and water, clashing every time they met.

"I must say..." Ivar thought going through the data of this world. "This final boss really is a formidable villain."

Mo Jung was not only a manipulator hiding behind a righteous mask, he was also the one who orchestrated every key plot to happen in this world. He was the man behind the death of the sect leader of white lily, Zhen Yang's father. He killed the late sect leader then fabricated evidences to pose demons as the culprit of the incident. At the same time he was also the man behind the death of the male lead's parents, setting the late sect leader as their murderer. He worked behind the scenes, dancing his ass off to stage the future plans he was aiming for.

Everything he did, every stage he orchestrated was always, always successful.

At the end of the original world the two sons of fate almost killed each other.

Until they realised that they had been set up by someone for so many years....

Their Shizun.

Mo Jung.

The man pulling the strings from behind, manipulating those around him, the man who have caused the rift to appear between the two protagonists, killing Zhen Yang's father, slaughtering thousands of humans in the guise of demons, plundering hundreds of lives, forcing them to dance at the tip of his fingers. His plans were so perfect without flaws that he had almost deceived all the people of the world, including the two sons of fate. Until the very last moment when he had almost achieved his real goal.

Step. Step.

The man who have almost deceived the two sons of fate into killing each other was now standing before Ivar. Along with the other cultivators of ten sects. It was such a pleasure for Mo Jung to see others dancing to his fingers, just the way he wanted.

At the end, in the orginal world the two protagonists realised his real nature a bit too late. With great difficulty they were able to stop the final boss from achieving his goal, which came with a very expensive price, the life of the male lead.

Li jei died, sacrificing himself to stop his Shizun from destroying the world, and killing Zhen Yang. Before he took his final breathe he uttered some words to Zhen Yang, leaving the pitiful protagonist to mend this world alone.

After the male lead died, Zhen Yang reconstructed the foundations of the world. Giving the demons a kingdom for themselves, as per the male lead's request.

After all the demons were innocent. They never did any of the crimes they were accused of because they had been living in hiding until Li Jei began to act on his promise of vengeance. Living in isolation, away from human contact, the clan only involved themselves with the human warfare only when their kind was harmed. Another condition was when they were instructed by their king to do so. Unless these didn't happen they were as calm as the clear sky, never showing themselves before humans.

Ivar stared at Zhen Yang. He has transmigrated into the timeline where all the ten sects had formed an alliance together to get rid of demon clan. In the original, the two protagonists had fought each other with hundreds of cultivators and demons killing each other, both the parties fighting for their respective leaders. The alliance group had proposed that If the leader of the demon clan surrenders himself to them, they would stop the war. Obviously that didn't happen and the war was the final outcome. This war was the final battle that would bring the world to its tragic ending. It was after this battle that the final boss would come out to the world, bragging his atrocities to the world and to the two protagonists, specifically, since he had been using them to destroy this world from the inside.

Ivar stared at their wary eyes looking at him, the agitated condition of these cultivators was kind of funny to him. He flew down towards the ground. Landing on it he stared at Zhen Yang as he said. "I surrender."

Everyone froze. They stared at him in disbelief.

"Li Jei, what are you plotting against us?" Zhen Yang yelled at him, stepping forward with his sword pointing at his nemesis.

Without batting an eye Ivar said again. "If I surrender myself you said that my fellow demons would be spared. So I have accepted that condition by surrendering myself to you."

The protagonist stared at him warily. He glanced at the other sect leaders. They all nod their heads as a sign of understanding amongst themselves. Zhen Yang was the only person to step forward. He walked over to Li Jei, casting several restriction spells on him.

"Don't try anything funny." He whispered into Li Jei's ears. Sealing him with layers of divine enchantments, Zhen Yang unarmed him before binding Li jei's hands with holy chains.

Mo Jung stood up, giving full assistance in handling Li jei.

"Something is wrong." He couldn't help but think this to himself. Li jei surrendering himself knowing that he will be killed after being captured? That wasn't something he would do.

Ivar couldn't help but examine this villain who wanted to break beyond this world.

Mo Jung's aim all along had been to trample every soul of this world to break through and use them as his stepping stone to go beyond this world.

Just like how Ivar and Guang Wang Lei have done it, this final boss wanted to go beyond this small world where he was born.