27. The Holy Pendant Of Benevolence

"Come in"

Stephen said as the door opened Lucifer stepped inside the room and looked at Stephen who was sitting on a rocking chair looking outside at the beautiful sunset while enjoying his tea.

Stephen looked at Lucifer who just entered with a soft smile.

"Sit down Lucifer"

pointing at the chair placed on his opposite Stephen said and Lucifer obliged to his command.

"You have grown up as a fine young man"

"Thank you patriarch"

"Don't be so formal, when we are alone you could just call me grandfather"

Hearing Stephen's remarks Lucifer flinched a little.

Lucifer just nodded on this and didn't say anything.

'Sigh'

Stephen sighed looking at Lucifer's cold actions and placed the empty tea cup at the table beside his.

Reaching at the back of his neck Stephen took out the golden pendant he had been wearing.

As he did Stephen's body glowed with a golden light and turned into shimmering particles which slowly fade away.

The healthy body of Stephen was nowhere to be seen but instead a weak and fragile body of an old man with his eyes closed was on the place where Stephen was.

This was the true body of Stephen about which only he and selected few of the family knows about.

Looking at this Lucifer frowned a little.

'A disguise?'

'System appraise the pendant'

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Holy Pendant Of Benevolence

Rank:- Epic

Skills:- Holy Disguise

Holy Shield

Teleportation (Fixed Location)

Soul View

Soul Purification (One Time)

Slow Ageing

Blessing of Angels (One Time)

Description:-

Created by one of the best craftsmen of the Dwarven Race by the order of the Royal Dwarven Family as a gift of gratitude towards Stephen Morrison.

Note:- It contains a small part of Holy Rock.

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Looking at the description of the pendant Lucifer found it hard to maintain his cool.

'The Fuck-'

The items are ranked on different scales and humans who are all on this planet now only know of the lowest grades of items which is only till EX grade though people know about the existence of higher grade items, no human on this planet could afford to own them.

This logic though of course does not apply to Michael (Protagonist) who has a literal system with him from which he could easily take out legendary or higher grade items if he has enough points.

Lucifer quickly composed his poker face but his mind inside was in turmoil looking at the artefact in front of it and its skill descriptions especially the mentioned Soul View skill.

He doubted whether this skill had found any problems in his soul making Stephen suspicious of him.

Stephen is a SS ranker whereas he is only a normal human who has not awakened, if Stephen founds any anomaly in his soul and decided to kill him what can he even do?

Clearing his thoughts he used an appraisal on this skill and looked at its description.

Soul View:- A Holy skill which grants the user ability to peer into the soul of the target and look into the current state of the soul.

'Hey system what's with this half ass description?'

[This is the true description of the skill.]

'It's very short, please care to elaborate on this'

[Soul View is a popular skill belonging to the Holy affinity type which is amongst the most rarest elements in the world]

[This skill grants the user the ability to look into the target's soul and can see through the disguise of the target (if any), as well as the emotional state of the target]

'Emotional State?'

[Emotions have a very deep relationship with the soul of a being, sometimes a few of these emotions get engraved too deeply into one's soul like that of Lucifer making the soul corrupt or even damage it in the worst case]

[When this skill is used the holder could see the target's soul and check out his soul condition as well as emotions the body is currently facing.]

[These emotions could be seen as a dense and dark fog surrounding one's soul, greater the emotions darker this fog is]

'In short he didn't see my regression or transmigration whatever it is'

[No host, during the fight he used soul view skill on you and saw the emotions of previous Lucifer, especially his resentment and hate.]

[And don't worry host no one in this whole world could know about your transmigration and regression as it was done by the higher being himself]

Lucifer let out a sigh of relief after he heard the system's explanation thankfully no one will be able to know about his condition and he doesn't have a slight bit of interest to let anybody know this.

'Wait a second you said during the fight does it mean that you knew he used his skill on me?'

[Yes host]

'THEN WHY THE FUCK DID YOU NOT TOLD ME THIS SOONER?'

[I detected no hostile intentions towards the host]

'You- well whatever notify me whenever anyone uses any observation or any kind of skills towards me be it hostile or not'

[Yes host]

Stephen opened his eyes and saw his grandson's dumbfounded expression which Lucifer quickly composed it.

His usual cold grandson to make such an expression is a rare sight to see which made him chuckle.

"Haha it seems my condition made you even dumbfounded"

Hearing Stephen's words Lucifer came out of shock and changed his attention to Stephen.

"Come here Lucifer"

Stephen called Lucifer a little closer to him in a gentle tone and Lucifer leaned forward as he was told.

Confirmed that Stephen would not harm him Lucifer let down his guard and without any resistance obliged to his grandfather's words.

Stephen clenched his hands around the tiny spherical golden centrepiece and directed his mana towards it.

The pendant glowed with a golden light which illuminated the whole room and even the calm Lucifer was surprised by the holy aura the pendant emitted and closed his eyes experiencing the soothing warmth of the light.

Stephen brought his hands closer to Lucifer and made the pendant come in contact with Lucifer's head.

[Holy aura detected]

[Skill Purification is used on the host]

[Skill Blessing Of Angels have been triggered]

[Element Ice-Storm is undergoing mutation]

Lucifer ignored all the messages from the system and focused on the comfortable feeling he was feeling oblivious to the changes in his elements which will have a great impact on his future.

As Lucifer was experiencing the comfort of the light a sudden irritating feeling rose in the middle of his brain.

The irritating feeling soon changed into pain and it was as if a sharp object was piercing through his middle part of the brain.

Lucifer wanted to move away from the stone but Stephen didn't let him as he was caught by another hand of Stephen who gently held his head with ease even with the frail body of his.

"Urgh"

"Just endure a little more child"

In a gentle tone Stephen whispered and Lucifer gave up the resistance and endured the pain.

[Skill Pain Resistance has leveled up]

[Skill Soul Resistance has leveled up]

His soul and pain resistance skills rose rapidly by 2 levels and the pain he was feeling came to an end.

Suddenly the images of previous Lucifer's memory in his mind started to replay, the loneliness he felt, the resentment and hate the previous Lucifer has built up everything replayed in his mind.

All betrayals he faced. The lonely nights when he cried himself to sleep. How his entire family abandoned him. All replayed once again.

The memories the previous one wanted to forget about and never wanted to face them again were now replayed in his mind and tears began to roll down his cheeks.

The clogged emotions he tried hard to hold back, he let go all of them at once and cried to his heart's content.

Outside Stephen held Lucifer in his hands as he hugged him and slowly patted Lucifer on his back as he cried and let go of all of his emotions.

"It's ok Lucifer, everything is fine now"

Like consoling a child, he gently tried to calm Lucifer down who was now crying like a child.

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Hey guys,

I hope you like this chapter, my results have come and I didn't do it well so yes no phone for a while now but rest assured I won't be dropping this novel now and will start to re-upload once again after a few days.