Chapter 19 Doom

Sword King was entangled by Snake King and slowly he was squeezing out his essence and then contaminating it with his poison. Due to this, the essence that was getting absorbed by Sword King was doing more harm than good. The army of Sword King tried to attack Snake King however, they were stopped by Snow King. Suddenly, Sword King manipulated his shards and attacked Snake King's soul however they could not do much harm to him. At the same time, Snow King was killing powerful ghosts from the army of Sword King while defending.

"There is a level 12 poison ghost." said one of the ghosts from the cave.

"Yes, but he is only at beginner level. We would have a good harvest this time," said Stark.

"Then shall we start?." asked one of the ghosts.

"Yes, take down the three Kings first," said Stark.

The ghost nodded and then they consumed some essence from the destruction ball they were creating. After that, they aimed at three Kings and released countless projectiles.

Snake King was happy, the victory was only a few minutes away, and right then he felt dread. A feeling that he would lose it all. He let go of the Sword King and put all his essence into defense.

Bang, a spear hit Sword King his soul got destroyed just like that. The eyes of Snake King turned towards Snow King, but all he saw was the dying soul of Snow King.

Bang, Bang, bang. Countless energy blasts occurred all around him, and within seconds the battlefield with elite warriors turned into dust. Snake King was heavily injured, he had no essence. One more attack and he knew he would die. He wanted to surrender, he wanted to do that as soon as he saw Sword King dying but before he could think of a way to do that, the ghosts were gone, his essence was gone. Any remaining will or idea for the escape was gone. His opponent was too strong. He just wished he would stay alive even if it would be as a slave.

While fear was eating his consciousness, he saw a few ghosts. They looked at him as if they were waiting for something. Snake King immediately bowed down in front of them. He did not even dare to check their levels.

"Good lad," said Stark and made a sign with his finger an essence of Snake King's soul flew towards him and then bang his main body got destroyed.

"Congratulations, the experiment is a success. We annihilated three Kings just like that. A level 12 ghost could not defend himself even after using all his essence. With this weapon we can easily turn the tides of battle back at home." said one of the ghosts.

"We need humans to succeed in triggering blasts and killing human king otherwise this weapon would only have a one-time use," said Stark.

The reason ghosts from the cave wanted the experiment Sire to succeed was that their attack was only harmful to ghosts. Humans would not get harmed by it. Their destruction bombs fed on dark energy. As soon as they would come in contact they would absorb the dark energy. They could easily absorb the dark energy of level 11 ghosts. However, with level 12 it would take some time as the quality of energy differed at every level. That was one of the reasons Snake King was able to hold for so long.

"The next battle with the human King would show if our years of experiment are fruitful or not. Our destruction bombs would attack his ghosts. Traps made by human warriors would attack their Knights. This battle would be the first step of the holy bat empire to conquer the world." said Shawn.

"All hail holy emperor." chanted the ghosts.

Near the City of Ether inside a cave.

"They have annihilated ghosts from Sword as well as the Snow Kingdom. The destruction blast is a success." said one of the humans.

"In that case, we too shall win our next battle with the human King and make the plan a 100% success. How many traps are set?" asked Sire.

"We have successfully set 7 traps till now. By the time we would go to war, there would be around 15 traps."

"That is a good number, Finally it's time for our hard work to pay off. Ghosts would soon arrive here, take them to the spot we have decided for them they would release destruction blasts from there," said Sire.

Inside the City of Ether, Lucifer was meditating he was absorbing energy much faster. He was already at intermediate level 11. He opened his eyes and changed his breathing pattern, his speed of absorbing essence increased. He joined his hands and bowed down and said "Come."

The room got illuminated and countless light essences flew towards him. His level started increasing slowly he reached level 11 late stage, then peak stage and then a figure of light from chandelier went inside him and he broke through. He reached level 12. That was his plan he was storing his essence in the castle for it to grow he planned to absorb it before the war but now for some reason, he was feeling fear and so he decided to absorb all the essence which he was storing as a backup. As soon as Lucifer broke through countless thoughts ran into his mind. It was as if he had reincarnated, the memories of his past lives washed over him. He felt a hard headache but he kept on absorbing all those memories. Slowly his very being changed.

"I guess I can no longer stay human in this world. It's time to become the predator." he thought in his mind.

He started losing his light essence as soon as his memories came back to him. Within seconds he dropped to level 11 again. Lucifer stabbed his sword to his soul and Killed himself. His soul escaped his body and started travelling towards the sky. However, there were countless chains which were holding it back. Those chains were his bad deeds and bad thoughts, along with them were his desires . If he had not known about his true self then he would have entered a cycle of reincarnation but because Lucifer now knew his old self he got stuck in this world as a ghost.