Cerci kept striking the barrier, causing the ground around them to depress slightly. Increasing her effort when Valthrax began to fade, she broke the barrier, missing his horns before he vanished.
She stood there, more enraged now, the swirling mana transformating to a tornado, violently destroying everything in its path. Dark clouds gathered, covering the sky.
Casting her eyes upwards, her gaze fixed at a point, addressing someone that wasn't there, "How low have you fallen that would make u pick on a helpless kid. What happened to that pride of yours" her voice calm.
A voice responded"If you see that kid as helpless then you are more dense than before. Even I am wary of his power"
"You come to my home, cause trouble and now you're out here spouting rubbish. It's time l finished what I started"
"Come, let's make history repeat itself" the voice threatened.
Just as Cerci was about to fly towards the demon king castle a hand reached out to her. She turned back to see who had snuck up on her, he hugged her, "Mom, don't listen to him, come lets go home."
Suprised at first, she paused a bit, tears flowing down ckeeks, "l thought I had lost you" she said, hugging Kyle tightly
.....
A dim light shone in the dark abyss, illuminating the mist around him. Kyle wondered where the light had come from, when he noticed how the mist behaved. It a tedlike it had some sense of sentient.
The mist parted infront of him, enough to let him see a vague figure of somebody sitting on a throne. His skin onxy black. He had neither eyes nor mouth nor ear, but yet Kyle felt like his gaze.
A voice echoed in his head "Kyle Lucas, I've been expecting you, welcome to my humble abode" The mist drew Kyle closer, no that wasn't it, it felt like the space between him and the figure had been cut, erased like it wasn't there. Now he was close enough to make out his details, it seems that the being didn't have a fixed size or height, no matter how mush Kyle stared at him, it felt like his skin was on fire, it wasn't that, he skin behaved like fire moving to and fro blown by an imaginary wind.
A voice spoke from behind Kyle, but this time it was Cerci. Kyle found himself back at the manor, "You're cautious, aren't you". Something was different about Cerci, her presence was more domineering.
The mist covered Kyle again, now he was back on the cliff, Valthrax coming behind him, held his shoulder "You're wondering where you are now"
Kyle became angry seeing Valthrax face, slapping Valthrax hand off his shoulder he positioned himself to strike him, the ground shoe throwing Kyle off balance.
Kyle found himself at the edge of a cave, there was a faint blue light coming from a pile of rocks inside the cave. The woman who had been searching for the source of the blue light stood up, her eyes and hair were golden, her skin pale like his, her face felt familiar, like he had seen her before. He felt a sense of kind towards her. In her hand lay a baby, eyes golden and hair silver, he looked like Kyle but with two horns parting his silver head. The woman spoke "No need to be afraid or suspicious, I brought you here to help you" walking over to him the baby that had been staring at him spoke" l've been watching you all this while, I mean no harm".
The senerio shifted again, this time half the cave had been destroyed, a man stood beside him, making Kyle to step a few feet away from him, the man had horns the same as the baby he had seen, blood flowed from a ghastly injury at his side, his white hair stained from the blood that seeped from the cut at his temple , holding his broken arm he turns toward Kyle "l saved to and brought you here to prepare you for what is to come, Kyle was sad seeing the man in this state but he didn't know why, he had never seen him before but yet he felt longing for him, he wanted the man to hold him in his arms. Pointing his broken hand to where the cave had been destroyed, to a man at the entrance. When Kyle saw the man, he felt fear, not like what he felt when facing Valthrax, this one his body wasn't telling him to run, instead it had given up telling Kyle to end his own life before the man reached him.
The man by the entrance, black hair and red eyes with long terrifying black horns, the presence of the man scared Kyle. If the figure hadn't been a mirage, Kyle knew that he would have died from the pressure, the black haired man was given off.
"Valthrax is the first but won't be the last, you'll face begins of unimaginable power, go through harrowing event that can break the strongest of heart, loose the people you love and so much more that you can't begin to fathom"
The scene switched back to the abyss, the figure that stood in front of him was himself but different, he looked broken, tired but defiant and persistent. The figure spoke, "That's why I brought you here, to make sure you go stronger, so you could defeat whoever stands against you"
Kyle knew that he wasn't lying, if he hadn't saved Kyle, he would have been dead by now. Kyle thought he had grown stronger, but alas he was no where near as strong as he was ment to be, but that doesn't mean he follow someone he had just met.
"If what you say is true, then l accept your proposal if you agree to my terms"