Chapter 41: Awakened (2/2)

The Demon King had set up a five-layered barrier around his castle, probably hoping to protect his most valuable possessions until he was revived. Although Tyler knew that was no longer possible, the five-layered barrier consisted of a sealing spell, spirit barrier, greater concealment, and two other spells the families hadn't figured out yet, they needed to break the spell to know what it was, no appraisal magic had worked.

They had been successful in breaking the first two spells which succeeded in granting them access to a limited section of the castle, this was because the concealment spell had kicked in, concealing the most important parts of the castle from them, they had speculated that one of the other two layers was a recovery spell that repairs the broken first two-layer Making the barrier impossible to break.

This brought them back to the basics. Power, it was known that even a 5 fold barrier required a massive amount of energy to sustain what's more a 5 layered barrier, without an immense amount of power, the barrier around the cattle would have run out of energy one thousand years ago.

If they could destroy the power source then they would shut down the barrier, but in the end, the power source would only be located inside the castle protected no doubt by the concealment spell.

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When the five Demon generals had left the castle with their minions, they had made sure to take everything they could from the castle, it wasn't out of petty greed but, they knew that there was something incredibly valuable in the castle and after a futile effort in searching, they didn't want to leave any stones unturned, it was why the castle was so empty even though no one had gotten access to it in over a thousand years.

Tyler could see the strange looks given to him by everyone there, well except Albert, he felt a little uncomfortable but had a pretty good poker face so he looked as calm as he always did. He slowly walked forward to where the first carriage had stopped, Azar had gotten off his seat and had placed his hands on an invisible wall, Tyler felt like he was watching a mime perform.

He couldn't see anything ahead of him and felt puzzled, still keeping his calm exterior he focused his eyes on trying to emulate what he had heard about magic vision, it was a watered-down version of magic sense that even an idiot could perform and thanks to his improve senses due to the fight with the troll, he easily figured it out.

His pupils constricted and his vision felt different, a large bluish and translucent dome covered the massive castle, it even expanded over a hundred meters from the castle, Tyler was stunned, this was his first time seeing this sight, the dome exuded a gentle aura and felt as fragile as a bubble, ready to burst at the slightest touch.

Yet, it had remained standing for so long now, feeling a little overwhelmed his approach to the dome slowed down a little, but his curiosity quickly perked up and he wanted to touch it. As he got close enough to touch the bubble, he reached his left hand forward to poke the barrier and was quickly disappointed.

His hands had passed through no problem, it was the same feeling he had felt twice already and he now knew why at the same time Azar who had leaned on the barrier still feeling it up fell right through hitting the ground face first. Tyler wanted to laugh but kept his cool he looked at the others and spoke gently.

”You may enter.”

Liz and the others were dumbfounded, it didn't make sense, him being a behemoth and managing to break the barrier was shocking enough, but now, finding out that he didn't need to break the barrier and allowed him in was the next level. First, it meant the barrier must have had another layer to it, a six-layer barrier, the very idea of such a thing was ludicrous

Next, it meant the barrier recognize Tyler as its master or Tyler had found a way to deceive the barrier into thinking that, either way, was insane. How was that even possible, this could only mean one thing, whether Tyler was a behemoth who surpassed even the formal demon generals or he was the reincarnation of the demon King.

No matter what it was, what possibility they chose, one thing was certain in all their minds.

A New Demon King had Awakened.

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End of Volume 1: The Awakening.

Hope to see y'all in Volume 2: Behemoth

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