Ch158 - Perhaps the Holy Saint had really offended the author’s entire family… (2/2)
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This story was set in a western fantasy world, but there was a second layer of depth to the original world foundations. The protagonist was Ivan, the youth who had told Xue Ling just now that they could generate electricity with love.
At the start of the story, Ivan had fallen head over heels in love with Kent after entering the Academy. It was a ‘when the mountains crumble, and the earth mingles with the sky, only then will I cease to love you’ type of love. It seemed to be a silly and sweet love story that had the unceasing hatred between his contract beast and Kent thrown in. Ivan was caught between the two and was filled with heartache, and on top of that, Kent, who was his senior, was in fact the Prince of their country. His mother did not approve of their relationship, and if one did not look closely, they would think that it was like the story of Cinderella from western fables.
If one truly believed that, they were too naïve.
The body that Xue Ling had transmigrated into was obviously that of Ivan’s contractual beast that got into an altercation with Kent. This demonic beast was also a hidden plotline that was buried deep within the story.
In order to celebrate his mother’s birthday, Kent had gone into the Demonic Beast Forest and killed two Flame Ink Wolves. And those two wolves just happened to be Oliver’s parents. Oliver had worked hard for many years in order to find a suitable contractor so that he could get close to Kent and exterminate his family for revenge. His chosen contractor was the protagonist shou, Ivan, a youth who looked like a little angel and appeared especially approachable.
He instructed Ivan to approach Kent, but in the end, he missed the chance to assassinate Kent because he had developed unacceptable feelings for Ivan. As for Ivan, he fell in love with Kent, and begged, crying, for Oliver to allow them to be together. He even went against the contract he had signed with Oliver, and used sorcery to engrave a curse into their contract so that Oliver would be unable to kill Kent for the rest of his life.
This was the last straw that crushed Oliver. On the one hand, he had his parents’ deaths to avenge, and on the other hand, there was the contractor that had betrayed him and made it so that he had no way to make a move. Oliver ultimately chose to harm himself instead, and thoroughly drew a clear line in the sand between him and Ivan. He reneged on the contract they had signed, and forcefully dissolved it.
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His demonic core was damaged, and his cultivation regressed. He could no longer transform into human form.
But he did not give up his intention to seek revenge. He had originally planned to enter the innermost area of the Demonic Beast Forest and seek out the beast clan’s Sacred Pool. As long as he could receive a baptism there, he could start over again. But he was a villain in the story; one whose character settings made him doomed to be miserable, so everything he wanted to do would never proceed smoothly. After all, things like the Sacred Pool were obviously meant for people like Ivan, whose saintly light shone on the common folk.
Oliver made his way across the Demonic Beast Forest, but was blocked at the last step. He was unable to enter and was instead sucked into the Devil World by the dimensional crack that existed there. He thoroughly fell from grace, and became a tool that the devil world made use of in order to rule the Mortal World.
Oliver made an oath using his own soul that he would kill Kent no matter what in this lifetime. Because of him, the entire continent became enveloped by the darkness from the Devil World.
Ivan was the chosen savior, but in this story, the savior could only save everyone but himself.
Ivan was not a princess who could live happily ever after with the prince. Kent’s mother was dissatisfied with his identity and background, which led to the second half of the story.
The second half was about how Ivan gradually degenerated from a ‘Holy Saint’ to a ‘broken doll’.
Xue Ling: “… I didn’t have enough time to prepare. Is the plot going off-track just like that???”
In order to stop Kent, his mother hired a man to follow Kent and Ivan and their team during the Academy’s final examination with a secret potion exclusive to the royal family.
Ivan ingested the potion during the examination. His soul, which had originally been the purest one in the world, slowly became dyed by darkness little by little. He lost his light powers, and was thrown into the depths of the Demonic Beast Forest. A strange combination of circumstances led to him stumbling into the deepest parts of the Demonic Beast Forest, and arriving in front of the Sacred Pool.
Exactly. That Sacred Pool that Oliver could never find was somehow discovered and used by Ivan through a series of strange events.
Because he entered the Sacred Pool, he met the second gong of the story, the Beast God, Xi.
Xi was a God who lived in seclusion within the Demonic Beast Forest. He had not emerged into the world for many years, and Ivan was the first human being he met after he woke up. Ivan’s purity astonished him, his tenacity made Xi take a second glance at him, and then he lost his heart to him.
Simply put, Xi had been affected by the light of the Holy Saint.
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He took care of Ivan, whose soul had become even purer after his baptism. He had deep feelings for him, but never made them clear to Ivan. He even promised to send Ivan out of the Demonic Beast Forest after he recovered from his injuries.
Although Ivan was fond of him by then, his heart still belonged to Kent, and he was anxious to return to him. He felt that Kent must be very sad that he had disappeared for so long. But he had never thought that after he had been given the potion, Kent’s mother would still have something up her sleeve. In addition, Oliver had returned from the Devil World while he was recuperating, bringing darkness in his wake.
And Oliver had once been his contractual beast.
All this added up, and made it so that he became a scourge that everyone shouted at and wanted to beat up. Although Kent trusted him, there was too much evidence against him, and he had no way to truly believe in him. Therefore, the Holy Saint Ivan stood still and allowed Kent to stab him in order to prove his innocence.
He almost died, and Kent finally realized his true feelings. But he could not save Ivan, and could only watch as the Beast God appeared and took the comatose Ivan away.
Ivan was heartbroken by Kent’s attack, and after being carefully cared for by the Beast God, he seemed to have sided with the Beast God. But even before the Beast God could confess his feelings, he fell into the dimensional crack and ended up in the Devil World.
At this point in the story, the author started acting like they had gotten high on drugs and suddenly began to steer the plot like an insane drag car racer as they abused the protagonist. It was as though the previous Ivan was nothing but an illusion; an innocent white flower like Ivan couldn’t possibly survive in a place like the Devil World. He was tormented in all sorts of ways before finally being sent to warm the bed of the Supreme Devil King of the Devil World. The Devil King’s main form of entertainment was to torture him all day long – after all, it was a very delightful thing to watch such a pure soul become slowly tainted by darkness.
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But at the end of the day, Ivan was still the protagonist. The Devil King slowly fell in love with him as he was torturing him. But by the time the Devil King’s feelings turned genuine and he sincerely wanted be with him, Ivan had long turned into a broken doll; eyes empty, heart gone.
At this point, the Beast God and Kent, who had succeeded the throne, both slaughtered their way into the Devil World.
As a result, the great battle over Ivan began.
Xue Ling followed the plot up to here, and there was already no expression left on his face. He truly couldn’t think of a single expression he should use to express his feelings, and could only silently stick up a middle finger towards the author. Perhaps the Holy Saint had really offended the author’s entire family…