Chapter 216 - The Last Chain (2/2)
<If I can manage this feeling and control it, it will give me strength. But, if I give in to my emotions, I might make a fatal mistake. It's quite dangerous, but the benefits are enormous.>
Evan left Nirvana and began to study the spell he had received.
The magic circle for this spell was in the ”Library”, but Evan didn't need to study it. All the information he needed was already in his head, all he had to do was cast the spell.
<Hmm, what an unusual name, Lucifer's Shackles... I wonder if this Lucifer invented it all, or if he is some powerful being? Maybe the title was just made up.>
Evan was a powerful dark mage and demonologist in his past life, but there was no mention of a demon as powerful as Lucifer in his world. He knew the sigils of 72 demons from a grimoire as old as the world itself. But, Evan knew nothing about the Seven Princes of Hell, one of whom was Lucifer.
It was another kind of demon that didn't exist in his world, or at least Evan had no way of knowing about them.
<I wonder...I've read several thousand books in the library, absorbed the memories of a man who knew hundreds of people, but...I've never heard of Lucifer before.>
He was trying to figure out if this spell was created specifically for him or if some people in this world knew similar spells. Evan didn't think Demon Tree might have any information because Evan didn't know that Lucifer was the name of a powerful demon.
”Well, hopefully, someday I'll know the answers to my questions. I need to try this spell, I hope it's mighty.”
Mumbled Evan, and his ”Warp” spun. Thanks to the energy that permeated his glabella, he could cast the spell right now.
Whooosh.
Suddenly black streaks began to appear on Evan's arms, from palm to shoulder. They looked like shackles capable of restraining anything. Then Evan felt every muscle grow tighter, his physical strength increasing by the second.
His body underwent slight changes. Evan became a little thinner, but it didn't have any negative effects. The spell had destroyed most of the excess in his body.
Evan's body now looked as if he had trained for decades on end. His muscles were not bloated, they looked organic and natural.
Evan slowly stood up and clenched his hands into a fist.
”Incredible power, from what I've managed to understand, ”Lucifer's Shackles” is an Amplification Magic spell, if it can even be defined in any category. When this black lion first appeared, my physical strength increased. The same thing happened when the first and second Pillars appeared. When I unlocked all the chains on the first Pillar, not only did I get a special spell, but the second Pillar also appeared. Every time I step forward, something new opens up for me. It's amazing.”
Evan was about to head to the training ground and see how strong this spell was, but suddenly he felt very strange.
<Wait...what is that...?
A couple of seconds after the black streaks appeared, unusual energy appeared in Evan's body.
”I can clearly feel demonic energy flowing through me... is Lucifer some demon I don't know? I'll have to find out more about it when I join the Demon Tree. But, why do I feel something else...?”
Evan's eyes widened a second later, and a cold sweat broke out on his back. His whole body was covered in goosebumps, Evan felt what that second energy was.
”It's divine energy!? No, no, no! Fuck!!!!”.
Since Evan had used demonic power many times before, his body was saturated with demonic energy. But, demonic energy was never supposed to come into contact with divine energy, this rule worked both ways.
The two energies could not exist in the same body. They would fight each other, thereby destroying the host body.
Evan urgently needed to do something, but no sooner had he taken a step than he vomited a mouthful of blood.
”Fuck, how did that happen!” Evan roared, and the next moment his body overloaded, and his heart burst.