35 Situation

35. Situation

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Time flew, and it has been 3 years since Alaric became the successor of the Heavenly Demon and began training under him. It was not a pleasant experience for Alaric at the beginning of the training, as he saw how ruthless his new master and the man who slathered his family could be to his own disciple.

Alaric was acting obediently all these years, as he was nowhere near strong enough to face the Heavenly demon himself, even in his 800s his master was a force to be reckoned with, just his gaze sometime hurts Alaric's defenses.

Shi Ya began to go through her depression phase due to not being able to save her daughter, husband nor her masters who trusted and gave her a new life. She blamed herself for abandoning Alaric and running away to check on her daughter. It was an impulsive reaction which she had no control over and ended up questioning herself over her loyalty. Surely Alaric did not mind her instinctive decision to check her daughter's safety first as it was a mother's basic instinct, but Shi Ya feeling guilty of this decision and questioning her loyalty were out of his expectations. The Heavenly Demon seemed impressed of her mentality as it suited his needs and principles as he gave a slight smirk when he came to know about this.

During the time Alaric spent on the Demonic Cult, he came to know about one thing that is, the Heavenly demon is an amazing ruler and a symbol in the Demonic cult. He was both merciful and ruthless at the same time, and knew very well how to play the politics in his court. Surely being an 800-year-old wise being helped with the little politics in the court, but one has to have some innate talent to be such a ruler where your people treat you as a god and expect such level of competence from you. In this aspect, the Heavenly Demon did not disappoint at all.

Alaric felt like learning all of these from the Heavenly demon so when he creates his own race and planets he can be considered experienced and well versed in things. Surely he would learn all these regardless of if he wants to or not as it was part of being the heavenly demon.

During these three years, Alaric understood the hierarchy of the cult, and it was very simple, contrary to his expectations. In the very top was the Lord of the Cult, the Heavenly Demon, where his words were the law and his power absolute, the next was the young lord of the cult where his power was only that below of the Heavenly demon. Even with lower cultivation compared to others in the cult, Alaric's words contain weight as the young lord. Demonic Generals/Grand-Masters were next, where a cult member can reach by his strength and contribution to the cult. Demonic Masters came after generals, where they are considered as the head of the battalion or a group of demonic soldiers. Demonic soldiers were the cultists who passed the tests in the demonic cave of persistence and lastly came younger demons who were young children in the cult who undergo rigorous training in the cave to become soldiers.

One would think demonic cult only contains of crazy cultivators who were exiled from the society and were in a desperate state, but the demonic cult is a place where civilians also came into picture. The civilians were people who could not or would not take the path of cultivation and just enjoyed their life doing various works in protection of the cult.

Alaric would meet his master once a week, and it would be a day when he gets tested in both physically and mentally to the limits. If not for his Chaotic Mind, Alaric felt afraid of whether if he could survive the day.

Alaric also got taught of various demonic martial arts, but he knew very well that there was still more his master was not teaching him. Alaric knew better than to speak the questions in his mind, so he kept quiet and followed whatever his master ordered him to.

The thing he drank on the night he met heavenly demon was isolated inside his body and was undergoing analysis by nano on his instruction, it went on for a few months for nano to analyze what exactly it was. A concoction made of complex materials which ultimately used to spread parasites to the whole body of the cultivator. Alaric was amazed by the first heavenly demon who came up with this stupidly complex concoction in this world of martial arts.

Ultimately it fell into his hands and he would take advantage of it nevertheless. Was it a mandatory process for every young lord to undergo? He did not know the answer, and was never expecting one to begin with. The only question he was willing to ask the heavenly demon was how was it that he lived such a long life despite being only at the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm. He was not even worried about his life as the avatar was expendable, costly but nothing compared to the knowledge he wanted to gain from this world.