Persevere

Julian heard the demon's tempting words. He looked at its eyes with interest and curiosity. The demon's eye glows red when it meets the young man's eyes, and strange runes started to appear in thin air around the fiend.

Whoosh!

A second after, Julian's eye's luster dimmed and became clouded. He felt a strong sense of greed and wrath appeared in his heart. He saw himself carrying the massive scythe slaughtering enemies while standing in the mountain of corpses. The demons laugh in joy while starring at Julian's situation.

"HAHAHA! Come, closer boy... I will make your desires come true." The demon's eyes speak with a deep voice.

Julian slowly moved forward with a blank expression on his face. The Demon stretch out his sharp claws towards the young teen and licking his dried mouth with his long tongue.

'Foolish mortal! I will make you my plaything and devour your flesh and souls. I haven't eaten a human in 100 years. I will eat you bit by bit and have fun tormenting you while seeing you are in misery and despair.' The demon speaks in his mind.

Just about the terrifying claw reaches Julian's face. Julian let out a big smirk in his mouth and looked at the demon with disdain in his crimson eyes.

"Stupid demon! Do you really think that I will believe your words? HAHAHA." Julian laughs mischievously.

Julian swiftly turned around and walked toward the statue. The demon was still dumbfounded by what he just heard. Realizing what just happened, he let out a loud howl.

"You little rascal! How dare you mocked me!." The demon speaks with a loud and deep voice while smoke's coming out of his mouth.

Julian ignored the demon and continue to walk forward. The statue was two-meter high and made of white marble stone with a precious gem embedded in the statue. The white as snow hair, Blue eyes precious gem, bearing a fierce and wild demeanor that makes enemies frighten, manly face with a beard, and masculine body of a man was sculpted on it. It was holding a crimson orb with both of his hands while his eyes were focused on it. He's looking at the crimson orb with a solemn expression.

"Delmon Ladaj." He read the words beneath the statue in a quiet voice.

Julian looked closely at the statue with a bewildered expression in his eyes. He raised his hand and moved it to touch the crimson orb. The moment his hand touched the orb, It suddenly glows with intense light illuminating the entire roomed with crimson light. The demon seeing this scene looked at Julian with fiery eyes.

Swoosh!

The crimson orb suddenly flies at tremendous speed toward Julian's hearts giving him no chance to react. Julian felt an intense pain in his chest that makes him cries in distress. He felt like the orb was eating his heart piece by piece. Blood started coming out at his seven orifices, Julian's face becomes bloody. His eyes were terrified and trembling in pain while his body falls to the ground.

Thud!

Despair! Agony! Anguish!

The extreme pain makes his body trembling from shock and trauma.

He started to hear the demon's whispering in his ear.

"Foolish! Stupid rascal looked how pitiful you are... Dying in such a way really suited you! HAHAHA!... Cry!... Cry once more! Let me hear your suffering and Despair!." The demon voiced echoed in his ear.

When Julian about to pass out. He remembered his father's word and the inscription in the stone monument. He heavily gritted his teeth and willed the pain. The severe pain makes him want to just die, but he persevered.

"Even it is painful, even if it's excruciating, don't seek to take the lenient path. I am the tip of the spear, lifted against submission!.." Julian roared at the top of his lung.

Swish!

A blue light appeared in his chest, and It shines brighter and brighter each second until it has gone brighter than the crimson light. The crimson orb started to shake violently. Julian felt another waved of pain stronger than before, but once again persevere.

"Impossible! This is ridiculous! How this rascal accomplished this... No! I won't give in!" The demon's expression turned into an enraged and frenzied one.

The huge body of the demon slowly turned into ashes, which were then absorbed by the crimson orb.

BOOM!

The crimson orb shattered into pieces while Julian passed out after.

After a minute, it turned into liquid and started to compressed. After an unknown number of hours and days, it turned into something.

Throb!

Throb!

Throb!

A sound of a strong heartbeat echoed in the room. The crimson orb turned into a new heart in Julian's right chest. The newly formed heart has numerous stranged runes that glow's blue light carved on it and makes the heart more mysterious and magical.

...

After a long wait, Julian finally wake's up from his sleep. He quickly stands up, which then he noticed that he was now half-naked. His shirt was torn into pieces. He touched his chest and felt the two hearts beat in rhythm. He never imagines that he would have a pair of hearts, which left him dumbfounded and shocked. He also felt that his body was several times stronger than before. He could probably crush a stone with his bare hand.

He relaxed his mind and observed the room. The demon has disappeared like it's not there in the first place and only the chains that bind it remained. Julian let a sigh of relief and find the exits of the building.

After a quick search, Julian finally sees a door made of woods of acacia tree. He opened the door, which then he sees the bright blue moon in the sky and illuminating the night with its moonlight.

Walking outside the strange building, He noticed an Enormous Acacia Tree in the distance. When he got closed to the Tree, Julian see thousands of tombs and graves surrounding the Tree. Each tomb and grave has a name and inscription carved on them. Julian recognizes that they are the knights that fight together with white-haired. He bows toward the tomb and graves with respect and gratitude. An ancient door suddenly resurfaces from the ground.

He walks toward the ancient door that emits a strange and mysterious aura and opens it with a resolute expression.

Swoosh!

Julian disappeared like smoke in thin air. The Ancient Graveyard returned to being dead silent and peaceful.