Chapter 9

Back on Earth...

The Empress lay unconscious on the hospital bed while the Emperor stayed by her side. The doctor had told him there was nothing wrong with her and that she had fainted from exhaustion.

He received a message on his holopad and he saw that it was from Gideon. He finally sent him what was written on the obelisk.

He began to read the message on it diligently.

'If the obelisk appeared before you it means that you are one of the descendants of the Hero Aiden or any one of his party.'

Philip looks over to his wife who is still unconscious, before he continues to read.

'A great danger has escaped, the king of Demons, and the only being powerful enough to have escaped. Signs of his escaping would be storms, the earth splitting apart, and the oceans forming a huge wave. If this is any of the signs you've received then Lucifer has finally escaped his prison in the Dark Dimension.

Lucifer, the King of Demons, is a bloodthirsty being who seeks revenge on the human race and the gods, The reason for his revenge is unknown, but he was able to nearly wipe out the human race. Fortunately for us, our victory was brought to us by the gods of luck.

He tripped on his cloak and fell directly on the hero's mighty weapon of light!'

"Pft!" Emperor Philip tried to laugh out loud but failed in doing so. "He tripped on his cloak!" he said, wiping a tear from his eye.

'Victory was by luck, but to make sure he didn't resurrect himself immediately, we used holy chains made of light to trap his soul before imprisoning him in the Dark Dimension.'

'If he's here now, how do we beat him?' Philip thought as he scrolled up to continue reading.

'If you are wondering how to beat this being, you are doomed to fail.'

Philip looks at that message in disbelief.

'However, if luck is on your side and you are still connected to the gods, then you should learn how to use magic from the gods of light, Then you will travel to the mountains and find the blacksmith god, he will make you and your party a holy weapon each of your choosing.

If you are not connected to the gods, then you are doomed, unless you can find the weapons of the old hero and his party and then find the Demon King before he fully recharges his power, kill him hope that he somehow, magically trap himself in the Dark Dimension.'

Philip felt his eyebrow twitch, whoever wrote this was making fun of the situation.

'Also no matter what happens, don't let the Demon King go back in time, Yes, he can do that, make sure he doesn't do that, or the human race won't have a future!'

"This isn't helpful," Philip said helplessly.

"Darling," Philip hears his wife call him, then turns around to see see is awake.

"You're awake," he said sounding relieved. Isabella wanted to get up, but Philip didn't leather.

"What happened?" Isabella said sounding tired. "Why am I in the hospital?"

Philip gently kissed her forehead, and said, "I'll explain it to you later, but right now go back to sleep, you still look tired."

Isabella nodded and closed her eyes returning to sleep. "It's good that woke up," Philip muttered rubbing her head gently.

He received another message on his holopad, but this time it was from the archaeologists on this planet. 'Your Majesty! We've made an amazing discovery, an island appeared out of nowhere after the disaster.' The message read.

Philip pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed shaking his head. "It's going to be a long time," he said.

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After dinner, Augustus returned to the library holding his holopad, and he watched the footage from an hour earlier, Phoenix entered the room, removed his clothes, and a circle appeared, which he supposed was cleaning him.

He saved this as a photo on his holopad and changed the footage to that of this morning, where Phoenix was in the training room. From the report Jessica gave him, Phoenix can not fight, he uses his ability to create weapons for others but he never uses them himself because he is unable to do so.

He also shouldn't be able to withstand the amount of gravity in that simulation and move so freely moments later.

But then again, he creates a weapon, one from an ancient time on Earth, he doesn't remember the name, but it looks like it was made of metal instead of plasma, which does more damage.

However, the moment he was waiting for soon came. When Phoenix created the magic circle, he paused it. A large red magic circle, it was this that the fire was emitted from.

He also saves this as a photo on his holopad. He crops the magic circles out of the photos and looks at them side by side.

The one from the first image is sky blue and the one from the second image is fiery red. There are different symbols on the circles, as well as different shapes, making this seem like a complex drawing.

It looks like symbols from the shows the people watched when humans were on Earth. It was called magic, but the real magic then was nothing but simple tricks and entertainment as well, nothing like this.

This wasn't the only thing he noticed was wrong. Phoenix's attitude has changed. From various footage he was in, he was a kind and timid boy with soft eyes, his eyes look sharper. Like a fighter and a killer, he has this layer of darkness around him, he isn't if it has always been like that, but he doesn't think it has.

He concluded that what happened to Phoenix was that, the real Phoenix was dead and being occupied by some kind of spirit.

"What a ridiculous conclusion," he said, laughing at his stupidity. But it might be true, although he would need more evidence to back this up.

If this theory is true, then he wants to know the spirit's motive and perhaps make a deal with it. If it would want to.

Is this an awful plan? Yes, it is. Does he think it is ridiculous? Of course. But he is interested in what might happen if the theory is true.