Chapter 56: The King’s Court Has Hidden Strength!

Yusef's mind was filled with thoughts of victory, as he could already picture Eden's terrified face.

Fear!

You should be terrified!

Because you are facing me, Yusef, the true future ruler of Urth!

The mere thought of fulfilling his family's thousand-year-old dream and crowning himself king filled Yusef with excitement.

Squeak, squeak!

The mutated grey rat finished gnawing on the flesh and squeaked again, its eyes full of desire as it gazed at Yusef's hand.

But it didn't dare bite him, knowing all too well how powerful this human was after suffering at his hands.

Feeling quite pleased, Yusef tossed another severed hand from the nearby bucket of flesh to the rat.

"Eat more, you cute little thing…"

He couldn't help but praise the rat, which looked like a small dog, its dark red skin covered in several pitch-black eyes.

Not far away, the researchers kept their distance, nervously attending to their tasks.

Their lord, Yusef, had grown increasingly erratic and cruel.

Many had been brutally killed for seemingly no reason at all.

The researchers feared making even the slightest mistake, dreading that they might be fed to the monstrous rat.

The elevator in the laboratory descended, and the leader of the heretics, marked with the symbol of the "Broken Eye" on his forehead, entered.

He knelt before Yusef.

"Master, there's news from the King's Court!"

"Get up, tell me—how's the situation there? What did that useless fool Eden do? He must be terrified, right?"

Yusef stood up, eagerly questioning the heretic leader.

"Nothing happened…"

The heretic leader raised his head, his face dark: "The loyal followers we sent didn't cause any real damage.

The chaos was quelled in a single night! There was barely any panic or fear among the people, and order in the residential areas was restored quickly!"

Yusef froze for a moment.

"Impossible! There's no way… something like this could happen!"

Anger surged within him as his gaze shifted to the mutated grey rat, which was happily chewing on bones.

"Get out of my sight, you damned thing!"

Squeak!

The mutated rat squealed as Yusef kicked it, sending it scurrying to the other side of its glass enclosure.

It didn't even have time to grab its bone before it ran, too scared to retrieve it.

What had just happened? A moment ago, this human had called it "cute," and now he was kicking it?

Ignoring the rat, Yusef turned his furious gaze to the heretic leader:

"Was there a problem with the plan? Given the current strength of the King's Court, the only way they could stop the mutants would be with mass human-wave tactics, followed by relentless bombardments with heavy firepower!

Otherwise, it would be impossible to deal with those mutants so easily!"

"The plan went perfectly! It's just that the people of the King's Court reacted too quickly, and they were too strong! The battle ended so fast that many of our followers didn't even have time to react before they were wiped out! The King's Court easily dismantled the attack.

My lord, our plan has failed!"

Failed? Just like that, we failed?

Yusef felt humiliated beyond belief. He had been defeated by that incompetent Eden?

How could that be?

"No, we didn't fail! This was a successful test—we forced the King's Court to reveal its hidden strength!"

Yusef was resolute: "If I'm not mistaken, the King's Court has concealed an even greater power than the Imperial Guards!

They've hidden it for thousands of years without ever exposing it. What a cunning and deceitful family, those Grants!"

At that moment, Yusef thought back to everything the Hoffman family had endured. Thousands of years ago, it was the Grant family's treacherous schemes that stole the governorship of Urth!

For centuries, Yusef's family had been oppressed, enduring countless hardships!

Now, it was up to him, Yusef—the most outstanding descendant of the Hoffman family—to face this formidable enemy!

This attack wasn't a loss!

It was a massive victory!

With just a small scheme, the Grant family had been forced to reveal their hidden power that had been concealed for millennia.

This proved they had no other options left! Yusef looked at the heretic leader, clearly satisfied:

"This plan was a great success, you did well!"

The heretic leader was bewildered. Had they… won?

How had they won? What was Yusef even talking about? Though confused, he dared not question his master. He would never do anything that could undermine his master's dignity.

Too many examples had shown that challenging the master's dignity led to extreme suffering and torment!

After thinking for a moment, the heretic leader steeled himself:

"Master, since we've succeeded, shouldn't we proceed with the next attack? We can send in more followers, carrying more of the Great Lord of All Eyes' essence!

Even if we can't cause massive destruction, we could at least ruin the Corpse-Emperor's ceremony!"

The mere thought of the King's Court holding a ceremony to honor the Corpse-Emperor made his skin crawl, nearly driving him mad.

He had to ruin the ceremony!

He couldn't let it happen! How he longed to storm the Corpse-Emperor's shrine, to defile and desecrate it!

But his plan was rejected by Yusef.

"That's a foolish plan! The King's Court has already activated its hidden powers, making another attack unlikely to succeed.

We can't send anyone else, and we definitely can't waste any more precious Chaos essence there.

It would only slow down the progress of our experiments!"

Yusef's gaze shifted toward the massive glass incubation tank in the lab, where a grotesque mass of flesh, covered in black, blinking eyes, throbbed and pulsated.

It was the grotesquely swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman, twisted and deformed to an unnatural size, while her upper body and limbs remained normal.

The sight was horribly distorted and terrifying.

Inside that monstrous belly, the embryo of a daemon was growing.

"The King's Court's hidden powers may be formidable...

But we have something far greater—the embryo bestowed upon us by the Lord of All Eyes! Once it is fully developed, and the true offspring of the Lord of All Eyes is born, it will unleash ultimate nightmare power.

It will become the most powerful being on this planet.

No matter what the King's Court does, they won't be able to stop this divine force!"

The heretic leader wanted to argue, but ultimately lowered his head:

"Yes, my lord. The Lord of All Eyes will grant us power, and all will happen as you wish!"

Yusef ordered the researchers:

"At any cost, give the host more nutrients to accelerate the growth of the embryo!"

Following his command, the researchers pulled down several levers.

Massive amounts of colorful liquids flowed through hollow tubes, injecting into the pregnant woman's body and belly.

She writhed and screamed in agony, her suffering almost tangible.

Yusef watched it all with fanatical excitement. This was his true strength!

He was tired of schemes.

This time, he would face them head-on, using absolute power to destroy the King's Court!

All he had to do now was wait.

Wait for the true offspring of the Lord of All Eyes to arrive in this world!

(End of Chapter)