The Epic Tale of Chaos vs Order

Chapter 683 A race born of corrupted emotions

”The key to that majestic race was a unique structure built inside their hearts that opened cultivation paths and allowed them to fuse different lineages. You could call that structure the core of the race.”

Horusʼ smile widened as he saw how the evil and maleficent force flooded the Blood King, and he clenched his fists with excitement and thrill, making it clear this was something very important to him.

The Void Kingʼs eyes widened as he detected that fundamental change in the Blood King. Despite all the shock, he could still perceive how that evil force began concentrating on one of the Sacred Organs. However, it was not in the Astral Rebirth Heart, which confused him since that place should be where that baleful force gathered to build the core.

Instead, the place where that baleful and nightmarish energy gathered was in the Blood Kingʼs brain, seemingly flooding all the way to the soul sea.

Horus was engrossed in the Blood Kingʼs transformation, but he noticed the confusion in the Void King. He turned to the man and simply smiled as an adult would smile at a child who did not understand what was happening.

”While the power and talent of the majestic race, whose core was located in the heart, was by all measures sublime, they were not the final creation of the Supreme Exarch. During his fourth life, as he mastered the Origins of Life and Death and dominated Samsara, he was also able to break the barrier between imagination and reality.

He transformed thought into flesh, and that was how he gave birth to a miracle, a second race born of emotions.”

The zeal and fervor in Horusʼ eyes grew even stronger as he reached this point, and it was clear his thrill and devotion to that second race were even mightier than the first one.

The Void King was smart enough to understand that whatever was happening to the Blood King was related to the second race built by the Supreme Exarch. While everything was shocking and honestly terrifying, his heart was burning with curiosity, wondering just how powerful a race built by a man capable of turning ideas into flesh was.

”The members of this new race were the perfect warriors, fearless and brutal, capable of slaughtering entire worlds without hesitation or the slightest sliver of mercy. Their flesh and blood were born out of negative emotions and twisted psychic energy, granting them bodies capable of facing titanic entities born of stardust. But their physical might was just one side of the coin.

Due to their nature, they were the most gifted race of the entire multiverse regarding the elusive power of Concepts.”

Horus kept talking to himself, not paying attention to the Void King anymore. If he turned to the side, he would notice the shock and dread in the eyes of the Dark King.

The Void King could not even imagine how strong a body made of negative emotions and twisted psychic energies would be. After all, you could break bones and slash flesh, but you could not do the same to an idea, and that was practically the essence of that race.

If you fuse a body like that with supreme talent in the power of Concept, you would undoubtedly obtain a monster in every sense of the word capable of a destructive might like nothing Aether had ever seen before.

”What will happen to him?”

The Void King could see that the Blood Kingʼs body did not stop shivering all this time due to the pain, even as the man grew more and more powerful. While he did not really care about the Blood Kingʼs life and death, he might become Horusʼ next test subject.

Right now, the Void King could barely use twenty percent of his power, so he had no illusions of escaping Horusʼ claws.

As he heard that question, Horus turned toward the Void King and softly nodded once he saw how the man could slowly regain his composure.

”That fissure in the sky connects to their home world of that unique race. The negative psychic energy of that world is currently flooding the Blood Kingʼs mind, making him relive his deepest fears, regrets, and desires. Once his mind is completely and utterly broken, the negative energy will fuse into the Alter-Ego, corrupting it and triggering a transformation.”

The Void King frowned as he heard that. An Alter-Ego was the metaphysical representation of your willpower and core personality.

”If his ego and will are corrupted and transformed into something else, then would the Blood King still be the Blood King?”

”Hahahahaha.”

Horus burst into laughter as if the Void Kingʼs question was the funniest joke he had heard in a very long time. It took a few seconds for him to calm down, and then he shook his head.

”How could the mind of someone with such a weak will like that man survive this process? His mind was already broken by fear and wrath, making the transformation easier; that is why I chose him. Yet, the Blood King has already perished for all intents and purposes.

Once The Corruption is over, it will begin The Transformation, in which the corrupted Alter-Ego will fuse with his flesh and blood, triggering a change in the core nature of the man, helping his transformation into a new and much more powerful race. One that feels no fear, no doubt, and who will soon wipe out all others.”

The Void King couldnʼt help but feel a new wave of dread assaulting his heart as he heard Horusʼ words and imagined what fate the man wanted to establish in Aether. Many questions and waves of doubt were assaulting the Dark Kingʼs mind, but one rose above all others, and he could not help but ask it.

”What is he becoming?”

Horusʼ smile widened as he heard that, and he stared at the body chained to the pillars before uttering a single word.

”Depravita.”