Chapter 137: *A really bad joke*
Liam cursed, not believing his ears. Not only had Kevin killed him alone, but this Superior Demon had apparently received some help from someone else.
He had never heard of a little black magic pill before, but if it could really boost an Elite Warrior rank monster by 50 levels, its power was phenomenal, and so its creator had to be someone extremely powerful too.
’Damn,’ thought Liam, their enemy’s list kept growing. He looked at Alan and said to him, "Tell me what you know about this symbol, and I will complete it if necessary."
Alan nodded and began to tell them the legend of the Absolute Warrior. When Kevin learned that the human race, as well as the shapeshifters, had already almost been exterminated not once but three times, and that each time the survivors had said the same thing, he got a very bad feeling about this whole story.
Axel and the others weren’t from a modern world, but for him, it was different. His view and analysis of the situation in their world were different from theirs, and what Alan had just told them sounded like a really bad joke for him.
He felt like this world was a video game where the dungeons would be there to allow the fighters and mages to become stronger, where the bearer of the Pentagram Mark would be the leader of the most powerful guild, and where the Absolute Warrior with his overpowered fighters would be a kind of trump card.
However, apparently, the outcome of the fights did not seem to suit the gamers, and the video game was like restarting almost from zero every time. He really hoped that he was wrong because he didn’t see how he would be able to protect Axel and his friends if his guess was correct.
After Alan had finished his explanation, Kevin told them, "The one you call the Absolute Warrior is just someone who has at least reached the second stage to become a Warrior Spirit."
When he saw that everyone was looking at him in astonishment, he decided to explain the different stages to them while avoiding naming the first stage so that Alan wouldn’t suspect that Erik was a potential Absolute Warrior.
He then said to them, "Let me explain to you guys. The first stage in becoming a Warrior Spirit is a quick assimilation of all techniques and an uncommon intelligence. The second stage is exactly what Alan described: tireless and able to fight even while unconscious."
Kevin paused before adding, "The last step to become a Warrior Spirit is to fully trust your senses, which helps you develop a sixth sense. This sixth sense is used to feel presences that no one else can; it also allows you to have visions of the future... The only ones I have ever had let me see what was going to happen a few seconds before it happened. That leaves just enough time to avoid getting killed. But I did meet a man in my home world, the one who taught me the pressure point technique, who told me that he could see fragments of the future."
He told them, "This Warrior spirit also told me that the kind of visions he had were very dangerous because the future was always in motion, and that only one action could change it completely. Once you become a Warrior Spirit, this skill can still manifest in two ways. There is the one that you have witnessed, where we remain aware of what we are doing, and there is the one that is triggered because of an emotion too strong to be handled. In this case, this skill is much more frightening and much more powerful. And even if we remain conscious, it is as if our body goes into automatic mode and we helplessly witness what is happening."
Kevin watched their astonished faces and ended up saying, "In short, all this to tell you that this Absolute Warrior, as you call him, is not a unique person. All those who have the potential to become a Warrior Spirit are potential Absolute Warriors. Truth be told, for me, a Warrior Spirit is even more powerful than an Absolute Warrior. From the information Alan just gave us, the Absolute Warriors that appeared in your world were only at stage two."
Everyone was still staring at him, speechless, and Liam asked him, "Do you mean that this golden symbol could appear on multiple people?"
Kevin nodded and then said to him, "In my past life, as I told you already, I have met other Warrior Spirits, so yes, for me multiple people can get this golden symbol."
He added, "Maybe those persons who have this potential are not even aware of it. The first time I reached stage 2, when I woke up, I was full of blood and the warehouse behind me was on fire. But oddly enough, I was not injured— not even a scratch."
Alan then said to him, "When the symbol appeared on your forehead, a golden light enveloped your body and healed you instantly. Surely that is why you had no wounds on you the first time it happened to you."
Erik asked him curiously, "Do you remember what happened before the first time you fought while you were unconscious?"
Kevin could understand why Erik was curious about this, so he replied while shaking his head, "I have no idea. I just have flashbacks from that period that come up every now and then. All I know is that I disappeared from circulation for a whole month. I guess I was tortured during that time; at least those are the scenes that appear in my visions, but they are too fleeting for me to be able to even remember a face. According to an investigation, in this warehouse, I killed 14 people that day, but I remember nothing at all."
Axel looked at Liam and asked him, his face darkening more and more, "Could his nightmares come from this time?"
Liam nodded and said, "It probably is."
He looked at Kevin and said, "Your brain must have blocked this traumatic experience so that you could continue to live normally. Only when you are in a deep sleep do your mental defenses weaken, and you can relive what you have been through in this warehouse. And once awake, your defenses get back into place, and that’s why you never remember anything."
Kevin nodded, and he took Axel’s hand in his. He could feel how frustrated he was, so he told him, "It’s okay; I was 18 when it happened. That was a very long time ago, and anyway, there is nothing you can do about it except keep me in your arms so I can continue to sleep peacefully."
