"(I am sorry father... you died because you had to protect a weakling like me. Soon I will join you in the afterlife but I am not ready to show you my face)." Hoshi wept as he was about to give in.

"Come on! Show me the true power of an Exilirian! You weak little insect!" Honghui kept stomping relentlessly.

"Wait you imbecile! What are you doing? You are going to kill him!" A young echoing voice came from above but only the demon could hear it.

"That voice? It sounds very young. Who are you? You are not my messenger!" Hongui queried.

"I am Dorian, Xander's son! Reduce your tone or I will take away your Ijõna Koa!" The young voice was unexpectedly hoarse as it threatened the demon.

"I am sorry young master. It's just I never heard your voice before," Honghui whimpered.

"Save your excuses for later. Right now follow my instructions, otherwise he will die and if that happens I will make sure you get a slow painful death," Dorain pressurized.

"As you say young master, I am at your command." Hongui backed off from Hoshi.

"Alright, first raise him above and then repeat after me," ordered Dorain.

"Like this?"

Honghui carefully held Hoshi's head and then raised the boy above in the air.

"Now portray the thoughts I am sending to you as savagely as possible."

"Before you die you little brat, I think you should know something. I really was the one who led that attack on Exilir and who destroyed your house that day. Not only that, I was also the one who killed your father and your friend," Hongui stated.

"What are you..." muttered Hoshi.

"Can't you hear me? I killed your father by brutally twisting his limbs and fishing out his organs one by one from his abdomen to feast on them. I also massacred every last bit of your race and enjoyed their desperate screams as I ripped them apart! All of that will be repeated with the people of Pandara and its all your fault!" bellowed Honghui.

"(So he really was the one. How dare he destroy our lives and kill people who were dear to me! I can't forgive him for this! I can't! I get it now, father. The reason I am in this position now is to kill this bastard, avenge my people and put an end to this cruelty! That's why I refuse to die now!) My fault? Don't give me that shit! Listen carefully demon! These next words coming from my mouth are from the hatred of my people. WE WILL KILL YOU!"

Hoshi's eyes suddenly opened and they were full of detest and bloodthirst while a deep red aura overflowed from his body.

"Very good, first step is done. Now transfer your direct transmission to him," ordered Dorain.

"Alright."

The light emitting from Honghui's orbits flashed and Hoshi could now hear Dorain clearly.

"Hey Hoshi, have you heard these words before? Fin Nis Kos Krent, the cycle cannot be broken," uttered Dorain.

Upon hearing these words, Hoshi's eyes completely blacked out and the aura disappeared around him.

"What just happened? He even stopped breathing!" Honghui exclaimed as he switched the communication back to himself.

"Carefully set him down and step back as you may take serious damage if you stand near the awakening," advised Dorain.

"Awakening? Like through an elite demon's Ijõna Koa?" Honghui set Hoshi down and took some steps back without taking his eyes off him.

After a few seconds Hoshi suddenly began floating in the air as he went to an upright position. A flaccid aura reappeared around his body while his face was concealed behind a shadow. Miniature swift red lightning travelled around his body and his hair became darker as well as more jagged. He proceeded to lift his head and reveal his insincere face with more flattened pupils in his eyes. There was a red ring around them and small bursts of aura radiated from them. He again closed his eyes and this time a shiny red ball grew around him to enclose his body completely.

"It's not like our transformation. His aura doesn't sway around any end!" Honghui perplexed.

"He too is cursed, his ancestors are lending him their power without his consent. Even then, his body doesn't incinerate to become a powerful vessel. That's why I chose him as my rival!" exulted Dorain.

"Wait, you don't mean he is as powerful as you now?" sputtered Honghui.

"I am off now, I want to enjoy this fight peacefully and make sure you don't hold back even a little because he won't," said Dorian as he severed the communication between the two.

"Wait young master!" stressed Honghui.

Inside the red ball, Hoshi's skin was undergoing drastic changes. It became more firm and rigid while its colour changed to a lighter shade of red and his muscles became much more well defined as if they were completely naked. The same skin covered his hair leaving sharp protrusions on his head while his ears and eyebrows disappeared under it. Not a single strand of hair was left exposed over the skin.

Hoshi's mind wasn't blank during this transformation, as a flashback kept haunting his brain. It showed the war Hoshi dreamt of back in Exilir and this time it focused more on piles of corpses of his people covered with red fabric and thick murky blood.

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"Here, thou found the first clue of an ancient riddle. Such cryptic inscriptions shall reveal thy raison d'être and clear an eternal garth."

The ball shattered and revealed a fully recasted Hoshi with fully blackened eyes and grey shadowing. A complex symbol burned on his forehead and all aura around him disappeared. He glared at the demon in front of him but didn't show any interest to engage it yet. Instead, he looked around and set his eyes on the elite guards clustered in one space. He smiled and his entire eyes began glowing red with white shadowing. The swift red lightning and overflowing red aura reappeared around his body as he took a step towards them and instantly closed the gap.

"What the!?"

"Look out!"

"Kill him!"

The elite guards readied their weapons and attacked Hoshi all at once. He effortlessly weaved all the attacks and looked at his right hand once he was moderately away from his targets. He then extended all his fingers on that hand and joined them together to transfer some aura in them. The aura transferred into a red crystalline sword generating straight from his hand.

The guards were astonished to see such a terrifying feat. Hoshi didn't waste a single moment to charge at them again and this time slashed and dismembered through each and every guard, creating corpses with multiple pieces. The amount of blood and gore cluttered in one area escalated as Hoshi moved on to the last remaining guard standing far from the others that he burnt the face of earlier.

"That boy, not only changed in appearance and strength but also now lacks any consideration of another's life," commented Honghui.

After seeing his fellow men massacred like that, the last guard begged for his life and threw himself in front of Hoshi.

"Please, let me go. I have two kids waiting for me back at home. I promised them I will bring them lots of meat buns tonight. Please don't take away that happiness from them," the guard whimpered.

"Happy....ness?" Hoshi tilted his head in confusion and proceeded to walk towards the cowering man.

"Yes. If you kill me now, you will steal their one happiness in this godforsaken world!" the guard stressed.

Hoshi didn't listen to a single word and pulled his sword induced right hand behind in intention of slaughtering the imploring guard.

"Is he really going to kill him? This same boy was judging me for taking people's lives not long ago," Honghui self talked.

Before his sword reached the guard's neck, Hoshi halted and promptly retracted his sword before grasping his head to begin screaming. The guard took this opportunity and made a run for it towards the exit but was cut in by the elite demon who just leaped in front of the guard with murderous intent.

"Where are you running off to, coward? Do I pay you to throw your arms and kneel in front of the enemy?" questioned Honghui.

"No sir, it's just I never stood a chance against him. It was a certain death if I even tried!" the guard articulated.

"You could've died like an honorary imperial soldier but now you shall succumb like a total wimp!"

Honghui thrusted his claws at the guard but was interjected by Hoshi who blocked the attack by his newly generated sword on his right hand.

"Finally decided to fight me huh? I hope you won't bore me. (Damn it, if he is as powerful as Dorian then I am done for!)" conversed Honghui.

Hoshi produced another sword on his left hand and impaled the demon in its manus. He pulled the sword out afterwards to spill darkened blood out of the wound. The demon took a long step back and gazed at its fresh cut.

"He can create weapons as he pleases, at this rate he will ruin my new body," complained Honghui.

Hoshi didn't give the demon any room to breathe as he immediately closed the gap between them and swung both his swords at his opponent. Honghui countered each attack using his claws but they still chipped away bit by bit. Hoshi increased the speed of his attacks and managed to fracture one of the demon's claws. In response to this, Honghui charged up purple aura and dispersed it into a shock wave that Hoshi tried to block using both his swords in a X pattern but failed as both of them shattered to push him back.

"You little brat! Young master was right, I can't afford to hold back. I have to fight you in my true power!" angered Honghui.

The demon charged up more aura as the purple glow in its orbits radiated more brightly. It then lowered its horns towards Hoshi to launch a huge blue flame wave towards him. His target mirrored this exact move by creating his own red flame wave by concentrating red aura at his hands. Both waves were evenly powered at first but once the demon roared and gave it its all, the power of the opposing attack overwhelmed Hoshi's. He was struggling to keep up as the wave came closer to him every second. In order to avoid the impact Hoshi quickly transferred a bit of aura in his legs and jumped out of the way.

Despite this sudden manoeuvre's speed, Hoshi was still hit in his left arm by the meteoric reach of the wave. Extensive darkened cracks established throughout his injured arm as he failed to move it. He then dispersed the cracks throughout his body after closing his eyes. His entire body now had these cracks at random locations. The cracks were smooth and appeared very deep but no blood seeped from them.

Enraged by this injury, Hoshi yelled as the aura around his body overflowed. He rushed at Honghui who was exhausted from that last attack. This demon was forced to fight without any aura as the enforcer used his enhanced punches to put pressure on it. Honghui used his claws to defend himself from the rampage and this time, they took substantial damage and were close to breaking. In a desperate attempt, He used his coccyx tail to wrap around Hoshi's neck to raise him above and away from him.

"Got you now! I will choke you to death!" Honghui used some aura he regained to enhance the grip and strength of his tail.

Hoshi didn't resist as all his aura faded from his body.

"See young master, he is no match for me even in that state!" boasted Honghui.

"Don't be so sure," said Dorain.

Hoshi threw all his anger away and smiled as he concentrated his aura at specific parts of his arm that included his deltoid, triceps and posterior forearm muscles. From these locations three black rings on each arm took shape to emit intense red flames. He then clenched the demon's tail to instantaneously snap it off from that point.

Honghui was startled by the sudden pain he experienced and Hoshi promptly grabbed the broken piece of the tail with his right hand after vanishing its rings and imbued it with red aura while keeping the rings on his left arm. He then followed up by leaping on the demon and whipped it by the aura imbued tail. His opponent raised his claws to block the attack but its sheer might cut through the claws, destroying two of them in an instant to create a passage for Hoshi to close in his skull.

The incessant attacker landed a devastating punch with his left hand straight in the demon's exposed skull and shattered half of it. Oodles of blood leaked out of the wound as Honghui roared in agony. This attack cracked Hoshi's left arm completely, exposing his original arm without the extra skin. The former clothes appeared burned underneath the extra layer. He closed his eyes once again to transfer a new layer across his left arm resulting in even more cracks throughout his body.

Honghui squeezed his massive wound with his hands and transferred purple aura to close the wound. He repeated the same for all the other lesions on his hands but was clearly worn out.

"That's it! Even if it kills me, I will place all the aura I have to make you suffer!" The demon fumed as it raised his half skull exposed face towards Hoshi.

End of chapter fifteen.