HPDBC Chapter 265 : Asura's Fenix - Monolith Project
Chapter 265 : Asura's Fenix - Monolith Project
The world and time abruptly ceased to move for Asura, leaving him in a frustrating stillness.
He felt frustration and helplessness; life and his rebirth never happened. Chained to the wall, unable to break them, his body breaking from the mere pressure of this soul's aura.
'I never gave much thought to anything, including the future and the nature of the shards, not to mention the fact that someone could manipulate them at will. In my past lives, why did I never consider that maybe this situation wasn't some convenient power-up and instead lingering in the shadows of wolves waiting to devour me? Who had no clue?'
Asura felt frustrated. The frozen face of the old phoenix who held out his hand made his stomach churn.
This person was also one of his past selves. Yet, with a conniving trick, he somehow survived while a slither of his soul entered the cycle of rebirth.
'Make my women happy. Who are you? I will destroy you and leave nothing remaining!'
The thoughts echoed in Asura's mind with enough fury to tear him apart. However, something shifted within his thoughts, a subtle feeling as if something responded.
[Your body is weak; the damage from the force is tearing apart your soul, Asura.]
A voice echoed, the systemic voice of Brian!
'Brian, is that you?'
He could hear the voice echo, not inside his mind, but in the spirit palace, and not from a single place but from everywhere.
[I am but the small shard that Helliana left behind. Soon after, I shall return to her, and we will become whole again.]
[Look at the black monolith. They are waiting for you to accept them. As their true heir and soul, you are the key to their survival. Once you have them, everything will change!]
Brian's voice felt hurried and stressed, causing Asura to realise something was amiss.
He turned his gaze, the frozen world with only him and Brian trembling as if the magic creating this situation couldn't last much longer. It was then that the two hearts entered Asura's vision, their beautiful husks glowing gently, one from each phoenix.
However, in this frozen world, where even the old man stopped moving.
The two hearts were dancing, swirling around each other in orbit!
[Asura, there is little time left! Call them, and they are the source of your power. Accept them and take a step that NOONE else planned for, not the upper realm or the divine being awaiting his rebirth!]
Free From the Upper Realm's Control!
'Their hearts are resonating?'
Asura gazed at the strange scene before him and the way Brian's voice spoke. While there was a sense of urgency, he could feel the subtle sincerity from within the words.
'This will change everything, Brian. Thank you.'
"I can trust you, right? Won't I end up as a puppet for the upper realms?"
Asura asked while watching the beating hearts. A new realisation hit him, his eyes growing wide with disbelief.
The two hearts fluttered around the air and sent small hands created of aura to slap his cheeks, their presence giving off a strange feeling, like a mother's warm embrace.
'A feeling of familiarity!'
Asura's breath halted.
The two hearts seemed to feel his acceptance and approached before they sank into his chest. One fused with the dragon's heart, the other his devil's heart.
The devil became a symbol of rebirth.
The dragon became the manifestation of destruction.
[The only reason you were reborn as Asura Fenix a second time was because Helliana split your soul when she allowed that Verana girl to be reborn beside you. Now that your soul is complete and unbroken. The other shards cannot affect you like before. So cast them aside!]
Once the Asura monolith fused with his brain, Asura's thoughts became clearer. He could concentrate on five tasks while retaining clarity on his focus.
'Brian, you're mistaken.'
Shatter!
The frozen world broke with the last monolith gone, and the special freezing spell faded, returning the world to reality.
"You should submit to me, and I won't make things difficult for you. Asura."
Asura didn't show any resistance—his handsome face lacked the tension and suffering from before, but the phoenix elder didn't seem to realise because Asura held out his hand and touched the wrinkled palm of the old man.
[Monolith Project Activated!]
[Phase 2 started - Cleansing Process Started!]
[The host has marked other souls as enemies.]
[The Monolith System will devour ALL remaining soul shards as willed! Beginning destruction of the host's enemies.]
"I won't cast them aside, Brian—I will DEVOUR them!"
Asura's lips curled into a wicked smile as he controlled the devouring force from his palm like a black hole at the centre of his palm. The suction force devoured half of the elder's soul before he could blink.
"W-What!?"
The elderly man shrieked in terror as he fell to his knees. Black slime vomited from his lips, eyes clouded by pain.
"Cough, cough."
He raised his head and found Asura standing over him, the expressionless look like a demon.
"W-Why is this happening? You should have become my puppet!"
He struggled to speak, but Asura's terrifying pressure and killing intent made him retch once more.
"Old man, you are not here to control me. You are just the food that awakens me from my slumber. NOW DIE!"
Asura's cold eyes showed no remorse. His mind understood that this old man planned to destroy the world he loved in the name of a greater existence.
"No, I have waited for centuries for this! Argh!!!!"
He screamed in terror before his body began vanishing, crumbling into a pile of dirt.
"This is impossible!"
These were the old man's final words before the intense, devouring force eliminated him.
[All hostile elements vanquished, knowledge and information being dispersed to the host!]
"Stop calling me host. I have a name."
[Which name would you like to designate?]
"Asura Phoenix - The Devouring Monarch."
[Confirmed. Unknown Bloodline detected! Please add a name for future reference!]
"Blood of the Profane Phoenix."