The Ruler level figures that the race still had were sent on one expedition after the other to try and find out what had exactly happened, yet those expeditions only resulted in more deaths and more instability .
Then after we were once on top of the food chain, we found ourselves in the depth of it, the races who were once our minions, become our creditors, we began drinking the same sour taste of humiliation that we once have forced others to bear with and drink .
We also have been resented by most if not all the demon families at that time, be it because our ancestor Gorex fault for being so cruel with his actions in their minds at least, or what he did to prevent that method from being accessed by anyone other than the Dorell family, our family .
Our noble status didn't forbade other races and even our own race from hunting us for our skins and body parts that after being blessed by that weird Mental Energy in your words would make our bodies much stronger, but at the cost of being unable to refine mana as efficient as before, but for those who coveted armors and weapons that are resistant to mana, then we would be quite of value .
That continued for a long time, we were even raised like exotic and magical monsters just for the sake of getting skinned alive when the time comes, we were not even treated as living things, not to mention with respect from both Demons like us and by other races who coveted the treasures they would got from our bodies .
This kind of treatment lasted for centuries, to those who would be lucky enough to skinned after they die or during being skinned, for those who were unlucky, they would endure double or ten times the suffering, but this only stopped when we got some of our dignity back after the Demon Emperor coronated himself and finally gave us some of the respect we deserve back .
At this I couldn't help but stop him as he was getting a bit emotional on me here, I find myself having not sharing a shred of solace with him on this, I care a bit little to nothing about the story he was telling, even though the Void Plague he spoke of did caught my attention a little bit, but that little bit didn't change my mind about the Demons completely deserving that kind of punishment without a doubt .
So not to mention pitying them, I believed that they deserved the same punishment again, but by my own hands this time, this was more merciful, I think, the reason I stopped him as he was about to continue his storytelling and his reminiscing about the glorious old days, I couldn't help but say :
" Since the Demon Emperor had done so much for you and the family, then why did you seem to agree with what that Lotor and Phyricos suggested, did you only recall the favours that he gave your family only now .
My question was to make sure that of the guy's in front of me intentions, if he didn't deliver a good answer, then I can only presume that he had bad intentions and deal with him as I see fit .
After I finished my question, I waited for him to answer, but he didn't do that right away, instead he took a deep breath then said solemnly with a grave expression on his face :
Follow me .
Without even waiting for me to respond he directly got out of the room with a heavy steps, seeing that he was already gone, I couldn't help but follow him and see where he was leading me, just as I stepped out of the room, I happened to have another contact with the father of the person I'm disguised as, Elder Loon, who seem to want to talk to me about something, but seeing the family head shaking his head, he seemed to have misunderstood something as he said :
Callen, no matter what had happened before, you need to remember that in this family the Family Head's orders are absolute, so even if you did manage to bring the Levern to their knees, I still hope for you to give the family head some of the resources we received this time .
Before I correct him and tell him that I already dead, the family head was the one to step forward and say :
Elder Loon you have raised a good child, he had already donated more than 10000 Mana Stones to the family, I'm currently taking him to the secret treasury of our family to allow him to pick a few good things from there, you are free to join .
Good kid, all the time I kept supporting you from the shadows hadn't been wasted, thank you for the considerate offer family head, but I will decline as there are a lot work needed to be taken care of with the new logs arriving from the Levern Family .
Then we will take our leave, come Callen, I will seek that you get an answer to your question earlier, words at this stage lacked much meanings, so it's better that I show you instead .
The two ended the conversation with one another and other than the expression on Loon's face brighten up slightly while patting me on the shoulder, he didn't ask about anything else and just left us be, I couldn't help but become a bit guarded about where were we going, today's encounters left me traumatized .
Every place I go, there will always be a barrier there waiting for me, the place where we were heading to most likely to have even more stronger and stranger barrier than the one I needed to deal with just now, its a place called the Secret Treasury after all, as we continued forward, I couldn't help but wonder about what exactly was he going to show me there, his conviction, his resolve .
I guess I will soon know what was going on, we left the family mansion and went behind it, I didn't care much and was still following after him, he suddenly withdraw two beads that had strange runes carved on them and handed one to me, then a shabby hut came to existence, but I who already understood more about this Magical World to judge based on appearance alone still said nothing as we went into the hut .
It seem that my decision to not say anything was indeed quite right, I saved myself from being ridiculed, even though it must have been only in the mind of Dorax, as we went inside the hut, what appeared before us was a swirling blue portal, he explained that this was A Small Space Medium, behind it there was an independent space that didn't belong to either this world or the Real World .
The beads were the key to enter, the only keys available to the family, this was left by Gorex as well, I presumed and did as the family head and sunk into the portal with a bit of hesitation and a lot of caution .
After all since that Gorex could have left something as weird as this portal that led to a separate and independent space, then there must be other things he left as well that might even pose a threat to me .
But I still went and followed him and activated my eyes power to see if there was any sign of dangerous, just as I entered through the portal, I saw a scene that sent chills down my spine and had me covered in cold sweat, the scene I was seeing can only be described as horrifying to the extreme .
Secret Treasury, was the place in front of me actually called that, then why there were only corpses laying around in every corner and direction then, this place didn't look like a secret treasury, if anything this place looked more like a secret morgue or a crazy doctor lab, the reason these two places were the only places I could use to describe this place, was because what I was seeing in front of me .
Bodies of huge monsters like creatures, all were without any skins on them left, their bodies filled with holes, there seemed to be a lot of bandages hanging on the floor as well, the whole place was filled with the smell of Blood, but surprisingly those corpses weren't already decaying .
What exactly did he bring me here for, could he be the one who committed such atrocities, seeing the expression on his face as he looked at the bodies scattered around the room, I doubted that to be the case, it was just not possible no matter how I tried to look at it, the corpses here also shared the same blood color that dyed the whole place and even reached to the place where we were standing .
Just as my mind with filled with a long list of unanswered questions, I finally heard more about what was going on here from the mouth of Dorax himself, his tone was quite filled with sorrow as he started to say :
What you see here in front of you are family members that were once either promising seedlings or people that had done their work for the family diligently, but they all shared the same fate, they were all hunted down by the Demon Emperor, who on the surface was helping us, but in the shadow, he was the sinister villain to our race .
He vowed to protect us, but all that he did was to target us in secret, no, he didn't even try to be discreet about it, all of those who you see in front of you, were skinned alive and were sent back to the family discreetly, all reported the same thing, accusing the Emperor and his subordinates of being the ones responsible for what happened to them .
But even though we know who was the culprit, we can't do anything to him, else our whole family would pay the price, those guys you see in front of you, endured what can be only described as endless torment, they came back to the family and even though I and the family head before me were the only people who know about this and who also were responsible for trying to ease their pain a little .
But in the end they all made the difficult choice and asked to be put out of their misery, even though we had everything we could to help them, there was no way for them to bear with the deteriorating in their mental and physical health, the previous family head wasn't still able to do such a thing to his people, so in the end I did it .
With my own hands I sent them to their final destination and let them rest, there was no possible way to have them buried as many of those who came back were people who managed to escape from the Emperor, so if I were to get them out and bury them, it would create too much of a commotion, alerting the Demon Emperor, not to mention that I wanted all of them to be buried back in our homeland, the Real World .
You asked about the reason to why I'm willing to go against king Devo, what you saw here should be enough for you to see that not only I'm willing to stand against Devo, but even if this fight were to become against the Demon Emperor himself, I'm still willing to fight, I had already waited so long for a chance of revenge to finally come .
Hearing the hatred that almost materialized as a severe killing intent behind him, I understood that he wasn't lying, this was indeed what he truly wanted to do, he wanted to take revenge on the Demon Emperor and King Devo .
I didn't know what to say to him, all I did was turning around and getting out of that place through the portal that we came through, even though the smell was normal and there was no much issues with the room where these bodies were stored, the scene was still quite disturbing so it was best to continue talking after we get out .
As I got out of the portal, soon Dorax soon followed after me, the atmosphere was a bit irritating and silence prevailed for quite some time until he finally said :
The rest of the story I told you before, should have already become clear to you now, the Demon Emperor convinced most of the people from the other families that he was quite required for the preservation of our Demon race, he set a new systems and laid new rules, he also devised a plan to make the best use of those otherworldly heroes .
But he still didn't stop being ambitious and wanting to gain more power and strength, he too wanted to roam the world and seek opportunities to rise above everyone else, but he was cautious enough not to stick with such dangerous thoughts .
Even though no one in the Demon race dared to openly oppose him completely, there was still a family called the Doreen family, it's the only family among the ten main families that openly declared their enmity towards the Demon Emperor, thanks to the fact that they were being supported by the Soul Race .
But now that this support would go thinner and thinner after the Doreen family head's wife die, the Demon Emperor can finally tightens his grip on the Demon race and move as he like, but that was only recently declared, before the only solution that the Demon Emperor believe that could help him in increasing his strength, was none other than our Dorell family Mind Nourishing Method .
That is why he decided to betroth his daughter the princess to the heir of our family, under the premise that we hand over that method, he and other families believed that we have the whole 8 Chapters of that method, but they aren't aware that we actually only have 4 chapters and those 4 chapters were already handed out to the Demon Emperor, he seemed to have realized something from it .
And he was now urgently asking for us to hand over the other chapters and only after we hand over the other chapters, will the marriage be held and the two families become one, but I personally believed that after we hand over the other chapters on our hands, he will most likely break his promise and bury us all after he skin us all and make us beg him to show some mercy .
This was the whole situation and the reason why Loger still holding hope to stay as the family's heir, but what will happen from now on, I'm already having headaches just thinking about it .