Legendary Architect of Apocalypse-Chapter 105: Why so serious?

Elias walked towards the lifeless fables and retrieved a small gem from temporary storage.

Unlike the items he had received from the academy, this small crystal gem was not special in any way. It was more like a toy from Earth, swept up while Leo was looting other storage spaces during the apocalypse.

This time, he didn’t merge the essence of the fables with any weapons. Instead, he was using these gems as temporary storage vessels for the essences.

He placed an ordinary gem on top of the corpse of the strongest soul beast he could find before moving on to another. He selected only twenty at most, so as not to overburden his body. His eyes occasionally shifted towards Zesten, who was glaring at him.

"Do you really not have more of them to send?" he asked, jumping down from the small mountain of corpses. He stopped right before the domain border.

"Boy, it’s very brave of you to talk from outside?" Zesten asked Elias, standing on the other side of the domain. "Why don’t you come closer?"

Even though there was only a small line between them, it felt like they were worlds apart. Elias could cross the boundary and enter the domain, but Zesten couldn’t leave.

Even though he was furious to the point that he felt a burning sensation throughout his body, he couldn’t do anything but drink that poisonous rage. Even his attacks couldn’t cross the border to strike at the boy.

"Why don’t you send more people to bring me inside? You seem to have a knack for sending people after me," Elias asked, making sure that he stayed at least a few feet away from the border so as to not walk inside accidentally.

"You are just as vile as that person." Zesten’s lips twitched, hearing the constant mockery in the boy’s words.

Normally, a person would never dare look in his eyes when talking to him. They would always have their heads lowered in respect and devotion when addressing him, but this boy was looking straight in his eyes.

The worst part for him was that these eyes were similar to the eyes of the person that had left such a deep and infuriating impression on him which he couldn’t forget until now.

"Are you his son?" he asked Elias, his fists being clenched so tightly behind his back that his palms had started bleeding.

"Younger brother," Elias answered, having no reason to hide his identity since the man was already certain that they were related.

"How did you find out that I am related to him? How did you know my whereabouts? I had nothing to do with you. I wouldn’t even come here if not for the people sent by you. So how did you know? And why did you want me here?"

"The younger brother, huh." Zesten seemed to be lost in deep thought, as he heard Elias’s identity. "Although not as dear to him as a son, he would still more or less care about you as a blood relative. It’s good..."

Elias frowned, hearing the man talking to himself like a crazy man, not noticing a shadow starting to crawl out of the mountain of corpses, belonging to a fable that was yet to die.

The shadow approached Elias, while Zesten remained talking to himself, in a bid to distract the boy from noticing anything strange.

The other Domain Lords had also noticed it, but they remained silent. A few of them were smiling in amusement, while others had a disgusted glint in their eyes at the sneaky tricks of Zesten. But they also didn’t interfere as they couldn’t care less about the humans from the Academy.

As long as Elias could be brought inside the Domain, they could also get a piece of the pie, which made them somewhat interested.

"You know, you really have a punchable face. Did my brother beat you up or something for you to hate me?" Elias asked, raising a brow as the crazy mumblings of Zesten. "He did seem to have a habit of it."

"Oh, I will tell you everything that he did." Zesten stopped talking to himself, and approached the barrier at a lightning speed, his eyes glaring at Elias. "We will have a lot of time to talk about the past. I will make sure of it."

"We do have a lot of time." Elias nodded, as his left arm started shining under his sleeves, a heavy essence gathering in his hand. Within seconds, the essence condensed to take the form of a heavy sword in his hand.

Elias swung his left arm as he turned around just as the shadow had finished materializing in the true fable’s down. A trail was left behind as the Sword sliced through the fable that was about to attack him.

The spatial cracks itself formed around the shadow, as the body of the fable was sliced in two halves, both falling on the ground one after the other.

"So why don’t we start now?" Elias asked, turning back to Zesten, stabbing the sword on the ground before him.

As he waited for the answer, he also started the extraction process that needed only a simple command from him, even if it came from his thoughts themselves.

"You!" Almost every muscle in Zesten’s face was twitching as he saw the last surviving fable outside this domain die right before his eyes, just when he had thought that he might finally get Elias inside the domain.

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That fable wasn’t even trying to kill Elias, but simply trying to push him inside the domain, so as to not release any killing intent that a few awakened could sense.

As long as the boy was brought inside the Domain, he could handle the rest. But that possibility was also brutally cut apart with that heavy Sword which was awfully familiar to him as well.

Storms started rising behind Elias as the merger process began.

"Why so serious?" Elias asked Zesten, who was clearly having a hard time controlling his emotions that made him want to destroy everything around him.