Legendary Architect of Apocalypse-Chapter 85: On Time

"It’s your bad luck that you found me when no one else could," Astralious said, but he quickly corrected himself. "Looking at my condition, maybe it’s indeed my bad luck that I found you."

"I had been waiting for such a long time for someone to fall there and be corrupted by me. When it finally happened, I thought I could finally return to life. But who would’ve thought that I would end up with someone like you?"

He still didn’t understand what kind of abilities Elias had, which had helped him restrict the consciousness of a Constellation, and not once, but twice! He had never heard of anything like that.

If he had succeeded in corrupting Elias, then he could have stolen his memories along with his body. It would’ve helped him understand this boy’s abilities better. Unfortunately, that ship sailed before he could even get on it.

"Now tell me how do you know him?" he asked Elias, who was looking at Silas Ashborn with a very peculiar gaze.

"I don’t think you want to know," Elias answered as he watched Silas approach him.

Astralious already hated the fact that he was trapped by a child that he tried to possess. He didn’t want to rub salt on that constellation’s wounds by telling him that he was the son of the person that had killed him in the first place.

He paid more attention to Silas. He hadn’t thought much about it when he first saw Silas in the Ashborn Mansion. But now that he was experiencing the memories of a constellation, he could truly feel the extent of Silas’s strength.

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Silas stopped before the throne. He brought his hand out of his pocket, and raised it. Elias stood up, thinking that he was going to be attacked. After all, he already knew the outcome of this battle.

Silus didn’t attack. He simply raised his wrist, and checked the time on his watch.

"I should be back on time," Silas said, not caring about his surroundings in the least.

"That bastard!" Astralious clicked his tongue, remembering this moment.

It was still as irritating as it was before. That man came here to kill a Constellation, and instead of worrying about battle, he seemed to be worrying about getting back on time.

After checking the time, Silas kept his hand in his pocket.

"Are you here to kill me?" Elias looked like he was in disbelief as the words left his lips, as if his body were no longer in his control.

Until now, he could make some changes to the memory, but when it came to the core of the memory, everything followed the same path as it had before, even when he was supposed to be Astralious.

"I have no interest in killing you. But that annoying girl Freya asked me for a favor. So I suppose we have no choice in the matter." Silas sighed. "If I don’t do it, she’ll never let me have a day of peace with her constant bickering."

"Besides, does it even matter? You killed someone from the Academy. Even if I let you live, the Academy will still send someone to take care of you. They don’t tolerate any interference when it comes to their examination."

"Examination? You call this an examination? They destroyed lives! This is not an examination! This is a massacre!" Elias exclaimed, again not seeming to be in control. However, even if he had been in control, he was sure that he would have asked the same question.

"Don’t you find it wrong? If you have strength, shouldn’t you protect others, instead of using that strength against the weak?" he asked, his voice growing louder.

"There are some things that are beyond anyone’s control. If the world was a good place, then believe me. No one would want to do something like this," Silas answered. "Unfortunately, the world needs its demons."

"If you don’t stop, then I will have to stop you myself! You said they would send more people to kill me? Let them! If they send ten people, I will kill ten! If they send a thousand people, I will kill a thousand!"

Astralious felt like hiding his face in embarrassment as he heard these words in his memories.

Now that he knew the outcome of this battle, these words had become nothing more than a source of shame. Let alone killing ten people, he hadn’t even been able to kill the one person before him.

It wasn’t even a battle of equals. He was simply thrashed, single-handedly.

If others hadn’t seen this memory, he could have at least lied and said that it was a fierce battle that lasted for ten days and ten nights. He could have claimed that he barely lost by half a move after running out of stamina. But the reality was completely different, as was being revealed to Elias.

Let alone lasting for ten days and ten nights, the battle didn’t even last ten minutes. Astralious was suppressed from beginning to end, even as his body was sent flying through the moonlit surroundings.

Elias, having experienced the battle, finally understood why Silas was considered so dangerous. In the memory, Astralious hadn’t even managed to leave a single scratch on the man, despite being a self-proclaimed god.

The only good thing about this memory was that Elias didn’t feel the pain. It was a replay of the past, but the pain wasn’t a part of it.

After Astralious was thoroughly destroyed, Silas called out his Soul Beast, which flew out from the void.

This was the first time Elias had seen his father’s Soul Beast, and it was an existence that looked no less than an absolute god, and more frightening than the creature flying through the skies fitting the awakening ceremony.

"How was I supposed to know that his Soul Beast was also a Constellation?" Astralious scoffed, watching another memory that he wanted to forget. Until now, he had been thrashed by Silas, and now it was the turn of a Soul Beast.

Silas’s soul beast flew toward Elias, but just as it was about to kill him, everything stopped. Elias saw a familiar screen materialize before him as the memories came to a halt.

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Emergency Protocol has been completed. Mental Recovery has been initiated.

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