I Can Copy And Evolve Talents

Chapter 1208: Resentment

Northern could sense hesitation in them. But he also could sense their fear, especially since he had easily dismantled their coordinated attacks and showed them just how pointless fighting against him could be. Unless they wanted to be stupid, they wouldn’t pull any stunts.

’I can’t trust people not to be stupid.’

He turned particularly to Kai and tilted his head slightly.

Kai exhaled and glanced at his brother Jiang before saying evenly,

“I’ll take you there.”

Jiang said nothing. Instead, he gritted his teeth in silence.

Northern exhaled.

“Well then…?”

As they were about to turn, Jiang’s voice rolled out—with pain.

“Who are you?”

Northern looked at the young man for a moment. Jiang looked like he was in his mid-twenties; though he had a very childlike appearance with his short and tousled hair, he also had a short stature that could easily make people underestimate his age. He certainly looked more mature than Kai despite their differences in height.

Northern gave him a stunning smile.

“Your adopted cousin?” He glanced around. “The welcome party could really do better. But I can’t complain. I guess this is better than my sister trying to drag me back to a home that was most likely almost killed.”

He shrugged.

“Things don’t need to get complicated. We don’t need to be each other’s enemies. Certainly not in this farmland of a world. But if you insist on bad blood…”

His stunning smile stretched, gaining a malicious edge.

“Please. Be my guest.”

He turned and was escorted away by Kai.

They descended into a spiral of stairs that got dark and only got darker, such that Northern’s ability to see through the eyes of the shadow only saw darkness.

At first, Northern thought it was just that deep. But as soon as they began to descend, he was already analyzing the depths with his Demon Eyes.

After a couple of minutes, Northern’s lips curled and for the first time since they started descending, his hoarse voice spoke.

“You wouldn’t happen to be leading me into a trap, right?”

Kai took his time.

“Naturally, and you asked to be led into it. The dark depth is a pseudo soul world. I’m sure someone of your strength would know what a soul world is. If you walked through the Region of Death, then certainly you’d understand what this place is even better.”

A small frown creased Northern’s brows.

[It is a Corrupted Domain]

’I figured… although it doesn’t come close to the Belial’s…’

Kai’s voice filled the descending darkness.

“What makes this place terrible is that it’s a soul world that has been cultivated for all forty-nine generations of Patriarchs, starting from the first patriarch who became a Luminary. He used the Region of Death as a learning instrument to materialize his soul world into reality.

“This ability is the major backbone of our clan’s heritage. It is the reason we are what the world says we are. Each of us has the ability to also manifest a fragment of this domain regardless of the distance. Imagine a Sage manifests a domain, even though it’s merely a fragment, it’s a domain that has been cultivated by forty-nine paragons at the very least.”

Northern paid attention, nodding gently, impressed by the information.

Meanwhile, Kai continued.

“It might not be as terrifying as the Region of Death, but I’ll advise you not to look down on the growth and innovation of forty-nine humans.”

Northern smiled.

“You certainly do not need to advise me. I’ve seen too much to look down on anyone or anything.”

Northern gave Kai a scrutinizing look from behind.

“You look like the odd one out.”

Kai chuckled lightly.

“I am in every manner of the word. But I’ve had to dim the intensity of my darkness, so we can be a family again. I didn’t want to become the monster my father created me to be.”

Northern was silent for a second.

“I see…”

Kai added.

“And I certainly must find her.”

Northern hesitated but then asked.

“By her, do you mean your half-sister? Raven Kageyama?”

Immediately, Kai stopped in his tracks. Northern could see his shoulders tremble slightly.

’Interesting…’

He seemed startled as he turned, his face slightly pale.

“H–How did you…”

“Dark Continent. We met in the Dark Continent.”

Northern answered him evenly.

He exhaled, looking down somberly.

“I heard some news about how she had been… sacrificing herself so that many could get home.”

Northern looked at Kai blankly.

“You have it wrong.”

Kai looked at Northern, confused.

“It’s what many people said…”

“They also have it all wrong.”

He exhaled.

“She did it for herself. She wanted to trap herself in the Dark Continent so she wouldn’t have to come home.”

Northern’s gaze intensified on him. His blue eyes lit up the darkness a little.

“That was how much she hated this clan…”

Kai frowned, certainly displeased by what Northern had just spewed. But Northern did not stop there.

“Killing a five-year-old child just because she was immortal? Really?”

Kai’s gaze held a lot of resentment; it made the darkness heavier somewhat. There was a note of hesitation in his voice.

“My siblings… they were incredibly jealous and wary of her abilities… and that took the form in many malformed… manners.”

Northern’s gaze was blank, not dishing out any bit of emotion or pity. He exhaled and shrugged.

“Well, not my business really, but if you want to meet her, I can make that happen.”

Kai looked at him with hope radiating from his eyes.

“Really?”

Northern’s finger pointed forward.

“Shin.”

“Ah, right, yes. Please let’s be on our way.”

They continued to descend into the depths. The stairs flowed even longer downwards. Northern considered spreading all his awareness talent abilities. But decided against it. They most likely will give off a measure of his strength; he didn’t want the Patriarch of the Kageyama clan to get too alerted and not underestimate him.

So he decided to just walk in blind.

Not that it mattered. He may have forty-nine generations of cultivated domain, at the end of the day, he was only a Paragon. Northern certainly was not looking down on him, but it was going to be a disgrace if after so much, he lost to a Paragon for such a flimsy reason.

He didn’t beat the crap out of Chaos Prince, who had existed for over ten thousand years, just to come and lose to a cockroach of a Paragon. And his concerns were certainly beyond all this.