NOVGO.NET Chapter 1204: Darkness
Chapter 1204: Darkness
A few minutes ago.
“Like this?” Nathan asked, following Mae’s instructions. Mae had returned to her original form, which was a fox, since the shapeshifting ability had gone to Nathan.
Nathan’s body was gradually transforming.
“That’s right, Master. Male and female bodies are different, so you need to pay attention to the details. However, you are doing well right now. Since it’s not an illusion, everyone will think you are truly a female.” Mae nodded.
“Still, we have one problem. How are you planning to hide your power?” Fenrir asked. “While it’s true that you are able to change your gender with Mae’s skill. However, I have heard that my father once turned into a fish and still got captured.”
“Don’t worry.” Nathan waved his hand. “I only proposed this idea because I know how to do it. Then again, I only gained that idea after Mae’s suggestion.”
“My suggestion?” Mae frowned.
“Yeah. Your suggestion in establishing my elements like Kun and Peng.”
Mae tilted her head in confusion, not being able to connect it to a method to contain his power.
Nathan smiled wryly and showed it directly with two contracts.
“In exchange for 10,000 ena, the contract will become an entity that isolates 80% of Nathan Reckmoon’s ena for 1 hour. This contract can be undone whenever Nathan Reckmoon says, ’Full Energy Release,’ and the cost won’t be refunded.”
“In exchange for 20,000 ena, the contract will become an entity that isolates 100% of Nathan Reckmoon’s karma for 1 hour. This contract can be undone whenever Nathan Reckmoon says, ’Full Karma Release,’ and the cost won’t be refunded.”
“Ah!” Mae gasped. If the contract could seal the elements, it should be able to seal his ena as well. In other words, utilizing the contract and leaking a portion of the ena would make it look like Nathan was much weaker.
Once Nathan signed this contract, he would look like someone who was only at the crystal weapon stage.
In addition, Mae mentioned something about divination earlier. Since divination was related closely to one’s fortune, Nathan had no choice but to seal his karma first.
Nathan figured out he could do it because a lot of people had mentioned that his karma was being twisted in a weird way. There was an unknown power that changed his karma.
After thinking hard, Nathan arrived at two possibilities. The first one was that there was a hidden identity that was strong enough to bend the karma, but according to Cthulhu, even Azathoth couldn’t do it.
So, he arrived at the second conclusion. His Soul Contract. Yes, his soul contract might be the mysterious force that altered his karma. Only something born of the karma could control the karma.
He proved that it was indeed the correct answer. His karma, for some reason, was altered by the Soul Contract.
Although he didn’t know how it was able to do it, he knew it wasn’t his work. It might be the original Nathan or other figures.
At the very least, he became closer to the truth.
Still, even if Nathan was able to hide his karma and strength and change his gender, there was something he couldn’t change.
“Master. Although this plan is good, how are you planning to deal with Soul Devourer? According to the notebook and Evelyn, Soul Devourer has the ability to see through the soul. He will figure out that you are lying just like he figured out Evelyn was wasting time previously.”
Nathan just smiled. “There was once a kid. That kid was beaten up by his father all the time. The kid had no other choice but to get beaten up. If he did something wrong, he would be beaten up. If he said something wrong, he would be beaten up.
“One day, the kid told his father that he couldn’t clean up the house, and the kid broke his arm that day. On another day, the kid told him that he saw drugs in the cabinet, and his father thought the kid wanted to steal them from him and beat him again.
“Whenever the kid spoke, he would be beaten up. The kid feared his father, but later the kid found a method.
“When he got beaten up, the kid pleaded, apologized, and even fell into despair. It was at that time the father stopped beating the kid as his mood was ruined.
“The kid finally figured out how to play with his father. When the kid acted as if he were scared, the father would stop. But a lot of times, the father instinctively realized the kid was not as apologetic as he looked.
“During those times, he might not have understood it clearly, but in those days, the kid was beaten up as badly as usual.
“At other times, the kid looked so sincere that it ruined the father’s mood again. At a certain point, the kid understood his own expression.
“He knew how to change his fear as if it were genuine. He knew how to fall into despair even with a numb heart.
“That kid had a set of darkness in his heart, one that could be released and change him to a different person.”
Fenrir and Mae fell silent. They got only a bit of information about Nathan through the memory Nathan shared, but they only knew Nathan had been beaten up by his father.
This was probably the first time they had heard how severe it was.
It was no wonder Nathan once mentioned he was also desperate.
That kid was so desperate that, without him realizing it, he was able to manipulate everything about himself. His brain, his mind, and even his soul.
Inside that kid’s body resided two people. The first one was the indifferent kid, who dared to mock or even scam his father. The second one was a kid without a face, one that could become anything if he were ever to be released.
If Anubis were here, he would remember the time Nathan explained how he would take down the Sleeping Garden if they were his enemies.
At that time, the second Nathan was the one who answered that question.
And the trigger of that darkness was his new family. Selena and the others, the new home, and of course, his familiars.