Chapter 383: Repeat every single word I’ve said to you since we met.

"He wanted me to eat his Heart."

Lucian explained and the moment Vivienne heard those words, her face changed.

"...that’s why he contacted you.

You were what he wanted in the first place."

"Yes."

Lucian nodded.

"Varek’s body was specifically altered for Neroth to resurrect into and at some level, it would have worked."

"But it wasn’t perfectly compatible."

Vivienne spoke.

For now, she decided to ignore the bit about Varek’s body being specifically altered for Neroth’s sake, she could sense that was an entirely different conversation, something she did not currently have time for.

She needed to understand what happened to her student first.

"Yes."

Lucian nodded.

"He was fine with Varek’s body, until he sensed mine."

"Yours was perfect."

Vivienne didn’t have a difficult time making that connection. Lucian’s body had completely adapted to Demonic Blood, the adaptation was so perfect that when the Enclave found him, they believed he was possessed by a demon.

Even now, no one had any idea how someone like Lucian even existed. Vivienne, however, could see how perfect of a vessel Lucian actually was.

"Yep, what can I say? I am perfection~"

Lucian shrugged with a playful look on his face. That look very quickly disappeared when Vivienne glared at him again.

"He sensed my body and decided to give up on his centuries-long plan and possess me instead. This was why he contacted me, he wanted me to find his Heart and then consume it."

"And you did.

Exactly like he wanted you to."

Vivienne spoke in a flat tone and Lucian was offended.

"I did it because I wanted to."

He defended himself.

"The only reason I was following his lead was because I wanted it. I was manipulating him, not the other way around."

"So you manipulated him into letting you consume his Heart? Do you hear how foolish that sounds? You were allowing an Archdemon to enter your body."

"Yes, I planned i—"

"You could have died."

Vivienne raised her voice as she interrupted him.

"What were you thinking, letting an Archdemon enter your body? What made you think you would survive!?"

Lucian stared at her in surprise.

Vivienne had... never raised her voice before.

That realisation made him smile, though he didn’t show it. He just stared at her, then, he answered in a low voice.

"I am here, am I not?"

Those words made Vivienne pause.

She remained silent for a moment, then, she asked another question.

"How did you survive?"

Lucian looked at her and she repeated her question.

"Neroth should have taken over your consciousness, how did that not happen?"

And Lucian...

He rubbed the back of his neck and...

"That...

...I genuinely don’t know."

He shook his head.

Vivienne’s face changed at that, Lucian noticed it, so he tried to explain what he could. He wasn’t planning on hiding anything from her.

"After I consumed his Heart, I saw his manifestation inside my consciousness. It was... overwhelming. He was far more powerful than I could ever imagine.

When he tried to take over my consciousness, it felt like he would succeed but then..."

Lucian paused for a moment, thinking about how to word it.

"That thing inside me reacted."

"The voice?"

Vivienne narrowed her eyes at that.

The two of them had had quite a few conversations about it, even Vivienne did not know what it was.

A strange but insanely powerful presence inside Lucian.

"What did it do?"

Vivienne asked and Lucian...

He thought about everything he saw and...

"It just... devoured him."

"Devoured him...?"

"Mhm, it sucked in his manifestation and he never reappeared."

Then, Lucian added another point, something he made a point not to miss.

"Also, Neroth was scared.

He was beyond terrified when he felt it."

Vivienne turned silent at that.

Demons were... different from other races.

They were... much older.

Even more than Vampires, even the oldest Vampires were only about five thousand years old, there were even older ones, it was said that the Originals were ten thousand years old but they were still a rumour.

Demons, on the other hand, were indeed tens of thousands of years old, even older than the Ancient Spirits that had existed since the beginning of life itself.

After all, Demons weren’t part of their world, they came from the Demon World and from what they knew, the Demon World itself was connected to several more worlds and Demons were entities that haunted many of those worlds.

Of course, they still did not have any conclusive evidence of any of it but one thing was very, very clear.

Demons, especially the Higher Ranked Demons were... extremely knowledgeable.

They knew things no one else in their world would know...

So...

An Archdemon being terrified of what was inside Lucian was... not a small matter.

"...did he say what it was?"

Vivienne asked and Lucian...

"No."

His face turned solemn.

"He screamed at me and asked what I am."

He answered and the instant he did, Vivienne’s face turned solemn as well.

So even an Archdemon didn’t know what Lucian was...?

Was that... even possible?

Lucian stared at his teacher, he knew what she was thinking. After all, he too knew how knowledgeable demons were, especially an Archdemon.

He was actually hoping Neroth, after seeing ’it’ inside him, could tell him what it was, so when Neroth screamed at him, asking what he was, Lucian was actually quite shaken. He hid it, of course, but an Archdemon asking him such a question was... something that was still in his mind, very, very clearly.

Of course, Lucian also understood that thinking about it all did not matter. He could think and theorise all he wanted, but in the end, it wouldn’t make a difference until he could find an actual answer.

So he just shrugged and decided not to rack his brain pointlessly.

And just then—

"Repeat every single word I’ve said to you since we met."

Vivienne demanded and Lucian...

"...hah?"

He blinked at the absurdity of it all. Vivienne, however, looked at him with obvious killing intent and—

"Tell me everything, or this will be the end, Neroth Vhalzaryn."