Extra's Ascension To Power Chapter 127: Taddda!

"Co here, shadow Lord. I know you are there."

The spear he used to pierce the man was gone, and shadow Lord dragged himself forward, one of his legs wounded. His brows were furrowed as he stared at Ace. "You are indeed a sly bastard. You put your na in the story you told . A story of a weapon you can control. So, you’ve been trying to betray Anansi since you t him?"

"Was it not the sa for you?"

"No. My shadow is mostly independent from most of the ti. I left it inside Anansi and he just goes around collecting stories with his mories intact. I didn’t even know it t you for a long ti. I would have killed and dragged your body over," shadow Lord said easily.

Ace frowned at him. His calm expression had since been worn away, his face was pulled together as if he was in pain. But his eyes, the blue, were slowly turning red. "Then I’m glad sothing like that did not happen."

They stood there in silence for a while. They looked at each other.

Ace shook his head. "You won’t be able to kill , shadow Lord. I am now more powerful than you. Let it go."

Shadow Lord smirked. "You think I won’t notice that you are using your body to shield sothing? Tell , Ace. What happens when my shadow returns to its natural form? Do you lose this power you are using? After all, it was a power conjured by the shadow Anansi."

Shadow Lord shook his head gently. "This was why Anansi was feared back in the days. He was the true ruler of the whole of Sector Delta. His power, the ability to conjure powers greater than himself with little cost.

"If he hadn’t been so greedy and eaten all the stories in the world, then he would have ruled for more hundred years."

Ace smiled, forcing his face to move in a smile that looked like a grimace. "Shadow Lord... just how much are you wounded that you need to talk this much to recover?"

Shadow Lord’s mouth, that was already opened, slamd shut with a click and he sneered. "That rod on my shadow is disturbing ! I can’t recall my shadow. Just what did you do, Ace?"

"The power of Grace is to bind and suppress. You can’t call your shadow unless I want you to."

Shadow Lord barked a laugh. His eyes were swollen from his tears and his malnourished body shook. "If you do not give up the seed, then it will consu you and you will only turn into a creature that feeds on pain without a mind of its own."

Ace abruptly raised his hand and hurled several bolts of green shadows at the shadow Lord, but the man was still nimble enough to dodge around them easily.

He stared at Ace. "You want to catch off guard?"

Ace smiled slowly. "You know, in stories, this is the part where you are allowed to speak about the grand plans you have and the past things you have done to release more secrets."

A green energy of Grace ford into a chair and Ace sat. "I want to know more about The Obsidian Bleed. What is their objective? What are they doing in the human world?"

Shadow Lord stared at him silently for a while, and then he shrugged. "Pain. They’ve since gotten the seed from its protectors a long ti ago. What they did with the organization was use it to farm pain."

"Farm pain?" Ace asked flatly.

"Despair. Pain. Anguish. The organization was responsible for farming it and then feeds it to the seed to awaken and enrich it."

Ace stiffened. With the flashback he had earlier, he knew how the so-called organization fard such. His smile was grim. "Why do they need to awaken it?"

"After it was taken from Dolor, the power couldn’t be destroyed. It could only be left alone to die by itself. And it was slowly weakened through the years it was locked away, and it was taken by the Obsidian Bleed. The pain they farm is just like water to a dying plant."

Ace’s eyes sparked. His smile chilled. "Ah! I wonder, just how powerful is your organization? It doesn’t seem like a simple organization."

The shadow Lord shrugged. There was a hint of pride on his face. "I don’t know. They were all so loyal....!"

Suddenly, the shadow Lord frowned tightly. He stared at Ace intently and then he hissed. "You bastard fox! So you are also buying ti! You weren’t as strong as you let on earlier. You were just bluffing!"

"I was giving you ti to recover. I wouldn’t want to stomp on who’s already down, right?"

Shadow Lord snorted as a dangerous gleam entered his eyes. "I don’t know what happened, but you are weakened. Everything since was just so you could buy ti! Since the ti you shot those spears at was to create the illusion of you toying with ."

Ace grimaced. "Ta da?"

Indeed. Since the mories exploded in his head, Ace had been fighting ntally. The seed was trying to devour him.

His body had been filled with pain, both physically and ntally. It was as if every inch of his body was getting replaced by the sensation of pain.

His face slowly crumbled as he stared at shadow Lord, to be replaced by a face filled with so much pain and dejection. "I... don’t have to pretend anymore then."

His face was sad, twisted with so much unhappiness and sorrow. He lifted his head and looked at shadow Lord. "What a terrible thing this seed is. Why do you want sothing like this? The pain. It’s so much. SO FUCKING MUCH!"

His voice blasted out like a bomb. The ground in front of him shattered, and all the buildings close by were struck by the shockwave and trembled, glass shattering.

Shadow Lord took a step back. "This... no... he’s consuming the seed! Impossible! The seed could only be consud by soone who has enough pain to match it. So... how?"