Chapter 68: Destined Death

Chapter 68: Destined Death

(I thought about delaying this chapter to increase the anticipation while finishing up the last 2 older chapters edit but I decided against it. So tada)

Word count = 1564 on 8/21/2023

Xue Tie finds himself back in the pitch black world he found himself before when he challenged the two divine envoys. Except this time around he is already near the edge and next to Mohg who has his bare bone feet over the edge.

"What's going on? Last thing I remember is…" He says to himself as he is confused on why he is back here.

"You died," Mohg states with ease.

"Wait what? I died"

"Yup. decapitated by that baby angel Qian Xunji."

Xue Tie is in shock and stumbles onto his knees. He has no clue why he is here if he died.

"So what now? We just suffer together."

"You idiot. Even with all the clues and memories you inherited from me as well as the link to that game. You still don't realize what you possess. FINE. let me tell you a story to help you understand." Mohg seems a bit disgruntled over Xue Tie's pessimism.

"Long ago, when I still lived, It was a time of horror as there was no order, only chaos. Beasts ran rampant in the surroundings. Casually invading any wannabe cities and evil spirit masters only enhanced the slaughter. To escape my situation, I would go to the nearby waterfall by what I called my home back then. When I was 13 years old and barely a level 19 spirit master. A crack opened up in the sky and from that crack came a meteor that crashed into that waterfall.

Since I was the closest, I investigated and found a person just lying there. Heavily injured and dying. With a ragged voice and shaking body, this person proclaimed themselves a god, specifically the god of death. He had been attacked by the Dragon God as they saw this god of death to be a threat since he was human. He was forced to flee on the verge of death that he is now. He explains that the death aspect was actually a natural energy he also stumbled upon during his mortal life. He had refined it to become the aspect of death is was now but the energy never belonged to him and had only a minimal compatibility with him in the first place. But with what can be considered 20% compatibility, he hoped to pass on the aspect of death to another along with his desire for revenge."

"When I got the energy, I found that I was roughly 50% compatible with it. My talent was rejuvenated and I rapidly broke through from then on. To enhance my compatibility and strengthen the energy, I took on the mantle of evil to slaughter tons of people for my own growth. You have seen my end. New gods other than me arose and I angered one of them and then my descendants angered a 2nd which brought about the downfall of our dynasty. My own soul and memories were preserved by the death aspect but I lost a major chunk of it in return. It had merged with the Rune of Death in the other world you knew of me."

"For hundreds of years, I had accumulated energy and attempted to get the rune for myself but failed. Regardless, re-establishing my dynasty allowed me to recuperate the aspect of death. I attempted to leave the world or find some way to return. But what I found instead was a connection to a new world. One made possible through the tarnished warrior that was you."

"When I found you, the death energy nearly escaped me in it's desire for you. Using some of the energy, I was able to create a method using my original bloodline and the connection I had established with it and the death energy, I made it possible for you to go to this world and the Douluo Continent. Along with my own soul fragment and the entirety of the death energy I accumulated. I sealed the energy inside you as having access to it immediately would have killed you" He concludes and Xue Tie gulps at the handful of information dropped on him.

"So I have this death energy…but what does ti matter if im dead now myself?"

"Do you not listen, You are the most compatible host with the aspect of death. The aspect which I sealed to allow you to nurture it and bond with it, even when you didn't know. The herb from the inheritance trial of the dynasty, the blood god domain from Slaughter City. The hedonistic fruit from Mt. QiXiao and every single being you have killed all contributed to death. But now you are dead and the seal has broken. Look at yourself. You are beautiful."

Xue Tie looks at his hands and finds himself set ablaze by dark fire. The fire dances around his body like a puppy seeing it's owner again.

Xue Tie curiously summons out his trident and stabs it down into the murky shadow ground which he now realizes is the contained and idle state of the death energy. He manipulate the flame into the symbol for the elden ring and it flows into his trident, providing him his 6th ring and then the flames rearranged themselves into the rune of death which again flows into his trident and thus the 7th ring is formed. Both rings are pure black (like vantablack) that his other red rings gain a dark shade from being so close to the 2 rings.

"Death cannot die, so how are you dead?" Mohg says once more and the scenario changes to what is happening outside. He sees Qian Xunji raise his decapitated head and say

"This. Is what it means. To go against Spirit Hall. Nothing more than a dog barking at it's owner, thinking it's better than them all while being the lesser party."

"Oh motherfucker, ill teach you to heel" Xue Tie responds and he begins to control the energy more and his vision fades but his senses remain. He manipulate the fire to control his body out of the petrification, strengthen it with the rune of death and manipulate his body to take back his head. When he regains his vision, he looks at Qian Xunji who is groaning in pain as his arm is twisted.

"Woof Bitch". His let's go of the arm after turning Qian Xunji towards him. He coats his hand in destined death and grabs Xunji's face. Branding it in the process with the eternal black mark (kind of like the white mark on uruk hai or how the gravewalker does in shadow or mordor as the brand is not seen all that much in shadow of war)

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" The prestigious black flame brands his handprint onto his skin, burning it as his skin turns a bit grey and he loses half his hair. His life force itself is burned in the process, crippling his future of becoming an angel god. Qian Xunji flies away from him as Xue Tie resummons his trident. The development of 2 pure black rings with strange runic markings is not overlooked by the surrounding audience.

"Black Blade" Xue Tie swings his trident and with the 7th ring activated. A black ray shoots out

And phases through 2 titled douluo elders who immediately cough up blood as they age by a few years in the span of 3 seconds. They rapidly approach being skeletons from how pale and old they begin to look. It's not outright killing them but a second or third black blade would kill them

(here for black blade gif)

"Kill him. Quickly" Qian Xunji yells out and all elders rush at him while boosting themselves or using their strongest moves. Xue Tie is surrounded on all sides but he shows not the slightest sign of being scared.

He just activates his new 8th ring and stabs the ground. Waves of black blade appear in all directions, creating a 360 degree sphere where nothing can be seen except red and black. When the sphere is cleared, a wave of energy is then outburst. From just the black blade sphere, 5 titled douluos, including 2 hyper douluos were killed instantly and the remaining 10s titled douluos were injured by the energy release.

"Destined Death. A fate long established for all you. Im just the medium to accelerate it" He says emotionlessly as he cares for none of them.

"I shall spare you now but know that you shall never attempt to place your own will over mine" He casually walks past them, trident in hand and grabs the tear stricken Bibi Dong by the waist and with a spread of his wings, which are covered in black flames. He disappears in a feat of pure speed. A trail of dark mist left behind to showcase their trajectory.

The elders who are still alive and Qian Xunji can only watch them fly off as the fear of death has been branded into their hearts.

While Qian Xunji had it branded on his face. He grits his teeth and simply proclaims, "Have some clean up this mess. All of you head back to recover. This is not over"