The Record of Unusual Creature

Everyone’s jaw dropped to the ground. That demon in the image was Y’zaks.

The giant demon was standing on a piece of cracked, scorched earth. The land under his feet was burning while behind him was a distorted chaos which looked like a door to the endless dark abyss. The demon’s body was scarred, molten iron dripped down from his wound on the ground. The iconic broken horn and body shape was undoubtedly that of Y’zaks.

At the same time, countless demons with the same scars were surrounding the image. These demons were like knights swearing allegiance to their leader guarding around him. However, the blurry background left one wondered where the location was.

“I’ve almost ruled the whole world.”‘Y’zaks’ was making a rumbling noise in the visual clip. “My failure is insignicant. There will be a new demon taking over the artifact I have left behind and regaining the world dominating power! I’ve buried my infinite strength and wisdom in Osidian Plain. Within a thousand years, a new demonic king will be born and taking over my scepter to destroy your puny world!”

As he visual clip flashed, ‘Y’zaks’ and the last remaining hundreds of thousands of demons began to leap into the endlessly dark gateway as if they would rather go into exile in a different dimension than getting defeated by puny creature like human.

That was all about the visual clip and the rest was just static.

They exhanged look with one another. Vivian couldn’t help but say, “I think… I think that is Y’zaks.”

Y’zaks was no less dumbfounded. He scratched his bald head and said, “But I don’t recall I have ever said that things… I don’t even recall that there’s an artefact. I was so badly beaten back then, who would have the time to finding a successor?”

Nangong Wuyue looked up and asked as she taught Lil Pea swirling in the water. “Are you sure you don’t have a brother whom you have lost contact with?”

Y’zaks rolled his eyes. Clearly there were only one great demon in a thousand years, no mother was terrific enough to give birth to two demonic kings at the same time. Lanina, who was beside him, frowned. “I feel that demon in the visual clip is weird. Though it looks like him, sounds like him, but his aura is totally different. And the conduct of the demon in the visual clip is somewhat unnatural like he was acting.”

“You mean he is fake?” Vivian’s brow twitched upward. “Who could it be?”

“It’s hard to say.” Lanina spread out her hand. “I don’t see the point. There’s nothing to gain by faking the a ‘dead’ demon king. The only reason I could think of is to cause the Allied Army to plunge in chaos. But that effect won’t last. Even if the Allied Army believes in it, they wouldn’t stay in the demonic world for a thousand years for that prophecy. But then as fake as that demon in the image is, it does look like my king. It makes people wonder who is it.”

“Y’zaks lookalike has leave thing behind.” Hao Ren scratched his chin, looking with interest at the crystal. “It seems that Y’zaks is influential. Could it be that the new demon king is making his debut announcement in advance?”

No one say a word because they found the situation so strange that they didn’t what to make of it. After a while of silence, Lily suddenly clapped her hands and said, “Eh, I think I have found something suspicious!”

Everyone stared at the husky. Lily pointed at the crystal and asked, “Who was the one holding the crystal shooting the video?”

Everyone: “…”

“That’s what you come up with after so long?” Vivian was half-crying and half-laughing. “Is knowing who held the crystal shooting the video important?

“Of course.” Lily said. “Would you ask a cameraman record your suicide? The scene in the visual looks like a battlefield. And in that case, don’t you feel it strange that a cameraman was willing to risk death taking the video? Which cameraman would want to do that? And look at the last scene.”

Asking Lanina to replay the visual, Lily let everyone pay attention to the final moment when ‘Y’zaks’ led the last remaining demons leaping into the dark door. “Just take note the jerk of the visual—this tells us that the crystal wasn’t placed on the ground but someone was a tic or an impassioned emotions while recording the clip…”

At the end of the visual, the dark gateway closed slowly and this scene lasted for a while. Lily explained. “Obviously the cameraman was still outside the gateway…”

Vivian was flabbergasted. “Whoa, I’m blown away by Doggie’s observativeness.”

Hao Ren had never expected Lily could have come up with such a great analysis. He rubbed Lily’s hair and asked, “Then what’s your conclusion?”

“The whole thing is orchestrated.” Lily nodded and said, “First of all, I’m sure someone was directing the video and those guys were all actors; secondly, the scene must be somewhere in the demonic dimension, they had purposely blurred out the background to cover up the location; thirdly, those who left behind the stuff must be someone who was close to Y’zaks: he not just knew Y’zaks well but also was able to get the crystal and most important of all he had also found someone who looked exactly like the real demon king. This person had well planned it.”

Hao Ren clapped his hands marvelling at the observativeness of Lily. He quickly took out a pack of spicy sticks and gave it to the maiden as reward. Meanwhile, Y’zaks began to ponder about who was the one close to him who would do such a thing—especially those demonic warlords who closely resembled him in appearance. His facial animation changed quickly as he had a few suspects in mind.

But those suspects had already died half way into the war.

Unless they faked their deaths!

“This must be further investigated .” Hao Ren concluded. “Impersonating a dead person is so disrespectful. We should’ve let Biggie ‘die’ in peace…”

Before Hao Ren’s voice trailed off, Lanina had already glared at him. Vivian jabbed Hao Ren on his arm and said quietly, “Don’t say anything if you don’t know how to say it.”

“I was thinking that if we could figure this out, wouldn’t the Allied Army?” Nangong Wuyue asked curiously. “Could they already find out that it was all orchetrated?”

“Not necessary.” Y’zaks grinned. “At least they haven’t figured that out yet. Our world is different from the Earth, we don’t have the concept of orchestration, let alone live streaming of suicide…”

Then Y’zaks got to his feet. “I’m going to track down the person who impersonated me.”

“Then what’s your plan?” Hao Ren looked up at Y’zaks.

Y’zaks lowered his head and thought for a moment. “I’m going to Cadeceus.”

Lily was excited hearing a new place. “Where is Cadeceus?”

Nangong Wuyue, who was beside her, let out a sigh. “Hope it’s not as dry as this place. I almost couldn’t stand the environment here.”

Y’zaks laughed. “Don’t worry. Cadeceus is a perfect place for you—it’s a place for humans, the most lively enclave of the human world.

Hao Ren was surprised because he thought Y’zaks would naturally go to the other eight demonic planes looking for clues, little did he expect the human kingdom was his target. “Are you looking for clues in the human kingdom? Aren’t we looking for the demon which looks the same as you?”

“Sometimes it’s better taking a different route.” Lanina had guessed what Y’zaks was thinking. She explained. “There are ten demonic planes, each of which is vast and under the rule of dictatorships, going in there would be too dangerous. On the other hand, Cadeceus is a stronghold of humans. Despite of the constant war between different races, the demonic planes are their common enemies. They have built the biggest hub in Cadeceus where warlock sanctury and various agencies are sending out their spies to reconnoitre in the demonic planes. We could learn about the situation in the demonic planes through them, saving us the trouble of going in personally. Human might have difficulty decipher the secrets of the demonic world, but we as senior demons might be able to find something human couldn’t.

“There’s one most thing.” Y’zaks grinned. “We are too eye-catching in the demonic planes.”

“OK!” Hao Ren clapped his hands together and said, “Let’s go to Cadeceus! But then again, how do we go?”

“It’s simple,” Y’zaks pointed at the abundant osidians. “Mine a few osidians and then make a teleportation gateway…”