Monarch of Darkness

Evan had no idea about the precarious situation of Thousand swords kingdom. He was busy in his cultivation inside the ancestoral land of the Hendrickson family. After honing his basic sword skill to perfection, he again started cultivating to attain the late stage of the Meridian opening realm.

The ancestoral land of Hendrickson family was devoid of sun and moon. Within this sealed world even the the energy of heaven and earth was not present. There was only one element present in this sealed world, that was darkness. Compared to the world of outside, the darkness element inside the ancestoral land of Hendrickson family was more pure and concentrated. If Evan had to cultivate outside, then he would have taken two times more amount of time to reach his current cultivation level.

Darkness Element gathered around Evan like a small swirling storm. He was using the element devouring technique and his unique devil meridian was working in tandem to pull darkness energy from surrounding. When it came to cultivation of darkness energy, Evan could proclaim himself as the fastest cultivator in the current time. The presnce of ancient devil meridian in his body meant he was always one step above others in the cultivation of darkness energy.

Darkness energy circulated inside his fifty six meridians and his ancient devil meridian was no exception. Evan had lost sense of time and his concentration was focus only on cultivation. After countless circulation, his meridians started to swell. Evan knew it was the sign of breakthrough and he pushed hard for it.

In the ancestoral land, there was no shortage of darkness energy and Evan tried to absorb darkness energy as much as he could.

'Pop, pop', a sound similar to cracking of bones came out from Evan's body. The small storm of darkness energy which was gathered above his head increased in size and large amount of darkness energy came rushing toward Evan. He circulated the flooding darkness energy inside his meridians which was now more broader than before. A smile crept into his lips after feeling the changes in his meridians. Compared to his previous capacity of circulation which was like circulating thick threads of darkness energy inside his meridians, his current capacity of circulating darkness energy was like small ropes flowing inside his meridians. With a smile of satisfaction, hr opened his eyes.

This time he had lost the sense of time while cultivating. So, he had no idea about how much time he had taken to breakthrough. Evan stood up and stretched a bit. He looked around to look for old man Brasylx. He found the old man who was standing at some distance away from him. 

"Congratulation Brat, you are already a late stage Meridian opening realm cultivator at a mere age of nine", Brasylx smiled at Evan. He was feeling very pleased by the performance of Evan. As a devil himself, he was feeling happy for having such a genius in his own Hendrickson family.

"How much time has passed this time?", Evan asked. He very much wanted to know about the exact time. Although he had left a letter for his mother but he knew it was not enough. He decided to train properly to increase his cultivation after leaving the Imperial academy. Now that he had acheived two breakthroughs in his cultivation, he somehow fulfilled his objective for his seclusion. His yearning for his mother prompted him to inquiry about the spent time period.

Brasylx chuckled after seeing the anxious look on the face of Evan. "Don't worry, you have only taken half a year this time to have a breakthrough. It is already a extraordinary acheivemet considering that you have not used any heavenly treasure for cultivation. Actually not using heavely treasure in foundation phase is a good thing for you", old man Brasylx replied.

"So, I have taken six months this time. Adding the time I have taken for earlier breakthrough in cultivation and death energy, It was above one year since I left home. If I add my sword practice and my time in Imperial academy, it was almost two year since I left the Sylvia clan", Evan thought to himself.

"It is time to return", Evan decided in his mind. "Brat, why are you spacing out? I know you are going to leave but before it you need to learn some techniques. Without these techniques, you can not claim yourself as a proper devil warrior",old man Brasylx yelled from his side.

"What techniques?", Evan asked. He had never taken any words from old man Brasylx lightly. He had deep respect for his ancestors and old man Brasylx was one of them. Moreover, he could tell that old man Brasylx was a very powerful devil cultivator of ancient time. From his use of runes, Evan had also learned his mastery in Inscription techniques. So, he felt curious when old man Brasylx spoke about learning some techniques.

"Don't resist. I will imprint some techniques directly in your conciousness", Brasylx replied. Evan nodded and the powerful conciousness of Brasylx fell upon Evan. The next second, Evan's conciousness flooded with many information. Before he could blink again, old man Brasylx had already retracted his soul conciousness. Within a second, old man Brasylx had imprinted many information in Evan's mind.

Evan took some time to digest these new informations. He felt amazed by the knowledge contained within these informations. As for the techniques, there was only two techniques. One was a unparallel art of spear which belonged to one of the famous devil of ancient time. The other art was a basic martial art technique which could be used in close combat. The name of the technique was 'The Heavenly art of magical beasts'. From it's name one could say, how tyrannical and impressive this technique must be.

Evan processed the information contained within these techniques and he was amazed by the uniqueness of this technique. Old man Brasylx had only imparted sixteen pictographic representation of this technique to Evan. But these sixteen pictographic memories were enough for Evan to see how valuable this technique actually was.