The Rise Of The Dark Lord

Chapter - 04

Chapter -04

"You sure have a lot of guts to ignore the rules we set up for you". Nariha said with her arms crossed across her chest. She looked terribly angry at Erebus.

"Mother, what are you talking about?" Erebus asked still stuck in the hole. He was in a pickle, he could not even go back and going forward was a no-no.

"I told you not to go there, didn't I?" Nariha rebuked.

"But I never left this place, I was here the whole time". Erebus still stuck looked at his mother with puppy, innocent eyes.

Nariha looked at her son with a sneer, "Then what are you doing in this burrow of yours? Playing rabbit?"

"Mother, I can explain".

Nariha stopped Erebus from giving any explanation, "No need, you will be punished once we reach home". Nariha turned around and looked at her husband.

Nariha gestured Agrud and walked away. The latter grabbed Erebus by his arm and like a sack carried him over his shoulder. Erebus wiggled and threw his arms around, but he could not escape from his father's grasp.

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Following the little ruckus caused by Erebus, he was punished to not leave the cave for a month.

But how can he be restrained so easily? His parents can not keep watch over him all day long. He remained in the cave for a week, but after that, he would slip out of the cave, every now and then. Though he could not leave to see the outside world, he could roam around here just fine. He thought that he was smart and no one would notice him leaving, but there is nothing that can be hidden from parents, but Nariha and Agrud didn't speak anything.

Just like always, he slipped out of the cave and was sitting on a rock, at one of his spots. He was looking at the sky, which was different from the outside world. The sky outside was blue with white clouds floating all over it, but here the sky was read while black clouds hovered in the sky*.

When he was outside, he could see the greenery all around him, the vivid colours made him want to feel them even more. But here all he could see as far as his eyes could look was either molten lava or burning hot rocks. Whenever he was here, he could only feel gloomy inside his heart. Wherever you look, you can only see the people suffering from hardships.

People here may have adapted themselves to live here in the hardships, but with each passing day, their sufferings are only increasing.

In this world, many different being, belonging to different races live and above all of them resided in the skies the Gods.

Gods ruled over all of them. They were immortals with the power to level the world and annihilate all living beings if they want to. The only thing they lacked was the numbers. Even after ruling for all these years over the world, there were not more than ten thousands Gods in the world.

Next were the humans the most feeble among all the other races ruled by the gods. They were the most fragile beings in this world, and yet they stood their ground and ruled over the majority of the lands and resources of the world. It was all because of their power to reproduce and the cunningness they held in their brains. They were the most crafty as well as the most intelligent races among all. Though they were weak, they utilised their intelligence to equip themselves with advanced weapons, fortified their cities and invaded other races. They expanded their regions and enslaved those from other races.

After that comes their race, the 'Demons'. They once were the most prominent race of the world, but it all became the talk of the past in the last five hundred years and after the war three hundred years ago they were left with nothing but hardships and sufferings. They were not intelligent like the humans, they could not reproduce like the humans nor were they powerful like the 'Gods' but they were strong enough to rule the world, but the war three hundred years ago took all of it away.

The Demons were banished into this barren land filled with molten lava as far as the n***d eye could see. It took them a couple of hundred years to grow accustomed to the surrounding, but the number of clan members they lost was way beyond they could imagine. There was not a single drop of tear left to mourn the dead.

The resources were scarce, to begin with on this land and over the years the resources all dried up. They could not even build themselves homes of wood because the only tree which could survive in this land took hundred and thousands of years to mature.

They had to live in houses made of rock, starve for food for days and suffocate in the fumes of the magma while the humans and other races enjoyed the true beauty and the vast resources the world had to offer. Why were the Gods so unfair, it's not like they started the war, to begin with.

While Erebus was thinking all this as he gazed towards the horizons, his father came and stood beside him. Erebus didn't even notice him arrive.

Seeing his son lost in thoughts, Agrud tapped on his shoulders.

"Ahh..." Erebus was so startled that he lost his balance. He would have fallen into the sea of magma below, if not for his father, who grabbed him in time and pulled him up.

"Father, what are you doing here? You almost startled me to death". Erebus complained.

Looking at his son all gloomy, Agrud tried to lighten the mood, "How can you act like a coward being my son?"

Erebus did not want to argue with his father any more, " Just tell me what are you doing tip topping behind me?"

Agrud sat beside Erebus, "Your mother found out that you were missing, she got all angry and asked me to find you and bring you home. If I were you, I would start thinking of ways to save my a*s".

"Ahh... not that, it will be hard to persuade her this time around".

"But, this is not why I am here". Agrud said.

"Then?" Erebus asked confused.

"You know tomorrow is the day, right?" Agrud asked.

"Yeah, I know". Erebus nodded.

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* During the phenomenon mentioned in the second chapter, the intensity of the colours increased. The sky turned blood red, clouds grew darker, which was abnormal.