Well, a fight now seemed unavoidable.

The elders were more stubborn than I thought. I knew they hated me, it was not just the gem but also the high elves I killed in the cave, I had killed someone from their family after all, that alone would have given them enough reason to kill me rather than save the elves; also the one who knew I was a replica was only the king, only he knew it was pointless to kill me, but even if he revealed the fact now, it would not change much, they still would not change their mind and let me walk out of here with the gem.

Well, I guess I have no way to take the divine gem with me, but that did not mean I would return it to them.

The decision was made, they choose to attack me, one of the elders pointed a sword at me, another came from behind, after that they could hear the sound of an explosion coming from their kingdom, but they ignored it. The king was there just watching.

He could have chosen to save his own daughter. He was a king, suppressing others with his own power, would not have been difficult at all, but rather than being a tyrant, he listened to others, in the end, what was the value of being a benevolent ruler? If it was you and your loved ones that suffered in the future.

I was now surrounded by the three elders, their swords were emitting light that burned my skin, being a darkness user, I was at an absolute disadvantage.

I separated the gem from the crown and tried to merge it with my hand with the only choice left.

[Initiating Deconstruct and Reconstruct]

“You fool, what do you think you are doing?”

“Stop it now!!!!!”

“Don’t you dare and try to taint our divine gem by merging it with your flesh.”

Fool!!!! What do you think is going to happen if a person with a darkness attribute tries to use a divine item.”

[Deconstruct and Reconstruct Completed]

When I merged the gem in my hand, I could feel divine power flow within my body, it was destroying my body, but I was also able to convert some of it into my own mana and keep my body together for some time, I could also feel the Fruit slowly feeding on the gem.

“Humm, why are you guys so worried? It’s my body I will do whatever I want with it or are you worried that I might not only destroy my body but also your divine gem.”

“Hurry up, and kill him before he destroys the gem.”

All of them rushed towards me, but I could use some high-tier spell with the mana from the gem.

“Red Moon”

I Created a red moon between my arms. The elders who had just attacked me received back the damage they inflicted, but as their attacks, were made from light, they did not receive much damage.

The king finally started to take action. Rather than directly attacking, he used purification, my red moon was incomplete, I could not dodge it, and the flow of Magic within my body had stopped.

“I am afraid I am going to have to end you now.”

He then created 7 divine swords within the air, using telekinesis he pointed the swords at me and attacked me with it.

Without Magic, I was unable to dodge, the swords had penetrated my body, from my arms, including the heart, the replica was nearly destroyed.

“This is the end,” said the king of the elves.

I used soul puppetry to stand up one last time, I started to flow all of my mana towards the gem.

“Yes, this is the end.”

“Well, it’s unfortunate that I won’t be able to take this stone, but I have completed my task. Now, I am about to be destroyed, but mark my words, I will return, and next time when I return I won’t be alone, and I also won’t be in such a weak state, SO, It might not be soon but, I will return, await the day, the day I bring destruction upon your kingdom.”

“Also, Since I was moved by your actions, I left a gift for you, the king of elves.”

The mana from my body and mana from the gem, collided and both of them got destroyed in an explosive manner

“No, the gem, it's destroyed.”

“We failed to protect it.”

“Your majesty,” other elders arrived in the scene

“Yes, we have suffered a loss, but it's not a loss we cannot repair from, go to the city of elves, and begin healing them.”

“No, that’s not it, your majesty, the elves know, they know we sacrificed them for the gem someone must have spread the news.”

“What?”

“The remaining elves won’t stay quite knowing this, the elves will revolt against the high elves.”

“So, this is what he meant when he said he completed his task, wait, the shrine? What happened to the shrine?”

“The shrine? Nothing has happened over there, your majesty.”

“What? Was there no explosion, and what about the princess?”

“Everything is fine in there, your majesty, so is the princess, she is fine.”

“Ha ha ha, that bastard, a gift, huh.”

I woke up in my original body.

[The replica has been destroyed]

It was unfortunate that I had to destroy the gem, and my replica got damaged. But I also found out how the Fruit worked.

Now, I needed to create a new replica.

[New Body Replica Model Has Been Formed]

Race: Hybrid

Body structure made form the model of Alric Edward contains both human cells and high elf cells. Also contains few fragments of the divine gem of the high elves.

Unique Trait: Can contain both light and dark attribute

The Fruit, took my own cells, the cells of the elves, and even the fragments of the gem. It would devour things that contained unique powers like such evolved light attribute of the high elf and the divine mana of the gem and stored it within itself, and when my replica would get recreated, it would give those abilities to me.