"I am surprised Valt's bloodline is still being passed down"

The massive demon said as he looked at Zio.

"It been millions of year and the only human I see after Valt is his descendant, fate is a fucked up phenomenon"

The demon said while Zio is still staring at him.

"So are you the god Asura?"

Zio finally asked.

"God? hahahaha, I am no god, if I was a god I would have not been trapped in this mountain for such a long time, but I am indeed Asura, the strongest demon"

Asura said.

"But I thought you were a sword, I read it in that book"

Zio said, this massive demon which seemed bigger than the planet itself didn't look like a sword, instead he carried several swords in his hands.

"We, for now, I am a sword, this is just an illusion you are seeing, focus and you will be my real self"

Asura said.

Hearing him Zio focused by steadying his breath and he noticed that the massive image of Asura was slowly dimming along with the crumbled Mount Asura, soon Zio saw the real thing.

He noticed that he is at the end of the cave and right in the middle is a square rock which has ruins all over it and right in the middle of this cubical rock is a black sword stuck halfway inside it.

Zio noticed that this sword is just like the one described in the book, a long black double edge sword.

"Little boy, how did you get up here, you shouldn't be able to climb the mountain at all"

The voice of Asura suddenly came from within the sword startling Zio.

"I was grabbed by a massive vulture which brought be to the top who got eaten by that dragon outside"

Zio said.

"How did you get past that little lizard, he was there to stop anyone unworthy from entering"

Asura said.

"I fooled him to talking to himself and sneaked in"

Zio answered.

"Hahahaha, that stupid lizard, well that rule was indeed stupid and who in the right mind could defeat a fully grown dragon, Valt was an idiot and I got stuck here for millions of years without any exposure to the outside world"

Asura said.

"You are trapped here? Why can't you just go away since you are so powerful?" Zio asked.

I could if Valt had not trapped me here, that bastard was a massive bitch, he abandoned me after falling in love with some woman, I even forgot her name, what was it?"

Asura said and started to wonder what was the name of the woman that Valt fell in love with.

"Huh? Ancestor abandoned you for some girl, wouldn't one want power more than anything?"

Zio asked confused by the action of his ancestor.

"Of course right, that is what I thought as well, who would have believed that the partner I spent my entire Religan life would betray me for a woman who wanted to live in peace"

Asura said and grumbled.

"That's stupid, If it was me I would have wanted unlimited power"

Zio said.

"You are a very wise kid, ultimate power is indeed the best thing one can get, your ancestor was a great candidate, we could have become even stronger than my previous form but he gave up all his power just to live with some random girl, what was her name again? I forgot"

Asura said and cursed.

"Did it really happen, did ancestor really gave up all his power just to live with some woman?"

Zio asked. He who looked up to this ancestor felt betrayed for some reason.

"Indeed, and we were just about to break through the last shackle that bounded us to this universe but he chickened out, he wanted to live here and build a family rather than explore what is outside our universe, accruing answers that would lead us one step closer to true immortality"

Asura said disappointed.

"True Immortality? what is that?" Zio asked.

The word Immortal was new to him, he didn't understand it.

"True Immortality is when a being reaches a stage that his body and soul would not be affected by time at all, they will be able to live for the rest of eternity itself, even if the universe comes to an end they won't"

Asura said with envy filled in his voice.

"So there are people who reached such a stage?"

Zio asked curiously.

"None in our universe, I tried to find a way to break through the shackles that were holding me but my demon body was not able to break the shackles, I needed the help of a human to do so, that is why I turned myself into a Religan and made a contract with Valt to break the limit"

Asura said.

"Awesome, even I want to break the limit, Asura become my partner and we will break through the limit"

Zio said excitedly.

"Hahahaha, kid you are funny but it is a possibility, I sense a deep sin in you, stronger than Valt's when I first met him"

Asura said.

"Sin? What Sin?"

Zio asked.

"You don't need to know now but you are a perfect candidate to be my partner even though you are weak and you cannot possibly pull me out of this rock, you need to grow stronger to pull me out of this rock"

Asura said.

"By the way why are you stuck in the rock?" Zio asked.

"Of course it was Valt, he knew that I would not let him live his life with that woman so he trapped me here and then ordered a Tempest Dragon to guard this cave with their life, that stupid lizard died but his descendants kept on doing so, generation after generation"

Asura grumbled in anger again.

"So how do I pull you out?"

Zio asked.

He didn't want to waste his time, he needed to go back to his clan.