Rebirth: Tyrant's New Reality

"Mom... I won't do anything so let's have a chat," Arkhen said with a happy smile as he sat down at the table after throwing away the woman's body.

"Alright. I also need to teach you some manners," Arkhen's mother said with a smile after wiping her tears and sitting down at the table.

"So, how are you?" Arkhen asked with a grin. "How is your next life?"

"I am happy, but I am happier to see you again."

"Kill them both!"

The surrounding people once again started chanting as they marched toward Arkhen.

"Kill that woman as well! She must be evil to have such an evil son!"

"Kill!"

Everyone rushed towards Arkhen and his mother with various weapons! Some started throwing beer bottles and food.

Soon, several people with powers also arrived in the sky and pointed their hands at Arkhen before releasing their energy attacks!

Arkhen clicked his tongue in annoyance as he created a square box force field around him to block all attacks and everything thrown at them.

Afterward, he resume his talk as he smiled at his mother and said, "Mom. You don't know, but after you passed away, Devin turned so violent. I knew he was violent towards you. I saw that once and was scared.

"When I asked you, you just smiled and said it was common, but I... I knew it was not.

"After you left me, he beat me up regularly to take out his frustration. He remarried when I turned ten, but the bitch married stole all the money and jewelry before leaving, which increased that bastard Devin's violence towards me even more.

"After I turned fifteen, he married again, and his violence decreased a bit but then... his, his new wife, her daughter's mental torture began."

Arkhen continued speaking while his illusion mother listened and even caressed his cheeks lovingly with a pitiful expression.

After half an hour, Arkhen stood up and sighed before speaking, "Although you are fake, I wanted to talk to you again. Even though this is an illusion, you are as real as I remember you in my memories. So... Thank you. But it's time to end this."

"What are you saying, son?"

'I guess I need to destroy this entire Oasis...' Arkhen thought as he looked around and ignored his illusion mother. 'First, I'll drop a few Infernal Stars.'

...

[My lord? Wake up, my lord!].

[How can this happen? He should be able to come out of this illusion].

Velshi was floating around Arkhen, showing great worry as she constantly called out to Arkhen.

When the night descended, the faint light of the moon penetrated ever so faintly that Arkhen or Velshi didn't notice it.

Everything just seemed real at first, but suddenly, Arkhen stopped flying. That was when Velshi knew that something happened and figured that Arkhen entered some kind of illusion.

It's been over an hour, but Arkhen was still inside, and Velshi was getting increasingly worried.

[Arkhen, my lord! Please wake up!]

Suddenly, Arkhen's eyes trembled as he opened his eyes.

[My lord!]

Velshi in her cute ball form with big eyes and wings angrily hit Arkhen's head and said, [You worried me so much!]

"Haha, my bad. I encountered an illusion of my mother inside that illusion and decided to spend some time with her," Arkhen said with a smile. "Anyway, sorry for making you worry."

[Seriously! I must caution you still that do not underestimate Doom Tower! Some floors can be fatal to your life!]

"Got it, got it. I am staying fully cautious," Arkhen said with a wry smile.

Arkhen then continued flying in the desert. When only five hours were left until the 24-hour survival challenge, Arkhen encountered five giant sandworms as they towered over him.

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|Dune Lord Worm|

-HP: [2,000,000/2,000,000]

-EP: 650,000

-Skills: Dune Form, Sand Storm, Frozen Fangs, Moon Armor.

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"Alright. This is going to be fun," Arkhen said with a grin as he summoned his undead army.

He also wanted to increase the mastery of his two new skills: S-rank skill-> Fiery Rings. SS-rank skill-> Lightning Net.

...

The battle was intense, but Arkhen managed to kill all of them. He didn't need to go all out, but it was still a constant intense battle because of the five vs one situation. As for his Undead Army... All of them were killed.

After all, Arkhen was only spamming his two new skills to make them reach the highest rank mastery. Those two skills didn't damage those giant worms that much.

Basically, Arkhen used his Undead Army as a meat shield to keep those worms busy while he spammed the skills and gained max rank mastery in them.

Only after gaining max mastery did he kill the worms.

After killing the worms, he just waited for roughly an hour before the 24 hours survival period was over.

Since he passed the floor challenge, a door appeared in front of him along with notifications.

[Congratulations! You have successfully passed the 11th floor].

[You have gained Demonic Blessing x 1]

"What to do with this Demonic Blessing?" Arkhen asked.

[This blessing is specifically for your <Violent Grasp> skill. Use it on the skill and evolve it].

"Eh? I thought I would use it on myself and get some demonic powers, hehe. But oh well, skill evolution it is, then."

Arkhen used the Demonic Blessing, which was in form of a card. He activated the card by simply infusing primal energy into it.

The card produces a demonic hologram with only the words <Violent Grasp> in it.

"If I had some other demonic skills, I could have used this blessing on them, right?"

[Yep. But you didn't get any so far. Anyway, this Demonic Blessing will evolve <Violent Grasp> to a whole new level. Expect a good result, my lord ^_^]

Arken saw Velshi making a smiley expression at the end and laughed. "Alright, let's see then."

Arkhen touched the skill bar of <Voilent Grasp> in the demonic hologram to initiate the Demonic Blessing of the card on his skill.

*Swirl~*

The card started turning faint, and the hologram also disappeared as demonic, dark purple motes formed from the card and entered Arkhen's body.

Arkhen felt new information entering his mind and soul as he clearly felt his <Violent grasp> skill changing. Nay! It was evolving!

After a minute, the whole process was done as Arkhen took a deep breath after experiencing great changes.

"Hehe, that is truly demonic."

Arkhen released a snickering chuckle after the skill evolution. The <Violent Grasp> skill turned into....

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[ Demonic Overlord's Descent ]

[ -Rank: Ex+ ]

[ -Affinity: Demonic ]

[ -Cost: 10% of your Primal Energy]

[ -Effect: Conjures a demonic avatar for you to command and unleash devastating demonic attacks. ]

[ -Demonic Overlord Avatar's abilities: Impurity Barrage, Demonic Prison, Baal's Gaze. ]

[ -Note: Demonic Avatar's stats are 100% of your stats, including EP]

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"Alright, onwards to the next floor!"

Arkhen entered the door and arrived on the 12th floor of the Doom Tower.

[12th Floor: Mecha Kingdom]

-> Challenge: Sneak into the Mecha Kingdom's fortress and steal the Spark Motor.

-> Reward: Spark Motor, which you will steal.

[My lord! That Spark Motor is a very useful item! You must get it for your sake. Also, the challenge specifically mentioned sneaking. So, do sneak instead of going frontal because the Mecha race in the world of nine realms goes all the way to the 9th realm from the 1st realm. We don't know how powerful the Mecha Kingdom on this floor is]

"Alright," Arkhen said and nodded as he stood atop a hill after coming out of the door and saw sparkling lights far away. "I guess that area filled with lights and sky full of metal objects is the Mecha Kingdom."

[Indeed]