Arcanum: Chaos Path

Chapter 403 Little Ke Suppresses Two Unruly Kids
"You're thanking me so much today. I told you not to be so polite. Of course, if you really feel bad about it, then you can work for me?" Luo Lin waved his hand and said without any politeness, "After all, you know I'm really short-staffed here."

Azik wasn't surprised to hear this, as he was already familiar with Rowling's personality. He simply smiled and said, "I thought I'd been working for you for a long time."

"Ah, it seems so?" Luo Lin nodded, then his eyes flashed with a fierce light as he said, "But your workload was seriously insufficient before, so now that you're going to officially start working, your workload will have to increase."

Upon hearing this, Azik almost instinctively glanced at a certain Red Angel, his mind flashing with the other's terrifying workload. This made Azik pause for a second, then, as if remembering something, he gained more confidence and spoke:

"That sounds terrifying, but luckily, having served as the Death Ruler, I am quite familiar with handling government affairs."

Rolin blinked, then realized that he seemed to have overlooked something—the Death Archon was originally Salinger's handpicked tool for handling government affairs, and he was able to manage the entire Byron Empire, which shows that he was quite capable.

Rowling's eyes lit up immediately. Although the workload of his assistants had been reduced a lot with the help of the assistants provided by Herabogen, they were still short of people. If a top-notch assistant joined now, both Sasriel and Medici would be able to relax a lot.

So without hesitation, Roland reached out and patted Azik on the shoulder, saying, "It's a deal!"

“…It’s a deal.” Azik suddenly felt a little regretful, but it was too late to regret it now, so he could only nod.

The others who witnessed this scene had different expressions. Medici shook his head and even clicked his tongue, saying, "Hopeless!"

Another guy bewitched by Rowling.

"Is there any hope for you, Little Red's mother?" Little Amon suddenly asked, his expression quite serious.

"Ahem..." Little K quickly pulled Little Amon aside. Having long since grown accustomed to treating him like a child, he coughed lightly and looked at Medici, saying, "Mr. Medici, please don't mind him, Little Amon didn't mean it..."

“He didn’t do it on purpose, because he did it intentionally.” Medici sneered, glanced at little Amon, and suddenly reached out and flicked the other’s forehead.

"Snapped--"

The next second, Little Amon flew out, at least ten meters away, and crashed into a coffin. With a loud crash, Little Amon got up from among the broken planks and bones, and stubbornly looked at Medici, saying, "Little Red Mom, you're too rough! I only said... um!"

Before Little Amon could finish speaking, he was interrupted. Little Ke quickly covered his mouth, stopping him from continuing his reckless behavior, and said in a somewhat helpless low voice:

"My little darling, could you please say less?"

“I think Little Amon is right, Little Red is indeed quite irritable…” Jack, who had also run up to Little Amon’s side, started talking at this moment, but before he could finish speaking, Little K covered his mouth with his other hand.

Exhausted from dealing with the unruly child, Xiao Ke glared at "Jack" helplessly and said, "You better shut up!"

Jack, who had been glared at, immediately grinned sheepishly. As he broke free from Little K's grasp, he complained, "Little K, you look like a mother hen right now!"

"So who caused this?" Little Ke let go, looking at "Jack" with annoyance. Heaven knows what it's been like for him to take care of two unruly kids these past few days; all I can say is that sometimes Little Ke really feels despair because he's too reliable.

If he weren't so reliable, he could also be a brat instead of following behind two brats and cleaning up their messes.

“Uh…” Jack’s eyes darted around a few times before he finally changed the subject, saying, “How about we check on Mr. Azik’s condition instead?”

Little K glanced at him helplessly, but did not continue the previous topic. Instead, he looked at Azik not far away.

At that moment, Azik had just received a bracelet from the Goddess of Night.

"Although Lucifer and I have temporarily suppressed the resurgent will of Salinger within you, this does not mean He won't return. After all, you are His descendant and have been modified by Him, making you a natural vessel for His resurrection." The Goddess of Night spoke softly, yet without much emotion.
"These bracelets contain my power and can help you further suppress Salinger's resurgence, but this is only an aid. Ultimately, you must rely on your own will to fight against your father. If you want to truly get rid of Salinger, then become Death and replace your father. Only then can you gain true freedom."

“…I know, thank you, Your Excellency.” Azik gazed at the bracelet in his hand, not surprised by the words of the Goddess of Night. As the person involved, He naturally knew that Salinger’s will was only temporarily dormant and had not truly disappeared.

However, Azik was not afraid of this. The most dangerous time for him, when he was most likely to be replaced by death, was when he had just merged with another soul. At that time, he was not complete and his cognition was not unified, so he was extremely weak.

But now that he has overcome the previous difficulty, even if Death were to resurrect within him, Azik is not incapable of fighting back.

Ultimately, Death has fallen, and its remaining will, like that of the ancient gods, is dangerous but not invincible.

As long as Azik has enough anchors and his humanity is resilient enough, he can suppress the will of death—something he can hardly do while his soul is fused, given the enormous impact of inconsistent cognition. In a world where unified cognition and adherence to one's own beliefs are necessary to fight against a stronger will, he is almost defenseless.

Even if Azik's soul were to merge with Death Archon, it would still be difficult to fight against Death, since Death Archon's humanity is too weak and would be easily suppressed by Death.

Only Azik, guided by humanity, unified his understanding, and possessed a wealth of anchors, had the resources to fight against the will of Death's resurrection.

And if Azik successfully advances to Sequence 0 and replaces the Grim Reaper, it is not impossible—Salinger is not an ancient god like the Celestial Venerable, and the traces he left on the path of the Grim Reaper are not so indelible.

However, that will be a long time from now; He is still far from death.

"I look forward to the day you become the Grim Reaper. Perhaps you can bring me some new surprises then." The Goddess of Night gazed at the gentle history professor before her, feeling a little incredulous.

Before today, He had never imagined that He would one day say such things to a death-ready candidate.

However… the Goddess of Night glanced at Rolin, who was smiling beside her, but silently looked away.

He didn't know if his choice was right or wrong, but at least for now, making Azik the King of Angels was probably not a bad thing.

(End of this chapter)