Epic Of Caterpillar

Chapter 484 - [Scripted Event] [Sunclaw Kingdom Conquest] 9/?: The Specter Prince Short Life

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Noboru Sunclaw was the youngest child that the King and Queen of Sunclaw had. However, unlike the King of Moonfang, the King of Sunclaw did not have many concubines but remained with a single wife, so Noboru only had a big sister to take care of him, which loved him dearly.

Due to the lineage of his father and his mother, he was born as a half Gray Wolf and a half Phantasmal Werefox beastmen like his sister, Princess Miki Sunclaw.

His parents had great expectations of him, as his sister had developed unique abilities, skills, and magic after merging both of her parentʼs bloodlines into herself. However, Noboru was born as a sickly boy, and often spent several days in bed, most of the time with strange fevers that would last for whole weeks, nausea, and vomit.

Unlike most of the beastmen at his age, when he was twelve, he remained small and sickly, with pale white skin and almost dead eyes.

Shamans, doctors, and witches that had been brought to treat him were incapable of healing him and only came out with conjectures on what could Noboru had.

Noboruʼs soul was strange, different than others. Phantasmal Werefox was a subspecies of Canine Beastmen that could manipulate phantoms, specters, and ghosts, and some even had special qualities in their souls that could let them have some abilities that phantoms had.

However, Noboruʼs soul did not have a few smaller qualities, but his entire soul was strange and deformed, resembling a completely different being than himself, a specter, a furious and phantasmal creature contained inside his small and sickly body. Each time he fell sick or had a fever, it was his spectral soul that was trying to get outside of the delicate cage of Noboruʼs body.

If Noboru were to succumb to his spectral soul, his body would die and he would become a crazed monster, losing all memories and emotions. This was his greatest fear, after experience the love of his family, he would never forgive himself if he were to somehow damage them.

This is why he confined himself inside his room, never getting out, he rested on his bed and resisted his spectral soul rampage as much as he could, but his body grew weaker by the months, after living for twelve years, it seems that his body would not be able to resist such pressure any longer… soon enough he would die and his spectral soul would be freed from the cage of his body, free to rampage and fall to his primal instincts that seek destruction and slaughter.

His parents and sister would come to visit him daily, but he knew that soon enough he would perish… he at least wanted to escape the Kingdom and die in the wild, where no one that he cared for would be damaged after his spectral soul were to be freed…

However, one day, the Heroes of Sunclaw brought a gift to Noboru to celebrate his thirteen birthdays. A strange dark grimoire that was told by them to be capable of absorbing Mana and Soul Energy.

Although it might be dangerous for most people, Noboruʼs soul was highly abnormal, and it possessed an immense amount of Soul Energy to spare, which was also what gave it the strength to shake Noboruʼs physical body so much.

With hopes of recovering, he took upon the Grimoire that day… as a strange entity from within awakened.

The strange, chaotic, and eerily ominous entity inside the strange and dark grimoire was no other than Geggoron, the Demon Demigod of Hateful Distrustʼs Split Soul. Using its Divinity, it took over Noboruʼs body and suppressed his crazed soul, feeding upon his large amount of Soul Energy while shaping his memories and personality, slowly eroding his entire self…

As the young prince was being taken over by Geggoronʼs split soul inside the strange grimoire, his father and mother, alongside his sister, were also being taken over by the evil Demon Demigod simple schemes.

Geggoron was quite right in some things, such as that Sunclaw would have been easy to conquer… unlike in Moonfang where it took a sizable amount of time, in Sunclaw everything was done in a few months. The whole family was taken over, and Noboru, seemingly healed from his illness joined them.

The entire family was nothing else than Geggoronʼs alter egos by now, cooperating and working together to serve him as better as possible.