Chapter 1160 – Cursed Guard [Part 2]
Vaelor's breathing became heavier.
"He made me watch."
Lux said nothing.
"He imprisoned her beneath the palace ruins. Then he changed me."
Vaelor touched the broken chain wound in his shoulder.
"He poured demonic power into my body until my bones broke. He rebuilt them. Broke them again. He kept changing me until I could survive here forever."
Lux's eyes sharpened.
So that explained the database.
The system couldn't find his demonic origin because there wasn't one.
He hadn't been born in Hell.
He hadn't been summoned.
He hadn't even been transformed through any recognized infernal lineage.
Kaelmor had manufactured him.
A mortal converted into something demon-adjacent through brute force.
"What was your command?"
Vaelor's face twisted. "Guard the princess."
Lux frowned. "That sounds like your original duty."
"It was."
Vaelor stopped. His claws dug into his palms. "That was the cruelty."
Lux understood before Vaelor finished.
