Aku was not the hero destined to save the world, nor the princess destined to be rescued.

He was the demon king. Born without a name, without form, without freedom, predestined to die at the hands of the hero from his birth.

However, Aku decided to defy fate. He took over the hero's body to find his freedom.

It was then that an angel spoke to him, believing he was the hero who had failed to defeat the demon king.

The angel told him that countless worlds and countless demon kings existed; those heroes who failed their mission were sent to an academy to amend their mistake.

Now Aku will find himself caught up in battles with other demon kings and wars in other worlds while deciding whether to choose the path of good or allow himself to be consumed by darkness.

The shockwaves rippling through the Academy of Heroes were not mere acoustic vibrations; they were pulses of kinematic decompression that made the superstructure of the floating island groan. Every impact between the elite faculty and the sovereigns of the Outer Void warped the topology of the environment. Walls reinforced with graphene alloys and runic seals collapsed not from physical impact, but from fluctuations in the local gravitational constant. The training platforms, suspended by stable-flux superconducting magnets, oscillated violently in the face of interference in the curvature tensor of space. Entire sectors had been submerged in absolute gloom, where the only visual references were bursts of matter-antimatter annihilation and the violet lightning leaking from the event horizon of the outer void.


Chapter 129 - Demon Kings vs Instructors. (2)