The Grand Duke's Son Is A Heretic

Chapter 560 560: 560

The figure remained seated, and his gaze stayed fixed on the distant sky while Kael stood before him, and although no words were spoken for a moment, the silence did not feel empty but instead felt heavy, as if something deep was being weighed and measured.

Then the figure slowly lifted his hand, and the space around them shifted in response while faint distortions spread outward.

"You have already seen it," he said calmly, and his voice carried quiet certainty. "Every path you take leads to failure, and every choice you make binds you deeper into their design."

Kael's expression hardened, but he did not interrupt and instead listened.

The figure continued without pause.

"You think power is the answer, and you think becoming a God will free you, but that is where you are wrong."

He finally turned his head fully, and his crimson eyes locked onto Kael.

"Godhood is a cage."

Kael's eyes narrowed slightly as he absorbed the words.

"You are trying to ascend within a system that was built by them, and no matter how strong you become inside it, you will always remain within their control."

"You reached here with their blessings.Without it who knows where you would have been rotting."

The words struck deeply, and Kael did not deny them because he had already seen the truth in countless possibilities.

The figure slowly stood up, and as he rose, the mountain of corpses beneath him shifted and collapsed into dust while scattering into nothingness.

"You want to reach my level," he said, and his voice remained steady and firm.

"Then you need to stop becoming what they want you to become."

Kael frowned slightly, and a question formed in his mind.

"Then what should I become?" he asked.

The figure stepped forward, and each step caused the space beneath him to break and reform as if reality itself struggled to hold him.

Kael paused, and his brows furrowed slightly.

The figure stopped directly in front of him.

"Not a God, not a ruler, not a savior, and not even a destroyer in the way you understand it."

His gaze sharpened slightly.

"You need to become a variable they cannot predict."

Kael's breathing slowed as he focused.

The figure raised his hand again, and countless fragments of broken possibilities appeared around them, but this time they remained frozen in place.

"These are all paths where you follow the rules," he said. "Even when you resist, you are still reacting to them, and that means you are still inside their system."

Kael looked at those fragments, and each one showed him losing in the end.

The figure clenched his hand, and all the fragments shattered instantly.

"You don't break the system by fighting harder," he continued. "You break it by stepping outside of what it defines."

Kael's eyes flickered slightly as understanding began to form.

"And how do I do that?" he asked.

The figure remained silent for a moment, and then he answered.

"You abandon certainty."

Kael did not respond immediately, but his gaze deepened.

The figure stepped closer.

"You rely too much on controlling your devour, your slaughter, and your power are all built on taking, consuming, and dominating."

His voice remained calm.

"That is exactly why they let you grow."

Kael's expression changed slightly.

"They knew what you would become, and they shaped the path so that no matter how far you go, you will eventually reach a point where they can take everything from you."

The figure raised his hand again, and this time a single path appeared before Kael.

It was incomplete, broken, and unclear.

"This is the only way forward," he said.

Kael looked at it, and for the first time he could not see the outcome, and that unknown felt unstable and dangerous.

"If you take this step," the figure said, "you will lose control over everything, and you may lose your power, your identity, and even yourself."

His voice remained steady.

"But you will also break free."

Kael stood still, and his thoughts slowed as something inside him began to shift.

For the first time, he was not seeing endless failure, and instead he was seeing nothing, and that nothing carried possibility.

The figure looked at him one last time.

"Destroy what they have," he said quietly, "and rely on your strength."

"In all those countless years, think about that one aspect."

"Master that aspect and use it to sharpen the sword.And then using the sword cut them apart."

"Now think.."

BOOOOO

Kael's eyes slowly closed, and the battlefield, the gods, and the war all faded from his awareness for a moment.

Then he opened his eyes again, and something within them had changed.

The world around him shifted once more, and this time it did not show him the future but instead dragged him into something far more personal.

It showed him his past.

He saw a small and broken place, and he saw himself standing there, younger and weaker while facing people who did not hide their disgust, and their eyes were filled with contempt while their voices carried no warmth.

He saw his parents, and they looked at him with cold and distant expressions before turning away, and then they were gone, leaving nothing behind.

Abandoned.

The memory remained sharp, and it did not fade with time.

He watched himself being pushed aside again and again while others stepped over him without care, and he saw hunger, struggle, and nights where survival itself felt fragile.

Then he ran, and he left everything behind while stepping into a harsher world where weakness had no place.

That was where the mercenary life began, and it was filled with blood, fights, and endless battles.

He grew, not because he was chosen or special, but because he refused to lose no matter how many times he fell.

That was the only constant.

Through every battle, every wound, every betrayal, and every near death experience, his tenacity remained, and his refusal to fall never broke while his will to win only grew stronger.

He saw himself enter the army, and the battles grew larger, but the pattern remained as he fought, endured, and survived while others fell.

Before gaining blessings his will and persistence to survive was what kept him alive.

Not only it kept him alive it pushed him to grow stronger and stronger.

Then something changed, and that stubborn will to survive twisted as it sharpened into madness that did not hesitate or hold back.

He saw himself no longer fighting just to survive, but fighting to destroy everything in his path.

Slaughter became his way, not for pleasure but because it was the most direct path to victory.

And from that madness, his swordsmanship was born.It was not taught and not inherited, but created from his own will.

Dimensional swordsmanship.A style that cuts not just bodies but space itself.

He found the way out but to take that step he needed link and as he thought a sudden inspiration came into his mind

His titles had been many.

A title symbolises the field of power but with so many titles he could walk in the path of many

He raised his hand,and from the power of belief gathered around the segregated few.

Beside slaughter,there was chaos, destruction,fear,madness,persistence and many more.

Seeing it,his eyes widened.

The visions stopped, and silence returned.

The white-haired figure stood before him again.

"You understand it now, right?" he asked.

The world began to crack.

Kael's lips curved upward slowly, and madness returned to his expression.

"Hahahaa…" his laughter echoed as it rose.

"How can I forget it…"

His eyes gleamed sharply.

"Godhood… fuck that shit…"

"Scared!"

"Me..Afraid of gods."

"Fuck that!"

"They are stronger and took my power."

"Fuck that!"

"It should be you all who should be afraid of me, not the other way around."

His shoulders relaxed.

"I am just a mad man… kekkeke."

The cracks spread rapidly, and the space collapsed completely.

Then a small orb appeared, and it floated quietly before him while carrying a presence beyond everything else.

Kael looked at it briefly, and then he reached out and grabbed it.

The moment his hand closed around it, the world shattered completely.

Everything broke apart.

And in the next instant, Kael opened his eyes and returned to the battlefield where the gods and chaos remained.

"Time to go crazy."