My Dark Devil System

System Reminder: 655 days remaining until your soul is claimed.

Chapter 7 – When the Dead Remember

Rain hammered the cathedral ruins long after Kael left its cursed heart behind. But the storm followed him—not of weather, but of whispers.

As Kael walked back into the shattered city, each footstep echoed with something deeper than thunder. It was the weight of stolen memory… and vengeance.

System Alert:

[Digest Memory – GLUTTONY Skill Active]

Target: Grand Disciple Vaern

You may now access key memories of the bound soul.

Filtered Emotion: Contempt

Filtered Secret: Project Heirlock

Filtered Regret: Serah.

Kael paused mid-step.

"…Serah?"

Memory Playback – Within Kael's Mind

A white room.

Bookshelves lined with divine scriptures and heretical blueprints.

Vaern and Serah stood at the center, their voices hushed.

"He's not stable," Serah said, fingers curled tightly. "The experiment is cracking his soul. If you push harder—"

"He is not meant to last," Vaern said. "Kael Vireth was designed as a test. A tool. Project Heirlock needs him to break before the true vessel is forged."

Kael's heart stopped in the memory.

Serah clenched her jaw. "He's not a weapon. He's a person."

Vaern turned to her, expression like cold steel. "Then mourn him later."

End of Memory

Kael stumbled forward, breath ragged, as reality returned.

The truth wasn't that he had been betrayed.

He was engineered.

"Lucivar," he whispered. "You knew this."

Lucivar Response Detected

[System Voice – Glitched Distortion]

"Of course. You were never meant to survive… but you made a pact. And now, the game has changed."

Kael's fingers twitched with flame.

He was shaking—wrath, betrayal, confusion—and under it all, sorrow.

[Fury Meter Activated]

Damage increased by 12%

He lifted his eyes toward the fog-laden streets of Valeria's outer ring.

"I'm finding her," he growled. "And I'm getting answers."

Scene Transition – Valeria Outer Ring

The city outskirts were a graveyard of forgotten dreams—slums that even the priests didn't bother to purify. Metal skeletons of buildings. Flickering neon signs. Muted wails behind locked windows.

Kael entered the lower market—a ghost in a hooded cloak. Sin Points pulsed subtly around him, and his system filtered targets.

[Sin Detection Active]

Target 1: Merchant – Dominant Sin: Greed

Target 2: Addict – Dominant Sin: Sloth

Target 3: Unknown (Approaching) – Sin: Masked

A child darted across the alleyway—no older than 12. Dirty. Half-starved. But fast.

And clutched to his chest… a stolen holy relic.

[Sin Detection Fails] – Target is using concealment magic.

Kael's eyes narrowed.

Then came the second figure. A robed assassin. Unmarked blades. No crest—no house. No light.

But Kael could see him for what he was: a Silencer.

The clergy's secret enforcers.

They were hunting the boy.

Kael stepped into the alley as the Silencer lunged.

[Infernal Surge – WRATH Tree – Activated]

Kael's body ignited in hellfire and blurred through the air.

He slammed into the Silencer like a meteor, sending the man crashing into a wall.

[SP Gained: +3 (Mid-tier kill)]

[Golden Fangs Bonus Applied]

The boy stared, frozen.

Kael crouched beside him, extending a hand.

"What's your name?"

The child hesitated, eyes darting around. "...Tenn."

Kael's sin sensor still couldn't read him.

But he could see the fear. And… the recognition.

"You know who I am," Kael said.

Tenn bit his lip. "You're the broken one. The devil-touched. They say you want to burn everything."

Kael's face didn't change. "And what do you want?"

The boy looked up.

"To make them pay."

Scene Transition – Safehouse

Kael led Tenn to a collapsed cellar beneath an old temple. He lit a cursed lantern and activated [No Hurry] to regenerate stamina.

He knelt beside the boy, inspecting the relic he had stolen.

A shard of crystal.

Glowing faintly. Whispering faintly.

[System Analysis...]

Shard of the Worldforge. Origin: Pre-System Era.

Data Seal Detected – Forbidden Design Blueprints Hidden

"Where did you find this?" Kael asked.

Tenn's lips trembled. "In a vault. One of the broken priests kept it locked behind something called… 'Heirlock.' Said it could make gods out of trash."

Kael's eyes darkened.

[System Override Opportunity Detected]

Would you like to corrupt the blueprint inside?

"Yes," Kael hissed.

The system surged.

Blueprints corrupted.

New Devil Path Added: Forbidden Evolution (Locked – NG 85% Required)

Nightmare Gauge: 42%

SP: 26

Devil Contracts: 1/3

System Status: Stable

📅 Days Remaining: 655

System Log Updated.

– Tenn added to Watchlist (Potential Contract Candidate)

– New Objective: Investigate Project Heirlock

– Secret Subsystem: Worldforge Fragment Acquired

– Forbidden Evolution Path: Added (Locked)

End of Chapter 7