Infernal Entity: Evolving With My Demonic System-Chapter 56: Investigation

Kinsey didn’t sleep... not exactly.

She lay on her bed with her eyes open, staring into the darkness of the girls’ dorm complex as her mind replayed the alleyway again and again. Every detail returned no matter how hard she tried to push them away. The venom cutting through the air. The way Dane’s body vanished. The sound of bones snapping inside Axel’s body. The way he screamed.

Just when things in her head started to line up, the answers slipped away. She groaned in frustration and turned on her bed, pulling her sheets tighter around herself.

Her eyes drifted to the ceiling as she started speaking to herself.

"His body changed..."

The words sounded strange even to her. She thought back carefully. Axel didn’t have powers when he first arrived at the academy. She was sure of it, considering he didn’t use any during their test. Then the first time she ever saw him use an ability was in the gym. And now, in that alley, he had used something completely different. So that would mean that her person of interest had more than one ability.

"Maybe... a twin mutation?" she whispered to herself.

It was the closest explanation she could come up with. Some mutants were born with rare double traits; it was uncommon, but not impossible. But no matter how she turned it in her head, it didn’t explain everything.

A mutation didn’t make one’s body break apart and rebuild itself, and it certainly didn’t make a person scream like something was tearing them open from the inside.

Axel wasn’t human. She told herself that.

She didn’t know what he was, but she was going to find out.

"Tomorrow, I’ll challenge him. I won’t give him the chance to beat me, and I shall see for myself if that invisible person would force him to forfeit again."

Kinsey narrowed her eyes as the thought settled in her mind. She needed to see it for herself because only then would she be sure and finally satisfy her curiosity.

Her gaze shifted to the side of the room where the Godrend sword rested quietly nearby.

She stared at it for a long moment, then finally turned away and let her eyes close.

At long last, sleep claimed her.

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Morning dawned immediately at the Oval Academy, and Kinsey woke up and immediately checked her digital device. Her class schedule flashed onto the screen, followed by her daily allowance.

[+5 CNT]

She scoffed.

"What kind of human lives on five CNT a day?" she muttered. "What the hell kind of school is this?!"

Her gaze then shifted to her account balance itself, and it displayed a whopping 10,020 CNT!

That amount was a lot for regular students like Axel, but for her, it looked normal.

"At least Father remembered I’m still his daughter..." she muttered. There was no warmth in her voice, only mild relief.

She got out of bed and got ready for class without rushing. Everything about her movements was calm, controlled, but her thoughts were already elsewhere. She was heading toward the door when she stopped and turned back. Her eyes fell on the Godrend sword.

She walked over and picked it up, feeling its weight in her hands again.

She tilted her head slightly. "Why don’t I just upgrade this thing?" she asked herself.

Kinsey didn’t waste time. She left the dorm early, the Godrend sword hidden under her coat as she made her way toward Forger’s Bay. The place was already busy, filled with noise, heat, and the sound of metal being worked on. Sparks flew in the distance as forgers worked on weapons for students who could afford them.

She walked up to the counter.

The attendant looked up at her and gave a smile. She asked what Kinsey would like to do with her weapon and which shard she wanted to infuse.

"I was here yesterday, remember? I want all three shards infused into a Mythic weapon."

The attendant paused for a moment, clearly caught off guard... again.

"Infusing more than one shard into a weapon is rare... anyways, what weapon do you have in mind." The attendant asked.

Kinsey brought out the sword.

The moment the Godrend blade came into view, the attendant’s expression changed. Her eyes narrowed just slightly, and recognition flashed across her face. She asked, carefully, who the sword belonged to.

That was when Kinsey realized the attendant remembered it. Remembered Axel as the student who couldn’t afford the upgrade.

"The sword belongs to my friend from yesterday. He’s occupied at the moment, so I’m helping him with the upgrade..."

The attendant studied her for a few seconds, then nodded.

"Come back in an hour. The forger will handle it himself."

"Wait, aren’t you the forger?" Kinsey asked.

"I’m just an attendant..."

As Kinsey turned to leave, something on the wall caught her eye.

A Mythic bow weapon. Sleek, well-balanced, and beside it, a full quiver of arrows.

"How much do those cost...?"

—

A few minutes later, Kinsey stood inside the weapons hall.

Her hands rested calmly at her sides. In her other hand was the new Mythic bow she had purchased.

"Where are you...?" she asked as her eyes searched the crowd. Luckily, it didn’t take long for her to find Axel.

"I bought this junk just so I could use it on him... he better agree to be my sparring partner..." she said to herself.

She walked straight toward him and made it clear she wanted him as her sparring partner. There was no teasing tone this time. No smile. Just intent. At first, Axel was reluctant, so she baited him instead, said just enough to make him take the challenge.

And it worked.

Within minutes, they were inside the dome. The moment the signal was given, Kinsey didn’t let Axel breathe.

Arrows flew one after another, fast and sharp. Each one was infused with ice as frost formed along the arrowheads before launch. She moved smoothly, firing while repositioning, never staying still.

’Good thing I earned this trick when I was little...’

She remembered learning this skill when she was young, back when training was strict and mistakes were punished. It had been a good decision. A very good one.

Axel dodged and blocked as best he could, but after a while, Kinsey felt something shift.

She saw it in his stance and in his eyes. He was frustrated and had enough of her.

’Shit, he’s about to use that red energy!’

Panic flickered through her as she realized what was coming. That was when the chamber doors burst open and second-year students walked in.

Everything stopped.

While the instructor confronted them, Kinsey kept her eyes on Axel. She searched his face, his posture, his body. Looked for something, anything to hint at the presence of an invisible person, but there was nothing.

Moments later, the glass dome opened again and the order was given. All students were to proceed to the second-year building.

Kinsey knew instantly it had something to do with Ares, but when she asked Axel about it, he lied. The words were smooth, but empty. He claimed he didn’t know what was going on.

"That’s weird... I could have sworn I saw you coming out of the second-year building last night."

—

The second-year building was chaos. Kinsey wasn’t surprised when she saw Ares fighting inside a glass dome. She fully expected him to lose. After all, he was up against a Fern.

"God! I hate that family. Always acting superior like they’re untouchable... no wonder Father sent me here. He knew there was a Fern here."

Not long after, Ares fell and lost. She knew he was done for.

What shocked her was when Axel stepped forward and challenged the Fern.

She wondered if he had finally lost his mind, or if that invisible presence had pushed him again. She refused to believe Axel was that stupid.

"He can’t be that stupid. It has to be it..."

Then it started, and the massive blow Axel delivered sent a chill through her body. Her eyes widened in fear because she recognized it instantly. That was the same attack he was about to use on her.

The moment didn’t last, unfortunately, because the Fern came back harder, faster, and stronger.

Axel had no weapon and no armor. He was fighting someone three times stronger than him.

"If he wasn’t going to win, he needs leverage."

Her mind snapped back to the sword, and she decided that it was time to get it. It didn’t matter whether an hour had passed.

While everyone else was glued to the fight, she slipped past the second-year students and exited the building. She ran straight to Forger’s Bay. The attendant was absent for some reason, but the forger was still there.

Luckily, he was done, and without a word, he handed her the sword.

It looked different now.

The Godrend sword carried three distinct energies. Power rolled off it in waves. It had the fire-based infusion, Energy Burst Core, and the ruin echo shard, all bound into one blade. The Godrend sword looked powerful now.

Very powerful.