It had been born to become the Demon King and revive the Demon Race!
Honestly, it couldn't be blamed for that.
After all, the information this second consciousness could obtain was extremely limited.
Ophelia Brad had not told Victor anything related to the Demon King's vessel, so this second consciousness naturally could not have known.
It never imagined that the Demon King might revive within Victor after his death, much less that... it itself was the Demon King it sought to become!
By this point, Dark had more or less confirmed his suspicions.
The conclusions drawn from them, however, were both good and bad.
First, the Demon King had indeed been reborn within Victor Gaude after his death.
Second, after being reborn, the Demon King had completely lost his memories. Well, and suffered from a bit of brain damage.
Lastly, the Demon King's memory loss was not permanent. It could recover!
This final conclusion was extremely troublesome.
Though it was unknown whether this was connected to the Demon King's blood, the second consciousness had indeed recovered some of its memories.
Using those memories, it had written Into the Abyss on Book Eater Demon hide.
The reason it chose that title was naturally because Victor had once owned a copy of Into the Abyss.
It particularly liked the phrase: "Walk into the abyss, and gaze into the abyss."
After that, realizing that Victor lacked the conditions necessary for experimentation, it found Cameron Maysfield and lured him into cultivating Demon Race creatures.
After Cameron Maysfield's cultivation failed, he made some improvements to Into the Abyss, then approached Angus Jeffrey.
By then, Into the Abyss was already capable of interfering with the mind, causing its holder to develop a second consciousness.
Their earliest experiments had not been conducted in the secret