Chapter 55: Unexpected Development (2), Aleron Taking Action
Chapter 55: Unexpected Development (2), Aleron Taking Action
'Domain?! Is she an Exceed-rank?' Vizen thought as his expression twisted and face turned ugly, feeling as if he courted this trouble himself. 'Damn it! Why did my skill couldn't inspect her true power then?!'
"Rias, what is going on?" Luthen looked at Rias and asked while hiding his anxiousness and trying to be calm, but his heart dropped as he saw her pale and troubled expression with her gaze maintained on Aleron.
At that moment, he understood.
'...So Rias doesn't have influence over him, but he has influence over her?' Luthen was shocked. 'Who is he?'
"Done," Aleron opened his eyes which had kept closed since Yueha activated her domain.
He spent those several seconds creating a skill that utilized both Magilore and Soul Force- Mind Extraction.
'I don't need to be gentle with the trash of Red and Black marks,' Aleron coldly thought as he looked at Vizen and Luthen.
"Ale, w-what are you planning to do?" Rias hesitantly asked.
Roxen actually wanted to rebuke Aleron and tell him that they shouldn't do anything to Luthen to Vizen, but the courage to speak had already left her body.
Both of them had seen Aleron's recently gained talent and if he was to exercise his power, they didn't have the right to stop him.
Aleron was about to begin by using the skill, but he paused and looked at Rias upon hearing her.
"I'll show you after I find out what they did," Aleron said before turning his head back to Luthen and Vizen.
"What are you planning to do?" Luthen frowned, feeling a sense of terror looking at Alero who walked towards them.
"Y-You better let us go! You already dared to assault us in this city. It won't be long before this domain is broken from the outside and you are surrounded by our forces," Vizen hissed with a ruthless expression after suppressing his fear.
"Get one thing in mind," Aleron said as he stopped one meter away from the duo, his eyes utterly icy cold. "You can forget about living a normal life from now on."
"I just hope I can calm myself just with your deaths," Aleron muttered before his eyes released a swift ethereal string from each, one piercing into Luthen's forehead and another into Vizen's forehead.
"Arghhh!!"
Both of them started screaming painfully, which also caused tumultuous waves into Dolly, Thorkil, Rias, and Roxen.
'If Ale killed them, I can't imagine what will happen afterward...' Rias's was mind getting short-circuited while Roxen had stopped thinking altogether and turned into a passive robot.
'I-job-protecting-princess-Rias-only,' Roxen stood straight, her gaze diving into the sakura trees and snow as she ignored everything else.
'Master can create such a skill already?! Wow.'
Yueha was a Primeval-rank powerhouse, so she also had her soul awakened. Upon seeing what Aleron did, she understood the skill and was surprised.
'Mhmm, but it's not strange. He has much freedom in his emotions and he is self-spiritual, which is characteristic of those with high talent in soul path. Maybe that's why he also awakened his soul early.'
Although Aleron awakened his soul early, it was indeed true that he was naturally prodigious in soul path due to his nature, unlike the Magic path in which he became prodigious due to Magilore of Arcane Lapis merging into his source.
"He is reading their memories....forcefully," Yueha informed Rias and Roxen, while Dolly and Thorkin gulped nervously.
'It sounds painful...' Dolly thought while looking at Luthen and Vizen. She could never imagine going greet Rias would develop into this kind of situation.
They decided to maintain silence for the time being since no harm was befalling them, unlike Luthen and Vizen who were screaming painfully.
But it only lasted for 15 seconds before they turned silent and their exhausted and dim eyes bore onto Aleron.
"Y-Y-You...." Aleron's lips trembled. 'Demons? Sacrifice?! What the hell is going on in this city?'
"Rias, compile this, please. I have something else to do," Aleron said and sent memories he extracted from Luthen and Vizen to Rias.
Since Rias had more general knowledge regarding this world, she could understand and make him understand easily.
"I can't let you two die," Aleron mumbled with a slightly maddening expression in his eyes. He stretched his hand at Luthen's face with his fingers slightly trembling.
He really wanted to delete this black-marked tumor, but merely removing him was letting him off too easy for what he had done to other people.
"No way!" Rias shouted as she visibly trembled.
'What did those two do?' Roxen frowned.
"You bastards! How dare you collude with demons for resources and give them sacrifices!!" Rias screamed with anger bursting out of her eyes. She saw vivid images of them surrounded by dead bodies of kids in a ritual!
"What?!" Dolly was shocked.
"Colluding with Demons?" Thorkil's eyes widened. "T-This...how?"
"So the root of it all is your brother, Reikern?" Rias spoke through her teeth as she gradually calmed down.
"As I expected, that was some kind of Demonic ritual. Do you know more about it?" Aleron asked, but his eyes were still closed as his focus was on his Magic Board.
"It's a simple ritual to contact with demons. In exchange for fresh and young human blood that demons like, these bastards acquired Legendary-rank resources. No wonder they progressed this fast," Rias clenched her fist. "Damned scums!"
"How many lives you have ruined, huh?" Aleron opened his eyes and looked at them while suppressing his anger. "Now, you will live the rest of your lives in pain."
"You sacrificed those kids while they were alive and filled with their suffering and destroyed families...Death is a freedom you won't gain anytime!" Aleron's aura burst before Luthen and Vizen were trapped inside two separate crystalized prisons with gray and red crystal and
metallic patterns.
"Yue, release them. It's time they feel some pain."
Luthen and Vizen were unfrozen, but their suffering only began in this new prison.
"Hellfrost Crystal Prison. Tiny particles will constantly pierce all over your body in this prison and inflict constant pain throughout your body while also healing you," Aleron coldly said. "Rot in here until I find other good use of your rotten lives."
Both of them were screaming and rolling around in the small cramped prisons, but their voice was silent because Aleron had also added a voice isolation feature to the prison.
"You two..." Aleron turned to Dolly and Thorkil.
The duo trembled in fear. They didn't want to get hanged without knowing why!
"No need to be scared," Aleron smiled. Thorkil had a white mark while Dolly had a yellow
rank, so he had no complaints about these two.
"You two haven't spread suffering to other people, so you are fine. I hope you continue to
remain that way."
After saying that, he turned to Yueha, "What's the situation outside?"
Yueha's eyes slightly flickered, "We are surrounded by over thirty Legendary-rank powerhouses ready with their armor and weapons, along with an arcane formation created by
four Exceed-rank powerhouses."
"These four Exceed-rank powerhouses are also ready and focused, intending to make a move
as soon as I deactivate my domain."
"Mhmm," Aleron nodded and sat down on the ground, his arms crossed and his eyes closed,
"I need two minutes. We'll leave after I finish this task."
'A state of constant Magilore flow in this exoskeleton and a design board to apply my arcane syllabus knowledge instantly and activate its sequences....'
Aleron's body was soon covered in a 4-inch thick dreamy blue translucent jelly armor.