Shiba walked through the town, looking at all the deceased people.
He could recognize all of them.
He didn't have a proper conversation with most of them, but he remembered them trying so hard to learn Earth Step despite his bad explanations on how to learn it.
After a while, Shiba fell to his knees.
"If I had been faster... If I had been stronger..."
Shiba punched the ground while lamenting his weakness.
"It isn't your fault. You did your utmost. Those weren't enemies that we were supposed to defeat with our strength. At least, a lot of the deceased people didn't have their souls eaten, thanks to your initial attacks. Thus, despite having died, their souls will have another chance."
Eini had finished treating the most severe wounds and went to take a rest when she saw Shiba punching the ground.
She didn't know how to act since she was usually the one who needed her sister to calm her when she was sad, but she decided that imitating her sister would be the best.
Since her sister always hugged her, she decided to hug Shiba from his back.
Shiba was so surprised that his tears stopped.
He was pondering about Eini's words, but the hug was so sudden.
No one had hugged him before, so it was a completely strange action for him.
"Are you better? My sister always did this when I was sad."
She felt pity for Shiba, but that was also a reason she didn't like to be too close to normal people on that planet.
For those who couldn't train, it was a matter of fact that, in the end, there would be suffering for being attached to them.
She knew that from the start, so she avoided being close to others. Someone like her wouldn't die on that planet no matter what because her sister was there protecting her from the shadows. Although that would be bad for her, at least she knew that death wouldn't be an outcome.
However, it was difficult for everyone else there. Even if they didn't die, once Eini grew strong enough, they would end up living in different worlds.
She felt that Shiba grew too close to the people in that town, so he was being too affected by their death.
She didn't like their deaths either, but she was seeing it from the point of view of an outsider. While she would help them if she could, she wouldn't be depressed for failing.
"Thank you. I am better now."
After a while, Shiba finally managed to recompose his mind, and Eini let him go.
"I will continue healing them. No one is in danger now, but it is better if they are properly healed, or they may worsen later."
After speaking, Eini went back to heal the injured people.
At that moment, Lina was quite angry with her sister.
"It is one thing for me to hug you when you are sad, but you shouldn't go hugging others so easily! I know that you are still a kid and that you don't think too much about it, but you need some more common sense!"
Lina and Eini were sisters, so it was one thing if they were close to each other, but even though Shiba was related to their father's best friend, they weren't family, so they shouldn't be so close.
However, Lina knew that it wasn't Shiba's fault, so she could only blame her sister.
"It is better if I forget about it. They are still kids. I shouldn't think too much about it."
She had too bad experiences with men when she was training alone, so she was especially sensitive to men trying to approach Eini.
However, it was Eini who approached Shiba, and it was obvious that there weren't any second intentions on her actions, so she couldn't really blame any of them.
"It is time to look for the bastard that provoked this."
Although it might seem a coincidence for others, Lina could see that those Soul-eating Beasts were following orders.
She had already pinpointed the location of the mastermind, and she was decided to kill that person.
Seconds after speaking, Lina was already at the coordinates where the mastermind was.
It was far from the town, but with Lina's mastery of the Space Law, the distance wasn't a problem as long as she knew the destination.
"It seems that the mastermind is sealed underground. It looks that he fell into a trap and can't get out. Also, his soul is injured."
While Lina appraised the situation of the mastermind, the mastermind was filled with rage.
"Dead! All dead! I invested all in those Soul-eating Eagles. Once they reached Rank 9, they could accumulate the energy of powerful experts and bring it back to me. With that nourishment, I could have healed my soul and tried to advance to Law Master again! I am sure that if I advance, I will be able to break this damned seal!"
He had repeated the same words without stop since the Soul-eating Eagles were killed.
With his soul damaged, he also lost part of his rationality and was even crazier than before.
"I can't kill him. I can cross the seal without issues, but I can also sense that this man is deeply involved with the fate of this whole planet. I shouldn't act unless he decides to act personally."
Since the man was sealed and didn't seem to have other methods to interact with the outside, Lina decided that it was better to not interfere for the moment.
She was about to leave when a person walked towards the area above the sealed place where that man was sealed.
"Ancestor, any news about the plan with the Soul-eating Eagles?"
It was a man that looked quite old, but he was far younger than the one sealed.
After all, the one sealed was a Level 9 Sage, someone a step away from becoming a Law Master, so his lifespan was extremely long. Even that middle-aged man was just a far descendant of him.
"Dead! All dead! Damn! If you discover who did it. Kill them. Kill all of them!"
The sealed man was going crazy.
He put all his effort into incubating the eggs of the Soul-eating eagles to use them, but all ended up in failure.
"Of course! Once we find the culprits, we will kill them! We are also looking for that girl who discovered the place where we killed the slaves. They will all die once we find them. Don't worry."
The middle-aged man seemed to have a deep hatred for those who messed up the plan of his ancestor and saw things that shouldn't be seen.
Of course, that girl was Eini, and Lina knew it, which made her hatred grew, but at the same time, she knew that they belonged to those she shouldn't touch unless there was no other choice.
That middle-aged man was the current head of the family that enslaved Shiba. When the ancestor was with them, they really enslaved the souls of the slaves, but since the ancestor was trapped, they didn't have the means to do it, so they could only train ordinary slaves.
"That man seemed to have failed a breakthrough to Law Master on the Death Law. He is lucky that his soul didn't dissipate upon failing. However, in that state, he wouldn't be able to try again, and that soul wouldn't heal by natural means."
The advancement to Law Master was dangerous. One misstep and it was possible to suffer a backlash that could end up dead.
The backlash also depended on the Law trying to use to advance to Law Master, and the Death Law was among the most difficult Laws.
Usually, the elemental Laws were far easier to use, but there was no way to deny that the Death Law was incredibly powerful.
Lina was only a Law Master with the Death Law. She had yet to advance it to Law God.
Besides one's overall level, the Laws and Essences had their own levels.
Lina and Master Liye were both Law Gods, and both were considered among the five strongest, but the Laws they had mastered and the Laws that they had trained upon Law God were different.
Lina was very balanced with only the Water Law pointing out while Master Liye focused on those he liked the most.
Among those, his best at the Sword Law, but the next ones were Life and Death.
Managing those two Laws at Law God level was enough to be on par with Lina, who had far more Laws than Liye at Law Master level.
Of course, Lina's incredible versatility wasn't normal either. Usually, the experts tended to focus on just one Law until mastering its Essence and then advancing to Essence God. Only after reaching that point, they would focus on others.
The only other two Laws that Master Liye had at Law Master were the Time Law and the Space Law, so although he didn't have too many laws mastered, he had the four most difficult ones. Except for the Sword Law, any of his other Laws were enough to bring despair to a lot of experts trying to master them.
Unless one had divine talent, choosing one of the most difficult Laws for the first breakthrough to Law Master was utterly foolish, and that was exactly what the sealed man tried.
The divine talent was far too rare. The only offspring of powerful factions on the universe had it, and usually in a single thing. It was already great for Master Liye to have several talents at that grade. As for Lina, she was considered to have Supreme Talent because her talents on everything were at divine grade.
The sealed ancestor didn't even have the best normal talent to train the Death Law. It was normal that he would fail.
A man who was involved with the Death Law only to use it to enslave others through souls had no way to master the Death Law.
Although the Death Law allowed enslaving souls, it had a lot of other uses. It wasn't a wicked Law or one for evil people. For example, the Legacy System that Shiba had was created using the Death Law.
If that man wanted to master the Death Law, he would need to see that the Death Law wasn't just a tool to enslave others.