As Lieg had his hand within the slimes surrounding, with his eyes closed follow with slow motion of his fingertips. Blocking out all the surrounding noise, this was him in full focus,
"So… why did you do that?"
Esma asked breaking that said focus, causing Lieg's neck vein to flinch in surprise. He then slowly turned his head towards her completely annoyed and unable to mask it, raising his eyebrows while forcing a smile;
"Uhmmm why did I do what?",
"I realize that you goaded him into releasing his soul core, but why though you could have done it yourself no?".
Lieg lifted his head up and sighed "It's a petty thing you wouldn't understand… also watch your back",
Has within moments of making that statement. Stealthily trying to squirm around appearing behind Esma, was a human size bright long centipede like sword aiming straight for the back of her head.
But before I could reach her, "Now you're being rude, you don't think I would have picked up" has she catches it in mid-air with her two tails, compressing and wrapping it in an orb of crystal like slime the size of a football holding it between her two tail.
He made a quiet exhale under his voice,
"I wasn't suggesting that you wouldn't pick up; I was just wondering why you didn't you do that earlier. What if it tried to escape?" Lieg commented,
"Now I know you're trying to be rude, you know that wouldn't be possible. You can't throw away this conversation, that's not what I'm asking" Esma replied.
"Shhhhh!… One sec".
As Lieg slowly turning his head back down towards the slime, regaining his focus has he whispered "Spatial awareness" As a bright pulse of Mana within the slimes surrounding him, burst outwards slowly spreading out from him as the central point covering the entire mountain.
He then made a low sigh has he replied, "Did you know the opposite of faith is not doubt it's fear?".
"What does that have to do with you killing him like that, if your original goal was to extract his soul core without cracking it. The chance of him breaking it by forcefully pulling it out like that was way higher than you removing it yourself" Esma question.
"Now that sounds like a lot of work, why would I go through all that trouble when I could just wait on him to showed proof of his fate. The willingness to sacrifice his own soul to destroy a greater evil for others, that in essence is his faith. And you know the stronger the will the more powerful your magic will be" Lieg replied all while sending multiple wave of energy flowing through the slimes as he thought to himself.
(I'm seeing around 30 fully grown blue leg centidrake, few black gale scorpion, a crystal back cave slugs and some other cave critters. With the exception of a few bats, wolves and other mammals, the Venom level isn't high enough).
*B class Blue leg centidrake 20 meters long fully grown inside the mountain dwelling poisonous stealth Hunters, C class Black gale scorpion 10 feet tall poison wind shot element user sniper Hunter, D to B class Crystals back cave slugs the Apex Hunter of the mountain range corrosive body, size varies depending on crystals in habitats. All absolutely hates Manabeast warding crystals areas.
"Now that is a strange thing for you to say, why do you care so much about their faith" Esma wondered while holding the orb in her hand throwing it from her tail back and forth playing with it. Now standing up off the ground, and dusting off his knees he turned around to face her with eyes still closed his expression calm the a night lake just shrug his shoulders.
"Honestly I don't really care much for their faith, it's practically ridiculous. Their non essentialism views on other people's life is hilarious when you see the bigger picture on this continent only and what humans in general rank, but you're here overestimating my skills unlike you I'm unable to divide or replicate the soul core to collect all the information I can only decode the mind, and just barely at that. And if I were to forcefully remove the soul core there was a chance of it cracking, and without a proper containment it'll disperse without giving me any information".
As Lieg was explaining he placed his hands in front of him, moving it around to the sides gently moving around each finger individually like a maestro at a symphony.
"So you have more trust in his crude attempt of pulling out his own soul then you doing it yourself?" Esma asked as the slimes around her started to shift and turn into different directions following the angles of his fingertips.
"Like I said you know me already that's a lot of work, all I have to do is believe in his faith. If it was a strong as he said there wouldn't have been any problem to begin with… and if it wasn't, there wasn't much he could tell me in the first place. Now then…".
As Lieg aura made an erupted shift, as he slowly began opening up his eyes they started glowing bright golden yellow Esma took a step back to get back within the slimes surrounding them again.
"Elefthérosi" he whispered underneath his breath, as his body was instantly engulf in a pitch black aura,
He then casted "Dilitírio gia moúsa" and has the last word left his lip the entire area went silent for brief second,
The pitch black aura instantly vanish from his body and then in the next seconds a heavy darkness started to fall upon the land. Some of the prey fell to the frozen, the predators bow their heads as the whole mountain range epicenter of the village sank from the pressure. Feeling as if your whole body was sinking, under the ocean with no way to touch the surface the winds the plains, the wishing washing of the slimes animals in the forest below; all within those brief seconds when quiet.
Both to the West and the east, looked up at in their carriage awe struck by the sight they were seeing above; the flowing slime that was running through out the area, covering the mountain all stopped even a long droplets that was about to break off froze in place it was as if time had stopped above the mountain. Pai started to peek at the back of the carriage, through the gap within the villagers. Just fell to the ground eyes went backwards, " Pai fainted" one of the villagers said, as soon as Elika attention had turned to her.
(Sfx White noise)
A loud burst of audiable and inaudible frequency to the ears covered the area, shaking the nerves of boat Raga and Tetso to their very core on the ground. The burst stretched across the mountain having the epicenter be the Village, and cover the the land going across half the continent. Twitching the ears of a silhouette cat like figure to the Southwest, pausing a female silhouette from drinking tea inches away from touching her lips in the Holy Land, causing a muscular silhouette to the northeast to hold tightly to his musket. Has they all thought in unison.
(That's…).