"Who are you all,"
They all screamed in their respective native tongues. Most of these people weren't fools like Kurayami, they knew and understood the mystical parts of Earth. They knew the mystic when they saw it; they weren't like other humans who even after seeing choose to come up with excuses that don't follow their sense of logic and reasoning.
Banzan just stood with his arms folded and assessed the room, Shi Juexin did exactly the opposite and took up a fighting stance and stared at Raion for a long time. Brahma did the same as Shi Juexin and took up a unique fighting stance.
Brahman in this face-off was useless, he had no martial arts experience whatsoever so he just tried his best to look confident by mimicking Banzan. Anastasia also put up her hands to form a classic hand-to-hand stance. Ghost Doctor pulled out needles and pointed them at Raion, the needles dripped with an odd-smelling poison. The Yamabushi stuck his hands inside his robes and looked on with nothing but fear. The last two people were both Koreans known as Lim Hyun-woo (Gungdo practicioner) and Kim Ji-ho (The taekwondo practicioner).
Lim had nothing but an arrow on him, he was a range shooter, if he tried to attack Raion, one of his men would attack him in return, so this fellow being a little calculating put down his bow on the ground and raised his hands in surrender.
Kim seeing a Korean surrender felt overwhelming disgust and gave a scornful look towards him.
"You bastard, have you no shame?!"
He completely disregarded the fact that he was in Raion's presence and cursed like a cheerful sailor.
"Cough, little Kim stop throwing spit everywhere, it makes you look like a dog."
Raion's face was stuck in a frown as he said that, he didn't like this hot-blooded attitude that Kim Ji-ho had; it wasn't quite right. Kim Ji-ho turned away from Lim Hyun-woo and faced Raion with an irritated frown plastered on his face.
"And you! What is your intention of bringing us here!"
It was not like he expected an answer, not in his mother tongue, but of course expectations almost never come true.
"Haha, you all are the generals of my Deadman Unit. When I call, you obey!"
Raion laughed cheerily but those last parts were filled with an unwavering authority behind it; this will behind Raion's voice spread out as invisible waves of power and came upon their shoulders.
"Urgh!"
Each of them's groans almost shook the building especially so for Banzan's. Why were they groaning? It was because those invisible waves of power suppressed them and made them kneel as a soldier would when facing his emperor.
"I submit My Lord!"
Anastasia body was almost pressed completely onto the floor as she said that. She wasn't foolish like the rest of these people. Though she didn't have any mystic martial arts like the remaining nine, her training in the military proved very helpful to train her tactfulness.
Lim Hyun-woo followed her cue and surrendered.
"I submit My Lord!"
"Wonderful, you see, these are smart people!"
With those words, he released the suppression effects off those two, but they didn't stop kneeling just to be safe. The third to surrender was the ascetic, he merely asked one question:
"Will I be able to get a lot of powers?"
Raion smiled at the question.
"Yes, and many more as long as you follow me."
"Then I submit My Lord!"
To this string of submissions, the first to react was Shi Juexin. "What is wrong with you all, why are you submitting to his will, that will only make him feel more powerful than he already is, he's gonna think he has control over us!"
Ghost Doctor retorted smilingly, "What would you know about this little monk, you haven't experienced the outside world yet, the training that you received at the temple won't help you in situations like this. I submit My Lord!"
Shortly after the suppression effect on Ghost Doctor was eased, but like the other officially appointed subjects, he kept kneeling. Immediately after Brahman also submitted. Leaving only Banzan, Shi Juexin, Brahma and Kim Ji-ho.
These four were hard-headed and would never let any outside interference influence their thoughts, Kim Ji-ho especially.
"Give up, either you kill us or get nothing. I will never submit to you!"
It was Brahma that spoke this time around. His will was unwavering, but Raion was not one to give up so easily.
"What is it you desire the most?"
Raion's voice contained some sort of allure that one couldn't resist. Even these hard-headed fellows with years of training meant to reduce the effect of mental techniques couldn't resist it.
"To fight!" Banzan yelled on impulse, not realizing what he had said until he finished saying it.
"I want to kill the one known as Kurayami!" Kim Ji-ho. At this statement, Kurayami cringed a little and stepped into the shadows- his comfort zone.
"I want the monks at the temple to acknowledge me!" Obviously Shi Juexin.
"I want to become a real God!"
This was the wierdest thing to hear from someone. But not the weirdest someone who was called a God incarnation could say.
Raion laughed out loud!
Their requests were not very peculiar, that was why he laughed. Banzan, a young man born with divine strength, trapped in a stuffy cell with nothing to train his skills with, of course he would want to fight. Kim Ji-ho one who wants revenge for what the assassin; Kurayami did to he and his friend. Shi Juexin, one who is only judged based on his subservience to the Lord Buddha and his martial arts, of course he would want the monks to acknowledge him based on other factors. As for Brahma, he has lived most of his fiery youth being called the incarnation of a god, that would of course drive him to wanting to become a real God!
It was human nature.
"Submit and I shall give you what you desire and much more!"
Raion's hand was outstretched, and his eyes fluttered across them, their eyes showed hesitation and consideration. This was not his first rodeo, hard-headed people can't be handled using hard tactics, soft tactics were the key.
"I submit, My Lord!"
"I submit, My Lord!"
"I submit, My Lord!"
"I submit, My Lord!"