Crimson Wings stood up and straightened his back, but although he tried to act brave and confident in front of the leader of the Thousand Blood Race and the other four creatures in the hall, his pale face and lackluster eyes told everything no matter how hard he tried.
"As Your Highness already knows this, the human who helped about a hundred slaves escape from Planet Azure a month ago and capture the Young Princess was a young human boy, no older than 19 years." as Crimson Wings spoke those words with scarcely shaken voice, a hologram image appeared in the middle of the table, attracting all eyes in the hall.
Dark hair, firm sky blue eyes, light bronze skin, and straight posture that held great confidence in oneself. It was an image of Nash when he was still a slave back on Planet Azure.
"His name is Nash Skyfield, a human slave with an E+ Grade that mined on several planets such as Planet Zero, Planet Kalko, and Planet Azure. According to his records, he is an only child with both of his parents already dead and the only relative he has is his uncle, who was freed from Section F with the rest of human slaves there."
Seeing as Lord Ozran remained silent and didn't speak but simply stared at Nash's image with eyes as sharp as a sword, Crimson Wings took a deep breath and changed the image into a video feed.
The recording then began to show several sceneries such as the killing and slight argument in Section F, the slaughter in the space station caused by those black unkillable creatures, and how Erys used a single attack to demolish an entire unit of Sky Beasts in the sky just to help the humans escape.
From start to finish, all the creatures in the hall remained silent, and even after several seconds when it has ended neither of them spoke but waited for Lord Ozran to talk. Of course, it was not because they felt the urge to show respect with such behavior, but because they dared not to speak in fear they could no longer see daylight ever again!
The threatening aura that surrounded Lord Ozran right at this moment and the sharp gaze filled with obvious killing intent with which he stared at Nash's figure on the paused tape told them it was better if they remained silent and did not talk.
"Is that truly... Erys?" Clavellina asked with a slightly doubtful tone, hardly believing what she just saw was indeed her little sister.
Ever since she knew herself, Clavellina knew the best just what kind of personality did Erys have as she was her older sister who spent the most time with her since she was born. She was a little arrogant and fierce tigress that obeyed no one except their mother, but if left alone, she was a shy little girl that loved to play with her toys and change clothes almost every minute just out of fun.
Thus, seeing that she killed hundreds of Sky Beasts with a single strike and showed not a bit of change of emotions on her pretty face, made her assume that something was definitely off; almost like it was not even her on the video but a completely different individual disguised as her!
Lord Ozran examined Erys' image for several minutes in silence before narrowing his eyes and saying quietly, "She is Erys, no question about that. But she is under that ability's influence."
When Clavellina heard her father speak widened her eyes gently and asked, "Da... Lord Ozran, you mean, that thing you would have gotten as a gift from the Berserkers? That thing has been learned and used on Erys?"
Lord Ozran nodded and the more he stared at Erys emotionless figure the more he felt he was right, hence the grimmer his complexion became.
Just how would he, the leader of the Thousand Blood Race not know what kind of power did that Skill Fluid held that originally should be in his possession? He was way too clear about the fact that it was something that no one before was able to learn, not even the greatest minds in the Ancient Dimension! Yet a human boy who was not even 20 succeeded in learning it!
What is more, he even used it to enslave his daughter and force her to do things she didn't wish! What was this if not punching him right in the face and throwing salt into his already open wounds?
'It's all because of those darned bloodsuckers! I swear I will make them regret the day when they decided to attack us!' taking a pledge in his heart he will forever remember, Lord Ozran shifted his cold gaze over the figures of the five creatures in the hall and said calmly but loud enough for all of them to hear, "Listen here carefully as I will only say this once. Tell the following to your Masters..."
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"You did quite a great job, not gonna lie. To think you have truly done everything I have asked just under a few days..." Nash looked shocked as he walked outside the palace and looked at the sight around him.
About three days ago, the sight between the palace's entrance and the underground tunnel was nothing but a stone pavement, emerald green grass, and well-kept bushes with a few trees in the distance. However, this sight changed completely in just a few days of time, startling Nash deeply as he didn't expect his request to be finished so fast.
Several stalls next to each other on both sides of the stone pavement, small but different sized buildings far behind them that were seemingly constructed from various colored and well-polished stones that gave out not a bit of uncivilized and crude ambiance but were in great consonance with the grand palace instead.
There were even many increased platforms behind the buildings in the far distance, seemingly for the sole purpose for people to fight and practice on as there were a few that contained several human-shaped training puppets crafted out from wood and leaves!
The whole scenery before him became like a completely different place, almost like he was just teleported away only to find himself in front of a small but civilized village or something!
Such a sight made Nash unable to hold back his smile, completely satisfied with the way things had been designed and carried out! Everything looked simply perfect, just the way he asked his uncle to do it.
"Haha! Surprised, huh?" Uncle Ben laughed merrily and placed his hands on his waist while he pushed his chest out with pride as he stared at the scenery in front of him with pleased eyes like has just done the best piece of art in his life!
"Although it was quite the hard work, in the end, we have done it and maybe even better than I have anticipated. Of course, without you giving me the bag of Space Crystals with which I was able to gather several people willing to help and your Souls that protected us outside in the wild and also helped us in the construction, this couldn't have been done this fast. At least a week would have been needed if not more!"
Listening to Uncle Ben's explanation Nash nodded and took a sideways glance at Erys and Revio on his side. Although Erys maybe not, but it was obvious from the shaky legs and pale face that Revio felt and was totally exhausted; he didn't know what his uncle ordered him to do, but he was more than glad to see Revio in such a state.
At least now he had a small taste of what he and all the humans were going through since now!
After taking a few moments to savor Revio's exhausted and afflicted complexion with joy, Nash turned to look at Uncle Ben and said, "I will go outside for a while. Until then, can you please collect everyone's choice regarding which Department they wish to join?"
"Of course, leave it to m-"
"There is no need for that. I have already done that." suddenly, a soft but indifferent voice that seemed familiar for a reason appeared behind Nash, abruptly interrupting Uncle Ben's sentence.
Turning around with a slightly raised brow but an indifferent face, Nash watched as a girl wearing nothing but a casual blue T-shirt and short black jeans stood before him with a device in hand, her calm and attractive face and eyes gazing into his in silence.
One calm and one indifferent; none of them speaking nor moving but only staring into each other's eyes with thoughts completely unknown from one another!