Benjamin POV
The next day comes by, and I walk with a slow pace to Kiro's residence. The tiring encounter yesterday with Jette, and somebody stronger than her. It doesn't leave my head, the strength Jette displayed was for me too strong to be gauged, The person could hide its entire existence and draw specific people to her domain... I think.
'Alan was even harder hit by the voice than the Astral queen, who both told him the same thing'
The tree leaves flutter in the wind, momentarily calming my mind a bit. The rhythm of leaves sounds similar to my lightning's rhythm, giving me more peace in mind as expected.
"Enough of dragging out time and enjoying myself"
I muttered under my breath, electric currents are leaving my mouth. Lightning is wrapping around my body, breaking it down to simple particles.
Multiple paths are emerging in my vision in the form of screens, the frame is in different colour to indicate how dangerous and stable this location is.
The colours start from simple blue to yellow to red and ends at black, of course are there more colours than these four. However, they only show if blue is a bit more dangerous than it should be or if it is closer to yellow.
'I really need to replace this system or make it more efficient'
I created it because my master couldn't stop talking about the importance of it. Especially if you are in the state of particles and someone can restrict you... or worse, capture you.
The screens easily counted up to a million every second, nonetheless through my thoughts the million paths decrease to five paths. All showing a different angle of the building, where Kiro should reside in.
"The front door should be okay"
I push myself with my foot forward, staring at the path I want to travel on. Everything appears to me like blur, the whole sensation of being the lightning always feels so great to me.
Obviously, I never stayed in the particle state for too long... moreover, is it not allowed to me to enter it. Even though my lightning manipulation and control over it, is already on par with masters if I enter my lightning state.
My senses return to me in a second, which feel in this state like a minute, making it able to easily change directions. However, as soon as I would do this... I am dead because I can't control the speed at which I am travelling right now.
My body starts to materialize again, the nauseous feeling appeared immediately as well. The lightning shoots out of my body to complete my materialization.
"Oh, so you really travelled through the electric currents in the air as particles"
"Yeah, of course! It makes so much fun to travel-"
'Oh no'
I later realised that the raspy and deep voice with the slight sound of lightning crackling between... is from my master, who forbid it.
He is observing me, his eyes wander to the parts who I felt the most lightning leaving my body. His face has a nice smile to show... but for some reason does it feel scary.
"Your stomach, brain, heart released an enormous amount of lightning that could have killed them"
He starts to complain about my reckless behaviour, moreover that such high voltage could have killed me if I were a second late... blah blah blah.
'Please, can someone come to save me from this old man's blather?'
As If god has listened to me, everybody comes together with their masters and teacher... also lecturing them with useless blather. Besides, everybody arriving at the same time, one important person is not here.
'Where is Alan?'
Lilith POV
"Thanks for helping"
"No problem"
Jette, the flame emperor steel dragon, is carrying the young chick on her shoulder. The dark ground filled with vitality and soaked in blood is burning lightly beneath Jette's feet.
William, The Demon slaughterer, is slightly frowning by Jette here disrespectful actions. He is glancing towards my birds in the sky, cold sweat is building on his back.
'My teaching methods seem to work on this child'
William tries to take the young chick on his shoulder as azure blue fire bursts out of his body. Jette even needed to retreat as the fire even hurt her a bit.
'This is why he chose him, it can really work'
William countered the fire with his null mana coating his body, eliminating the fire on him. Following this, a punch to the stomach with the strength of a C rank level 7.
^clang^
The fist from William crossed paths with a blue, shining spear. Correspondingly, the spear pushed him away with a huge azure blue fire wall.
'Interesting, something like this should be easy to a phoenix'
The spear places itself in his hand, the body started to spasm uncontrollably. Trying to wake up the young chick, unfortunately he doesn't wake up. Something stronger and more fundamental to a spiritual being started to wake up.
'This gets even more interesting... but unfortunately, I still need his normal self'
I commanded one crow to suicide dive against the spear, leaving no space for failure in his mission. Another one is commanded to push the soul back to its dormant state.
"Go back to sleep, nothing happens to him"
To be sure, I spoke to the soul directly, resulting in the soul losing control of the body. The two crows crashed in their designated targets. As a result, the spear vanished and the soul went back to being dormant, along with a positive effect of waking up the young chick.
His eyes are sharp and analyse his surroundings immediately. Undoubtedly understanding where he is, slowly lowering his guard around William, who approaches him.
"Tell me, why did you kidnap me?"
This young chick, oblivious to his master next to him, is warily staring at William. Whereas, William doesn't even take him seriously, taking leisurely steps towards him.
"We didn't kidnap you, look a bit more around and come to the right conclusion"
William is trying to imitate Sven's immature and kind approach to reason with the young chick. Different from what William expected, the young chick got even more wary of him.
'Time to reveal myself to him'
"William, activate your Sanctuary"
William instantaneous deployed his sanctuary, Slaughterer festival, and leaves Jette out of the sanctuary. All my crows are trapped in the sanctuary of him, realising again how abnormal he is.
"What are you?"
The young chick stares at me, his eyes filled with hatred and frustration. The blood-red fire started to burn even more fiercely around him.
In contrast to his display of power, stronger than he should be able to release, it is crushed by the sanctuary of its multiple skills.
"We already met yesterday, and you forget me this quick-"
All my crows dash, dive, towards the tallest crow in the pack. Following this is a body similar to mine, build by the crows to the extent of their own life.
A second body formed quick, showing my majestic body to this young chick. In addition to allowing my second body to release the mana of an SS+ rank.
"I am the one in charge of the mercenary group in the absents of Kim Yong"
Blood golden fire erupted out of his body, shielding from getting crushed by the sheer amount of mana a SS+ rank has. Likewise, to also protect him from the pressure descending because of me.
His eyes burn with determination, and a small glimmer of madness is also visible in them. He tries to stand up with all the energy he can muster, unfortunately he can't even move his shoulders up of the ground.
"Stop struggling and listen to me"
I really wanted to squash such an insignificant chick, if it weren't for Kim Yong who said he needs this chick. He is so a sad existence, not knowing what he alone wants to be, and follows in the footsteps of someone he can never be exactly alike.
"I will train you and your friends for a month and give you intel about the attack that happens in exactly 3 weeks and 4 days at 12:30."
He opens his eyes wide, looking like they will pop out anytime soon, stopping his useless struggle. Hence, I don't need to pressure him any more than this, taking an orb out of my space storage directly after retracting my mana.
"Here are some sneak peeks on the plans of the villains who want to attack the Nexus"
I let the video on it play, it shows a conversation between two hooded individuals, One is a teen and the other one an adult based on their height and voices. They are chatting about the attack against the Nexus and that nothing can go wrong with their operation.
I stopped the orb right before the two revealed their faces, seeing his angry face asking why I did this.
"If You want all the information, find your own path and stop try to act exactly like him"
He nodded his head, a new determination is pushing his mindset in the right direction. He stands up from the ground, staggering a bit as he comes closer.
"I-I will beat him... but on my way"
I stopped myself from cringing to such a childish sentence, having a calm expression on the outside.
'He is different from him, yet he has the qualities of a good leader'
William released his sanctuary and my crows all returned to the same amount they were before the suicide dives and fusion.
"Let's see your evolution to a person who walks his own path"
I mumbled under my breath, already getting a headache because I needed to say it loud enough for this chick to hear it.
'I hope your plan works'