As Archius built the realm, a thought made her freeze.
"Wait.. A crater that large.. And such power and extent of destruction.. It was definitely noticed alright."
And true to her word, it had been noticed far and wide and now, there were several people rushing towards the area, one of them was Marcus.
"I see you have also sensed it," Marcus said. Another person caught up to him as they ran.
"Of course, Marcus. We Vampires have quite sensitive ears you know?" The man said as they halted just at the edge of the crater and they stared in shock.
"This crater is massive.. I can't even see its end." The Vampire said.
"What the hell happened here?"
"I believe the other kingdom that is near here has sent someone too. We should hold a meeting urgently." The Vampire said.
"Unfortunately, I need to be with the Summoned right now. Their training needs to progress in time in order for the next thing in the treaty to be done." Marcus said, sighing.
"Okay, very well then, we shall talk of this later. I shall go inside the crater to investigate and I will notify you if I find anything." The vampire said, freefalling into the crater.
Marcus sighed, turning to look at the terrain.
"I should have carried a teleportation stone.. Now I need to run back four hundred kilometers... Quite a waste of energy and abilities." He said, summoning a horse like spirit form.
"I guess I will do this." He thought as he climbed on the horse and they took off.
The vampire landed into the surface of the crater and looked around.
"This is quite deep.. What kind of skill was used here... The mana energies around here are quite little, almost zero."
He sniffed the air as he walked towards the end of the crater from where he jumped from.
"I smell blood here.. Oh, here it is.." He said a he dug the soil and pulled out a corpse of a cursed wolf. It was cut in half and the other half could not be seen.
"It is as if the other half was completely wiped out of existence by what made this crater... Not only that, but I can not see the monster's soul.." He said, throwing the corpse away.
"Meaning the attack was able to erase physical matter, energy and the soul itself."
Suddenly, a man in a green armor landed in front of the vampire.
"So the elf kingdom also came. Quite late aren't you?" The vampire said.
"No, not quite.. I sensed the spell a while ago. I rushed here to try to check what was fighting what." The elf said. "But when I got to this range everything happened instantly. All of this destruction, happened in an instant. I am just lucky to get out of its range unscathed." The elf said.
"Explain what happened please."
"You sensed the energy right?"
"Yes."
"Did you notice anything right after that?"
"No?"
"Exactly. I just sensed and moved out of the zone instinctively in the fastest speed I could possibly do. By the time I was out of the zone, the crater appeared." The elf said.
"Wait.. True, we did not see any light of some sort, the crater just appeared right after the energy levels spiked up. So, what does this mean?" The vampire wondered.
"Well, we elves have an attribute that enables us to sense any imbalance in the flow of time and, I do sense one right now, a very big one in fact."
"So, the skill happened when time was stopped??" The Vampire asked.
"Precisely. Now we need to investigate what was the cause of this without any delay." The elf said. "Has Marcus been here?"
"Yes, but he went back to proceed with taking the Summoned to Brook Village."
"I see. I shall contact him to tell him to avoid passing through here with them, since we do not know who or what caused this," The elf said.
"Putting aside all of this, Lugunica really got all the summoned to themselves huh."
"Well, we can't argue with the decision of the gods. The summoned have caused the balance of power in the world to change drastically. I believe His majesty Azrael and Marcus know this well; A drastic change of power such as that one will attract trouble.. Some Kingdoms will seek to wage war to destroy Lugunica," The elf said.
"Yeah, we know that. Our spies in the nothern kingdoms have notified us that the nothern kingdoms are trying to plan something; a wide scale attack against the three of us, with their main forces attacking Lugunica." The Vampire said.
" I see. So, should we start readying ourselves?"
"No, no need. We talked with your King and King Azrael too and we agreed to send Ein there to give them a scare. Of course, we have backed her up with ten mages from the Vampire Knights, all over level 200."
"Why the hell am I hearing this right now?"
"We planned this yesterday and held a meeting today in the early morning. So since you were not in the kingdom, you have not been notified yet."
"Ein.. I believe she is below level 200, isn't she? So why would you..?"
The vampire laughed.
"You truly do not know anything huh.. I shall just say one thing, since I should not be the one telling you this: She has Peria as her spirit contract."
The elf was dumbfounded.
"Peria? The greater elf spirit?!!"
"Well then, I shall now take my leave. Do tell me if you find anything," The vampire said as he disappeared into a red portal, leaving the elf wondering.
"Ein Azrael... What is your true power?"
KINGDOM OF LUGUNICA
Ein was in front of the king, looking at ten mages who wore scarlet red armor that had a crescent symbol at the breastplate that was a shade darker. They all bowed down to her.
"Emilia was looking for you." King Azrael said.
"I already talked with her, father."
"Does she know anything about the mission?"
"No father, I just told her that I was going to fend off some demons in a neighboring kingdom."
"Good, these knights are the ones who will back you up during the approach. Remember, you are not going there to start a war, you are going there to just showcase power and to give them a stern warning, that is all. Prevent fighting if you can. If not... I do not hope that that will happen.. Now then, you may leave, and may the gods be with you." The king said, stomping his foot on the ground. A blue light pulsed from where he stomped, forming a gigantic blue portal.
"This will take you up to their territory. Be prepared for anything," The King said. Ein and the vampire knights all bowed at him as the portal engulfed them.
Realos was watching all of these conversations.
"I guess I need to send Mitsuki over there..."
Mitsuki opened his eyes and sighed.
"I lost consciousness huh.. Wait-" He looked at his right and saw Poki there, asleep. He slowly turned his head to the left, thinking he was seeing things, only to see Valeria's face on his left. He immediately jumped out of the bed and stared at the two who were still sleeping.
"I- I guess that they were tired too after facing such a strong monster," He said, trying to remove his thoughts out from the gutters.
[You are now level 403]
[Appropriate skills have been combined.]
[Your body has now evolved. Your mana vessel capacity has increased.]
[All the basic skills have been combined into three different ultimate skills. You can still use some basic skills.]
[Ultimate skill: Overwhelming stance: This ultimate skill enables you to exert all of your energy in the form of aura. It also enables you to state commands towards monsters of a lower level than you.]
[Ultimate skill: Pulsar: This skill has devastating wide range damage. It uses mana in the atmosphere to gather a large holy attack from above.]
[Ultimate skill: Supreme flames: This skill has originated from the blue flame of the dragon king and the divine power in you. It is a white flame capable of burning the soul and spells. Destructiveness depends on the scale you wish to use it]
[Your flame element control has been increased. Your elemental flame shall be blue in color and it shall have greater power than the normal elemental flame.]
[You have acquired the dragon king's privileges. You can now communicate with dragons. Lower level dragons shall respect you as a dragon king. You are now immune to most fire attacks. You can now obtain dragon abilities.]
[A new attribute has been formed: Negation. It has originated from the skill dispel and will enable you to negate basic tier skills automatically.]
[ The attribute eyes of god has been merged with the attribute supreme dragon eyes. Your senses are now sharper.]
[The system maker has denied unlock of locked attributes and skills that might have been unlocked at this level.]
[A divine pact skill that had also been unlocked has been locked again by the system maker.]
"Wait.. Why?"
Suddenly, Mitsuki sensed a presence behind him.
"I see you already did your things with the girls," Realos said, looking at the two girls who were still asleep.
"N-NO! I did nothing!- What do you want?" Mitsuki asked.
"I want you to do this.."
Ein along with the ten vampire knights appeared in a wasteland and not far from them, they could see a gate.
"Okay, now we need to go stealthily, follow me!" She said as she started running. She suddenly halted as she looked behind.
"They aren't moving.. Something is wrong," She thought, readying herself, Suddenly, all ten knights burst into a bloody mess.
"Sh!t! Peria! Come out!" She said, but nothing happened.
"Peria??"
A loud laughter echoed in the plains. Ein unsheathed her sword and started looking around.
"You Fools! You fell right into my trap! The voice said as a man appeared from the skies.
"Who are you?" Poki asked as she tried to attack the man.
"I can't use my skills?!! What is going on?"
"Did you ever think that we might also have spies, Ein Azrael?" The man said as he attacked her, punching her in the gut with brute force. Ein fell to her knees and coughed out blood.
"We, the kingdom of Bolzar, will attack your Kingdom soon.
"You.. Can't win," Ein said, standing up. The man laughed as he rendered her immobile.
"Well for starters, we now have you, as hostage.. A princess with unparalleled beauty..." He said, touching her face and forcing her to look at him.
"Secondly, We have help." The man said as his appearance changed into that of a demon.
"You people.. Are working with demons?"
"Precisely!!" He screamed as a red aura filled the entire place, making Ein to collapse on the ground.
"I need to.. Get out of here...." She thought as she struggled with the amount of cursed energy in the air. The man started touching her hair, twirling it around his finger.
"It is time to lay waste to your kingdom and to the summoned!" He whispered to her ear.
"Maybe I can even lay waste to your body before that," He added as he laughed.
"No way I will let you do that." She said as she tried to move away from him.
"Oh? And who will stop me, you?"
Suddenly, a white beam fell from the sky and the next thing Ein saw was a person with a white cloak land in front of her. The man backed away immediately.
"Too bad! You can now not use your skills! You have entered my barrier-"
[Negation attribute is active]
Suddenly, the barrier broke into tiny shards and the cursed aura diminished.
"You negated my barrier? Who the hell are you-"
Suddenly, a suffocating aura made the man choke on his words. Mitsuki choked him and looked at him with fierce eyes.
"I AM THE ONE ASKING QUESTIONS HERE," Mitsuki said.
"Who is that.. His power and control of aura is unbelievable. I am not being affected by his aura..."
"Ein!" Peria said telepathically.
"Peria! I had lost connection with you." Ein replied.
"It was that man's doing, anyway, look at that cloak!"
Ein examined the back and gasped.
"That insignia.. It is the divine pact!" she said.
Back to Mitsuki and the man, The man was trying to fake a laugh desperately.
"I shall never tell you anything!" he said. Mitsuki sighed.
"So it is as Realos said huh.." He thought as he turned to look at the kingdom that was a bit far.
"Tell me, or else I will destroy your kingdom right here and now." Mitsuki said.
"Surely, that is not possible, You are just a bit stronger than I am!" The man said. Mitsuki sighed again.
"Just as he said.."
A display appeared in front of him.
[Your message is now being transmitted to the twelve Northern Kingdoms.]
"Listen, all of you. I serve the Celestior and I bring this message as a warning from them. You have been plotting to attack the Kingdom of Lugunica in order to kill the summoned before they grow to be powerful enough, a truly despicable act. You dare plan to kill the chosen ones? The ones who will protect your world from the incoming danger? LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ALL OF YOU IF YOU DO NOT SEEK FOR FORGIVENESS!"
A white flame appeared on Mitsuki's hand. A large magic crest appeared above the Kingdom of Bolzar and in the next instant, a white flame engulfed the entire kingdom. The other kingdoms who were watching were shaking, their eyes wide open and full of fear. Ein watched the ordeal happen, with complete shock visible on her face. Bolzar could not believe his eyes. He tried contacting the demons in the kingdom, but he did not get any response.
"Now then," Mitsuki said, staring right into Bolzar's soul. All his aura was now directed at him.
"For thinking of doing such indecent things to her, let's torment you a bit, shall we?"
[Skill soul harvest is active.]
[Soul harvest is now being used on a person who is still alive.]
[The targeted person shall experience unimaginable pain]
As the man's soul was being torn from his body, he screamed and screamed, fear visible all over his eyes. All who were watching it were shaking.
[You have used the second divine skill, Eyes of terror.]
In all the Northern kingdoms, all that could be heard in the palaces were continuous screams and shouts.