33 Risen#re

Deep in the forest a group of shadows emerged high up in the trees, the eyes of the group were fixed on the group that sat in the centre of the burning landscape.

The zealots were trained to suppress all their emotions for centuries, yet all the same they were god smacked by what they had seen.

"The second plan has failed, it seems that we must now act ourselves," number 2 said forcing his voice to remain calm, but that slight quiver was apparent to all.

They were also looking at the scene with shaking eyes, after all that prince candidate was just the embodiment of a monster.

They had lured that beast carefully, knowing its power, it was the strongest beast they were able to find on the planet and it also held a law, yet the prince candidate didn't flee in a panic as they expected him to, he prepared a perfect trap and took down the beast.

The hardest thing to believe was how few losses he sustained to take it down, but most of all was when he attacked it himself, a none cultivator against a third grade beast, even if it was on its last legs it was inconceivable.

The hardest thing for them to believe however was that aura he held when he was using his sword, it was something that even those cultivators in the fifth-grade struggle to achieve, form merging.

"It's no wonder that our masters want him dead, it such a pity, such a person could have been a pillar of the empire but unfortunately he chose to challenge the wrong people," one of the zealots spoke and everyone couldn't help but nod in acknowledgement of his words.

Another shadow suddenly arose from behind them and spoke, "We have another problem, we noticed that there are several elites from the Eden and Jane family surrounding the group, if we want to kill him, I'm afraid that all of us will have to act to draw their attention."

The zealot's faces were all covered in black cloth but from the change in their eyes it was clear that they were steeling their resolves, for once they completed their task they would take their own lives to protect their masters.

Suddenly another shadow climbed up, it was the one they all called number 1, she glanced around and quickly before anyone could react several corpse's fell to the ground, "Those without resolute hearts must die before they can become a problem," she said plainly.

They all understood anyone that was wavering with the decision to take their own lives she ended, they would bring only trouble to their masters.

None of the zealots seemed to care for the deaths as they felt her actions were right, they lived only for their masters, zealots were not meant to fear for themselves.

"The thirteen that came with me will deal with most of the elites from the families, we all have advanced second accord techniques, so it should be easier for us," number 1 stated causing all the other zealots to look at them strangely.

The larger group hailed from and super world and the Capriska super world at that, but even the most elite zealots only had the power of an elementary technique.

As zealots were usually hidden forces, or rather you could say that their existences were illegal by the laws of the six great civilizations, however it wasn't a heavily enforced law because every power needed hidden forces, but should it be found out that they were using such high level techniques the consequences for the powers supporting them would be devastating.

Due to this it was extremely rare, that any power would create second accord zealots after all the cost was extreme to create one, and it wasn't worth it to invest so much in a disposable force.

Number 1 suddenly spoke again, "Remember that the elites from the families have far more combat experience than us who have grown in the shadows, even with the boosts from our techniques we will not be their match," she cautioned them and prepared to move out.

But just then they noticed a commotion starting in the group.

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The system quickly analysed the katana and Lirian soon found a new active skill that the katana managed to obtain.

<Devourer> - the blade can absorb the energy of the world and its victims, to restore itself and the wielders energy.

'Huh, it actually managed to take in the mammoth's law, this blade is really strange, I can hardly believe that it's made from simple common materials,' Lirian couldn't help but think that way.

After all it was just something that he randomly bought, yet it was able to awaken a consciousness and force an evolution by fate forging itself. 'Perhaps there is trace of some special material in it, or it has a fragment from a universal treasure embedded in it.'

As Lirian reached those thoughts he used up a lot of particles to do a deep scan of the blades composition with the system, but it gave him a perfect composition of the materials in the blade.

Lirian simply stopped focusing on that after a moment, because the blade was perfectly normal, so he figured that it was just something miraculous that happened, it wasn't like he hadn't seen such a thing happen before.

The 33 Neather plains were filled with strange occurrences, and while this was strange Lirian had witnessed far stranger things.

Putting those thoughts aside, he continued to bury his head in Edith's bosom, and lightly wrapped his arms around her, as much as he wanted to hold her tightly his body was to sore.

Time passed by slowly as the forest around them continued to burn and the students began to celebrate, some of them even tried their luck to cut meat from the mammoths body and cook it over the intense flames and as they strolled about the area it turned a little festive.

However just moments later someone started to create a commotion from the crowds, and then Lirian could hear someone cursing and shouting his name along with all the other candidate's names.

As the crowd began to open up, a small group of people came forward, glaring at Lirian and Edith who were sitting together.

A boy came out at the front of the group with his sword drawn and pointed it at Lirian and Edith, "You bastards," he roared, "You are sitting around and getting all cosy after what you dogs have done," as he spoke another group, came up dragging Tobias and Wentian on the ground.

"What do you people think you're doing?!" Edith said sternly getting to her feet, and looking coldly at the group, in total she noticed at least thirty people all together as she looked around at the scene with narrowed eyes.

All of them seemed pretty well rested, clearly while all the intense fighting was going on they just did the minimum requirement and kept their strength up, while everyone else exhausted themselves in the battle.

"You actually dare to point a weapon at a candidate!" Edith ridiculed him, and she also recognized a few of the faces all of them were commoners or nobles with very low positions.

"Shut your mouth you bitch!" he shouted and pointed his sword at Edith and slowly moved it between Lirian who was sitting on the ground unmoving and her, he couldn't stand the way she looked at him as if she was a million moves above him and he was a simple ant.

"You candidates, sacrificed our lives when we were escaping the mammoth, then when we finally got here you killed someone that struggled to get here just to make a point,"

"Trash like you don't deserve to live, how do people like you get to enjoy the privilege of being a candidate, while better people suffer to get what they need, people like you don't deserve to lead us, it would be better if you're dead!" he cried in outrage and small sobs sounded in his voice as tears fell from his face.

But instead of getting any meaningful reply from Edith she only chuckled haughtily and looked at him as if he was a fool a strange glint could be seen in her eyes as she spoke.

"You really are a pitifully ignorant fool, the reason that we candidate's get to chose who lives and dies is simple, it's because we are better than all of you, and if you don't like it take it up with the empire, it will be fun to watch someone make a fool of themselves," Edith said loudly with a voice of contempt so that everyone could hear.

She didn't want to waste her breath explaining the position of a candidate to a bunch of buffoons whose minds couldn't grasp its complexities, and her words only made the boys face grow green with anger, and it even stirred up some of the students in the crowd.

The boy quickly controlled his face and put on a twisted smile, "If you said that before, we might have been powerless to do anything, but look at your boyfriend he can't protect himself let alone you right now," he laughed at her derisively and got ready to swing his sword.