33 Risen#re

Another group stood a distance away from the expedition group, even if one looked directly at them it would be impossible for them to see the group as they were hidden within a spatial world.

From within the spell Milan watched to events that happened along with the nineteen other elites from the Jane and Eden families.

Once they located Edith and discovered that she was staying besides Lirian most of the time they all came together so that they could rest and relax in the spatial world, it was vast and filled with luxuries inside it.

The spatial world belonged to Mallark a warlock from the Eden family and they often called, him 'The Walking Barracks' due to his ability he was a strategic asset of the Eden family and he could move entire armies in his spatial world and release them at the ideal locations on a battlefield.

However on this occasion due to the secrecy of the mission he didn't bring an army with him and instead used his abilities to create a luxurious resort where he could entertain and relax himself along with the other elites.

However currently all of them had abandoned the whiskey's in their hands and dropped the playing cards they were playing with, after all they had just watch a mortal brutalize a third-grade beast.

"What in the heavens name, has the empress been feeding her son?" Mallark asked aloud with a crazed expression, while the others openly gapped at the scene, if he could do that without any cultivation, what would he be like when he started to cultivate, the even scarier thing to think about was what would he be able do once he enter the second accord.

The thought terrified and filled them with curiosity, "Your excellency Millan your wisdom in telling your daughter to get closer to the prince candidate was amazing!" a woman called Kira said with eyes of worship as she looked at Milan.

She had always idolized the chief advisor of the Eden family, Milan, from the time she was just a child and it had been a dream come true for her to go a mission alongside her idol, and besides idolizing Milan they had a good relationship evidently, since she knew about Milan's advice to her daughter.

Milan only blankly nodded in reply with an embarrassed expression on her cold face, because the last time she spoke to her daughter she was telling her to stay away from Lirian.

But other than that that Milan beamed with pride as she watched her daughter, and she strongly approved of her decision to take a life to take control of the students, but most importantly was how well she carried herself after taking a life for the first time.

It was impossible to become a great cultivator without taking lives, and the sooner a candidate learned and accepted that the better it would be for their growth.

A few minutes later a commotion broke out and she focused on it intently, and when she saw some random boy point his sword at Edith a layer of frost formed around her as she took a step forward.

But at that moment a firm hand landed on her shoulder, and she turned to see Mallark and he shook his head at her, "Lord Callum told me to keep an eye on you and to remind you that you cannot interfere not unless it's due to an external power attacking."

"Remember that anything that happens here is brought upon the candidates by their own actions, it is their duty to bear that responsibility,"

He spoke wisely and locked his eye's on the horizon, his mouth formed a comforting smile as he continued to speak, "And besides Lirian isn't the only smart one in the group."

Milan followed his gaze and in the next second she released a relieved smile, for it appeared that her daughter did have something to rely on when she insulted the group that surrounded her.

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Edith looked at the boy pointing his sword at her with a ridiculing smirk, "Tell me stupid boy and the imbeciles that have followed him!," she chuckled and spoke, "If you kill me and the other candidate's what are you going to do about everyone that see's it? Are you going to kill them to?"

"And not that you lot are even capable of doing that , but let's say for a second that you can do it, tell me what explanation has that walnut sized brain that all thirty of you share, come up with that will allow you to keep your lives after this expedition is over and the deaths are investigated?" Edith asked in a ridiculing tone.

The boy seemed to panic and from the look on his face and his friend's Edith could tell that him and his friends didn't think further than getting their revenge, but then his eyes darted behind her and looked at the beast's corpse.

"We can just say that…" but before he could say anything more Edith laughed and sneered at him she could see exactly the idiotic thoughts that were running through his head.

"You think that you can convince the higher ups that the mammoth killed everyone and that after wearing it down you lot managed kill it," she laughed so hard that she had to hold her belly.

Tobias and Wentian sighed when they saw her like that, it was very rare that Edith lost control of her emotions and from how openly she was displaying her emotions they knew that she was furious.

"How stupid can you be?" she cursed, "Clearly the energy that dealt the killing blow and that is lingering all over its body is pure consolidated energy that can only be created through energy control and it is dyed silver."

"No one else here can use energy control!" she shrieked angrily, the sheer stupidity of these people made her want to rip out her hair, "And no one else can dye their energy silver, so how in all the gods names will anyone of you convince even the most lowly of cultivators from an outlier world that you dealt the killing blow?"

Only silence answered her as everyone looked to one another dumbly, as they watched Edith who looked like she'd go insane from simply standing in these people presence.

She looked at the fools faces and spoke, "Now put your weapons away and when we return, I'll be benevolent enough to spare your lives to ensure that you and your families are only demoted to working the most difficult jobs with the lowest pay for your families next 100 generations."

On the side Hinata breathed out a sigh of relief as she looked up at the sky, it turned out that her judgement to not interfere was correct because high in the sky several vehicles were flying towards them.

Edith smiled coldly at them, most of them had come from the first exploration group, and gave up on the expedition and right now the extraction teams were coming down to pick them up.

The thing that really made her want to kill them however was that all of them came out when the time of arrival for the extraction teams should have been on their watches, the empire had no need for such brainless idiots, it was like all the education from the academy was wasted on them.

Just then the vehicle quickly landed and as the people from the base came out of the vehicles, the only thing they would look at was the mammoth.

At the lead of all the groups was sergeant Ixel, the same pink skinned and blue haired sergeant that greeted them when they entered the base on this planet, and her eyes were fixed tightly on the mammoth.

The base naturally knew about the third-grade mystic beast due to the scans everything was recorded and sent to the base.

Asides from the seventh-grade commander, the person with the second highest cultivation only reached the fourth grade in the base, after all this world posed as little danger so no special forces were need here.

Sergeant Ixel was a third-grade psychic so after receiving the message about the mammoth she assumed that she would end up in a tough fight against the beast to complete the extraction successfully, yet she could see that it was long dead.

The sergeant recognised that now was not the time to find out all the detail she first had to complete her task.

"Alright all of you that gave up on the expedition line up and present your watch's as you enter the vehicles," she said quickly creating order, she could tell that some sort of internal conflict was happening but that wasn't her job to care about.

"Ku ku ka, ha ha ha," but just then a laugh began to ring out loud, the laugh was cold and mirthless, and filled with an icy edge.

As everyone heard it they turned to look at Lirian who was still sitting down, his one leg extended over the ground while the other leg was pulled in with one of his hands resting on his knee while his face was facing the sky and the wind made the blindfold flutter at the back of his head.

"No one is going anywhere!" his voice rang out making the many students freeze in place and the extraction teams turned to look at him with mild annoyance in their eyes, but more than the annoyance was a feeling of lingering fear, because Lirians voice was laced with a frightening killing intent that they had never experience before in their lives.