33 Risen#re

From the side's of Lirian, it didn't matter whether, it was the group of zealots or the elites from the family that were following the emperor's orders, all of them were stunned out of their minds.

The current turn of events seemed completely none-sensical to them.

One second the candidate all gathered together and spoke with each-other, the amazing thing to all them was the friendliness that all the candidates had to each-other was a shocking surprise to all of them.

In almost every other batch of candidate's, the candidate were rather unruly with each-other and always trying to out do each other, but from the atmosphere that this group gave of it was clear that they were close group of friend before they were candidates.

But then the argument began, and it was a little more reminiscent of what a real batch of candidate looks like, but then to their surprise in the middle of the fight Lirian cancelled the expedition.

On one side the elites form the families were wondering if Lirian was an idiot, after all the expedition was still bound to grant them great rewards despite the deaths, after all they killed a second-grade mystic beast, a third-grade mystic beast and they found ancient ruins, anyone of those would make for a super successful expedition.

The zealots however felt a trace of worry because the only conclusion they could come up with for Lirian's actions was that he discovered their plot, however they couldn't see how they were found out, there was nothing connecting them to the two attacks, so it really made no sense.

At that point they were watching closely, and they couldn't help but tense up at Lirian's words when he said that it was dangerous to be around him as he tried to send Edith away.

Edith looked at Lirian with determined eye's and instead of walking away from him she pulled him closer into her arms.

"I'm not leaving you, not even if we were surrounded by a million seventh-graders and they were planning to kill you, I'll be stay right by your side," she said fiercely and grasped onto Lirian tightly, her eyes were filled with resolve and determination.

She didn't know what the danger was that Lirian spoke of but she didn't care she made up her mind, she would not be leaving his side no matter what.

"grunt," Lirian grunted in dissatisfaction, but Edith didn't care she wasn't going to let him get his way, and he was too weak to force her to do anything currently.

"You are always so smart, so why the hack are being stupid right now, go!" Lirian half shouted and half coughed as he tried to push her away, he could feel the danger growing in his bones and he didn't want her to be anywhere any where near him when the trouble erupted.

But his word seemed the half the opposite effect on her, a beautiful smile that would render Lirian speechless bloomed on Edith's face as she looked at him because she knew that right now he was more worried for her than he was for himself and it was a dream come true for her to see that he cared about her so much.

"I never thought that you knew how to feel afraid, let alone to be afraid for someone other than yourself," she said happily.

"Edith please just leave!" Lirian pleaded with her but she only shook her head and smiled at him, she had no intention to leave his side for even a second.

"You stupid girl," Lirian said weakly when his watch began to beep, as soon as it did he answered and he heard a voice he had grown used to hearing everyday of his current life.

{Lirian,} Anya's voice rang out, {What's going on? I just heard that you cancelled the expedition?!} she said in a worried tone.

"It's just as I told you this is the prefect place for Telamon to make his move, I believe that he's stationed a few of his followers here and they've been trying to kill me through natural means to make it look like an accident," Lirian spoke hurriedly.

"I imagine that right now they are planning to show themselves, so I had to give up the expedition, Anya get here as quickly as possible," Lirian said and just at that moment he noticed the sound of numerous footsteps closing in on him and he grimaced.

"Anya get here quickly, it seems that they have one last trick up their sleeves," Lirian said solemnly and hung up the call.

At that moment Edith was completely shocked by Lirian's words, but not as much as the two groups that were listening closely.

Number One's eyes constricted and prepared to attack immediately, but Number Three quickly stopped her, "Just let this one last attempt happen, if it fails we can act before his reinforcements arrive, even if it's Anya Capriska she will still need at least an hour to cross the distance from the base to this place," she reasoned with Number One.

Lirian's word had taken them all by surprise, because they couldn't figure out how Lirian knew the things that he did, because they were indeed trying to kill him through natural methods to make it look like an accident.

Little did they know that Lirian discovered the strange contamination in the rock drake's energy that alerted him to the fact that the drake did not wake up naturally and was instead forcefully awakened by a greater power.

As they were lost in their thoughts group of over eighty students surrounded Lirian and Edith.

Edith furrowed her brows disbelief at what was happened after Lirian's 'brutal demonstration' she never would have expected the student to dare to even think about attacking Lirian let alone doing it.

At the lead of all of them she noticed someone she recognized it was one of Lirian guards Hinata, and besides her she saw another one of his guards, she didn't what his name was, but he was an elf and a very tall one at that.

Edith could feel slight fluctuations of killing intent roiling of them and it made her aware of the situation, while everyone was busy evacuating this group was getting ready to attack Lirian.

But the most shocking thing to Edith was what Hinata was holding in her hands it was Lirian's katana and from the look of things it's strange effect wasn't doing anything to her at all.

Edith had felt it first hand when she convinced Lirian to give her a try at picking it, and it made her move at a snails pace, by the time she took one step, everyone else took at least a dozen, and if someone tried to pick up without Lirian's consent the blade would release a burst of lightning in an attempt to kill them.

But clearly this girl Hinata was different as she held it at her side without any trouble at all.

"What do you think you're doing?" Edith said coldly looking up at her.

Hinata flashed her cold smile as she looked at Lirian with eye's filled with killing intent, "You were such a cute couple, The prince candidate that everyone couldn't take their eyes of and sung a hundred praise's about and the highty-tighty princess candidate that felt herself better than all those around, you two couldn't be more perfect for each-other, and since the two of you are together, I might as well kill both of you," Hinata said in a voice full of disdain.

"Hump," Edith coldly snorted, even in the face of death she would never disgrace herself by showing fear, "You're an idiot if you think you can get away with this," she said simply.

Edith had no ideas as to why this commoner girl was trying to kill them but she knew that that is pointless to argue when she heard Hinata's tone.

It was obvious that she was one of those commoners who were eternally envious of the candidate, because of her abysmally low number of brain cells so she wouldn't waste her breath trying to reason with a mad fool.

Hinata's little black eye's fixed on Lirian who hadn't said a word so far and seeing his condition she felt that it would be child's play to finish him.

"Who will ever know if we kill you, there is no one around here to see, and when we done mutilating your corpse's it will look like some wild beast's attacked you," Hinata said in angry tone, and clenched her fist, she couldn't stand that tone of Edith's it was just like Lirian's completely condescending like she was nothing in front of her eyes.

She faced Lirian with her cold gaze, "Why aren't you speaking, are you so scared that you can't even speak or are you so shocked by my plans to kill you that you've gone dumb?" she asked pointing the katana at Lirian.

At that point Lirian only smiled lightly as if he didn't think himself in a dangerous situation, "You don't even know how to hold a katana properly and you think you can speak to me however you wish?" Lirian ridiculed her,

He took a step forward and his entire countenance went cold, it effected even the air, "Even the thoughts and movements of gods cannot take me surprise!" Lirian roared with out any weakness in his voice and the air reverberated carrying his voice across the lands, not allowing the simplest of life forms to escape his divine words.

",and a lowly mortal bitch like yourself thinks that you have what it takes to evade my eyes," Lirian's cold voice rebuked her and caused her as well as all those around him to step back in uncontrollable fear.