33 Risen#re

"I'm sorry," Lirian heard Edith mutter suddenly as she dashed out in front of him.

For the first time Lirian's eye's trembled behind the blindfold as he noticed Edith's silhouette charging out before him, he could hardly believe his sense's in that moment.

It wasn't just him but all the others in his head, all his other selves looked on in disbelief, because to them this was a first in all their lives.

Lirian had Anya and his mother who he knew would protect him, but he didn't know with certainty if they'd do the same if the outcome would result in certain death for themselves, yet right before him he could sense Edith doing what no one had ever done for him before.

"Damn it, you stupid girl," Lirian shouted at Edith with perplexed emotions, he didn't know what it was that he was feeling exactly at that moment, he only knew that he didn't want her to die, he didn't want her to ever die.

Lirian forced himself to walk forward as the storm of violently pulsating lightning closed in on Edith, despite the tense air and the pain in his body Lirian wasn't panicking nor was he afraid, after all he knew that it was impossible for the katana to harm him, it was something that he told to no one not even Edith.

In the nick of time Lirian pushed his hand forward and brought it before Edith, as if he was releasing a special force from his hands the lightning darted away from him as if afraid of bringing him any harm.

The lightning spiralled around Lirian and Edith creating a barrier of blue light around them, before slowly crackling and vanishing.

The surroundings went silent as the lightning claps disappeared and it wasn't only Hinata and the students that were left in surprise, so were Telamons zealots and the elites from the great families.

Milan was looking on in surprise as she quickly crushed the protective spell she had formed to protect Edith and Lirian, she was now free to protect them since the expedition was officially called off, the only reason she didn't act so far was because the things Lirian was saying had truly intrigued her.

But she was now aware that there had been no reason for her to worry at all, as a seventh grader warlock, her mind was capable of processing things at an unbelievable speed, even if she only released her protective spell as the lightning touched Edith, she would have made it in time to save her life.

As she came out of her stupor she realized that Lirian was speaking again.

"What's the matter are you surprised?" Lirian mocked, but more than that a chilling killing intent was present in his voice as he spoke to Hinata.

As he spoke Edith Leaned back and fell against his chest, it had taken all of her courage to throw herself in front of that bolt of lightning, and she didn't regret doing it, but her entire body was feeling numb after escaping with her life and she was still trying to process how it was that she survived the attack.

Lirian wrapped an arm around Edith and held her firmly as he lashed out at Hinata with mocking words.

"You've brought a protective talisman!" Hinata shouted in anger as she heard Lirian mocking her, "You've been cheating the entire time, it's no wonder that you were able to defeat the rock drake and the mammoth!" she spat through gritted teeth.

However her words were only met with a ridiculing laugh from Lirian, "kekeke…" Lirian released a bone curdling laugh that made everyone involuntary shudder.

"You're are truly trash, the heavens have granted you a boon like no other and yet you're incapable of performing a forceful submission on my katana," Lirian shook his head to show how much contempt he felt for Hinata at that moment.

Once more no one could understand what he meant by his words, and they felt at a loss as to what Lirian was getting at.

Hinata didn't understand him at all however the only thing she knew was that she was being insulted and ridiculed by Lirian, she clenched her teeth together so hard that blood started to seep out from her gums as she stared at Lirian viciously.

She lifted the katana again and began to pour her mana into the weapon, then she began to swing the katana wildly releasing arc of lightning after arc of lightning at Lirian.

This time Lirian didn't even bother to raise his hand to ward it off, he remained completely still, while firmly holding onto Edith, as the lightning came close it reacted in the same way as the bolt that first arrived.

It swerved as it came close to Lirian before surrounding Lirian like a shield, and each consecutive bolt reacted in the same way.

Hinata panted heavily, a few strikes with the katana had drained almost all her mana reserves, yet as she looked at Lirian she could see that he was completely unharmed by her attacks.

"Do you think that I'm the same as the trash from the empire who forged sacred items by sheer luck?" Lirian laughed coldly.

"Unlike all those who've forged sacred items I'm the only one that's capable of making alterations during the fate forging process, while I can't change the innate nature and abilities of weapons I'm able to ensure the loyalty of my weapons," Lirian said slowly.

All fate forged items held sentience, as such it makes the items almost like living beings, of course they can't speak, but fate forged items hold a sense of awareness, for that reason it made fate forged weapons incapable of serving Lirian during his past lives while he was cursed, due to that he had to come-up with special methods to subdue fate forged items.

That was part of what Lirian had done as he fate forged the katana, however his control could still be lost if someone was able to push it into a forceful submission, and for anyone with a heaven chosen boon, forceful submission would only take a little bit of effort.

With Hinata's boon it should be effortless however, she wasn't able to do it, to Lirian that further cemented her position as trash in his eyes, and he was truly unable to understand what the heavens were thinking by blessing her.

As he finished speaking Lirian stretched out his arm in Hinata's direction and opened his hand as he did that five thin strands of lightning as fine as a strand of hair stretched out from the katana's handle and reached out to Lirian.

Each lightning strand met a finger of Lirians and began to coil around his fingers then they raced along his hand traveling up and down each finger.

As the sensation of the lightning coursed through his hand a smile formed on Lirians face, "Now come to me," Lirian whispered and as if his words were a decree the katana that was still Hinata's hand burst out from her grip.

Hinata was clutching onto the handle tighter than ever as she saw the strands of lightning reach out to Lirian, it made her realise that something was wrong, so she was desperately trying to use her mana to sever the connection between Lirian and the katana, but it was no use.

Then she heard a rumbling thunder clap loudly in her ears as a burst of power was released from the katana.

It broke free from her grasp and she was powerless to stop it but more than that the blast was so powerful that it shot her flying backwards, until she landed on the ground with a heavy putt.

"Ahhhh," she screamed miserably as she tried to climb back up, she could barely feel her hands and as she looked down at her hands another miserable scream was released from her mouth.

Hinata looked at her fingers in horror all of them were bent out of shape and badly mangled, blood dripped from her and stained the soil as she struggled to bring herself up and look at Lirian, with a look of horror on her face.

He wasn't holding the katana in his hand instead the tip was pressed into the ground as Lirian used his bloodied uniform to wipe the handle.

At that moment Edith was looking at Lirian strangely, "What are you doing?" she asked curiously, because just moments ago as the blade was coming closer to him it was releasing lightning as it closed in on him as if excited to return to its masters hand, however the moment it arrived Lirian slapped the blade and knocked it in to the ground.

"Oh I'm just cleaning the handle," Lirian said nonchalantly, "You can't really expect me to touch something without cleaning it after it was in the hands of such trash," Lirian said, at his words the air seemed to grow cold and even the katana that seemed to be full of excitement lost it's spark.

However only Lirian and Hinata detected a strange sensation from the katana, it resembled killing intent and it was fixed on Hinata.

It was almost as if the blade knew that being slapped was its punishment and the reason it was being punished was Hinata.

At that moment Hinata only felt despair as she realised that things weren't going to end well for her.