33 Risen#re

Edith glanced at the handle that Lirian was cleaning and she couldn't stop herself from chuckling.

His clothes were covered in mammoth blood and mashed mammoth brains amongst other things, and he was using those same clothes to wipe the handle of the katana.

If that wasn't a back handed slap to Hinata's face she didn't know what was, Edith slowly glanced at Hinata and began to laugh mockingly at her plight, she could see her broken fingers clearly and the fresh tears running down her face as she stared at Lirian in horror.

"It's to late to regret now," Edith burst into laughter with a gleeful look in her eyes as she looked at the students who were now horror struck and slowly backing away.

"Stop!" a shout echoed from the group as everyone turned to look they saw the elf Pollock standing in front of Hinata, while his hands were trembling slightly, he managed to control himself a little and stare at Lirian with a hateful gaze.

Over the years, he grew used to being bullied in the academy, after all he was just an orphan without any background, while Lirian never went out of his way to bully them, Lirian had never batted an eye when other people bullied him.

But mostly he remembered when he tried to challenge Lirian in the combat class, and Lirian insulted and humiliated his attempts to grow stronger by using tension forms.

Lirian went so far as to take away his chance to earn some credit on the expedition, by claiming that due to his insistence on training in the tension forms he would be a burden in the field.

It was infuriating to him, but now was his only chance to obtain his revenge, and he wasn't going to let it slip away.

"His not in a good condition and remember it took all his strength just to kill 30 people earlier, right now we are over 80 people strong, and he needs to take some time to gather up the energy to use the lightning strike from the sword!" Pollock shouted loudly to gather their attention and boost their confidence.

Pah, Pah, Pah.

The sound of clapping began to echo and as turned to looked at the source they could see Lirian facing them with a derisive smile on his face.

"Well said and absolutely true," Lirian laugh and spoke as if it was no big deal.

"I'd suggest you all stay to attempt to kill me, after all even if you escape from here Telamon will kill you once you return to the academy, I mean it would be better to die now then for you to prolong your lives to only be killed when you return home," Lirian said with a mocking smile.

His words served to push them into the pits of despair and indecision, after Lirian had explained it to them they could see the logic behind his words.

However at the same time they were completely flabbergasted because Lirian was actually advising them to fight against him in this situation, it wasn't only the students that were confused, so were Edith, the elites from the great families and the zealots.

Sensing the confusion Lirian laughed, "It's just that I haven't had the chance to kill so many people in a long time, I don't want to waste this bit of enjoyment, to push people into despair right before killing them, there really is nothing more intoxicating in the world," Lirian explained to them.

His words sounded like the chiming of bells from the lowest depths of hell, forget about the students even the elites and the zealots were terrified by his words, however only Edith didn't seem to shocked, in fact a look of sadness formed on her face as she heard Lirian's words.

She had noticed it from the first time he fought the beast horde, killing seeming to be the only thing that made him feel alive, and his words right now affirmed her guess.

The warlock Mallark from the Eden family who created the spatial world that the elites were currently in had a strange look in his eyes as he looked at Lirian.

"Just what din the empress do to that child to make him such a terrifying person, he's no different from a monster in the desolation with a personality like that," he remarked and many of the others nodded in agreement as they looked at Lirian.

Lirian brandished the sword and held it to his side as he faced them, "Well will you come at me or shall I come to you?" Lirian asked with a smile on his lips.

At that moment Pollock whispered something to those that were the closest to him, however Lirian was easily able to make to make out their words, and for the first time a frown formed on his face.

"How about we make a deal!" Lirian said suddenly taking all of them by surprise.

"What's the matter are you suddenly scared, I thought that you were so sure about killing all of us," Pollock mocked with a smug smile, and his words reassured the crowd that Pollock was right, it would be impossible for Lirian to beat them in his current condition.

"If you don't attack Edith I won't use the lightning ability of my katana," he said solemnly, his words took all of them aback even the elites and zealots, just a second ago it seemed like Lirian was a beast from the desolation but now he was willing to give up an advantage to protect someone, it was completely contradictory.

The ones who were the most shocked was Pollock and those around him after all he had just whispered to a few of them to let the majority of the students distract Lirian, and while Lirian was distracted they would capture Edith and use her against him, yet it appeared that Lirian had heard them.

"Do we have a deal?" Lirian asked coldly.

Pollock hesitated and looked at the other students to see their stance, and practically all of them nodded their heads, it was only natural after all they had seen just how terrifying the storm caller skill was when used by Lirian.

When he charged it with his silver energy it was at least a hundred times more terrifying than when Hinata had used it, and if Lirian was able to use it even once, there was a good chance that all of them would die, but since he was offering them the chance to avoid it they would have to take it.

It would be foolish of them to not grasp the opportunity, and if Lirian was unable to use that technique they had a very high chance of being able to defeat them, however unbeknownst to them Lirian was merely putting on a slight act.

'I need to stall for time,' Lirian thought to himself, that was the only reason he proposed that rule and feigned being worried.

With the katana in hand he held absolute confidence in being able to beat all of them without using the storm caller ability, and he was confident in his ability to protect Edith.

However if he used the storm caller ability he'd kill them all in an instance, at that moment he'd be dead without a doubt the moment he killed all of them, what was most important for him currently was to buy time until Anya arrived.

On some level Lirian felt disgraced at his act, to have to rely on someone else to protect him, it was something that he never did before in all his lives, and it made him feel disgruntled.

'Stop over thinking things,' Lirian thought to himself, 'If Anya wasn't here I could easily escape with the geneses world,' he reassured himself.

In his many lives, he had been forced to escape countless time's, after all with the entire world against him it was impossible for him to have gone about completely undefeated in every battle.

There were many time's that the battles continued to escalate with numerous experts joining in to kill him, if he was able to activate his esper cultivation under those circumstance, he wouldn't fear anyone even if they were two entire grades above him.

But due to his curse, once a battle started person after person would jump up to fight, even unreconcilable enemies would reconcile to deal with him, and his battle field would more often than not turn into a mass grave yard until he either killed everyone or someone far to powerful emerged and he had to retreat.

However, this mortal realm was going to be completely different, because there were thousands of second accord experts in this world, and second accord combatants was something that only belonged in the immortal realm.

In truth it was only the true geniuses of an era that were supposed to be able to create an elementary second accord technique and that would usually only be done once they were done with the mortal realm and ready to reach the immortal realm.

Yet in this world under the great diviner Quaria's leadership, she created an unbelievably powerful universe filled with second accord combatants.

He could only rejoice at the fact that it was almost impossible for anyone other than himself to reach the third accord in a mortal realm, the main ingredient was almost non-existent in a mortal realm, but he had the means to create it.

Lirian suddenly shook his head to push those thoughts aside as he faced his enemies.