33 Risen#re

The explosion rang out loud taking everyone by surprise, the three capsules released a devastating amount of energy that ripped through the land and uprooted the trees.

Lirian grabbed onto Edith and quickly ducked behind some trees, but that didn't protect them much, because even the tree they hid behind, began to creek as the tree trunk splintered under the force of the blast.

Even its roots were pulled up through the soil before the entire tree toppled over, sensing the bad situation Lirian scrambled around while holding onto Edith's hand tightly and quickly evaded the falling trees.

However a few seconds later Lirian suddenly went still and broke out into a fit of coughs, Edith grabbed onto Lirian, but she did so to late because he still fell to the ground with a hard thud.

Edith's heart tightened as she pulled Lirian back-up, he was vomiting mouthfuls of blood which dyed his teeth red, but most of all Lirian wasn't even moving, if not for his constant coughs she would have believed him to be dead.

Edith never believed that she would see a day where Lirian was in such a condition, and she knew that if not for his battle against the mammoth he wouldn't have been in such a bad condition.

Most of all Edith blamed herself if not for her Lirian wouldn't have had to push himself so hard to protect her, she realised that the lightning attack Lirian used earlier had put him under more strain than he could handle.

The only reason that he could still looked fine after that was because of his determination and will power to take care of Pollock and Hinata, but now that he had said his piece and got back at them the tension had drained from his body.

Edith raised Lirian up and placed him onto her back, as a princess candidate she underwent rigorous training to strengthen her body, while she wasn't a monster like Lirian who could take on dozens of first grade cultivators at once she was still strong enough to face a single cultivator and not die.

Despite her strength Edith was still surprised when she picked up Lirian because of how light he was, she felt like her academy backpack weighed more than Lirian.

As she started to move about she could feel something hot spilling onto her shoulder and when she looked down she saw blood spilling from Lirian's mouth.

Edith's heart tightened as she looked ahead trying to figure out what to do now, she had Lirian with her and by now the students had most likely began to retreat towards the base.

Edith knew that the threat was resolved but a sense of unease filled her, as she moved about.

"You… n-need… to bring… Hinata…" Lirian muttered in a hoarse voice.

Edith sighed in relief as she heard Lirian his voice might have been weak but at least he was talking, Edith was doubtful about Hinata's survival after the blast, but she still turned to look at where Hinata had been and she was surprised to say the least.

Hinata was still pinned to the tree and that tree was standing tall as if completely unaffected by the blast, Edith began to doubt her eyes because it wasn't that the tree wasn't in blast radius, it was apparent that it was because all of the surrounding trees were uprooted.

Only the tree that Hinata was pinned to remained standing perfectly straight while the other trees were up turned or broken on the ground.

Edith took a step towards Hinata, she knew that she didn't have time to get caught up in the details, and she lightly mumbled to herself in disbelief as she approached Hinata.

'Her luck is unbelievable,' Lirian thought to himself but it didn't come as too much of a surprise to him as he recalled Hinata's boon.

Lirian remembered facing a chosen once, and despite completely defeating him, a spatial crack opened up in the aftermath of the battle and sucked the chosen into it.

Lirian didn't dare to enter it because of how dangerous the spatial crack was but several centuries later he encountered that chosen again, it was because of that incident that Lirian knew that the luck of a heaven chosen wasn't something to be scoffed at.

Edith took a few steps in Hinata's direction when a figure appeared blocking her path she took a quick glance at the person only to see her completely clad in a black outfit, that made it hard for her to judge the gender of the person before her.

Edith felt a burst of aura emanating from the person before her, "Who... are y…" Edith found it hard to move to speak in the persons presence let alone move.

She felt her entire body over come by some form of pressure which she immediately recognised to be life hierarchy suppression, and the pressure was no ordinary pressure, Edith immediately recognized the level of pressure.

Edith stumbled back with weak legs and her face twisted into an unwilling expression, the level of the person in front of her was a seventh-grader, as a candidate she had underwent all kinds of training one of the more difficult things she trained in was learning how to resist life hierarchy suppression.

Edith didn't have much success in that area of her training but she knew how to identify the different levels of life hierarchy, and right now she was an ordinary mortal facing a seventh grader, to the current her the person before was akin to a god who she was powerless to defend against.

"Don't panic," she heard Lirian mutter in her ear and he grabbed onto her shoulder firmly.

His voice and his touch were a akin a light in the dark to Edith she felt her strength return to her body but more than that she felt her mind settle down from just a few words of Lirian.

Edith took a step back and she was surprised to find that the pressure was gone, she looked to the figure in black robes wondering why she released her pressure but upon looking she saw a trace of disbelief in the black robed person eyes.

"Run while she's still confused," Lirian urged Edith but she turned to look at him with an equal amount of disbelief on her face.

It was then that Edith realised that a special kind of power was seeping into her from Lirian, it didn't give her any strength, but it completely negated the effect of the life hierarchy suppression she was experiencing.

"How are you blocking my suppression!?" the black robed person asked with a shaken voice and the tone of her voice gave away that she was female, she directed her question at Lirian, evidently she heard what Lirian told Edith.

'Crap,' Lirian thought as his last bid for time failed he tried to get Edith to run but she was to surprised herself by what he was doing, 'Ah well it's not like Edith would have gotten far anyway,' he sighed to himself.

Edith was shocked when she heard a woman's voice coming from the black robed figure, not because the figure was a woman but because Lirian was able to identify the persons gender in an instant despite being blind.

"You want to know how I can resist the life hierarchy pressure?" Lirian asked with a chuckle but his voice was incredibly weak and hoarse, and from the way he spoke it was as if he was expecting this person to appear all along.

"If you want to know I'll tell you but why don't you tell all your other friends to come out first, I want to see how much Telamon invested in trying to kill me before I die," as Lirian finished speaking he was surprised to find that the zealot had no response to him mentioning Telamons name.

"Oh," Lirian said suddenly with a thoughtful smile, "If you're not one of Telamon's then you must be one of Efrideet's," a bloody smile appeared on Lirian's face as he heard the zealot's heart accelerate it was for barely even a second but Lirian heard it clearly.

"Huh, Efrideet is tougher than I gave her credit for, to have been able to contact and command her zealots despite the state that she's in, I'm slightly impressed," Lirian said with a weak chuckle.

Lirian knew that Efrideet was suffering severely after she attempted to sever his fate string, since he is a chosen and Efrideet tried to kill him she was most definitely suffering from the a curse from the heavens and it would only dissipate if either she managed to make to a break through in her cultivation or if Lirian made a breakthrough in his own cultivation.

"Well will you call out your friends, I mean I'm completely powerless to do anything against you," Lirian said innocently.

Unbeknownst to all of them, in a place hidden, in a place lost, in a place that never existed three sets of eyes peered onto the unfolding events.