33 Risen#re

A look of anguish filled Lirian's eyes as he looked at Edith, the thought of death was so enticing to him, to Lirian death was hope, it was the opposite of what all others thought of death.

It was like a lover and a friend he'd been waiting to meet for the longest time, and now that he resolved himself to embrace it, it was like his long-cherished wish would finally be answered.

There was struggle in his eyes as he heard Edith's cries of desperation, her cries only grew more desperate as she lashed out at him with every insult she could.

She told him that he would be an unfilial son to the empress if he gave up on life and that he'd be betraying Anya who protected him all those years he spent growing up on Xelia.

In the end Edith was crying miserably between her shouts, at some point she forgot what she was saying as she yelled whatever came to mind, it was at that point that she felt two arms wrap around her, it was a gentle and firm hug and she could feel something warm dripping on her head.

"Your words cut deep, deeper than any blade can cut" she heard Lirian say in a morbid tone, "But your right, if you truly wish for me to live then I shall grant you your wish!" Lirian said solemnly.

Edith looked up with hopeful eyes and brushed away Lirian's tears, "Thank you!" she finally said, she didn't know why Lirian wanted to die so badly but she was glad that he decided to keep living.

[The conflux of fate has closed]

[Fate functions restored]

The system stated to Lirian, "I see," Lirian muttered softly, "The conflux was for me after all," Lirian muttered in realisation as he began to scan the world.

Lirian looked down while holding onto Edith tightly, he peered through the raging storms and scanned the lands.

He took in everything in the world with a glance, in the far distance the main base of the army was in complete ruin but most of the people there were still alive, the magma didn't reach those parts yet.

To his surprise there was a small number of students from the expedition still alive, Tobias and Media were leading them up a mountain that didn't collapse it was one of the few safe places left.

A little ways away he found Wentian's corpse and on the slopes above Wentian, Cole was lying unconscious with a missing arm, he looked like he was on the verge of dying.

The transport ship that took the students who gave up on the expedition had crashed after being hit by the raging storms, almost everyone on board had died.

Lirian looked directly beneath him, it was the most dangerous region on the world currently and beside the second accord cultivators all the others were dead, which put a frown on Lirian's face, those first accord zealots weren't necessary, but they would have aided his cause against Telamon.

Then there were one other individuals that still lived, the one they called Number 1 she was looking extremely dishevelled as she streaked across the land at her top speed while staring at the lightning filled sky in fear, she had already taken six bolts of tribulation lightning and it was only getting stronger with each strike.

Lirian turned to another place where he expected someone to be but there was only fresh magma filling the world at that location.

"I guess that using the words of heaven rendered the heavens chosen boon useless to protect her," Lirian thought, the place he looked to was where Hinata was pinned.

"It's a pity about the katana," Lirian thought it seemed to have the ability to grow which was a very rare trait even amongst fate forged weapons.

But it was only at the mystic grade, even with the laws it held it would be impossible for the katana to have survived the magma.

"First things first lets take care of the trash," Lirian said to Edith and silver rings formed around his hand, as they came of his hand the rings joint together and opened up a gate.

In the next moment a figure stumbled through the gate appearing in front of Edith and Lirian.

When Edith saw the person, her entire body tensed up and her hand shot to her back where she very vividly membered a cold icy dagger piercing her body.

Number 1 didn't know what happened she was running when all of a sudden a strange gate appeared directly in her path, she was moving so fast that she couldn't react and ended up going straight through it.

When she arrived on the other side of the gate she could see the person she was fleeing in terror from right before her, and to the side of him she could see someone she had killed a few hours ago.

She was so close to the ship they arrived with, it would have been a few minutes at most and she would have been able to send the intel to her master, but when it seemed like she had a chance she found herself back to where she begun.

"You, you monster, just what the hell are you?" Number 1 shouted while looking between Lirian and the supposed to be dead Edith, part of her believed that she somehow died and entered the yellow springs, so that she could be tormented by her failure.

"Monster!" Lirian chuckled coldly while looking at Number 1 who was looking around frantically.

"You're only partially right about that, you see this plain still doesn't know me yet but if you were to visit the others you'd know the truth,"

"I am the monster that all monsters know to fear, the monster of the stories that all monsters tell their children about to make them behave, a monster that must never be provoked," Lirian said coldly.

"So, I salute you and your master for making a mistake that even monsters fear to make," Lirian said one word at a time as he wrapped his hand around Number 1's throat.

Edith calmed down a lot as she saw how completely powerless Number 1 was before Lirian, when she was talking with the other her, she was told what Lirian's cultivation was, and the cultivation of Number 1, but it still left her in complete awe.

"Is this the power of the third accord?" she asked Lirian excitedly.

Lirian scratched his head a little at the question, "To a degree yes," Lirian said he didn't want to get into the detail of the third accord right now, "But for the most part, its talent, knowledge and eons of practice to hone my skills," Lirian added with a grin at Edith.

"So how would you like to deal with her?" Lirian asked giving Edith the chance to get her own revenge.

But Edith shook her head slightly, "I really want to," Edith explained with a slightly shaky voice, "But you can use her against Telamon, and since she's the leader it's likely that she'll be the most useful," Edith explained.

"Never!" Number 1 shouted, "I'll die before I betray my master," she shouted resolutely and started to ignite her power.

"Ha, not this time," Lirian spat and with a wave of his hands Number 1 felt a strange restrictive force engulf her from the inside.

As she focused on her body she found that her own frost laws were sealing her power, frost laws were very convenient for sealing things so Lirian put them to good use.

"Do you think you'll be able to use her?" Edith asked with a pondering look after some time, she had heard about the brain washing ceremony that zealots go through, and it was extremely rare that they were broken through, and even then the information that could be extracted from a person with a broken mind was limited.

As he looked at Number 1 Lirian had an epiphany as for how to use her against Telamon, and seeing how devoted she was to Telamon, Lirian also felt like it was the perfect way to break her.

"I have an idea," Lirian said with a twisted and cruel smile, "It seems to me that Telamon is your whole world, so I'm going to make you betray your master and all your beliefs,"

Lirian ran his hand over his eyes, "I've been wanting to test out these eyes of mine," he said while looking at Number 1, peering beyond her flesh and into her fate string.

Lirian decided to use the power of his eyes, originally when he wasn't blind he could barely even use his eyes for more than a second before it started to cause him harm.

Third grade was the requirement for him to be able to start using it, so now that he was sixth grade it should be able to work.

Earlier he had seen fragments of a possible future, but that wasn't the true power of his eyes, its true power was to peer through fate strings and souls, it was almost like being able to do a fate string scan but without consuming fate particles.

The thought excited Lirian to no end as he activated his , <Samsaric Vision>.