Time returned when the sky was still clear and not yet covered by thunderclouds. Fornius stared at the magic projection in front of him with a gloomy face.
"Looks like the Cirlus Kingdom is helping the King of the Demon Kingdom. Too bad, I don't think they will interfere with this matter. I can't help but destroy them all at once. However, I still don't know if the person who defeated Leviathan was among them or not." Fornius muttered loud enough for Oillet beside him to hear.
"So, what are you going to do, Lord Fornius?" Oillet asked Fornius curiously. She didn't expect that his master, who was usually so brave and brutal, was now even more cautious in his actions.
"First, I will lock them up so they don't go back to the Cirlus Kingdom." Fornius looked up at the sky and snapped his fingers.
[Golden Lightning Cloud Cage]
Not long after, overcast clouds suddenly appeared and covered the clear sky. Golden lightning with a deafening sound began to strike from behind the clouds. The dark clouds kept spreading until they covered most of the Cirlus Kingdom's sea area.
"This way, they won't be able to escape from my grasp." Fornius looked satisfied to see the lightning clouds in the sky.
"As expected of Lord Fornius. What you're doing right now is amazing!" Oillet looked at Fornius with a twinkle and amazement.
"I'm still not done. There's something else I want to incorporate into that thundercloud. I also have other plans to make them die without getting my hands dirty." Fornius smirked evilly and cast another spell into the thundercloud in the sky.
***
The sky suddenly became cloudy with lightning that kept striking the ocean. Princess Cordelia increased the speed of their warships to reach their destination island, which was not far away. Not long after, the warships finally reached their destination before the storm hit.
After the warship docked, the soldiers of the Cirlus Kingdom quickly led the students and academy teachers to find a place for them to camp. They were currently on an uninhabited island, so they couldn't expect to sleep in a lodging. They walked for quite a while from the shore and finally found the best place to set up camp.
"We'll be camping here for a while! After the storm clears, we will continue our investigation!" Princess Cordelia gave orders to her subordinates and the people from the academy.
"We understand, General!" the soldiers answered in unison.
The soldiers worked very fast. It didn't take them long to set up all the tents. The academy students just stood still, looking at them. The difference in experience between the academy students and the Cirlus Kingdom soldiers was visible here.
"Okay! You guys don't keep standing still like that! Get into the tent because a rainstorm is coming!" Flavio shouted to wake up the students. They quickly came back to their senses and entered their group's tent. Men and women have separate tents.
Not long after that, heavy rain accompanied by strong winds ensued. Fortunately, the soldiers and academy people had already set up a fairly sturdy tent. Suddenly the door of one of the tents opened, and someone came out of it. That person used a black cloak to cover himself and flew towards the island's center. That black-robed person is Ziel. He went out to check something.
After he arrived at the island's center, another black-robed person was waiting for him there. Ziel strolled towards her. The robes that Ziel and the black-robed person were wearing didn't get wet in the rain because a thin layer of barrier prevented the cloak from being exposed to the rain.
"Looks like people from your race have come to take King Redis and his family. This time it was even the high-level divine race that came. Do you perhaps know the reason?" Ziel asked the black-robed person. She is Lilith asked by Ziel to check out with him. He wasn't afraid to leave Clara alone because he knew who the person from the divine race was targeting.
"The first is because of a grudge, and the second is that they have something special about them and will be of use to that person." Lilith answered with her point of view as one from the Divine Race.
"Hmm... that means it can be both, right? That person went to the trouble of creating a barrier this wide to confine his prey." Ziel muttered and looked up at the sky. Rather, he looked at the thundercloud.
"Barrier? You mean this rainstorm is a barrier?" Lilith was shocked to have just realized this. She thought that this rainstorm was a magic spell from Fornius used to attack, but he didn't expect that this was a large-scale barrier used to trap them.
"Yes. Right now, this entire area under the rain was his territory. But the person himself was very far from this place. Looks like he doesn't want King Redis and his family to run away while he's busy doing something elsewhere." Ziel answered Lilith while staring somewhere. The direction he saw was the location of an uninhabited island where Fornius lived with Oillet.
"So, this rain will only prevent us from getting out of this area, right?" Lilith confirmed Ziel's previous explanation. But Lilith saw Ziel suddenly frowned.
"At first, yes. But it looks like that person added another spell in it." Ziel spoke coldly. Even if it was only for a moment, Lilith could feel that the atmosphere around Ziel had turned terrible. But Ziel quickly returned to the way he was.
"What's wrong with this rain?" Lilith ventured to ask him.
"Draining life energy. If you are exposed to this rain, your life energy will be eroded little by little. At first, you will only feel tired quickly, but over time you will not have the strength to move and will eventually die." Ziel replied nonchalantly. Then he opened his palm and let the raindrops hit him.
Lilith also did the same thing Ziel did. Not long after, she opened her eyes wide as she felt her life energy slowly dissipate.
"What does he want to do by doing all this? If he just wanted to capture King Redis and his family, shouldn't he just come to this place and take them by force? Why do you have to use a roundabout and long process?" Lilith still doesn't understand Fornius' way of thinking.
Lilith knew the one who did all these things was Fornius. She noticed it from the golden lightning in the sky, the same as Fornius had shown in the temple. She remembered that Fornius was the second strongest person in the 'God Domain' organization. He was very arrogant and always looked for trouble with the silver statue. He's not one to waste time. He would immediately attack from the front with all his strength because he was confident in his abilities. What Fornius is doing right now is not his style at all.
"He's acting cautiously." Ziel answered curtly to Lilith's question.
"Alert? Oh, is it because of you?" Lilith quickly understood after she thought about it for a while.
"I might be one of them. First, he didn't expect that King Redis and his family would be with king Raghnall and his soldiers. He must have thought that the Cirlus Kingdom was protecting King Redis right now. The second was that he thought that the person who killed Leviathan was still in this kingdom. That's why he didn't want to act recklessly by directly appearing here." Ziel explained his guess about what Fornius was thinking right now.
"Oh, I see. Then, what are you going to do next? Are you going to sit there looking at it? Or will you go straight to that person's place?" Lilith nodded in understanding and wanted to know Ziel's next plan.
"I don't have to worry about the life energy-draining effect of this rain because Clara and the girls around her have my artifact. In addition, there will be hordes of magical beasts coming to the camp. That person wanted to use the magical beast horde to force the people out of the tent to fight the monsters. That way, they would run out of their life energy while fighting the beast and then die." Ziel raised his hand and opened his palm towards the thundercloud in the sky.
"What are you doing?" Lilith was confused by Ziel's sudden action. But Ziel didn't answer. From his palm emerged a ball of grey light. Ziel shot the ball of light towards the thundercloud.
The ball of light turned into a curtain and covered the entire area with thunderclouds. The rainwater that fell from the sky first hit the curtain and looked like it was being filtered. Lilith opened her palm again to let the raindrops hit her.
"This is!" Lilith was shocked and didn't know what to say. She no longer felt her life energy eroded after being hit by the rainwater. In other words, Ziel annulled the life energy-draining effect of the rain without cancelling the spell itself.
"I want to see what that person will do after finding out that what he did turn out to be useless and wasted. Let's go back to camp and wait for the magical beast horde to come." Ziel turned around and flew back towards the encampment of the people from the academy and the Cirlus Kingdom soldiers.
"I understand." Lilith answered obediently and quickly followed behind him.
***
"Hmm... something's weird. Why do I feel like something is covering the entire sky right now?" Fornius opened his palm and felt the raindrops falling from the sky. Suddenly his eyes stared intently at the direction of the camp of the people from the academy.
"Damn! Oillet, have you sent a horde of magical beasts there?" Fornius asked Oillet next to him.
"I've been sending the monsters a long time ago, lord Fornius. The horde of magical beasts will probably arrive soon. Did something happen?" Oillet timidly asked Fornius, who looked angry.
"Haa… the spell I added to the rainwater seems to be useless. The magical beast horde's attack on the academy's encampment was futile. It seemed that someone else was secretly helping them. I had to intervene directly to finish everything. Otherwise, I can't recover the losses I've suffered." Fornius spoke with an angry face. He was annoyed that someone had thwarted his plans.
Fornius had lost many objects of his research, including his special one, Leviathan. If the monsters he dispatched now also died, he would only have a few remaining research objects in his hands. This is detrimental not only to him but also to the 'God Domain' organization.
"So you're going, Lord Fornius? Will it be okay? Don't we still not know the person who defeated Leviathan?" Oillet has a bad feeling about it.
"I have no other choice. I have to go there to take my revenge and take the research object. Those magical beasts will only die in vain if I don't go. You don't have to worry. I will be fine. You know how strong I am, don't you?" Fornius smirked and intended to leave the place. But suddenly, he remembered something.
"You have to hide in a cave in the middle of this island. I've set up a teleportation circle there. Suppose I don't come back until the evening. You must leave this island." Fornius flew at full speed and turned into a golden streak of light towards the camp of the people from the academy.
Oillet was taken aback after hearing Fornius' words. Those words felt like his last words to her. She didn't know what to say at this point. Even though Oillet is afraid of him, Fornius still treats Oillet well even when she makes mistakes. She didn't know why Fornius was behaving like that to her. But Oillet decided to ask him sometime in the future. When Oillet came back to her senses, Fornius had already become a golden light that was slowly disappearing from her sight.
"You will win, Lord Fornius! You will come back! I'll be waiting for you here!" Oillet's scream echoed throughout the cloudy sky and accompanied Fornius' departure.
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