"W-what, how is this possible?" Bone stared at the scene in front of him with eyes wide open, his body was shaking as he couldn't believe the sight in front of him. Reign was standing on the head of the collapsed elephant as his sword had finally managed to reap its life, the elephant had many cuts and burns on its body and even a part of its trunk was cut off.
"Damn, field bosses are still tough bastards to take down alone." Reign took a deep breath as he spoke, the battle against the elephant took him a while to finish as Wolf and the others had already taken care of their enemies and were spectating the sight from the side. The group that was being relocated looked at Reign in awe as the power he showed was above anything they had seen so far.
Upon learning that he was the leader of the territory they were joining, most of them had smiles on their faces as having such a powerful leader meant that they would definitely be safe. Some however were concerned, they didn't know how they would be treated by Reign and the others in their territory, the concern only grew when they learned how big the territory was.
One could say that comparing the safe zone they resided in previously and the territory that Reign ruled over was meaningless since the difference was huge. The whole town of Doncaster was under his control and even though the safe zone only covered a relatively small part of the town, Reign could enlarge it and cover the whole town at a moment's notice if he so wished. The monsters would get pushed back and sent to other areas around the town which meant that a lot of them would become weaker compared to before, which was something Reign didn't want to happen since they were good targets for the people of the territory to fight against.
The behemoth that Carlo fought had its head crushed in the end as Carlo summoned a huge rock to fall on it at the end of the battle. The many monsters that attacked the group were either strangled by the shadows or had their bodies pierced multiple times by the shadow spikes.
As for the grizzly lion, unfortunately, its dense and tough fur was an incredibly bad matchup for Wolf's flames which were hard to extinguish even with the lion's mana, which led to the lion spending a lot of its mana in order to defend itself and Wolf actually had an easier time fighting it compared to Reign and the elephant.
"Hmm, no good items huh?" Reign checked the items he had received after killing the elephant, only to find that none of them were really good, that was of course thanks to him being a Tier I fighter compared to the elephant that still hadn't gone through its first evolution.
'Dammit, and it was so close to evolving as well, if I only had a couple more days then I would have had a Tier I field boss under my control, dammit!' Bone cursed in his head as he stared at Reign with great anger in his eyes. He cursed Reign and those that sent him to fight him. He now knew that the plans he had previously made to flee were all useless against somebody as powerful as Reign.
"All tricks and plans are useless when faced with such power." A man belonging to the group of five suddenly said as he shook his head whilst staring at Reign. It was obvious that he and the other four had come to terms with their failure and capture.
"What are you saying, you little bastard, shut the hell up before-"
"Before what?" The man suddenly asked as he stared into Bone's eyes.
"Will you kill me, oh great Bone, the hope of our group, the incredible genius that is weaker than every other Tier I fighter?"
"You little-"
"I don't really want to listen to your annoying voice, nobody in the order likes you, you're simply a lucky untalented bastard that managed to get some good items and get a head start when compared to others, I will confess that I never thought you would have such weird powers like that flame of yours, not to mention the fact that you managed to almost fully control such a powerful monster without any of us noticing."
"Wait, you, who are-"
"Just a little bug that thought he did something." Reign suddenly said as he appeared behind the man who was speaking to Bone.
"Hahaha, I have to be honest with you, I never thought you were this powerful, you probably didn't even go all out during that fight huh?" The man spoke with a mocking smile on his face as he looked at Reign who simply smiled at him.
"You do have an interesting skill, perhaps it is an ability of yours actually, but it doesn't matter, I really don't like little bugs spying on me." Reign said before grasping the man's head.
"Hahaha, it doesn't matter if you kill this man, this is merely a part of, wait, what?" The man suddenly changed his expression as pain took over his face. He screamed loudly as his whole body started shaking, and that was only from Reign simply holding his head.
"A part of your soul that planet in this guy in order to observe everything, well, it doesn't really matter, to be honest, just be a good boy and disappear ok?" Reign smiled as the man's body started to spasm before falling down to the ground.
"Alright, now that we have finished that, let's go back shall we?" Reign turned and looked at Bone and the others four who were looking back at him fearfully, "I have some questions for you, I truly do hope you will cooperate with me."
The four simply nodded their heads in understanding while Bone was still looking shocked after what had happened. He knew who the person that took over the body was, he had never heard of such a power, but the voice and the behavior of the person made him think of one person, the leader of the order.
'He actually had such a power, I never heard of anyone talking about something like that before.' Bone thought to himself before thinking about why the leader decided to show himself to Reign, letting your enemy know that you can somehow possess people was definitely not a good thing as they would be on the lookout for him now.
'Wait, what if that is the reason why?' Bone suddenly understood if Reign and the others knew that the leader could possess others then they would have no choice but to not trust anyone from here on out.
'Everyone in the territory might now be a potential spy, even the ones that were completely loyal might have been possessed, that would mean that they simply couldn't believe anyone and that would slowly create a rift between them and their people, incredible, one small action would have huge repercussions for these bastards.' Bone smiled as he thought, that even though he didn't like the leader and the other members of the order, he hated Reign more after going through such a humiliating defeat today.
His hatred clouded his judgment and he completely overlooked the fact that Reign made the leader scream out in pain even while possessing somebody, he simply chalked it up to Reign killing the man and that the screams were his own, not the leaders.
The tactic the leader went with was unfortunately bound to fail, Reign had actually seen through it at the very beginning, he didn't have only a high sensitivity towards mana at the end of the day. He was incredibly sensitive towards demonic energy and souls, someone being possessed would have a different soul, well, Reign could sense that there was more than one soul inside of them.
That meant that there would be no trust lost between Reign and his people since such a tactic wasn't viable against him, not to mention the fact that he forced the leader to take some damage now since he annihilated the part of the soul he put inside of the man.
'Something like this is definitely not something that can be used lightly, there are bound to be rules and restrictions put on that person when he wishes to possess someone or put his soul inside of them, well, luckily we have this guy to interrogate later, I truly do wonder how that man put a fragment of his soul inside of him.' Reign thought as he looked at the person who was previously possessed, he was currently simply unconscious and would be fine after a while.
Reign and the others took Bone and the other five and continued their trip, with this they finally managed to uncover more about the enemy and even managed to deal a blow to them, even though Bone was someone that wasn't highly regarded in the order, he was actually more powerful than the others thought since he hid a large part of his powers.
That coupled with the fact that Reign had managed to damage the soul of their leader made this quite a fruitful trip, of course, Reign still didn't know that was their leader, but he was of course bound to find out after interrogating everybody.
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