"The reason I attacked you... Actually, it’s a bit embarrassing." Elias lowered his head, scratching the back of his neck.
"It wasn’t that I wanted to attack you. I only targeted the girl who was attacking me. But I couldn’t really control this ability. That’s why the other girl was also targeted, along with you."
"I was slightly ashamed to tell you that I couldn’t even control my ability, so I made the excuse of it being a prank. Can you forgive me, brother?"
"That was it?" Dreke looked at Elias in disbelief. The entire reason was nothing more than a loss of control by this useless fool? His mind was in disarray.
For a moment, he had really thought that the boy was trying to kill him. That’s why he wondered where this cowardly child had gotten the courage. But to think that it was all an accident... Dreke rubbed his forehead in frustration.
"What are you planning?" Astralious asked, suspicious of Elias’s intentions. "You clearly attacked him intentionally. And I can still feel a heavy killing intent within you, as if you can’t wait to rip him apart. Why are you speaking to him so nicely?"
Elias ignored the Constellation and his questions, keeping his focus on Dreke. It was quite hard for him to maintain his calm exterior when his blood was boiling.
"Hah, you pathetic bastard... I should’ve known that you can’t harm me." Dreke moved his hair back, his cold gaze looking sharply at Elias. "Whatever. Take me out of here. I will think about how to deal with you later."
"B-brother, before we leave... Can I request you something?"
"What?"
"My friends talked about your greatness, but I couldn’t tell them anything since I don’t even know much about you myself. Can I..."
Dreke could see Elias’s hesitation and even some trembling, which made him think that the boy was clearly scared of him. This was the kind of reaction that he truly expected from the boy.
"Can I watch you create a virus? If I see how hard you work with my own eyes, I can tell my friends and have something to talk to them about. If I talk without even seeing anything, they would find out that I know nothing."
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Elias raised his head, revealing his eyes that looked like they were extremely exhausted and tired from everything that he went through.
His hands were still trembling. However, contrary to what Dreke thought, he wasn’t shivering from fear. It was from an entirely different emotion.
"If you let me see, I can tell them about your greatness even better. Then I’m certain your popularity will increase even amongst the descendants of other major families."
"B-but if you don’t want to, then forget I said anything." Elias stood up, and the chair disappeared behind him. "I will send you outside."
"Wait..." Dreke wanted to leave this place as fast as possible, but after hearing Elias’s reason, he didn’t seem to be in any hurry.
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If he could indeed become popular through his own skills, then he really didn’t want to miss this opportunity, even if it came through the brother that he didn’t quite like.
Moreover, the reason he wanted to leave this place in the first place was because he was worried about his own safety. Now that he was convinced that Elias was just as cowardly as ever, he didn’t want to miss the opportunity.
"Tch, since you are talking so nicely to me, I will do this favor for you. But don’t forget to tell your friends how hard I worked and how great I am."
He rolled his eyes, unable to hide the pride within. It was the same pride that was leading him towards his downfall that he couldn’t see.
He crossed his arms and closed his eyes, losing himself in thoughts. "What kind of virus should I make to show off to this bastard? It must be strong and hard to make so I can fully display my skills..."
He had the recipe for many viruses. Quite a lot of them were given to him by his mother, while the others were taken from the academy. There were methods of creation for different kinds of viruses amongst them, and many of them stood out from the rest.
"Right, that one... I just finished collecting enough materials for it as well. This could be good..." He turned to Elias and gestured for him to move back.
Elias didn’t say anything and took a few steps back, letting Dreke take the lead. Dreke raised his right hand, and the ring on his middle finger started shining.
"This is the personal lab that I always carry with me. Don’t forget to tell your friends about it. Tell them that it contains every rare material that could be found in this world."
"For some items, I had to even fight the Nightmare Tribe alone, killing hundreds of them."
Dreke kept telling Elias how he gathered the materials from different kinds of worlds, always exaggerating his achievements as if he had to walk through millions of corpses to get each of the materials.
Elias might have even believed his words if he hadn’t mentioned the Nightmare Tribe. He didn’t know about the other places that Dreke mentioned in his exaggerated stories, but the Nightmare Tribe was something that he had heard about.
It was a place that even gave Professor Grey a headache. There was no way Dreke could go there alone with his strength. At most, he would have used the family’s strength.
The ring flew off Dreke’s hand and started transforming and growing bigger. Soon, an entire physical room had appeared in the shadow realm, something that looked completely identical to the lab that Elias had seen in the test of awakening.
"Come inside, but don’t touch anything. You are only here to watch." Dreke opened the door and stepped inside the lab.
Elias followed after him, and just as he thought, the lab looked completely identical to what he had seen in the test. There was even a table where he had been trapped in the test while experiments were conducted on him.