Chapter 199: Chapter 197: Demise
’These guys are not small fries, I can’t even ahake them off... I’m a level 289 gunslinger apart from that I really invented alot into my strength start which is 356, how much strength would I need-’
𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑠
Rein kicked away one of the holy knight holding Dylan down, the holy knight rolled several times before stopping about 20 meters from them.
The bishop looked and smiled, "as expected of a graduate. You are no small fry, that holy knight was not your regular person."
’...did I unknowingly put in too much strength, I just hit him with the tip of my toes’
Pashar bowed, "we sincerely apologize for all our mistakes but can you please reduce the price for us"
"We can’t" the priest replied immediately.
Pashar sighed.
"But we can give you the privilege to make half payment and make the rest when you come back. That is as far generous as I’m willing to be."
"Thank you sir!" Pashar bowed his head humbly.
"Let him go" the priest said to the rest of the knights who tightened their grip on Dylan when he tried shaking them off after Rein kicked one of them. They all stood up and disappeared.
As they went outside Dylan asked Rein, "what level are you?"
"221" Rein replied.
’His level is so low yet he managed to kick like that, even if that was all his power was that not too much for a lower 200’ Dylan wondered.
They paid their money, everyone including Reinard paid 500 hold coins and were granted assess to the machine, it didn’t take a while the all saw themselves standing in the outskirts of the Tenka tribe.
But from where they all stood they could see and smell smokes.
"Don’t tell me..." Pashar began to run towards the village as they had left their mounts back at Potram. Others joined, Rein who didn’t understand what was going also followed them.
’It is really annoying to run like I’m walking fast, I can’t properly run because I want to conceal my powers’
They all arrived at Tenka, but everything had been destroyed, set on fire, everyone had been killed, dead body laid around everywhere , it was a dreadful sight that Rein had never seen before. He covered his mouth and nose and almost puked.
"Who could have done this?" Gretta said as she fell to her knees and was sobbing already.
Rein understood, ’It seems like they were acquainted’
"But this is not making any sense, these guys are not weak, not anybody can kill them!" Arley screamed as he also mourned them.
"That’s right Pashar, they trained me and Lot, they are very good with magic. If anyone us able to do this then I can only say it’s the millitary." Yasmine said.
Pashar glared angrily around, everywhere was in flames and was scattered, Rein could not sum up the entirety of the situation but he knew something had gone wrong and it was going to be an hassle from henceforth.
"...should I use the memory of the spirit Pashar?" Lot asked.
"That’s right, Lot is an elementals and you have made contract with a fire spirit right, what was the name again..."
"Embercat" Lot completed what Dylan could not finish.
"But it consumes a lot of manner from you there’s no telling what we would encounter later and we might need your strength" Gretta said.
Rein observed all of them as they talk, he looked at Yasmine, "she looks like she’s feeling dejected’
{Yes}
’Why?’
{Mages that are use only element-based magic are considered inferiors compared to an actual elementalist while elemantalist can use powerful elemental spells by just making a contract with an elemental spirit, mage have to learn the spell and it cannot be as effective as that of an elementalist}
{Which is very rare for mage to learn elemental magic}
’Actually Ariel, I really can’t picture any other magic apart from elemental magic’
{There are different magic, a lot}
{eon magic, silver magic, sand magic, glass magic, sound magic, illusion magic, Evocation magic and many others}
{Elementals are basically, water, earth, fire, air, lightning and ice which can also be referred to as Wyro, gyro, phyro, electro and cyro}
"She’s right" Arley added.
But Pashar came closer to Lot with a dark face, "I’m sorry to trouble you"
"It’s okay Pashar, I too want to know exactly what happened" Lot closed his eyes, "can you please show yourself, Ember"
A ball of fire lit up in front of Lot and began to rotate and grew bigger until it revealed the form of a fire cat with a very long fire tail, all the body of the cat was flames.
"Why have you call mew out Lot?" The flame cat asked with a cute voice.
"Sorry for disturbing you Ember but my friends got murdered and I want to know who exactly did it, I also want you to show it to everyone taking advantage of the memories of the fire"
"Hmmm...." the cat floated as it listened to Lot’s request and pondered on it. "Okay it’s possible, but I’ll be really exhausted afterwards and might really need to take a long nap"
"Thank you Ember" Lot smiled
The cat looked around and elongated it flame tails into one of the fire closest to it, at once the whole scenery changed and they started to see starting from where the first flame was lit, how the people of Tenka were being beaten even with their magical attacks, the invaders had no problem dealing with it, they were in black armors and red clocks and they all held black shields that blocked the magical attacks making it easier for them to counter.
’Those shields...’
{Master is right, they seem to be absorbing the attacks}
’...shields that avsorb magic instead of blocking it’ Rein thought to himself.
They all saw how the villagers were beaten and dragged around burnt and killed, till they could not bear to see anymore, the flame cat removed its tail and the whole scenery reverted to normal. It looked at Reinard and disappeared. Lot staggered a bit afterwards.
’Why was it looking at me though?’
{Even though it was a mid-grade elemental spirit, it had sharp senses}
’...does that mean it discovered I’m a deity?’
{It can’t master, even I sometimes forget you are a deity}
’Wow, I guess you can tell jokes again now’
{Forgive me if it pissed you}
"Now we know what happened, but who were those people, they didn’t look like regular bandits" Gretta said.
"An organization maybe..." Dylan said.
"I have never seen those kinda of armors before though" Yasmine said.
"Yes, me too" Gretta said.
Everyone was tensed for a minute.
"I’m sorry to bother you’re this Reinard, you can return home, I think this is going to take longer than we all plan" Pashar said.
’So he plans to investigate and revenge’ Rein smiled, "...I’ve come this far why will I turn back, our deal was the dungeon and I don’t plan to get myself involved more than that, and I also don’t plan to leave like that, which is why I will let you guys do your investigation and be back in two days, even if you guys plan to do it, it must be after the dungeon or I won’t help"
"...two days, do you have anywhere to go here?" Pashar asked.
Rein smiled, "I’ve stayed in this continent for close to a year, yes I have my way around"
"Okay then, two days. Then we will go to the dungeon" Pashar said and smiled. ’I guess he has a lot to hide’
"I’m going with Re-in fri-end" Jihi said.
"Jihi, we will really need your strength can you please stay with us" Pashar said softly to her.
"No! Re-in, true friend" Jihi replied to Pashar and got closer to Rein holding his hand.
’That’s weird... this is the first time’ Pashar looked at Reinard’s face and smiled, ’as much as I think this guy will be useful he’s starting to irritate me, first it was at the church and now again’ pashar smiled with his eyes closed, "well take good care of Jihi"
"Don’t worry since I’m not going anywhere dangerous, we both will be back in one piece" Rein smiled and threw Jihi on his shoulders as he left, Pashar looked at him with disgust in his eyes.
Yasmine scoffed, "He’s going to take away your cute little pet"
"Shut up Yas, let’s look for the orb within this place first, hopefully that was not those guys were after"
