Chapter 116- Change (Part 4)
Approximately one hour before this, in another place, far from where Elise and Rin were fighting, Emilia was laying on her bed, sleeping peacefully. For Emilia, these few hours of resting were as essential as her work. She was someone who loved to take care of her health and sleeping was one of the best healing processes a boy could go through.
But, unfortunately for her, a knock on the door woke her up from slumber. Rolling on the bed, she spoke with an annoyed tone.
"What is it, Serra?"
She had her maid, Serra, always on standby whenever she was asleep in case she needed something or for protection. One of Emilia's few flaws is that when she goes to sleep, she basically becomes completely vulnerable to any possible ambush. She tried to learn to keep her mind alert even when she was asleep but she couldn't do that at all.
Her body simply shuts off the moment she closes her eyes and only wakes up when she needs to wake up. A very heavy sleeper.
"My lady, please wake up quickly," Serra said with a clearly distressed tone.
"Huh?" Emilia, who was still half asleep, didn't get why her maid was acting like this. So, she left the bed, revealing her mesmerizing naked body. Her beautiful white skin was shining under the moonlight. Wearing her nightgown, she opened the door.
"What is it, Ser-" Her question ended up halting midway when she saw her maid's pale face looking terrified.
Emilia didn't know why she looked like this. Her breathing was erratic and she could listen to her heart beating violently in her chest.
"T-There… t-there is someone in the living room who wants to meet you?" She uttered with a shaky voice.
"Someone? Who?"
"I-I have no clue, my lady. But… That person is strong… extremely strong…" She kept shaking visibly as she recalled the man's features and his intimidating looks.
Emilia frowned slightly as she started walking toward the living room. She couldn't feel anything from where she stood. There wasn't even a trace of mana in the air which made her even more alert.
Emilia was one of the best mages in the whole of Divine Sapphire when it comes to mana control. Her control over mana reached such a high level of mastery that she was called 'The child of mana' at some point in her life. She was confident that as long as this person was here, they can't erase their mana traces from the air no matter how strong they are. Even if they try to camouflage their mana or hide their presence, she can sense them.
However, this wasn't the case here. For some odd reason, this person, whoever he was, was able to evade her mana senses easily.
'How can that be?' Her mind was in chaos but her expression never changed.
When she reached her living room, she found someone sitting on the couch with both of his legs crossed casually.
He was wearing black, baggy clothes and had a black veil over his face. If Rin was there, he would identify him as the man who spoke with the fourth party at the time when he was spying on them.
"Who are you?" Emilia asked coldly.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mrs. Emilia."
"I said, who are you and what are you doing here?" Her sword was already in her hand.
"Please, refrain from this, Mrs. Emilia. We didn't come here to start a conflict… Not yet, at least." He said without even glancing at her once.
"I came here to deliver a message."
"A message?"
"Yes. I think we were quite clear with our intentions before. However, the academy doesn't seem to be looking at this matter with clear intentions."
"What are you even talking about? What intentions? Who are you?"
"The Hybrid Demon incident… Does that ring a bell?"
Emilia's aura instantly exploded as she immediately aimed her sword at the man. Her Killing intent was completely focused on him. However, even under that strong pressure, the man didn't even show a slight change of attitude or demeanor.
"This is our message, Mrs. Emilia. The Gate of Licaria… Open it."
"Huh?" Her mind became even more confused.
"That place is simply in no way shape or form something the academy can control. Open that gate or the consequences will be dire."
"What kind of nonsense are you spouting? Opening the Gate of Licaria? For what? To let demons barge into this world and destroy it? You must be insane."
*Swish*
Erasing any hesitation from her mind, Emilia used her sword to create a huge ice attack. Countless sharp shards of ice manifested around her as they got blasted toward the man. Even though she didn't use all of her strength in fear of destroying the whole house, she didn't hold back either. This attack was enough to kill a B-Rank monster if it connected.
However, much to her shock, the man's body vanished and appeared in a whole different place in the living room. He moved so fast she couldn't even see it with her own eyes. That alone was more than enough to immediately consider this person as an extremely dangerous enemy.
"It's our last warning. Either open the Gate Of Licaria and free all the demons. Or… Well, I will leave this part to the next time we meet, Mrs. Emilia. I hope you won't disappoint us with stupid decisions. The academy doesn't need any more brainless idiots."
"Other floor masters had already gotten the message. Either accept it or bear the consequences of your choices." He said before he basically vanished again leaving Emilia frozen in her place.
"M-My lady…" Serra called for her with a scared look.
"Fuck…" Cursing, Emilia stored her sword and looked at her maid with a frown.
"Call them… This matter is no joke anymore… It's a mess."
As a floor master, she was obviously aware of the matter with the test and she did report it to the higher-ups. However, she didn't get any reply from them at all. Not because they didn't find a solution but because they ignored that report. Emilia was aware of how arrogant those sleazy bastards can be because of their positions so they easily turned a blind eye to this problem and didn't even try to address it properly for some reason.
However, now that the matter was a clear declaration of war, she can't really let them just ignore it any further. What made her even more fearful of what's going to happen is the fact that the person that seemingly came to deliver the message was probably not even one of the strongest people inside this organization/cult.
The fact one of their seemingly normal pawns is clearly equal if not stronger than her is enough to make her spine shudder.
'What is going to happen to our world? This is really bad.' She thought to herself.
Her maid Serra quickly ran after her toward a secluded room inside the house that no one is allowed to enter. When they came inside, Serra walked ahead of her lady toward a huge thing in the middle of the room.
The object was big, almost triple Emilia's height and 5 times her width. It was made out of weird metal and had a rectangular form, like a huge metal fridge.
In the middle of this object, there were many buttons of all colors. The machine looked to be something that shouldn't exist in this world. Something so technologically advanced that it could make anyone question whether it was even made here or not.
Serra then typed on some buttons with a focused look. As for Emilia, she merely sat down, her hands resting on the chair's arms and cupped near her mouth, seemingly deep in thought.
"It's ready."
"Connect the call." She said.
Then, the maid tapped on a button and light immediately shone from the machine that engulfed the whole room.
A few seconds later, a voice spoke out of the machine.
"Emilia! Thank god you finally called!" The feminine voice sounded stressed.
"Calm down, Lilia."
"How can I calm down? I don't even know what's going on."
"How can she be calm indeed, darling?" A male voice barged into the conversation.
"Sigh… Freaking out isn't a choice. Or do you want to end up killing, Licht?"
The gentle sound of the man chuckled audibly as if he found her words funny.
"You've been a very composed person, darling. That's what I love about you."
Rolling her eyes, Emilia completely ignored his flirting attempt with a frown. She had no time to entertain that freak.
"Where are the others?" She asked.
"I don't know. Maybe they were attacked by these dark-clothed people?"
"Possible, but not likely. You both noticed it didn't you?" Emilia asked.
"You mean…"
"You are indeed quite sharp, darling. Yes, I felt it."
"Those people… could've killed us without being able to notice it."
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