Standing in front of the Executor's bed chamber's door, she can feel her heart thumping faster as her mind raced in absolute disbelief. Brigitta was so shocked by what she had just seen that even made her mind dizzy for a moment.
Clamping her back against the wall, she tries to calm herself down a little.
'No, I must see it with my own two eyes again' Brigitta thought, her trembling hand then reaches out to grab the gap in the door before she peeked inside the bed chamber once again to confirm that she was not seeing things.
Upon looking inside, her entire body tensed, she was not dreaming.
Inside the bed chamber is a lavish royal purple and gold that signify the status of the person owning the room, and there are numerous magical items varying in size that adorn the edges of the room. Aside from that, there are five paintings above the bed with one placed above the other four and bigger.
A bed chamber that is more grand and lavish than that of the existing Kings and Queens.
But the marvelous sight of the inside of the bed chamber didn't manage to steal Brigitta's attention for too long, the sight of the circle-shaped bed at the center was the one that is the most eye-catching.
Not because of the pompous decoration, it was the person sitting on the edge instead.
The Executor is sitting at the edge of the bed topless, his darker skin was exposed alongside the different tattoos or marks painted across his entire body. At this moment, he seems to be in some sort of pain.
It was quite clear due to him moaning a couple of times, hissing through gritted teeth.
Looking from the gap in the door, Brigitta's eyes completely widened when she saw a gruesome wound that is located on the chest area of the Executor. Only one thing crossed her mind when she saw this.
'Who did this...?' She thought in complete disbelief.
Out of the people inside the human territory and even the Supernaturals, she is probably one of the ones that know how strong the current Executor is the best. It was due to seeing the fight the Executor had against Rex.
Nobody under the reign of humanity can fight Rex one on one with the possibility of winning.
Even during the last time they clashed, Rex somehow managed to become stronger and won a battle easily against two ninth-rank realms Awakened including her. But the Executor is able to best Rex, and even puts Rex under his mercy.
The Executor has made a huge declaration from that fight, declaring that he's the strongest.
Because of that, there's literally no point in fighting against the Executor in their current state, none of them could ever hope to win. It's why she wanted Rex back to be on their team, and yet now she saw someone actually managed to injure the Executor.
Viewing the current circumstances, it doesn't seem to be Rex the one who did this.
Aside from that, Brigitta was also surprised to find that even though she was peeking from the outside like this, the Executor doesn't seem to be able to sense her. 'His wound impaired his senses, think! Who is able to do this...?'
Pondering for a moment, she was trying to figure out where the Executor left earlier.
Just as she was thinking, she remembered that there was a spike in energy coming from not far from Ratmawati City. Brigitta and Giana earlier sensed it, and they were surprised by the energy coming from it.
Now that she saw the Executor in this state, it must be a fight between him and someone.
Whoever is responsible for putting the Executor into this state must be the one he was fighting earlier, and this helps Brigitta narrow down the one responsible. 'It's in human territory, who the hell is it?'
'I don't know anyone that strong to be able to injure the Executor like this...'
Squinting her eyes, Brigitta decided to take a little risk as she slowly seeped her energy into the bed chamber trying to sense the energy left on the wound of the Executor. 'He won't sense me for now, I only need to get a little bit closer'
"Arrghh..." the Executor suddenly grunted which halted Brigitta's body instantly.
But finding that he was still not realizing her presence here, Brigitta continues and hovers a weak spell towards the Executor. The plan was to the spell close enough to the wound and see the energy resisting the spell.
With immense control, she managed to guide the spell near the Executor's wound.
The spell was nearly imperceptible to the eye as it was a wind spell, so the Executor didn't appear to have noticed it thanks to his weakened state. Suddenly, her eyes grew wide as the spell touched the Executor's wound. At that same moment, the Executor sensed something grazed his wound.
Looking at his wound, a frown appeared on his face, "Hmmm...?"
Realizing that something definitely touched his wound, the Executor in reflex turns his head towards the door to see if there's someone there. Surprisingly, he didn't see anyone at the door as he expected.
For a good minute, his red eyes glowed as he kept gazing at the door meticulously.
"I can sense you are there, come out or you'll face the consequences" the Executor suddenly said with an overbearing tone, he doesn't seem to be playing around judging from his tone. But there was nobody that answered his demand which makes him squint his eyes.
A frown appeared on his face, another minute passed and it was all silence.
But soon enough he turns his face away and went back to tending his wound, he also didn't forget to close the door shut with a wave of his hand. The door makes a loud banging sound before everything becomes silent once again.
Right beside the door, Brigitta is covering her mouth with both hands.
Upon hearing the Executor's words earlier, her entire soul sunk into the bottom of the abyss as she was terrified beyond measure. It was not her intention to touch the wound, it was completely an accident.
For once, Brigitta prayed that the Executor is bluffing.
Knowing that his senses are impaired due to the wound that he's suffering, she gambled and stay still without moving a muscle. Thankfully she did that because it seems the Executor is only testing and didn't actually sense her.
'T-That was very close...' Brigitta thought with beads of cold sweat running down her face.
If she decided to come out and admit that she was peeping, she doesn't want to imagine what the Executor would do to her. Even though he's injured, torturing and killing someone like her still wouldn't be a problem for him.
But thankfully she trusted her guts and keep silent for the longest two minutes of her life.
Now that the door is closed, Brigitta quickly dashes away from the Executor's bed chamber. In a blink of an eye, she already reaches back to the throne room as she looks down to the ground in thought, 'It's not a human that did it, it was a cursed creature that did that'
'This is good, this is huge, I need to tell the others about this' she thought with conviction.
For once, everything went well, and she now gain a big intel that would definitely be useful in the future. With this, she and the others can now focus on preparing to deal with the Executor and free humanity from his grasp.
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Meanwhile, back to the Supernatural territory.
"Remember, we're here to run the test. It's only been lower-rank Supernatural, the one that lies ahead is a high-rank Supernatural race, we need to be careful. Others are expandable, we do not so prioritize your life first"
Standing at the center back of a massive army was ten individuals.
One of them is wearing a long-sleeved combat suit that exposes the muscular body, and the other nine seem to be hearing what he has to say attentively. None of them seems nonchalant, yet each of them emits a dangerous aura, showing the power they possess.
While traversing through the dark forest, they look around the forest cautiously.
Based on what the compound has told them, they are going to be facing the Dark Elves which use Dark Nature energy. Knowing that fact, they all were looking up at the sky-reaching trees instead of the ground.
Similar to the Elves, the Dark Elves like to fight from a higher ground.
If the Dark Elves would launch an attack at them, then they would be coming from above.
"Yes, we understand, Haikal. We'll teleport away as soon as we're cornered"
Upon hearing this, the man called Haikal nodded his head firmly, "Good, King John doesn't want us to die. Moreover, don't forget about the only rule of the attack. Do all of you still remember the rule?"
"Yes, we still remember" the other nine replied with a nod.
Looking at the nine with a raised eyebrow, telling them to recount the rule, one of them then continued. "The rule stated that if we meet any creature with a silver star mark on them, we are going to instantly teleport away"
"That's right, the silver star mark means it belongs to the Silverstar Pack" Haikal replied.
From the start of the compound, the Messengers told them that this is a rule given strictly by King John himself. Nobody would be allowed to continue fighting in the presence of the Silverstar Pack members and were told to instantly retreat.
Standing on the side, a woman with black hair tied into a ponytail shrugs her shoulders.
"I know that it was a strict rule, but what are the odds of us meeting with the Silverstar Pack members anyway?" the woman said lightly, and the others seems to agree as the Supernatural territory is vast.
They would've had very bad luck if they encounter the Silverstar Pack members here.
One of them then replied, "I know, right? We probably only need to be careful of Rex"
"Yep, other than Rex, the other pack members shouldn't be that strong. If it really comes down to it, we could probably take out a couple of them" Another added confidently, they are cautious yet are confident in themselves.
Taking into account the power they received, Haikal already expected something like this.
But Haikal can only sigh and shakes his head, he doesn't want to let his guard down just yet. With that, he refocuses back on the direction of their march. It has been about half an hour into the Dark Elf's territory, yet they haven't encountered a single one of them.
Haikal doesn't like this, and the other Awakened and Black Hands also feel the same.
Noticing that the other Awakened seems to be fearful of the darkness of the forest, especially knowing that they are facing a Supernatural race that almost reaches the higher rank, Haikal knows that he needs to lift up their spirit.
"Do not be afraid! We've been on an onslaught, it was them that should be afraid!"
As soon as the words left Haikal's mouth, all of the Awakened and Black Hands that makes the army shifted their gaze toward him. Seeing that he wasn't afraid, their spirits were bolstered a little bit. "If you're trembling because this is supposedly the Supernaturals territory, then you must be insane," he proclaimed. "As far as I'm concerned, this is once our land! It's our responsibility and duty to cleanse our land from the damned Supernatural's existence! Am I correct?!"
"YES!!" the army replied thunderously, the pep talk worked wonderfully.
With that, a smile then crept onto Haikal's face as he declared one last time, "If you believe that I'm right, then clenched your weapons tightly and fear not the darkness. We are going to slaughter them all!"
Just a moment later, the army crosses the streaming river fearlessly.
None of them seem to be afraid of what's waiting for them ahead, Haikal's words set their souls ablaze as their eyes burn with a fiery spirit. But then, Haikal signaled for them to stop as they crossed the river.
Out of nowhere, a dark red powerful fire set the entire river in hellfire.
Upon seeing this, Haikal frowned as the Dark Elves shouldn't have the ability to control fire. But then one of the men pointed forward at a figure emerging from the darkness, and the mark on its neck is glowing brightly for anyone to see.
Haikal felt his throat tighten when he saw this, 'W-Why does it have to be us...?'
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