Rise of the Legendary Emperor

"Shit, they are cannibals"

Nanbu had an ugly expression on his face while Vivian also looked green.

"Where do you shitheads live? What are you doing in Virnam?"

Reghys growled feeling the resistance from his mind but she was able to overpower his mental power and bring him back to his trance state.

"I don't know, we are hunting in Virnam"

"Hunting?!"

Vivian's anger exploded like a volcano and punched him in the face as several yellow teeth were knocked out from his mouth.

"Lady Vivian, Guardian Reghys, we need to scour our kingdom and find these disgusting creatures"

Vivian and Reghys nodded at the same time and started to plan in their mind as an evil grin appeared on the old man's face. They had a bad feeling when they saw the creepy smile on his face and Reghys was slightly shocked because he was in a trance state that prevents the brain from showing any emotions.

"And to kill the chosen one!"

"WHAT?!"

Vivian let out a small scream as Nanbu and Reghys felt a sudden coldness that hit the core.

"What did you say?!"

Nanbu grabbed the old man by his collar and shook him.

"Hahahaha"

The old man started to laugh evilly while a puff of black smoke emerged from his head scattering Reghys's spell.

"We killed the chosen one! Hahaha"

His words echoed through the castle,

"How could a puny human like him be a challenge to the Great one?"

The three of them stood there in shock as the old man continued

"Soon the Great one will return and purify this world"

He paused for a moment and looked at the three of them like they were his prey.

"By choosing to follow the chosen one, you all will meet the same fate as your king, hahaha"

"Did you kill him?"

The intense murderous aura from Reghys enveloped the entire room and Vivian and Nanbu felt like they were being squeezed by an invisible force.

"I would have loved to, but no, I was denied the pleasure of stabbing my sword through his heart and eat his liver,"

The moment he said this, the door exploded into pieces as a short burst of wind blasted the old man backward.

"AH!"

"Arrora!"

Before Reghys could stop her, Arrora moved towards him like a bolt of lightning and grabbed him by his neck, and lifted him up with the chair that he is tied to.

The killing intent radiating from Arrora overpowered the aura of Reghys. Nanbu and Vivian were barely able to breathe and looking at Arrora's figure, they stepped back unconsciously in fear.

"Where are they now?!"

Reghys feared that she would kill him as she put all of her power and put him into the trance state again, so he would tell the truth and avoid being killed by her.

"I...don't...know...Only...One...know, AHHHHH!"

Arrora put her hand on the old man's ribs and crushed it as the intense pain broke the spell again.

"Hahaha, you...must be his...bitch"

The moment the spell broke, the old man wickedly laughed.

"Torture me however you want but I can't tell the things that I dont know, hahaha"

"REGHYS!"

Hearing Arrora's shout, Reghys cast the spell again 

"Who else knows about the attack?!"

"Noa and Teru"

"Why?"

Nanbu quickly asked before Arrora crush another set of bones and kill the old man in anger.

"One promised him the Weludin and Emir, AHHHH!"

Just as he was talking, a splash of blood sprayed on the ground and Nanbu saw Arrora ripping the old man's handoff from his shoulder bone. Due to the handcuffs, his flesh was completely torn off as the blood sprayed out of his body and then, the unthinkable happened.

The moment Arrora ripped his hand and flesh, his skin completely fell off from his body and revealed a skinless human figure. (Like the anatomy figures in the science lab)

"Shit!"

Vivian almost threw up in her mouth looking at the creature in front of her. The skin fell from his body like he was wearing the skin like clothing. Since there was little to no muscle in the old man's body, they could see the organs and the bones in his body.

"What are you?"

"We are Sinners"

He looked creepier without his skin and his muscle fibers in the face slightly moved and revealed a weird look.

"What else do you know about the hit on Don?!"

"Nothing"

"Where is your main camp? where can I find more of you?!"

"I...don't know"

"THEN DIE!"

Arrora threw him away into the wall and the chair he was tied into broke into pieces when he hit the wall due to the force of her throw.

"Wait!"

Vivian shouted but Arrora already appeared before the old man. She lifted him by his neck and repeatedly punched the old man's chest as his chest started to cave in.

"AHHH!"

Seeing her beating the old man to death, Vivian wanted to stop her but Reghys stopped her because Reghys knew Arrora was not in the mood to listen to anyone.

Blood kept spraying out of his body while Arrora ripped off his other arm completely as the life in his eyes slowly started to dim.

"DIE! DIE! DIE!"

She screamed in anger and took a healing potion from her space ring to heal the old man, so she could inflict the most pain.

The old man's wounds quickly started to disappear when she poured the healing potion into his mouth.

"AHHHHH!"

He again screamed in agony and struggled against Arrora's hold but that was the last sound he could make.

Nanbu shivered in fear looking at her ripping his throat off and shoving into his mouth before crushing all his ribs. Just when they thought she's finished with the old man, she started to bang his head against the wall until his skull exploded into pieces.

"NOA!"

The moment his lifeless broken body hit the ground, Arrora looked up and roared with all her might that shook the entire room like an earthquake.

The blood of the old man turned her white dress into red and combined with her intense killing intent, she looked like death, and the mere sight of her terrified Vivian and Nanbu, even Reghys felt a little afraid seeing her like this.

"Arrora"

Vivian called her in a low-pitched voice but instead of answering her, Arrora disappeared from their sight leaving the dead body of the old man.

"Noa is so dead"

Nanbu was able to breathe easily after she left the room. 

"Where did she go?"

Vivian asked Reghys as Reghys closed her eyes for a moment.

"To the Apex hall"

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Disappearing from the interrogation room, Arrora appeared inside the Apex room.

"What the?!"

Ken and Benedict were startled as they almost dropped the devices in their hands.

"Lady Arrora"

Ken swallowed the saliva in his mouth and tried to approach her, mustering his courage.

��Put all the stones into the Apex!"

She said coldly and went straight into the cultivation platform and coiled the wires around her body.

"Lady Arrora, you can't"

Absorbing that much bound energy would harm her body and cultivation, so thinking about this, Ken tried to stop her as she turned her head to look at him.

Ken was pushed back by an invisible force and looking at her cold stare, he lost all his courage to stop her.

"DO IT!"

Ken and Benedict felt like an invisible mountain was crushing them as Benedict turned on the Apex without uttering a word against her.

They were too afraid to advise against her and after turning the apex on, the two of them quickly started the work to ensure her safety.

Just a seconds after this, Ken and Benedict saw Reghys, Vivian, and Nanbu rushing into the hall.

"We're late"

Arrora had already entered the state of cultivation and stopping the apex now would kill her or cripple her cultivation permanently.

"Guardian Reghys, what happened?"

Ken and Benedict came to Reghys with confused faces as Reghys sighed and started to tell what just happened from the events of Virnam to the interrogation room. It took a couple of minutes to process everything for Ken and Benedict and when she finished, their faces seemed pale.

"So what do we do now?"

Nanbu asked Reghys.

"If my guess is right, Arrora is aiming for the Heavenly level, and when she reaches that level, we can't stop her from going berserk in Ishikara"

"can't you, Guardian Reghys?"

Nanbu looked at Arrora and then Reghys and asked.

"She lost the love of her life, Nanbu, her anger, and grievance will make her unstoppable"

"Even though Noa deserves to be killed for this, we can't kill him without any proof of his crimes, if we did that, many rank 4 kingdoms will form an alliance and wage war against us"

"Yes, Nanbu is right, especially, Vreston, Enarin, and Monivelle and after Arwen's visit to Mairis, it will not be a surprise to see Mairis in this alliance "

They nodded agreeing with Ken's point and looked at Reghys for direction.

"Ken, Benedict, limit the energy input to the Apex and slow her cultivation level"

"On it Guardian Reghys but even with the lowest energy transferring rate and our best effort to prevent the apex from harming her, she might break into the Heavenly level in four days"

"Then we have four days to gather all the proof we need before killing Noa and conquer Ishikara"