"I already know this isn't your real body. It's a puppet, isn't it?"
Adrien's brilliant smile broadened and a twinkle flashed in his blue eyes as Rey said those words.
It seed he was waiting to hear them.
"Your real body is most likely sowhere safe, far away from this location." Rey added, his tone teetering the point between curiosity and disinterest.
Once again, Adrien shrugged.
"Far away, yes. Safe… I'm not very sure."
Upon hearing this, Rey narrowed his gaze and found himself smiling.
"Why don't you tell where you are? I'll go right there and kill you, just like you asked to."
"Haha! I don't think I want to die just yet." Adrien chuckled, shaking his head slightly.
"Besides, what's the fun in giving you the answers just like that? It's a puzzle, so figure it out yourself."
Rey already knew he was going to get that kind of answer, so he never put much stock into his question. If he had so sort of Skill that would allow him to track Adrien's real body, that would have probably worked, but he currently had no such luck.
All he had was a marionette whose death would be inconsequential.
'I can't use [Absolute ntal Control] or [Compulsion] on a target that isn't in my imdiate vicinity, so it's not possible for to force him to spill the beans. None of my Skills can allow to reach him in any way either.'
Rey gritted his teeth, realizing he was stuck.
… Just as Adrien desired.
"You did well, you know? Killing these people, I an."
Adrien's voice spurred Rey from his maelstrom of thoughts.
It caused Rey to suspend his mind from going over as many possible alternatives to the situation at hand, instead gazing into Adrien's azure eyes.
"If you consider vile, then I wonder how you'll react once you see…"
"See what?" Rey asked in a bit of frustration.
"Underground. Check it out for yourself."
'The Secret Underground area? Isn't that where Es went?'
"I don't see your partner with you. The weakling who was hiding behind that armor."
Rey's eyes slightly twitched the mont he heard those words. [Dead Calm] was active, so he hardly reacted to anything Adrien said to him.
'Does he know Es's true identity, or is he just trying to pry information from ? I'm not sure…'
Either way, he decided not to say anything.
"Your priorities are misplaced. I don't think you should be wasting any more ti with downstairs when your partner is down there."
Rey flinched a little more.
'I definitely didn't sense anything dangerous down there. Nothing too dangerous for my Grand Elentals.'
Sure, there were a lot of people that occupied the spaces underneath, so of which were most likely hostile, but they wouldn't be too dangerous for his Elental Summons to handle.
'He's just trying to ss with , isn't h—?!'
Before Rey could finalize his thoughts, he felt sothing instantly die out within him—like a connection which was suddenly severed.
It was the link between himself and his two Summons.
Despite the effects of [Dead Calm], Rey felt a surge of panic for about a second, before finally regaining his composure.
'Impossible…!'
There was no way the connection between himself and his Grand Elentals would be cut off given the circumstances he had calculated.
Only two things could cause such a developnt.
One would be the appearance of so Skill or Magic which could hijack his control over the two Elental Summons.
As for the other option… it was the death of the Grand Elentals.
Both options were equally terrible because they essentially pointed at the existence of a much more powerful foe than he anticipated.
An S-Tier threat, at the very least!
'Damnit! I should have left a replica with her, after all!'
The reason he didn't do so was because he wanted to be prepared when facing Adrien—or at least, his puppet.
He had no way of telling if the actual Adrien was going to show up, and given the fact that he had an SSS-Tier Skill, just like Rey, the latter knew that he couldn't be too careful.
As a result of that, he ended up leaving Es in a vulnerable state.
"Hahaha! I suppose this is farewell, Re—"
~SQUISH!~
Before Adrien could conclude his ssage, Rey crushed the throat of the puppet, instantly turning the entire thing into dust through corrosion.
"I'll deal with you later…" He whispered under his breath, a bright crimson hue radiating from his slightly frustrated eyes.
Despite the effects of [Dead Calm], Rey found himself growing increasingly desperate.
'I should hurry!'
~WHOOSH!~
In a swift blur, he teleported away from where he was and instantly made his way to the very bloodied hall where he slaughtered his enemies.
He didn't care to look at the dismbered corpses and quickly rushed inside the gaping entrance that was yet to close.
'I hope I'm not too late…' His thought trailed as winds brushed past his face as he combined his use of teleportation and swift flight, rushing as quickly as he possibly could in such an enclosed space.
If he was too fast, he could compromise the entire structure and cause everything to collapse.
That would further ruin his plan.
He couldn't allow that—especially after all the ticulous planning that went into the entire event that was the Dark Gathering.
Rey was sure that this was due to the influence of [Dead Calm], but he found himself unwilling to risk his plans for a chance of arriving earlier to save Es.
It felt… disgusting.
And soon as he made that connection, Rey turned off his [Dead Calm], which just coincidentally turned out to be the perfect ti when he closed in on Es's location.
Then…
~BOOOM!~
… He burst through the walls, turning everything into dust and entered an incredibly large room—far more spacious than the hall used for the Dark Gathering.
'Es!'
He was thankful to see her still alive, though a second later, his joy transford into sothing else.
—Sothing awry.
'W-what… what in the world is this?!'
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[A/N]
Thanks for reading!
If this chapter felt a bit rushed, that's because it is. My conscience couldn't allow not to publish anything today, but I've been so busy with IRL stuff… and I'm still busy.
Just squeezed so ti out to write this.
Hope you liked it.
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