Leonel looked down, with a frightening cold gaze, his expression the picture of calm.
Keiza narrowed her eyes, but after a mont she relaxed. She didn't even put her defenses up. If Leonel thought he could mow her down from such a distance, he was sorely mistaken.
She had already predicted that Leonel would try this. The last thing a person could do in this situation was to take out the Heirs, that way victory could be secured despite a disadvantage. She had already used a similar strategy against the Lio family, so how could she fall for it now? Wouldn't that be too much of a joke?
Keiza's fan snapped close once again and her sedan seed to sparkle. It was subtle, but it was impossible for Leonel's sharp vision to miss it. Although Keiza wanted to hide it, to her it wasn't absolutely necessary for it to be hidden either. Whether Leonel knew it was there or not hardly made a difference.
However, she didn't know how true this was, because she was never Leonel's target to begin with, neither were either one of the Libra twins.
"You finally want to fight back now?!" Huon's voice bood.
"Tell you what, Leonel! If you admit the Morales family is trash we can consider letting you go and giving you another chance, how about it?!" Droet added.
Huon laughed, he felt these words said by his brother were truly excellent. His laughter was his agreent. Of course, this "chance" would only be another small head start before they swiftly caught up again.
However, to them, it didn't really matter whether Leonel accepted their offer or not. Their goal only seed to be to drag Leonel and the Morales family through the mud as much as possible before claiming their victory. They wanted the entire Human Domain to see and witness this mont.
TSSSUUUUU! THWACK!
The arrow was simply too fast. A soldier on the frontlines didn't even have the ti to react before their head burst into a rain of blood, bone and gore. His body slowly fell to the side and was quickly trampled beneath the feet of the other charging beasts.
This was the first of their army to have died since the battle began. The soul constructs couldn't shake them in the slightest, but it seed that the mont Leonel moved, death reigned.
TSSSSSSUUU! THWACK!
Another arrow was released and another fell and was trampled.
Every ti Leonel pulled back his bowstring, another would die. None of the army knew who he was going to target next, but they all felt a formless pressure suddenly shrouding them. Sohow they knew at that mont that no matter what they did, so long as he decided to target them, they would be dead.
It wasn't just the people who sensed the shift, but even the beasts themselves. Their blood seed to run colder, their bones and muscles stiffening. Their speed fell. Though it was only by a small factor, to sharp eyed practitioners like them, that slight delay was all too obvious.
Leonel pulled his bowstring again and another fell.
It was just a single man attacking an army of hundreds of thousands. However, it was ironically this that made it so frightening. If it was an all out battle and people were falling left and right, the situation would still be fine. But this oppressive atmosphere where no one knew who would be targeted next and death seed to be instant filled each one of them with a seed of fear.
Male or woman, ugly or beautiful, there didn't seem to be a rhy or reason to his choices.
In the beginning, Huon and Droet still tried to hurl out insults, but they noticed that every ti they did, Leonel would release another arrow. It was as though Leonel was firing in retaliation for their words. Every death was slowly being transferred from Leonel's shoulders to that of the two of them.
Their insults quickly beca softer and less harsh, until suddenly they didn't dare to speak at all.
Keiza's eyes narrowed. Leonel could obviously kill more than one at once, but he hadn't done so. He was deliberately suppressing them in this way, and by this point, the humans and the beasts had stiffened so considerably that their speed had dropped by as much as 40%.
However, after a mont, Keiza sneered.
Fear only worked when you had your own mind, and the current speed was dictated by the beasts… Beasts under her control.
She waved her fan and a surge of Force ca out from her. At that mont, the eyes of the beasts glazed over and they seed to forget everything but running. Their speed picked up again almost imdiately and the distance that had begun to slowly widen began to close once again.
By this point, there was already less than 200 ters between them.
Leonel, though, seed unmoved. Raising a hand, his gaze suddenly flashed.
The beasts of the fallen Libra and Gemin family mbers were suddenly enveloped by a strong Spatial Force.
Leonel had realized long ago that the reason Keiza was able to control the formation changes so smoothly was because she was in control of the beasts. Because of that, even after their riders had fallen, these beasts continued to run uniformly within the pack. And as a result, they were well within range of Leonel's abilities.
The beasts instantly went from behind Leonel and the others to in front.
Keiza frowned. What was Leonel going to do with a few dozen beasts? He couldn't be this stupid, could he?
At that mont, Little Blackstar raised his large paws and pressed down with great force. The dozens of beasts were slaughtered unceremoniously.
"Rise." Leonel said lightly.
Keiza seed to finally understand what was happening. She had the advantage in speed because of the beasts they were riding, Leonel wanted to use his soul constructs to take advantage of this for himself. Like this, it would be much more difficult for them to catch up.
However, when she realized this, Keiza finally couldn't seem to hold her laughter back. She raised her pretty head and laughed heartily, the sound being far too sweet for the sinister intention behind it.
…
In the crowd of those watching, a gorgeous woman wearing a sparkling purple dress that clung to her curves covered her cherry lips with a glass of wine. This woman seed to be almost an identical copy of Keiza… She was none other than Mistress Gemin, the current Matriarch of the Gemin family and Keiza's mother.
"What a little fool. For soone who uses soul constructs, shouldn't he understand? What good is killing this first if their souls are what are bound?"
…
Leonel raised his hand, suddenly feeling a great resistance against his command. Violet fog billowed out from him, but it seed to be obstructed by invisible chains that he couldn't shatter instantaneously.
However, in that mont, the coldness in Leonel's eyes seed to reach its peak.
If the others had paid more attention, they would have noticed that there was indeed a pattern to who he had killed. All of them had ridden Tier 6 beasts. This was his plan from the beginning. Or more accurately, the first of it…
As for these chains.
A vortex of violet suddenly expanded out from Leonel's body.
"[Emperor's Edict]… Shatter…"
Keiza's laughter ca to an abrupt stop as a spike of pain traveled up her spine.
Illusory shackles shattered like glass and dozens of beasts arose.
Leonel and the others leapt down from Little Blackstar's back as the latter reverted to his true form and flickered into the void.
"Aina," Leonel said lightly.
"Mm." Aina nodded without much of a word.
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