The heavy, oppressive atmosphere surrounding the Seonjeongneung Royal Tombs was suddenly shattered by a chorus of panicked wailing.
"Master!!"
"He bullied us!!"
"Yes, Master!! Please avenge us!!"
Vespina, Barak, and Damila quickly ran towards Mirabella. They completely ignored the dense killing intent in the air, frantically passing by Adira and Toxin like the two were entirely invisible.
Mirabella paused, the immense weight of the trial and the black Gemstone in her storage still fresh on her mind. She looked at her three eccentric subordinates, her expression entirely unreadable.
"Really?" Mirabella asked them, her voice calm.
"Yes! He said he will kill, Annihilate, and even demolish us!!!" Barak yelled indignantly, dramatically pointing a trembling finger directly at the Fifth Aeon.
"Yes!! Save us Master! We don’t want to die!!"
"Yes!!"
".....?!!"
The two Aeons—Nick and the restrained Cat Lady—were completely dumbfounded. They stared blankly at the three, who were violently yelling and pleading like spoiled kids whose candies were taken from them.
"Really?" Mirabella asked again, a dangerous, freezing glint flashing in her Sovereign eyes.
"Yes!! He even said you are weak! And arrogant!!" Vespina added, her theatrics escalating as she realized she had her Master’s attention. She took a deep breath and continued her blatant character assassination:
"He said you are also stupid, annoying, irritating, evil, wicked, heartless, ruthless, not human! We are too weak so we couldn’t stop him, please Master!! Help Avenge us!!"
".....?!!"
Barak and Damila snapped their heads to stare at her, both completely stunned speechless by Vespina’s suicidal exaggeration. The temperature in the ruins plummeted by several degrees.
Barak: ’Do you have to go that far??’
Damila: ’My goodness, we are done for.’
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!!
"Ouch!!"
".....?!"
Mirabella walked straight past her trembling subordinates, the sheer density of her aura suffocating the air, and stopped directly before Nick and the still chained Cat Lady.
"Fifth Aeon... I need some information, can you provide it?" Mirabella asked, staring down at him with eyes as cold and indifferent as the void.
"Provide you with information?! Why the hell would I do that??!!" Nick yelled at her. The next moment, divine energy violently burst out from his core, spreading all over the place in a desperate, golden shockwave.
"When my sister speaks, you should only answer. How dare you fight back?"
A hollow, perfectly melodic voice echoed through the ruins. Celestia, who was now standing just behind Mirabella, raised one pale, flawless hand, and effortlessly snapped her fingers.
BOOOOM!!
The space around Nick instantly shattered like brittle glass. From the gaping, pitch-black void of the tear, massive, deep-space tentacles shot out. They ignored all physical defenses, brutally grabbing the Fifth Aeon in place and holding him firmly down against the stone.
"This?!!" He was completely dumbfounded, his eyes wide with terror as the appendages violently sucked all his divine and spirit energy, aggressively draining him dry in a matter of seconds.
"This?! You?" Nick was horrified, his voice barely a rasp. He watched helplessly as the dark tentacles freed him from their crushing grip, slithered smoothly towards Mirabella, and gently bit into the side of her neck, dutifully sending all the stolen, refined energy directly into her body.
"...???"
"You actually cultivated a Monster, and keep it inside the void?!! And this Realm destroyer called Celestia is just one part of this creature!" He asked in pure shock.
Mirabella smirked, a dark, chilling expression, as the tentacles respectfully let go of her skin and vanished back into the torn void, seamlessly repairing the space fabric behind them.
"You are mistaken, Celestia is a human. That monster in the void just gave me the tools which I used to bring her back to life. She isn’t the monster, she is simply alive because of the monster." Mirabella explained, briefly revealing the twisted, logic-defying lengths she had gone to in order to cheat death itself.
"Tools? But she has the strength of that Monster!" Nick countered, his mind struggling to comprehend a mortal wielding such strength.
"Of course, now, Celestia is in control of that monster." Mirabella shrugged at him, stating the apocalyptic fact as if discussing the weather.
"You are more crazy that I thought... Taking a dead human, and bringing life in her with powers. She won’t live long, mainly because she doesn’t have a soul." He said, breathing heavily from the violent energy absorption, trying to find a psychological weakness in the monster standing before him.
"That will be changed very soon." Mirabella stated with absolute conviction. She stretched a hand out towards him, and brutally grabbed his head, her fingers digging into his scalp.
"Change very soon?" Nick was stunned, but the next moment, his thoughts were completely overridden. He felt her terrifying, overwhelming energy violently break through all his mental defenses, ruthlessly diving right into the core of his memories to extract the target information.
"No!! Don’t!!"
BOOOOM!!!
"...?!"
A catastrophic explosion of cursed, unstable energy suddenly erupted from Nick’s skull. Everyone in the courtyard was shocked, instinctively raising their defensive barriers, staring at the headless body now kneeling limply before Mirabella.
’That attack? If my defense wasn’t crazily high, I would have lost my arm.’ Mirabella thought, staring at Nick’s blood heavily splattered all over her hand and forearm.
"Placing a seal on their brains, you are really ruthless... No matter how you try and hide; one day, I will catch you." She said, speaking to the unseen mastermind who held the leash of the Aeons. She seamlessly channeled her ambient energy, wiping the blood entirely away until her hand was pristine once more.
She then turned her back on the corpse and walked towards Celestia. The cold master melted away, replaced by an expression of profound tenderness. She placed her clean hand gently on Celestia’s perfectly still cheek.
"Soon... Soon you will be complete. By then, you will take your real name, and rule with me." She said with a warm, genuine smile.
"I can’t wait, Sister." Celestia nodded her head, her beautiful face entirely devoid of true emotion, yet perfectly obedient.
Mirabella slowly turned her gaze to the remaining captive. The Cat Lady, having just witnessed her comrade’s head violently detonate to protect a secret, completely broke. Without even waiting for Mirabella to say a single word, she screamed in absolute terror:
"I don’t know anything!! If I try to stay a word, I will also die like him!! Please don’t kill me! I will go back and do whatever you want!! I can even be a spy for you!!! Please!!"
"Do you think I need such underhanded methods?" Mirabella’s voice was devoid of any pity. "Those who has spies are scared of their enemies, and want to know their weaknesses... But before true strength, everything is useless." Mirabella said.
She completely ignored the trembling woman and turned around, staring at the massive, imposing structure of the ancient tomb.
"I should help this country before leaving."
She casually opened her palm. From the center of her hand, a highly condensed, pitch-black ball of black light appeared, humming with the terrifying weight of her energy. The sphere slowly ascended into the air above the Gangnam ruins. The moment it reached exactly 500 meters high, acting as a tactical epicenter, it violently exploded.
BOOOOM!!
A massive, sweeping wave of heavy black energy spread all over the place, aggressively neutralizing the unstable energy in the environment. The shockwave smashed heavily on the Cat Lady, instantly bypassing her physical defenses and completely draining all her vitality in a microsecond, and she dropped dead on the ground.
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