Moose didn't even have much ti to recover from the pain of Sylas' counter when he registered the words. There was just sothing about Sylas' careless disregard of his thoughts that made him looking and unfathomable in ways that only those far above his Tier had ever made Moose feel.
They both had the sa starting position. In fact, it could be said that Moose's starting position was higher. The mont he tasted his first bit of Aether, he exploded with the kind of strength that he had only ever seen in comic books before.
Now, he was little more than an ant.
Sylas crouched down to the balls of his feet, pulling Moose's head up by his hair.
"Earth has quite a few secrets on it. I'm sure you believed you were special, but you're not. Whatever thoughts you have of turning this around, of changing your lot, I'd advise you forget it now. Otherwise, I will kill you. You have three seconds to make up your mind."
Cassarae raised an eyebrow. Usually, Sylas only spoke so much for a purpose. But she couldn't really see it this ti. Unless... Cassarae looked toward Moose with a look of amusent on her face, and then back to Sylas.
"You like him. I didn't think my best competition would be a muscley, 100 foot tall behemoth. When were you going to tell that you swung that way? Does that an I can hope for a threeso in my future?" Cassarae's eyes blinked rapidly, her amusent only growing with every mont.
Sylas looked back at her. "Did you agree to co here just to spend your ti sending verbal jabs?"
"Hohohohoho, I hit the nail on the head, didn't I?" Cassarae tapped her chin lightly, seemingly in deep thought. "Let guess, let guess. He beat you at sothing at so point, didn't he? And now you want to make him your little minion to get back at him?"
Sylas gave Cassarae another look and then turned back to Moose. He raised a finger, ready to strike. It had been three seconds.
Just as he was about to, he paused. The notification for a contract appeared. It was no less oppressive and grueling as the woman's had been.
Seeing this, Cassarae only laughed harder. There were certain privileges to being husband and wife. One such thing was being privy to contracts exactly like this one. She saw it the mont it appeared.
Sylas could have asked for this contract before they got to this point, before they even stepped into the Demon World, but he didn't.
He wanted Moose to co to this conclusion all on his own.
And that he did.
Cassarae scurried over, looking Moose eye to eye.
"Tell , tell . Did you embarrass him? Did his pants fall around his ankles or sothing? Did he have to run away with his tail between his legs?"
Sylas stood to his feet, ignoring Cassarae. As for the woman, her head moved back and forth between Sylas and the latter, seemingly shocked by the display.
This Cassarae wasn't just a plaything, otherwise she wouldn't be able to speak so openly and boldly. Soone like Sylas actually loved soone?
Interesting.
"Do it." Sylas said indifferently.
Moose seed to know better than to indulge Cassarae, not to ntion the fact he had no idea what she was talking about. How could he have the insight to Sylas' personality that she did?
He raised his head to the skies and roared.
Cassarae staggered back, unwillingness in her eyes. But at this point, she knew that the ti for playing around
was over.
She did know Sylas better than anyone else. He was unmoved by Kael. But the mont he saw Moose, the gears in his mind started churning.
The mountains shifted beneath Moose's roar, one Demon after another beginning to respond to the call.
Cassarae moved to Sylas' side, both of them looking out toward the carnage.
"Are you going to tell what's going on?" Cassarae asked.
"Professor Fembroise."
Cassarae frowned. "What about her?"
"You know why she's been under house arrest this entire ti."
"Because you tried to kill her and the system stopped you."
That was certainly an understatent. The system's actions that day had almost cost Sylas his life more than
once.
"The system thought her to be so valuable it even overlooked the fact I used Demonic Aether, rewarding for protecting her."
"What does that have to do with this?"
"You were right. Moose did once out smart ."
"HA!"
"But he isn't a normal person either," Sylas continued, unperturbed. "At first I thought his fool's act was just sothing he put on. But it was too real, too perfect. It was sothing I ignored until now, but if I had to guess, there's sothing particularly special about his Will. Before the Summoning, his body was unable to withstand it. To protect itself, it went dormant, making him outwardly a fool. I read about a case like this in the Golden Grove."
"Okay... so two oddities. What's that got to do with anything?"
"Not just two oddities. Two oddities tied to a betrayal of Earth."
Where had Sylas t the man capable of changing his own na? Wasn't it the very group Professor Fembroise had joined in hopes of betraying Earth back then?
A coincidence that both one in a billion anomalies in talent happened to also both be tied to betraying Earth? Even their reasons were identical, one losing a son and another losing a mother.
No. They were precisely the bridges these people needed.
They had the Wills unique enough to beco Demonic Envoys.
"Okay." Cassarae said. "But what does this change?"
"Simple, really. They need a unique Will to create a Demonic Envoy. This is one way they've created, but I bet there's another. One related to Rotten Creatures and another related to the Beast Emperor Sanctum. Or maybe they're one in the sa."
The woman's pupils constricts into pinholes, suddenly forgetting all about her scouting out Sylas' "weaknesses".
"That doesn't explain anything." Cassarae rolled her eyes.
"It only ans one thing really. Now that I know every thod they have, I can not only replicate them, I can destroy them. They'll never set foot on Earth."
There was also one other thing Sylas didn't say.
The problem with Aki's Armor being white was that it should have been orange.
The white tiger was a sign of a legendary creature. It was the Emperor Tiger.
The problem was that Aki's armor was far too weak, even if he had just been an avatar at the ti.
The armor had been tampered with. Changed and weakened, experinted with and shifted in hopes of creating sothing new.
Aki thought he was clever, but he was nothing more than a pawn. A pawn in a ga Sylas could finally see the entire board of. He had been trying to replicate sothing he didn't understand.
But Sylas did.
Moose out maneuvered him because he had never known to watch out for him.
Who stood a chance against he, Sylas Grimblade?
The woman was completely and utterly shaken by every word Sylas spoke. But when Sylas' Will suddenly blood, his Grimblade bloodline burning as he began to devour the echoes of Moose's roars.
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