Deep in the night, a lone silhouette could be seen floating in the air going into a certain direction. Not even Conrad noticed this floating figure.
Silveria silently moved toward the location where Alex and the others buried the ambusher's corpses.
She created a chair and used it to sit in the air, she brought out a box of ice cream before snapping her fingers, her presence immediately disappeared as though there was nothing there in the first place.
Thirty minutes later a figure dressed entirely in black to conceal its presence appeared, checking the surrounding he moved once he was sure that there was nobody around.
The black-clothed man started digging where the corpses were buried, he seemed to be searching for a particular among the eight bodies.
Suddenly, just as he was about to pick up the body he was searching for, his body stiffened as he heard a voice.
''Isn't it's late for a night walk?" Silveria asked, she finally appeared now that what she had been waiting for appeared.
Unbeknownst to Alex and others among the eight ambushers, there was a spy, someone whose presence was different from the others, the aura around him was too sinister, it the Rank 7 Alex killed.
Having noticed the man's particularity, Silveria knew that someone would come to pick up the dead body to erase any evidence of their involvement, and more specifically to get some information. It was a gamble, however, it was a gamble that paid off.
He looked around fearfully, once should know that he was Rank 9, not a weakling for someone to appear without his prior knowledge spell trouble for him, this would mean that this person was stronger than him. Finally, he caught the figure of Silveria sitting in a chair in the air.
'Shit a Rank 10. Flee.'
The man's response had been instantaneous, so was his body. He chose a random direction and dashed toward it at fast speed, he even used the Wind to boost his speed.
Unfortunately, the death goddess did not seem eager to let him go, she disappeared to reappear in front of the black-clothed man who immediately stopped in his track.
''What, instant movement?" He asked in disbelief, she may be stronger than him but moving like this only meant it was instant movement, space element-related skill.
'I'm screwed.' he thought.
Silveria smiled, the man was shuddering not daring to appreciate the beauty in front of him. How could he? She may appear like a goddess to others however to him Silveria was the Death Reaper.
''Indeed it's instant movement. I also know instant K.O.'' Silveria announced with a sweet smile before her fist connected with the surprised man face, he was blasted back, colliding against with several trees, he had already lost consciousness, indeed it was Instant K.O.
''Let's have a little fun, shall we? I've accumulated a lot of stress lately, so it's time to release some.'' Silveria mumbled.
Then she snapped her fingers while humming, the unconscious man was brought toward her.
Soon she started her interrogation which lasted two hours. Unfortunately, she didn't get any information other than the man was from a certain organization, a sinister organization whose purpose was unknown, their headquarter was unknown. The only useful information she managed to get was that this organization seem to be interested in Alex, as for why it was unknown.
''How troublesome.'' Silveria spat out before using on the black-clothed man the same method she used on the poor demon to peacefully send him on his way. Well, it was a peaceful method from her standpoint.
Silveria disappeared afterward.
•••••
At the same time somewhere in a building devoid of any sounds, a man in his late thirties with golden hair could be seen sitting in a study looking at some old parchment when suddenly, his brows creased as if he sensed something, this happened at the same when Silveria killed the black-clothed man.
This man stood up and left, he appeared in a corridor.
In this silent building, his footsteps echoed particularly loudly. Moonlight shone through the window to cast its cold light upon his body, making him appear even more chilling.
At the end of the corridor, the middle-aged man took out a key, opened a door, and walked in. Beyond the door stood the item that he was looking for—a mercury mirror.
This mirror was around the height of a human, and it was designed in a manner that made it look like a door that one could pass through.
There was a slight ripple on the surface of the mirror before an eye suddenly materialized in the middle of the mirror.
The eye turned to look at the man before dissipating. Following that, powerful pulsations of mana emanated from the mirror before it suddenly swung open like a door, revealing a hunched old man holding a key in his hand.
The hunched old man bowed deeply to the middle-aged man.
''Welcome back, vice guild leader.''
''Mm."
The golden-haired middle-aged man who just got called vice guild master nodded quietly to acknowledge the greeting before walking through the mirror door. The scenery around him swiftly changed into that of a dark castle. As for where this castle was located it was unknown.
The vice guild master disappeared into the darkness and soon he reappeared inside a room.
''Did it fail? It must be that. I thought I said not to make a move.''
Sitting at the end of a long table was a dark figure cloaked in shadow, it was this dark figure who talked.
The vice guild master sat on the opposite end of the dark figure, he then said.
''Well, sorry I just want to test the water. Reason why I slipped someone into that lass men, I knew that even we don't get him, we will be able to collect some intel. Doesn't matter if my man died or not, however it seems that I've miscalculated, someone eliminated the man I sent to collect the corpse. A Rank 9 just die and the worst is that I didn't see anything, you know my ability to see things through my subordinates in the case of crisis, yet this time it didn't work. I'm frustrated.''
An inconspicuous frown of frustration formed on the vice guild master's impassive face
as he thought about what happened. His magic eyes didn't work, as if it had been canceled.
Seeing the vice guild master's expression, the dark figure cloaked in shadows chuckled softly.
''It's why I said not make any move against that boy. He is more dangerous than the other seven. Do not do anything until I order so, I'm warning you. More importantly, that person came back. So, better to lay low for now.''
''Wh-what? Did she come back? Why now off all times? Just as the boy is coming to the capital? Is this just a coincidence?" The vice guild master asked, his expression wasn't looking good.
''Unlikely. So, better stay low. We will see how things go before making a move. Maybe in the dungeons.'' the dark figure said.
The vice guild master contemplated for a moment before nodding his head. He then left.
Once alone the dark figure sighed, ''Things have gotten troublesome.''
••••
~Back to Alex's Location.
Unaware of all of this Alex was in a deep sleep. However, from time to time his brows would crease as if he was having a nightmare.
Inside his sleep, Alex was experiencing a rather unusual thing. He was walking in a destroyed town, this city was destroyed, there was destroyed building everywhere and bodies littered the ground, even so, he was unbothered.
Suddenly, there were numerous roars followed by the appearance of numerous black beasts that pounced on him.
Suddenly, he moved to dodge the attack of one of the beast shrouded in ominous black miasma, a silver gun appeared inside his hand, using this gun which looked like Silveria, he killed the black beast, his movement was too fast, without turning around he fired in another location, killing another beast.
Furious, the beasts started jumping toward him, trying to swarm him. Unbothered he kept shooting and dodging, having seen that the number of beasts coming toward him had increased, he created another identical Silveria, with these two guns he moved around reaping lives as if they were nothing.
It was as if he was dancing, he kills, dodge, then kill then dodge again, everything was done with the minimum of maneuver. From the onlooker's point of view it seemed that he was not moving yet it was not the case, his speed was too fast.
Soon, he had eliminated all the beasts in the vicinity. As he was done, he moved forward, he stopped and looked at a certain building, like the other buildings, this one was destroyed as well, however, some part was still standing, the glass window to be exact while looking at the building as if reminiscing about something, he was able to see his appearance, he had long black hair, extremely handsome face and unusual beautiful red eyes.
It was at that moment Alex comes to know that it was not his body, 'What going on?'
He didn't have the time to ponder before the world shook, then a gigantic figure descended, it was over thirty meters , fear struck his core, he couldn't help but tremble facing such a being, he was like an ant.
Whether or not this fear stemmed from him or the owner of this body, was unclear. However, Alex knew that it was the latter.
Indeed, the owner of this body's next action confirmed it. He dashed at the dark giant figure and a fight with a scale Alex couldn't fathom broke out with the man winning, however, he was injured. Just as he killed the giant, he felt a chill running down his spine, so without turning back he fired a red bullet.
This bullet deflected an incoming attack, using this chance, the man disappeared to reappear a hundred meters away, he looked in front of him with a bitter smile.
On the opposite side, stood another handsome man, he had long golden hair, golden eyes, however, there were slightly darkened at the moment. Holding in his hand was a beautiful golden longsword. When Alex saw this sword he had a sense of déjà vu, the same thing when he looked at the one holding the longsword.
Suddenly, Alex heard an unexpected voice he had once heard before.
''Sorry, junior the spectacle end here. See you soon, please take care of them. Silveria may appear mischievous and unruly but she means no harm, pardon her all her offenses. It is me who put restrictions on them. Blame me if you want to blame someone. Do not blindly trust. Take care and lastly, I've got a little parting gift.''
Alex was being pulled away when he heard those words, he saw the black-haired man with beautiful red eyes smiling at him, he was like a senior watching after his junior, however on the other hand the golden-haired man was glaring at Alex making shudder.
Just before Alex disappeared, the black-haired man pointed his finger in Alex's direction and a crimson light flee toward him and pierced his head. Immediately an excruciating pain assaulted Alex, he roared of pain, he felt like his head was about to split.
In his final moment before he completely disappeared from this world he saw the black-haired man apologetic smile then his expression changed as he turned to face the golden-haired man, ready to start a fight, a fight that would be epic from Alex's point of view.