Dimas’s story was quite short and to be honest Daimon thought it was false, partying in one place and then waking up sealed on a complete unknown planet was hard to believe, but on the other hand he couldn’t detect any sign of Dimas lying.
His heartbeat was stable, and he was totally relaxed, Liz’s heart mirror also didn’t react at all, so there was no malice on his actions so far.
Dimas looked at the roof of the cave which trembled from time to time, a sign that on the surface there was something wild going on.
“Daimon if you are going to leave, this is the moment, although I’m a marvelous ice mirage basilisk, my mana is blocked by the formation so I can barely affect the outside world and it’s getting harder to maintain it”.
“Come on, aren’t you an emperor level magic beast?”, said Calvin with a sarcastic voice.
Dimas’s expression filled with confusion, he the pointed at Liz with one of his hands and replied.
“Emperor?… ahh right I almost forgot we aren’t in my native planet hahaha, you guys have divided the mortal realm into many steps right, for example that sister with the scary fire would be at the peak of the mortal realm”.
Daimon’s eyes glowed, this information was pretty valuable.
“So, what’s your realm called in the place you come from?”.
“I’m at the early stage of the planet subjugation realm, if it weren’t for the magic formation my domain would have easily covered this little planet, that being said I barely started cultivating when I ended up locked up here”.
“There is always a higher mountain huh”, it’s what everyone was thinking, not too long ago they learned of the existence of a magus emperor and now it turned out even that far realm wasn’t too much into other people’s eyes.
Michael couldn’t resist the curiosity so he asked.
“And what are the realms after the one you just mentioned, how do you reach them?”.
Dimas shook his head.
“I can’t tell you that, this stellar chart of yours has very strict rules, even if I leave this magic formation, I would at most be able to use half of my powers, speaking about anything beyond the planetary subjugation is forbidden and I don’t want to be struck by lightning”.
Daimon sighed “Of course there is always a catch… whatever, for now I want to see those fire spirits you mentioned, can you drag one of them to this place without the others noticing?”.
Dimas doubted for a moment, his serpent like eyes directly looked at Daimon as he spoke.
“You are asking me to bring one of the guys that is trying to kill me, that will cost you, I want… something to eat it’s been ages since I ate a delicious meal and using mana as a substitute is getting boring!!!”.
“Also, those guys are only scouts if I were to say, they will be at the middle part of the mortal realm, but their fire is really dangerous”.
Daimon had an amused expression, for a moment he thought Dimas was going to ask him to free him from the magic formation, which of course he would refuse, but he only asked something to eat.
“If he said Liz is at the peak of the mortal realm, then those guys should be at the mage lord realm… it’s manageable even without core synchrony,”, he thought.
A living creature at the emperor level was priceless, while others would try to kill Dimas to use him as resources, Daimon had a different idea, by becoming friends with him, the Revy family… or more accurately his family would win an ally.
Lately strange things have been happening, the ruin discovered near the border of the stellar chart for example and now an emperor level magic beast sealed right below the surface of an important planet like Lykos.
Daimon nodded.
“Deal, if your story about the fire spirits possessing natives of Lykos is true, then we’ll treat you to a meal”.
Dimas laughed out loud, “Don’t forget your promise, I like medium term meat”.
Now that the “terms” of the agreement were settled Dimas focused his attention on the surface, the guys who were looking for him were divided in pairs, his domain was blocking any kind of communications so he only waited until two of them were separated from the others, enough so they couldn’t feel the ruckus caused by them being dragged into the ice.
Dima’s scales illuminated in a dim blue light and the roof of the cave trembled, after a couple of minutes a breach opened and a cage made out of ice fell from, the impact of the cage against the floor made little pieces of ice to fly all over the place.
“Sorry, they were moving all the way down, so the impact was worse than I expected”.
While Dimas apologized, Daimon saw that the cage was constantly being melted and reformed, but he was now more relaxed, the mana he felt coming from the cage barely reached the mage lord realm.
“Let one of them out of the cage”.
Dimas nodded and the cage divided in half, so now one of the so-called fire spirits was in plain view for them, surprisingly it looked like mix between a human and a reptile with scales all over the skin, but that wasn’t so weird considering they were in the beast faction.
“This guy comes from the rock lizard clan, the Caddle family… but they can’t tolerate low temperatures so they would never come to a place like Lykos, unless they have become Archmages”, said Calvin.
Daimon frowned his brows on the outside the person in front of him looked like a normal member of the Caddle family, but using the truth seeker eyes he could see a red tattoo with the form of a flame printed on his forehead.
The lizard man looked at all the presents with disgust written all over his face, especially when he saw Liliana and Dimas, since Liz was hiding her true realm, his gaze was full with confidence as he spoke.
“Natives of galaxy, rejoice for you have been chosen by lord Efres, those which element isn’t related to water or ice stand at my right and I will grant you the blessing of lord Efres, as for the ice woman and that disgusting snake… death is their only salvation”.
…
Seeing that no one was moving, the lizard man snorted, flames covered his body and then concentrated on his hands forming a whip which he swinged towards Liliana as he shouted.
“Obey, members of lowly races!!!”.
Liz snapped her fingers and the flames of the whip dispersed before the body of the lizard man was engulfed by fire.
“Trying to burn a servant of lord Efres, what a foolish wom… aghhh!!!”.
At the beginning the lizard man seemed to not be affected by Liz’s flames, but then when she changed from normal fire to crown fire, the effect that immediate.
The lizard man threw himself at the floor and rolled his body trying to put off the fire, but the only thing he managed to do was increase his suffering, the floor was made of ice, so when it melted it turned into water which boiled after a couple of seconds.
Dimas nodded.
“See I told you, that sister’s flames are freaking scary, even my domain was affected by them, ahh also don’t worry about hurting him, the original owner of the body died the very moment he was possessed, so the only one suffering is that fire spirit”.
Daimon gazed at Liz and with a wave of her hand the flames disappeared leaving behind a half-burned lizard man, needless to say but the smell wasn’t exactly pleasant, on the other hand all the presents understood that if it weren’t for Liz, Liliana would have been wounded by the flame whip, so no one pitied the lizard man.
Daimon approached the now convulsing lizard man and pointed at the flame mark with Gram.
“Who are you, what is your goal and who sent you?”.
The lizard man looked at Daimon but he remained silent with a defiant expression on his face.
“Although I can’t tell my companions, when we are killed, our memories will return to where lord Efres is, you will be marked to die, your whole galaxy is doomed hahaha”.
Daimon smirked.
“Thanks for the information, now I know you can’t contact that lord whatever, nor your companions, what a shame your soul won’t return to his hands”.
Before the lizardman could say anything, Gram’s tip pierced his forehead killing it in the spot, but unlike what the spirit expected when the host died he also died, the reason is very simple… a thin layer of demon light applied on the surface of Gram.
“Lightning is the nemesis of all spirit type creatures it doesn’t matter if your attribute isn’t darkness, you chose the wrong target to mess up with”, he said in a low voice.
While the lightning of a star ranked mage couldn’t have done it, demon light was fierce enough to completely obliterate the fire spirit.
Daimon noticed Dimas opened a small window to allow the other guy in the ice cage to witness the death of his companion, which earned him thumbs up.
He approached the ice cage and then spoke with a relaxed voice.
“You know what I want to know, so are you going to talk, or do you prefer to end up like your friend from before, I guess you can kill yourself but your spirit will also disappear”.
The lizardman inside of the cage tried to squeeze his brains to find a way out of this predicament, but the best scenario was him dying and not being able to give information to his master.
Seeing that youth in front of him was about to use that bizarre sword to kill him just like he did with his partner, he immediately shouted.
“Wait, I will talk, I will talk!!!”.
Daimon smirked.
“Yes, you will”, he thought as the unmistakable sound of a notification from the system made its way into his mind.
[Fire djinn “Caldras” has offered his loyalty, do you wish to accept it Y/N]