Silva spent a few minutes explaining everything and answering all their questions. They all wanted to give it a try, but Silva refused, as he didn’t want to destroy the castle by accident.
After the presentation for the day, Silva called all those that were yet to evolve. He wasn’t done with their training, even if it had been pushed back.
So he called Aaron, Fay, Dawn, Lia, Mike, Roxy, and Sage. They all waited for him in the battle arena of the castle.
While Silva was headed there, Aris met him and stopped him.
“Silva, I’ve had something I wanted to tell you since the day I killed the king in the underground passage,” Aris said.
“Huh? What is it?” Silva asked.
“Well, I know you already know about the demon blood situation, but it seems to have gotten worse.
I fought with the king, and he used demon blood, but it was different from what we knew—it was more refined,” Aris said.
“So what you are saying is that the empire is getting close to perfecting the blood?” Silva asked.
“Pretty much. It seems that it’s getting better, and we will have to find a way to stop this. You have paused your plan to enter the empire,” Aris said.
“I didn’t pause it; it’s still ongoing. But I’ve decided to try and build our home first. Also, I want everyone to be truly strong before we do.
And that’s why, right now, I’m going to beat—sorry, train their asses until they finally reach the level I want them to be,” Silva said and walked away.
As he went through the hallways headed for the arena, he thought about what she said. The demon blood was what he was supposed to find out about.
If this blood was getting better, it meant he was running out of time. There was always the fact that the demon kings had given him a time frame.
“So much to do, so much to find out. Is this family that I have helping me or holding me back?” Silva asked himself as he got to the arena.
Immediately he stepped in, a huge lance of ice shot toward his face. Silva took out his sword at lightning speed and slashed the ice lance in two.
He leaped into the air and chucked his sword at them with so much force that the sword hit the floor and caused a massive explosion, throwing all of them in all directions.
“You guys will have to do better than a surprise attack,” Silva said as he pulled out his sword. He felt someone approaching and quickly turned around to block their attack.
Dawn’s sword slammed against Silva’s sword, and she was pushed back a dozen meters. Silva pointed his sword at her and fired a powerful blast of abyssal flames.
The flames hit Dawn square in her chest and blasted her into a wall. Silva turned around, dodged Mike’s sword, and used the broad side of his sword to slam into Mike’s stomach.
Mike arched back and coughed blood before being thrown into the air.
Sage moved to catch him, but Silva charged at her and kicked her right in the chest, almost knocking her out. He grabbed Mike in the air and chucked him into the ground.
Silva landed on the ground and set his sights on Roxy and Lia. He went full speed and hit behind Lia. She tried to turn around, but he punched her in the spine.
She fell to the ground, unable to move at all. He immediately launched at Roxy. She was weak in frontal battle, so Silva took her out quickly.
After that, he turned his attention to Fay. She took her sword stance, getting ready to attack. Silva looked at her and then smiled before stomping his feet into the ground so hard that she stumbled.
When she found her footing, Silva was already in front of her, but before he could attack her, Aaron used a powerful blast of wind to attack Silva.
Silva was pushed back a few steps, and Aaron took Fay and ran. But Silva was not going to let them go, as dark tendrils shot out of the ground and caught both of them.
The tendrils raised them high into the air and slammed them into the ground with so much force that they nearly passed out.
“You guys should heal up. Round two in ten minutes. We will have to keep going until you pass your limits,” Silva said.
“Master, you are smiling,” Drake came to Silva’s side and said.
“Huh? Smiling? I didn’t notice that. I guess I’m having too much fun,” Silva said.
“So chucking them like rag dolls is fun for you?” Drake asked.
“Well, it’s for their own good. And also, yeah, I love chucking them around,” Silva said and went to sit down.
“Well, there is an issue we have to discuss. I sent the blueprints of the mana gun to the factory we set up for it, and immediately someone tried to steal the blueprint.
He was caught and is now in the dungeons. When we looked into it more, we discovered that the man was not in the right state.
Something was controlling him. It was buried in his brain—it was a crystal. We don’t know how or who has it, but we need to be careful,” Drake said.
“Well, tell me more about this person. I believe there is more to him,” Silva said.
“We couldn’t find anything about him or where he could have possibly gotten it from. I decided to ask you before I took any serious measures,” Drake said.
“You have my permission. Ask Lily to run through his memories with all the force needed and get what we need.
There might be more problems with this issue, and we don’t want that to spread—even if it means affecting that man,” Silva said without emotion.
Risking one person was more important than risking the kingdom, and that was what Silva lived by.