Chapter 256 - True Sins

Even though she had let her guard down for a second, Rose was still very observant of her surroundings, but not only was she not able to feel the presence of the talking cat, the moment it had disappeared and appeared again, she widened her eyes in surprise.

'Darkness magic? But how can someone use darkness like that... This should be impossible' Even though she was extremely shocked, she chose to not take a step back and instead stepped forwards, the palm of her hand pointing at the cat while blood slowly seeped out of the same hand, creating a small crimson orb at the middle of her palm.

"Who are you?!" She circled the cat and me like wolves circling their prey.

"I see... You must be a madam from the crimson family I assume?" The cat asked, its eyes widening slightly at the mentioning of the crimson family.

"H-How do you know about my fam-... No! None of that matters! Who are you!" She roared, not daring to move her hand away from the direction of the cat.

"No need for you to know." It replied dismissively before changing to the beast language.

"Also, my leaders have agreed to your conditions as long as the people you are allied with are not from the Crimson Fox Tribe" The cat nodded and gave me a pendent before continuing "This is a pendant that will allow you to communicate with us nor matter where you are on this continent. It also had a teleportation rune on it that will allow us to teleport to you when you choose to activate it" the cat, which in reality was a ferocious panther that could appear and disappear while moving dozens of kilometers purred and started to lick its paw.

"How do I know that you guys won't betray me?" I retorted, more out of curiosity than anything.

"Betraying a divine being in this day and age is like creating your tombstone. The elders would not be that stupid and there is no way the leader would do something so reckless." The panther-cat shrugged and jumped off my shoulder, landing on the floor without a single sound to announce its landing.

Rose still had her palm pointed at the cat that was not slowly morphing into a panther before looking back at me with a smile, or at least the closest thing to a smile a cat could form.

'Should I ask him to take a look at the egg' I decided to ask Hela before doing anything life-threatening.

[ARE YOU STUPID!?] Was the only reply I got, forcing me to back down and never ask another question.

"Alright. I'll see you... whenever" I smiled and waved him goodbye, finally allowing him to disappear into thin air.

"What was that?" Rose asked, her cold demeanor finally returning.

"Oh, that? Nothin'. Anyway, do you still happen to have some of that wyvern blood that I could drink from?" I smiled back at her while expertly changing the subject.

"You are changing the subject" She happened to be an expert in this field too.

"I am not... How dare you of accusing me of such heinous acts!" I cried out in mistreatment and pointed at her accusingly.

"Ugh! Fine, don't tell me. But know this, I am hurt that you don't trust me" Rose stormed off immediately after those words hit my ear, not allowing me to come back with a crappy excuse to have her forgive me.

Shrugging nonchalantly, I flickered before disappearing from my place and turning into a golden beam of light that traveled through the skies while crackling with electricity that thundered and shot towards the closest things to me.

***

Western Region - Rouge Empire -Tartaros alliance

Around a circular table sat 7 figures, all looking towards the center of the circular table with different emotions flickering in their eyes.

"When will we attack that pathetic empire?" One a young childish voice laced in cruelty and resentment spoke out, causing everyone to look towards one of the shadowy figures.

"That 'pathetic' that you speak of is currently stronger than ever. We need to not only weaken them from the inside but also recruit those who have the highest potential. For now, let us stay away from the central region, and instead, let us move towards the northern and southern regions before finally encircling them by going to the eastern region and taking over the district of waves." The man paused and stretched his hand towards a mug that was placed in front of him.

"You are being too cautious, Envy... I can always go and use my ability on all the beasts below the crystallization stage. I am close to advancing into the astral plane, so if I get a little more battle experience I should be able to breakthrough!" A woman with her feet on the table complained

"No human has ever ascended to the astral plane, what makes you think that you will be the first" another man slammed his hand into the table, causing cracks to spread out.

"Lust... Greed... You two are always so loud" a groggy voice spoke out as it covered its ears and rested its face on the table that had already begun repairing 

"I can control all living beings with my charm! I am the Almighty ruler.. I was made to rule!" The same woman pointed at Greed accusingly.

And I can easily take everything you worked for from you with a snap of my fingers! No! Everything belongs to me and you think you can just steal my throne!" Greed roared as he got up, pushing the chair a few meters back.

"Oh yeah? You might think you own everything, but no amount of money can buy love. I control love. No, I make love! And you this" before she could finish her sentence that would have started an hour-long argument back and forth, a voice suddenly rang out, causing them both to shudder and sit down like tamed dogs who had angered their owner.

At the window side of the room sat a small figure, yet even though their figure was small, their aura was one of any titan standing above all.

"Enough" he muttered, yet, his voice echoed in everyone's ears, causing them to freeze and look at the young boy at the 'end' of the table warily.