Chapter 287 An Oddity

"No. The world will not be destroyed".

Elmon replied to Dilya's worry, assuring her that there will be no destruction involved when the gate is opened.

"Whatever is in there just wants to get free, that is all".

He wasn't told the full story of what layed dormant beyond the gate.

Elmon's thought process was far too shallow, comparing what is beyond the gate as a being similar other beings with emotions.

To be locked up for a long time is bound to make one feel very lonely, and in their loneliness they start to realize their right and wrong.

That is how Elmon understood the situation to the best of his knowledge, but he was wrong.

"That is not true kid. What is beyond that door has only one purpose in mind, and that is to lay waste to everything in its path".

Dilya told Elmon otherwise. The being does not feel regret, remorse or even have a notion of redemption.

It's purpose when it was locked up has not changed and it never will, not in a million years to come.

Orun kept himself busy with something else while Dilya and Elmon were arguing, passing words and trying to make themselves see the point they are both trying to make.

His focus was on finding out from where the ominous aura he felt came from.

That is why he followed Dilya all the way here. The kid does pique his interest a little, but that is not enough to distract him from what really brought him here.

He felt the presence when he got very close to the entrance and after that?

After his entrance into the cave, the presence was quick to vanish from the air like it was never even there to begin with.

That however was not going to fool Orun into believing that the presence is truly no longer here.

It could be from the effect of cloaking, disguising the aura from Orun's senses, but here comes the part that feels very confusing to Orun.

Whoever owned that disturbing aura that he sensed earlier, what was stopping that person from concealing the aura before Orun could even sense it.

It is definitely not because it could not conceal it from Orun like it is doing now, so why didn't it do it in the first instance?

[ Do not listen to her. She doesn't understand you like I do. She just like everyone else mocks you behind your back, looking down on you like you are noth!!! ].

The voice was wrapped in Elmon's ear, whispering distorted words into his ears.

A flame arrow came flying its way, and before it could complete its sentence, the arrow pierced through its mouth and took it along with it, pinning it down on the gate that was behind Elmon.

"I knew I smelled something ominous".

Orun said, putting down the right hand he had used to make the arrow and threw it at the voice.

"I am assuming that is not an associate of yours? Is it".

He turned his head to Dilya while the associate he was referring to is the Dark hazy figure with no solid form, stuck on the gate with the flame arrow holding it down.

Orun's search would have brought him nowhere if the being had not shown itself only to Elmon, unaware that it was within a close proximity to Orun, an elemental spirit king.

"No it isn't".

Dilya answered Orun with her attention still turned toward Elmon.

"I see. So you won't have any problem with me finishing it off".

Orun questioned her as he made his way to the dark hazy figure struggling to get free from the fire arrow.

"There is no problem at all".

Dilya sounded angry, and most of that anger was directed to Elmon.

His actions almost cost her everything she and her people stands for.

She could not even comprehend what led him into thinking of opening the gate, and she was not ready to.

Dilya was not going to let this go, not without a punishment to set an example to every other elves that might have the same thought as he does.

"Lord Orun, is there a problem".

Orun was on his way to retrieve and observe the dark haze before killing it when he stopped in his tracks.

He found something very odd about the scene the further in he walked into it.

The first oddity that caught his attention is the two deformed bodies that were cruelly murdered.

It did not make any sense that the kid before him is the same kid that took down the two guards.

A head that was severed from the rest of its body, and another body that was apparently strangled to death.

The nature of their death and the way they were killed was not aligning with the overall capability of the kid.

To accomplish that two feat, there is a need for a certain degree of raw physical strength being exerted, and Elmon is......not the appropriate guy for that.

"Did you do this".

Orun wanted to be sure. Judging a book by its cover should not be the way for him to go.

Even if Elmon does not strike him as someone who was capable of this much cruelty done on the guards, he shouldn't be too quick to judge on that.

Elmon had his head turned downward with no reply to Orun's question.

He figured he wasn't going to get any answer from him with the way he was unless he decided to go the hard route by torturing him.

That however would take too much of his time, and it is totally unnecessary as Orun could resort to making use of a more subtle way to get what he wants.

Instead of getting him to talk to him, Orun made use of his ability to hear well by listening to the sound of Elmon's heartbeat.

Through it, he can derive whatever information he wants using a translation means to convert the beating of the heart into emotions and emotions are a very good way of knowing what someone is thinking about.