Chapter 365 Director. 2

"Who...who are you?!" The man in earthen armor stammered these words, looking in turn at Alvine and the faint renegades on the ground.

"I am Alvine, and here is my travel companion, Reha; we are the only potential customers who came to the auction." He introduced himself nonchalantly while briefly presenting Reha.

"This is the first time I've seen you here; can you tell me which faction you belong to?" He frowns as he looks at the dozens of crows around Alvine with suspicion.

"Isn't your role to remain impartial regarding private information about your customers?"

"... Usually, yes. But as you can see, there has been a lot of agitation that forces us to be a little more persistent than usual, especially regarding such a powerful person who seems similar powers to these bastards!" He insisted despite the confidentiality clause.

'Sigh, is it because I wear a mask that makes him suspicious? Or maybe I did a little too much? Pff, it doesn't matter to me; I'm not in the mood to waste more time in this place; let this oracle manage this matter.' He whispered while nodding towards Reha.

"We are leaving." He said with bland air.

"..."

As usual, Reha did not pronounce a single sentence, but it also proved that she had no objection.

"I'm sorry, but you can't leave like that." The man in armor retorted these words while those under his command surrounded Alvine and Reha, following his signal.

"... Why?"

"You are just as suspicious as they are. That is why I ask you to stay wisely with us as long as we understand the situation." He pronounced these words imposingly as if it were an order that could not be refused.

"..." Alvine looked at the mages in their outfits with frowned eyebrows.

"Well, put on the sealing bracelet." Seeing Alvine's silence that he seemed to have misinterpreted, he ordered one of his men.

"..."

Despite the incredulous and arrogant actions of the man covered with earthen armor from head to toe, Alvine remained silent while watching one of the men put on an electronic red bracelet with his bland expression.

But just before one of the men tried to approach Reha, Alvine stopped him after noticing the coldness in Reha's eyes.

"I do not recommend it to you." He murmured coldly, unconsciously shaking the man in a red dress.

The latter hesitated momentarily, no longer knowing what he had to do.

"Don't listen to this bastard! They are with them!" The man in armor roars against his subordinate after seeing his fear.

"With them? Wh--

"Your aura, these dark crows, and this black-white mask that hides your face, you are their leader, I am sure; you are the same bastard we have been bartering for three years! Now that you're wearing this bracelet, you can no longer use your Skills!" He fulminates these words with his murderous aura that he no longer bothered to hide after seeing Alvine with the modern red bracelet.

"... Their leader? Seal my powers?" As he whispered these words to himself with a ridiculous smile, he immediately frowned, finally noticing a strange phenomenon that he had not paid attention to until now.

The man hidden in the shades, who had a mask similar to his, looked at him with confused eyes that could not be due because of his bewilderment in the face of his incredulous power.

But he was not convinced that the guy in armor was talking about this masked man since even if he wore a black mask, it was not straightforward, like his; it had strange patterns drawn in red.

While fully immersed in his thoughts, he also noticed one of the subordinates trying to put the same bracelet on Reha's wrist.

'Well, since they don't want to hear anything, and they seem to want to have us under their control as the oracle, I just hope they are ready to endorse the consequences of their actions.' He concludes in his thoughts after understanding the operation of the bracelet, which was not even powerful enough to seal a percent of his powers, not to mention the totality.

-Argghhhhh---

At the same time, the subordinate, dressed in a red dress, yelled in a high-pitched and agonizing voice when he crossed Reha's eyes.

But before everyone wondered what he had, he suddenly stopped with white eyes that only Alvine could see because of his proximity to both.

As for the man in armor, his hair stood up when he saw his minion scream as if he were suffering the worst pain of his life while scratching his throat until bleeding.

"What is--Huh!?

Before he finished his sentence, he suddenly froze with his horrified expression as he saw another strange anomaly with the body of his subordinate, who began by inflating like a balloon.

-BOOM!

Then, almost instantly, he floated in the air before exploding into piles of minced meat after ten meters of altitude!

"?!"

"A quarter of your time has passed." Reha retorted these words by looking at Alvine, who also had the same translucent shield so as not to be soiled by the rain of blood and heaps of meat.

"Huh?" But he became confused when he heard Reha give him this reminder.

"Six hours have passed since we came to this planet. In other words, you have eighteen hours left to solve this problem. After this elapsed time, I would take matters into my own hands; this was our agreement in case you had forgotten it."

"!! - Sigh, it's true; it's the agreement we made when you killed the security guard by the beach." Affirmed Alvine, finally understanding what Reha was talking about.

"What is...? Kill this woman!" The guy in armor who had just regained his spirits thundered these words with his trembling voice, which was due to his shock and fright when he saw Reha's mysterious powers.

"Sigh, since you no longer seem to have control over the situation, so--

"If you violate our agreement once again, then expect me to do the same!!" Alvine retorted before Reha finished her sentence, not to mention starting her bloodbath.

"..." Seeing her become as silent as a predator lying to her prey, Alvine did not have time to sigh for relief.

'If these bastards attack her, she won't hold back anymore; tsk, the worst thing is that I can't get rid of her or hide and act solo.' He retorted by waving his hand in the void, followed by an intense hurricane that pushed his opponents thirty meters from them.

"!! - How is this possible?!" The man in armor froze when he saw Alvine using the skills he thought had sealed, thanks to the bracelet on his wrist.

"This is my last chance. If you still attack us without justification, I would kill you here without the slightest compassion!" He growled slightly with a frustrated air that barely made his pupils more blood red than they were through his mask.

"... Kill--Keukh!!!"

-BOOM!!

Before the armored Man finished his sentence, a powerful bloodthirsty aura forced him to get on his lap while his two golems disintegrated into piles of useless rocks.

But this solid murderous aura came neither from Alvine nor from Reha, not to mention Stella, who was still waiting in the shadow of Alvine with her thirst for blood, seeing the arrogance of the man in armor towards his lord.

But of an old man with long hair and a white beard reaching his chest, who has just come out in the elevator leading to the basement.

His wrinkled eyes but clear as the water of a peaceful lake scrutinized the ground floor without frowns.

"..."

'A mage of emperor rank?! Am I dreaming there?!' Alvine whispered in his thoughts with incredulous eyes from the moment he noticed the level of cultivation of the Chinese-looking old man.

"Be sure to forgive this man who has allowed himself to be blinded by his negative feelings." He whispers slowly, looking straight into Alvine's garnet eyes without flinching.

"..."

'Besides not noticing his presence in the basement, I can't also see through his thoughts.' Even if he did not respond to the old man, his mistrust of him increased when he became aware of this factor, which is added to the other mystery.

"... Can I escort you? Alone, without this woman!" He continued by designating Reha behind Alvine.

"??"

'Normally, I wouldn't have refused, but this guy doesn't seem to be like the others. He hides his true appearance under this spell of illusion. I'm not even sure he's a simple emperor mage.' He concludes after a glance at Reha, who seems to have the same suspicions as him.

'Strange, since when have I become so suspicious and undecided in the face of an enemy? Even in front of this woman, my senses didn't alert me like that; a trap?' He continued while frowning at the old man.

"...Interesting; I am beginning to understand why this planet has fascinated me so much from the beginning and continues to do so even now." His usual twisted expression came back on his face when he noticed the intrigues around the old man.

"D-director, you must not let this bastard do--Uakh!!"

Before the man in armor continued, a gravitational power fell on him to the point of forming a canvas crater under him.

"So I can say that you agree with me?" He then asked when he saw his subordinate half dead.

"It would be silly of me to refuse such a propos--?!

"No, don't go!" Suddenly a person Alvine had never expected shouted these words as he intervened between Alvine and the old man with his two daggers.

"Hm?! It becomes even more interesting." Alvine murmured to himself when he saw this man who had always hidden in the shades finally come out, and to make the mystery worse; he was protecting him from the old man.

'An unknown-- no, a renegade who protects me despite the fact that I attacked his subordinates. A man in earthen armor who confuses me with the leader of the renegades. And finally, an old man who seems to be a banal emperor mage from the outside, but yet much more than that. Darn, I'm going from surprise to surprise.'

"Out of my way, miserable insect!" The old man indignantly retorted these words by sending the man in a black dress to waltz by the superficial manifestation of his bloodthirsty aura that did not leave Reha indifferent in front of him.

"!!!"

But Alvine had another flood of confusion when he saw Reha cushion the fall of the renegade, who would surely die without the divine energy that she manifested for the first time since she came with Alvine to the planet.

"You are not supposed to get involved in this, according to your agreement with Sir Kayra." The old man retorted slightly furiously when he saw Reha's actions and her abnormal hostility towards him.

-!!!

As for Alvine, hearing the old man address him with the same nickname as Renia, the transcendent who had imprisoned him in a temporal loop, his body stiffened.

"How...how did you just call me?!" Alvine's tone became icy, followed by the emergence of his dark aura and primordial sword in his left hand while he asked him this question.

"Hohoho~, don't be so surprised that I know your name and, above all, your identity." He shrugged and remained unanimous in the face of Alvine's aura.

"Well, in this case, let's not waste any more ti--

"No, I am not here to fight against you but to escort you to my noble. I'm sure you--

"Not interested!"

"... Sigh, I expected a similar answer. But know that you will have no choice but to comply with my request; I have people with me that you will never like to die." While retorting these words with a disdainful smile, he slammed his fingers, followed by the emergence of three magical mirrors floating above him.

"Look for yourself; the reason why you will not have the luxury of making your choice." He was then jubilant while caressing his long beard with a fake smile.

-!!

At the same time, even if the ground floor was not cold, Alvine's body was, however, colder than a corpse when he noticed the three magical mirrors reflecting things he could never imagine seeing so quickly.

"...No, it's impossible." His monotonous voice resonated as his hands sweated unconsciously while his eyes switched between the three mirrors.

"However, this is the case; and since you seem to understand without me needing to explain more, it is time to submit and follow me obediently if you do not want these two to die or this seed to disappear."

"..."