Four thin shields manifested around Vivian and caged him from every direction, but unlike the name of his skill, the thin shields did not seal Vivian but began to press upon his body, trying to turn him into human paste.
...
Vivian panicked, he used his full strength to punch and kick away the physical constructs of a shield.
But he was unsuccessful, the strength contained in the physical construct he was being squeezed by was unbelievable. Vivian tried hard but he could not resist being squeezed.
Fortunately, Vivian got to survive because Rae was successfully distracted by him and Ekaros was able to escape from Rae. The sudden spike in aura behind him caused Rae to focus on Ekaros again.
"This aura!!" Rae mumbled as he glanced back. He was fully concentrated on squeezing the life out of Vivian, and the seal took his extra effort to maintain.
Because of his lack of attention, Ekaros was able to slip out. Rae was confident of being able to defeat Ekaros but the aura that he felt was completely different from before.
Even Rae felt a little threatened by the aura. When he glanced back at Ekaros, he found out that the aura was coming from a fist sized bloodstone and not from Ekaros.
Ekaros had shoved the bloodstone artifact in the hole in his gut. Similar to his previous state, when he was absorbing the energy from the bloodstone.
"You still think I am too weak?" Ekaros arrogantly shouted as he stared at Rae.
On the way back to the mansion, he had slaughtered many demon beasts. Although the beasts were not very strong but what Ekaros could not do with quality, he did that with quantity.
He had never used the artifact as a battery but he had no choice. Even though Ekaros was able to regenerate and regrow his limbs, it would take too long, making the regeneration ineffective.
By the time he would grow his limbs, he would already be dead. So, he decided to take risk and assimilated the bloodstone within his body.
'It is amazing that I am not feeling the pain of my physique reconstruction at the moment. I need to finish the battle quickly before I get hit by that terrible pain again.'
Ekaros arrogantly rushed at Rae, he wanted to continue with the fight. The look on Rae's face was the answer to his question. Rae no longer appeared to be relaxed.
While on the way, he had thought of recharging the artifact. So, he decided to go on a rampage and collect some blood of beasts and humans both.
He did not rampantly massacre the innocent humans but the bandits who tried to kill him on the way. Those bandits helped to charge a good part of the artifact.
As Ekaros rushed at Rae, his hands were fully regrown. The assimilation with artifact boosted his physical strength as well as the regeneration, that he grew a complete limb instantly.
Rae had sensed the change in aura and quickly decided to give up on killing Vivian for the moment, and he decided to focus on Ekaros.
Fists clashed, Ekaros was enveloped by am eerie blood red aura, compared to the normal ki reinforcement this blood colored ki appeared to be more lethal and suitable for attacks.
the skill was still in research stages but it was good enough for restraining level three warriors.
"Oh before that.. What was his name? Vivian?"
He asked as looked at the man struggling for his life to break out of the single thin layer of his shield. Vivian tried but he was unsuccessful in even making a crack on the thin shield.
Vivian glanced at Rae, there was this eerie sensation and Vivian felt that something really bad was going to happen. Rae did not have the patience to discuss and have a talk with Vivian. He just wanted to know the name before saying bye.
"BYE BYE!!"
SNAP!!
Rae snapped his fingers and his shield broke down into dust, freeing Vivian from his misery, or at least the paste like remains of Vivian that came out after being squeezed by the thin layer of shield from every direction.
In an instant, everything was over.
Blood dripped and stained the ground with the remains of Vivian. Everyone who was around the garden looked terrified, terrified that how easy it was for Rae to deal with them.
Even though they were out in the open, in the garden, there was this pin drop silence, and only the sound of hearts beating loudly could be heard. Even Ekaros, the lord of the mansion, the Viscount was silent.
...
"Now let's talk here in peace." Rae said as he sat in front of Ekaros.
They were in a room at the moment. Rae had ordered one of guards to show him to an interrogation room as he ordered one of them to carry Ekaros to that room.
The guards obliged, and none of them dared to raise question, already aware of Rae's position as royal enforcer.
If there still remained some doubt, the strength Rae showed was sufficient.
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"Why do you think I would tell you?" Ekaros said sarcastically.
"Because I command you to.." Rae said with a smile on his face.
A few minutes later, he was done with the interrogation and ready to leave for the academy. Though everything went well, Ekaros was unable to regenerate and died of bleeding, a really sad death.
Although, Rae partly believed that his confession about how he played with Lisa all these days, and how Lisa was so much interested in continuing this relationship also played a big part in his sudden death.
Perhaps the reason Ekaros died was not from bleeding but from the grief and pain of betrayal and being cucked.