While bearing pain and being surrounded by a darkness, Shin heard a soft voice. The voice didn’t have any characteristics at all, being monotone, but still soft.

“Open your eyes, child.”

The monotone soft voice continued slowly.

“See what you have done.”

In the darkness, Shin saw a light.

Within the light, figures could be seen, an elderly woman with one hand fought against a group of people.

The group of people were protecting a silver-haired youth, but they still ended up dieing one after another.

“This will happen sooner than later.”

The voice continued.

“Everyone around you will die in the hand of her, no one will be safe.”

Shin felt a heartache, he couldn’t even gasp for air as he was watching the elderly woman with one hand massacring those he knew.

In a trembling voice, Shin roared.

“NO!”

“I don’t want that!”

“What are you going to do about that, child?”

The voice asked, not waiting for his response, the voice continued.

“You are just a speck of dust in the world, what can you do?”

Shin was speechless, he had no idea what to say.

“Child, are you going to wait for the time to arrive?”

“Will you allow your enemy to kill the ones you love?”

The voice asked slowly, this time the voice wasn’t monotone, but the voice held a trace of eagerness.

A cold shine appeared in Shin’s black eyes.

“All I have to do is to kill her, right?”

Shin’s voice turned cold, Shin narrowed his eyes slightly.

“Hehe…”

Shin laughed coldly for a second.

The voice wasn’t able to respond to Shin’s change.

“Don’t take me for a fool, or else you will have a bad time…”

Shin’s expression changed from his former distressed to an indifferent one.

“Guardians, Seers, Gods, Divine Beings or whatever things there exists, hehe…”

He laughed coldly again before continuing, his expression which had his previous innocence was nowhere to be seen.

“You are all afraid.”

“Afraid of that you can’t control me.”

“Surely you thought you could fool a kid like me, right?”

“Humph!”

Shin coldly gazed around himself before raising both his hands up in the air.

“I will tell you this as a warning.”

A dark vortex appeared above Shin’s hands.

“From this moment on, I will not hold back.”

“For this to be an actual threat, I need to show it first, right? Hehe…”

The dark vortex above Shin grew larger as Shin’s expression didn’t change at all.

“I will have you be the warning for everyone else!”

The dark vortex left Shin and ascended slowly.

Before the voice could even think of something, a darkness surrounded everything.

Without any notice, the dark vortex exploded and covered everything.

Only a dark orb was left and descended towards Shin.

“Humph!”

“Let’s see who’s next.”

Shin’s turned around slowly as he coldly spoke.

In an unknown location

A male in his early thirties bowed down and held back the internal injuries his body was dealt with.

“How could he do that?”

His soft but yet monotone voice sounded out in a slight panic. His body was surrounded by a mass of continuance Divine Energy which could suppress and damage even Half-Divinity cultivators.

In Nadine’s and Anthon’s home

As Anthon was trying to heal Shin, thunder and lightning could be heard outside.

The rain poured down and clashed against the windows and walls, threatening to even destroy everything in its path.

But even so, the wooden house held on without any damage.

Kali turned around towards the window, sensing that something was not right.

This can’t be a coincidence…

Kali narrowed her eyes as she let out her aura, covering over hundreds of kilometres.

Humph!

Taking me like an idiot!?

Kali stepped forward and vanished.

Aria clearly saw that Kali disappeared, but she couldn’t bother with it right away as she couldn’t leave Shin alone with Nadine and Anthon.

Even while knowing that Anthon was doing something to save Shin right now, she held her scabbard, ready to fight at any given time.

Azane wasn’t much different, she held her hand behind her back, holding the halberd’s handle.

She didn’t bother to watch Anthon as she knew Aria would do so, she stared at Nadine with a smirk.

Laura stood in front of Eline, showing that she would protect her if a fight occurred.

While still showing no expressions, Peutoa held her two curved daggers and stared both at Anthon and Nadine.

But Anthon didn’t care about how anyone acted, he still proceeded with trying to save Shin for his own reason.

As this was going on, Kali was already over twenty kilometres in the sky.

She coldly gazed upwards and opened her mouth slowly.

“You dare you to play games while I’m around?”

“Humph!”

Kali roared her lungs out and her aura pressured everything downwards.

“Haha, how unsightly of me, even a mortal is pressuring me now.”

A commonly faced youth in his early twenties descended because of Kali’s aura, he laughed without any care, not even thinking that Kali could threaten him.

“Who are you and why are you targeting Shin?”

Kali narrowed her eyes when she saw the youth, she could clearly sense that the youth in front of her was strong, but Kali would not back down. At least when she knew that the enemy was underestimating her.

The commonly faced youth raised his eyebrows, not even caring at all.

“A mortal is threatening and questioning me, how interesting!”

He continued to babble on and on.

Kali couldn’t hold back and sent a sliver of her aura and attacked the youth.

Before her aura could even come close to him, the aura vanished without a trace.

The youth shook his head, still in high spirits.

“Even with me creating this puny body, you mortals would never be able to defeat me.”

“You are strong mortal, how about giving me the kid I’m looking and I’ll allow you to live.”

He snickered as he spoke.

“Hihi…”

Kali’s laughter slowly turned darker.

Her aura exploded from within and enveloped the surrounding ten kilometres.

Within her aura, the air trembled and small vortexes appeared and vanished.

For once, the youth’s expression changed, he pointed towards Kali and raised his voice.

“You, how can a mortal like you have this kind of strength?!”

“How did you even hold back against me!?”

He roared as he tried to defend himself from the small vortexes.

“Hihi…”

Kali still laughed, her deep purple eyes turned golden.

“Blame it on yourself for trying to touch Shin.”

“Because I will rip you apart and anyone else that tries to harm him!”

Her aura split the air and everywhere around the youth got sucked into a vortex.

She glanced down towards the ground, smirking.

Hihi, you should have already dealt with some of them, right?

The only reason she felt that there was someone watching them, was because she sensed a sudden change in Shin’s body. The sudden change she sensed was that his internal Divine Energy erupted, but his body didn’t let it emerge out of his body.

She coldly glanced at where the youth stood at when everything went back as normal, nothing was left.

“Humph!”

Kali didn’t bother with these ‘Immortal’s’, they are nothing but weaklings in her eyes at this moment. Because her rage was just one push away from exploding, even she didn’t know how strong she was at this moment.

Without the enemy, her aura swiftly entered her body.

Kali glanced down once again, but this time, she bent down and descended head first at an amazing speed.

Even if it wasn’t fast enough, she lightly tapped the air and Kali broke through the speed of sound by several times.

Not a moment later, the ground was right below her. But, these things weren’t a problem for Kali at all, she quickly bent her head upwards and she landed softly on her legs. Softly, to her it was soft, but the ground split apart and the surrounding kilometre caved into the ground.

Not delaying a second, she tapped the ground with her toes and she rushed forward towards the wooden cabin.

The wooden cabin which was several kilometres ahead was right in front of Kali by just tapping the ground lightly a couple of times.

Kali didn’t think before opening the door and entered.

When Kali entered, she sensed a dark aura inside the house, she wrinkled her eyebrows and stride into where the rest was at.

What Kali saw was, was Shin’s body curving upwards as he clenched his teeth, but she could see that he was still unconscious.

“What’s going on?”

Without knowing, her voice turned slightly dark and her eyes glinted with a golden light for a moment.

“Uh…”

“He is using his Divine Energy and even his aura while being unconscious.”

Anthon’s hoarse voice could be heard as he was still keeping his hands above Shin, trying his best to heal him.

But even with his strength and the liquid he poured on Shin, he wasn’t able to heal him.

“His output of his Divine Energy and aura isn’t diminishing either, it is getting stronger by the second.”

Kali then turned towards Aria and asked hastily.

“Aria, do you trust me?”

Aria wasn’t able to respond as quickly, but she narrowed her eyes for a second.

Does she know something we don’t?

But, why would she ask for my trust?

Hm… Perhaps it’s dangerous to Shin…

But, now’s not the time for stalling.

As her mind was going through these thoughts, she answered only two seconds after Kali asked her.

“Yes!”

A smile could be seen on Kali’s face as she walked towards Shin.

“Sir Anthon, let me handle this.”

She didn’t wait for Anthon’s response as she softly pushed him away.

As she was standing right above Shin, her eyes turned warm and she put up her brightest smile.

“Shin, you have been working hard…”

Kali said softly as she reached towards Shin’s twitching face and caressed his cheeks.

“Let me help you.”

As her voice fell, Kali’s eyes turned golden and her aura exploded outwards but quickly engulfed Shin’s body.

Azane and Peutoa widened their eyes and wanted to rush forward, but before they could even do anything, Aria raised her left hand, motioning them to stop.

Even with being stopped by Aria, both Azane and Peutoa didn’t calm down, they only stared at Shin and Kali with vigilance.

Aria knew that Kali was trying something, but she also knew that things were far from what it was supposed to be.

Hehe, I’m glad that Kali told me earlier about her thoughts.

Aria smirked as she thought of the one sentence she heard Kali speak which only she could hear while they were rushing away from the capital of Alizad.

You said:”There might be enemies which we cannot see, those who had left a long time ago.”

Hehe, with you saying that, of course, I thought you were crazy, but perhaps it’s true.

“Uwaaa!!!”

Shin roared his lungs out when Kali’s aura entered his body. Shin’s aura which was pressured and stopped by Anthon, was given help by Kali’s.

As Kali wasn’t even trying to suppress him, she turned her aura to a medium where Shin’s aura grew stronger.

Shin’s roar was loud and clear, shaking everyone’s soul.

While everyone was slightly trembling, Shin opened his eyes.

His usual night-like eyes were still like before, but it had lost its sense of innocence and warmness, it was devoid of everything besides of coldness.

“Hehe…”

He laughed weakly, but his laughter sent shivers to even Anthon and Nadine.

“Let’s see.”

Shin’s hoarse voice could be heard, but it was obvious that he wasn’t strained by his hoarse voice at all.

He flipped his hand and slowly ran it over from his eyes and down towards his stomach.

As Shin was doing this, several specks of auras which held a shine of Divinity leaked out of his body and shattered to smithereens.

“Hehe…”

“This should be fine for now.”

While Shin was casually destroying auras containing Divinity, everyone else could only glare at him in awe and confusion.

Aria stepped forward and hugged Shin in her embrace.

“Shin, are you all right?”

Her voice was trembling slightly, but she wasn’t afraid of Shin at all, even after seeing his indifferent expression.

Shin’s cold and indifferent expression couldn’t last for a second when he felt Aria’s warm and worried question.

A smile appeared on his face as he returned the hug, closing his eyes and enjoying the warmness.

“I’m fine…”

Shin nodded, but he didn’t open his eyes, he just wanted to enjoy this feeling a little more.

While Shin and Aria were hugging each other, no one made a sound.

But, Eline pouted slightly as she watched how warmly Shin hugged Aria.

After a whole minute, Shin left Aria’s embrace, only to feel a pinch on his cheek.

“Hihi, you dare to leave me out?”

Kali raised her eyebrows slightly as she pinched Shin.

Shin’s cheeks turned slightly red as he glanced down at the floor, but even so, he opened his arms and jumped into Kali’s embrace.

“Hum…”

“Thank you, Kali, thank you.”

Shin spoke while tears emerged from the corners of his eyes.

“Hihi, don’t worry about it.”

Kali laughed softly and stroked Shin’s back caringly.

“I will support you at any given time.”

Aria could only dumbly gaze at Shin throwing himself into Kali’s embrace, when she glanced at Kali’s face, her expression froze… That was because Kali smirked and rapidly raised and lowered her eyebrows, clearly saying; ’Well, how about that then!?’

Everyone else was dumbfounded as they saw the infighting between Kali and Aria. They knew that they would tease the other whenever they had the chance, but a thought went through all of their minds at the same time…

Even this time?!

When will you two rest!?

“Huh?”

As Shin thought of something, he slowly escaped Kali’s embrace and turned around towards Anthon and Nadine, his eyes narrowed slightly and he then opened his mouth to ask.

“Why did you suppress me?”

Yeah, why did he suppress Shin?

The same thought appeared in everyone’s mind when they heard Shin asking Anthon.

They clearly saw that Shin woke up safely after his aura and Divine Energy wasn’t obstructed by anything.

Anthon was furrowing his eyebrows slightly, he also saw that Shin turned better when he managed to release his Divine Energy and aura.

He didn’t know what to answer.

As Anthon wasn’t able to respond, Nadine walked a step forward and softly said.

“This oldy here had no intention to harm that kid, he was only trying to heal his body.”

Aria raised her eyebrows and her hand was placed on her scabbard.

But, before Aria could do anything, a soft voice asked Anthon.

“Were you told by someone to save me?”

Shin had a faint smile on his face as he asked.

Anthon widened his eyes slightly and Nadine turned around and saw the shocked expression of Anthon.

“Let’s see, the voice told you something about me being special, to the point of you had no other options but to save me.”

Shin said with a soft voice, but his eyes sparkled in a cold shine for a second as he was talking.

“Then, of course, I who was releasing my Divine Energy and aura felt like me going berserk, you had no other chance to suppress me in order for me not to harm myself, right?”

When Shin finished speaking, everyone stared at Shin in shock, who knew that Shin would guess everything and it also made sense!

“Hehe…”

Shin laughed with a bitter smile when he saw that Anthon wasn’t able to retort.

“I know that you meant no harm, but don’t listen to others that easily.”

“Because there won’t be a next time…”

As Shin was speaking the last sentence, his voice turned ice-cold.

Shin’s weak and fragile body at that time looked like an unmovable mountain, which could shoulder anyone he wanted to protect and stop anyone who wanted to harm them.

“How cool…”

While unknowingly staring at Shin’s back, Eline mumbled.