
Dark, and a stinging stench. The two words were firmly imprinted in the mind of Aquila who was walking through the ruins of the royal palace of Candanya which now only leaves questions that are not known the answer.
Fragments of buildings filled the floor that had been destroyed irregularly and supported also with darkness that enveloped the hallway. It is perfectly suited to test the sense of hearing that is being relied upon in such darkness.
But that was not the case for Aquila, she could see in the darkness and her audience also sharpened, the previously quiet atmosphere without sound was now becoming rowdy with the hissing of snakes and the growling of an unknown beast.
"He. so he just pretended to let Adrian off guard and attacked him brutally." Aquila said that had reached where Adrian was and a man with a wolf head complete with claws and a tail.
"Sir Aquila, I'll help Adrian. Saku was afraid he would get hurt, the magic level of the creature was greater than Adrian's." Said Shiro who was observing the battle with worry for one of his brothers that was just a soul fragment from his original body.
"Don't you underestimate him Shiro, trust me he won't get hurt even if he loses in strength." Aquila said confidently with a directed look at the battle between Adrian and the man who had become half-wolf.
"Sister, I don't underestimate him, I'm very sure of Adrian, but right now he's very weak and would be fatal if he got hurt." Shiro convinces Aquila, then changes his size to normal size instead of small size.
"Alright, do as you please." Aquila said with a smile.
When Shiro was about to head into the ongoing battle, Shiro immediately stopped in the middle of the road because he could not believe that Adrian had defeated the humans so the events with his twists and opened his mouth wide to threaten.
"Don't I already say Shiro. Never mind, I hope you don't underestimate your other brother." Aquila advised Shiro, who was still silent, not to believe what he saw.
Aquila uttered a spell and a circle of light shimmered brightly in Aquila's hand and illuminated the entire room that had previously been pitch black. And now it seems clear the battle space of Adrian and man so-so events.
Adrian's body is quite large with a length of up to six meters wrapped around a human being so that a large body that is struggling to escape from the circumference of Adrian that constricted him.
"Ghhrrr...." The grunts threatened and his claws continued to claw Adrian's body to injure him, but unfortunately it did not work because Adrian's scales were very hard even though only a fragment of the soul from his original body.
"D-he's absorbing Vent Leger's life gem, brother how is this?" Shiro said in a frightened tone.
"Curtain, Shiro. You used to be so confident you could save them, and this time you even cower in fear. You're not at all what I expected." Aquila said in a mocking tone.
"Did you not trust me at all?" Aquila asked Shiro who seemed to doubt the trust he had given her.
"N-not so brother..." Shiro answered in denial of his sister's question about the trust he had placed in Aquila, but the case this time is very different from usual and high risk to recover his brother who has disappeared and only leaves the gems of his life.
Aquila knew that it would require a great sacrifice, but Aquila had the blessings of the Gods and Goddesses. Simply using any of them can restore what Aquila wants, and if the mana is not enough, then the internal organs of Aquila will be severely injured in part of the sacrifice.
"Adrian, let him go." Aquila's orders to Adrian are still tightly wrapped around humans so that the events can not move.
Adrian also immediately released the person in the loop by throwing it loudly with a light bang. Then Adrian went straight to Aquila who was standing before the half-wolf with the jewel of life known as a clear gray.
Adrian stands behind Aquila and is accompanied by Shiro who worries him because Shiro immediately licks Adrian's head with affection as the brother of the keeper of natural peace that began to be fragile.
Adrian who gets such treatment from Shiro hisses pleased. And now it was Aquila's turn to take the life jewel from Vent leger the wind lord by force, and of course accompanied by the agonizing screams of the man who had turned into a half-wolf.
After he finished taking the jewel of life, that person was instantly unconscious because that contained his power and turned him into a non-human and non-animal who had long imprisoned him due to the desire to become the strongest person in the Callista world.
But all that became pseudo and left sorrow and grief because of his desire to be the strongest, he slaughtered both brother, son, wife, bodyguard, and others, the servants and even his people became pools of blood and piles of bones behind the magnificent palace which has now become the rubble of the building that leaves a deep grieving grievance.
All the memories of the person who had been helplessly sprawled into Aquila's mind were forcefully entered because the life gem of the wind pillar was in her grasp.
And the reason for that person to be strong, because he does not want to be colonized and become a prosperous kingdom for all its inhabitants.
"Your dream is noble, but you did it the wrong way. And now you will be alone, your loved ones have left you under your blood-soaked hands." Aquila looked down at the unconscious person below.
"Sister Aquila, can you help her?" Tanya Shiro who was wrapped around Adrian with a smaller body size than before.
"I don't think I can help him. Only Nami's sister can help her." Aquila answered by looking at Shiro.
"Shiro, take him to the place of Brother Leave and the others. I'll take care of your brother." Said Aquila who walked away from Shiro and entered a room darker than before.
"Sister ! Aquila's sister must return safely...!" Shouted Shiro who Aquila had left behind in an unknown darkness.
But with no reply from Aquila, Shiro immediately took the unconscious and drove him to the place of his other brothers who were housed outside of the ruined palace. After delivering the man, Shiro unceremoniously went back in with Adrian, who was stared at with questions from Leave and his other brothers.