Chapter 200: The Leader of the Cult

[Cave Dome]

Standing in the middle of the dome, Adelfried is slowly observing the arriving party as he scanned each and every one of them personally. Along his observation, he did notice some faces that he recognize, while others were quite new. Among those he recognizes was Akito himself, a person who proved to be quite a nuisance during their operation of stealing the treasure and killing the royal family.

Due to Akito's intervention, their cult then failed to kill the royal family, despite the effort they had placed in preparing such chaotic situation. Because of that they had no choice but to enact a tactical retreat in order to gain time to masterfully wield the core energy stolen from the Aquasphere relic.

However the moment they stole such energy from a relic during the ancient times, the people of the kingdom unknowingly retaliated back in full force at immediate notice. Due to that retaliation, they then had no choice but to stall for time till the two top leaders of the cult to master in wielding the energy.

Since that was the case, a lot of the cult members were then sacrificed to stall for time. Even Asmodeus stepped in to stall for additional time for him when he realized the dire situation, and that is the fact that he only half mastered the energy he had stolen. If Asmodeus was given time, he would have been a much more powerful individual before he got out to stall the enemy.

Nevertheless the energy circulating in Asmodeus body is already formidable enough to cause for warrant from Adelfried. But in contrary to his expectations, Asmodeus himself fell from the enemies forces. The proof that he got done in, was the fact that the Aquasphere's energy that Asmodeus had refined inside his body, had been fully transferred to him. This is the only indication that its original host was killed in battle.

He doesn't know how, he doesn't know why, but one thing for sure is that the people entering the mountain cave are the formidable people that had defeated Asmodeus.

The moment the enemies had entered his sight, he then begun to review the information he had on them starting from the person he recognizes as a nuisance.

A guy named Akito who barely looks to be old wield a long weird looking sword he called Katana, he had immense speed and flexibility which would be troublesome during  quick clashes. He also has an immense reaction time to sudden attacks coming from his blind spot. Despite having less field experience, he will prove to be a dangerous individual in the future if he is allowed for growth.

A guy who had a white slight pinkish hair is supposedly to be the a guy named Merlin. he specialize in combat sorcery and illusion and one of the prominent figure among the people in the elite force of the kingdom. A woman who seemed meek and gentle is assumed to be Diva. A person with no combat strength, but has been one of the prominent support caster for the whole elite force due to his wide range buffs.

The lion like figure is Lionel. The person who is a combat specialist who excels in aura control in order to gain advantage during close quarter combats. His strength and durability to his iron body is top notch, his attacks are strong enough to which its force is formidable. The tomboy Girl  is the  one known as the battle junkie knight. She wields a longsword and an armor which she can de-attach with a single thought. It is rumored that her armor was made from the materials of a living armor, thus its restoration is top notch. she can also efficiently wield her aura to form red lightnings whenever she wanted to release a destructive attack.

Lastly a commoner looking person who had no information towards him at all. Based on what Asmodeus had reported, such a person can summon people and creatures out of nowhere, thus he can be concluded as a summoner of some sort.

With all of that laid out, he then faced Shun and the rest of the group as he welcomed them to his dome which he plans to be their grave.

"So you've  arrived, i presume that your the group that had killed Asmodeus?"

"That's right! and your next shit face!" taunted by Mordred as she revealed a wide grin

However despite getting agitated, Adelfried looked over her in a clam expression as he scoff at her arrogance. Naturally Mordred caught the whiff of the intent of Adelfried's scoff, but since her taunt was part of the strategy they had devised while trekking the pathway towards this place, she then calmly chuckled inside as she tries to ignore his condescending look.

"There is no need to fight! Hand over to us the energy of the Aquasphere and we can call off everything" Demanded by Lionel

Upon hearing his demand, Adelfried's ear then pricked up in motion as he nonchalantly replied.

"You want to call it quits right after you decimated what is left of the cult? you must be joking... do you think I'm a fool? there is no way your letting me get away after i handed down what you demanded, in fact i assume that you'll immediately kill me, the moment i got weakened, in order to avoid the occurrence of this disaster in the future"

"....."

"That just how the kingdom works! you all may pretend to be on the side of justice, but deep inside you are as rotten like me"

"That's quite an assumption...." said by Lionel

"Assumption? this is no assumption, it is the fact! an actual cold fact! Just like us you guys have no regards for life just to get what you want. If you have to kill, then kill you must. If you want to get something, then steal you must. If you point that out, are there really no difference  between you guys and us?"

"That's right! there is no difference! All you have to do in a battlefield is kill and kill till you are the winner. After all the only truth in battle are the words of the winner, there will be no objection from the losers who died" said by Mordred

"However are cause are the things that split our difference... we may have the same process, but the cause are different" added by Lionel

"I figured that you will say that much, after all i also have no intentions of letting you guys off without a fight. My purpose is to kill you lot and now that i have that chance, why wouldn't i pursue it? In the end kill is the answer"

Hearing his tone, everyone begun to draw their weapons and readied themselves for the battle that may start at any moment.

"Also... you better stop that sorcerer!... are you trying to drown me with your illusions? this must be the tactic you used to take down Asmodeus, unfortunately the same tactic couldn't apply to me"

"... Oh my! what sharp senses" reacted by Merlin

"You see... the Aquasphere is a type of an adaptive energy, since you already used illusion to defeat the host of the Aquasphere's energy, such tactic was already taken into consideration by the power as it made me immune to your illusions"

"Is that so?" asked by Merlin

"You better believe it! cause the fight is just getting started"