Getting Answers!

Lucifer picked up Ben Silver, slung him over his shoulders, glanced at the two sisters, and instructed them to decide amongst themselves who will be carrying the other man towards the basement before he started moving towards the basement without helping nor waiting for them.

Not even a second after Lucifer left the room the two sisters stared each other down, however, Elizabeth had the upper hand as she stated, "My dear little sister~, I wonder what will happen when mother and father hear that you won't listen to your master?"

*Tch*

Rose clicked her tongue in frustration yet, in reality, she was shaking on the inside at the mere thought of it happening, therefore she hastily picked the man up and brought him towards the basement.

Walking down the stairs the first thing they saw was Silver that was strapped down onto a chair with a gag in his mouth, with an overly excited Lucifer on the side staring at various 'tools' set out on the table in front of him.

Just seeing his enthusiasm made both Rose and Elizabeth's skin crawl and instantly felt sympathetic towards these men, however even with these thoughts they didn't show it or at least tried their best not to.

Rose walked towards the seat opposite of Silver, placing the man inside the chair before she began tying him up and gagging him. Afterwards, she moved towards the back of the room and stood beside her sister, observing Lucifer as he was about to begin the questioning.

Lucifer moved towards the men with a few small knives in his hands, yet he didn't immediately begin with the questioning but instead looked back at the two sisters and stated, "I understand that you are curious, still being restricted to use your Qi. You may even ask why we couldn't just use Elizabeth's Qi or 'something' similar to seal the noises that this interrogation will cause, but as I said before, we can't be too careless because there may even be someone that was sent to watch over him that will notice the Qi fluctuations or even the absence of sound, thus we will do this the way mortals usually do. And..." He stared directly at Rose while he said, "You cannot look away, no matter what happens, alright?"

Listening to what he told her, Rose hesitated for a second, but Elizabeth placed her hand on her shoulder to comfort her, about the fact that she will be there with her.

Rose steeled her nerves the best she could and nodded her head in agreement.

Noticing that she accepted Lucifer said, " Then, let's begin."

He gazed at the two tied up men in front of him, before he swiftly, with lightning-fast movements, took one of the knives and threw it successively which pierced into Silver's thigh, followed quickly afterwards with one in his left and right shoulder and finally one in his other thigh.

*MMMMMM!*

A muffled cry of pain reverberated inside the basement, making Lucifer withdraw the knife he was about to throw into his dantian.

Lucifer looked up at the now awake Silver that was also staring back at him with massive amounts of killing intent. Lucifer could see the hatred, and a tiny amount of... fear, in his eyes, yet Lucifer disregarded him and didn't pay any more attention to him. He instead turned his gaze towards the man across from Silver, the man Silver called 'brother', and did the same towards him, however, he wasn't as fortunate as Silver was. He didn't wake up in time thus Lucifer didn't withdraw his last knife, which pierced his dantian. The man writhed in agony, waking him up from his peaceful sleep. But when he did he felt despair, he lost all of his life's cultivation in a matter of seconds. Yet he hated more, hated the person that did this to him.

*MMMMMHMMM!*

He looked towards a nonchalant Lucifer as he tried to yell and vent this hatred, despair, sadness, fear and envy he had inside himself, but he couldn't even do that.

Despair.

e felt true despair for the first and probably the last time in his life. The sisters that saw how the spirit of a man dying in front of their eyes had different reactions. Elizabeth felt that it was regretful, but knew that what Lucifer was necessary. Rose, however, was sad seeing this, she wanted to turn her head, yet she felt her sister's hand squeeze her shoulder to encourage her, thus she looked forwards once more.

When Lucifer saw the numerous emotions he saw in the man's eyes he couldn't help but shake his head. 'Even when he is in despair and lost all will to live, yet he can't help but be envious of my talent. That's human nature for you.'

*Sigh*

No-one heard him sigh because they were all in their thoughts. Silver was just baffled as to how everything happened, how he ended up here and what this... devil, wanted with them, though it's only him now, yet no-one's will answer his questions now.

Just as he was finished with his thoughts Lucifer was done with his. He stared at Silver for a few seconds before he spoke, "Now, Mr Silver I will be asking the questions and you are going to-"

His sentence was cut short by the other man as loud 'MMMMM' sounds were coming from him. Lucifer calmly glanced towards him, pulled what should have been Silver's fifth knife and effortlessly threw the knife. It travelled swiftly through the air before it pierced the area right between his eyebrows.

The sound instantly died down but was replaced with the spurting sound of a river of blood that was flowing out, yet Lucifer didn't care as he continued to talk, "Silver, tell me, why is Alex Springwater hiding the truth. The fact that he is even more of a powerhouse than the rest of the families?"

"..."

There was a stillness that continued for a few moments before Silver began to burst out with laughter and spoke with clear contempt in his voice, "You captured me because of this? Don't make me laugh if I tell you anything, not only will I be killed, but my soul will also be destroyed never to enter the cycle of reincarnation but life in eternal damnation. He is already a GOD and you expect me to betray him... for what, to live? Hahahahaha!"

Exactly as he finished laughing he attempted to bite his tongue however, he was stopped by an invisible force.

"Mmm... I thought you were going to kill yourself, what happened? Did you get scared? Oh! Cat's got your tongue? Hehe, just because Alex can destroy and manipulate souls you are scared of him therefore if I can do it will you be afraid of me?"

Not giving Silver any chance to speak, Lucifer stuffed the gag back into his mouth, circulated the Heavenly Devouring skill and placed his palm between Silver's eyebrows.

Nothing occurred for a time, but after a minute there a blue light was slowly being pulled out. Seeing it, Lucifer began pulling his arm further away and the blue light grew bigger for everyone to see. The further the light went ou of Silver's body the more a vague silhouette of a man became clearer. After pulling the man-shaped light to its waist, the silhouette became apparent for all to see. It looked exactly like Silver. This was Silver's soul.

Before anybody could say anything Lucifer used his free hand to circulate a tiny amount of Qi, that didn't even affect the surrounding Qi and grabbed the waist of the soul before he twisted it and pulled it.

*Pop*

A harmless sound echoed throughout the room, but everyone present knew that it wasn't simple as Silver was currently foaming out of the mouth, eyes rolled backwards with muffled cries of pain that exploded out.

"MMMFHGHGHMMMGHFHM!"

This scene shocked everyone even Silver, that was writhing in pain because he couldn't believe everything he saw. He saw his soul being pulled out of his body, broken in half and absorbed into the boy in front of him, who can do that if not a God.

The sisters were also covering their mouths in surprise, Rose didn't even remember her previously nauseous state.

'What did he do, I know for certain that he isn't in the God realm, so what did he do?' Elizabeth couldn't wrap her head around it but decided that she must consult her parents about this to figure out what happened.

Yet no matter what the others thought, Lucifer once again questioned, "Now, let me ask again, what is Alex Springwater hiding? What did you mean before by saying that he was already a God, do you mean that he has already reached the... God realm?" Almost chuckling as he said that absurd word, but he continued, "Why did Alex Springwater want to kill his son, Edward Springwater?"

Hearing Lucifer's last question the sisters, especially Elizabeth was excited, that they could finally learn his real name, but Silver thoroughly scrutinised Lucifer and was terrified.

"Kekeke! Oh, so you recognise who I am now? Now answer my questions before I take the other half of your soul."

Repeatedly nodding his head like a chicken, Lucifer was satisfied and pulled the gag out of his mouth to let him talk.

"..."

Once again there was a few seconds of silence before he finally began speaking, "Sir A- I mean, Alex Springwater has a lot of secrets that nobody knows about. He has a secret organization, called Warband, that has control of almost 50% of the region we live in, implying that he nearly has control of one of the regions from the one hundred regions of the world. "

"What!?"

Rose unintendedly exclaimed, but neither Elizabeth nor Lucifer's expression was any better, yet Silver continued, "A dozen or so years ago Alex went on a journey to find himself better cultivation resources, but instead he found a hidden cave that belonged to a peak ranked God realm expert, there he found a cultivation manual that will make him reach the peak of God realm. The technique can only be completed, then one will already be at the peak stage of the God realm if the user kills all of his loved ones. But before that, he first had to have more than five children and if the sixth one can also cultivate he can commence his plan and reach the peak of God realm, but if the sixth child cannot cultivate they will never reach the peak of the art, except if they can somehow kill the sixth and make a new one. But since you, the sixth child messed with his plans he hated his sixth child also named Edward Springwater. He despised you for stopping him from his advancement. But what I am confused about is that you were never able to cultivate yet here you are, how did you do it?"

He asked Lucifer with an expectant gaze however Lucifer didn't answer his question, but instead only said one word, "continue" before Silver immediately dropped the topic and did as he was told.

"He is already at the beginning stage of the God realm, but the reason he is still hiding all of this from the public is that there are two others that are above the God realm, named Samantha and Peter Woods."

*Boom*

His words were like explosions that went off inside Elizabeth and Rose's minds. The sisters knew that their parents are above the God realm yet they never knew that they had such a formidable enemy.

Elizabeth was eager to get more answers from him and was about to use her Qi to threaten him, though Lucifer said from the side, "If you do this we will not be able to get all the information that he has, you may even alert the backup he could have, and... you will be wasting such a good cultivation resource for me." He said the last part under his breath as he continued, "You know the most interesting thing I got from him was that you lied to me, you said that you believed that there were people above the God realm, but you never said that you knew people that are above the God realm, not that I care too much about it."

Elizabeth shrugged and responded with a smug face, "I never said that I didn't know people in the God realm, but that I believed that there are people in it. So technically I never lied." After she spoke she looked smugly towards Lucifer with a face that screamed, 'I am so great, praise me!' yet no praise was given, as Lucifer just chuckled at her antics before he glanced back towards Silver to let him continue.

"Like I said he needs to bide his time because those two are his biggest hindrances for taking over this region. His wife is pregnant again for a few weeks now, but nobody knows except the people close to him. When this child is born he will become the sixth child since you 'died', but if he can cultivate then Alex can finally enact his plan to advance to the peak stage of the God realm by slaughtering all of his loved ones, absorbing their yin energy somehow to reach the peak of the God realm. When he does that he, is when he will slaughter the Woods family and become the ruler of this region."

After several moments Silver still didn't continue thus Lucifer asked him just to be safe, "Are you finished?" to which he nodded. Lucifer was about to kill him, but Rose, for the first time, spoke up with a question that kept plaguing her mind, "Um... You kept talking about that Jimmy person with such high praise. Is there something special about him?"

Lucifer looked at Rose with an approving gaze because he also wanted to know this but nearly forgot thus he listened closely to what he has to say, however, her question made Silver's expression to become weird as he shook his head.

"Just kill me, if I tell you my soul would be tortured for aeons to come. I assume you killed him, but I will say this. You people have messed with people that you shouldn't have. Do you think that I want to get the way to become a God realm expert from Alex, no, I was sent here as a spy by people of a stronger region than this one. You won't know but there is a ranking list of the most powerful to the weakest regions. This region is in the 92nd rank, but Jimmy's parents are in a region that is ranked 70th. The ruler of that region is far stronger than anything a God realm expert can ever hope to be and he sent me here to get Alex's technique since he needs it to fuse with his own to become even stronger to have a breakthrough to get into a higher realm. Also... Jimmy happens to be his only son."

Silence.

There was a long silence that surrounded the area, but it was quickly disrupted by the loud 'Thud' sound of Silver's head that fell onto the ground.

Elizabeth and Rose wanted to ask Lucifer why he killed him so quickly, but they saw how serious he was for the first time as he commanded, "Quickly, Elizabeth grab us and use your physical powers to get us out of here. NOW!"

They were still confused, but hardly a second later Elizabeth also had a serious expression on her face as she nodded her head and swiftly sprang into action as she grabbed them both and sped towards away from the area towards the store.

...

Moments later a middle-aged man was standing were Lucifer was standing as he was stroking his white beard in a grandmaster like way while he looked at the scene in front of him with great interest.

"Interesting, someone here knows how to steal souls. kekekeke, I better report back to the patriarch!"

After saying that did he disappear from the basement, letting it return to its former calm which will later once again be disturbed by the guards that will find their bodies.