Chapter 25: The Lurking Shadow Part 2

After the War of the Rulers, a war that changed the world for all eternity, a rule was established to restrain the Seven Rulers further and to avoid another cataclysmic war like the said war above to once again unfold.

The rule was established without the say or the point of view of Loki and is formally known as the Rule of Non-interference, this rule basically makes the Seven Rulers be locked into their territory, like a big bird in a small cage, that's why this rule was detested by the Rulers who are in the free side and wants to explore the world, they can just gnash their teeth and abuse the only loophole of the rule, it is that there is no claus in the simplistic rule which states that the Subordinates of the Seven Rulers cannot travel freely between territories.

With this, they can atleast monitor the movements of the other rulers, the rulers that of course are always a potential threat for their race, but even then, even with the loophole, the Seven Rulers or even the people that are not part of them is aware that the strongest individuals of their respective race will not easily allow, or some other won't allow at all a subordinate of one of the people in the peak power to freely lurk around their territory, so this option is not really welcomed if the spies of a ruler are not Gemini or Ophiuchus that can slip through almost any and every kind of security measures.

Even then, even with Gemini and Ophiuchus, Rulers who sends out their key subordinates are rare, that's why Idun's move of sending her very own super spy/ assassin is a very strange move even though the reason of this move is to give a call of distress and to request for assistance to her close friends.

This also applied to the Royal Sibling of Valentine, even though they have a very good relationship towards Idun, they cannot personally investigate her situation and when Ophiuchus said or indicated that she cannot get past the barrier that Idun made, the both of them immediately knew that they have to soon leave out the Non-interference rule to save Idun from whatever mess she is in right now.

However, soon enough, the moment Loki stepped foot on Idun's territory, the moment, a ruler destroyed and ignored this rule, this loopholes or the rule itself will become meaningless and that's what the other Rulers are anticipating, they are longing for this, a ruler who doesn't care about rules, well it is not like the Seven Rulers cares about the rule itself, they can even break it anytime they want, in any hour they choose.

They just choose not to because of one thing, their race, like how Loki always worries about this seemingly trivial stuffs like race of origin, the administrators (Rulers) of the Seven race is always high strung about this thing, though not all of them is because of sincere worry and some are just keeping them alive and well because having a whole race that a Ruler is "Protecting" is one of the requirements of being an official ruler, either way, because of that sole reason, they cannot break that rule, atleast not when the Non-interference rule is currently on roll.

How egocentric Idun can be, this type of questions emerged in the heads of the Seven Rulers, well, Idun is someone who have many capabilities just like any other ruler is, the best example and demonstration of her powers is when the lockdown or the martial law of her territory is a known secret for long, the Rulers, I mean all of them only knew that Idun shut down her whole forest to the public but they doesn't know the reason and from the day she shut down her territory no one ever knew, even Ophiuchus herself never learned the status of the Fairy Princess, but even then, no matter how secured her home can be, there is still a little off chance that her security will not be enough, that's why the Rulers, or maybe except Loki and Eris right now finds her actions weird.

In small conclusion her actions is like wearing a raincoat in a rainy day with the bag that is full of the important documents of yours exposed in the rain, that's how weird it is.

And, it seems like it is not only Idun that wants to be called weird.

"Hmph... As expected, the moment he knew the location of his wife, he will sprint running to the location without considerations... And the world calls him a master manipulator?"

A man with long silver hair tied in a simple ponytail is hovering in the airspace of Valentine as he looked down at the bustling night of the twin city that is oblivious of the man's presence with his emotionless silver eyes that is match to his silver hair. The man have brown colored skin with a matching semi-muscular musculature and he wears a simple white overcoat to cover his body.

The man is known as the serpent of envy, one of Lucifer's strongest and key subordinates alongside other five of them that also represents one of the deadly sins except pride for Lucifer is the one who wears that title, the man is know as Leviathan.

He continued to hover in the night sky as he continued to observe the two city of Valentine, itching to destroy the two cities but refusing to do so for the order of his master, Lucifer's order was to probe, infiltrate and internally destroy one of the safest yet the most dangerous twin cities in the planet.

His white overcoat continued to flutter about as he started to think and formulate how to fulfill his command, surely, infiltrating a ruler's territory is not an easy feat much more if those two Rulers have subordinates that can match up a Ruler, Leviathan thought this mission as too much for him, he is a person of the dragon race after all, so he wants to make his appearance be known by the world thus making him a person who have a very bad affinity with stealth and even his idea of hovering around the airspace of Valentine is a bad one.

Other members of the Deadly Sins that are not so flashy or doesn't have a good amount of flashiness in them or outright suspicious and mysterious, individuals like Asmodeus of Lust are more fit for this mission, Leviathan thought. That's what on his mind all this while, however, he also thought that, why always them?

Of all the missions that needs undercover why always that bitch who can only suck cock? I know that she is suitable for this job, but I am still envious!

Yes, that's right, out of pure envy, the sin that he, Leviathan himself represents, he disregarded the success rate of the mission given by his master and accepted it without even thinking of him being not the best option for the job, no, he did considered it but he doesn't care about it, he is just envious, envious of anything and anyone who can please his master beside him, after all he is the sin of envy, the very embodiment of being envious itself, so it will be strange if he didn't envied everything he saw that others have.

But now, he is not envious anymore, atleast not to Asmodeus, for he already have an important mission that his master himself has given him, the mission of destroying Valentine by the inside by taking advantage of their "two capital structure" for Lucifer's grand dream, to dominate the world.

It may sound far-fetched, but because Lucifer, or demons in general have superior strenght compared to the other races, only people like the Seven Rulers are the only true obstacle to his grand schemes, that's why he started to scheme for the destruction of the other rulers, and for some reason, Loki and Eris are a priority so that he will not have any obstacle to his plans, and one of this plans is to destroy Valentine without Lucifer even lifting a finger from his throne that will be set in motion the moment Loki decided to ignore and destroy the Non-interference rule of the Seven Rulers.

And that time, is right now.

"But still... To be expected of Lucifer-sama to predict the exact time that Loki will leave his territory so that my arrival and my schemes will not be disturbed..."

Leviathan slowly but surely started to descend in the outskirts of the City of Vampires as he started to mutter lunatic words of admiration towards his master, his words are full of unrecognizable mutters that can only be called silent ravings as he continued to formulate ideas and plans for him to make this mission a successful one and to please his master Lucifer.

All of Lucifer's subordinate is like this, fanatic, lunatic, brainwashed and crazy, with quirks... Or sins that is engraved on their mind and souls that can only be satiated by serving the Fallen Angel of Pride and the prodigal brother of the Archangel of Humility.

"Hmm... There are still no subordinates of other Rulers beside the Devil King and the Vampire Princess, it seems like Gemini the Twins already went back to their mother's skirt, even the wyverns of the Dragon King are still not on the move... How indecisive, good thing Lucifer-sama knew that even though Loki broke the rule, chances like this are still rare..."

Leviathan after thirty more minutes of simping towards his master, finally descended, he cancelled as many air as possible, however, because he landed right in front of a forest, a mildly loud rustle of trees and branches cracking was heard in which he gracefully ignored as he started to cover himself in the veil of the night and in the cover of the forest as he started to walk and continued to formulate plans for him to destroy Valentine without the Royal Sibling raising suspicion against his master.

Of course no matter how envious or sometimes (most of the time) immature Leviathan is, he is still someone who have common sense and a basic planning strategies up his sleeve and he knew that planning against a nation who have a whole Academy of potential fighters, with some military ideas coming from the books given by the humans summoned from another world will not be a simple matter that he can just impulsively plan about, he have to consider many principle, like how will he do it in the first place, by using the noble system of Valentine?

If he does then, he have to thoroughly study how the system and how the relationship of the nobles between the two city is and probably make the two most powerful fight each other in which the other nobles lower than the two in power will surely participate in, resulting in a pretty good and decent amount of civil war that can be taken advantage off, however the problem is, the two rulers in Valentine won't hesitate to pluck their own people just to maintain the peace of their country, they are not so naive as to try to solve something like a civil war by talking shit in front of the two opposing nobles and will surely just slash the heads of the two leaders of the war, so that will probably fail.

"Hmm... What can I bring to the table..."

Leviathan kept thinking of possible plans but then, he suddenly remembered something so vital about the Royal Sibling.

"Oh, now that I think about it, the two siblings are fond of women... I think I can use that."

Leviathan snickered as he continued to walk towards the Vampire City, but then, he suddenly heard another rustle, he thought that it was just some normal beast but the words that came out of the direction of the rustle sent shiver down the serpent's spine.

"Oh, you will use that?"

That's it, no more words or even sound was made, no warning nor cry was did, Eris pounced in Leviathan's direction with precision that shouldn't belong to someone fighting in the middle of a densely packed forest in the dead of the night.

He pounced at Leviathan, who is still in shock as she pointed her parasol and targeted Leviathan's heart.