Chapter 611: Competent Heir (1/2)

Raven turned to Alwina - the Sect Master's arm and asked: ”You have the severed arm with you right? Give it here, let me see it.”

His words shocked the listeners, most specially Alwina and the Sect Master.

”How the hell did you-”

”Temporal Scrying, can see up to nearly year from the past. Hurry, let me see it!” Raven impatiently interrupted Alwina before she could even finish her words.

Normally, Alwina would've said something about the rude tone of Raven but since she could feel the urgency of the situation, she just took out the severed arm of the Sect Master carefully from where she stored it.

The severed arm was placed in a rectangular case, surrounded by numerous seals that prevented anything from contaminating it. With one flick of a brush, Raven deactivated the runes which caused Alwina's eyes to widen since he did it with so much ease.

Raven was oblivious to what she was thinking and even if he isn't, now's not the time to address that. He carefully opened the case to see the current state of the severed arm.

What he saw caused his expression to become really ugly.

The arm doesn't even resemble an arm anymore, it's like a carcass of something serpentine. It was awfully mutated and was pulsing with black goo as if it was alive. It looked like an oversized, fat, hideous worm. Even the Sect Master felt a bit disgusted to see what his previous arm looked like now.

”Gross. But I can work with this.” Raven commented softly, earning a few eye brow raise from those who heard him.

Raven didn't elaborate on this anymore. Instead, he lifted the Brush of Wisdom and began drawing numerous runes in the air. Instantly, the surrounding area was illuminated by a sea of gold and silver light.

Raven stood up and pointed the brush towards the Sect Master, more specifically on the place where his arm was missing.

Multiple runes shot towards the corrupted flesh, releasing intense gold and silver brilliance. The Sect Master felt a stinging sensation on his arm, he could also smell his flesh burning. Nevertheless, not a single grunt of pain was heard from him. He also didn't ask what Raven was doing since he knew that whatever it is, it's for his own good.

After directing some runes towards the corrupted flesh on the Sect Master's body, Raven redirected his attention to the severed arm and wore a somber expression.

He raised the Brush of Wisdom once more and began drawing runes which were ever stronger and released a brighter gold and silver radiance.

Everyone was in awe of Raven's work, none of them even think that because the runes were releasing so much brilliance, the illumination on Storm Dweller's peak could be seen by the roaming disciples below, alarming them ever so slightly.

Raven remained focus on his task though. Once the runes he needed were formed, he immediately sent them working on the severed arm.

Black wisps of smoke, leaving traces of agonized faces before dissipating, could be seen coming off of the severed arm. Nevertheless, the runes created by Raven were relentless, it didn't matter whether the severed arm was alive or not, if it was capable of depending or nor, or whether it has the concentrated Will of the Devil Emperor or not, the runes of Raven didn't falter and grilled all the nasty stuff away.

”This will take some time before it returns to it's original appearance.” Raven stood up and said, ”Once that happens, reconnecting the severed arm should be simple. Now, did our prisoner raised a ruckus once more?”

A sigh of defeat escaped the Sect Master's face before smiling wryly and replying to him: ”Thank goodness your extremely capable. And yes, our prisoner raised a ruckus once more.”

”What happened this time?” Raven assisted the Sect Master on sitting down as the runes continued working their magic.

”I'm not exactly sure what, I could only venture a guess.” Sect Master replied, ”It probably heard about our little plan to launch a decisive strike and decided to weaken our forces pre-emptively.”

”It attacked the same way as last time.” Alwina continued the story, ”It sent two of it's finger this time around, at this exact place too.”

Raven's face turned incredibly unsightly upon hearing that. Two fingers this time? Dealing with one finger is already difficult enough, yet it sent two? Raven didn't consider that as a pre-emptive attack anymore, the Devil Emperor was clearly trying to kill the Sect Master.