Chapter 187: Who am I, huh? (2/2)
Karma just wanted to visit the city while Jin was preparing the System since it was currently used to supply crucial facilities and he had to replace it. When she saw that man with long silver hair walking in front of her, her body immediately shuddered.
He was hiding his strength well but even like that, she could still feel how strong he was once close enough. ”I don't have the obligation to answer,” she responded to the King. ”You still haven't answered my question after all.”
The King scratched his head. ”Oi, oi, that's unreasonable… Don't you understand your position right now?” He sighed. ”Who am I, eh?” He reiterated and smiled wryly. ”It's been a while since I last introduced myself.”
”My name is Raylein Krae Gaelius. People called me the Lonely King in the old days. I am a Silver Emperor. A pleasure to meet you,” Raylein bowed politely, which made Karma frown as she was still pressured to the ground by his aura. ”Oh,” he abruptly exclaimed. ”I go by another title too. A former one to be exact.”
The Kind straightened his back and laughed. ”Ex-Seventh Plane Guardian, The Traveler, Raylein.”
When he said that that, Karma's eyes narrowed.
”Anyway, don't worry. I'm not here to bring harm to your friend. I'm here to see his potential. But it'll have to wait for a little,” these were the last words she heard before she blacked out.
When she opened her eyes again, someone was calling her. ”Miss, Sir Jin has finished the preparations, he's waiting for you.”
Karma turned around to look at the agent and nodded with a smile. ”Let's go then,” she forgot every single detail of her encounter with Raylein.
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The man in question was watching her from the top of a skyscraper. ”Fascinating woman. It's already incredible that a weapon could reach such levels of individual strength but she is also completely human,” his smile didn't seem to be dishonest whatsoever.
He raised his hand and a silver flame ignited. He stared at it and watched the image displayed inside. If a normal person were to look at it, they would most likely only see strange lights, but Raylein sighed because of what he saw.
”Should I make him go through the test now?” He sat down. ”It's really annoying that I have to choose my successor by myself. Who made this rule?” He grumbled.
”But at the same time, maybe I'm lucky to have found such talent in my plane… He might get insanely powerful in the future,” he looked at the flame one last time before clenching his hand and extinguishing it.
”He should become a great help too. The Original Devil is sending his own Guardians already,” he said and stood up before jumping off the tall tower. ”I hope you will become THE strongest because there's no other way to stop this otherwise.”
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Karma teleported back with two massive boulders. One was white and the other dark blue. They were both connected with cyan rays of light and seemed to be attracted to each other like magnets.
Arima nodded at Jin and grabbed the two stones with one hand each. Compared to Arima, the stones were the size of a fist. The moment he grabbed the Eion stones, Arima's chest glowed with the familiar cyan light.
Back when he was still a normal human in this world, Arima had suffered a blow that incrusted a small Eion system in his heart. His survival was a miracle. But thanks to that, his blood had turned into an enhancing drug each time he received an intake of Eion energy.
Of course, when he was reincarnated into the other world, he didn't have any Eion energy to use anymore. But now, for the first time since he became connected to magic circuits, he finally got hold on Eion energy.
It was instantaneous. When Arima grabbed the stones, a cyan pillar of light suddenly raised around him and pierced the sky.
”{Layla!}” Arima shouted in her mind and Layla nodded. Her scales and wings reappeared and shocked everyone around who were already on the ground because of the shockwave. Thankfully, Karma protected Jin who was the closest.
Layla flapped her wings and teleported right in front of Arima. He was releasing an incredible amount of energy so she couldn't teleport him right away. She raised her hand toward the sky and chanted.
”[Second White Art, Calces Porta] (Gear Gate).”
The silver gear formed in the air really quickly and illuminated Mars and everyone on it. Jin looked up with a strange expression. It was something completely out of humans' imagination. Even after seeing some children playing around with their newfound magic, something like this would still be unbelievable for him if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes.
Layla waved her hand and the silver gear plummeted on Arima and made him disappear along with the cyan pillar. When everyone could finally breathe, a few seconds after, light years away from where they were, a giant explosion occurred and traveled far and wide across the universe.
Even on Mars, they could see a really big cyan star shining in the dark sky.