Chapter 123 - Hard-hitting (1/2)

Within the Seraph Kingdom, Kevin's manor.

A serious expression crept up Kevin's face as he took a few breaths to recall the spell he would use to suppress Aurus' soul strength from other entities. As he did this, he extended both of his palms outward while subconsciously channeling his mana, letting it naturally release through the tips of his fingers.

Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!

As the mana naturally...wait a minute. A swishing sound isn't really a good onomatopoeia for this kind of setting. Rather than swishing sounds echoing out through the room where Kevin was, faint whirring sounds instead resounded as the mana being released gradually turned into threads.

At the time the threads of mana had reached a length of five meters, Kevin opened his eyes, seemingly in a tranced state.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

In that very instant, Kevin willed the mana threads to overlap over one another in an esoteric pattern only he understood out of all the other sages in the kingdom. Since he was the only one who understood this pattern, it would be multiple times harder to crack the spell that was going to be casted on Aurus.

Of course, Kevin was not satisfied with that. He felt that with enough time, other sages and mages would crack the pattern, allowing them to sense Aurus' true soul strength. And so...

He made the pattern more complicated.

As the pattern grew more and more esoteric, he continued to produce more threads of mana from the tips of his fingers, adding more layers to the pattern as it gradually a three-dimensional structure of condensed mana.

Thinking that this was enough, Kevin stopped producing threads and instead focused on creating a mana ball to act as the energy source of the esoteric structure he had made.

Fwoosh!

It only took an instant for Kevin to accumulate and condense a great amount of mana into an energy source that would last the structure for over a week or so. As to how Kevin came up with that figure, as a Great Sage, a class of the 7th Rank, he had divination and prediction powers that could be only described with the words 'overwhelmingly accurate'.

Click!

Contrary to normally heard sounds, rather than making a vwoom sound or some sort of futuristic sound that would fit the situation more, the ball of mana clicked into the middle of the esoteric structure, instantly making the esoteric structure radiate a faint yet powerful blue light that had the power to restrict a certain thing. Indeed, this esoteric structure did not have a specific thing to restrict, rather, it was up to the caster as to what it was going to restrict.

Looking at the mana structure he had made, Kevin felt proud at the fact that he had not lost his touch after all these years. Not long after, Kevin snapped his fingers, causing a rift in the space in front of him to open.

”Fusion Magic. 6th Circle. 3rd Sage Circle. Animus Miniatris Regulatii.”

”[Soul Suppression Pagoda: Kevin Version]!”

Whoosh!

Without hesitation, the esoteric structure he had made entered the space rift and headed towards the place he wanted it to end up.

With Aurus.

Swoosh!

And not even a second later, the tugging feeling Kevin felt had lessened by a great margin, becoming unrecognizable from its previous strength. With that, Kevin let out a sigh of relief as he pointed one of his fingers upward, creating a smaller ball of condensed mana in an instant.

”With that out of the way, let's try and contact Aurus. I should really tell him to make his clone faster. That thing doesn't really make a clone in an instant.”

Fwoosh!

Rather than the mana ball exploding and connecting with Aurus' soul, it instead fizzed out into nothingness, casting a peculiar expression on Kevin's face.

”Hm? That's weird. I'm pretty sure this thing will connect anywhere.”

”Unless...” The gears in his mind started to turn as he came to a possible conclusion as to why he can't speak to Aurus.

”He's in another space as a whole. And only inheritances fall under that portion for his current abilities.”

”I'll try again once he's done with his inheritance, I guess.”

...

Outside the Seraph Kingdom was a forest that was termed as the Forest of Cruelty due to the sheer amount of strong beasts that roamed the territory. Surprisingly, a person was able to make a territory inside the forest for himself, becoming known as the Devourer of Chaos.

Of course, this person did not really do it for fame or fortune, but rather, this person wanted to stay away from people while being as close to it as possible. Not only that, this person did it in order to prove their strength.

This person was already at a Rank 5 Class, enough to be considered as one of the elites within Seraph Kingdom. Not only that, the person could also open a school of thought or an academy based around their own class.

But this person didn't.

Why?