Chapter 88: Aurs Decisions (1/2)

Vol 2. Epilogue

Pow! BANG! Crack! Thud...

A sudden impact sent a bloodied body across the interior of the dark room and it soon slammed into a thick brick wall, leaving cracks like that of a spider web on the wall as the body gasped in pain unable to breathe. The sounds of cracking bones was audible in the otherwise quiet room as the body dropped to the hard stone floor in a dull thud.

The bloodied body slowly squirmed around as it tried to move in an attempt to stand up only to collapse back down over and over again. There was a single lit touch at the far end of the room that was apparently the only source of light. The dim light revealed the slim and slender figure of the body.

Her mask had fallen off at some point in time, revealing a bruised childlike facial features with ember green eyes that had almost lost their luster. Even with the cuts and bruises on her face one could still tell how cute she would be under the layer of blood on her.

The room was small and dark with markings, runes and strange designs on the walls. There were also no pieces of furniture inside the room. As the young girl struggled to stand, another figure walked out of the shadows and approached the mangled up girl on the floor.

The figure was lithe and slender with black watery hair that reached the lower parts of her back. She wore a similar outfit to the childlike girl at her feet. Spotting a similar black mask that covered the lower parts of her face and dark purple metal greaves that matched the same colored gloves with metal knuckles.

Her outfit was just as tight as the girl before her with the only difference being their vastly different proportions. Her purple-colored pupils stared at the girl below with disdain and a slightly hidden murderous intent. Walking over to the girl, she moved her hand and made a slight gesture with her fingers and Amra's body was flung up like she had been pulled by something.

Her body slammed into the ceiling and was then slowly lowered to around the same height as the woman. She looked like she was being held up by invisible ropes. A crisp and curt voice soon entered the ears of both girls from the entrance of the room and through the large door that had just been swung open.

Two figures then entered the room. ”Is she ready?” Aur asked as he walked hurriedly inside the almost dark room escorted by another female figure dressed similarly to the other two except for the colors of her greaves and vambraces.

”She hasn't spoken a word since she returned a week ago but she should be ready.”

”Good,” Aur responded, turning to the girl beside him he commanded. ”You may begin.”

The girl with red hair and matching greaves nodded as she walked over to the restrained Amra. She looked like she was around the age of Amra but had more bounce to her steps. When she was about a feet length of Amra, she stopped and extended her right hand activating her innate ability.

”Invade Mind.”

Every member of the Ghost legion was trained to withstand mind control and other control effects magic or skills. Their minds would rather break than reveal any information regarding their master. Since most of them weren't demons it wasn't logical to use a demons pack as only one person could be added by blood. However, there were other, more brutal ways of getting information out of them. This process requires a lot of time and they would have ample opportunity to either escape or take their own lives unless the one using this process was Aika.

She could bind her targets to the point that escape or death wouldn't even occur to them. The one using the mind control ability was Bela and this was her only duty amongst the ghost, making her almost as valuable as Aika. Bela's eyes went white as her ability was successful, there was barely any resistance as that had been beaten out of Amra over the past week.

”Aika, use crystal mirror, I want to see this myself.”

”Yes, Lord Aur.” The black-haired woman replied as she walked over to Bela and placed her hand on her shoulder casting the spell, ”Crystal Mirror.” A single gem of crystals appeared in that air and rapidly expanded to form a mirror made of white crystals as images flashed through the surface.

Several faces appeared in the mirror as Bela scanned through Amra's memories until they finally found what they were looking for. It was the face of a cloaked figure moving in the snow with two orange-skinned individuals. They fast-forwarded through her memories and watch as the cloaked man weaved his way through a forest from afar.

Soon they saw him reach a safe zone only to find it empty and they watched him from above thanks to the spell. ”Curse of Remote Viewing” That Amra had used on him back in the city. They continued to view her memories at several times the normal speed of events and soon they had found what they were searching for.

About a week ago Amra was sent out by Aika to keep an eye on the now treasonous Zomatsu. With the help of her spell, she had monitored him from the hotel to an apartment where her spell was blocked by several layers of defense. That was all the clue she needed to deem him treasonous but she did not act. After watching him back to the Darknar forest and as he tracked a group of ogres and beastmen, she finally found an opportunity to strike.