[Zera : Scanner]

One of the most useful and deadly [Zera] spell in Herebia’s disposal. She could exert the elemental particles through the five orifices of a person and puncture through their brains.

Through the [Chaos Thread] that comes from Herebia’s brain that are connected to her nerves which are emitted out of her palm, she could execute this spell. The [Chaos Threads] will slither in on the person’s face, though their orifices, and towards their brain.

When the threads connect to the brain, the rampaging particles will run amok the brain and will destroy it in less than 10 seconds. While this is happening, the rampaging energy would circulate throughout the target’s body through their nerves.

The rampaging particles would evaporate nearby liquid, specifically blood, which results in a person becoming nothing more than skin and bones.

While this could crush another’s brain to a pulp, which is a purpose is almost negligible as the most important effect of it is described in it’s name.

Scanner.

Herebia could scan the target’s memories for useful information. Although the time of 10 seconds is not enough to learn everything, it is enough to search for information for one topic. After ten seconds, one could not cast this spell again on the same target as literary, that target’s brain would be nothing more than brain soup.

Thinking of her plan, Herebia used this in order to search for a certain person. She was interested towards this person as the person in question could probably give her more information than that unlucky fool.

The one Herebia searched for was naturally, Yassi.

After ten seconds of drying up and convulsing like an epileptic, the 7th stage Practitioner was clearly, without a doubt, dead. Herebia released her grip as she exhaled a red colored fog. This was some residue blood from her retracted [Chaos Threads].

Opening her eyes, Herebia inhaled and the pungent metallic smell of blood was in the air. Although Herebia was used to slaughter, she was never fond of blood. She shook her hand in front of her, seemingly shooing away the blood fog.

After getting rid of the blood fog, Herebia’s eyes darted to Yassi. Seeing this scene, Herebia’s eyes twitched as she shook her head and sighed.

There, on her usual spot, Yassi was bowing down to a pool of vomit. Yassi tried her best not to fire off, but the sight of a man turning to a raisin was still quite unbearable.

Herebia walked towards Yassi, who was still in the process of cleaning up her mouth. The teen finished cleaning her face and turned around for Herebia who was heading towards her. Her face paled as she raised her hand to cast a spell.

Although she was fighting back, she knew that she was dead meat. Although there was a chance that this woman did spare her for something, She still wanted to retaliate. She was getting desperate.

“Don’t try to resist, I won’t harm you.”

While saying this, Herebia fingers flicked as [Chaos Threads] bound Yassi at her wrist and her ankles. Her treatment was similar to Hilroy, but Herebia hung Hilroy upside down while she only restrained Yassi.

Slowly recovering from the sight of the ‘raisin man’, Hilroy looked at the bound Yassi. He was not too interested in this Ignis Practitioner brat. Sure, his butt was burnt, but he did not have too much a grievance to her to warrant him wanting to kill her.

When Hilroy saw Herebia tying up Yassi, he wanted to shout out that Herebia was biased. Herebia hung him upside down but why not hung this brat? Although Hilroy didn’t look like it, he is a closet petty person.

Yassi glared hatefully at Herebia while she shook her whole body in order to wishfully loosen the black threads. Like a wish, this was almost impossible to happen. The threads did not loosen and Herebia was getting closer.

Feeling that she won’t be able to escape this situation, Yassi turned towards her plan B. She would use her silver tongue in order to talk herself out of this calamity, or at least have a slight advantage.

“You wench, tying me up, do you know who my father is?!”

Herebia as amused as she watched a depiction of a worm wriggling its body in the form of Yassi. Although Herebia was not interested in girls, as she was a woman herself, she has to admit that a huge percent of men would find this brat good looking when she grows up.

That is if... she will grow up.

Pursing her lips, Herebia raised her head high as she looked down on Yassi. This motion of ‘looking at someone as if they were ants’ made Yassi feel a formless oppressing pressure

“Of course I know who you are, much less your father. Yassi... daughter of one of the most trusted men of the Ignis King himself...”

Herebia paused for a moment and then smiled gleefully. Hilroy was thrown to the back of her mind, as she thought of how much information someone like Yassi’s father possesses.

Hilroy, on the other hand, felt his ear ringing. His heart pounded inside his chest as he breathed raggedly. His eyes darts from left to right while his iris’s would shrink and enlarge. His mouth was agape and his hands were trembling.

Daughter of one of the most trusted men of the Ignis King himself...

He was no fool as his mind was crystal clear right at this moment. Hilroy knew that only a single position of the military could Herebia be talking about right now. Only someone like that would...

“Daughter of the Ignis King’s right-hand men, the Ignis General, Ycarus. Am I right, little Yassi?”

Ending her words, Yassi’s heart entered a panic. She was seen through! How? This information was highly confidential and most people, even in the Ignis Kingdom, knew that the Ignis General had no daughter. Her existence was a highly confidential secret.

As for why? That would be a secret which only Ycarus and the Ignis King knew.

Quite opposite to Yassi’s state, Hilroy was entering a maddened one. His hand greatly trembled, his teeth clenched tightly, as popping sounds came out of his knuckles. Fuming with endless hatred, his feet bulged with their hidden muscles as she charged forth towards Yassi.

Like a ferocious beast, Hilroy charge with bared fangs which greatly surprised the two girls. Yassi was frightened as her eyes glossed over, seemingly on the verge of crying. This mad man extremely frightened her...

Herebia frowned slightly as she detected the boundless hatred and animosity exuding from Hilroy’s eyes. This was a sign that a blood grievance has possibly existed between him and Yassi’s family.

Sighing lightly, Herebia also did the same treatment towards her companion, bounding him up.

Looking at the tight-lipped star of misfortune who was glaring hatefully at Yassi, Herebia’s cold voice sounded out.

“Speak. What do you have against this girl?”

“She must die! Or at least I need to f*cking vent my anger!”. Hilroy’s eyes grew redder as he struggled greatly from Herebia’s [Chaos Threads]. “I’ll just vent it out of her in replacement of her father! Requa, don’t you dare to stop me!”

‘Requa’, shook her head slightly as she quietly made the thread binding Hilroy more brittle.

“Graaagh!!”

Issuing a maddened howl, hidden strength burst forth from Hilroy’s body as the black thread binding him broke off. Herebia stared at him coldly as she didn’t stop him from advancing. Hilroy took this opportunity and dashed towards his mortal enemies daughter.

Pop! Pop!

His knuckles tightened to the brim as he prepared to struck a punch towards Yassi’s face!

Yassi struggled fiercely against the black threads but she was not able to recreate Hilroy’s miracle. She could not break free. Due to the impending danger that approaches her, she bit her lower lip as she assumed a fetal position. Slowly sliding down her cheeks, was a tear.

Bang!

Yassi had clenched her jaw in preparation to the impact but the pain that she expected did not appear. She slowly opened her eyes as she saw a fist buried half an inch in front of her face. This was a terrifying strength.

“Goddam it! F*ck!”

With crazed eyes, Hilroy restrained his other fist as he retreated towards a nearby tree. His fists were itching and after he arrived near the tree, he somehow found a way to vent his feelings.

Boom! Bang! BANG!

Hilroy’s punches heavily landed on the poor tree. The tree shook violently as Hilroy’s hands slowly transformed into a bloody mess. He continued punching the tree non-stop while cursing loudly.

The tree was waist thick before and stood mightily. Now though, huge indents riddled it’s trunks and seemingly on the verge of collapsing. Hilroy ran out of steam as he kneeled in front of the tree while breathing raggedly.

But then, even if Hilroy was being emotional, the unlucky meteor of legends still shone his brilliance.

The tree that was seemingly collapsing, snapped and issued a ‘tsak! tsak!’ as it fell down towards Hilroy’s direction. Panicking slightly, Hilroy stood up from his kneeling position as he ran the opposite direction. Herebia reasoned to herself that this fool was too dumb to dodge towards the side.

After sprinting a good distance, the collapsing tree caught up with Hilroy. What was fortunate though was that he was only hit on the crown of the tree. Herebia had absolute faith that if Hilroy was pounded by the main trunk, he would be reduced to meat paste.

Hilroy was trapped inside the crown of the tree but he walked out of it immediately. He was bruised slightly but not too much. This was simply the result of some branches hitting him.

What was unfortunate though is, Hilroy didn’t come out alone.

This forest deserved it’s name, the Forest of Snakes.

Hanging on Hilroy’s shoulders were two brown meter long snakes. Hilroy’s eyes twitched slightly as he cursed the gods for his misery. He had the right to curse though because... cough... Aven... cough...

Anyway, Herebia didn’t expect that Hilroy would be safe time and only get a few scratches. Seeing the snakes made Herebia nod her head in recognition. It was like she was saying ‘that’s the way it is supposed to be’.

The dumbfounded Yassi stared at Hilroy while he was being threatened to be ‘kissed’ by them. Her eyes was still a bit red and her cheeks was still wet. How unlucky is this fellow? And to think that she almost pissed her pants because of this fool?

“Pretend that he doesn’t exist. Anyway, as I was saying before, you are named Yassi.”

Sobbing lightly, Yassi calculated her words. “Who are you? What do you want from me?!”

“Call me Requa. As for the thing I want from you, do you think you can offer something that would garner my interest? What I want is your father, Ycarus.”

Yassi was greatly surprised and her eyes went wide. Her mouth opened widely, so wide that you could probably stuff a egg or two right now.

“What do you want from my father?! Are... are... are you a secret admirer of his?!”

Hearing this words almost made Herebia trip foot again. Secret admirer? Your sister is a secret admirer! You whole damn family is a secret admirer! I, Herebia, am not a fan of his!

Regaining her composure, Herebia’s face fumes with rage. “What secret admirer?! I want info! Info about this continent! Who else knows a lot of thing other than a general?!”

“Info? Then what do you get for kidnaping me?”

“Honestly, I don’t know where the general is. And is discussion’s arise, I could use you as a weapon against you’re father.”

“You!.. You cannot do this!”

Herebia’s face turned solemn as she made many hand symbols. A black magic circle the size of a thumb appeared in front of Herebia’s index finger which was pointed at Yassi.

[Zera : Life]!!

The magic circle shone with a ghastly black light as it emitted a finger thick black energy which coiled around Yassi’s neck. The black energy tightened around her neck and she felt many elemental particles boring through the pores of her neck.

The finger thick black energy slowly crystalized into the form of an extremely exquisite black choker. It had the design of a crescent moon on the front as many runes were engraved around it’s elegant designs. If one looked closer, this runes were the exact same runes that appeared in the magic circle of Herebia!

The black light on her index finger slowly dimmed and Herebia looked straightly at Yassi. “This black choker is a device that could instantly behead you on my command. My elemental particles have permeated through your neck and all I have to do is make then rampage in order to kill you.”

Hearing her threat’s, Yassi’s face fell as her complexion paled. Her face looked aghast. Almost looking like a corpse. “You... You mean...”

“I can control your life and death. From now on, you will be my slave. If you behave in a good way, maybe I’ll promote you to a disciple.”

Yassi’s eyes widened as her despair was accompanied by the hateful howls of a certain somebody who was still struggling against the snakes. This choker around her neck was literary a guillotine. She knew that, from today onwards, Yassi was bound by this woman named ‘Requa’ and her fate was thrown into pieces.

But then... she thought of something...

‘Could... could... could this woman kill that wench for me?!’