From the very second Galad looked at Daimon his eyes became cold, when he arrived at Lykos, the first thing he got to know of his grandson was that he… soiled himself in front of others.
How could he who descends from long line of half emperors which originated in a legendary hero of humanity, tolerate such an insult, originally, he didn’t care whether Liliana married his son George, as the whole idea of a political marriage was managed by his son, the ancestor of the Gladius family and Wilbert.
But since someone from the beast faction humiliated his dearest grandson in representation of Liliana, then he will make sure that the one who caused this repent to have ever messed with him, and the first step would be bringing the girl that rejected George and giving her as a gift for his recovery.
“So that is the “knight in a shinning armor” that got into the way of George”, thought Galad as a cold light flashed through his eyes, but before he could explode, Wilbert planed a hand on his shoulder.
Galad was about to complain when he felt Wilbert clenching the grip on his shoulder as he spoke with a hatred filled voice.
“Wait Galad, that kid has darkness affinity, so he is most likely the one that dared to corrupt my son’s light making the cardinal assigned to him strip him off his apostle status”.
Galad calmed his impetus, as he gave Daimon a condescending gaze.
“Two half emperors want you to suffer kid, that’s what you get for meddling into other people business”, he said as he increased his mana pressure by reducing the area of affectation.
The air around two meters from Daimon trembled, the pressure wasn’t physical but due to the interaction with the mana in the atmosphere small thunder-like sounds reverberated through the area.
Galad expected to see the black-haired youth kneeling down while suffocating, before snatching away the girl from the snow eagle clan in front of him and bring her to her son’s room, with the “consent” of her father of course.
“Trying to impress a girl, you lack strength humph”, he thought.
But then nothing happened… well that wasn’t completely true, Daimon yawned before ridiculing Galad.
“The grandfather of a trash is trash too I guess, are you also going to shit yourself now that your plan isn’t working?”.
Galad felt his lungs filling with anger, his pressure should have squashed a one-star mage against the ground considering how many enemies he has killed and ruined in his long life.
“You want to intimidate me with this half assed killing intent… when I was five years old, I could already resist the pressure of Arthur Jolbaris”, thought Daimon as he looked at Galad with disdain.
Back then he got slightly affected by Arthur’s pressure but he could stand it, now that he had overlord’s pride, mental attacks were practically useless, unless of course they added mana to the mix.
Seeing that Galad wasn’t achieving anything, Wilbert jumped in the fun, unlike mana, battle aura is showier, so when he used his pressure to the maximum of what he was capable within the suppressing formation of the academy, light yellow sparks surrounded Daimon.
Not only that the ground below Daimon started to crack, the pressure of those who walk on the knight’s path is different to the one of a mage, the area is way smaller but in exchange the “density” is higher, in simple words, their pressure is heavier.
Even then, without actively adding battle aura the most Wilbert could affect was a about a five-star ranked knight, so Daimon easily withstood the pressure with a crossed arm pose and a proudful expression.
After about thirty seconds Wilbert realized it wasn’t working and he felt humiliated, since when he a respectable half emperor had to put effort to crush a one-star ranked bug.
Wilbert’s gaze became cold, he knew killing was totally out of question, but a little “reprimand” from a senior was acceptable, he is a half emperor after all.
“Kid, it seems your parents failed to teach you, so let this old man give you a lesson of humbleness, when you meet a senior, you must bow out of respect”, said Wilbert with an upright tone as he let his battle aura leak out of his body.
*Boooom!!!*.
A bright light-yellow torrent of battle aura advanced towards Daimon with the intention of forcing him to bow and also suppress Irina, Veronica and Anya, but it was intercepted midway by a wave of deep black mana, creating a huge shockwave as they collided.
Gusts of wind were liberated due to the impact sending some of the students in the crowd flying, realizing things were getting serious they immediately ran away, so that the only ones left were the ones involved in the situation.
“I wonder since when the light faction has the right to discipline the young master of my Revy family”.
Wilbert’s eyes narrowed after listening to a melodious voice which seemed to come out of nowhere, before a woman appeared out of thin air, the woman was tall reaching about two meters, her black hair made a perfect contrast with her pale skin tone, cascaded down all the way to the upper part of her thighs,
Her sapphire like eyes which had a cold light in them didn’t lessen her charm, but gave her a proud dignified charm which combined with her beautiful face and her curvy figure which was perfectly clad in a black long dress with purple decorations, would make even the most chaste man had the urge of conquering her.
But probably the most eye-catching characteristics she had, were definitely the pair of ears and the long fluffy foxlike tail which made her already charming appearance even more perfect, it was as if a goddess had descended and yet Wilbert instead of being happy to be lucky enough of witnessing it, was frowning feeling the dangerous darkness which was clashing against his battle aura.
“Revy matriarch, perhaps it was you the one that planted that disgusting darkness in the body of my son”, said Wilbert as he gritted his teeth before increasing the output of his battle aura.
Wilbert might be angry but he wasn’t stupid, Daimon was just a one-star mage, although he refused to believe the idea of his son being defeated in a “fair” fight, against him, with some tricks even a one-star mage could bet a four-star knight like Leir.
But it didn’t make sense that the darkness of a one-star mage could infect his son causing him to lose all his hair, and no matter how much light healing spells were casted on him, the infection didn’t disappear, but things changed if a half emperor was involved.
And the feeling Erin’s darkness gave off was similar but obviously stronger than the one of Daimon’s, which was understandable considering Daimon managed to imitate her darkness thanks to his naturally high affinity with it.
To begin with Daimon had darkness affinity, then he got the darkness affinity passive from the manticore and lastly adding the eyes of the truth seeker he managed to grasp something from Erin’s special darkness.
It was similar to how he learned blink after experiencing travelling through a breach in space due to space shift, the difference was that this time he asked Erin to crate a “room” with her darkness in which he spent a couple of hours every day, it took him two years of that to finally listen the sweet sound of a notification.
[Ding]
[A new skill has been created due to a specific action]
[You who have received the affect of the “Mother of darkness” and showed a constant interest on it, had been granted its favor]
[Lover of darkness Lv1 (Passive): After observing the darkness of Erin Revy, the host has gotten a minor success on understanding it, thus getting to imitate 20% of the effect of her “Immemorial Darkness” (The effect will increase the more Erin Revy advances in her comprehension of Immemorial Darkness)]
Evangeline was speechless when she saw that skill, not because learned how to imitate Erin’s darkness, but because according to the description the effect of the skill increased not according to Daimon’s growth but to Erin’s, in other words, Daimon’s darkness had 20% of the corrosive effect Erin’s had.
So of course, Leir had no way to resist its invasion, and since no one in this stellar chart has seen this kind of darkness before, they had zero understanding of it, it was similar to how races oriented to the night suffered when corrosive light was invented, the humans enjoyed a period of extra prosperity due to that as they extorted some benefits from demons, undead and vampires.
“We aren’t leaving empty handed”, mumbled Galad as he took a step ahead and added a stream of his water mana to fight against Erin’s darkness, even if it had to be a 2v1 fight, he was decided to take Liliana as an offering for his grandson, while “teaching” Daimon a lesson.
“Well, you are right in that, you will leave with a new “decoration” in the form a sword’s wound in that disgusting face of yours”.
Before anyone could react, a new contender added her mana to the clash in the form of a silver slash, but instead of creating an impact, it directly cut the stream of water mana reaching Galad in a split of a second.
“Fuck!”, Galad shouted, the sky clouded as he released mana which rotated around him like water in a try to fend off from the slash, but it only slowed down the slash and ultimately Galad had to move aside and take some distance to not be split in half.
The silver slash then changed its trajectory soaring to the sky splitting the clouds before dissipating.
Galad felt a shiver running through his spine but the fear turned into indignation as he yelled at the woman who recently arrived.
Long messy white-silverish hair, a short slim figure with curves in the right places, creating a perfect balance between athletic and feminine builds, a thin vertical scar in her right eye added a wild charm to her pretty face, and lastly wolf like ears and a tail, the battle maniac of the Argent clan, and the woman with the highest battle prowess in the White Fang galaxy, Aura Argent.
“Are you crazy, Argent matriarch… were you really trying to wound a half emperor of an allied force, without any real provocation!!!”.
Aura which was holding one of her many swords in her right hand, coldly snorted as she pointed it towards Galad.
“You caused problems in my academy, affected the students and tried to kidnap someone from one of my elite classes, and you dare to say you didn’t provoke me?”.
She then smiled at Daimon before saying.
“Not to mention you threatened my beloved disciple, humph leave an arm behind as an apology”, said Aura as a dazzling sharp silver light surrounded her.