“Now, I should be able to get your support, right?” Ryuk asked, lifting his hand while holding the bloodied delicate wrist, which had already reached just a finger away from his face. With a small smile forming, he stated in a calm tone, “I hope you found this interesting enough, Lady Drishti.”
“Huh, do…You think…I am a fool?” Drishti, already reaching her body’s limit, spoke with heavy eyes that seemed ready to tear the young man before falling unconscious.
But confused seeing him starting to speak gibberish now.
“….” Seeing her brain still working even after such an intense situation, Ryuk narrowed his gaze, focusing on withdrawing his *Shunya*, indirectly causing the Artifact of her wrist held by him to once again kick in.
SWISH
This time, due to severe injuries, the artifact’s work seemed visible with a sharp sound before a soft golden light slowly started to heal her body, with the pain also subsiding due to the effect of the artifact.
‘What is this artifact’s function?’ Ryuk wondered, observing how swiftly her body was recovering, let alone the visible rate subsiding. making him at least understand that the Artifact was not just healing her; it was more like reversing her state.
[Sanning….]
DING!
[Host, it seems the Artifact is reversing the time of her body.]
‘!?’
‘Don’t tell me, is it the Reincarnation Wand?’ Ryuk felt confused. Of course, it seemed more unbelievable that someone could wear such an artifact so openly.
[Yes, Host, it is the Reincarnation Wand.]
‘….’
‘From which angle is this thing a wand?’ While holding her bloodied wrist, the artifact was within his palm’s reach. It was clearly a bracelet, and at that, it was reversing her body’s time instead of facilitating reincarnation.
It was the same as misleading clickbait.
Another confusing aspect was that the Artifact, instead of possessing the ability of reincarnation, held the power of temporal—time manipulation, but more like controlling the physical body.
In simple terms, it reconstructed her physical body, and if completely destroyed, then it created a new one, which is what one refers to as reincarnation.
‘It seems to be rooted in her soul.’ Ryuk, due to Drishti’s weakened state, could clearly see some golden lines stretching like a new nervous system on a translucent golden soul inside her body using his soul gaze.
Signifying that it was a binding-type artifact.
‘System, can you break this binding?’
[Host, there is a 98% chance for the Artifact to create a chain reaction. It would self-destruct, destroying the infiltrator, and the nearby area would be evaporated instantly.]
“T-this?” Drishti felt her artifact once again working, while the pain and wounds started to return back to their original state within moments. But the aftereffect of that intense pain was still making her senses wrinkle.
“Lady Drishti, it should be enough for you to believe me, right?” A small smile formed on Ryuk’s face while observing the subtle movement on the woman’s expression, which turned from enraged to blank, sharp eyes fixed on him.
‘System, suppress the Grimoire’s function.’ Already guessing what was about to come, he had ordered, knowing that he needed to be patient here.
[Host, please think again. Doing it will be fatal for you.]
‘Just do what I say.’ Ryuk commanded in a firm tone before continuing his complete orders. ‘And kill her the moment my Vitality falls below 15%.’
He needed to gain her trust, but not at the cost of sacrificing his life.
There was a risk that killing her would cause retaliation, but in the present moment, this woman’s decision would decide the route of his story.
If she tried to kill him, she would die, leading to the birth of an enemy and an unending struggle between both of them.
If she controlled herself, everything would go accordingly without any problem.
“Remove that thing from me.” The woman’s gaze turned cold, with a surge of rage boiling within. The pain was something she hadn’t felt in a very, very long time.
Her mind was calm enough to understand that the moment her intentions were set to kill this young man, a series of torment started from within, increasing in intensity as her killing intent grew.
“I already told you, Lady Drishti, I just wanted to show you something interesting.” Slowly releasing her wrist, Ryuk loosened his hand while standing with a composed expression, observing the woman whose narrowed gaze seemed to want to inflict the same level of pain on him.
“How do I believe?” Unlike before, instead of directly attacking the young man, she was cautious. That pain was not something she wanted to experience again.
“You can try.” Ryuk opened his arms, offering his body, while already reaching his limits of compromise. Any further and his mindset would change.
Meaning, the woman was very strong, but in the end, he couldn’t lose his self-respect in the hope of preventing future trouble.
After all, everything was in his favor.
He could easily kill Drishti right now and use 35 battleships to take control of the remaining smaller Branch Families in the Devereaux Expanse.
Not by force, but by giving each one of them a battleship filled with an infiltrated mainframe and taking control of those Branch family’s battleships too, which will make contact with the infected one of Crawfords— a simple method to cut the arms of the whole army strength of the Devereaux Family.
Everything was in his favor due to the single Flagbearer battle.
Such a strong family, and still, several of its strong members were absent due to a single heir battle, proving how crucial the Flagbearer battle was for them.
ALERT!
[Enormous Killing Intent is detected from the target.]
‘!?’
Ryuk’s eyes reflected the woman’s cold gaze; both had the same amber eyes, but the difference was proven by the purity of their bloodlines.
In that place, already thrown into chaos by a previous battle to a mile, a soft yet firm voice emanated from the two soft petal lips, already crimson from a moment ago’s agony.
“Kneel”
‘….’
“Lady Drishti, do you want me to kneel?” He pointed towards himself, feeling confused by her words, but it didn’t take him long to understand their meaning, given her widened eyes.
‘System, did she use her ability on me?’ His eyes reflected those two widened gazes, with her lips parting, wanting to say something but seeming to quiver.
Unlike her calm demeanor or enraged one a moment ago, this time it was surprise.
[Yes, Host, you have been influenced by THE AUTHORITY ]
‘Damn it.’ Internally, he understood that his remaining card was also known to this woman; he had really become an open book to her.
In reality, Drishti only knew him to possess the ability to nullify energy, but not that he was immune to any outside interference, like how the System can’t access his body when it isn’t working on some energy, but still, his body didn’t let it influence him.
Indirectly proving that his active ability was maybe Energy Nullification, but his passive was Immunity.
Unlike his mother or any Zenith ranker who used commands by infusing their energy to dominate the bodies of others when commanding to kneel or other things, Drishti had used an inborn ability which doesn’t have some energy-based functioning.
Right now, he was the man who had enslaved the founding ancestor of the Devereaux family and now even proved immune to her strongest ability. Was he still not interesting?
‘….’ Ryuk’s eyes reflected the woman’s quivering lips finally subsiding, with his gaze narrowing and hearing words that had become normal for him to hear these few days.
“Interesting.”
Maybe not noticed guys but Ryuk’s ability stopped Heaven grade Artifacts function within her body, meaning his ability is strong enough to stop her from Reincarnating and leave in a soul form but he isn’t able to completely control it.
