Six years later…..
In the Selvius Kingdom, the Main Royal Palace, unlike its usual bustling self, stood completely barren.
There were no maids gossiping or the sounds of footsteps echoing within its premises.
Passed time left little impact on the outer walls of the palace as the seasons cycled from spring to summer and fall to winter, repeating this process six times.
Seasons carried numerous stories but witnessed few changes.
Days passed in a regular schedule, with nobles seeking aid and occasional bustling activities here and there.
Within this time frame, the epicenter of activity had shifted from the Main Palace to the Training Ground.
Approaching it, which was now filled with several people gathered to witness their present ruler and the future one engage in their regular training activity which had become a norm.
“Isn’t that a real sword?” one of the maids, observing an Amber-eyed boy holding a metal sword, felt confused, not understanding its significance in the training against Her Majesty, Alisia Von Selvius.
“Shhhh, quiet and go bring that pineapple cake here,” another maid silenced her colleague, prioritizing the task of serving someone special over observing the training arena.
“Just give me a minute!” the maid swiftly sprinted to fetch the Pineapple Cake from the Royal Kitchen.
Seeing the disappearing maid’s back, the other maid turned her attention to the center figure of this place.
It was definitely not His Highness or Her Majesty but a ten-year-old girl surrounded by several maids, attending to her needs.
Sitting on a lavish chair, her Ruby eyes reflecting the numerous food items from cake to small chocolate fountain while several maids stood at her service, fitting for the future Crown Princess—Adanyl Von Selvius.
‘Stop it, you idiots!’ Adanyl screamed in her mind, trying to evade several maids who insisted on feeding her various things, already feeling frustrated due to their increased care ever since she was officially declared Crown Princess.
“Don’t tell me, is it Raspberry?” Taking a spoon full of pastry, feeling delighted Adanyl rubbed her cheeks savouring the flavour while lost in her thought before realizing how she again fell into their tricks, ‘I need to ban this maid!’
Adanyl’s eyes turned towards the girl beside her with only one maid standing by her side. Seeing how Bella was safe, Adanyl felt jealous, “Tch, you are very lucky, Bella.”
Bella’s Amethyst eyes were fixed on the battle in front of her.
Hearing Adanyl’s regular words, she felt disturbed and turned towards the girl who was preparing her mouth for another bite,”You are acting frustrated while eating like a pig.”
“W-what!?” Adanyl interrupted, swiftly turning towards the caramel-haired girl sitting calmly on the chair with a composed expression while deeply observing the fight.
“Did you just call—” Before she could protest, a loud sound pulled her attention.
BOOOOM!
‘Is he again trying that,’ Bella’s eyes reflected an eleven-year-old boy standing amidst the broken platform.
“You need to do much better than this, child,” Alisia looked at her son, whose growth had far surpassed any geniuses of this continent.
Though she expected more, it was a relief that her son was not a monster with unfathomable strength, which an heir of Devereaux needed, and a relief she could always be here.
” I am doing my best,” Ryuk looked at her with a genuine expression, not understanding how it was possible for him to hide anything from his mother.
SWISH
Suddenly, his figure blurred before closing meters of distance within a millisecond, his body shrouded in an amber aura while hands in amethyst.
“Again,” a smile formed on Alisia’s face seeing his futile struggle, her hand folded behind, a glint passing through her amber eyes.
In that mere moment where the world seemed to freeze, Alisia vanished, directly appearing behind Ryuk before her delicate finger tapped on his back.
BOOOM!
Ryuk’s figure directly got smashed on the ground, causing the ground to be pushed down several inches.
Narrowing her eyes, Alisia found something amiss before swiftly brought her hand forward to block a sword aimed at her face.
SCREECH
The blade being pressed between Alisia’s thumb and forefinger, shrouded in Amber mana, slowly started to get bent due to her sheer strength, causing the metal to create a sharp sound.
“As expected of you, Mother. You are faster.”
Hearing Ryuk’s words, Alisia turned her eyes towards the floor where just a moment ago, she had thrown him but found noone. ‘Again this trick.’
Slowly turning towards her son, who had grown in six years enough to attack his mother with the intent to kill, her face formed a smile adding, “As expected of you, son. Attacking your own mother.”
“When?” Ryuk feigned confusion, not understanding how his move, which was nothing in front of her, could be considered as an attack.
{ Ryuk’s Present Illustration}
Tap. tap.
A man entered the training ground, drenched in sweat, swiftly moving towards the platform before bowing in front of Alisia.
“Forgive me, Your Majesty, but there are some Bishops from Goddess Fela’s religion,” the man informed about the arrival of people from the now widely accepted religion of the Heindal Continent.
Within the period of six years, after the emergence of Saintess Marianne, several kingdoms accepted it as their state religion except Selvius Kingdom, which declared the whole religion as cultist.
Though everyone expected the end of the entire Selvius kingdom within just a year due to their announcement but major heads like Priest Kermit and even Saintess Marianne seemed to keep their silence on this matter, except for some small kingdoms who tried to declare the whole Selvius Royal family as tyrants.
The word should be heretics instead of tyrants, but due to fear of becoming meat pulp, no one seemed to use it.
It was widely known throughout the continent that a year ago, several nobles from neighboring kingdoms were found dead in their mansions with missing limbs after their previous statements about Queen Alisia being a heretic.
However, there still existed some people who tried to use this as an opportunity to establish the religion inside the Selvius Kingdom, which had completely banished the whole religion beyond their boundaries.
After the Crown Prince broke the Idol of Goddess Fela, there was a small struggle due to retaliation from her devotees, but everything subsided the moment it was revealed that the Crown Prince did all this to awaken the Saintess.
‘What are they here for?’ Alisia turned to look towards the direction of the palace, her gaze easily penetrating any obstacles before falling on three cloaked figures.
‘I see.’ Alisia moved out of the platform before turning towards Ryuk, who was also about to follow her. “Stop here.”
Hearing that, he calmly nodded before observing Alisia’s disappearing figure through the training hall’s exit.
‘System,’ Ryuk commanded, turning his eyes towards the window, which had been warning him since the battle began.
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Warning!!!!!
Restriction is weakening »»
200KG Additional Weight -( NULLIFYING
All Senses Malfunctioning-( NULLIFYING
Ether Core Sealing-( NULLIFYING
Pain Intensifier-( NULLIFYING
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[ Reach Lvl 3 to Level it Up! ]
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The window kept warning him to control his energy, which was on the verge of breaking the restrictions Ryuk had applied to his body.
While fighting, aware of his body’s primary disadvantage—physical strength—he added additional weight to his body.
Instead of simply stopping his senses, he malfunctioned them, causing his ears, eyes, and all other senses to give him wrong information; his actions were solely based on instinct.
Though from a normal perspective, it seems impossible for anyone to achieve such a feat, it wasn’t for someone whose body was, in itself, a walking killing machine.
Ryuk Von Selvius was an Emperor considered a tyrant, not only due to his unjustifiable actions but also because of his valor in battle—an instinct to anticipate an arrow coming from the left and discern the weakest opponent among present— something what some people referred to as Battle Instincts.
Ryuk would have found it amusing from his original world’s perspective, hearing tales of ancient kings swinging a 50kg sword or covering 70km on horseback in an hour.
But now he knew, the human body far surpassed the already fixed norms, and in this world, it shattered the perspective of human senses.
Making him want to reach the limit of his human body, yet he still felt that somehow his body didn’t seem to have what people call a bottleneck.
Even in his past life, he kept reaching new heights without ever feeling he had reached his limits.
Now, after intense training for these years, he had an answer—Devereaux Bloodline.
‘How much time will it take to form the first circle?’ he inquired about his Ether Core, which had formed two years ago, causing his mana to become denser and more enormous in amount.
But he needed to reach the last cycle of it to utilize its full potential, while it contained total five circles.
[ 𝙸𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝟾 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚜 ]
As he turned to leave the training ground, both Adanyl and Bella swiftly stood to follow behind him.
“What’s with you guys?” Feeling confused at both of them following him, he inquired.
“Her Majesty said to always keep an eye on you,” Adanyl told him, referring to the instructions she had received from Alisia.
Upon hearing Adanyl’s words, he immediately understood that his mother’s instructions were solely intended to irritate him and prevent him from getting involved with her.
Four years ago, he had checked Adanyl’s bloodline name after his system reached second level, which clarified that Adanyl belonged to the family his mother wanted him to avoid— Tenebri Family.
He would have kept his distance from Adanyl, but he required her assistance after learning about the abilities associated with that bloodline.
He turned towards Bella, “And what about you?”
“Do I need a reason to follow you?” Bella averted her gaze, already contemplating a way to deal with the people who had arrived to meet Alisia.
“Whatever, just don’t go killing nobles around the kingdom,” Ryuk blankly looked at her, referring to the incident where, after some noblemen referred to Selvius Kingdom’s Royal Family as Heretics, she had killed all of them overnight.
“….”, Bella seeing him felt frustrated, wanting nothing more than to beat him but already knowing end result controlled herself,’ Just you wait’
Getting no response he moved out of the training ground to take bath, while his aim was different but seeing how both followed behind him, he just needed to get rid of one of them — Bella iliaas.
She had started to refer her with that title like that after three years of arriving here, though her explaintion for taking this title was random but Ryuk knew, that title was nothing but name of his Mother in jumbled form.
An another reason to not go easy on her— she needs to be more align towards him not his mother.
Moving inside the long hallway Ryuk arrived inside his room while both of them had already left since the moment he had called maids to prepare for bath.
‘System, Isolate the space and use all kill points to heal my heart the moment it destroys’, Commanding he sat in Lotus form, focussing his brain towards creating the first cycle by forcing himself.
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Activating Isolation Barrier
{ Time limit :: 22 minutes }
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HUSHH
Suddenly, a transparent black dome shrouded the space surrounding Ryuk.
The enlarging shape became ten meters in radius before halting.
“Phew,” exhaling deeply, Ryuk’s mind solely focused on his heart before moving towards mana veins, while sitting in that position.
Time slowly passed, each second feeling like hours to him.
Drip
Disturbing the room’s tranquility was a crimson drop trickling down his mouth before falling on the floor.
As Gaia’s rays fell on his face, they accentuated its details, making the blood dripping from the corner of his lips vividly visible.
The entire process caused unbearable pain, its sheer intensity pushing the limits that could break anyone but him.
‘Not enough,’ slowly guiding the Ether—a form of mana—to his heart, a type of energy unsuitable for use inside the body.
Slowly, his veins bulged on forehead, the green nerves becoming visible beneath his closed eyes, each of them evident of the intense pain rapidly reaching new heights.
“Ughh,” a small sound escaped, yet the pain was tremendous—thousands of burning needles piercing his flesh, finding their way towards his heart in the form of ether.
His body endured the agony, veins reconstructed by an intense energy resonating within every cell.
badump
“Khuekk!” Ryuk’s eyes widened, feeling his heart burst from not being able to contain the newly formed circle.
Thud
His body fell to the floor, his head hitting the tiles as his eyes slowly started to loose their amber hues.
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Emergency Regeneration Initiated!!
:: Reconstructing the Heart »
Kill Points= 50000 –⟩ 25000 –⟩ 0000!
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“Haaa…haaa,” Suddenly, he snapped out of his state, slowly moving his hand towards his chest.
thump thump
Feeling the heartbeat, he fallen on the floor, utterly exhausted from the pain he had endured.
The redness in his amber eyes and the pink hue on his face were evident signs of the agony he had just endured.
BANG!
Suddenly, the room’s door burst open, flinging them to a distance due to the force that had opened them.
“YOU IDIOT!”
