After I went inside, I heard the cries of pain sounding from right outside .
It seem that these guards were still needing to be taught a lesson, after less than a minute, a few seconds later the two Levan and Dorax entered the mansion and the two seemed to be feeling quite good about themselves .
I couldn't help but wonder about the reason to why so many guards and soldiers like the ones I saw blocking the way weren't send to support the Demons in this war .
This thought gave me a bad premonition all of a sudden and I was somewhat certain that King Devo might be planning to use them for some other purpose .
Or he might already be aware of my intention in dethroning him and that's why he wanted to keep them around to give him some sense of secure .
Either way, understanding the reason behind his actions was indeed quite important, but him doing this had little to no impact on my plan, as we were on the road, I had finally devised a plan of actions that should allow me to achieve what I want, but they are still need to be discussed with the people involved .
Since once this plan start to get implemented, not only there will be no stopping it, but to those involved, it will be too late for them to jump of this sailing ship, but for now I should make sure that Sora will recover quickly first .
Now, I wanted nothing but to know what might have befallen her and if she had anything to share with me on Hana's current whereabout and her situation, her knowing something about the current circumstances of Troland will also be of a great help, but all these will have to wait until she finally wake up .
We were now sitting in the Family Meeting Hall, I couldn't help but joke about staying here in this hall more than I had stayed in my own room, Tay had already reported how critical the situation with the female human were, her tone carried a hint of perplexity that I wasn't able to understand its source .
Sora's state was dire because of two reasons, it seem that she was treated quite harshly when she was captured by Devo and the second thing was related to her own abilities being completely rendered null inside this barrier .
Not allowing her to even use a silver hair of her strength, not to mention enabling her to heal or recover by the effects of her skills, she currently was even weaker than a 10 years old human in this world .
It was no surprise, after all this place was completely cut off any influence the Shard had and since the whole system of Sora's power did indeed stem from that Shard, she too was cut off by the Shard .
" So can you help her and how long do you think she is going to take before finally waking up ? .
Tay looked at me losing my temper for the first time since she met me like this and for some reason frowned slightly, but she still thought for a while before saying :
My techniques don't work on her as she is right now, she either need to be treated with normal methods or she can become a Demi-demon and then my technique can help healing her up .
But I'm able to see that Master seem to have really took a liking to this girl, but I hope this is just me being just paranoid, I would like to ask Master to remember that the Demon Emperor might not like you doing something like this .
Hearing what Tay said, my gaze on her hardened and involuntarily started to release my aura and exerting pressure in all those who were present here, Loger for the first time seem to have realized what kind of abomination he kept on trying to challenge and his face grew paler than a sheet of paper and seemed to be struck hard by this .
" I'm aware of it creating problems for the Demon Emperor yes, but haven't we already made our target clear, disturbing the Demon Emperor's plans is considered one of things we will need to do sooner or later .
" This World isn't welcoming to us Demons, yet we are staying here in this dome like turtles stuck in a jar, unable to use our full force freely because of the Demon Emperor's order for us to come here and I'm not talking only about Demons, you guys as well, aren't Tay's mother staying in the real world as an insurance of you never betraying his cause .
" I will say this only one last time, if my objective getting achieved depended on me going against the direct orders of the Demon Emperor, then I will do that without an ounce of hesitation, I will give you all one last chance to weight your choices right here and now .
" Either you going to follow me, or you can go ahead and leave this place and report what we are going to do to Devo or even the Demon Emperor or his son, the prince, I don't mind at all, make your final choice clear and strengthen your resolve, either you going to be part of this, or you will disappear from my sight .
As I laid everything bare before them, some already know what I intended to do in the first place, so this revelation didn't cause much shock to course through them, but they were still in awe of how vigorous the words that came of my mouth sounded .
As for Loger, his father, Elder Loon, his shy son and even the rest of the Dorell family elders, well they were stricken with fear, going against the Demon Emperor was nothing but a death wish, this thought was deeply engraved in their hearts, but whether it was because they were dumbstruck or making up their mind on the spot .
None of them had said anything nor had anyone of them tried to get out of the Hall, after I finished my speech, silence filled the place and seemed to want to devour even the people currently sitting down whole, after giving them a few more minutes to calm down and organize their thoughts, I finally said :
" It seem that none of you had anymore issue with going against the Demon Emperor, good, very good, but know this, if a word from what we spoke here were to be leaked outside this Hall, intentionally or not, the person responsible is going to be killed by me, I hope that I made myself clear .
Hearing the nervous gulps of those who were currently present, I looked at Tay and the latter seem to have already become aware of what she did wrong, she directly stood up from her seat and kneeled before me and contrarily to what people here had expected her to do once she stood up so suddenly like this, she directly apologized for her meaningless words and unintentional offense earlier .
She also promised to make up for this grave mistake of hers from here on out, I nodded sternly at her and as if she wasn't letting the chance to redeem herself slip by, she said :
Thanks for master's kindness, this servant here had recalled another method that might be of help to the recovery of that human heroine, I believe that we can use Mana Stones to help her regain her own Mana and by doing so, the weird power of the skills she have might start working again .
After hearing what she said, I gave her a long look and she just shrunk her head and said that the reason behind her not directly giving this as an option before was because of two things, it was the cost and the need of someone with a strong Mental Power, someone will need to help her with refining the Mana in the Mana Stones and deliver it to her body, Mental Strength was a crucial requirement here .
Dorax being the one with the most experience in finance did approved of Tay statement, else I might have taken her down to both set an example of her and relieve myself from any hidden dangers that might appear in the future, even with that threatening to affect my chances of successfully contacting Fey and creating a void like gap between us, luckily there was no need to do such a thing .
From Dorax's words I came to learn something unique about Mana Stones, Demons can absorb 70 percent of the energy inside a Mana Stone .
Humans and strong humans in this world can absorb 20 to 30 percent, a big disparity between the two, Human process in refining Mana Stones are faster due to them wasting it almost completely .
For this girl whose Mana Source seemed to be depleted, nourishing it with Mana Stones was needed, the cost of doing something like that can reach thousands Mana Stones, approximately 5000 in her case, not to mention another 500 or so in the most perfect case of scenario, it might require 100 to let her wake up .
Tay still added that it was better to have a normal Healer be invited to heal her, as the cost was indeed high and even with the Mana Stones be used, the girl suffered through quite a lot and needed someone of her own race to ease her nervousness .
After hearing what she said, I nodded my head and directly gave her my orders, I withdraw 5500 Mana Stones from my bracelet, they were stored in a storage pouch and handed them to her .
She had also to go and fetch the best healer in the city and buy a few of everything that can be considered tasty in the tongue of other humans, she looked quite bewildered at me doing all this, but she no longer dared to argue, she directly went ahead to carry on with her task .
I looked at the bunch of guys who were still unable to come back to reality from still being engrossed in shock and sternly dismissed them, there was no more orders to give, I gave Dorax the spatial equipment I got from those who have fallen and the two first thought that I gave them some benefits .
Realizing what they thought, I directly slammed them with the ugly truth, they were just responsible for counting and safekeeping the loot, with that over with, I went back to my room .
The acting student council president was laid down there completely pale in terms of complexion and she was indeed cold to the touch, I felt like she was already dying, I was tempted to allow her to become a Demi-demon, but then I thought about how might she react to me deciding something like that on my own and so, I waited for her to wake up and decide for herself .
Being connected to the Shard with nothing but dangerous, if the Shard happened to suffer from any kinds of trouble, all those connected to it won't be spared, this is why I want to sever the connection between her and the Shard, for now the only thing that can have this kind of effect was by turning her into a new lifeform that was neither a human nor a complete demon .
Demi-demon or Demi-human kind of state, from what I heard, even though the Techniques that can allow this kind of transformation were actually quite numerous, to find one that actually work without any side effects was the actual problem .
I was blown away by the fact that many Demi-demons who have inherited both of the two races characteristics were a thing here, but due to most of the methods out there being nothing but fraud ones .
Side effects that appeared like a mutation and one side triumphing and becoming more apparent than the other, forcing the human to stay human with a slight boost to his strength, or a complete demon, but a weak and impure one that had limited potential .
Speaking of potential, Sora's body seemed to have a big Dragon shaped tattoo on her body, could this still be related to her job, Dragon Knight was her job, I guess everything will be cleared up after she wake up, her body still have that Green Source Energy that the Demons are after .
My eyes allowed me to see this clearly, the only issue is what to do with this kind of information, this energy was what gave these guys their blessings, since I can see it, then I might have a chance to interact with and who knows maybe I can remove it without having to kill her or anything like that .
But this too will be postponed until she wakes up, for now I will do the only thing I can, enhancing my strength a bit further, crossing my legs together after sitting on the floor, I focused and in the next second I was transported to the familiar place from before .
But this time things were a bit different, not only have I become strong, the blackness surrounding me seemed to have retreated a little, the open two doors of that Heavenly Gate appeared before me, I was feeling quite good, no I felt even better than I did before .
Was that due to the increase in my Mental Power or was it because I succeeded before and this was the confidence brewed from success, I wasn't able to tell and either way, it didn't matter much to me .
I looked at that gate and decided that today, I will finish this first chapter of this strange Mind Nourishing Method no matter what happen .
As if it was sensing my resolve, the gate shone brightly and sent a few fluctuations towards me as if daring me to do anything .
A body formed of my abundant Mental Power manifested and was taking easy strides towards the gate, even with the pressure kept increasing, my body hadn't been damaged in the slightest .
I reached for the door and closed it without any problem this time unlike my first time here, then the gate vanished before my eyes, I was already too familiar with the process and if I'm not wrong, the first chapter was focusing on one thing and that is to temper my control over Mental Power .
After the encounter with that Cyclop, I can now say to have grasped the key to unlock my ability to effectively control my Mental Power and so dealing with that gate had become a lot easier as well .
Spreading my Mental Energy around me in all directions, a reaction was found and I directly appeared before the closed doors of the gate, last time I almost lost my life trying to open these doors, but now, hehe .
With a slight pull I opened the door engraved with a monster face, then pulling the other door went even smoother, looking at the opened gate before me and hearing the echoes of opening the gate course through the space, I know that today is the day, I will achieve Success .