Death

A strange feeling permeated out of Eric's body. It was akin to the feeling one would get when one was surrounded by nature. It was a relaxing feeling. However, the royal guards weren't relaxed. Instead, they felt repulsed by Eric, as his presence intensified many folds after his transformation. They remained fixated upon his new visage, as well as rooted to the ground due to fear. But, they would soon come to know the mistake that they had made.

"Even if his presence got a bit stronger, it's not like his cultivation inc-" The Eagle lady, before she could finish her words, felt a change in her surroundings. Eric had appeared in front of her, but she couldn't see him. Even her strong eyes couldn't catch his movements, and thus her brain couldn't process the fact that he was right in front of her.

"You can die now." As Eric spoke, his body started to materialize in front of her eyes. She could see his sword floating in front of him, while he extended both of his hands towards her. One hand in front of her face, and the other in front of her chest. The next instant, the eagle lady felt pain. It was a type of pain akin to having water touch a scab. It was a type of pain that was followed by a sudden peace. By the time the peaceful feeling took over her, her body was lying on the ground, dead.

There were no flashy attacks, nor any extravagant techniques. She simply fell down on the ground, unmoving, after Eric waved his hands. The guards stood in shock after looking at this. None of them could react, as their fear of Eric grew even stronger now. People, since old times, were afraid of the unknown. Now, that fear was multiplied by the fact that it brought death with it.

Eric didn't give them the time to think about their next actions. He moved in an incredible speed again and appeared in front of the mole beastman. Be it the fact that he was stronger than the eagle lady, or the fact that fear brought out his full potential, he was able to react to Eric's appearance. The mole beastman created an earth wall between him and Eric, and sweat covered his entire body. Just as he was about to breath in relief, the wall broke into pieces. Again, he brought up a new wall. However, due to the dust created by the destruction of the first one, he failed to keep track of Eric's movements.

His fear took over his rationality, making him surround himself with walls from all directions. Outside of the wall, Eric stood motionless. The other two guards couldn't move in to protect their fellow guard. They could only look in horror as Eric went with his attack. He thrust with his hand as if he was trying to hit someone's stomach with his palm. A strong gust of wind picked speed, turning into a typhoon in less than a second, blowing away the wall and everything inside of it.

'I need to hurry up…' Eric thought to himself as his hair started to lose its green color. He turned around to look at the remaining guards and rushed at them. Like before, he disappeared and re-appeared in front of the two of them. The two of them reacted at the same time and attacked. They knew the best way to stay alive, was to actually kill Eric. Running, or hiding, was not an option.

A close quarters combat ensued, and the two guards were losing ground. Each time they exchanged blows with Eric, they felt a numbing sensation in their arms. However, they seemed to notice the decrease in Eric's power, so they were encouraged to hang around until they could beat him.

"You're not curious about how your friend died?" Eric said as he jumped to the back, and continued, "Your hands, you can't use them, right?" as he looked at the wolf beastman, whose arms were shaking. The wolf beastman's whole body started to shake uncontrollably, as he thought the same thing that happened to the eagle lady would happen to him. The guards' leader looked at him as if waiting for the inevitable to happen. He then looked at the eagle lady and noticed blood flowing out of her mouth, eyes, ears, and nose canals.

"I'm just kidding. It's too distasteful to use the same trick twice. For you two, I'll use my strongest technique to finish you off. But remember, this was created for the sake of bringing down colossal enemies!" Eric said as he held his floating sword for the first time since he transformed. The sword's color changed to emerald green as well, while wind started to gather around it. Eric held it by his waist while raising it a little higher.

The two guards were confused, but wary at the same time. They knew that Eric would use his remaining strength on this attack, so they planned to wait until he attacks, dodge the attack, and then take him down. They looked at him as he swung his sword. It was as if time became slow, and they could see his movements clearly. But, they didn't see anything attacking them.

However, the next instant that the sword pointed at the wolf beastman, a splat was heard. The leader turned his head slightly to look at what happened and noticed that only blood had remained in the spot where his friend was. Then, he noticed his own arm disappearing, as if a chainsaw was cutting it. 'I can't see anything…' The whole body of the leopard disappeared as well, leaving behind only blood. The whole process happened before the feeling of pain could go from his arm to his brain.

'Haa haaa…" Eric dropped to one knee as he caught his breath. He withdrew a potion created by Ed and drank it. He could feel his QI slowly rejuvenating as he walked towards the Wind Cage. As he flew to the sky, he started to undo it, and the scenery inside started to unfold. He could see Ellie fighting against Gazef, as well as a three-headed Hydra.

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"Try to use some magic," she said while resting on the table. Al tried to use 'Body Strengthening' but couldn't feel his magic power moving. 'Eagle Eye' 'Fireball' 'Fire Lance'…Nothing worked.

"I see that they work, hi hi hi!" Eldrida laughed maniacally as she dragged Al by his collar. Without his magic power, he was even more helpless to do anything. She opened the window and raised Al with one hand.

In the past week, Al kept looking for Eldrida's profile. He had a window dedicated to the people of the world, classed by alphabetical order. As he found her information, he was rather shocked. She donned many titles given to her by people. 'The Rampaging Witch', 'The Crazy Scientist', 'The Calamity Queen', and finally 'The Genius Dhruv Eldrida'. She was banned from Chaka kingdom, a kingdom that existed in the center of the continent, due to almost killing the first prince of that kingdom.

Al, after reading these things, was moved by her abilities and knew that he would be able to hone his abilities under her tutelage. Little did he know, her eccentric character would end up affecting him in the future.

"Don't come back until you hunt something worthy, you shitty brat!" She shouted as she threw Al out of the window. He kept flying until he hit the branches of a tree.

"You shitty granny!" Al couldn't help but shout in anger at Eldrida!

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