'BAM'
There was a huge explosion due to which the fire rose till the skies!
The blue and clear sky that was beautiful was now filled with smoke. It was as if the clouds were turning black and slowly it was becoming night since the sunlight's path had been cut off.
"Huff huff..."
Bandis was panting hard as he had used up almost half of his life force just to move the sword. However for some reason he felt that he was doing something wrong.
He even expected and wished for the young human to be alive but he didn't knew that he had wished for nothing since Rex couldn't have been dead yet.
Suddenly a strong oppressive aura with great pressure was felt by everyone who was in 500 metres.
Even the great Bandis who was supposed to be a Godly Level was being suppressed by the force.
Zor who was inside the mind space of Rex could feel this terrifying energy too but he couldn't do anything since he saw Rex smirking and smiling as if he was having fun.
"Good Bandis, it seems you haven't been rusty all this years..."
Bandis was trying to fight against the immense pressure. He wasn't able to figure out Rex's words hence he countinued to think of him as his enemy with whom he might have fought long ago.
Then suddenly Rex did something high made Bandis surrender on his own will.
Rex let out a golden coloured aura which filled the entire forest of the elves. The higher elves who were watching this suddenly trembled and knelt.
"M-master's Aura...?"
Aura is something which cannot be duplicated. It comes from one's own soul. However, various aura can be acquired as a soul remnant blessings but this was the Golden Aura which no one could ever replicate.
Just by seeing this Bandis understood and came to the conclusion that he might be Chronos who has been reincarnated again!
His suspicion turned to respect and loyalty and he confirmed that he really was Chronos when he saw Zormugand appearing.
"It... it really is you master!!!"
He bowed his head with mixed feelings of shame, guilt and loyalty.
All the elves standing there weren't able to understand what was going on but the elder and old elves knew about this. The golden Aura which once destroyed their 20,000 forces with just a single blink of an eye. They could have never forgotten this since they were always warned about this.
Some of the elves got armed with arrows while aiming at Rex and some bowed to him. Some looked at him with evil eyes but the King was afraid. He knew that no matter what they do they wouldn't be able to suppress Rex!
"But what happened to you Bandis? It's unlike you to attack on someone just like that..."
Bandis kept on bowing and started to give an explaination.
"Master, as you know, the elves were your enemies and due to them we had faced a lot of casualties so I always harboured hatred against them."
Rex nodded his head to give a sign for him to continue as this was being broadcasted and listened by all in the Elven tribes using mana screen.
"So I was just Training when a certain someone came and challenged me. I accepted the challenge due to my arrogance and lost pretty badly."
Rex was shocked for a moment to think that Bandis would admit that he lost badly.
"Oh... in how many moves?"
"Pardon...?"
"I asked in how many moved did he defeat you?"
Bandis' coice got further lowered and he said,"One... it took him only one move to defeat me and at the same time put this slave crest on me..."
"..."
Rex couldn't believe at what Bandis told. He could have accepted that Bandis lost in 10-20 moves but losing in just one move and that too turning him into slave, this was something unexpected to Rex.
"..."
"And that's why I had to follow his order to destroy the elves. I too agreed cause they were your enemies and that's why..."
Rex spoke in between.
"And that's why you attacked them??"
"Y-yes..."
"Sigh... What has been done is done, there are many elves that have been injured but luckily no one has died..."
"..."
Bandis kept on lowering his head as he did not have the resolve to look in his eyes.
"Hmm... need to fix a lot of things, but who was he??"
After thinking a bit he asked Bandis, "Show me the place where he instilled the Slave Crest..."
"Yes master..."
TO BE CONTINUED...