Chapter 214: 214 – Fear That Lingers
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Lirian was sipping on a drink in his room when he got the news that they were approaching Xelia, in just a few short minutes they would enter the detection range of Xelia.
Xelia wasn't like the outlier planet which could be easily infiltrated, it was a high world that held one of the ten academies in the Opal Star Zone, so its security was almost unbreachable even with the best stealth devices, and if that wasn't bad enough the empresses personal fleet was stationed above the planets atmosphere.
Then there were the fleets that all the nobles had come with, without a doubt the skies of Xelia were a death for any unwanted guests, and for a ship that remained hidden in stealth, they'd be lucky if they weren't immediately incinerated once they were discovered.
It was likely to be a no questions asked situation, and even the elites from the family were just slightly nervous, they had been imploring Lirian to reveal the ship, but Lirian had been insistent on only revealing himself at the last minute.
Lirian climbed out of his seat and placed the goblet down, as his lips curled into a smile, it was finally time for him to get his revenge and he wouldn't allow anyone to get in his way.
He walked down the corridors with purpose after getting dressed, and found Alastor, "I need my control for the fleet," Lirian said opening his hand to Alastor.
They were on board the ship so it wasn't like Alastor really needed the controller, the controller was mainly meant for controlling the vehicles remotely, the remote in itself was one of the best pieces of tech developed by the Jane family.
Alastor looked at Lirian curiously but he still returned the controller it didn't belong to him in the first place.
"What are you up to?" Alastor asked as Lirian started to walk away, from the way Lirian was walking Alastor could see that his steps were full of purpose.
"Putting on a show that all those damned nobles will not soon forget!" Lirian left those words in a cold and empathic tone, before vanishing.
"Just what is that kid up to," Alastor muttered but he didn't follow after Lirian he had a ship to control.
Lirian made his way to the room that housed two capsules, inside them were the bodies of the two fallen candidates, Lirian didn't have the time to think to much as he pushed the two capsules from the room and locked them together inside a drop pod.
Then he went back up and found Anya, "The disc that was inside the ring I need it!" Lirian said to Anya opening his hand and gesturing for her to return it.
Anya coldly glared at Lirian, through out the entire trip he'd been giving her the cold shoulder, treating her like some common servant and now he was demanding that she return something extremely dangerous.
"Sorry no can do," Anya said putting on airs of her own and walked around Lirian.
"I have been granted the authority to deal with Telamon and I need that disc in order to deal with him!" Lirian said in annoyance.
"The emperor told me to keep the disc hidden and no one is allowed to find out about it!" she answered with a feigned yawn and turned her back on Lirian.
As she walked away she felt he watch vibrate and when she looked down she got a shock, at the emblem that was being projected, "The emperor actually gave you that?!" Anya yelped in disbelief.
She quickly deciphered the code in the emblem, and it completely checked out and once she read the contents she was in complete disbelief.
"I need the disc Anya," Lirian said extending his hand and this time Anya reluctantly pulled it out and handed it to him.
Lirian smiled and turned around, "Did I wrong you in some way?" Anya shouted from behind Lirian with anger filling her voice, she'd always did her best to protect him and take care of him, so she couldn't understand why he was being so cold to her, or the scarier thing to her was that this is who Lirian truly was.
Lirian halted his footsteps and turned back to her, "I can answer your question, but I'd suggest that you head to the control room in about fifty seconds this entire ship will be destroyed if you aren't there," as Lirian spoke he pressed a button on the controller and as he did the entire ship started to accelerate at full throttle.
Anya looked at Lirian in annoyance, then the ships systems started to ring.
[Warning. Warning. Warning.]
[Ship has been forcibly taken over by remote device, all manual overrides have been disengaged.]
Anya looked at Lirian with widened eyes, "Just what are you up to?" she questioned Lirian with anger filling her eyes.
But Lirian only raised a finger and wagged it from side to side, "Tick, tock, tick, tock," Lirian repeated with an amused smile, his answer was clear he wasn't going to tell her anything but if she stayed it was just a matter of time before the Xelia guards and the empress's fleet opened fire on the ship.
"Arg, Dammit," she cursed and ran to control room leaving Lirian alone.
"I'm sorry Anya but I want this over with as soon as possible, and if the elites come down, there is no doubt that I'm going to have to run all of their testimonies by the nobles, and I don't want to waste any time, if anything the more time we give Telamon the likelier he is to escape, and I can't allow any chances," Lirian muttered and walked to the hold where the zealots were being kept.
They were all bound tightly by contraptions on the ship, but those alone couldn't hold them the main thing stopping them from fighting back was a few serums that were regularly injected into their bodies and there were many spells placed on them to prevent them from committing suicide.
Lirian walked over to Number 1, and from her rough and pained breathing Lirian could tell that she had it the worst, every day Milan had paid special attention to her, and used a hundred different kinds of torture on her, it was Milan's way of getting revenge for Edith.
Lirian stepped into the room and as he did all the zealots found themselves shivering in terror as they looked at Lirian, none of them could explain the reason, but they were completely overcome with fear in his presence and Number 1 was frantically trying to push herself through the wall as she screamed in horror.
All of their memories had been altered by Lirian yet his presence still left them in such a state, and it wasn't just them, even the elites seemed scared to face Lirian over the days in the ship.
Lirian found it very annoying and it made up a bigger part of the reason why he didn't want the elites down there when he confronted Telamon, if they witnessed his blood lust in the flesh, he didn't want to imagine it unravelling the memories he placed in their minds.
The only reason for their heavy reactions that Lirian could figure out was that he had left far to profound an impact on their minds, so much so that it was close to rivalling what they felt from his apparition.
Lirian walked up to Number 1 and grabbed her by the chin, "Tell me Alice are you ready to betray your master and reveal his secrets to the entire world?" Lirian asked with a cruel smile.
"You how, you can't know that name!" she shouted frantically as Lirian called her by her name.
"Oh I already know everything about you, I also happen to know that you are the one who commission the Black Hand to kill me when I was being transported to Xelia, on your masters orders," Lirian said revealing one of the many secrets she held.
As her eyes widened Lirian pulled out the submission disc and showed it to them, "Tell me will you betray Telamon?" Lirian asked as he showed off the disc, but none of them showed any fear, they knew that the disc had a self-destruction spell on it if anyone tried to use it, it would shatter.
Lirian only smiled at their silence then he entered the control panel of the room and after a few minutes they all found themselves free from their restraints.
They looked at Lirian wide eyed as they tried to understand what he was trying to do, "Bad move!" a zealot shouted and jumped at Lirian with a mad laugh.
"Stand still all of you!" Lirian ordered with the disc and with just that they all fell completely still even the zealot who was about to kill Lirian, and their eyes all darted to the disc in Lirian's hands with horror.
"Follow me, be quite and do not do anything I do not allow you to do," Lirian ordered them once more and they lined up with discipline and followed after Lirian without any questions.
Lirian soon guided them to another drop pod on the ship, "Go inside and wait soon the opportunity for all of you to betray your master will arrive," Lirian laughed and shut the pod.
Lirian took a deep breath as he walked down the corridor towards the portal device, "Soon I'll get revenge for you Edith, it's a pity that I'll only get Telamon this time, but I promise one day I'll make Efrideet pay for her role in all of this," Lirian swore and started to break through the defences of the portal on Xelia, it was time for his grand entrance.
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Lirian was sipping on a drink in his room when he got the news that they were approaching Xelia, in just a few short minutes they would enter the detection range of Xelia.
Xelia wasn't like the outlier planet which could be easily infiltrated, it was a high world that held one of the ten academies in the Opal Star Zone, so its security was almost unbreachable even with the best stealth devices, and if that wasn't bad enough the empresses personal fleet was stationed above the planets atmosphere.
Then there were the fleets that all the nobles had come with, without a doubt the skies of Xelia were a death for any unwanted guests, and for a ship that remained hidden in stealth, they'd be lucky if they weren't immediately incinerated once they were discovered.
It was likely to be a no questions asked situation, and even the elites from the family were just slightly nervous, they had been imploring Lirian to reveal the ship, but Lirian had been insistent on only revealing himself at the last minute.
Lirian climbed out of his seat and placed the goblet down, as his lips curled into a smile, it was finally time for him to get his revenge and he wouldn't allow anyone to get in his way.
He walked down the corridors with purpose after getting dressed, and found Alastor, "I need my control for the fleet," Lirian said opening his hand to Alastor.
They were on board the ship so it wasn't like Alastor really needed the controller, the controller was mainly meant for controlling the vehicles remotely, the remote in itself was one of the best pieces of tech developed by the Jane family.
Alastor looked at Lirian curiously but he still returned the controller it didn't belong to him in the first place.
"What are you up to?" Alastor asked as Lirian started to walk away, from the way Lirian was walking Alastor could see that his steps were full of purpose.
"Putting on a show that all those damned nobles will not soon forget!" Lirian left those words in a cold and empathic tone, before vanishing.
"Just what is that kid up to," Alastor muttered but he didn't follow after Lirian he had a ship to control.
Lirian made his way to the room that housed two capsules, inside them were the bodies of the two fallen candidates, Lirian didn't have the time to think to much as he pushed the two capsules from the room and locked them together inside a drop pod.
Then he went back up and found Anya, "The disc that was inside the ring I need it!" Lirian said to Anya opening his hand and gesturing for her to return it.
Anya coldly glared at Lirian, through out the entire trip he'd been giving her the cold shoulder, treating her like some common servant and now he was demanding that she return something extremely dangerous.
"Sorry no can do," Anya said putting on airs of her own and walked around Lirian.
"I have been granted the authority to deal with Telamon and I need that disc in order to deal with him!" Lirian said in annoyance.
"The emperor told me to keep the disc hidden and no one is allowed to find out about it!" she answered with a feigned yawn and turned her back on Lirian.
As she walked away she felt he watch vibrate and when she looked down she got a shock, at the emblem that was being projected, "The emperor actually gave you that?!" Anya yelped in disbelief.
She quickly deciphered the code in the emblem, and it completely checked out and once she read the contents she was in complete disbelief.
"I need the disc Anya," Lirian said extending his hand and this time Anya reluctantly pulled it out and handed it to him.
Lirian smiled and turned around, "Did I wrong you in some way?" Anya shouted from behind Lirian with anger filling her voice, she'd always did her best to protect him and take care of him, so she couldn't understand why he was being so cold to her, or the scarier thing to her was that this is who Lirian truly was.
Lirian halted his footsteps and turned back to her, "I can answer your question, but I'd suggest that you head to the control room in about fifty seconds this entire ship will be destroyed if you aren't there," as Lirian spoke he pressed a button on the controller and as he did the entire ship started to accelerate at full throttle.
Anya looked at Lirian in annoyance, then the ships systems started to ring.
[Warning. Warning. Warning.]
[Ship has been forcibly taken over by remote device, all manual overrides have been disengaged.]
Anya looked at Lirian with widened eyes, "Just what are you up to?" she questioned Lirian with anger filling her eyes.
But Lirian only raised a finger and wagged it from side to side, "Tick, tock, tick, tock," Lirian repeated with an amused smile, his answer was clear he wasn't going to tell her anything but if she stayed it was just a matter of time before the Xelia guards and the empress's fleet opened fire on the ship.
"Arg, Dammit," she cursed and ran to control room leaving Lirian alone.
"I'm sorry Anya but I want this over with as soon as possible, and if the elites come down, there is no doubt that I'm going to have to run all of their testimonies by the nobles, and I don't want to waste any time, if anything the more time we give Telamon the likelier he is to escape, and I can't allow any chances," Lirian muttered and walked to the hold where the zealots were being kept.
They were all bound tightly by contraptions on the ship, but those alone couldn't hold them the main thing stopping them from fighting back was a few serums that were regularly injected into their bodies and there were many spells placed on them to prevent them from committing suicide.
Lirian walked over to Number 1, and from her rough and pained breathing Lirian could tell that she had it the worst, every day Milan had paid special attention to her, and used a hundred different kinds of torture on her, it was Milan's way of getting revenge for Edith.
Lirian stepped into the room and as he did all the zealots found themselves shivering in terror as they looked at Lirian, none of them could explain the reason, but they were completely overcome with fear in his presence and Number 1 was frantically trying to push herself through the wall as she screamed in horror.
All of their memories had been altered by Lirian yet his presence still left them in such a state, and it wasn't just them, even the elites seemed scared to face Lirian over the days in the ship.
Lirian found it very annoying and it made up a bigger part of the reason why he didn't want the elites down there when he confronted Telamon, if they witnessed his blood lust in the flesh, he didn't want to imagine it unravelling the memories he placed in their minds.
The only reason for their heavy reactions that Lirian could figure out was that he had left far to profound an impact on their minds, so much so that it was close to rivalling what they felt from his apparition.
Lirian walked up to Number 1 and grabbed her by the chin, "Tell me Alice are you ready to betray your master and reveal his secrets to the entire world?" Lirian asked with a cruel smile.
"You how, you can't know that name!" she shouted frantically as Lirian called her by her name.
"Oh I already know everything about you, I also happen to know that you are the one who commission the Black Hand to kill me when I was being transported to Xelia, on your masters orders," Lirian said revealing one of the many secrets she held.
As her eyes widened Lirian pulled out the submission disc and showed it to them, "Tell me will you betray Telamon?" Lirian asked as he showed off the disc, but none of them showed any fear, they knew that the disc had a self-destruction spell on it if anyone tried to use it, it would shatter.
Lirian only smiled at their silence then he entered the control panel of the room and after a few minutes they all found themselves free from their restraints.
They looked at Lirian wide eyed as they tried to understand what he was trying to do, "Bad move!" a zealot shouted and jumped at Lirian with a mad laugh.
"Stand still all of you!" Lirian ordered with the disc and with just that they all fell completely still even the zealot who was about to kill Lirian, and their eyes all darted to the disc in Lirian's hands with horror.
"Follow me, be quite and do not do anything I do not allow you to do," Lirian ordered them once more and they lined up with discipline and followed after Lirian without any questions.
Lirian soon guided them to another drop pod on the ship, "Go inside and wait soon the opportunity for all of you to betray your master will arrive," Lirian laughed and shut the pod.
Lirian took a deep breath as he walked down the corridor towards the portal device, "Soon I'll get revenge for you Edith, it's a pity that I'll only get Telamon this time, but I promise one day I'll make Efrideet pay for her role in all of this," Lirian swore and started to break through the defences of the portal on Xelia, it was time for his grand entrance.
Lirian was sipping on a drink in his room when he got the news that they were approaching Xelia, in just a few short minutes they would enter the detection range of Xelia. Xelia wasn't like the outlier planet which could be easily infiltrated, it was a high world that held one of the ten academies in the Opal Star Zone, so its security was almost unbreachable even with the best stealth devices, and if that wasn't bad enough the empresses personal fleet was stationed above the planets atmosphere. Then there were the fleets that all the nobles had come with, without a doubt the skies of Xelia were a death for any unwanted guests, and for a ship that remained hidden in stealth, they'd be lucky if they weren't immediately incinerated once they were discovered. It was likely to be a no questions asked situation, and even the elites from the family were just slightly nervous, they had been imploring Lirian to reveal the ship, but Lirian had been insistent on only revealing himself at the last minute. Lirian climbed out of his seat and placed the goblet down, as his lips curled into a smile, it was finally time for him to get his revenge and he wouldn't allow anyone to get in his way. He walked down the corridors with purpose after getting dressed, and found Alastor, "I need my control for the fleet," Lirian said opening his hand to Alastor. They were on board the ship so it wasn't like Alastor really needed the controller, the controller was mainly meant for controlling the vehicles remotely, the remote in itself was one of the best pieces of tech developed by the Jane family. Alastor looked at Lirian curiously but he still returned the controller it didn't belong to him in the first place. "What are you up to?" Alastor asked as Lirian started to walk away, from the way Lirian was walking Alastor could see that his steps were full of purpose. "Putting on a show that all those damned nobles will not soon forget!" Lirian left those words in a cold and empathic tone, before vanishing. "Just what is that kid up to," Alastor muttered but he didn't follow after Lirian he had a ship to control. Lirian made his way to the room that housed two capsules, inside them were the bodies of the two fallen candidates, Lirian didn't have the time to think to much as he pushed the two capsules from the room and locked them together inside a drop pod. Then he went back up and found Anya, "The disc that was inside the ring I need it!" Lirian said to Anya opening his hand and gesturing for her to return it. Anya coldly glared at Lirian, through out the entire trip he'd been giving her the cold shoulder, treating her like some common servant and now he was demanding that she return something extremely dangerous. "Sorry no can do," Anya said putting on airs of her own and walked around Lirian. "I have been granted the authority to deal with Telamon and I need that disc in order to deal with him!" Lirian said in annoyance. "The emperor told me to keep the disc hidden and no one is allowed to find out about it!" she answered with a feigned yawn and turned her back on Lirian. As she walked away she felt he watch vibrate and when she looked down she got a shock, at the emblem that was being projected, "The emperor actually gave you that?!" Anya yelped in disbelief. She quickly deciphered the code in the emblem, and it completely checked out and once she read the contents she was in complete disbelief. "I need the disc Anya," Lirian said extending his hand and this time Anya reluctantly pulled it out and handed it to him. Lirian smiled and turned around, "Did I wrong you in some way?" Anya shouted from behind Lirian with anger filling her voice, she'd always did her best to protect him and take care of him, so she couldn't understand why he was being so cold to her, or the scarier thing to her was that this is who Lirian truly was. Lirian halted his footsteps and turned back to her, "I can answer your question, but I'd suggest that you head to the control room in about fifty seconds this entire ship will be destroyed if you aren't there," as Lirian spoke he pressed a button on the controller and as he did the entire ship started to accelerate at full throttle. Anya looked at Lirian in annoyance, then the ships systems started to ring. Warning. Warning. Warning. Ship has been forcibly taken over by remote device, all manual overrides have been disengaged. Anya looked at Lirian with widened eyes, "Just what are you up to?" she questioned Lirian with anger filling her eyes. But Lirian only raised a finger and wagged it from side to side, "Tick, tock, tick, tock," Lirian repeated with an amused smile, his answer was clear he wasn't going to tell her anything but if she stayed it was just a matter of time before the Xelia guards and the empress's fleet opened fire on the ship. "Arg, Dammit," she cursed and ran to control room leaving Lirian alone. "I'm sorry Anya but I want this over with as soon as possible, and if the elites come down, there is no doubt that I'm going to have to run all of their testimonies by the nobles, and I don't want to waste any time, if anything the more time we give Telamon the likelier he is to escape, and I can't allow any chances," Lirian muttered and walked to the hold where the zealots were being kept. They were all bound tightly by contraptions on the ship, but those alone couldn't hold them the main thing stopping them from fighting back was a few serums that were regularly injected into their bodies and there were many spells placed on them to prevent them from committing suicide. Lirian walked over to Number 1, and from her rough and pained breathing Lirian could tell that she had it the worst, every day Milan had paid special attention to her, and used a hundred different kinds of torture on her, it was Milan's way of getting revenge for Edith. Lirian stepped into the room and as he did all the zealots found themselves shivering in terror as they looked at Lirian, none of them could explain the reason, but they were completely overcome with fear in his presence and Number 1 was frantically trying to push herself through the wall as she screamed in horror. All of their memories had been altered by Lirian yet his presence still left them in such a state, and it wasn't just them, even the elites seemed scared to face Lirian over the days in the ship. Lirian found it very annoying and it made up a bigger part of the reason why he didn't want the elites down there when he confronted Telamon, if they witnessed his blood lust in the flesh, he didn't want to imagine it unravelling the memories he placed in their minds. The only reason for their heavy reactions that Lirian could figure out was that he had left far to profound an impact on their minds, so much so that it was close to rivalling what they felt from his apparition. Lirian walked up to Number 1 and grabbed her by the chin, "Tell me Alice are you ready to betray your master and reveal his secrets to the entire world?" Lirian asked with a cruel smile. "You how, you can't know that name!" she shouted frantically as Lirian called her by her name. "Oh I already know everything about you, I also happen to know that you are the one who commission the Black Hand to kill me when I was being transported to Xelia, on your masters orders," Lirian said revealing one of the many secrets she held. As her eyes widened Lirian pulled out the submission disc and showed it to them, "Tell me will you betray Telamon?" Lirian asked as he showed off the disc, but none of them showed any fear, they knew that the disc had a self-destruction spell on it if anyone tried to use it, it would shatter. Lirian only smiled at their silence then he entered the control panel of the room and after a few minutes they all found themselves free from their restraints. They looked at Lirian wide eyed as they tried to understand what he was trying to do, "Bad move!" a zealot shouted and jumped at Lirian with a mad laugh. "Stand still all of you!" Lirian ordered with the disc and with just that they all fell completely still even the zealot who was about to kill Lirian, and their eyes all darted to the disc in Lirian's hands with horror. "Follow me, be quite and do not do anything I do not allow you to do," Lirian ordered them once more and they lined up with discipline and followed after Lirian without any questions. Lirian soon guided them to another drop pod on the ship, "Go inside and wait soon the opportunity for all of you to betray your master will arrive," Lirian laughed and shut the pod. Lirian took a deep breath as he walked down the corridor towards the portal device, "Soon I'll get revenge for you Edith, it's a pity that I'll only get Telamon this time, but I promise one day I'll make Efrideet pay for her role in all of this," Lirian swore and started to break through the defences of the portal on Xelia, it was time for his grand entrance.
