Chapter 227: Subjugation and Rescue

If he could wish something right now, then it is to NOT see these two’s faces inside the ship.

The bald one up front spoke in a hurry, “What was that just now?!”

“It’s Siva…” the commander replied, shaky, “It’s the Turquoise… no, Marshal D’Catch’s Flagship that fired at us… on the orders of Siva.”

Of course they were listening to the call right now between Siva and the Commander. Though they can’t connect through the line directly, the commander deliberately yelled the name and the circumstances so that they could understand what was happening.

Also, they have long [denied] the prompt on the agreed contract between ‘Donar’ and Kladis.

Besides, Gats is online.

The [Round Table Quest] is still theirs to pursue!

In Apus Epirus, that was the only important thing aside from Kladis.

In fact, looking at it from outside this perspective, the overall forces of The Legion stationed in the castle base are just 30% of their overall power.

Almost everything in Apus Epirus was owned by Kladis… the soldiers, the warships, even the castle itself is owned by Kladis. And almost 90% of those soldiers have been preserved and already escaped earlier with the rest of the remaining ones subordinates who decided to go with the flow and ride another bus to play.

The real loss were the warships and Rewloola-1.

It is the reason why they are reluctant to part with it because this Rewloola, now, is the only one of its class.

“Siva!” hissed Zaza.

“It’s really him?!” Redeye growled.

In their opinion, Kladis was played by Siva because Siva’s vow was “on my identity as Elder God Donar” and not as Siva.

Akhenaton can only be bound to a single person so, thinking this way, even if Kladis have won the senseless duel, Akhenaton and everything Siva owned would never be on Kladis’ hands….

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In the end, Siva… had been playing them from the very beginning of everything.

No, in fact, he’s been playing the world!

Everyone believed his perfect play of Donar and now that he himself had exposed it, all the major powers of Terroa would either team up or directly go after him to pursue not only the Grand Quest he was connected to but also this tempting treasure… Warship Akhenaton!

They were made aware, ever since they have escaped the spire down below, that the media perks have turned their eyes in this battlefield.

Everyone else in the world is now aware that they have all been played by Siva!

The people left in the Castle Base are also aware of it and that’s why they stayed.

“Now you can’t escape!” Siva’s voice rung on the communications channel active on the command bridge main display and his glaring eyes were full of hate that it was summoning wariness.

His gaze locked on to the commander and then to the two behind him.

“Guests? What an awful time to visit, yes?”

Zaza was more hot headed than Redeye and so it didn’t take long before he was enraged. Thanks for reading on ManaNovel!

“You can never get the Rewloola!”

Siva laughed, “Wrong! It’s already mine! This castle and that ship are my prizes. Kladis is dead, and nothing is going to take it away from me. But what I’m actually wondering is that while I was killing him, none of his comrades and none of his guild mates actually helped him. I could only think that there was something else you were after in the walled City of Alexandria.”

A look of surprise flashed on everyone’s faces inside the command bridge and Siva saw this.

He chuckled, “So I am right. I wonder. If it’s not a who then it could only be a what. If so, that’s all the more I cannot let you get away.”

Redeye shouted as soon as Siva finished. “Cut the call. We’re getting out of here!”

Just as the commander was about to cut the call, Siva’s laughter rung and they all turned their heads and opened the command bridge’s door—

—–only to see three cylindrical objects that fell right in front of their stunned faces.

“Huh?”

“Eh?”

“What?”

Redeye saw his fallen men on the hall way and a masked person whose body was clad in dancing electricity.

It was as if that person knew that they were just about to escape so he timed his attack at them.

“Oh, I was just about to knock.” Said the man.

CHA-CHA-CHAK!

The three grenades exploded before they could even think to escape and their bodies were then engulfed with electricity which stunned them.

The exploding area has diameter of 10m and every person who’s within that range fell down on the ground with a thudding sound.

Volt didn’t let up as he also threw stun grenades on the command bridge itself.

The explosion rung and everyone was stunned and fell on the ground with a thud.

With disbelieving eyes, they all looked at Thorn with incredulous expressions and to add more fear to this fact, Volt swiped the air and showed a Real@D rendering of a laughing Siva.

“Surprise.” He laughed then said, “Tie them up.”

After this, Siva’s Real@D rendering disappeared as Volt clapped and then rubbed his hands with each other, “Alright, it’s time to harvest. Hehe…”

*****

Siva sighed in relief when he saw the smiling face of Volt with a few tied up men and women behind him.

[I’m good here. I’ll just throw in a grenade every now and then to freeze them up if they try to even speak a word. Right now, I’m going to bring them to the ship for interrogation. Oh, by the way, what should we do about those loyalists still inside the ship?]

“Lock ‘em up. Set the ship into full lockdown and sweep the engine room. Tie up anyone who will try to fight you.”

Siva was careful with his choice of words. He knew that he couldn’t give the suggestion to ‘kill’ anyone who will fight against them.

[Ayt.]

“Thanks, Matt.”

[Eh? Haha… No problem, man.]

The call was cut.

Siva called him by his real name because he did meant his ‘thanks’ as not just for his hard work but also for his dedication.

After that, his gaze landed on the ones hovering between him and the castle base.

“Enemies should just die.”

Before his words could be heard by anyone, he lifted a hand and without a word, a ray of light descended from the heavens and obliterated them without even an ash remaining.

This sight stunned and scared those that had remained in the castle base. Siva then looked at them and then towards the center-most castle, pointing a finger there at which Akhenaton also did.

The burning island not too far away from Siva shook and trembled as something that seemed to be a small platform shot from there towards the castle base.

As soon as that metallic platform shot out, the burning island hovering there seemed to have lost its strings as it fell and crashed into the forest floor down below.

The ground rumbled and shook as the burning island crumbled into a mini mountain that continued to burn there, turning into something akin to more solid and chunkier lava but was not.

That platform shot out like a visible comet and it went straight towards the roof of the central tower, not minding the destruction of its tiles as the platform crushed what seemed to be an already existing throne base erected on that direction.

Now… it was placed there neatly and the former throne crushed flatly into the ground.

As soon as that platform landed there, a series of invisible thin ripples spread from the very lowest level and began to spread throughout Apus Epirus, merging with its core like a layer of paint, and then spreading further towards the attached islands and its palaces until eventually the ripples that looked like rippling waves in the surface of water suddenly surged back towards the center palace in the main island and coming back into the platform.

Right after that is a moment of silence… followed by the rumbling of the entire island castle.

The people still in the castle wall held on tightly as the island castle itself and its smaller islands connected by chain-bridges floated upwards, to their utter surprise, towards… Akhenaton!

Akhenaton’s actions were also quite bizarre. As if a ghost calling for a mortal soul to come to him, the island castle Apus Epirus was coming straight at him like a lover.

When it was a kilometer close, the island castle hovered slowly into a stop and then, along with the other islands, positioned itself as the most important island of the nine –right behind the human-shaped warship.

Seeing this, Siva felt satisfied as he nodded and pick up speed and spoke, “How is she?”

[We’re just about to open the last cell.]

Siva swallowed as he flew towards Apus Epirus while watching the video feed.

Now that he thinks about it, based on the things they had heard from FlowerLord regarding how Scion was treated in Apus Epirus, not only had she been made a member of their circle, her role was also to lead them on a mission connected to him… Siva, along with the MOD she received from the frightened and retired Henna of TOS Guild.

“Could it be the Grand Quest they were talking about? But there is no Grand Quest…” Siva thought for a while but couldn’t get a hold of a definite direction to where to point his thoughts on.

After using a key that Thorn got from somewhere in the cellars, they pushed open the wooden door and a dark room boomed on them.

Inside that room… was a trembling Scion, her eyes looked at Thorn with surprise as the latter smiled and waved a hand, “Yo.”

Scion cried immediately as soon as Thorn went to help her.

The surprise on the crew, especially with Heller, was evident as they laid eyes on perhaps the most beautiful woman they have ever seen.

Red Metal was in a daze.

Coralline’s eyes were glittered with starlight effects around them.

Debra was the same but City Lord Rentaw was staring at her as if she was seeing a real goddess.

…everyone else except for Deb and Thorn was unaffected by the beauty that is Scion.

The ‘Provoker’, Niobe, was next in line in terms of beauty next to Scion but even she felt that her beauty was not worthy to stand side by side with her delicate and pure-kind of charm.

“Are you really… not an…” Coralline wanted to ask but she hesitated and looked at Thorn.

She wanted to know if Scion is not an NPC.

Scion didn’t answer her and continued to cry. It was at that moment then that a set of running footfalls echoed in their ears.

But there were no fighting that rung from outside since there were people stationed there as lookout.

A figure then entered the cellar halls and went straight for the cellar which Scion was locked.

Right after Thorn released the last chain that bound her left leg, Siva appeared right there at the exit, panting, his eyes meeting hers.

Scion gasped and looked at the new arrival.

When their eyes met, Siva’s panting softened.

His voice then rung to fill the cellar halls.

“Amanda…“

“Rex…”

The names they spoke baffled everyone’s ears.

But before they could think anything else, Scion was already on her way to his chest as she did not mind the people when she jumped directly at his embrace where she cried.

Siva was frozen. He stood there, teary-eyed, but he stopped himself as he hugged her shaking and trembling body.

“You’re late! You’re late! You’re late!!!” She beat his chest with a soft fist but all the while, she burried her face on it. “I was scared. I was so scared Rex, he… he… I… uuu… huu… waaa…”

Sivas heart broke as he heard her sobs. He pats her head and back, ignoring the scrutiny and perhaps the burning doubts of the people in the cellar.

“It’s okay now. Kladis is dead. He’s gone. I’m here now, don’t worry. I won’t leave you again. I will be here now. I will protect you.”

Although he said that, Siva thought that perhaps it would be better for to just log out and quit on this game.

After all, he was the whole reason why she was in here in the first place.

Tighter and tighter, his arms made her heart beat fast and slower at the same time.

When was the last time he hugged her? None.

In fact, this was also her first time being hugged and touched closely and so lovingly by a man.

She wept and cried. He patted her back, head, and hugged her tight.

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry… I’m sorry…” Siva couldn’t say anything else as guilt and longing hugged his very being.

Before, he ignored this emotion he felt for her because of his issues.

Now, he felt guilty for what had happened to her. If it wasn’t because he had to follow the rules of the deal he had promised and push everyone he cared about away from him, then this situation wouldn’t have happened.

She… wouldn’t have to go through that!

Remembering it makes the fury in his heart to burn even brighter. He had defeated Kladis but Siva felt that Kladis had not received the pain and the suffering he was due to pay for to his crimes!