Strings Of Domination

"Come on, we need to go." Uncle Ben turned around with those words, his finger already having the Dimensional Ring Nash had just given to him.

Amy, who was still struggling between what she should do and what she should not, clenched her fingers into tight fists and her eyes flashed through different emotions. Right at this moment, it was unknown what she was thinking.

Meanwhile, inside the dark cave about two to three hundred meters away from the cave entrance, Nash suddenly stopped walking and sat down on the ground. Closing his eyes, he took a deep breath and said calmly, "Remain silent and only speak when they are approaching. Also, lower your presences as much as you can, the more the better."

Those words were obviously directed toward Erys and Revio, the two with the ability to talk as the other five were his Souls, mere puppets that couldn't talk even if he ordered them.

As for the reason why he suddenly decided to sit down was not that he got tired and needed to rest, but because of this;

• Essence: 418

After his battle against Latael, his essence was drastically low, to the point where except for his Soul Eye there was not a single thing he could use against the army before him. Even his Souls worked on his essence, hence if it gets below zero, that literally meant his death!

'I need to replenish my essence as fast as I can. Luckily, they still have no clue where we are.' Nash thought in his heart and placed his palms on his thigh as he took a deep breath.

• Essence: 418 --> 423

• Essence: 423 --> 428

• Essence: 428 --> 433

Feeling as his Ancient Veins were filled with the essence with each passing second by a great amount, Nash knew he only needed a little bit more than half an hour to completely recover all his 10,000 units of his essence.

'How unfortunate... I wonder if there is any technique that can allow me to replenish my essence instead of cultivating it in one place.' Nash wondered, but as the slightest of distraction such as thinking could force his cultivation to halt, he stopped thinking and concentrated fully.

On Nash's side, while using her Domination Art to see if anyone was approaching their location, Erys showed a cocky grin, seemingly excited to finally see Nash's downfall after such a long time.

'Just you wait. Once your cursed power will be sealed away by Amael you will wish you have never been born!' Erys thought with ignited hate in her heart and already imagined the many sights that Nash will go through once he gets captured and brought before his father.

In fact, she has already had a few ideas about what she will do with him once they go back home. She will definitely turn his life into something worse than hell that not even in his worst nightmare can he dream of!

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On the very peak of a great mountain, Amael stood with his arms crossed before his chest, his crimson eyes peering into the distance akin to a hawk.

"Lord Amael, everyone began their search as you have ordered." Crimson Wings in his usual crimson armor stood behind Amael, his tone holding pure respect.

Amael remained silent for a while and only once a slightly stronger breeze appeared from the east, blowing his deep red hair to the side did he nod and ask, "Did you search through the spaceship as I asked?"

"Yes, I did." Crimson Wings replied immediately and added, "However, except for a few ordinary items such as the mining pickaxes of the escapees, we found nothing. It seems they are somewhere else."

Amael touched his chin upon hearing those words and began to ponder.

"Interesting, it turns out this planet was not deserted in the end," Amael muttered nonchalantly after a minute, his eyes flashing with various emotions.

"If I may, Lord Amael, what do you mean under those words?" Crimson Wings asked carefully, feeling rather confused when he heard what Amael just said.

According to the records he made sure to study greatly, this planet was thoroughly searched by not one, but two exploring teams! Not only was this planet lacking in ordinary resources in contrast to the rest, but not even a single creature at the peak Warrior Rank existed here!

Many concluded that when the Ancient Path had been opened in this dimension, the ancient particles were unable to travel here in great amount, hence why this planet didn't go under a huge change except for a few minor ones.

Amael pointed into the distance before pointing into another direction and doing this a few more times while saying, "There, there, and even there. I can sense quite a few presences close to the peak Warrior Rank. There is even a single being at the Warmaster Rank, although weak it is definitely there."

"What? But the records stated..."

"Stated that this planet was desolate and failed to undergo the drastic evolutions as the rest could," Amael said with indifference as he lowered his hand and continued, "However, it seems things have changed since then. Through unknown means, this planet gained enough Ancient Particles even way after the Ancient Path had been opened."

"That is impossible. It is common knowledge that when a new dimension opens, only a small amount of particles can escape from the Ancient Dimension before the Ancient Path creates a barrier around itself, letting no more through!" Crimson Wings exclaimed with shock, not believing Amael's words.

"Yes, it is. Or at least was until now." Amael nodded with a still indifferent complexion and said, "Anyways, despite discovering such an important piece of knowledge, we still have a way more important matter to complete first. Things such as the eon long mystery of the Ancient Path can wait."

"Understood. Please forgive me for distracting you from our main objective." Crimson Wings immidieatly kneeled down, acknowledging his mistake without any complaining.

Amael just waved his hands when he heard those words and continued to scan the scenery before him in silence, watching as groups of Sky Beasts and Thousand Bloods appeared and disappeared on the landscape below him.

In the meantime, far away from Amael and Crimson Wings, two Thousand Blood walked through the green forest that made up 80% of the whole scenery in a hundred miles around them. They were clad in silver armor with a silver sword in their hands, their eyes looking left and right as they searched the surroundings around them with sharp gazes.

"This is ridiculous." the creature on the right suddenly said, forcing his fellow to turn toward him and raise his brow.

"Ridiculous? What?"

"This whole situation." the creature whose name was, in reality, Roan and was at the peak Infant Rank said quickly as he looked around and extended his arms wide.

"I still don't get you." Roan's friend frowned, feeling rather confused.

"Mate, what I mean is that it is ridiculous for moving a smaller army just to kill a few humans and capture a single one. Just Lord Amael would be enough for such a mission, why do they have to go so far as to send us here? It is ridiculous!" Roan sighed, kicking away a small rock to vent his seemingly pent-up anger down on it.

"You know, I would have had a date with this chick I talked you about before."

"What?" the eyes of Roan's friend's eyes widened before a teasing smile emerged on his face and asked with a thug, "So you have hooked her up already, huh?"

"Huh? No... I mean not yet. But I would have if I wouldn't have been ordered to come here!" Roan said angrily, kicking another rock away and watching as it vanished into the dark cave in the distance.

"Haha, life truly is hard, huh?" Roan's friend laughed loudly, completely ignoring the fact that they were currently in an unknown territory, searching for escapees that captured the princess of their race more than a month ago.

"Hard?" Roan sneered coldly and said, "Life is not hard, life sucks!"

Clack!

"Huh?" as Roan was cursing with a frown and was ready to kick another rock to the side, suddenly watched with surprise as a pebble appeared from the cave on his side and hit the ground before his feet, stopping only a meter away from him.

"A rock?" Roan picked up the small rock and after examining it just shrugged and threw it back into the cave.

"Whatever, maybe a small tremor caused it to fall he-"

Clack!

'...'

Roan was ready to start walking again, but just as he raised his feet another rock bounced out of the cave, stopping before him just a meter away; what's more, it was the exact same rock he just threw back!

Roan and his friend looked at each other, watching the confusion in each other's eyes, thus quickly grabbed the rock again and threw it back into the cave.

Clack!

"Are you fucking with me?" Roan frowned when he saw the rock was thrown back at him again and raised his weapon, ready to go inside and see just what kind of beast wished to play with him.

However, not even before he took two steps forward, suddenly a figure emerged from the cave, causing both Roan and his friend on his side to halt their steps right away.

"What kind of beast is that?" Roan's friend asked with squinted eyes as he watched a beast with an abyss-black figure emerge from the darkness. It had a bestial look with six, scythe-like tails swinging behind its huge body.

"Wait, isn't it looking kinda similar?" Roan asked suddenly, but even before he could have gotten an answer he watched as a cold glint flashed in his sight before the whole scenery around him began to spin!

'Huh? Isn't that my bo... dy...' Roan thought with shock when he saw his body from above before his thought halted midway and his vision turned black.

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