Strings Of Domination

"So, what should we do?" Nash asked Flake while he watched as Bane and the soldiers coordinated each others' attacks perfectly to fight the Diamond Beast.

Swords flashed forming small and insignificant marks on the beast's adamant hard body while different techniques such as fireballs, wind blades, and strength-enhancing domains appeared everywhere on the battlefield despite the Slayer Race having a Legacy that already boosted their strength to unprecedented levels!

"This Diamond Beast is an evolved one." Flake said with a calm tone and looked into a specific direction before continuing, "Just rest for the time being. Although I have asked for your help, you don't need to fight Evolved Diamond Beasts. Once we meet with a normal one, I will let you three take care of it."

Nash, Miles, and Amy looked at each other and nodded without any complaining. No, they even felt delighted as they could get their promised rewards after this mission without breaking a sweat or risking their lives.

Time passed quickly and a quarter of an hour has passed in seemingly a blink before Bane was finally able to smash his fist into the Diamond Beast's crimson eyes, succeeding in shattering its eyes and a small part of its head!

From then on, killing the beast was child's play and Bane let his men take care of them.

"Great job everyone. Let's find the next one." after digging out a black orb with a size of a fist from the Diamond Beast's body and putting it inside one of his pouches, Bane turned to look at his soldiers and began to walk away.

The group quickly followed after him and began to wander around in the hope to meet with another Diamond Beast. However, this time they didn't have to walk for a long while as after about a mile they finally met with not one, but two Diamond Beasts!

"One normal and one evolved, each of them at the Warrior Rank," Flake mumbled quietly and glanced at Emerald on his side.

Upon feeling the stare on him Nash nodded and while taking a step forward he said, "I will take care of it alone."

Flake and even Bane raised a brow when they heard Emerald's words, but when they saw how neither Abyss nor Snow, alias Miles, and Amy didn't move nor talked, the former even reading his book without a single care in the world, they couldn't help but feel curious what method will Emerald use.

"You guys take care of the Evolved Beast," Bane ordered his men to start fighting the other Diamond Beast, but still remained motionless and watched Emerald's figure with an interested gaze.

"What do you think he will do?" Flake asked in a tone that only Bane was able to hear and watched as Emerald finally reached the Diamond Beast.

Bane began to ponder with his fingers under his chin and said, "I don't see any weapons or items on him that could help him so I don't really know. But from his demeanor and brimming confidence, I am pretty sure he has his own ways."

Flake nodded and wished to say something when suddenly the motion of his lips froze and the words in his throat stuck abruptly while his eyes widened extra large.

Under his and Bane's stupified gazes Emerald extended his right arm forward the moment the Diamond Beast began to move toward him and with a casual motion clenched his fingers into a tight fist.

And the very moment his fingers closed into a tight and firm grasp...

Thud!

The earth shook with a small tremor as the Diamond Beast's body fell on the ground, small cracks even forming below the gigantic body of the beast that spread in a two to three meters radius!

"Wha... What happened just now?" Flake and Bane asked the same question at the same time with the exact same dumbfounded complexion and watched as Emerald casually walked back.

"I think it has died," Nash said coolly once he was before the two Slayers and without saying anything else walked back to the side of Miles and Amy.

Bane and Flake remained silent but quickly regained their composure and walked next to the now motionlessly lying figure of the Diamond Beast.

"It... really has died... But how? I didn't see him using any power or skills. I didn't even feel that he would have activated his Legacy!" Flake mumbled as he examined the corpse of the Diamond Beast.

As one should know, both Domination Arts and Legacies have their own aura upon activation, thus differentiation the two from one another was not a difficult task to do.

However, just now, the moment Emerald clenched his fingers as though he wished to grab something in sheer empty air, they felt no aura breaking out of his body meaning he neither activated a Domination Art nor his Legacy!

In their eyes, this made no freaking sense at all!

"I felt a unique aura when he killed the beast, but it was nothing I have seen or felt before. What was that?" Bane mumbled with a deep frown while his gaze shifted at the figure of Emerald who now was casually talking with his friends.

After taking the core out of the Diamond Beast and helping kill the Evolved Diamond Beast the group continued to walk onwards, searching for Diamond Beasts.

And luckily, they didn't have to walk far before crossing paths with another two Diamond Beasts, unfortunately, each being an Evolved Beast.

Bane was about to split his men into two groups to take care of the two creatures when suddenly he saw how Abyss took a step forward and asked, "L-Lord Bane... Can I take care of the one on the right?"

Bane was surprised when he heard what Abyss wished to do, but suddenly Emerald stood on his side and said, "Let him do it. If anything happens I will help him."

Bane closed his mouth and after looking at Flake, who just shrugged he nodded and said, "Okay, but if you feel even the two of you can't kill it just make sure you distract him until me and my men finish with the other one."

"Sure," Nash nodded and glanced at Miles, "Go and show us what that book of yours can do."

When Bane and Flake heard Emerald's words their gaze immediately shifted onto the book in Abyss' hands and their eyes quickly lit up.

"So that book is a Domination Art? What kind of powers will it allow him to hold?"

Under the watchful eyes of Bane, Flake, Amy, and Nash Miles walked forward, and only when he was five meters away from the creature did he stop walking.

Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, Miles calmed his slightly fast heartbeat down which quickened every time he saw the Slayers looking at him and mumbled, "You can do it. Just follow the steps you have come up with and everything will be fine."

With those words in his mind, Miles opened his eyes slowly, and with the book in his right hand, he raised his left, starting to draw in the empty air with his index finger.

At first, nothing happened nor appeared, confusion Flake and Bane while making Amy and Nash slightly worried as the Diamond Beast was approaching Miles with ground shaking steps, but soon golden light began to emit from the tip of Miles' finger and symbols appeared in the air one after another!

'It's working!' Miles thought in his heart with a mixture of excitement and joy and like someone whose spirit was enhanced he began to quicken his drawing motions, quickly drawing numerous symbols one after another!

One... Ten... Fifty... A hundred symbols appeared before Miles in just a few seconds, each having a different shape but glowing with the same golden light!

"Those are... Array symbols?" Flake's brows lowered into a frown while Bane watched the golden symbols in silence.

However, the next moment both of their eyes widened, almost the same manner as they looked like the moment they saw Emerald's feat a few moments ago.

Once a little more than a hundred golden symbols appeared in the air, Miles waved his hand and in a low voice said, "Six Curse of Magma... Melt!"

Whoosh!

Under the flick of Miles's hand, all the symbols in front of him flew and appeared around the Diamond Beast, sticking onto its body before their golden color changed into fiery red before extreme heat burst out of each, melting the Diamond Beast's previously indestructible body into nothing more but dissolving crystalline liquid!

"I did it!" Miles clenched his fingers into a tight fist and boxed into the air with joy, but soon his actions froze, and slowly lowered his hand before slowly turning around and looking at Flake and Bane.

"I-It seems... I have accidentally melted the core in the process too..."

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