<strong>Teleportation point, Estrya city;</strong>
The authorities in the Arcana world have built one teleportation point in every city to make sure the people can teleport to their desire location.
However, there's a catch. To go through the teleportation formation and leave the city, one must have an identification document of any kind; one must have the access badge which will only let them teleport to similar regions; and lastly, one must have enough money.
As long as one has these three things, the guards wouldn't care even if it's a person with a criminal record, of course, it is only restricted to Gaia.
If a person is a wanted criminal in Arcana world, he/she would be apprehended on the spot.
Iphi reached the only teleportation point in the city. Thankfully, she arrived long before the volcanic eruption, so, there weren't that many people here.
In no time, her turn came in.
The guardian/gatekeeper ignored her and looked at the woman who was standing behind her and asked, "Is she related to you?"
While the woman was taken aback because of a sudden question, Iphi calmly answered in her place, "no. We aren't related. I need to go to Central city. Here are my student ID and level-2 access badge."
She then handed the credit card to him.
"Are you alone? Where are your parents? If you are lost, we can help you out." Because of her age, the guardian thought she might have been lost...
In response to his question, Iphi released her aura, surprising everyone around her.
The gatekeeper was stunned to see a fellow rank-4 before him. He immediately looked at her ID and was shocked to see that she was indeed a young girl as he thought.
What's more shocking is that this ten-year-old girl managed to suppress her strength to rank-2. This is the reason he wasn't able to found her original rank.
As he was rooted to the ground like a statue, Iphi spoke, "Hurry up, mister. I need to get back to the Academy."
"Ah, Yes." He nodded and moved aside to give her the way.
Taking back her things, she walked to the formation and stayed still until another guardian who was working as an activator, took out a card and activated the teleportation formation with a dumbfounded look on his face.
This peak rank-5 was also surprised by her soul rank.
As the formation activated, she disappeared instantly.
Looking at it, the guardian at the entrance mumbled, "Phoenix academy students are really different from the rest."
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<strong>Mt. Estrya;</strong>
<strong>"Soul skill: Cursed skulls"</strong>
Almost instantly, three energy-made skulls which are as big as Azzy's head appeared at the tip of the scythe.
Vajra looked at them, curiously. After all, it was the first time it was being a bystander when its host was acting.
Other times, since it was also participating in battle, it won't get to observe Azzy's other soul skills from up close.
Feeling the mixture of death and Protos energies, it was awed to see it from up close.
Meanwhile, the time resumed and the beast continued to fall.
As it was falling freely with its back facing the sky, it was unable to see Azzy.
But, it felt like dangerous energy above it. It had the same feeling when it faced the black rain.
It turned its head to see what's happening.
Its eyes widened in surprise.
Just a few seconds ago, before it jumps, it clearly saw Azzy was far away.
It wondered whether he used a teleportation skill card or something.
In the next second, it quickly threw away the useless thoughts as soon as it saw the three skulls at the tip of the blade.
At the instant, it remembered the scene of the black rain. It might not fear the wolf but it was scared of this mysterious boy.
The platinum-grade beast quickly tried to control the calm lava, a kilometer beneath it, to rise and form a wall so that it may get enough time to escape.
However, Azzy didn't give it the chance to do that.
"Goodbye." Azzy swung it down with every ounce of his strength while almost emptying his soul energy.
Before the lava even rose a hundred meters, the first skull hit its back and disappeared.
In the first second, it felt its body started to become numb. It wasn't able to feel its front or hind limbs.
In the next second, the second skull hit its back, and it felt some unfamiliar energy in its body, corrupting all of its soul energy. It lost its control over the lava in the process and the uprising lava stopped in the midway.
In the final second, the last skull hit at the same spot, and all of its life force was sucked away. All of its organs stopped functioning.
Just three seconds and the Volcanus beast ended up dead, leaving behind a platinum-colored soul orb, which kept on floating in the air while the rest of the body fell into the lava.
"Good job, Azrael." The Reaper praised him for taking action at the perfect time. "The spirits of the Volcanus King and lava returned to the spirit world. The Celestial world is going to send a replacement for the Volcanus king to maintain the order here. So, you don't need to worry about that. Now, go and absorb the soul power."
Even though Azzy never asked about it, the Reaper revealed the information on purpose as he knew Azzy's personality very well.
If not now, in the future when he learns of the region king's duty, he will hesitate to kill them.
"Got it." Even though he didn't understand what the Reaper is talking about, Azzy simply nodded as his entire focus in on the beautiful orb before his eyes.
Dismissing the weapons into his soul card, Azzy stepped onto the flying card and slowly flew towards the soul orb.
Placing his palm on it, Azzy absorbed it, almost instantly.
He then felt a surge in soul energy within his body.
In the meantime, the power was refined into his soul energy, letting him gain 25 thousand worth of soul power, instantly boosting his soul rank to beginner rank-5 without facing any issues.
Due to the surge of energy, he felt the soul energy within his body started to run wild.
To stabilize it, he immediately sat in a meditative position, not caring about the heat from the lava below.
Inside his soul space, a fifth planet that is ten times bigger than the previous one has been formed.
Half an hour later, Azzy stood up on his feet after suppressing all of the soul energy into the soul orb. He also felt his soul orb grew larger, thereby increasing the maximum capacity.
He summoned his soul card and looked at it. The number changed to 105452.
"Is this because the beast was a mutated one?" Azzy asked the Reaper about the reason for the massive boost of soul power.
In the last week, when he killed a gold-grade peak-rank 4 snake, he only received 900 worth of soul power
But, now, he received almost 30 times the soul power. Azzy can't help but doubt it.
The Reaper confirmed his guess, "yes. Usually, if you kill a peak rank-4 platinum grade beast and absorb its soul energy, you would receive around 10 thousand worth of soul energy but it is something that has been mutated once more and is only a step away from Celestial grade. That's why you received 25 thousand worth of soul power.
Too bad that it isn't of a lightning attribute or else, Vajra would have gained something more… Anyway, now, you should focus on completing the seal as soon as possible. After returning, your priority must be the Decarune seal."
"I understand." Azzy nodded.
"Oh! By the way, the teleportation card..." The Reaper then reminded him about the lady from the Magnolis family.
As Reaper was constantly pressing him to meet her, he decided to meet her but only after he contacts his teachers and classmates.
Due to the earlier commotion, they were separated and now, the teachers don't even know his location.
Reaching the shores of the lava lake, Azzy started to walk towards the harbor where they first landed and decided to meet, later, during their return.
As he was returning to the meeting place, Azzy saw the forest is completely in chaos, right now.
Various types of beasts are running amok while the Arcana masters and the authorities are currently dealing with them.
"Hey, kid, what are you doing here?" A beginner level rank-5 guardian who was fighting against a peak level rank-4 monster, shouted as he saw him. "Go away. It is dangerous."
After warning him, he didn't place his attention on him any longer and continued to battle the beast.
Azzy felt guilty for he's the one that's responsible for the situation. So, he wanted to help them out but then, the Reaper warned him about the consequences.
"Azrael, you aren't strong enough to expose your strength to the world. You also have an ambiguous background. The best you can do is to quietly train and increase your strength to rank-7 and get out of here after you fulfilled your objective."
"But…" Azzy tried to argue with the reaper that he needs to be responsible for his actions. In return, the reaper explained that the authorities are strong enough to take care of the situation.
When Azzy wasn't satisfied with the answer, the Reaper further said to complete the Decarune sealing, which not only helps with his control but also conceals his real soul rank from others.
Filled with unwillingness, Azzy had to walk away from there.
Meanwhile, once again, the Reaper stared blankly for a couple of seconds and mumbled to himself, "Good… another event has been prevented, although the end remains the same. I wonder where the trigger is…"
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