Chapter 968 Silent Savior

968 Silent Savior

The call of one of the two who had been guarding the way into the Aurora had alerted everyone, not just the Maqian raiders. The bound Sif gained a glimmer of hope; they perked up, bright expressions appearing on their faces as they expected to see vigour-filled Sif warriors of the highest caliber storming the burning Aurora to overwhelm the enemy. n-.OVelb1n

Such a thing didn't happen though.

There was no army of Sif. However, a savior had come.

Skullius hung in the air, courtesy of his gravitational mana.

"There's so many..." he said to himself as he saw the cordon of desperate hostages looking around for any sign of salvation. He sighed.

Coming to the rescue of these people wouldn't have been his first order of business if he could help it. Unfortunately, there was a persistent nag within him that appealed to his Luminant side from the surrounding greens which truly felt like they were seconds away from uprooting themselves from the ground and chasing after those harassing the inhabitants of Opungale.

Skullius felt a constant urge, a constant sense of urgency pushing him to play the savior of the Sif.

He exhaled.

"The only benefit I can see from intervening personally is perhaps getting an easier time getting Darwel. Her mother will probably fight me if I don't do something to earn her trust. <Sigh>. I might have told Luserus that there are many candidates present for me to use to give him descendants with Luminant blood, but I've yet to meet another...

ripe El-Sif. Hmmm, didn't Darwel say she had siblings? She hasn't mentioned or introduced them yet..." Skullius said to himself.

That was indeed true.

The Sif Princess had said something like that.

Skullius was hoping that these siblings had a semblance of gender variation to them, and perhaps greater number wouldn't hurt. If he could find two of them as females, that would be phenomenal. Surely, if Darwel was subservient, reverent even, to the current him, they would be too. All El-Sif besides the King and Queen would probably view him favorably.

Its source was coming from Vali who had created distance between herself and the six assailants she had been battling who kept dashing about in an attempt to confuse her.

Skullius watched her closely.

Her eyes twinkled as though saturated with stars, and she gave a light smile.

Beside her, a great lilac flame formed.

She was using her version of the Imagining Technique!

From the flame – the conduit – a simple, double-edged sword fell out and Vali caught it with a thick grip.

Then...

"Well damn," Skullius said with a spark of excitement, and the slightest bit of panic.

Immediately, golden half a skull marks appeared on the foreheads of the thousands of Sif captives, and in the next instant, they were flashed away just in time.

If they had stayed a moment longer...

Vali's eyes rolled back into her skull and with a sway, and then a brilliant stance that had all the passion in the world, she slashed across with her mundane sword!

[Swordmaster's Quiescence] was in use. Skullius recognized it in an instant!

It was this skill... which allowed Vali to cut a decent portion of the Aurora with her blade not even reaching any of the things that it carved in two cleanly, regardless of their flimsy defenses!