Chapter 557 Art Of A Mind Elementalist

Rex nodded his head as he already sensed the person approaching the mansion.

With a nod from him Tandu steps to the side revealing a woman standing in front of the mansion gracefully, she doesn't seem bothered at all despite the Awakened Guards eyeing her warily. It seems they can sense the dense mana inside of her showing that she's very powerful.

Upon seeing the woman that he doesn't recognize, Rex frowned but instantly realized.

"I'm ashamed to admit that I was a little bit surprised seeing this... form of yours, Lady Lauren", Rex said while shaking his head, it took him a moment to realize that this woman in front of him was in fact Lady Lauran from the Hester Family.

Although the woman in front of him was not Lady Lauren, it's clear that she's controlled by her.

Just like the actual Lady Lauren, the woman in front of him has a nigh-perfect hourglass figure with grey hair. Her eyes are glowing and emitting a grey hue showing that she's being controlled. Aside from the tender look which is very different from the sharp look that Lady Lauren possesses, this woman has a darker shade of grey.

From the looks of it, Lady Lauren even has requirements for the person she controlled.

She was going to represent her after all.

Exposing a beautiful smile, the woman then said with her light pleasing tone, "Going there myself would've been too eye-catching, I have enemies and you're not going to like it if I dragged you into my problems"

"I have enough on my plate already...", Rex replied with a slight chuckle.

Before he can even continue, the woman intervenes while covering the smile on her face with her slender hand, "Of course, you are. Everybody knows about your tremendous deeds, I'm truly surprised myself"

Without even needing to ask, Rex instantly knows that she's talking about the Vampire Stronghold.

"Let's not get side-tracked, I believe you have been notified by your assistant about your purpose of being here. I'll take you to him, but do make sure that you tell nobody of what you'll soon hear except your family"

Upon hearing this, the woman nodded her head before she was led to the training place.

Just as they enter the training place, the two of them met with Gistella inside that is standing on the corner of the place. Since she has already sensed the woman and Rex approaching, she already hides Ian's corpse away.

Glancing at Gistella briefly, her eyes were then attracted to the center of the room.

Although her assistant already told her that Rex has asked her help to interrogate a Vampire, she didn't expect the Vampire to be in this kind of state where many would find it hard to look at.

"You can be quite terrifying, Rex Silverstar", the woman mutters softly.

But Rex only shrugs his shoulders nonchalantly, "It's a method one of my subordinate devised, usually it will work but this Vampire has a really strong will. I need you to break it with force and extract information out of him"

Hearing this the woman nodded her head, she was confident in her ability as a Mind Elementalist.

"In order for me to break his will by force, I need him awake"

"Don't worry, I can wake him up alright"

Rex walks closer to Seth that is still being hung before he touches Seth's forehead using the tip of his index finger, using a little bit of his mana he then zapped Seth's entire body with enough sky-black lightning.

Just upon receiving the sky-black lightning, Seth's mind got rebooted as he jolted awake.

Breathing roughly from being forcefully woken up, Seth raises his gaze and saw Rex and the woman looking at him. It confuses him as to why they need to wake him up like that but something feels off with the woman on Rex's back.

Seth can feel it, the woman's eyes in particular make him dazed.

"There you go, he's wide awake. It's your turn now", Rex said before stepping to the side.

But instead of walking to the side and letting the woman do her thing, Rex kept by Seth's side holding his head up by his hair. The woman thought that it was unnecessary but she didn't comment anything.

Upon hearing this the woman nodded her head before she in turn approached Seth.

She stopped in front of Seth before going down to his eye level, her sparkling grey eyes looking directly at Seth, "W-What do you want? No matter what I'm not going to tell you anything, you're wasting your time"

"Although I rarely do this, I can't help but admit breaking someone like you is very fun..."

After saying that the woman suddenly takes a hairpin out of her hair before she grazed the palm of her hand, and blood started to seep out attracting Seth's attention. Its fragrant scent was messing with him.

While holding out her bleeding hand in front of Seth, the woman opens her mouth again.

"Mind Elementalist can attack the mind directly but there's a limit to how effective their control would be, it's the Mind Elementalist's job to make sure the target's mind is weak first. One of the methods of doing that is the art of teasing, for a Vampire blood is the ultimate vessel"

Despite the dangling blood that spiked his urge to savor it, Seth keeps it all in.

The woman smiled lightly showing that she was already expecting such a response from someone that has a strong will like Seth, she then controls her grey mana before she imbued it into the blood on her palm.

Instantly after that,

Graah!!

Seth suddenly leans his face forward trying desperately to reach the blood.

Even from just seeing this Rex knows that she just used a spell there, a spell that instantly affects Seth and puts him in a state of desperation. Seth kept trying to bite the woman's hand repeatedly.

Upon seeing this, the woman nodded her head and grab Seth's head, "He's ready..."

A moment later,

With the help of Lady Lauren, Rex has managed to extract crucial information from Seth through mind control. From the brief interrogating they had, Seth spilled out and marked the location of the Vampire King's Castle where Calidora is, and also the Werewolf King's Castle.

Since humanity has always been backed into the corner, their main castles are still very well hidden.

Being defensive leaves humanity out of the crucial information that might allow them to hit the core of the Supernaturals, it's another reason why there are no major moves from humanity all these years.

Many of the front soldiers of Supernatural come from branches of the Supernatural Kingdom.

One of the closest ones was the captured Vampire way back which belongs to the Demelza Family, and even that Vampire was rescued from imprisonment. It's not that humanity doesn't even know their locations.

But there are many castles that are supposedly labeled as the King's Castle.

In one time period, the King of Vampires for example will be in this castle, and in the very next thing the King of Vampires would be in another. Without proper intelligence inside the Supernatural territory, it's hard to pinpoint their exact locations.

Knowing the locations is crucial, and Rex has managed to extract them.

As it seems Seth is a trusted Vampire tasked to protect Calidora and also a very old Vampire at that, he said that he has met with the Queen of Vampires recently and gets the task. Without a doubt that castle is where they are currently at.

On top of that, Rex also now knows the location of the Werewolf King's Castle.

'It helps me narrow down the search location with this information, Ruston's pack and family should be near the Werewolf King's Castle', Rex thought nodding his head, he finally has a lead right now.

Looking back at the mind-controlled Seth, now it came down to the most important question.

Rex squats in front of Seth who has his red eyes now turned bright grey from Lady Lauren's mind control, he squinted his eyes in anticipation before he asks, "I've heard you said something about Supernatural's preparation. Tell me, what is that preparation?"

Upon hearing this, the woman from the back also looks at Seth in anticipation.

Although she doesn't know the full story, the Supernaturals' preparation is certainly a big deal. In Rex's perspective, it's a really big deal since Seth declared that humanity will crumble down after the preparation has been finished.

Seth also said that he's on the losing side, and the confidence in that should hide something big.

Just like before Seth's eyes glow grey brightly showing that the spell cast by Lady Lauren is working again, he should be answering the question now. Rex keeps his anticipating eyes locked onto Seth.

It's the information that he needs so he can make a plan to counter this preparation.

Not only that but he can also warn humanity through Vargas just like he did before, and if he knows this preparation now then it's not going to be like last time when he realized it too late.

'Come on, tell me what the preparation is...', Rex thought seeing Seth fighting the spell.

Even the woman on his back frowned upon seeing this, the level of importance this information has should be very high. It needs a very strong will surpassing the will he had before to even resist the spell she cast to this point.

But since the disparity between Seth and the woman is too much, he finally opens his mouth.

Rex leans his face closer to hear what Seth is about to say, and soon enough a whisper penetrates his ear, "The preparation... The preparation is about-", before Seth can even say anything, his mouth suddenly closed once again.

It catches Rex, the woman, and even Gistella off guard.

What catches them off guard was not the fact that Seth refrains from spilling the information, but Seth's mouth was covered with a weird energy that stops him from saying anything.

Rex looks back at the woman, "What is happening?!"

"I don't know, I've never seen such a spell like this", the woman replied also in puzzlement.

But just as they were trying to figure out what was happening, Rex's senses felt something coming from Seth. Without wasting any time, he intends to grab the woman but it's too late.

KABOOM!

Out of nowhere, Seth's body exploded destroying the training place in the process.

It was a pretty powerful explosion that sent Rex alongside the woman, and Gistella crashing away breaking the wall of the mansion. Some of the Awakened Guards are also got sent crashing away, rolling on the street.

Recovering from the explosion, Rex raises his gaze to look back at the mansion.

"Damn it!", he cursed angrily.

At first, when he lifts Seth's head up which Lady Lauren thought was unnecessary, he was doing that to make sure that Lady Lauren didn't probe too deep into Seth's mind which might expose him.

Reading Seth's memory will also expose Rex to being a Royal Black Prince.

For now, there are already too many people knowing that he's a Werewolf. Lady Lauren knowing about it was out of the option and because of that, he kept his hand on Seth all the time to keep the system analyzing Lady Lauren's spell.

If she decided to do anything else, Rex would do something to stop her.

But aside from Lady Lauren doing something, the hidden spell within Seth's body has gone unnoticed. Since Rex told the system to focus on Lady Giana's spell, it didn't scan for that hidden spell.

Now he lost his only source of knowing the Supernatural's preparation.

Flunra might know this but Rex doubts it since his focus was on the Dark Prince, it's unlikely for him to know about the Supernaturals' planning but it's worth the try later when it's his turn.

Rex punches the ground angrily for being careless, it might cost him something in the future.

The woman that is under his embrace also looks back at the mansion that has smoke flying to the sky with a frown, she was also not expecting something like this, "Just what is the preparation for them to bother casting a preventive spell like that..."

"Sir Rex! Are you okay?!"

Many Awakened Guards approaches him in worry, they didn't even think of their own injuries.

Rex waves his hand as he helped the woman stand up, he then looks around and finds himself in the middle of the street, 'That explosion is very loud, the neighbors should hear it'

"Go over to the neighbors and notify them that everything is fine, tell them that I'm just trying out a new spell", Rex commanded hurriedly, he doesn't want to get needless problems from the neighbors.

Upon hearing that, the Awakened Guards immediately obeyed his order.

After the Awakened Guards left, the woman can't help but comment from the side, "That doesn't go as planned, but at least we get some information out of that Vampire. We need to find out about their preparation though..."

Rex nodded his head firmly, that preparation must be something very big.

'Now all that is left is Flunra, but letting Lady Lauren see Flunra might not be a good thing. We'll just have to see, but I will be forced to if he still refuses to talk', Rex thought with a sigh.

Although the explosion caught them off guard, it didn't really hurt them that much.

Since they are very powerful compared to Seth, the explosion didn't even scratch the two of them. But when the both of them were about to get back inside, Rex saw an Awakened Guard sprinting at him.

Facing the Awakened Guard, he then asks, "What's the matter?"

"The neighbors, Sir...", the Awakened Guard replied with rough breaths.

Upon hearing this Rex can't help but frown signaling the Awakened Guard to continue.

"We've checked but I don't think our neighbors are around, both mansions near ours seem to be empty. We didn't see anyone inside, no guards, no people, nothing..."