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    Listening to Thea asking the masked young man to mark the Chauliodus n, which is the culprit behind the death of his good brother, and friends, in other words, Lina and Karmandi''s parents, nder frowned for a second before saying.


    "Lass, you know I hate that cunning bastard as much as possible, but his strength is no joke, even now that I have reached the peak of the high stage, beingpletely honest, I know I can''t beat him, at most I can drive him away… and there is a high chance I''ll end up dead".


    "Only after you reach the high stage and with me restraining it, you''ll be able tond a lethal attack on him".


    "And what if we add three Maximum Ster ranks to the equation, including a light affinity one", Daimon''s voice made nder turn to see him.


    The oarfish general contemted things for a moment, he only counted two Maximum Ster ranks in the "alliance", since Thea hadn''t mentioned the fact that Armando also joined, so he was wondering who was the third one.


    But still he shook his head.


    "The Matriarch of the Light Pce isn''t an offensive type mage, I''m not trying to be an idiot, but in terms of offensive my brother''s darkness was stronger than the current Shaman and he still was corroded by that guy".


    Daimon smirked, he would have been wary of what nder was saying, if the scheming guy and its influence were a secret to him, but with Aurora''s newly modified light spells, anyone that was trusting in the powers of Nethereals, were in for a beating, regardless of the type of mage or knight they were.


    A ck portal appeared and Roger as well as Fabio who were dragging a battered figure, came out of it, Fabio who was the most informed and managed to hear what nder said a moment ago, immediately kneeled in front of Daimon and then said.


    "Reporting to the young master, the magic beast mentioned should be one of the "Representatives", like Garrius, they work directly under the Lord, and they all have a specialty which they obtained thanks to a Nether which is above average… that''s in part what I was aiming for, that guy who is being restrained bydy Aurora should know more about it, as he was directly subordinated to Garrius".


    nder who was incredibly sensible to Nether, frowned, he could feel a simr but more obvious sensation like the one Jina radiated after she tried to escape, in other words when she used Nether as a distraction,ing from both Roger and Fabio.


    "They are Nethereals who now work for me, his loyalty is absolute, so you don''t have to worry about it, Thea can exin it to youter if you have doubts about it, I called them here to bring this guy", said Daimon as he pointed at the electric eel magic beast descendant, whose name turned out to be Liman.


    Contrary to his previous high and mighty attitude, he was now pretty submissive, Remi and Aurora did a good job interrogating him after all, and while he didn''t know too much, Daimon finally got to know what was Marcus''s modus operandi.


    In part Daimon had already guessed how it worked, but it was good to confirm it, apparently, simr to Milo''s family, descendants of some of the ns that fought on the war of back then, were scattered in the Maelstrom and Bone Seas.


    Since they were on the loser side, they ended up in disgrace, but at least one or two survived through the generations, and ended up bing Ster ranks, only to get stuck at either the early or middle stage.


    Now, it is important to mention thatpared to the experts of the Clear Water kingdom, whose formations were akin to nobles, or experienced soldiers if they came from the army, these guys were a bunch of bandits at best.


    In a pretty urate calction, peak half Sters from the Neo noble army could go one versus one against the early stage Sters mentioned before, because their preparation was inexistent, they just advanced whenever they had a chance to, without a solid base or anything.


    Such was the case of Milo, whose battle prowess was trash, after recognizing Marcus who for some reason had the proofs of identity of "benefactors" that helped the ns of those guys at a given point, they swore loyalty to him.


    Those who Marcus favored were given a "Devil Blessing Potion" and then their potentials exploded, which ended in them either advancing… or dying, that''s right not all of them could survive the process, and their battle prowess didn''t increase, they had to go through many battles with tough opponents for that.


    But at least the shackles that had forced them to be stagnated, hide or runaway from the enemies they made through the generations, had disappeared, that''s the information Remi had managed to get out of Liman.


    And this is where things get interesting, the reason as to why Thea whose family knows each and all the snake-like magic beast races of Neptune, regardless of their sea of origin, couldn''t pinpoint to which race Liman belongs, is because his characteristics changed after taking the potion Marcus gave him in exchange for his loyalty.


    That being said, Liman didn''t know the name of his race, he was raised by a pirate who was a friend of his father, who was killed in one of the many battles that break out in the mobile inds.


    But he gave his original description and the one of his father, to Remi and that same information was now handed to nder, who was observing Liman from head to toe, and inspecting his eyes, the fins on his neck and the spiked teeth in his mouth.


    "The previous description is that of the descendants of the Blue Vari Eel race, they were a small n that was eliminated in one of the many battles against the Mermen Sea, during the time of brother Liam''s father".


    "Though rare it''s not impossible for a few mixed races to appear, the nomad tribes on the mobile inds are formed of a lot of mixes of races, so by either luck or simply atavism, one or two mixed should surface from time to time, but this guy''s current appearance on the other hand… it reminds of the Voltari Steel Razor Eel raze".


    nder doubted for a second before continuing.


    "And that''s not possible, because till thest one of them was killed by your ancestors, back at the era of foundation and those guys valued the purity of their lineage to the extreme, to the point that they killed every other race without any discrimination, including other eel or snake type ns, which is why the Ryner ruler of back then exterminated them all".


    "On the other hand, this guy iscking their most characteristic trait, the razor-like fins on the arms and neck, which were the proof of their raze and what made them be on par with your ancestor of back then, also their lightning was of a dark yellow color, interestingly they appeared out of nowhere back then too", concluded nder.


    While nder was surprised to see a race from the foundation era, which was extinct surge out of nowhere, Daimon bitterly smiled, he could already guess who introduced Liman''s race to Neptune back then, a system user.


    How does he know it, well, ording to cktooth he is the first ever, Devil Goblin Shark to develop arms, his path of evolution has diverted from the one that his race follows, in Daimon''s case was rted to the Ruler of the Sea, but other system users had their own ways to empower others, in Marcus''s case is that devil blessing thing, whatever it is.


    "What is your family''s story, are you rted to the race mentioned by him?", asked Daimon to Liman.


    The guy seemed to have recovered some spine, as it red at Daimon, but then when both Roger and Fabio produced Nether to inject it in his body, which will cause a severe pain, he obediently answered.


    "My father once said that we Eel electric races had a royal family, who was on par with any of the four rulers, but out of jealousy they joined hands and ambushed our strongest n, but a benefactor tended to the wounds of one elder who survived for a few more days, and the elder condensed his lineage into a few drops of blood essence, which were given to the benefactor".


    "The story said that the benefactor promised to return one day, and hand the royal lineage down to someone who was worthy of it, Lord Marcus is the descendant of our benefactor, even if you captured me, my older brother is the genius of my family, he reached the peak of the high stage right after consuming the potion containing our royal n''s blood, and he awakened the Savage Razor Lightning, you will all die… aghhhh!".


    Since Liman had started divagating from the question that was asked to him, Roger and Fabio ced their hands on his eyes and their Nether burned them, such was the punishment for him daring to threat their young master, the two ck mist stage Nethereals are under Terror Contracts, their loyalty towards Daimon is extreme.


    "That is enough for now, he apparently hadn''t told you everything he knew, right?", asked Daimon, which made both Roger and Fabio pale.


    Remi interrogated Liman first, but then he was tasked with surveilling the other Nethereal, because Aurora had a sudden inspiration, which ended in her casting that ray of white light which destroyed the disguise of the other n leader that had betrayed Thea along with Jina.<novelsnext></novelsnext>


    So, they were in charge of the rest of the interrogation, and apparently, they were too soft with Liman, as they didn''t know about the little story he just told, still they didn''t dare to put the me on Remi much less on Aurora.


    "We are sorry young master, please punish us ordingly!", they both said as they kneeled down, which made Daimon shake his head.


    ''I guess they can''t be as efficient as Horals by innate'', he thought before saying.


    "We''ll discuss thatter; I''ll drop by to finish the interrogation personally".


    With those words, those two took Liman and Thea opened a portal so they could return to the prison of the Flying Citadel, judging by their wild gazes, Liman was about to suffer a lot, since he dared to make them look bad in front of their young master.


    Leaving that aside, Daimon now had a much more thing in which he was interested, and that is Thea''s n''s origin, beings who have the support of a system user raise in power, that is almost guaranteed.


    It''s not that Daimon is touching his own trumpet, but system users have many tricks up their sleeves, just look at Marcus, in a matter of months he gathered fifteen high stage Ster ranks out of nowhere, when each sea used to have one or two of such experts, it was simply unbnced, a cheat so to speak.


    Adam was different, but he still gained the full support of two Maximum Ster ranks and many others in a single day, back when he saved Jasmine, no questions asked, sure it crumbled apart "easily" but that was because of Daimon''s interference.


    It wouldn''t be weird that the system users of back then, powered a few races so they served them, the guy who tricked the White Walkers did it, and now it appears to be that the Hydra guy was the same.


    And that made Daimon wonder, what is Thea''s race, who were strong enough to eliminate a race with a system user backing them, how strong were they that they weren''t reduced to a miserable state like the angelfish n who also went against the Hydra guy, or was there something that made the Hydra guy wary of them, which prevented it from seeking revenge, but if that was the case why was Thea''s father targeted by the scheming guy.


    "I have heard you talk a lot about your father and he was the previous ruler and as far as I understand, his darkness wasn''t like yours, could it be that your spatial propertyes from your mother?", asked Daimon, which made Thea''s eyes glow.


    "I don''t know… mother died when I was a baby, unlike father she wasn''t abatant, and she couldn''t even reach the Ster ranks, besides that I only know that I resemble her a lot, my eyes specially, ording to father", mumbled Thea.


    nder who was left out of the conversation, suddenly frowned as he gazed at Daimon.


    "I originally wasn''t going to mention it, because I trust the little princess''s eye for people, but a traitor appeared within the generals she chose and I know it wasn''t due to her being careless, so, sorry for the offense but… who are you, you aren''t a native of the Maelstrom Sea, nor you are from the Elemental races as I can feel different types of mana from you, and you also don''t have any beast characteristic, not to mention your aura does feel like the one of a magic beast of a highest level".


    "I know the aura of all the ns on that level, since the little princess is from one of them, but howe I can''t recognize yours?", asked the Oarfish general, to which Daimon casually answered.


    "That is because I''m not a native of Neptune, Ie from another gxy", the moment Daimon finished speaking, the Oarfish general''s pressure exploded out of his body.


    But before Daimon''s safety measures activated, Thea and Bell were already in front of him, cancelling the pressureing from nder, whose eyes were bloodshot right now.


    Daimon didn''t stop in the ceremony, he snapped his fingers and his skill Switch activated, taking Jasmine and Sarah out of here, and recing them with Remi and Roger, Aisha stayed, because Daimon was confident that the safety measures on her, were enough to protect her.


    Both Remi and Roger stood at nder''s sides, surrounding the general, Remi was a peak high stage too, though Armando easily suppressed him, he wasn''t weak at all, it''s just that there is a high distance between a high and a Maximum stage Ster rank, and while nder is innately stronger than Remi, as he is a magic beast, he won''t be outpowered so easily.


    Thea knew that Daimon won''t hesitate to start a fight, against whoever that dared to attack him, so she turned to see him with those pretty amber snake-like eyes of hers before saying.


    "He is annoying but he isn''t an enemy, let me try and mediate… if he is really trying to harm you, I will stop him".


    Daimon gazed at nder and he recognized the hatred that was burning in his eyes, it was the type of hatred felt towards the one that killed someone important to you, still understanding isn''t the same as sympathizing.


    Whether he is in the wrong or not, which in this case he isn''t, anyone that can is a threat to him or his close ones, will be eliminated, that being said, he could see Thea''s honesty in her eyes, so he raised his hand and then said.


    "You twoe here, but don''t lower your guards".


    Thea let out a sigh of relief.


    "Thanks…", she mumbled and then turned to see nder, in the long time she has known the Oarfish general, she has never seen him like this, magic beasts are violent and wild, that is normal, those who take human form have to learn how to suppress their nature, only then they obtain the advantages of a rational mind and the strength of a magic beast.


    First generations like nder aren''t perfect, it is harder for them to control themselves, but the Oarfish general has always been an easygoing person, so this isn''t a simple fit of anger, there should be a reason for it.


    "Hey old fish-head, what is happening, have you gone senile or something?", asked Thea, she wasn''t joking when she said she wasn''t going to stand aside, as she even drew out her spear.


    "Lass he… is dangerous, I had a sensation of restlessness the moment I saw him, I believed in your eye for people, but if he is really from outside of Neptune then we can''t trust him, the history of my family is the better proof of it", said nder.


    Thea frowned.


    "The history of your family, weren''t you saved by father after your n was destroyed due to a battle with one of the ns that used to serve the Chauliodus ruler?", she asked.


    nder sighed and then pointed at Thea''s ring.


    "You have the record of the rulers in your ring right… pierce it with your spear, your father made me promise not to tell you until you reached the high stage, but if the damn outsiders are here then we are running out of time, I swear to not do anything until you have read it", he said as he at down cross-legged, his eyes didn''t abandon Daimon''s figure though.


    But the same could be said of Daimon, the gazes of the two shed on the air, which took nder by surprise, the young man in front of him wasn''t intimidated by his aura, at all, in fact he didn''t seem to be worried about anything, as if it was decided that the one who would have lost if they shed earlier, wasn''t going to be him.


    ''Certainly, I can''t outpower that masked guy so easily, not to mention he has another three Sters and the little princess, but is hard to fight while protecting someone, what makes him so confident… no I shouldn''t judge him bymon standards, if he is like those fucking monsters, then even if I were to be a Maximum Ster there isn''t such a thing as a 100% sure way to deal with him, only the little princess would be able to go against him'', he thought.