Shin ran forward with a straight face showing almost no expressions at all, only thing that could be seen was his eyes twitching from time to time.

“Hey kiddo, why are you rushing?”

Behind Shin, Azane asked with a smile as she watched Shin.

While letting out pants, Shin answered Azane calmly with a mysterious tone.

“I need more time…”

As he was speaking, he gulped, and a small frown appeared on his face. Because he tasted blood in that gulp, his eyes narrowed slightly and ran faster.

Azane shook her head slightly and followed Shin.

No one knew why Shin was rushing or the meaning behind his answer, but they only picked up their speed and followed behind Shin.

“Kali, how’s the preparations going?”

Aria standing a few hundred meters above the ground asked softly while glancing towards the horizon.

Not long after, another voice appeared and entered Aria’s voice.

“As planned.”

“They should appear near their outpost shortly, let’s see how they’ll react.”

Aria nodded and glanced at the ground, a smile appeared on her face as she watched Shin.

“Kiddo.”

Azane glanced around before keeping her eyes on Shin.

“There’s someone out there.”

Shin nodded and didn’t reply her, his eyes were firm as he continued running faster.

Not half a minute later, his eyes opened widely as he hurriedly rolled on the ground.

“Bang!”

An arrow pierced the ground where Shin’s body previously was at.

Peutoa’s eyes coldly shined as she flickered her hands and two daggers appeared.

Shin calmly stood up as he turned his face towards the direction where the arrow flew. The first thing he saw was another arrow flying straight towards his face.

Azane narrowed her eyes and grabbed her halberd behind her back, she put strength into her feet, but stopped when she saw Shin moving his arms.

Shin’s hands grabbed the air, afterwards a katana and a dagger appeared in his hands, he swiped his dagger towards the arrow and easily sending it flying in another direction.

“Go to hell!”

Shin roared and rushed towards the archer, his eyes were bloodshot as he tried to find the archer.

Eline’s mouth went agape when she saw how Shin was acting.

“Is there something wrong with him?”

She asked in a low voice, but she hurriedly shook her head.

“There’s something Shin knows that we don’t…”

Azane replied Eline calmly, but she was also amazed and shocked by how Shin was acting.

“Aria, something’s not right.”

Kali furrowed her eyebrows as she watched Shin acting crazy.

Aria nodded and replied with a serious tone.

“Seems like our planning was a waste, but there’s nothing to worry about that.”

“What’s more important to find out why Shin is acting like this.”

Kali didn’t reply and slowly descended from the skies towards Shin.

By the time Kali and Aria was near Shin, they could see Shin standing in front of a corpse cut in two. Aria furrowed her eyebrows slightly, she didn’t care about the dead man, she was worried about Shin’s mentality.

When Shin heard someone behind him, he turned around and widened his eyes.

“Sharia, Vivian…”

Shin said with a shocked expression as he saw another image near Kali and Aria. The one near Kali was a middle-aged lady with purple hair wearing a smile and the one near Aria was an old lady with silver hair.

Before he could see it clearly, he felt a headache and shook his head.

“Kali, mother, what are you two doing here?”

Kali had a frown on her face, which was barely showing, but her heart was pounding madly.

Sharia…?

Aria felt the same.

Where have I heard the name Vivian before???

“Shin, what are you planning to do. We’ll focus on how you want to do things now.”

Aria said with a smile which betrayed her innermost feelings.

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“You two said we need an army strong enough, but I don’t think I can follow that plan.”

Shin shook his head with a bitter smile on his face.

“Why is that?”

Kali asked as she looked at Shin.

“Haha…”

Shin let out a bitter laugh before he said.

“Time is limited…”

Shin was calmly glancing at Aria and Kali as he said this.

“Limited for what?”

Aria didn’t understand, she was hoping that Shin would explain in more details.

Deep inside of Shin

In the deepest area within of Shin, twelve sculptures were in a circle around a black sculpture of Shin.

“What’s going on!?”

Ker’Vrak was roaring as he glanced at the ten others surrounding the black sculpture.

“Mekina, tell me what’s going on!”

Ker’Vrak couldn’t keep his calm as he was shouting his lungs out.

Mekina had her eyes widely open staring at the black sculpture, not even replying Ker’Vrak. Huge flames around Mekina’s sculpture slowly flew over to the black sculpture, sadly enough, the flame vanishing before it could do anything.

Ker’Vrak’s aura around his sculpture blew up like a volcano, not even supressing it any bit.

Malika’s sculpture shined with a green light as it passed towards the black one, hoping that it would do anything at all, but it also vanished like the flame, not doing anything.

Glarius tried the same, his ability was Time and Space, he was hoping that it would have an effect, but it also vanished, not doing anything.

“This…”

“Can anyone tell me what’s going on!?”

Ker’Vrak roared his lungs out and eyes bloodshot, but no one could answer him.

“Little Shin…”

Shenya said in a low voice as tears emerged in the corner of her eyes.

What the Guardians was staring at, was the black sculpture of Shin slowly cracking up. Fissures was spreading throughout the whole sculpture and bits of the finger parts were already missing…

In the forest

Shin didn’t reply Aria, he turned around towards the dead man and touched his chest. A strange ball of light appeared near Shin’s arm, Shin smiled as he absorbed the ball of light.

Behind Shin, everyone had their eyes wide open as they could feel that Shin’s body was becoming stronger.

“What… What did you do?”

Aria asked with a shocked expression.

“As I said earlier, time is limited, I will have to do this to grow stronger.”

Shin replied casually as he turned around towards a certain area.

“How are we limited with time!?”

Aria couldn’t hold it in and roared out, her aura also spread out before she hurriedly withdrew it.

Shin turned towards Aria with a broad smile.

“There’s nothing to worry about.”

After Shin said this, a white light appeared surrounding Shin before he vanished into thin air.

Kali furrowed her eyes before she glanced towards the direction where Shin did earlier.

“Shin’s inside of the city…!”

Kali had a bad premonition and rushed towards the city, behind her, everyone followed.

Azane picked up Eline because she wasn’t fast enough.

Everyone rushed with all their might, with Kali in lead.

Behind Kali, Aria had a bad expression on her face. Azane was a step slower than Aria because she was holding Eline. Somewhat further away, Peutoa, Laura and Anaj managed to barely keep up by madly rushing forward.

Kali didn’t know why, but her heart was pounding like crazy.

When he said the name Sharia while keeping his eyes on me, it felt like he was remembering something…!

Something is different, his expression he was showing was just like before, but it was way too perfect, he’s faking it…

Kali squinted her eyes and unconsciously her aura spread out from within her body.

There must be something big happening in the background for Shin to act like this.

I will murder anyone and everyone who’s involved with this!!!

Her aura gushed out like a volcano and her expression turned ice-cold. She was staring towards the horizon, no, she wasn’t staring towards it, she was disdaining even the entire world!

No one knew, but something changed deep inside of Kali. The blood cells started boiling slowly and evaporated, what happened after was that the lost blood cells got replaced by a purple cell. Slowly with time, Kali’s blood turned purple.

Within two minutes, Kali stood above the city Jormun. Her ice-cold expression froze for a moment and her mouth went agape. She had forgotten why she was here and she didn’t even know what she was even looking at.

Not long after, Aria stopped beside Kali. As she was planning to ask why she stopped, her expression solidified.

The city of Jormun was quiet, way too quiet…

What Kali and Aria saw was the whole city covered in blood.

blood was streaming like a river through the roads.

And, in the middle of the city, Shin stood there silently with blood covering his whole body.

Aria rushed towards Shin with bloodshot eyes, she wanted to grab Shin and hug him.

As Aria was nearing Shin, Shin stepped aside and escaped Aria’s reach.

Shin stood there silently, he was staring at his hands before slowly raising his head and watched Aria. He tried his best to smile, which made it disfigured.

Aria’s heart pained and felt like it was being ripped into pieces when she saw Shin’s forceful attempt of smiling.

“Why?”

She asked with a hoarse voice, she honestly didn’t care no matter how many died, because she has killed way more than this. But, she knew that Shin wasn’t a murderer, he wouldn’t kill innocent people.

Behind Aria, a figure appeared, Azane with Eline in her arms.

Shin’s mouth opened and closed a few times, but no sound came out.

As Shin was struggling, a soft voice entered his ear.

“Shin, it’s not your fault.”

Kali descended slowly and her eyes were watching Shin warmly. She knew that Shin would not hurt others for no reason unless he had no choice.

“Come…”

She neared Shin and opened her arms, wanting to embrace Shin.

Tears started forming and running down Shin’s face, his eyes were staring at Kali.

“… Sharia, I’m very sorry, it was all my fault.”

Shin’s voice was hoarse and deep, not like his usual voice.

He then glanced at Aria, a heart wrecking smile appeared on his face as he spoke.

“Vivian, Mother, forgive me.”

“Cough cough!”

Shin coughed madly, his eyes were bloodshot and blood gushed out of his mouth.

“Thump…”

Not even knowing when, Shin’s legs couldn’t hold it any longer and he fell to his knees.

Before Aria and Kali could even react, Shin hurriedly stood up and walked away.

Not even a second later, his figure vanished and only a few words were left behind.

“Time is limited…”