An S-rank awakener's senses weren't to be messed with. Even after being invisible and using Essence to erase his presence, Hector felt something wrong.

Hector took out his sword, revealing magnificent white metal engraved with the family logo, shining in the reddish mana he was emitting.

"What are you doing?"

Opino asked, looking at Hector with confusion at his actions. The dwarf didn't feel anything, and none of his alarms went off. Hector's actions confused him.

Hector didn't answer back as he kept staring at the wall. Something was there and not there at the same time, but he didn't want to take any chances.

The reddish aura coming out from his sword expanded along his whole body, compressing it with such pressure and, at the last moment, popping it, spreading the whole aura across the room.

"Don't—"

Opino couldn't properly finish his sentence. The atmosphere became so suffocating that he had to take off his mask to breathe.

Levi was also suffering, but if his breathing went out of control, the mana surrounding him and the armour would lose control. He would lose his invisibility and his life.

The aura pressure was literally boiling his blood, and he had to do everything to not let out even a single drop.

He kept chanting,

'I am invisible.'

'I am invisible.'

Changing the mantra now wasn't the best idea, as it would lessen the stealth effect he already had set.

However, the more his presence diminished, Hector's felt even more suspicion and the pressure kept increasing more and more. So much so that Levi had dug his fingers deep into the wall to keep himself awake using the pain.

'He… won't… arghhh.' Levi couldn't even think properly. He felt the central eye about to be crushed from the pressure. Immediately he thought of an idea as he started relaying his message.

'Central eye, try and fly away and turn off your invisibility.'

The eye didn't question anything as it flapped its wings and jumped down from his shoulder. The toll of the aura on it was so much that it was flying two meters above the ground.

Once it was far enough, it revealed itself, and Hector's eyes widened in shock. The pressure seemed to have come down a bit, and Levi immediately gave his second order.

'Now look at me and put a weakness debuff but only on my aura.'

The eye turned back and looked at its master, and within a second, it too didn't know if Levi was actually there or not. Essence and the debuff completely erased Levi so that even Hector wouldn't be able to find him.

Everything worked exactly like how Levi imagined it to be, but unlike how he imagined, Hector didn't kill the central eye. Instead, he stopped his aura and put his sword back in its scabbard.

Opino took in a long angry deep breath and shouted at Hector,

"Shit head. Is your head filled with—"

Once he saw a flying ball with bat-like wings, two bird-like legs, and one big red eye, he too was shocked.

"That—" Opino walked and stood beside Hector as they both looked at each other.

[Master, why are they staring at me.] The cute eye asked because it wasn't a threatening stare but a confused one that further confused the eye.

'I don't know, but keep flying, don't take your eyes off me, and try to act confident.'

The central eye now started flapping even faster. It looked rather cute than dangerous.

Hector put his hand out for the central eye to land, which angered the cute devil.

[I am not your pet eagle.] It telepathically said to Hector as he touched his forehead.

Unlike the lesser eyes that had small pores on their heads that they could use to communicate, the central eye didn't and could only communicate via telepathy, and only Levi could talk with him by just thinking of relaying his message to it.

The central eye felt it had made a mistake and was about to apologize.

'No, that's good, keep acting like that.'

Levi's first plan was to run, but now, seeing how the tables had turned, maybe for the better or worse, he didn't care and was curious to know where this situation would lead, whether it was for the good or lead to something sinister.

"How are you here?"

Hector asked how a being like it managed to bypass such tight security. Its stealth ability was top-notch, but that wouldn't be enough for infiltration. He could tell the little devil had not reached its peak power.

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'What if I don't answer?' Levi ordered, and the central eye obeyed.

[What if I don't answer?]

It said with confidence and calmness, just like how Levi would.

Opino and Hector didn't have the answer to that. What could they do? Kill it? Killing wouldn't solve anything for them. It would just leave holes that they wouldn't be able to fill.

The most astonishing part was how calm the devil acted. Devils are races known to be violent towards everything. They only use their intelligence to kill and fight, bathe in blood and reign on top of everything in existence.

'The Demon with Hundred Eyes.' really is an overpowered title. The one with it becomes somewhat of a devil with the power to control devils, and controlling devils is harder than destroying the world.

But the central eye just simply spied on them and even now it didn't show any malice.

"If you don't want to answer that, then can a lower being like me at least know why you are here?"

Opino said as he smiled, revealing his crooked teeth, and some gaps filled with golden ones. He wanted to make the devil feel superior just so he could get some answers.

'Finally, someone with a brain.'

[Finally, someone with a working brain.] The eye said as it looked at Hector, clenching his hands and giving a small smile.

[I am just an observer, looking at the world, enjoying the show life gives, and you are really trying to bring a change to me. That magic circle you built is good, but]

'Now look at Hector'

Levi thought, and the central eye gave a sarcastic look at Hector.

[ Maybe the vessel isn't that capable.]

Opino smiled awkwardly as he looked at Hector, and the smile on his face vanished. He walked closer to the central eye as if he was trying to gulp it in one go.

"I am not a vessel to the devil but the devil is to me."

Levi knew how to poke an arrogant person like Hector, poke them in the worst manner, to a goal they needed to have, and it didn't take long for their fragile ego to break apart.

He had to deal with many in his previous life as well.

[I was wrong, you aren't just a vessel but a mere fodder for what you are about to summon.]

More fire was added to the fuel.

Hector was about to release an attack, but he stopped once he saw the seriousness in the devil's eye. It wasn't humiliation but a clear warning.

[Don't jump to conclusions, use your head, pink boy.]

"Pfttt-" Opino put both of his hands on his mouth to stop himself from laughing. Never had he imagined someone to be this crude to Hector and him not being able to do anything.

Hector couldn't hold back anymore. He threw his sword, centimetres away from piercing the central eye.

Unlike how Hector had imagined, the central eye didn't run; it even came closer, and now its eye touched Hector's eyeballs.

[Do you think that scares me?]

The eye couldn't cast any hallucination spell on the S-rank, but his demeanour was enough for Hector to take a few steps back.

[Marquess Hector Gemini, strong but not strong yet to kill your biggest rival. You are among the strongest I have seen with my eyes, but that's among the humans.]

"So doesn't that make me qualified?"

Hector said as he started taking his sword out from the wall.

[Nobody, not even the strongest demon, human, devil, or even a dragon, can go against the rules set by Mother Nature. Majins like that dwarf only get a small part of the devil's power with a contract, you are trying to combine with a devil.]

Forming a contract with a devil meant a part of the devil would live inside you, but bringing a devil from its dimension and then combining with it was never heard of nor ever done.

[You might get away with it, but you will leave for only six months until both you and that devil die, and I know you don't want that.]

Hector was intrigued by this because he wasn't doing it for a short moment of victory. He wanted to rule and for a long time, set his footprints in the kingdom and the whole world, that no one could erase or even dare to.

"So what should I do?"

Hector said and an invisible smile formed on Levi's face. The prey had fallen, and now it was just to take the time to slowly savour it.

[Take out your pen, Opino, and start writing down and this isn't for free, I want something as well.]

"Is it something absurd?"

Hector asked,

[Not anything absurd like what you are about to do.]

Hector smiled as Opino ran towards his desk to bring a piece of paper and a pen. Their fate would soon have a new chapter, and Levi would happily be the author.

******

[Is it a good idea for you to give them that information?]

The central eye asked as both of them again entered the teleportation gate to the academy.

'I don't know if it's a good idea, but we got what we wanted. Information and a shallow trust with those two.'

Levi said as he greeted the guard on the other side of the portal. He passed him a bottle of champagne.

"You returned early this time. Was the place not to your liking?"

The guard said, hiding the champagne under his blue uniform coat.

"No, it was the best city I have ever visited and will keep going to for a long time."

Levi smiled and waved the guard goodbye. The first place he would have to go now was to the church to report on his mission, but he was just too tired.

'I need sleep.' T

hough it was still the same day, Levi left, the time difference between the two cities made Levi feel like he hadn't slept for more than a day. He needed rest, and now he even had a valid reason to sleep for a long time.

As he was walking through the same market street, one side was filled with different weird corner shops and the other side with flamboyant rich tea-drinking people's kind of store.

Levi carefully walked, dodging people's shoulders, not to piss anyone off. But in his game of dodging shoulders, he felt a hand come to his shoulder.

Levi turned left and saw a woman with black hair and black eyes, with a normal brown one-piece over a white cardigan.

"Excuse me, do I know you—arghh"

Levi felt the grip on his shoulder tighten, almost dislocating the bone.

The woman brought her face near his ear and whispered,

"You bastard, you have skipped your training for three days straight."

'Sensei? Why is she here?'

Levi hadn't activated his Sense skill, so he didn't know Irina was near, and if he knew, he would be on his knees apologizing.

"Sensei, stop, I still haven't recovered."

Levi would lie saying this, and Irina would often let him go because of how exhausted he looked after treating her daughter. He was paler than a ghost, but now misdirecting her motherly senses wouldn't work.

"Don't worry, I can fix you,"

Irina said with the most evil smile.

"Sensei, I think you need to let go,"

Levi whispered as he put his hand on Irina, trying to push her away from him.

Irina's grip tightened even more.

"You have grown balls in those three days to order me around."

Levi shook his head and whispered,

"R-U-N."

Irina, shocked, wondered, 'Why would I need to run?'

She looked ahead and saw a dark blue-haired girl tied in a ponytail, wearing a white t-shirt, and black jeans, with a paper bag filled with apples, looking straight at Irina.

"Fuck…. I should run."

Irina said as her eyes met her one and only sister, Irene.