-Fey ?

Cecilia muttered immediately letting me know who my opponents were that looked like those gargoyle in some story book that I had read before they had grey skin sharp claws and hideous faces with large wings on their backs...I didn't know they were considered fey though...

Anyways I stopped thinking about nonsense and instead told hestia to start clearing them out with her flames and as expected she was already on it and threw massive amounts of fire balls hitting the flying beasts on the spot without missing a single one of them,from a distance I could also see dozens of green arrows flying everywhere hitting the gargoyles heads leraje was also taking care of his side I could see.

I also summoned my plasma sword and stopped time turning the whole area around me into a complete silence and stand still...

I looked around appraising the whole area inspecting every single person and being and mainly looking towards the 4 new entrances that were blown away...

I could could leave the flying pests to hestia and leraje currently I needed to get outside and figure out what was going on it is a bit too unbelievable that they were able to go through all this protection without a single sound or rumble.

Before I left I looked at cecilia for a moment...leaving her here wasn't good,but hestia and leraje were here,both of them would protect her while I was gone it wouldn't even take too much time I assumed.

Thinking like this I silently apologized to cecilia and parted from her with the plasma sword in hand I got ready to go towards the main entrance and see what was going on,but firstly I needed to inspect the cocktail.

I looked towards the broken pieces of the glass I knelt down and rewinded the time of the glass turning it back into its poisonous fixed state of a cocktail I proceeded on and used my clairsentience on it to see the past of this item.

My vision first started to get blank and afterwards pictures started to run through my eyes like a projector this ability was instant it doesn't require me to wait and see the full time event in real time it just shows me everything from this objects perspective as if it had 2 eyes grown into it,my eyes to be precise.

Getting back into myself I dropped the cocktail I now knew who had put the poison inside the cocktail,but at the same time I think that,that person had already gone outside...

Without losing precious time I started to walk towards the entrance being in this state too long can make me sick or tired afterwards so I needed to make it quick and as short as possible I had already tasted death through this ability a second time isn't really attracting anymore even if chronos can pull me back to life that is.

While walking up the stairs my mind also started to go through a few things about the situation...their main goal in this assassination seems to be the senator,but why would they want that why not kill one of the leaders of the 3 main families if they can get into this party so easily ? Its simple it shows that their motives doesn't relate to the senjins,silvas or greenwoods,but rather something else maybe it is something linked with the fact that henrickson is a senator ?

For now these were all baseless assumptions it isn't yet clear that they just want to kill the senator getting steward seems the most appropriate if he isn't that,that is...I really hope he isn't too.

(Swish Swish Swish)

With those thoughts I swung my plasma sword a few times cutting through the invaders that looked like elves in a swift and precise motion going through their necks...the moment time would start was also the moment when their necks would part from their bodies.

Walking in front of the entrance I looked outside...it was night,but in my eyes this night was as clear as day to me I looked down the stairs a bit tense about the situation I willed myself to look at what had happened to the guards with a solemn look on my face...

As I stared into the open area in front of me,I couldn't help,but look a bit confused...the guards they were all on the ground,but they weren't dead...they were sleeping ?

At least thats what I am thinking they are doing right now...I thought while walking down the stairs slowly in my path I cut down every single invader that met my path and observed the whole area mainly searching for steward another thing I had noticed while cutting the invaders was that they all wore those strange brown ear plugs they were made out of some wood their use was unknown to me,but not too long.

After a few minutes I finally found him,he was laying down on the ground and it seemed like he was still conscious and not sleeping,but instead he looked incredibly strained and the reason for that was obvious to me...it was because of the woman in front of him that was holding a strange dark brown wooden flute in her hand...

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Both of them were stuck in place just staring at each other,the woman was playing that strange flute while looking at steward mockingly she was also wearing the plugs and adding towards it I could now understand why every invader was wearing those strange plugs which was there to shield them from the music...

I didn't wait a second and took away the flute from her hands it was as if I was taking candy from a child not that I had ever done that before.

Right now I was moving a bit too much and if I start time again the strain will maybe make my ankles too light for me to stand and until then I need to be careful for everything thats why I made sure that nothing would come in my way by cutting every single one of the invaders so they wouldn't come back up ever again I left the flute playing woman unharmed and instead just inspected her from head to toe and took everything she had.

Unfortunately I didn't have any rope with me and thinking about it I should carrying some tape or some kind of rope to restrain someone,but right now having her where she was without escape wasn't bad either,her possessions were also some escape mechanisms maybe even weapons I wasn't sure,but one of the items was a interesting one...it was a letter I didn't look it yet and wasn't going to read it either.

I stepped beside steward finally raising him onto his feet and gritting my teeth I faintly thought in my mind...Start time...

With that single thought everything I had experienced up until now,every single muscle movements and everything swing of the sword was taking effect on me doubled with the effort and also with the stamina fortunately my mind wasn't blacking out,but it was still painful I was having hard time standing on my legs,but not enough to take me down.

(Pssss)

-HUH ?! what ?...how...

-Dawn...

Everything happened at the same time the invaders around us were losing their heads and falling to their knees while sprouting blood as if they were sprinklers the don't even know that they are dead yet nor do they know what killed them since it all happened in a single instance...the blood was a lot and the stairs were full of it flowing down the lake looking like a lake the bodies crumbling down with their bones breaking on every single step it was good for them that they couldn't feel that excruciating pain on their dead bodies while falling down the bloody stairs.

The woman in front of us was confused,but she saw everything that had happened around us she saw the terrifying act of a blood sprout happening in front of her a very deathly pale color suddenly rose from her face..she was pretty,but not that pretty like the girls that lived in my house...I take that back I sound like a playboy all of a sudden...

I shook my head trying to both shake the dizzy feeling I had from the stamina consumption and also stop thinking about unnecessary thoughts.

-Next time...try to be a little be discreet about the way you did these things...

Steward said looking pretty weak himself and with a slight look of fear going through his face,but now that the flute was gone he was slowly getting back to himself...he wasn't tired after all.

The woman in front of us shrieked she immediately searched through her coat,but soon found out that she couldn't find the item she was searching after a few seconds realization dawned on her when she realized that I was actually holding the flute in my hand her thinking speed was quick as she also realized that I was responsible for all of these people to die like this in a single instants...

She knelt down...her face was already as pale is it could get blood flowed without an end next to us she had no way of escape right now...

(BOOM)

A small explosion could be heard from a distance it came from the party hestia seems to be having a literal blast inside the party for once...

Steward looked at me for a moment with a questionable look on his face,he didn't care how I did this the only thing he wanted to know was about the safety of the heiress which I could assure with a tight nod myself.

Steward acknowledged as I saw a small smile spread through his lips he turned his attention back to the lady sitting on the ground who showing a seemingly hopeless look on her face.

He asked her.

-It seems like our positions have reversed haven't they ?

I narrowed my eyes towards her holding my plasma sword I straightened myself.

-Kyaaa !

The woman shrieked and with her shriek came another quiet sound of sprinkling,but this time it didn't come from her head it came from her pants...

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