Chapter 311: Erasure Punishment
"He is just five years old," Rin's icy voice hissed through her clenched teeth. "Erix, these people are hopeless. It's a breeding ground of chaos."
"These people wouldn't bat an eye when killing anyone innocent or bystanders at their whims. Their minds are rotting," Aria said as she bit her teeth, feeling sad and angry. "Just look at them…"
"Mum…"
Aaron's eyes opened as he muttered in his sleep,"Don't come here…"
The words stunned Rin, Erix, and Aria because they knew what they meant, and it also made them angry.
Aaron was five years old, but what made him say that?
What made him say "Don't come here" to his mother?
He understood everything.
"Damn it!" Erix cursed under his breath as an intense, icy light passed through his eyes.
"There's only one way to end this," Rin said with an expressionless, cold face. "Aaron needs to be shaped, and we will do that by showing him the end of this nightmare."
"Let me heal him," Aria said as she put her hand on Aaron's forehead, using the Animus element to nourish his unawakened soul and spirit, while also using her water and light elements to energize Aaron.
Aaron's eyes fully opened, clear and rippling as they looked at Erix before him.
Instantly, Aaron's eyes started dropping tears of relief as he saw Erix and Rin.
Aaron remembered the duo and knew how much sense of protection he got from them.
They were the ones who saved him and his mother in his eyes as they killed those demons.
Seeing them again, Aaron cried while stretching his arms and hugging Erix.
After calming him down, Aaron started speaking with clarity.
In the end, Erix asked, "Aaron, what do you think should happen to those baddies?"
"They…" Aaron sniffed, his cheeks red and eyes angry, "They should disappear...forever."
"If you listen to us and your mother carefully, we'll make those baddies disappear. What do you say?" Erix smiled.
"Mhmm, ok," Aaron nodded. "Mum is safe, so I am happy."
"Let's go then," Rin said with a cold smile. "We will make them disappear."
…
Jakal and the other five leaders gathered in their meeting room and were discussing the next plan when all of them suddenly felt a chill, and the atmosphere in the meeting room turned heavy.
The round table broke into pieces. Its rubble flew chaotically as Jakal and others saw Erix, Rin, Aria, and Aaron appearing in the center.
"Who a-"
"No talking," Erix said, sealing everyone in a lock of space, completely trapped.
Everyone used their elements and exerted their full physical strength, but nothing could break the space lock around them.
Instantly, a feeling of death enveloped them.
"Aaron, this is how we will make them disappear," Erix pointed at a middle-aged man, and Aaron also looked at him.
The middle-aged man looked terrified at this situation.
"Poof," Erix's index finger released a Nihilir Wisp that stuck the man, causing him to phase into the Space Limbo before his body was broken into blazing dark purple motes and beautifully vanished.
"He disappeared…" Aaron muttered.
"Yes. You only disappear people are that baddie, okay?" Rin said with a smile. "You can't do it now, but keep in mind to be a good boy and listen to your mother. You have a lot to learn."
To have a good conscience, Isabella could teach him best regarding that.
But for now, they needed to erase Aaron's fear of these baddies and end this nightmare to remove whatever trauma he may have for his future.
"Who is the leader?" Erix asked and unsealed everyone's heads.
The remaining six people, including Jakal, took a heavy breath while their eyes fluxed with fear.
"W-who are you?"
"The guild master of Unfettered Fate," Erix grinned. "The true one."
"You d-don't know who you are messing with! We have two thousand people outside, ready to pounce on you!"
A woman in her early thirties shrilled at Erix.
However, Rin's hands blurred, and a flow of Starlight golden light with faint black and dark red sparks enveloped the woman for a second before vanishing.
"Numbers doesn't matter in some situation," Rin said, her Katana piercing into the ground as she narrowed her eyes at Jakal and others. "This is one of those situations."
Not a single trace of that woman remained in the world, not even her Tier-5 magic dress.
"Some people are coming here," Aria said, her purple eyes shining with faint white-gold glints as she had the entire area under her radar.
"Should I go and restrain everyone outside?" Aria asked, her voice eager.
"Alright," Erix nodded. "It's not a good idea to kill those many people since it will lower our sanctuary area's protection."
"I can read their consciousness like a book and depth of depravity. As long as they did horrible things, they must become slaves for their lives," Aria said with her fists clenched, her anger solidifying. "No innocent should suffer because of their corrupted minds that only wait for retributions."
After saying that, Aria vanished from her spot and went outside while Amu grinned, happy that Aria wasn't the softie like before and could initiate this kind of decision.
"We'll use them as slaves on our Blessed Island," Rin ruthlessly said as her icy glares pricked Jakal as he felt death nearing him.
'No fucking way! Y-Yes, I need to do that,' Jakal's eyes faintly glowed red.
"Good idea," Erix laughed and floated towards Jakal. "And you four will disappear before your whole Dark Dagger Alliance."
"Erix, he is using Bloodline resonance," Amu suddenly said as the slime appeared on Jakal's head with spikes on its bottom.
"It's fine. Let him use it," Erix grinned. "We have to see what kind of vampire friends he made."
"Let's go at the top. Aria is already capturing people swiftly."
Erix teleported everyone from the hall and appeared on top of the big palace.
Outside, Aria had unleashed thousands of Slime-type Animated Spirits with robust and gluey structures, using Water and Earth elements to create potent Mud slimes.
The slimes were faster and stronger than everyone in the city, and their structure was unbreakable by their attacks.
A slime would immediately slam into someone and trap that person inside before gathering at the empty area before the palace.
The people who ran away faster than slimes failed to escape since Aria would assault them with her Spirit wave attack, showing them stars in daylight.
Even though it was just a crude spirit force attack, Aria could still knock them out due to the vast disparity between her Spirit power and others' Spirit power.
Moreover, the majority of people were still at Noble-order lifeform rank.
In just a few minutes, every single person from the Dark Daggers Alliance was present before the palace, each one trapped in a slime.
Erix and others descended, showing Jakal and other leaders to the trapped members.
However, just as Erix was about to speak, several powerful auras approached them, all of them in Royal-order except one that made Rin, Erix, Aria, and Amu assess it.
That one was an Empyrean-order lifeform rank aura!