The Burning Fiend

Two weeks after leaving Fansi City, Reynolds and his family were sitting in the luxurious compartment of a sword shaped metallic life form. Reynolds decided to keep using this specific metallic life form in hopes of baiting bandits into attacking them, and he did manage to find a small group of bandits three days before that served as a test for Rosarie's improved 'Green Dragon Attack Formation'. The result was better than expected and the four beautiful women, working together to power the attack formation, could battle a 5-star Fiend without trouble.

Reynolds believed that it would take them nearly 15 years to reach the Prefecture City, and he planed to spend most of his time pondering the mystery of 'Combustion' in hopes of become a Highgod as soon as possible. He had given up trying to figure out the current tense situation within the Indigo Prefecture and only Rosarie was still curious enough to ask questions of this matter when they captured the surviving bandits, but Fansi City was at the border of the Continent and it was not easy to obtain news without paying high prices for it... at the end, they decided that it was not something they needed to worry about.

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A group of 13 men moved at high speed near the border of the Indigo Prefecture, Lazor turned to look at his companions feeling how pride filled his heart after their well executed ambush in which they killed 10 high ranking members of the Five Sacred Families, among them two 7-star Fiends and eight 6-star Fiends died while only five 6-star Fiends managed to escape. It had been a while since the Four Divine Beast Clan had managed to obtain such an overwhelming victory. He felt frustration that the war was taking such a great toll of his clan and dreamed of the days when the four ancestors protected the clan against all enemies and allowed them to run rampant enjoying whatever p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e there was to be found.

His thoughts were interrupted when he received a mental communication from one of his companions. 'Elder Lazor, a metallic life form will be crossing our path in about half an hour... I sense no Highgods, only a man and six women... all of them are Gods. One of the women has the aura of the Redding Clan'. Lazor frowned with annoyance, his pride as a member of Redding Clan conflicted with the d.e.s.i.r.e to return home to enjoy the success of their raid, he sighed thinking that if the group had no Highgods, then there should be no problem with them ambushing the metallic life form.

'Do you have more information? Is the woman of our clan a slave? Is there a sigil or banner in the vessel?' Lazor send his thoughts to the scout wanting to have a better understanding before making a decision, he turned his attention to the scout and noticed that he was smirking with disdain. 'Elder, the only male in the group is playing with two of the girls... how did a mere God manage could have six beautiful women serving him if they were not slaves? Uh... sorry Elder... there is no sigil or banner, the woman from the Redding clan is playing board games with another girl. Besides that there is nothing more I could find'.

Lazor was slightly distressed, his long blue hair danced with the wind as his squad waited for his decision, The team have followed him on several occasions into death traps, and they have managed to survive due to their team work and the high motivation of the group. He established a high degree of discipline along with generous rewards. 'Perhaps after a dangerous battle like the one we survived a few days ago... well, it would not be a bad idea to let the group play with a few women... and we can use the justification of freeing a member of the clan from slavery'. Lazor seemed to have made a decision, after remembering that his father had an even higher rank and status than him and that he had always protected him... they should manage to avoid any punishment. He ordered the group to descend into the mountain to prepare the ambush.

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Reynolds was enjoying a moment of rest with Rosarie and Windsor when the runic arrays on the metallic life form detected a divine sense exploring the vessel and its occupants, he could not feel the divine sense without the runic arrays and that meant that the spiritual probe came from a Highgod. Reynolds smiled and sent a mental message to his companions. 'Prepare to defend yourselves... we are likely to get attacked in a moment'. Rosarie and Windsor who were in compromising positions grunted in protest while Reynolds chuckled without stopping exploring their bodies waiting for the attack to come.

He was hoping that the enemy to be powerful enough to at least entertain him or perhaps provide battle experience to his wives. A few minutes later, the metallic life form exploded surprising Reynolds. The runic arrays engraved into the metallic life form assured that it would resist a couple of attacks from a 5-star Fiend and Reynolds decided that he would be the one dealing with the attackers while instructing the girls to prepare the 'Green Dragon Attack Formation' to protect themselves. Since the enemy managed to break his defensive runic arrays easily, it meant that they were at least at the 6-star Fiend rank, and he was not going to allow his family into danger.

Reynolds looked at the attackers and frowned noticing that they did not look like bandits, there was something militarized in the group... and with a single glance he could tell that this group was more dangerous than any group of bandits they had met before. The 13 men were taking turns between scowling at Sasha and ogling his wives and daughter. After a moment Reynolds was extremely annoyed as he realized that this group was not likely to carry much wealth with them, and they were not strong enough to represent a challenge.

A blue haired man smirked and said. "You dare to kidnap a daughter of the Redding Clan! You will die and the women will serve the soldiers of the Four Divine Beast Clan!" Reynolds was disappointed to say the least, he had expected to contact the Four Divine Clan through Lord Beirut, but now they were attacking them and threatening to make slaves out his family. For a second he considered explaining that he had friends on the Four Divine Clans, but noticed the l.u.s.t on their faces, and he understood that there would not be any use for words in this situation.

Jut a second after Lazor voiced his threat, the 6 women disappeared and a 'Giant Green Dragon Attack Formation' appeared in their place. The raiding team smirked knowing that attack formation were quite limited and that their prey had already used their greatest card. They were still impressed by the energy released and realized that the Green Dragon was equivalent to a 5-star Fiend. It was also at this moment that Reynolds decided to end this ridiculous situation and used his most powerful soul attack turning all the 6-star Fiends into ashes while the two 7-star Fiends were screaming in terror while holding their heads with their hands.

Lazor felt fear filling his heart the moment when all the 6-star Fiend were killed with a single glance, he finally understood that he had offended an enemy that was beyond what he could deal with. He tried to do his best to escape, but his terror increased when he realized in just how much of a terrible situation he was as the other 7-star Fiend had just turned into ashes as well and his own soul defense artifact crumbled into pieces at this moment living him to receive the full brunt of the soul attack directly.

"Lord! This was a misunderstanding... please spare me!" The howls covered the area and reveled how terrified he was. Reynolds scowled in disappointment. "I have no mercy for those who threaten my family and there would not be any mercy". The 7-star Fiend Lazor turned into ashes with a last scream.

A moment later, all 13 divine sparks made their way toward him along with their interspatial rings making him very annoyed as he noticed that the interspatial rings where still bounded to their owners. "Well, it seems that all of them still have some other avatar somewhere else. Then it dawned on him, his family might be in danger from now on, they would likely report a great battle for the honor of the Clan and their description.

Reynolds was truly annoyed now, he wondered if he would end up being attacked every few days by similar groups of the Four Divine Beast Clan... 'Well, at least life would be a little more interesting now". He muttered to himself while searching for another metallic life form from his interspatial ring, this time he chose the traditional winged serpent, hoping to create some deterrent and avoid an immediate war with the clan, though he was not really worried... he even had some expectations to be able to witness or to participate in a great battle.