There's Something Wrong With You, My Lord!
Chapter 75: Testing the Limits! (7)

Chapter 75: Testing the Limits! (7)

Seeing the other side charging at them to cause harm, Olyn and Rion quickly moved to counter it. The servant didn’t forget to lay down the bag on his back and carefully yet swiftly laid the weapons that the moon elf lord may use on the ground.

Olyn crouched to the ground, placed his palm on the earth and slowly his two hands were covered with clawed gauntlets that are made up of tough and sharp stones. Luis watched this happen with round eyes. ’Is this still my cute and innocent Olyn?!’

"You dare to approach my lord with malicious intent! I’ll make sure to rip your face off!" The brown-haired bearer roared.

Olyn completely shed his usual innocence and he daringly clashed with Nereen. On the other hand, the seemingly dazed male moon elf spawn two earth arrows and aimed them towards the bearer.

But it only burst into pieces after it was shot down by Rion’s wind arrows. The impact of Rion’s attacks caused a small but violent breeze underground.

Luis turned to look at Rion. The young moon elf was still in his shooting stance and he was holding a silver bow. If it wasn’t for the small wisps of wind leaking from its body, he would have thought that it is made up of silver and not wind.

’This must be a technique that he inherited from the clan.’ Luis thought.

"You’re supposed to use bows when you are using arrows." Rion’s blonde hair that he inherited from his father danced as there was still wind swirling on his fingertips. His silver irises are glowing attractively.

’100/100 for visuals’, Luis uttered in his mind. ’His chrysanthemum would have twitched if he saw this before meeting Xagrien but now..." he trailed off

Luis saw that the two are doing well so he decided to look around the place to look for potential threats. He noticed a small presence of an animal but he thought that it was probably nothing so he brushed it off.

His eyes lingered around the place and it was only then that he saw the expression on his male god’s face.

"Hey," Luis touched Xagrien’s strong arms to wake him up. He heard that he uttered his deceased friend’s name, Nereen and he knew that this male moon elf right here was that friend that was killed that fateful night.

"I..." Xagrien was speechless upon seeing this unfold. "That was Nereen, moon elf lord. What... There’s no way that my friends lied," Xagrien’s reaction was more than just disbelief. His thoughts were all over the place and he could only speak incoherently.

How many comrades died while they were in the wild? It was too many to remember all of them, especially since he’s been living as a rogue since he was a weak child.

And seeing someone come back to life was not even a fantasy for them and yet...

Xagrien looked to see that Nereen was being attacked by both Olyn and Rion and the impulse that he has was to jump in and stop the brawl.

However, a smooth and calm voice stopped him.

"Don’t. I know that you are in shock but take a look at what is happening closely. There’s something wrong with all of this." Luis hinted.

A moon elf who was supposedly dead after being impaled in the chest by root crawler’s proboscis shouldn’t move nimbly like that.

Luis checked the brown eyes of the moon elf but it looked alive even though it was not focused. Nereen looked like he was sleepwalking with his eyes open.

’But why did the eyes look weird? It was mixed with a tinge of yellow and it is eerily familiar.’ Luis tried hard to remember but nothing comes to mind for now. Totally different from all the earth power moon elves.

So he decided to watch the 2 versus 1 fight to observe the situation.

While he is concerned about the two, Luis knows that it is best not to join in since this is the sentiment of his subordinates. Besides, both Olyn and Rion should be fine looking at how the fight is going on.

While the Olyn is the one in charge of fighting melee, Rion is the one responsible for deflecting the attack from long range.

Strangely, the two manage to cooperate tacitly.

Luis communicated to them telepathically and said, [Olyn, Rion, try to tire that male first. And we will hold him captive for later. Don’t unnecessarily hurt him. There is a possibility that someone is controlling him.]

[Understood, my lord!] Both of them answered with bubbling excitement. They wanted to show the moon elf lord their skills.

"Olyn! Try to close the gaps between you and that warrior! I’ll make sure to cover your back." Rion yelled.

"You don’t need to tell me that! That is what I am meaning to do in the first place!" Olyn’s smile was full of confidence.

And so, they enthusiastically fought hard as per their lord’s order.

Luis looked back at Xagrien and said "I asked them to apprehend Nereen for now." Luis said to Xagrien.

"Okay," Xagrien said dazedly, he didn’t show it at all but Luis knew that he was heartbroken. Luis silently placed his hand in Xagrien’s palm.

The warm hands of the bearer touched the cold palms of the male.

This somehow pulled Xagrien back to his senses and this made him realize one thing that he stupidly overlooked.

"I am so stupid," Xagrien muttered.

Xagrien unwittingly tightened his hand around Luis’. "What?" The moon elf lord asked after seeing the dark expression on the male’s face.

Did he not like to see his friends attacked?

"Moon elf lord, you were right. Something is wrong with Nereen. He is not someone that I used to know." Xagrien said.

But what shocked Luis more was the words that followed that.

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Rion started firing his shots with full energy. He jumps around with the help of his wind powers whenever he is trying to catch the perfect angle for his arrow.

The blond moon elf perfectly showed his excellent marksmanship as none of the earth arrows managed to pass and hurt Olyn.

On the other hand, Olyn successively connected his attacks to the moon elf.

Olyn’s movements are nimble and swift. Thanks to his light body and the training that he did during the absence of the moon elf lord.

He did a few heavy kicks at Nereen but it was as if he was hitting a rock! And Olyn was raised from a clan whose techniques are all centered on the physical hardness of the stones and earth!

"This is frustrating!"

He tried to scratch the warrior’s face or arm but he thought that he was hitting nothing.

Little did he know that his attacks actually connected. It’s just that the skin and the flesh bent as if it was a viscous substance.

"Rion! Let’s do it now!" Olyn signalled Rion after seeing that the warrior is moving a bit sluggish.

"I understand! I’ll leave it to you then!" Rion said and he halted shooting his wind arrows. However, he made sure to maintain his stance and the wind arrow is ready to fly at any moment.

The bearer then jumped up and kicked the tall male in his chest. He used the force to push his body back.

Olyn slid his entire body to the ground. With his palm on the ground, he summoned earthen pillars and it shot towards Nereen. Totally caging him.

"We did it!" Olyn excitedly thumped his fist to the ground.

However, a wind arrow was suddenly fired at the captured moon elf. "What are you doing, Rion?!" Olyn yelled at the top of his lungs. The moon elf lord specifically said that this male should be held captive!

"I didn’t mean it. A bird suddenly swooped in!" Rion hurriedly explained.

The two looked to check if the male was alright.

However, when they looked back at the warrior. What they saw is beyond their comprehension.

"How is this possible?!" Olyn blurted out. He is the nearest to the male so of course he can see that the male’s right hand was nowhere to be found. But that is not the most shocking for him.

"Why is it mud?!" Blood should be dripping from the wound but this isn’t the case for the warrior instead it was a viscous brown substance that is mixed with bright yellow fluid.

"Olyn, stand up and move back." Olyn didn’t know when the moon elf lord moved but now, he could see him standing in front of him. "My lord."

"Stand up," the moon elf lord said seriously. Olyn did as he was told.

He traced the line of sight of the moon elf lord and it landed directly on the trapped warrior.

"I never saw such a dirty bastard who could do such a thing!" Luis gritted his teeth as he felt his anger bubbling. Xagrien on the other hand, was standing beside Rion guarding against any potential harm.

His eyes are darkly looking at the body of his friend. Or the friend that he believed he knew. Xagrien remembered what he told Luis earlier, "Nereen should be a wind power warrior, moon elf lord. We interacted for years and we never saw him use earth powers. Besides, his eyes have always been silver just like any wind power moon elf."

At first, he was worried that Luis would not believe it at all. But he was wrong, his moon elf lord readily believed in him. Xagrien felt warm in his chest even though they are currently in a complicated situation.

Meanwhile, Luis’ eyes are shining as he studies the body of the Nereen in front of him with his Cosmic Sense. And he saw two different energies coursing throughout that one body.

The one should be an earth-attribute mana, while the other that directly under the heart was nature’s energy of wind power.

But that is not all, the outline of Nereen’s plate is different from what is expected of his age. In fact, it was far from mature. It was the same as that of a child!

Luis’ head almost burst as he tried to think of an explanation but he came up with only one. Nereen could possibly be a being with two entities in one body. One is a child moon elf and the other is a being that Luis has no idea about.

And based on the circulation energy inside the body, the other is leeching off the child like a damn parasite!

Luis then remembered the childish voice that asked for his help. He activated his telepathic skill but it failed to connect.

"Did you know that I only have one kind of person that I absolutely abhor? It is those cowardly bastards who could only lay a hand on a weak child!" Luis roared but it wasn’t intended for the dazed Nereen and it was definitely not said stupidly by Luis.

"Hey, I am talking to you, beady eyes bastard. You’ve been watching for quite a while, don’t you think you should take the spotlight now?" Luis said. He manipulated nature’s energy to get the laying dagger on the ground, then he threw it directly at the owl hiding within the shadows.

Luis summoned the two wooden short swords to his hand. "I got bigger blades to cut your wings. Don’t think that I missed you. I already smelled your stench right after my foot hit the ground here."

"Hehehehe", a deep malicious laugh resonated. "Ah, I didn’t expect that the moon elf lord would find me even before I introduced myself."

The owl’s eyes glowed yellow in the middle of the dark shadow. "I am Lord Isami Koiloda. The Lord Creator. Did you enjoy playing with my trash?"