Hidden Land?
『Answers: The Hidden Land is a place that the barrier had guarded, it said that the hidden land was located somewhere within the miles of Ogre Kingdom, and their territory that was cursed from a longest period of time.』
『Coincidentally, the Hidden Land was a proper land, or such a village near the castles, but since the curse blossoms one night, the said village had disappeared from the eyes of the beast continent.』
In other words, defeating that strong barbaric barrier was able to break the curse sent from that land?
『Answer: Yes, the hidden land was properly introduced as the land who disappears, however, despite breaking the barrier doesn't mean they are free. Since the host had acquired the barriers control, however, that is only because the host has the permission whether remove the barrier or not.』
That makes sense with that overwhelming urge of power, pouring down on me, and it felt so strong. That was the energy of the barrier's power turning into mine. I looked at the sky and saw the fake glass-like sky replaced by what seemed to be transparent revealing the true sky behind it.
The mist that was covering entirely all the seemingly land in this place has slowly disappeared, and that is when I realized that the whole place changed one by one. It became brighter and lighter than I thought.
"Y-you?"
Then a voice came out of that slowly disappearing mists that had been startled, and turned back to look. What was that? Only then that what I saw shocked me entirely. What the hell?
Am I seeing things? This cannot be, I am not wrong. Those small features, eyes, nose, no tails, no horns? Are they human? That can't be, this is the beast continent, anyone who looks like a human is an immigrant in this land and will be deported back to the nearest human islands at the east.
"A-A demon!!"
I turn and look before shaking my head. "Doesn't mean I have horns, I am already a demon," I said.
They look so frightened and scared so I guess they took me as a demon because of my horns. Once again I was a human back then, and to be called a demon makes me think back to before when people proclaimed me as a demon when I didn't even do anything wicked.
"T-then what are you!?" Should I be speaking to mere humans? Aren't there any rules about it? Gahh, I don't know, I can't just ignore them now that they felt frightened.
"I am being questioned by mere humans inside our territory, that's ridiculous," I look at them and shake my head. "Lucifer Springgun," I said.
"Springgun?" They don't look like they know what I am sprouting here.
"Is this village part of any kingdom?" Let's just ask them a different question they should know. Since they don't feel like folks who know about the outside world, maybe they know a little about the land they serve.
The village people look one after another. Then they looked at me and nodded. "We are part of Kingdom Of Burn," I was right, that's a human kingdom. I've seen it on the world map in the castle.
"The human continent," I mumbled. "You are far unknown to which place you are located, humans, this is a dangerous part of the woods to hide," I was suddenly concerned that some of our people may have discovered this place. However, if they did, they won't even last one minute from the barriers interference.
"Y-you!"
I stepped in and saw them getting cautious. "I am the 5th prince of Ogre Kingdom, where did you all come from?" Should ogre be famous, they will know who I am but instead of answering, they all reach out their weapons and point their blades at me.
"M-monster!"
Could this stop? It's ridiculous. "Pardon me but that's quite rude, you are speaking to a prince here," I said out of irritation and breathed out.
"Doesn't matter, you are a monster!" Frail human trying to fight a stronger monster, big mistake for a mere being.
I give a long and irritating look while breathing heavily before I set my fingers, flickering both of them until it creates a vibration, sending bazaar sound that makes them cover their ears and throw their weapons away.
That is an ability from the barrier, one of its factors. I acquired it using my new skill 《Ability Conquer》and took control over this ability with one flip. The sound it sends has magical abilities like vibration with the sound of wind, or howl with the sound of water that would kill.
That's different to the sound of wind because it's harmless. About a few seconds passed, I stopped the sound and looked at them. "I don't want to harm anyone here so stop your nonsense, whether or not you'll accept me here isn't your choice, because once this village is being exposed, demons or wild monsters who've gone insane will wreck you all."
"P-pardon!" I wasn't paying much attention to everyone but I heard this small human voice, and it was echoing so once I turned and looked, there was a girl like literally a woman not a girl, she was the same age as I am and she was covering the people behind her.
"Please stop, don't hurt them anymore, what is it that you want? We will give it to you, just don't harm any of us!"
Why would I?
Is this how humans think of us? To harm people? This is crazy. "When did I say I will harm you all?" I ask in disappointment.
"Monsters don't harm your kind, unlike your kind who will take our people as a mere slaves, we are different," yes we are monsters who will fed on humans but there are others who would not fed upon human flesh.
She looked at me with hostility before she turned around. Did I do something? These people...
"If that is so, why did you use your powers on us!?"
"Because your kind ask for it? Woman, listen to me, behind this barrier is my peoples land and we don't accept immigrants very easily, if you want to survive, lower your guards and let me help you be deported back to the human continent," it's the only way I can think off to make sure they are safe because monsters don't adopt human here unless we take the route to Hallebria Island.
She looked at them before looking at me. "T-then let's ask our village lord first but you have to promise not to harm us, understood?" I just simply nodded. It wasn't because I had no choice but arguing won't take us anywhere either, I'd just better do what they told me to do.
Act with carefulness and be mindful... "I apologize, one of our people doesn't seem safe with you walking freely, we ask that you will be detained for our people's assurance," goodness, I like to laugh right now but I had no chance to do so.
Although she said that, she seemed concerned about something other than being detained by collars. "What is it?" I did not hesitate to ask, so she looked at me shocked before turning beside me.
"Our people also said that we should ask you to lower your magical presence, your aura, they don't want to see it that way," that way? Ah... Tartys show me my aura...
『Beep... Beep... Beep...』
It was quiet for a second, I didn't hear anyone since it stimulated inside of me about the silence whenever Tartys was doing his thing. I am used to it but that weird feeling had filled me inside, it was about as breathtaking as the one I've used to see in movies, as if my body is floating with every little energy left inside of me.
The darker it brightens, the harder it collides, now I understand that very well. Aura, it was called by many people of the empire but we call this thing 'atoms' a spec of particles that overwhelmed an entire entity of body and soul. Aura represents an atom, which is a smaller size scrap floating up air, it is usually invincible to any eyes but it can be seen by higher types of mages.
To make it smaller than its size, I will need to contain these atoms inside of my body, and the container inside helps with containing body particles or molecules with infinite storage, because a body is made of void 'nothingness' anything that can describe darkness.
Few 'strong' types of "mages" have this kind of body functions. It is used against various things, the body was made to contain something—not just souls. In order to contain them, I have to accept these atoms as part of my soul. Basically, I need to sucked everything inside of me like a vacuum cleaner.
I breathed in and out for a few seconds, repeated that same pattern and there I felt the light burden fleeing from it's gripped on the shoulder. Then I breathed steadily and felt all of those messy atoms disappearing outside my body slowly and surely.
Surely, once done, I opened my eyes and smiled. "If that startled and scared you, I apologize on behalf of my father, and may you put your guard down."