( Pov change ) (!a few minutes ago ) ( prince Ogo pov ) :
It didn't work, why didn't my seal of enslavement work on that useless, this is the second time something like this happened and both times was related to summoned from another world people .
First time it was with that Hana and now this useless guy, at least in Hana case, i could already foresaw it and to some extent bear with it , since i already have a basic understanding of how monstrous her potential was and how tough her destiny was , but now i'm incapable of even enslaving that useless guy, how was that even possible .
I got it that he was a lot stronger than what i first thought him to be, but i already put him in high regard after that Bling's family member warning , yet for him to be able to be able to be so unaffected by it is something out of my wildest expectations for his current strength , but how can this be even possible .
Suddenly a playful voice came from his left side saying :
What's with your deadpan expression, was something interesting going on ? .
Which he replied to by asking a question that he was in need to know the answer of :
Could you please remind me of at what level of strength my seal of enslavement would very likely to be rendered ineffective at ? .
According to the scale of power you use around here, i would confidently say that anyone who have enough strength to be qualified to rank above the A Rank , and even some A Rankers with the use of some special skills can rendered it useless , but why are you suddenly asking about this , are your pride still hurt from not being able to enslave that little hero.
If you succeeded in finishing the building that we tasked you with , i can promise to give her to you , her and all the girls that you ever wanted and desired, even that little half-sister of yours, if you wanted to of course but just finish what you are tasked with .
Don't tell me , are you afraid that Gluttony might actually beat you, let me assure you that he will do as he was told and nothing else, he will eat some humans at most and in exchange will enable you to make a great performance just like what you want, so don't worry about it .
The prince stared at the entity that was now sitting on his shoulder silently for a second not knowing why it kept mentioning such hurtful things but he knew better than to argue with it so he took all what it just said in with an internal livid expression and just sighed and began to say :
A very attractive offer but i shall pass, and no i kinda already prepared myself for the possibility of its failure so i accepted that failure with quite ease thank you ,i was actually asking for another reason , you see...… .
Both He and the entity on his shoulder suddenly shuddered for a fraction of a second there leaving them both with an apperant astonished expressions on their faces, whatever that had just affected both of them came and go in an almost unnoticeable period of time that it didn't make the scene just now to be seen by anyone other than the two people that were affected by whatever that was .
It wasn't visibl yes, but for the two in discuss it was actually quite noticable, they both looked at each other and saw the different emotions that were quite apperant in each one of their eyes , the prince's eyes was filled with shock and dreed as for the entity it was in contrast to the prince's .
Its eyes were filled with awe and curiosity and some playfulness as well hidden deep inside its pupils , but just as the prince was going to ask what just happened, the entity beat him to it first and asked in a commanding tone , saying :
Why were you asking about the strength limits of the people whose your ability can't work on just now ? .
It's like this, the shocked prince told the entity of what had just happened when he tried to enslave that Ryuu and it took a second or two until the entity remembered him and she labeled him as the guy he the crown prince wanted to use to increase his strength , but after he finished explaining it appeared to fell in thought and looked thoughtfully in the direction of that Ryuu he just mentioned ,it wasn't difficulty for the entity to connect the dots before saying :
So you are assuming that his strength might have increased to S Rank or even above that, then let me assure you that if what we both just felt came from that little guy then his strength might be even stronger than SSS Rank you are very proud of .
And the prince took this new information in a shocked state as he stood still in his place as if his brain had completely shut down before he beginning to hysterically say :
What, this can't happen, how, when, it's not even possible to get this strong in decades not to mention days, curses , your excellency must be joking around with me, yes, you must be missing with me , something like this can't be possible, otherwise i might have already reached that realm too, but you told me that with my appetite it will take at least more or less than a hundred days .
I can understand your reaction as it is quite baffling to me as well to how can such a thing happen but if he was really the culprit behind what just happened, then my guess is confirmed to be very much correct or at least close to being so , so no i'm not joking around nor missing around with you and with your current mental state you might need another one hundred years to achieve the rank of a Ruler with your own efforts .
But that's a thing that i can never truly accept, heck he hadn't been here for even a week and he can effortlessly claim the title of the strongest, how taunting , how was he able to achieve becoming this strong in two days , please tell me how ? .
It was actually 2 days , saidthat entity suddenly shocking the crown prince Ogo even more .
Huh, what 2 days ? .
Your brain really of need of some good quality enlightenment herps, sadly for you i don't have any on me and they are very precious than to be given to the likes of you , anyway the two days that i just mentioned were the actual amount of time that this little friend of ours took to reach SSS Rank or even more , who knows .
What are you even taking about, i'm not quite following ? .
Doesn't the incident that happened at the Wicked Forest ring any bells in that head of yours ? .
Huh, what does that have to do with... , no, you don't mean to say that .... .
Exactly the notifications that you said kept echoing around the land was his doing, he was deemed as that new weird SSS Rank figure that you have been searching for , how ironic .
He was that guy that bested the Goblin Lord and he got enough strength to do so in just merely two days, how can this possibly be ? .
Oh, you are talking as if you aren't a clear example of this happening before .
My condition was nothing like this , i spent 14 years to reach my current strength .
Yes, yours didn't give you that much explosive growth but its main focused was to increase your potential otherwise forgot about the so-called SS Rank, you wouldn't have been able to reach S Rank in the first place without the help you got from my brother .
And i will always be in your debt but what could you possibly mean by mentioning this and how was my experience related to his, he became this strong in just two to three days .
Actually , i believe that it's not only related but you and him are pretty much the same , you two are almost in the same situation .
Care to explain some more ? .
He may have also signed a Blood Slave Contract with some strong entity and that entity was able to dig some hidden potential inside him, allowing him to completely transform from the useless man you remembered to the current man eligible for the title of the strongest .
At the mention of the title of the strongest, the crown prince was gritting his teeth teeth so much that they were beginning to make a poping sounds , but he calmed down while thinking that he still at least have more potential than him and he will hopefully soon be able to surpass him in a hundred years or so .
but why was he getting such an explosive strength increase and in this short span of time too ? .
I have two theories about this and i believe that the second one was more close to the actual truth than the first .
Could you share them with me ? .
Look at you all looking forward to gossip, shouldn't you be issuing orders now that the monsters raid is almost here .
Trina will took care of that part for me , she is more well suited as a leader than me, anyway, and everything is already set in stone, so my orders won't change much anyway, so might as well leave it all to her and i will comfort her about it later .
Ruthless, but this one of the few qualities that you had originally way before you met us, imagine will that little girl's reaction be when she know that you were the one who dealt the finishing blow to her father, she will probably seek revenge , how will you deal with her .
The crown prince took a deep breath and said :
I will probably have to do the nicest thing that she would want and will probably send her to the same place her father were in, hopefully for her sake to not find out , care two tell me more about the two guesses that you have now ? .
The first guess is that he made a blood pact with a powerful entity someone at the level of Great Emperor or even more and that would be a perfect explanation on why he was able to get this strong, but how would he got to reach someone of that caliber is still quite the mystery for me , so it's unlikely to be true .
Okey, so if this was unlikely to be true then what about your second guess , the reason you said that was actually closer to the truth ? .
My second guess if correct probably will please you since it's quite connected with your little friend's life .
His eyes were beginning to brighten up but he said nothing and waited for it to continue saying :
That entity that he made contact with, could be using some secret technique to grant him such strength and power ....
He impatiently cut her off as he hurriedly said :
Why can't you give me a secret technique like the one he have, it could help me a lot in achieving the task that i'm been tasked with .
Continue to listen and you will understand and i don't need to remind you that i don't like to be interrupted .
He realized what he just did and hurriedly apologized for the rude gesture of his and asked her to please continue , and she began saying :
There's nothing like a free lunch from where i come from and i believe that the case in here as well, you take something then you have to give something in return .
Most of secret techniques adhere by this concept and stick hard with it, you want to gain more strength that's quite easy, what are you going to offer in return, your life, a limb, or even your sanity , do you still want to get a secret technique .
The entity asked this while looking at the crown prince and staring at him so deeply that it felt as if it want to dissect him in here pursuit of an answer .
The crown prince didn't even hesitate before resolutely nodding to it and he showed how strong was his resolve and ambition to pursue the title of the strongest .
The entity sighed at the way he responded and just smiled playfully as before as it continued to say :
I guess that ambition of yours will get you killed soon but don't worry i will still able to use even if you were to die , back to the topic at hand that hero of yours might have days to live at most if he did actually made such a deal, dooming himself for a short period of an explosive strength growth .
The prince complexion was beginning to ease a bit after he knew this as he was about to say something, the entity bombed him with another hypothesis of how was that Ryuu able to get his sudden strength as she continued in saying :
Their a third guess that could complicate everything if true , and that is his strength being fully his and there was no help granted to him from the outside whatsoever .
I can swear that his status window that time at the palace was showing nothing but how useless he was, he was even weaker than a 12 years old kid, so i don't believe him to be able to raise his strength by this much in three days .
I truly believe so too as even i can't say to have seen an item that could give such a boost in strength .
But either way his appearance might create some problems for us , so we need to devise some plan to get rid of him, or at least send him far away from the capital using any means necessary .
Why, do you think that he can pose a threat to the success of my task ? .
If he was in contract with some strong entity from the outside, i believe him to be having the same target as we do and that's to get his hands on the Shard just like us and give to his master , do you believe you are able to take him on in your current state and with your current skills? .
The moment the entity asked that last question of it, the crown prince body shuddered just as he was remembering of the suffocating aura that he felt moments before, his complexion looked so pale and his eyes were now bulging as if they wanted to fell from their sockets .
Don't worry, i won't really judge you for this kind of reaction you have, as i believe that even older brother Blazan might find it a bit difficult to finish off that guy , but we will have to figure out some way to not get this guy standing in our way and who knows maybe that secret technique that the entity he is dealing with used to improve his strength with be more consuming than we initially anticipated.
Killing him in the raid without us having to do anything .
What about giving me a secret technique to increase my strength too and i believe that it will assure my triumph over him .
Maybe i will think about this later but for now pay a close attention to his actions on the battlefield .
Just as they were about to finish their conversation they heard the loud scream of a monster in the distance yelling Hummmmaaan, dieee , forcing them to focus their sight on the battlefield, seeing a huge boulder heading straight towards the guy that was in discuss .