I found myself completely engrossed in thinking about whether those two guys in particular was from any of the other prestigious families that were probably at odd with that dead guy or demon family, the Dorell .
My assumption wasn't without a base, the base to why i was thinking so came from the fact that from these guys made appearance and began to interact with the late Dorell family member, how can i say it or describe it , Ridiculous would be still a quite good way to put it .
The reason i believed so was coming from the fact that all of the two parties interactions was kinda like a predator playing with its food or prey .
All of their interactions was for nothing, from the moment that team leader and his party of his appeared, they already have determined what they wanted to do, his already devised plan was very clearly stating that and point that he said that they will able to benefit from doing this even with excluding the money they would be able to gain have made it quite clear that my assumption was very close to being a right one, rejoices the misfortune of others that's how i felt those guys acting .
From the start of all this, they were already doomed the moment that they were found, but that guy intended to gather some information from them, before finishing them off, i won't be even surprised of all the talk about them being my accomplices being made up, but i can tell that even after they were aware of someone from a prestigious family was present, their actions didn't cease to exist, quite the contrary they somehow saw that as an opportunity to gain even more out of this, so it quite appear that this isn't their first time doing these kind of business.
It left me wondering about how much crocked was that demon society exactly is, not that it would help me much, knowing about such things currently, but still when did they suspect me faking it .
I somehow already anticipated that something was apperantly wrong from the stares that i was keep getting from Ludo, so the possibility of him being responsible for me getting find out is completely viable .
He could have probably told that team leader of his about it, but then why he waited for so long to point out my actions, if Ludo has somehow told him about it from the start, then would have been there a need for so much dilly-dallying, or was he fully confidence about me not being that much of a threat to him .
Wrong, or at least this was partially wrong in my opinion, after all he still asked that guy Ludo about if he really sure about my amount of strength, but as out of pure coincidence my bizarre power or situation helped me to go under the effect of whatever ability he used .
In the end they both confirmed and agreed on the viability of the thought they had in mind about my unknown strength and as they openly stated, these guys both seemed to come to agree on the reson for my unclear amount of strength is probably attributed to me having some kind of special equipment on, that assassin from before with that Domain Of Darkness of his would be very proud of those two guys deductive skills .
A fortune being very weirdly found in misfortune, i'm beginning to wonder whether Luck or Fate was responsible for this happening which of the two was the actual culprit, i couldn't help but wonder .
But this current scene can possibly also be fully attributed to be a mere wrong conclusion on their part which wrongly led them to belittle me, even to the point of completely discarding my rule or what i could be able to pull off, complete underestimation of someone of lower strength than their, even with the probability of still hiding some hidden cards in my sleeves, which could also be interpreted as them having full confidence in their ability to subdue me without much of a sweat .
Even though i didn't heard them saying that much about me from the start of this whole scene till now, knowing the basic information about how everything in this world work,i can't exclude the possibility of them already conveying these kind of information telepathically, something that could be quite logical and in accordance of how everything was working around here .
So that Ludo finding out about it was still quite acceptable to me, but from the way that team leader spoke, it pretty much entailed that he already have some suspicions about it .
And the only thing that was considered as bit of concerning to him was the fact that he wasn't able to gauge my level of strength accurately, i wasn't able to wrap my head around it, he kept stealing glances at me earlier too but not that much that i can say enough to confirm anything .
And i didn't feel the same feeling that i got from being pried on that i got from that guy Ludo before, which could either entail that the team leader was a lot more proficient with his way of propping or that he didn't used one at all .
My still superficial judgment of his character was telling me that he couldn't possibly be this well endowed in using propping techniques, at least not to the point of completely overtaken the other guy Ludo, he gave me the impression of a more musclhead than being one to endorse or be knowledgeable about these stuff .
And what made that possiblity appear to be quite unlikely to be true was actually the part where he let Ludo go ahead and infiltrate the mind of that gang leader, which had forced him to be at a disadvantage in their negotiation just now, since if he was so much capable he would have probably went and do it himself anyway without having to sacrifice much in the process, this reason together with his greedy characteristics completely dismantled any chance of this possibility being the correct answer .
So the most logical explanation that i have on why was he able to find out, if he had truly found out would be pretty much related to his years of experience and keen senses and intuition, it could also be attributed to something that demons have but that last part of my theory was completely debunked by the stunned reaction that guy that was shot before had on his face .
Also now that i dowelled about this, i couldn't help but wonder about why exactly did that guy Ludo give away the information about the existence of the secret lair of those bandits to that guy in the first place, if he kept it for himself won't it have been a lot more wiser, since he would pretty much will be able to gain a lot more that way .
But he didn't, instead he went and if i was correct and i believe that i was, he devised a way to drew in the curiosity of the team leader or it was more accurate to say greed and in doing so he gained what i presume he wanted most, something that was apperantly in the stomach of that Dorell family member .
And apperantly he quite succeeded too, but why did the team leader allowed him to check what i presumed to be the storatge ring of the said Dorell family member, was some hidden code between the Demons or something like that .
But if i'm not wrong then the greedy team leader was bound to be disappointed if he was to believe that he struck a good bargain, since if i'm not wrong most of the valuable things were in actuality in the spatial storing equipment of the gand leader, most likely now in the hands of the guy Ludo, well not like that he would have get out of here alive with it anyway .
He would if he hadn't already told me about the fact of the Beastfolk filled truck and another decisive reason was that if they had just left me alone and went on their way, the curse that was about to befall on him, wouldn't have probably did .
But still i couldn't help but wonder about what exactly did that guy Ludo gained from all of this, i was also quite curious about what would have been the team leader reaction about all of this, i believe that till now his cunningness was still unable to save him from falling into the hands of Ludo .
That thing he got from the storing equipment must have been really valuable, at least enough for him to risk making fool of his leader like that and the consequences that might come his way as a result of his actions .
So now what, i have already been found out and apperantly from quite a long time too, my resolve still stand, each of those guys deserve to go and reconcile with the gang leader and his fallen subordinates, them being demons from the other side as they called themselves was a one thing, but that actually didn't bother me that much .
The sole reason to why i wanted to deal with them was because i don't like them, not even one bit, i have already got enough information from everything that took place, so i believe that it's time for me to finish this .
I was beginning to get more than accustomed to live in the dark, guess there's no more need to continue closing my eyes anymore, i opened my eyes and the first thing that came to my sight was a yellow beam of light and it was coming directly at me and from the looks of it,it was aimed at my chest .
So that's what he meant by what he said a few seconds ago, about allowing me to taste real death, that was the only thought that was occupying my mind at the moment, but even though my mind was preoccupied with that thought, i was still able to reac and devise a countermeasure that should have allowed me to come out of this unharmed, at least that was the plan .
Using Transmutation on the earth in front of me, i willed it and the earth beneath me as if it suddenly regained consciousness began to turn into liquid and engulfed me in it as if it was swallowing me up, after deciding on how many layers of defense that i want in front of me, i once again willed it and the liquid earth returned to its hardened state once more .
I imagined that with a dozen earth walls mashed together, then i would probably be able to stop that beam of light which i presumed to be quite strong but so was the earth here, i made that discovery the moment that i landed here .
They believed that the crate that i made while landing was only caused by me landing from some way up in the sky, but if they knew that i came from even beyond the said sky, i believe that they will probably become very perplexed by this, or even call me crazy directly .
Landing from that far above would have killed me and in reality i believe it actually did from the aching i felt when i woke up and the puddle of dry blood, i only survived thanks to my abnormal skills which made me near invulnerable toward physical damage in particular, so their reactions would have been quite justifiable in my opinion .
If this land was a normal one, i believe that the impact of me crashing down on it alone, would have been even much more stronger than the force impact of the meteorite that forced the dinosaurs to go extinct back in my old world, or at least that what i believed .
Maybe that formation barrier he previously mentioned had a hand in absorbing some of the force of the impact, but i guess that it was a bit much for it to absorb, the huge crack that was beginning to heal at that time was quite the proof of how strong was the force impact was .
So if only that big crate was made due to the impact, then i believe without an ounce of doubt that the earth beneath me is quite special, as even with the barrier absorbing some of the force from the impact, the rest should have been enough to destabilize a huge chunk of the whole area with that crate acting as the center of the distributed force .
So i believed it to be quite strong in itself, at least strong enough to withstand the attack that was upon me, after all even after him attacking those guys from before, i didn't felt much damage being dealt to their surrounding, he used the great difference in strength between the two parties to one shot all of them, and even when he bombarded the rest of them with his attacks, the damages to the earth beneath them was still quite minimal, so i believed that my 12 layered defense line made from this powerful earth would be enough to stop the beam of light that was coming for me .
I believed that even in the worst case scenario in which the wall got penetrated, it will help in absorbing or end up weakening the power of the attack or even nullify it completely, even at the cost of all the defensive line getting destroyed, after all it didn't cost me that much to make nor will it take me so much to remake.
Transmutation is an awesome skill and i can't stop thinking about how many effective ways and different kinds of situations that i could possibly be able to use it in, there's two no six guys out there waiting to willingly allow me to test on them .
Just to be careful, i had warped my rope into a horizontal shield in front of me, i did so in hope for it to act as my final line of defense, if my worse possible scenario was to turn out to be even worse than i first anticipated it to .
Why don't i just try to stop the attack with my body, i should be more than capable of tanking any attack that come my way, right ? .
But even though i believed that to be quite right, i can't seem to remove the shadow of my last encounter with that Bloodlord out of my mind, especially the weird techniques of his, that got me completely handicapped at that time and were even able to threaten my life to some extent .
So this was my way of probing how things were going and what other countermeasures that i need to make, to not fall into the same unfavorable situation as before, these guys the Demons might even have more weirder techniques that maybe even be much stronger than my bizarre skills and power, so i got to be a lot more careful about how to deal with those guys, cautious but without showing any sign of weakness .
But the outcome that i anticipated and even the worst case scenario that i made sure that i was ready for didn't actually happen and instead all my plans came to naught, that attack left me quite baffled, as i believed it to possibly be the strongest that was ever launched at me .
The outcome of the attack was that the beam of light directly penetrated the walls that i have created in front of me like it was passing through mud and in a single line and through a single point, breaking through all of my hurried made up defense line, it didn't even weaken at all as it went on with the same power and speed as before and pierced through my last line of defense and it finally reached its target which was clearly me, the moment that the beam came into contact with my skin, it finally found some resistance and was unable to continue its piercing through .
I was about to take a breath of relief while thinking that at least i was able to bear with the attack with my powerful flesh and body, even though the burning marks around the area where the beam kept trying to pierce through were quite a proof of how dangerous this attack is, but thanks to my passive skill, i didn't feel any pain from the still trying to drill my flesh beam, but then the next move that the beam made took me by surprise, it was still hiding another move in its arsenal for these kinds of peculiar situations .
~Boooooom~ .
The beam suddenly stop trying to drill through my body, but without even a single second passing it directly exploded, devastating the whole surrounding area as a result, while i was still inside the explosion i was still able to hear the mocking voice of the said team leader outside laughing menacingly and saying :
That's what you get for playing dead all that time, look you are dead now .
Then as if trying to reprimand his reckless action just now, Ludo said to him :
But aren't we supposed to capture and interrogate him for the information he had on the subject on hand, sir ? , by doing this we will never get why did he appear here and what kind of plot he was participating in .
If he died, he died, why should i care, whatever he was plotting, it now laid dead with him and the barrier already healed, so it wasn't an enemy attack, so there was no need to bother that much longer or to dwell on interrogating him anymore, right ? After all the the conspirator was already dead, now with that out of the way, let's hurry and head to the secret lair you mentioned .
That Ludo didn't reply to him at first but instead swap his gaze towards the now engulfed in flames area surrounding me and i was able to feel his gaze and looked straight in the direction of his gaze, after regaining my composure which i had lost due to the last move that beam made, i wasn't able to deduce whether was that action made by the beam itself or was a deliberate one by the team leader, either way there was no denying it that attack was meant not as a warning shot but as an actual finishing blow, one that i shouldn't have been able to survive .
But not only was i able to survive but even that last mean of attack he made, that explosion didn't even scratched the surface of my skin and i was still standing there in the storm of debris and smoke completely unscathed, but at least i was at least able to confirm and conclude some things from what just happened .
With Ludo becoming aware of my survival, he then turned to look at the now team leader of his who was standing beside him and said in a grave tone :
I believe we made a strong mistake on how strong he is, sadly i will have to tell you this sir, but he is still alive .