It was a huge gamble since there was no way to tell if Highmaster Vastor cared enough for them to fall into her trap. Yet it was all Thrud had and it had to do.
"You want my children, kid?" It was posed as a question but Tezka's voice sounded like a threat. "I'll make you a counteroffer. You guys give me your equipment as compensation for scaring my pups, put your heads on the ground, and I'll kill you swiftly."
"You are in no position to make threats. There are four Divine Beasts and just two of you magical beasts imprisoned inside a Sealed Space. We can summon reinforcements at any time whereas you are alone." Leari acted confident, but there was something terribly wrong with that scenario.
The fox-wolves' cockiness was weird, but a wise creature might have been trying to bluff their way out. The kids, however, made no sense. They were nervous, but not scared one bit.
After being kidnapped and watching their loyal servants die in front of their eyes, a twelve years old girl and a ten years old boy were supposed to cry for their mother, piss themselves, faint, or maybe do all those things at once.
Yet all that Fey and Filia did was to look from the surroundings to their steeds.
The red Tezka started to chuckle, quickly followed by the blue one.
"Hey, kids, do you want to see something cool?" They said in unison, making Thrud's Generals realize that the two creatures didn't just look similar.
They were identical and spoke with the same voice.
"Yes, uncle Tezka." Filia dismounted and helped her brother to do the same while the corpses of the servants burst out of their clothes, turning out to be tails shapeshifted to look like humans.
The tails quickly wrapped around the two fox-wolves that merged into one tall figure. Tezka looked like a humanoid wolf almost 2.5 meters (8'2") tall covered by pitch-black thick fur and with rainbow-colored eyes.
He had shoulders as broad as a door with ten tails coming out of his back. Nine of them were four meters (13 feet) long while the tenth was atrophied, barely reaching 1.5 meters (5 feet).
By splitting himself into two magical beasts and four human servants, he had reduced his aura enough for multiple cloaking devices to fool Life Vision. Now he was back in one piece and there was no mistaking his power.
'Great Mother almighty.' Sealed Space blocked the Eldritch's aura but Leari was covered in a cold sweat nonetheless. 'That was a trap. If any of us tried to move past the corpses, those things would have ripped us to shreds.'
'Tezka?' Orsat asked, even her thoughts trembled through the mind link. 'The Suneater? That Tezka? And those kids are actually his offspring?'
'Nonsense.' Leari replied. 'We took our time scouting the kids' pets and they were nowhere near the level of an Eldritch. Anyone can shapeshift and pose for-'
"Using dimensional magic against me, how cute. Like I wasn't the one who invented it." Tezka knocked at the emerald wall with his fingers, unaware of their conversation.
Then, he released his aura, producing a burst of black and golden light respectively from his black and Warg core. The raw pressure they exerted on Sealed Space cracked the spell in several points, forcing the Divine Beasts to fix it.
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