The others too felt the same way as Dimitris. They too had this strange feeling towards Derik, it felt like they were looking up to a greater being, meant to s.h.i.+eld them forms of evil.  These people have been tortured and experimented on for so long, now someone with a strangely superior aura that could s.h.i.+eld them from all forms of danger, they couldn't help but feel relieved. Unknown to them and even Derik, the death aura flowing out of Derik was having some sort of strange superiority effect of the lesser forms, unconsciously making them dependent on him.

"There is someone else in here… It won't take long… It's just a bit further and we will be done with this… Then we can go home" Derik replied softly while looking into the big eyes of the gray-haired kid.

Dimitris nodded in response and walked silently. At this moment they had nothing to fear! Right in front of them was a bronze realm undead fire mage leading the way through the dark tunnels and behind them were about ten silver realm warriors and mages. Even though these people were already aware of the demise of their oppressors, the holy church. Derik still decided to put in an extra effort just to make them feel safe.

The journey continued for a few minutes and they finally arrived at a steel door with so many locks and a powerful defense formation. The nature of this defense formation was to destroy anything evil that approaches it, that way only those with life energy can this formation and walk past the door with no issues.

The moment the undead bronze realm fire mage was just fifty meters away from the iron door, numerous bolts of divine energy lashed out at it like serpents, dealing numerous deadly damages. If it were an undead summoned by a mere necromancer it would have been obliterated permanently by now but this was Derik's undead summons. A being draw power from the purest form of evil power! How can a few bolts of light element destroy it?

"Get back!" Derik decisively shoved Dimitris back and undid his summoning spell on the undead fire mage. His eyes let out a darkish purple glow and his aura erupted like an overflowing fountain, was.h.i.+ng through everyone in the narrow tunnel while cras.h.i.+ng on to the defensive formation like a ma.s.sive tidal wave.

The four kids stared at Derik's back with shocked expressions on their faces. They had suffered so much at the hands of numerous light mages of the holy church and most times they were intimidated into submission with sheer power but none of them could compare to Derik who was standing in front of them like an ancient immovable wall. Not only was this man the only person that could understand them but he also had the strength to protect them, why won't they feel elated? Even though they could not tell Derik's power level because of their extremely low cultivation base but at this very moment, they felt like even if the whole world should join hands to hunt them down, they will never be able to lay a finger on them as long as Derik stood with them.

Bam!

Bam!!

Bam!!!

A wave of golden light aura flowed out of the formation and crashed into Derik's death aura, clas.h.i.+ng with it ruthlessly. At this point, the tunnel trembled greatly and looked like it would cave in at any moment but the kids weren't worried, as long as Derik is right in front of them, no harm can come to them.

"Hahahaha…. A mere priest of the holy must have set this seal… that's why it's so weak!" Derik laughed as he felt the overall power of the seal and knew that Aldora had nothing to do with it.

With his current condition, coupled with his fast depleting energy, he knew that he could only retreat shamefully if he came across a seal set by a gold realm master like Aldora, but luckily for him, that wasn't the case today.

"Shatter!" Derik grabbed the void fiercely and clenched his fist forcefully.

In response, the iron door was suddenly pulled out of the doorpost forcefully and was crushed into a small iron ball with rough edges. At this time, the whole tunnel has been badly affected by Derik's corrosive death aura and it seemed like it would crumble at any time.

Without thinking, Derik's body flashed and he vanished into the darkroom, reappearing beside the four kids the next second with another child their age in his hands. Even though the whole place shook violently and it seemed like it would crumble at any moment, Derik wasn't in a hurry. He calmly looked down at the little cute gray-haired Dimitris and smiled.

"Are you ready to go?" He asked softly.

"Hm!" Dimitris nodded in response.

"Big bro is really cool… Blow this place up!" Philips said with a wide grin.

"Yea… Big bro is really strong… Destroy everything!" Andrew laughed.

Derik was startled at first by these kids' requests, confused for a slight second. He decided not to think about it and a vicious smile bloomed on his face.

"Get ready kids… You will only get to see this once!" Derik laughed and his death aura poured out violently like an ocean, slamming into everything in its path while corroding it at a very terrifying speed. In just a second after he released his death aura, the tunnel began to cave in but these kids remained unharmed. Under the protection of ten silver realm undead mages and warriors, this was a minor issue.

"So cool…" These kids said with excited looks and admiration in their eyes as they saw a ma.s.sive darkish purple magic array form at the tip of Derik's finger which was pointed towards the ceiling of the tunnel.

"Don't worry… Once you spend some time with me… You will be able to do things this cool" Derik said with a warm smile.

Death magic: Death beam!!!

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Cyrus, Gerald, and the other important officials returned to the capital after they watched the forces of the various kingdoms of the continent and the holy church retreat. Under Cyrus lead, the returned to the land where the cathedral once stood as they were searching for the death mage who just vanished after his short, yet domineering speech to their enemies.

"Quick back off!" Cyrus' eye narrowed and he quickly screamed.

The others hastily retreated under Cyrus command and just a second later a ma.s.sive beam of death aura shot through the ground leaving behind a hole over four hundred meters wide! From the whole, Derik appeared with a kid who has strange darkish purple-colored hair appeared and four kids behind which were been carried by some silver realm undead soldiers. Their eyes widened and they seemed terrified when they sensed Cyrus life aura, for some reason they a.s.sumed he was one of the holy church members.

"Bad man!" Dimitris cried out in fear and quickly hid his face in the body of the silver realm undead mage.

The others were terrified too and they all looked at Derik with expectant eyes. Even the darkish purple-haired kid in his hands was scared of Cyrus' life aura it seemed like it brought back bad memories. He simply clutched his head with both hands while showing a pained expression on his face.

"Head back, all of you… I'll explain later… You can go on with whatever ceremony you all wish to have, I'll return as soon as I'm done with this" Derik waved them off, not waiting for them to speak.

The others were about to demand an explanation but they were stopped by Cyrus who lead them off without a word. He could sense the different forms of evil aura that diffused from the bodies of these kids who Derik found under the cathedral. Without an explanation from Derik he already had a rough idea of what was going on. He could easily tell these kids were abducted by the holy church because of their evil power, this wasn't really interesting to him.

The only person that caught his attention was the sixteen-year-old darkish purple-haired kid in Derik's arms. For some reason, he felt like the boys' aura was conflicted in a way, mixed up and messed up at the same time, so unnatural! He knew Derik could feel this so he didn't bother with it either and just shot a meaningful glance at the kid one last time before he turned into a beam of light and vanished.

"Thank you…" Derik whispered and heaved out a sigh of relief. He appreciated the fact that Cyrus could understand his thoughts and not question him at very important moments like this.

Honestly, he felt irritated when the silver realm experts of Gyro were about to question him. Was it because he was on Gerald's side or what? At that moment he decided to ruthlessly execute anyone that questioned him just to build his ruthless and vicious image in the minds of these people once again, luckily for them Cyrus stepped in on time and save their lives.

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Derik quickly dropped off these kids at the streets leading to the cathedral which was littered with the decomposing bodies of the elite units of the holy church which fought against the allied force of the Gyro kingdom. From the looks of things, he could tell that these bodies were stripped of the magic weapons and equipment on them with just a glance but he wasn't bothered.

"h.e.l.lo there… What's your name?" Derik asked with a soft smile as he looked at the boy who the familiar aura emanated from.

The kid had darkish purple hair and eyebrows! This iris was darkish purple and even his fingernails were pitch black in color. His lips were black as well and his body complexion seemed a bit pale just like Derik's but a bit different.

"Since you have found him I can now speak on this issue… This is one of the numerous test subjects under the holy church… Apparently they are trying to recreate a being with powers equal to that of the host of the death guardian spirit using only scientific means! This kid right here possesses the same abilities as the other kids you rescued… Including the vampire aspect!... If you were to fight against this kid when you unlocked the death magic, just the same age as he is… You would have been killed in less than five moves…" Demos explained calmly!