Sacrifice: Time of Mine

A soft light was condensing into the shape of an hourglass. This light was coming out of Avion's "dead" body.

Everyone was stunned. There was no exception; the King, the Queen, Princess Alisera, the two princes, Kalin, Memi, the Idiotic Rivals, Edora, Numui, the three maid sisters, and the rest of the nobles.

No one knew what was happening. Even Edora didn't know what it was, let alone remember it. Her memories were reset as time went back.

After being mesmerized by the light, they looked down and saw Avion's head and then noticed his eyes... looking at them with contempt.

They were filled with fright. Even the strongest and the most knowledgeable there, the King and Queen didn't know what was happening. They were speechless while having no idea what to do and what to expect.

Immediately, the King took Alisera to his behind to protect her. No matter what kind of demon she is, she was still their daughter. They still have hope to reform the princess. No, even if they have no hope. they still have to protect her. Such is the love and obligation of a parent.

This was the time for Edora and the knights to move and used their Elemental Power. With Body Strengthening, they were able to become shields for the Royalties while awaiting what would happen. They are all Elementalists and they would only use their power to protect their rulers.

With her pack, Edora stood in front. If she were to be punished after this, then it would be better to die with honor. Death is unnecessarily the result but it mostly could be.

The King looked at the nobles and shouted, "Idiots, what are you all standing for!? Escape now!"

As he said this, the nobles who were also Elementalists with an average rank of Rank Dih, enough to use Body Strengthening, used that skill to escape as fast as possible.

It was the order of the King. Although he was not the Karan Kingdom, they didn't care, he was still a King and the Trading-Hills Capital was a city built from the alliance between Kingdoms.

If the prince and princesses who came from these three kingdoms were their rulers, much more if it was the King himself.

So they ran while having their heads turned to see what will happen. It was unknown and most of the unknowns came from something dangerous and powerful.

There was once a Rank Eybih, a Dual Elementalist like the King but one rank above in both Elements that visited the Trading-Hills Capital. Even the Kings and Queens from the three kingdoms had to pay that person a visit.

Power is everything. The gap between ranks was like a young child to a trained adult. It doesn't sound that impressive but, technically, how much effort does a trained adult needed to defeat young children? Still not considering that a trained adult might've already gained a weapon, a simple knife, that with just a pierce, the child is dead while the trained adult didn't use much effort.

Rank Cee is enough to give you the highest positions in the whole Kingdom. Rank Bih would make one a ruler. Rank Ey is a legend and Rank Es is a myth. But there is still a Rank higher than Rank Es which is Rank Eses, only told as a folktale but never once in the history of mankind that Rank Es Elementalist had ever reached that Rank. For them, it was the rank of God.

This Rank Ey could easily kill six Rank Bihs and destroy the whole country if that person wanted to. So all the Kings and Queens paid them a visit in respect.

This Rank Ey person then manipulated Elements as a demonstration no one had seen before. It was as if a modern person had seen magic, they were all amazed by the spells that Rank Ey person showed.

All those spells were an unknown territory to them.

They knew that they did not hold every knowledge about the lower Ranks but the [Elesps], Elemental Spells such as a Fire Throw and [Elesks], Elemetal Skills such as Body Strengthening on the same Rank had some commonalities that are so different from its previous realms.

So the unknown must be from the higher Ranks. There are some unique elesps and elesks out there in the world but it was safer to be cautious. If you were to see a snake crawling on the floor, you wouldn't consider if it was venomous or not at first, but you will escape as fast as you can upon notice.

The nobles escaped, leaving behind the King and Queen with their demonic daughter. But as they escaped with their heads turned around. No matter how fast they seemed to be, they couldn't escape in time when the condensing hourglass was formed and turned upside down for a piece of small sand, smaller than usual, to drop.

At that moment, the whole universe became black and white as everything stopped. No, it was on reverse.

.....

"Slap me if da-."

Time went back but stopped again and the colored world was painted black and white once more as soon as its color went back.

Avion looked at the provoking King with fear as he stepped back and dropped on the floor. He began to wheeze and touch his left cheek. His eyes were trembling, no, his whole body was trembling.

Avion kicked the ground multiple times to get away from the ferocious King. Even though his neck was unscathed, he could still feel the pain. He could still clearly remember how the world around him suddenly turned around a hundred times before he hit the ground.

When the nobles saw his eyes, it was not with contempt, it was with fear but he couldn't move his expression well with a severed and half-crushed head.

He saw what happened, barely conscious. Avion saw his headless body still standing before it loses balance and fall to the ground. He witnessed the fear in everyone's eyes and he heard the princess's cries... and her true nature.

With a curled position, Avion sat on the corner of the hall. His head down. With no one to hear him, he whimpered and began to loudly cry.

This was just his first day and he was already missing his old world.