Invaders

My name is Eliza. At least that"s what people called me before I had some fun ma.s.sacring those disgusting b.a.s.t.a.r.d... I don"t remember anything but the villagers seems to know me well?

Well, I don"t care as long as I get to play with them. They were the start of my reign over this country.

From a couple of dozens of villagers to hundreds of thousands, people became my undead servants. Nowadays, I even manage to bring back monsters to life. Monsters and human, both are becoming my fascinating prey.

Seeing them dancing in between my little fingers was joyful to my eyes. Even more so, when they start screaming from pain. It was more satisfying if the prey was strong. Especially that so-called dragon.

Strong, prideful and arrogant. I had some tough times, but learning all those mana skills from the kingdom of Volta gave me a huge advantage. In end, the prideful dragon begged for mercy with a knife at its throat. Exhilarating.

Taking away life, was delicious. Playing with them was more exciting. But life is limited and there are a few lefts. What should I do?

"Oh well, let"s just torture them first"

I took my time peeling every skin on their bodies, cure them and repeated with my game. In the end, they died from mental exhaustion. Now there was nothing left.

What should I do? I"m starving.

With nothing left for me to kill, I went and travel all around the world reading ancient scriptures and books. That"s when I found out the existence of other world and the ability to manipulate dimensional s.p.a.ce.

The universe is vast and rich with life. The taste must be various as well. If I had a tongue I would unconsciously lick my lips by now.

I don"t know how many have past, but it doesn"t matter. The joy I would feel from devouring the whole universe would be worth the burden is what I thought. I continued to seek enlightenment of s.p.a.ce manipulation.

As I grew closer to the power I seek, my mana sense grew larger, enable me to sense a little distance outside of my world. I grinned bashfully knowing that this was the first step of manipulating s.p.a.ce. To move in distant places, I need to be able to sense that much distance.

As of now, I could teleport everywhere in this world if I was able to manipulate mana. If I wanted to travel to another world, then I have to be able to sense that much distance as well.

I lost track of time practising until the point that all my rotten undead servants have completely decayed. Leaving them nothing but dust. That moment, I could sense huge fluctuations of mana from the nearby world. After all these years, practising and preserving my mana finally the moment I"ve been waiting for has arrived.

There are only two ways to get to another.

One was by simply flying from one world to another. However, the empty s.p.a.ce is hidden with a great number of unknown variables. With each and one of them could potentially be deadly. One should have a certain amount of power, various skills, and large capacity of mana to be saved from those unknown factors.

The second is by teleporting. Which is safer than the first one. Just by leaping one whole body from one world to another, he or she could arrive safely to their destination. However, one must possess the ability to mana sense in a great distance to manipulate the s.p.a.ce at the other world. And also, the mana that is used to compensate the teleportation is more than one could imagine.

It"s the reason why Eliza has been storing her mana for so long. And also the reason why this is the moment to use all that mana. The awakening of a world.

When a dormant world awakens, it will release a rich densely mana that has been kept for who knows for how long. Throwing one boulder would produce a wonderful splash than throwing thousands of pebbles one by one, even if all those pebbles would have a larger amount of weight than the boulder.

Because of that, it is easier to detect an awakening world than a nearby world.

Furthermore...

Awakening also means the birth of life and mostly, low-cla.s.s monsters would be formed. Even human has only started to experience mana. Going to that world equal to having free food!

"Wonderful! This would be a feast for me!"

Eliza concentrated her mana sense. She then exploded with a huge density of mana that covers her entire body and shot towards the sky like an arrow. That moment the earth shook, causing the sky to split! During that same moment as well, in another world, a sky split in the same manner. The portal to another world has formed.

She gritted her teeth ferociously to maintain the teleportation portal until the point there"s only a hair breath of time before she would be drained of mana. She didn"t feel physical fatigue but having to use that much of mana has caused her mind exhausted until the point she almost fainted. Her vision was blurry, but she kept pushing herself forward with her dream to slaughter and eat every living being in the next world... and the next world... and the next world until life was no more.

Finally, she pa.s.sed through the portal and everything was pitch black. She gathered all her strength to accelerate some more until she saw the light at the end of the tunnel. All her the bones at her spine were tingling. Often when we see a closed door we want to open to see what"s inside. She didn"t read many records of anything of another world made her heart throbbing with excitement. Besides having blast ma.s.sacring the life of another world, getting the chances to seek new knowledge was also one of her motivation.

"I"m going to have lot"s of fun!"

Then, a crisis appeared without notice. The lights were getting smaller, signalling the portal was closing soon. If it"s closed it would take her more time to get it open again. The problem was the dark tunnel. It"s an empty void, with nothing inside. It may seem to be not that harmful, but the only reason Eliza was able to fly through was her undead lich body. If she was another human, even the same or greater mana capacity, it would be instant death.

The tunnel was nothing because only nothingness could exist. No heat, no life, nothing. Not even death itself could exist. She may be safe now, but she already felt the pressure with her body corroding just by being inside the tunnel. Even if she could live for eternity as a lich, she would remain as dust which eventually becomes a part of the nothingness.

With the last spurt, she used all her mana to push through until the point she couldn"t see, hear or feel anything left. This was it. Her final effort. There was nothing she could do anymore except for leaving herself to fate. But then again, even fate is equal to nothing in the empty s.p.a.ces.

A drop of water fall on top of her white clean forehead. She opened her eyes to see the dark sky. From that one drop, more drops of water fell on top of her. She then could hear the deafening sound of thunder rumbling. A storm is coming.

"Where... am I?" She mumbled.

The plants and trees look similar to one she saw in her village before but the air was somewhat unfamiliar to her. She expanded her mana sense and couldn"t detect anything of what she used before.

"Did I made it? Am I in a different world?"

She got up and flew in the midst of storm and thunder dancing in the dark sky. She looked around and set her eyes in one direction. It was...life. A living person. No... two living people. Moreover, there hundreds of thousands of monsters closing into the two people.

"It seems like I don"t need to spend much time to relieve my craving"

Eliza flew towards where the two living people are. Along the way, she was shocked by the huge sudden explosion of mana coming from one of them, What was more shocking was among those huge numbers of monsters coming towards them, more than half of them were dead.

"What is happening?" She thought too herself feeling curious. Although she was a bit aware of whatever was happening, she didn"t feel threatened at all and continued to fly along with her original destination. The more she got close the more dead monsters could be seen lying on the ground miserably. With each monster she saw, she flicked her finger to raise them as undead monsters.

"This person must have a huge capacity of mana. That would be a good appetizer for me...."

Unable to hold her excitement she flew faster while thinking of various kind of different way of torture she could try. Other than s.p.a.ce manipulation she also read many interesting ways of killing and torturing people as well. Especially when she read the ancient scripture. Her hands were trembling due to the excitement.

Finally, she found a young man carrying a small girl behind her back. She sent one of her undead to see his reaction and found it amazing that the young guy could effortlessly beat her undead with a single move.

"Interesting"

She followed through and sent swarms of undead chasing him over and over again. No matter how many undead she sent to him, with no futile he would beat the undead with brilliant moves. The more she looked at him, the more she was getting interested. Until the point that she was eager to see what he"ll do next. She felt like a schoolgirl seeing a cool boy from the next cla.s.s. Trying to pa.s.s through that cla.s.s every second she had just to take a peek.

And it wasn"t just his moves that caught her interest but also how quick his thought was. It wasn"t long before he knew that someone was manipulating those undead monsters to chase him. He even craftily hide in the forest until the point it would take her some time to detect him.

"Wonderful... how wonderful! Show me more!"

But then, when he ran into the lair, she was a bit upset.

"Now I need to wait for him to come out? That"s no fun!"

Few days have past and he still didn"t come out, but she was still waiting, floating in the air. She hugged her body while stomping her feet.

"How dare you make me wait after you excite me that much? I"ll make sure to have more fun with you when you come out!"

A week has past and he still didn"t come out.

"What is this feeling? Why am I waiting this long for a single person? I can just kill others first and come back to him. I don"t know anymore... somehow I want to see him first before all else...anyway I"ll just sleep first"

Amidst her slumber, suddenly the sky was roaring.

She opened her eyes and see that a myriad of colourful swords raining down towards her undead monsters. Finishing them off one by one. In a split second, most of her undead was already buried into the ground. The swords even manage to seal their body, blocking Eliza to raise them again.

Moments later, numbers of people suddenly appeared from the ground and rampaging towards her undead. Killing more of them. Somehow they have the same feeling as their undead monsters, but alive. Not dead.

"These people were not undead and someone is... manipulating them? No. They are their own will, and someone has brought them to life! Who?"

That moment he noticed familiar mana she felt before. The mana that can cause all of her bones tingling. Then she focused her gaze at one young man. He was Kim!

"It"s him. I knew you were this cool"

Without a moment of notice, Kim appeared in front of her.

"Kyaaa! He"s here. In front of me. In front! He must really eager to see me as well. What should I do? What should I say? Should I say hi? I should say hi"

"H-"

"Eh, he p-p-punched me!"

That time, Eliza was already down on the ground after getting punched by Kim to the face. She stood up and grinned.

"What a wonderful gift! Let me repay you with my Zombie Dragon!"

"Oh, the zombie dragon come out but he still looked at me that intense?"

"When will he stop looking at me. Does he like me...too? Too? What do I mean by too? No no no... I don"t like him... right? He"s a human so I should hate him? Why should I? But it seems he wanted to play with me with his mana. Then how about a small thunder!"

"Oh my he survived. My dragon was killed but he survived. So cool, so cool, but this girl... who is this girl? I would get her away first... die...die...die... die!!!"

"How dare you try to kill Momo?!"

Then another punch hit her face. After she was sent flying she looked at Kim with a face full of disbelief.

"I thought you like me too, so I repay you truly with all my heart. So why are you mad? You like that girl more then? Or maybe..."

"I see, so I need to show you how much I like you then"

Kim was confused after hearing her words. The lich laughed madly as her body exploded with mana causing a tremor.

"I will show you...I will show you...I will show you..."

Behind her, bones appeared from the abyss with the darkish vile aura surrounding them. The bones flew around as Eliza as the core. More and more bones appeared, which finally formed a 30 metres tall pillars. The bones shake violently and spread apart viewing Eliza who was floating in mid-air.

While laughing she pointed towards Kim

"I will show you how much I love you!"

Momo and Enggang glanced at Kim with a weird look.

"I don"t know too!"

"That"s my disciple!"

"Shut up!"