"Did you really not notice?"
Velzard did not answer her sister's question. Instead, she anxiously asked about her condition.
"Notice what?"
Velgrynd frowned. "No, what exactly do you mean? What notice..."
While speaking, Velgrynd's eyes suddenly paused for a moment. She seemed to realize something, but the strange feeling appeared quickly and vanished just as quickly.
"Such strong control!"
Rin watched in extreme shock.
Even a powerhouse like Velgrynd had not realized she was under mental control.
"Bear with it a little longer, Velgrynd."
"I will make you sober very soon."
Velzard spoke while feeling great irritation toward the culprit behind all of this. She wished she could rush over immediately and grind him into dust.
However, Heaven was the only sanctuary that Rin currently had no way of dealing with in the Cardinal World.
Until the angels inside came out, he could not bypass the Star King Dragon's core authority and forcibly open the gate to Heaven.
"Next, leave it to me, Velzard."
After saying that, Rin walked directly toward Velgrynd.
Seeing this, Velgrynd instinctively prepared to fight Rin.
"No need to struggle."
"From the moment you stepped into my world," Rin slowly raised his hand and then flipped it downward, "your fate is already sealed."
"Boom!!"
"Ugh!"
A terrifying pressure suddenly descended upon Velgrynd, heavily suppressing her.
"You!"
"Despicable!!!"
Velgrynd naturally would not surrender without resistance.
She did not understand what was happening.
Why would her own elder sister conspire with an outsider and set a trap against her younger sister?
But everything had happened too suddenly, leaving Velgrynd with no choice but to resist.
"Roar!!"
With a deafening roar, a crimson Eastern Dragon appeared before Rin.
However, the Scorch Dragon, which should have displayed the might of a natural disaster, was now suppressed by Rin's power and unable to move.
"Rumble!!!"
Velgrynd had no choice but to desperately release her magic, hoping to shatter the pressure Rin had placed on her.
But no matter what she did.
Even though she had already turned the surrounding land and mountains into ashes, she still could not break free.
"How is this possible?!"
She had clearly already used her Ultimate Skill, Raguel, Lord of Charity among the Seven Virtues. It was also the fundamental reason she had been controlled by Michael.
But it was useless.
"You, what exactly did you do to me?"
Velgrynd felt that the power of the Lord of Charity inside her body had completely evaporated.
The ability to control flames.
More precisely, the ability to control entropy, which conceptually burned everything into ashes, had completely disappeared.
Along with it, her immense magicules and all her Unique Skills and passive abilities also vanished.
At this moment, Velgrynd felt like the ants she used to casually crush in the past.
Pitiful, weak, and helpless.
"Do not be nervous. I mean you no harm."
Rin approached the crimson divine dragon that Velgrynd had transformed into and slowly placed his hand on her forehead.
"Look carefully at me. You should be able to sense the connection between us."
"..."
Perhaps because everything had happened too quickly, Velgrynd had been suppressed from the very beginning.
More than anything, she was shocked that her elder sister would scheme against her.
In Velgrynd's view, the bet between Rudra and Guy was only a game between them.
Her sister and she belonged to two different factions. They served as the strongest pieces for both sides, maintaining balance.
Velgrynd admitted that she was not a match for her sister.
But if Velzard could defeat her head on, why resort to such tactics?
What was the point?
Only now, when Rin and she experienced a resonance of bloodline, did Velgrynd finally realize Rin's identity.
"Big Brother!"
"This is Big Brother's aura!!"
"You, could you be Big Brother's reincarnation?"
Just like Velzard, Velgrynd also mistook Rin for the reincarnation of the Star King Dragon.
"Uh, sorry. I am not the reincarnation of the Star King Dragon."
"You are not?"
After realizing that Rin, like herself and her sister, was also a True Dragon, Velgrynd finally stopped struggling. Her mood calmed down considerably.
As a fellow True Dragon, and because of her trust in Velzard, Velgrynd was certain they would not harm her.
As for why she had been imprisoned.
Velgrynd also wanted to know and waited for their explanation.
As for me, you can think of it as inheriting the power of the Star King Dragon and becoming the Dragon God of this world.
Rin changed the subject.
"Let us not talk about these things for now. I will explain the details to you later."
"Now, open your mind..."
With that, Rin did not give Velgrynd any choice. He was racing against time and had no leisure to argue with her.
Rin had absolute confidence in his Eden.
After this period of growth, Void God was no longer what it used to be. Even the power of Chaos God had been left far behind.
With the omnipotent domain established by Void God, the Lord of Justice, one of the Seven Virtues, absolutely could not break through.
However, many things are not afraid of "if," but of "what if."
A cautious person like Rin would never make such a low level mistake.
"Uh..."
As Rin forcefully entered Velgrynd's soul essence, she immediately let out a painful roar.
Fortunately, Rin moved quickly, and the process of removing the hypnosis itself was very simple.
Therefore, Velgrynd only felt a sharp pain in her head.
Immediately afterward, her mind became clear.
Her previously chaotic thoughts and the questions she had subconsciously avoided suddenly surfaced.
"I..."
"What is wrong with me?"
Velgrynd remained in her dragon form, but her eyes were clearer than ever.
"I remember now. It was Rudra. Rudra controlled me with the power of the Lord of Justice!"
When this thought appeared, Velgrynd was filled with disbelief.
"Why? Why would Rudra do such a thing?"
Through Velzard, Rin knew that Velgrynd and Rudra were not lovers.
Even so, they had fought side by side as comrades and were close friends.
Yet such a person had schemed against her. It was truly heartbreaking.
(To be continued.)
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