An Owl's Rise-Chapter 456 Mission Accomplished

When Evelyn’s reached the bottom of the hidden basement, several guards that had been watching and tending to the imprisoned owls all turned towards her.

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For a couple of moments there was confusion. Everyone was looking at Evelyn and trying to figure out if they recognized her.

None of them ever imagined that an intruder could make it this far, so their first thought was that she was among the few that had been given permission to come to this hidden location.

Yet, it quickly became apparent that she was not meant to be down her. As unlikely as it should have been, someone had broken into this heavily guarded area.

"You guys are a bit better than the small fry up above, but I still don’t think this will take long." Evelyn said with disinterest.

Naturally this infuriated each and every one of the people stationed in the secret basement.

Some of them were enraged for being belittled, others when they realized that the friends and family members that had been guarding the upper part of the building were likely dead.

"Don’t think that your death is going to be painless. For intruding upon Elder Gidem’s property, you have forfeited you life."

The strongest of the guards down here, an old man that was at the peak of the mage rank stepped forward towards Evelyn confidently.

With her disguise magic tools working to full effect, she appeared to only be a young human woman at the low tier of the mage rank.

Yet, by simply pointing her finger towards the man brazenly approaching her and flicking it upwards, she sent him flying towards the ceiling.

There was a cacophonous bang followed by a grunt of pain. The old guard had been smashed into the ceiling by some sort of powerful force.

"Guess that wasn’t enough to kill him."

Flicking her finger down, she caused the man to fall from the ceiling and rapidly descend towards the ground.

His acceleration was far faster than the normal effects of gravity, and when he hit the stone below, his body broke.

The other guards stood frozen in terror. Their leader had just been killed by some unknome type of magic without being able to put up any sort of fight.

Some of them attempted to rush Evelyn together and overwhelm her with numbers, while a few of the less zealous guards tried to use their associates sacrifices to flee.

Of course, Evelyn did not let a single one of them get away. They had seen her face after all. Mercy would only come back to bite her.

With her gravity tether spell, she smashed the guards around the room like pinballs. It may have been perhaps a bit cruel to test her recently acquired power on them, but none of the guards lasted for longer than ten seconds so their suffering was minimal.

"It seems that anyone below my rank doesn’t pose a threat to me anymore. Not if I can take them out this easily."

Evelyn’s gravity magic truly was unfair. Only those as strong or stronger than her could resist it enough to even attempt to fight back. Anyone weaker would only be crushed without being able to put up any semblance of resistance.

Though while she had annihilated all of the humans, there were still several witnesses.

Seventeen pairs of eyes were glued to her. Each of the attached to the feather body of giant owls.

Each of them glared at Evelyn warily. They had no idea who she was, but in their eyes, she was just another human that had come to take them away.

"There is no need for hostility. I have come to rescue all of you." Evelyn said, a tenderness to her voice that had not been present when speaking the people she had just killed.

Normally she did not care much even for her fellow owls, but a part of her sympathized with those that were being held in cages here.

It remined her of when she was still the Deamhain Sect’s test subject. She considered that experience to be either the worst or second worst time in both of her lives. The only thing that might have topped it was the psycho torturing her to death in her first life.

Seeing that her words had failed to assuage the captured owls’ worries, Evelyn realized that there was a very simple way for her to gain their trust.

She quickly disabled the magic tool that allowed her to disguise herself as a human.

Like some sort of magical transformation, her inhuman features returned.

First came her ears, then the tuffs of feathers that sat atop her head, and finally her magnificent wings.

"As you can clearly see, I am an owl, just like all of you. When I learned that you had been imprisoned in this place, I knew I could not allow you to suffer such a horrendous fate."

Evelyn’s reveal was enough to immediately get the seventeen caged owls to trust her. Now that her presence was no longer being disguised, they could sense that she was a tyrant rank owl.

Some of them even began to cry tears of joy and relief. For two years now their lives had been awful, and the possibility that any day could be their last depending on their captor’s mood had eaten away at them.

With a blade of crimson flames, Evelyn sliced through the bonds that kept the other owls restrained. The magic seals that normally would have resisted outside interference were cleaved through with ease. Even the strongest of enchantments could not hold up indefinitely to a power that came from a realm above this one.

Once they were able to use their magical energy again, all of the owls sent out strands of magical energy towards Evelyn to communicate. While in her human form she had vocal cords that allowed her to speak, these owls that ranged from the low tier of the awakened rank to the peak of the awakened rank could only communicate through magical means.