On the other side of the arena. Sitting in the shadows and watching the people fight for their lives. Kiro saw that only three were left.
He wanted to prevent their meaningless deaths but couldn't move until the boss attacked the forest king. It was just a few minutes more.
Three people got closer to each other, one was kneeling while other stood beside him seemingly injured, the last person dragging a big greatsword in their direction looked like he just came straight from hell with entire bloodied body limping towards his next target.
Disgusting. Their behaviour was repulsive.
To kill fellow chasm seekers just for monsters amusement was like betraying entire humanity, but the situation couldn't be resolved othervise no matter how wrong it was. From what everyone knew, the section masters strenght was a grade higher than that its floor.
Since this is the first section then the Forest king is ranked around grade two meaning that no one weaker than second grade could even stand a chance against him.
Boom! A massive explosion came from the forest kings throne covering area around it entirely in flames.
"So it begins." Pulling a mask over his face he ran towards the three people who seemed to be right next to each other preparing for a last attack.
"Hey stop-" trying to peacefully approach them, they didn't notice him a single bit as their swords and fists clashed ending the fight faster than he could react.
"Fighting." Finishing his sentence, Kiro approached the man with greatsword who stood over two lying bodies, one cleaved in half and other missing an arm with a big scar over his eye.
"Who.. are you?" The man seemed to have some strenght left to speak but Kiro knew that he was definetly hiding something.
For now he put his suspicions aside and came over the recent bodies taking out some medicine. "Im Kiro from Blood Empire department. I was sent here with my team to kill section monster but.." he turned to look at all the dead bodies that were in the arena.
"It seemed we were slightly too late." With a regretfull smile he checked if the armless person was alive which, to his surprise was actually breathing.
"Hey." The man with a greatsword spoke to him coldly like to an enemy.
"You think i needed help from trash like you? Get lost, i would have lived no matter if you came or nor." His voice was getting agitated as if just Kiros presence was a hindrance to him.
"I see.. so you're from the Snow Nation" Kiro mumbled to himself after using some kind of elixir for the persons wounds stopping the bleeding from the stump and face.
"I hate people like you, just small lapdogs of that stupid tyrant-Khh!?" Ridiculing Kiro, the man couldn't notice that he quickly slipowd past his eye vision coming from behind him and then knocking out with a precise swing of a hand.
"Noisy" dusting off his hands he looked toward the lying boy who he just treated before walking deeper into the camp and leaving him resting on the aand.
Similar but different. He couldnt forget his real goal which was to find Vlad von Clau dead or alive.
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Stabbing toward the forest king, Edward has started to sweat slightly. The forest king has eaten way too many people making himself way stronger than supposed to. Even with its body bearing massive burns from the explosion it acted as if no pain could be felt.
"Clarise!" Shouting at the top of his lungs a big ice spear materialized itself in the air slowly sharpening into a big harpoon.
"Tell me when!" A womans voice came from the dissipating smoke revealing the old lady who was Edwards wife.
Repelling all the wildly thrown attacks at him, Edward looked as if he was being pushed back but that was just from spectators angle. He has led Forest king into the trajectory of the ice spear which would be the final attack to end its life.
"Now!" Instantly the harpoon flew at unimaginable speed towards the beasts head.
Sensing the incoming danger, the king moved his head slightly barely dodging the attack and losing the other half of the mask revealing a grotesque wooden skin.
KRAAAAAA! Letting out a loud shriek, his face turned bright red obviously angered by revealing his real appearance.
Dang it. That was supposed to be the last attack but the kings strenght was miscalculated. He was stronger then expected maning that their previous strategy had to be altered by bringing one more person into the fight.
"Johan, switch!" Relaying another command, a big man ran from the smoke with his immense hammer in hands.
Seeing the forest king his big brows furrowed slightly. He didn't waste any time catching the beast with a surprise tackle pushing it a few meters away.
"Hold him until i find an opening." Leaving these words behind, edward slowly dissapeared into the smoke.
"Ukh!" Johan let out a small groan as the forest king hit him on the side, trying to claw his way into his guts. Clank, sadly the armor was sinply tok sturdy leaving only scratches on it. It didn't stop the monster though as his focus was being shifted onto his hammer.
No you don't. It was obvious to Johan what it planned to do to the hanmer if he let down his guard. The forest king was a smart creature, always planning ahead until it itself is cornered to use anything in its grasp.
The beast reached for the hammer but instead its hand got swatted away like a fly, being completely shatterred.
"Want to try again?" Taunting the monster mockingly, Johan prepared to strike again, seeing that Edward was already behind the beast fully unnoticed.
Thanks to the time they spent together, they figured out Edwards ability to turn 'invisible'.
He manipulated the Terra Flux mixed in the dust particles making a cover for himself like a makeshift smoke bomb, it required many years of training and refining to do something like that but he chose to waste his talents on higher floors helping the new mercenaries train.
Master. That was why, Johan chose to stay in the party for good, helping the newbies just like his idol.
Preparing to strike its head, Johan swung the hammer pouring everything he had into it. Bang. Following a dull sound, the hammer was caught by the beast as it let out a chilling grin in Johans direction.
"You lost" those were his last words as the forest kings forehead was pierced from behind by the small blade of rapier.
Thump. Its body fell on the ground slowly disintegrating into ash leaving a gem and weird talisman laying on the ground.
"How are the others doing?" Edward brushing off the dust off his clothes adressed Clarise who was currently floating down from the tree she was previously on.
"Penelope is now tending to the wounded with Kiro and Diego is getting rid of small fry alongside Francis" She reported it gracefully just like her current appearance.
"And what about that girl?" Edward was usually a friendly person but the name of hers couldnt come through his mouth as if it was sacred to him.
"Shes looking for our target so you dont have to worry about her, you know well just how strong she is." Clarise couldn't help but be worried aswell about her, but as an elder she had to respect the young ones wishes even if a little selfish.
"Lets go and help out with killing out the rest, we will take the wounded to the stronghold as it is closer than the surface floor, if you find ant remains of Vlad then report it immediately." Edward shaking off the blood from his rapier jumped straight towards the spectator area where the most tribesmen were leaving behind their agonizing wails as they fell one by one.