Mala was rampaging through the battlefield alongside Grimori.
They were beating and tossing enemy soldiers around.
To the spectators, it almost seemed as if they were the monsters there.
Gaja was trying to keep an eye on the Four Stared Personnels while fighting the soldiers.
Kel was lying low, acting like a normal fighter while analysing the Four Stared Personnels from the background.
Surya, meanwhile, was getting tired of hunting down the insane soldiers.
He jumped right in front of the three Four Stared Personnels who were standing at the top of a cliff.
[Surya]: You all just standing there? Already accepted defeat?
Surya asked with a mocking expression.
One of them started walking towards Surya.
Surya took his stance.
"Cello shall fight you."
Said a tall tank built man.
The fellow grabbed Surya by the neck and threw him away.
Cello was a small, monkey-like being with a humanoid build.
Cello dashed towards the mountain where Surya had been thrown.
Surya stood up, dusting himself off.
A forest?
He was deep inside a forest.
A large portion of it had already been turned to ash.
The remaining part was still burning.
Everything was thanks to the fight between Griho and Haidoro.
Chirp.
A monkey-like figure struck Surya from behind.
Cello.
Surya shrugged it off.
[Surya]: Aren't you one annoying fellow. Beware...
Surya widened his eyes with rage.
[Surya]: I am quite ill-tempered.
Holding two swords, Surya closed his eyes.
Cello appeared behind Surya again, ready to strike.
However, it turned out to be nothing more than Surya's afterimage.
Cello widened his eyes.
Surya appeared behind Cello and slashed his back.
Cello fell to the ground, bleeding.
[Surya]: Are you really this weak? Stop kidding. Aren't you one of the Four Stared Personnels? Show me your power.
Surya said with serious eyes.
Cello stood up.
His wound slowly healed itself.
Cello walked away and then turned back.
Surya (thinking): What's so special about him? Why is he a Four Stared Personnel?
Surya asked himself.
He got his answer very soon.
The boy suddenly started fighting Surya aggressively.
The scary thing was that Cello was using Surya's own fighting style against him.
It could be deduced that Cello was capable of effectively copying the fighting style of his opponents after observing them for a while.
[Cello]: Kewawawawo
[Surya]: Speak English, you monkey!
Surya said with an irritated face.
It was annoying.
Cello was getting stronger and stronger as the fight continued.
It wasn't long before he started creating counter-techniques specifically for Surya's techniques.
Surya(thinking): This is bad. Seems like I will have to defeat him with some nasty move.
The idea clicked.
[Surya]: Haha. He is an easy prey. Why didn't I think about it earlier? He is so weak.
Surya said to himself with a huge smile.
Surya stopped fighting.
[Surya]: I will just teleport you away, filthy monkey, and get myself another opponent since you are too annoying.
Surya said.
Cello started running towards Surya, ready to land one final blow.
As soon as Cello jumped into the sky, Surya created a teleportation gate and teleported him right in front of Kel.
Kel saw the monkey-like boy and immediately considered him an enemy.
He simply used his Range Shiftling to eliminate the monkey boy.
[Kel]: Don't throw your leftovers at me.
Kel said with a serious face, already knowing who might have done it.
Surya appeared back on the battlefield through his teleportation gate.
[Surya]: I have to utilise the time.
He said while walking towards the two remaining Four Stared Personnels.
The two Four Stared Personnels exchanged a knowing gaze.
Their names?
The one with a huge build and a black mask was called Foot, while the other, a short one with a blue mask, was called Thumb.
[Foot]: That monkey was a real fool.
[Thumb]: Can't believe he fell for that.
They said as they watched Surya walking towards them, his Aura spiking higher and higher.
[Foot]: It seems like he has started acknowledging himself. His Aura looks second only to Ganaraj.
[Thumb]: Yes. However, it signifies lethality instead of strength. It is different from that of Ganaraj.
Even the breeze ceased to move in their presence as the Four Stared Personnels analysed Surya as a potential threat.
Surya dashed towards them—
Only to get stamped far below the ground.
He was pushed deep inside the earth.
Many miles deep.
The impact caused great trembling throughout the battlefield.
[Foot]: Aren't you overdoing it?
[Thumb]: I was just being me.
His telekinesis was powerful enough to rival a Six Stared Personnel.
[Thumb]: He would have been a threat if not eliminated early.
[Foot]: I see. We can now think about other things before he returns.
[Thumb]: Do you think he is alive? I have sent him at least 120 miles below the surface of the planet.
[Foot]: I can still sense his Aura from this point.
Thumb narrowed his eyes.
The Earth trembled again.
This time, however, it was far more violent.
The coast generated enormous waves as the water pulled away from the coastline.
The ground tore open.
A massive creature emerged.
Was it supposed to be a threat?
No.
It was a dead creature.
A giant dead creature.
Someone was standing there, lifting the enormous creature.
Foot smirked.
He could see Surya walking towards them, carrying the giant magma creature by his left hand.
Surya threw it away, causing another minor quake.
[Surya]: That wasn't a good way to greet someone.
[Thumb]: You sure are persistent.
[Surya]: You should at least choose your last words wisely, I suggest.
Silence.
Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
Within a few moments, the whole battlefield witnessed hundreds of bursts as Surya and Foot clashed.
Every exchange damaged the battlefield further.
Many Ganas were thrown away.
Before Thumb could realise what was happening, he was hit by a Three Tusked War Elephant.
Thumb was sent flying away.
[Thumb]: I was being careless. This is a battlefield, after all.
He said while getting back up.
As soon as the Three Tusked War Elephant tried attacking Thumb, the poor elephant was crushed to death.
[Thumb]: That is what you get for humiliating me.
Thumb looked displeased.
His head was bleeding slightly.
He wasn't a fighter, after all.
Gaja saw the small man and tried lunging towards him, only to get thrown far away alongside a dozen war elephants.
Applying his telekinetic bursts to the ground, Thumb flew higher and higher into the sky.
[Thumb]: This will make a better view.
A few small nearby islands started flying into the sky.
It was a terrible thing to witness as a fighter.
The sky became filled with countless small islands.
[Thumb]: Those who try to sort everything through brute force can never understand the essence of true power.
The already darkened atmosphere grew even darker.
Everyone looked up.
The entire sky was now blocked by hundreds of islands, spreading endlessly across the horizon.
Mala and Grimori looked at them with slight concern.
This wouldn't be much of a threat to them.
However...
Was it the same for everyone else?
[Thumb]: Hell Fall...
To be continued...