Ruthless

Travis was quick-witted so It was normal for him to notice this. From Lance's change in facial expression, Travis noticed that even though Lance always acted like someone who never cared about anything in the world, he still cared deeply about his family. this could be seen from the fact that he didn't attack James intending to eliminate him from the game.

"Trash, I knew you were total trash. A disgrace to the Hart family. I will eliminate you on behalf of the Hart family now!!", suddenly, Lance's shout sounded heavy. His shout brought about the darkening of clouds and the rampant strikes of lightning from the sky. One could tell that he was really angry.

However, this time, Travis couldn't help but be shocked. This was because Travis had judged Lance to be someone who was at least benevolent towards his family but acted all tough when outside.

Yet, it seems that he had judged Lance wrongly. That was because from Lance's words even the dumbest person on earth could tell that he was planning not to spare even his own family member. So how could Travis not be shocked., He was simply shocked at Lance's ruthlessness.

With all that said, Travis also noticed something new about Lance. He was actually a very good actor. This could be seen from the fact that he even managed to deceive Travis for a moment. At this moment, Travis couldn't help but be shocked by Lance's creativity.

But if what Lance said made Travis shocked, then what James said next, made Travis simply speechless.

"Hahahaha! This is the Lance I know. You shouldn't act as if you care about the family. You are simply shameless. Hahaha, and look at you now, you are completely different from you before. At first, you were acting as if you cared about the family but now you are even using the family's name to act like a righteous person from eliminating me? Go ahead. I knew you wouldn't spare me either."

James laughed hysterically and said. From What James said, it could be seen that he wasn't surprised at all. It seemed like he was looking forward to the moment Lance would reveal his original self.

*Swish!*

After laughing for a while, James's smile suddenly turned cold as he suddenly moved. His speed was extremely fast, it was so fast that Travis could even see him well. Travis was sure that James was definitely stronger than him with his speed alone.

With that being said, James suddenly moving really shocked Travis. Wasn't James injured? How could he move at that speed? Travis simply couldn't understand how James was even able to move at that speed when he was injured. This was simply too shocking.

*Boom!*

A loud 'boom' was suddenly heard as huge ripples began to spread to the surroundings. This time, even the buildings started to sway as cracks began to appear on them. Looking at the buildings that looked like they were going to collapse at any moment, Travis frowned deeply.

After all, only he knew how strong and powerful those buildings were. Even, Lance's previous attack was unable to sway the buildings the slightest. Yet, James' attack had been able to achieve that. This told how much power James' attack contained. If not for the fact that the building managed to block most of the power before it got to Travis, he dared guarantee that he would have been a dead person by now.

*Swish!*

After a while, the dust began to settle and Travis was able to see them now. But what he saw simply shocked him to the extent that his mouth formed a small 'O'. After all, what he was seeing was simply too shocking. To describe it as marvelous would not even be enough.

At this moment, James appeared in front of Lance. In his hand was a golden dagger. At this moment, the dagger was currently pointed at the most important place for all mages, their dantians. Yes at this moment, the dagger was directly pointed at Lance's dantain. Moreover, it was emitting the sacred aura of a healer. It was that aura alone that had nearly destroyed all the buildings.

However, at this moment, it wasn't the dagger aura' that was amazing. Rather, it was the confident appearance of Lance that shocked Travis. At this moment, Lance had one finger pointed forward. as for what the finger was doing, it was actually blocking James' attack. Yes, Lance had used his finger alone to block James' attack.

At this moment, James had a confused expression on his face. He continued to look at Lance as unease and fear appeared in his eyes. He was deeply frightened by Lance's strength. One must know this was James' strongest attack. In fact, he had prepared this attack during their long conversation and was sure that he would succeed once he attacked but that doesn't seem to be the case. Lance had blocked his attack with only one move, this clearly showed how strong Lance was. At least he wasn't someone who he, James could be compared to.

However, compared to the confusing look on James' face, Lance had a very cold look on his face. Moreover, Lance was emitting killing intent all over. It seems that he was now surely going to eliminate James now. Lance suddenly made a movement, he suddenly held his neck and raised him up. James was simply unable to do anything and continued to struggle as he tried to breathe.

*******

"Sigh... ", at this moment, Travis couldn't help but sigh as he prepared to leave. He couldn't stand these shameless people who would betray their family members for their own personal gains. However, a sudden shout sounded from James that made Travis involuntarily stationary. As for what James said, it was,

"Hey Lance, Isn't that Travis Tale? He is currently standing on top of that building!" James said as he struggled for breath. But even with all that, he didn't forget to point to the building on which Travis was currently standing.

"This..."

At this moment, Travis's body involuntary froze. An expression of unease appeared in his eyes as he started to sweat cold bullets.

At this moment, Travis would be lying if he said he wasn't afraid. After all, the current Travis knew that he was no march for someone like Lance. He knew very well in his heart that he was no match since he couldn't even fight against someone like Jared more or less Lance. At this moment, Travis was truly scared.

It wasn't that he was a coward. But because he was scared that Lance would spot him. If that happened, he knew for sure that he wouldn't be able to escape calamity.

All Travis could hear was his heart beating and his hand turning all sweaty as he cast his gaze downwards. The moment Travis saw what happening, his expression of uneasiness immediately turned to one is ecstasy. That was because he knew he had escaped a huge calamity today.

At this moment, Lance was looking at James with deep killing intent. It was so deep that even someone like Travis who wasn't even started with the killing intent couldn't help but shiver. Seeing all that, Travis realized how dangerous Lance was. He could be said to be the most dangerous person Travis had encountered in his life.

"Do you think this simple trick will move me?" Lance asked, his tone filled with dense killing intent. Seeing how dense Lance's killing intent was, James couldn't help but sweat profusely. However, he tried his best to explain it to Lance whilst struggling fiercely.

"L, Lance, It, It is not that I am trying to trick you here. Lo, Look, Travis is indeed standing there!", James tried to explain as he struggled fiercely. However, Lance didn't even bother to release him.

He continued to look at him with cold and heartless eyes as he strangled him. He surely didn't believe him at all.

Seeing this Travis smiled complacently. He had clearly overestimated Lance's intelligence. He thought that Lance would at least glance in his direction to see if what James was saying was the truth but that didn't seem to be the case. He didn't believe his family member at all.

Seeing all this, Travis wasted no time escaping but before that, he had to do something to James. So he merely smiled and gave James a middle finger before he suddenly moved. He completely disappeared from the building.

Seeing the provocative gesture that Travis did, James immediately became furious. However, he was powerless in front of Lance who was holding him by his throat which made his breathing much more difficult.

He could feel his consciousness seeping away as he struggled with all his strength. With the last bit of strength he had, he said,

"Y, You will definitely regret letting him escape....", as his vision faded into darkness.

Seeing that James finally lost his last breath, Lance threw his body away like a rug as he muttered, "Trash. Regret? I will never regret anything I do in my life"

He then turned his head toward where he threw James' body as he saw his body gradually vanishing into thin air. His face changed to one of surprise for split second only to return back to normal.

"As for him, I will definitely take care of him. Hahaha..." Lance said as his nefarious laughter ranged through the street. As for the 'him' in his words, it was none other than Travis.

*******

"Hah!", at this moment, James groaned lightly as he open his eyes.