Chapter 22: Ten Days later, First Attack.

Quickly nine days passed, a lot of things happened. Firstly, amongst the two thousand second year and third-year students that entered the Lost Forest since the start, more than five hundred have been rescued because they have fallen into a disadvantageous situation, thus they were forced to use the rescue mechanism inside the black bracelet they wore on their wrist.

Secondly, the other girls have managed to get together on the sixth day with Emea, Emia, and Nui, but Kaguya was not with them, it seems she had taken a completely different direction.

A strange situation occurred when the girls saw each other. Three camps were quickly formed, Emea, Emia and Nui formed one camp, while Nemesis, Luna, Xiao Qing'er, Qin Feixue formed another camp, and the last one is a neutral camp containing the remaining girls. It's not like they were fighting but it just happened naturally like that, to put simply the two first camps are factions in Kyle's harem that started forming like that, Feixue just went with the flow, Hao Tian fled because when he shows up with the girls, Nemesis forced him to stay in her faction, he just escapes saying he has something urgent to take care of. The girls continued to normally chat, but you could feel subtle changes in the air. Kyle's was obvious to all of this.

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The ninth day, in the evening, Kyle the culprit of the situation on the girl's side was erecting his own tent for tonight totally obvious to what is happening on the girl's sides.

After finishing, Kyle immediately fell asleep because he was completely exhausted, earlier he had killed three Devil Bears.

As the night ended, the sun could be seen in the horizon, rising into the sky.

Kyle woke up and stretch up, today marks the tenth day that they entered the forest, if you could survive today, you will be rewarded with hundreds of contribution points, even if he is strong, he decided that he will live student life, normal life with his power sealed. So, he decided to take this expedition seriously.

He started walking forward, on his twentieth step, he suddenly used [Shrink], he vanished and reappears two meters away, but he hastily twist his upper body in the opposite direction dodging a red-colored dagger, Kyle immediately swings his flame sword back counterattacking.

*Clangs*

Sparks flew in the air as the flame sword clashed against the red dagger, the assailant vanished.

Taking a deep breath, Kyle says '' Can you come out already Mr assassins? "

There is a silence, nobody answered nor nobody shows up. Kyle chuckled before saying.

'' To think that someone would send assassins after me, five to be precise. I'm sure there are more than five but presently you numbered five. ''

Clap! Clap! Clap!

'' Wonderful perception Mr. Kyle, it seems that you're indeed powerful and little mysterious. To think you could detect us even when we've concealed ourselves like this. Truly pity you are about to die soon. '' Said a mysterious voice coming from all directions.

After saying that five individuals show up, they were dressed in a red robe with white masks with a red circle on it, it was the man that spoke vulgarity on the day Kyle's and other were teleported towards the lost forest who is the leader of this squad of five men, it was him that replied to Kyle earlier.

'' I must say that I was expecting them to make a move, but not this early. Jealousy is an ugly thing and those two have become impatient, they can't wait to have my head. To think they would send men that have stepped into the Supreme Tier to kill me. I feel honored. Returning your earlier word back to you, it's a pity you'll die soon. '' Kyle fearlessly said.

'' Kill him '' ordered the leader.

Immediately the five wanted to disappear again but how could Kyle allow that he instantly activated his domain, a flame domain of twenty meters entirely made of flame, two amongst the five assassins concealment were interrupted, they are forced to directly face Kyle, Kyle decided to quickly finish those two because the other three will be troublesome to deal, especially the leader who is middle Supreme Tier. The two in front of him are only in the early Supreme Tier.

One of the assassins suddenly vanished reappearing in the sky floating, he then slashed his right arm towards Kyle domain, a big vertical red slashed the flame domain splitting it in two but the flame domain regenerates itself almost instantly.

Kyle used [Shrink] and reappears behind the assassin in the sky, the latter turned to face Kyle while thrusting his dagger towards Kyle's heart, everything was done in flash, he didn't give Kyle any time to be prepared, suddenly the assassin became stiff as if frozen when his dagger was about to plunge into Kyle's chest. Kyle's flame went through his heart destroying it, the assassin's last thought was this guy isn't human, better not to look into his crimson eyes.

Kyle has used one of his innate racial abilities: the hypnotism, when the assassin looked into his eyes, Kyle give the command to his body to not move, even though he sealed his power, his innate abilities were not sealed.

Plop!

The assassin body gall down from the sky, everything took place extremely fast, in a matter of few seconds, Kyle reappears behind the second assassin inside his domain, striking towards his head, but mid-strike Kyle was forced to change direction because one of three remaining assassins outside his domain came attacking him, obstructing him when he wanted to finish the assassin inside his domain.

Kyle managed to avoid the surprise attack by hair breath but he got a slight cut on his neck, the assassin in question was astonished because he was sure that with his surprise attack he was going to cut his head off, Kyle has managed to come out almost unscathed with an only small cut, but that small cut is more than enough because his dagger was coated with a dreadful poison.

While inwardly rejoicing he sensed a death threat, looking at the retreating Kyle whose finger's was pointed towards him and his companion, the assassin's face behind the Mask is filled with fear of certain death, he quickly wanted to distance himself but Kyle next attack come at an extremely high speed not giving the two the chance to dodge in time.

On the other hand, after Kyle muttered the name of his technique

''[ Volcanic Flare ]''

He flicked the small fireball born from the palm of his hand with his thumb.

Like a comet, the small fireball tore through the air, turning into hellfire in the blink of an eye, using the flame domain as fuel It impacted the two assassins, a giant explosion occurred.

*Kaboom*

Sending shockwave in all directions, Kyle flame domain was extinguished, creating giant cloud dust obstructing one sight, after a few seconds everything became clear again, the two assassins were nowhere to be seen, and only small piece of the red robe could be seen, the two were obliterated leaving an only small piece of cloth, killed in the explosion.

Still, Kyle didn't let his guard down even if he killed three assassins in a matter of few minutes, the remaining two are more dangerous, also things were not looking good for him, because the small injury he received from that assassin seems to be healing too slowly even with his super regeneration.

Well, he also sealed most of his regenerative power to appear a little special not too monstrous in the case he got an injury at the academy. He started to feel overwhelmed by gravity, his body became sluggish as the poison spread through his body albeit slowly, he must quickly finish things here and treat himself.

Kyle felt a sudden chill on his back, he shifted his body protecting his heart, one of the remaining two assassins appeared behind him and stab towards his heart but his aim got deviated when Kyle shifted his body, he wanted to retreat but he realized that his body became stiff, it's because Kyle left arm has already pierced through his chest protruding from its back and in Kyle's hand was a beating heart, the assassin heart, Kyle crushed the heart.

The assassin's last thought was ' Ah! I understand. He deliberately let me pierce him in order to kill me, what a ruthless man, even to himself.' The fourth assassin, a Peak early Supreme Tier just die like that.

Having successfully killed the fourth assassin, Kyle expression showed neither joy nor any other kind of emotions, on the contrary, his completion looked paler than usual, he's wobbling, there is still one more assassin, the strongest one, sensing the latter approaching Kyle's activate his flame domain once more and he immediately says:

'' Blossom Firellys"

The flame domain of twenty meters compressed in shape a big flower with eight petals before exploding creating a mega explosion, that caught the leader of the assassin squad off, the big explosion swallows him.

*KaBOOM*

Kyle was blasted far away by the shockwave, he spouts mouthfuls of blood, his clothes were in tatters, nevertheless, he quickly stabilized himself even when feeling extremely tired because of poison, he chooses a random direction and escapes in.