The Challenger Is Back!

The people who had fallen struck the shield in the front and were actively pushed to the side by the people behind them.

"ARGH!"

The situation was the frontline didn't look good as the force from the people was still substantial even after the support they received.

"Everyone, Don't let up, use your skills!!" The army captain shouted while he was in the front with the others as well.

"Yes Sir!!!" The frontline shouted in unison and used their skills.

Together using various skills to reinforce their strength and durability along with Alea's tree roots they were able to stop the swarm safely without any damage to themselves.

The swarm was now split in two on either side of the group and they were trying to get up quickly to run away.

The only reason Kanae and Haru's impromptu plan worked was because most of these people were in a panic, they were scared for their life and the only thing that came to their mind was running away from here.

Haru and the others were safe now, they didn't need to face the whole swarm as they did and it was possible to just get out of the way but.

"The group behind this is surely up to something," Hee-won could feel it, and the others as well. There were definitely some hidden motives behind this, even before reaching the swarm could've just dissolved with them running in different directions, but instead, they came straight at their group.

But just as they were thinking, 5 people jumped from the crowd rushing toward Haru and Kanae.

And they all had one thing in common.

"Why are they wearing blindfolds?" Hee-won was confused and so were the others, but the confusion wasn't enough to stop them from moving.

CLANK* SLASH*

Hee-won stopped one as Kanae cut the one who was trying to attack in two.

Alea and Jin-ah dealt with one on their own.

'We aren't their targets!' Dok-ja's eyes widened as one of them ran past him after using one of his fellows as a shield, and the person he went for was.

CLANK*

"Hmm? Why don't you use your illusions now huh?" The guy grinned widely while locking swords with Haru.

But before Haru could say anything further the guy was kicked in the head by Kanae making the guy's head turn a full 360.

SLASH*

Even then the body was still moving fine and tried to attack Haru, it was like…

'…the First Apostle,' Dok-ja knew the identity of the person who had caused this whole situation.

"These clones," Hae-in muttered as Haru cut down the one attacking him.

"My, it is so good to see the outside, I was getting kinda bored inside with the same old brick walls and blood," Just then a voice came from the entrance of the dungeon and it made everyone look over.

There they could see a man with black hair tied in a ponytail and a black blindfold standing.

"Fuck!! He is here already,"

"Shit run!!"

Just seeing this one man the three hundred people there started trembling and attempted to run for their lives, well at least they wanted to.

"Sang-kyung-ssi, is he the one?" Kanae asked Sang-kyung who came towards her after getting his bearing straight.

"Yes he is the one, he planted spies in other King's groups and killed them in 'Room of the North Star' taking their flags," Sang-Kyung explained, but even without him telling everyone here could tell that this guy was the culprit, How?

Well, there were four brown flags in his hand at this moment, who else would it be if not him?

'He is hiding his real flag,' Dok-ja couldn't spot the real flag on this guy and he couldn't even see his attribute window, this further cemented his deduction…

"Hello everyone, My name is Han Su-young, and as most of you already know I am the First Apostle and the one who knows the future of this world," Su-young said in a voice loud enough to be heard by everyone.

'If he uses a vague sentence like that, it would be hard to catch him with a lie detection skill,' Dok-ja glanced at Haru but he saw no change in the latter's expression.

"Also it is nice to see some familiar people here," Su-young looked at Haru and Kanae in particular.

"You really have the guts to show up in front of me after what you did before?" Kanae's anger was rising just after seeing Soo-young.

"Well, no need to act so stiff I was just trying to get some information," Su-young shrugged as he was caught by Kanae and Hae-in a while back when he tried to infiltrate their group.

"Anyway, Mr. Third grade side character what happened? Why aren't you using your skill?" Su-young looked at Haru and grinned mockingly.

"I just don't want to," Haru shrugged and Su-young's grin just got wider.

"You don't want to? Why don't you just agree that you can't use it on me now? No need to play dumb I've already figured out the conditions for your skills,"

'What? Did he actually figure it out?' Dok-ja was of course caught off guard, Haru's illusion has been a major part of his arsenal so far, it would be a lie if he said he didn't try to figure out how it works and ways to avoid it, but he couldn't come with anything.

But Su-young on the other hand says he had discovered how the skill worked, this might seem like a bluff until…

"Your skill has two major conditions, first one should be within a 20 radius with you at the center, and the second condition the most important one, the person in question should make eye contact with you for 3 seconds," Su-young explained while looking at Haru, "So, what now? I told you I'll make you regret getting in my way."

[The Constellation 'Noble Child of the Sun' is watching the situation nervously.]

[The Constellation 'Secretive Plotter' finds the situation a bit impressive.]

[The Constellation 'Dessert for Days' is enjoying his Ice cream.]

[Many Constellations are liking the current development]

[3000 coins have been sponsored.]

'This is bad,' Dok-ja thought as Haru opened his mouth.

"You have quite an unhealthy obsession with me,"

'There he goes,' Hee-won's eyes twitched a little hearing that, this wasn't the time to talk about this.

"Don't flatter yourself, I've only been keeping my eye on you to end you," Su-young said.

"What? So you have been stalking me this whole time? Damn, I am getting chills here! Someone save me!! a pervert is out to get me!!" Haru actually sounded desperate.

"At least his ability to annoy people is still there," Hee-won said and others had to agree, they could see the veins on Su-young's face even from afar.

Su-young had acted like a prideful person till now, and Haru has been digging into that pride this whole while, but even if Su-young was prideful.

"Did you think I am stupid enough to fall for such an obvious trick?"

"Yes, I know you are more than stupid enough to," Haru's smirk irked Su-young to no end. His face actually said 'Gotcha'

'Haru is trying to buy time to figure out the situation,' Hae-in understood what was going on and started to look around in the crowd.

"I am done playing with you, Listen everyone as your king I hereby order you to attack this group, anyone who runs away will be given the death penalty," Su-young shouted and the people who had come out of the gate were surrounded by sparks.

"Damn it!!"

"We have no choice, we have to kill them or else we'll die!!"

They cursed their luck as they were now part of Su-young's group, she had absorbed the flags of their groups and now had control over them.

If they don't follow her orders, they'd be killed like the ones inside the Dungeon before.

"Did you spot his clones?" Haru asked and Hae-in nodded.

"30 in total some are blindfolded but most of them aren't," Hae-in said and got ready to face the people that were going to attack them now.

'I now understand how this guy gauged the distance for the skill activation, it must've cost him a lot to pull this off, but how did she manage to differentiate them? Is it a skill?' Dok-ja thought for some time but couldn't come to a concrete conclusion so he left it aside.

"Front liners don't let them overwhelm you, change the poison, and don't stop shooting the arrows till I say so," Kanae ordered and her group followed, they were currently surrounded by the people who were coming at them from all directions.

Alea had also removed her tree roots from the people so that they can move freely as Jin-ah's ice melted or was broken by the people as they used their skills.

"All of you use the spears and attack the openings provided by the shielders!!" Ji-won also finished declaring her orders and her troops started to engage with the attackers.

[Many Constellations are happy to see some blood after a long time.]

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Stones? just leave em here, thank you.....

Also check out the the new art for Haru in the aux chapter and also check out the fic of my good friend if you like a smut fic with a interesting premise and of course lots of smut with beautiful anime waifus.

wtf did he send me to paste Here....

Sigh, anyway check his fic out, yeah?

Thanks.