Asserting Dominance

Leus stopped exactly 4.5 meters away from his prey, the blue-haired man.

'I want him to be in my Domain so I can sense any sudden attack'

Leus was unconsciously emitting streams of oppression and hostility, he still didn't know how to control his emotions.

The man clearly felt the hostility emanating from Leus, but he didn't let it affect him

He held his sword in his right hand, but it was pointed down and not aimed at Leus, so Leus decided not to attack just yet.

The man was in Leus' Domain, so Leus sensed his aura and was able to accurately estimate his power.

'Based on my experience, I'll divide the Elite class into three different levels, Dad's level as the bottom, Felix's level as the middle, and Arno's level as the highest.'

'This man is just around Dad's level, and based on what Arno said, this means that he's an average Elite Knight ...'

Leus already knew that the man was Elite while chasing him, but now he was able to pin it down to exactly what type of an Elite he was ... After that, he started thinking about how to deal with the situation.

'He's certainly from the outside, I don't think killing him is a good idea, it might have unnecessary repercussions.'

'Just asserting my dominance over my area will be enough'

'Also, Moral Code ... Time to use that ... ' 

Silence ensued for a couple of seconds, but suddenly, the man's eyes narrowed and he pointed at Leus' chest and said

"What's that on your chest?"

Leus looked at where the man was pointing

'My Emblem?'

The man wasn't able to see the details of the Emblem, But he could tell

'That's something important'

Leus got annoyed

'I can't let this idiot tell me what to do or ask me questions'

He removed the Emblem from his chest and put it in his pocket then said

"I'll be the one asking questions here"

The man had an annoyed expression on his face but Leus didn't care

"Who are you?"

The man didn't reply

"What are you doing here?"

No answer ...

"Why were you following me?"

"..."

"You came to my area, spied on me, and ran away when I saw you ...

Certainly, you're up to no good, right?"

A couple of seconds passed in silence.

"You're making things unnecessarily hard, you must've known that this is my area, and even if you didn't, you knew where is the base, so you could've contacted us, but instead you're playing spy."

"So you won't talk huh ..."

Leus was still thinking how to get the man to talk in the least troublesome way, but then a thought suddenly came to him

"Wait a minute ... there was no way for you to know that I'm coming ...

Which means that you were already here from the beginning, right?

You were not here for me ... "

Leus' face began to slowly contort in anger as the realization hit him, and simultaneously, the man's instincts began to warn him.

"....Were you planning to hurt my friends?"

When Leus said that loudly, his expression became terrifyingly blank, and at the same time, uncontrollable anger and hatred began to well up in his heart.

Any thoughts of ending the matter peacefully were slowly fading away from his mind.

The idea that something like 'That last time' could happen again was slowly dominating Leus' mind and making him lose control of himself.

Unconsciously, Leus directed intense Murderous Intent towards the man.

At that moment, the man realized that he was in a serious plight.

His instincts started to scream at him, telling him that he would soon be in a life-or-death situation.

He decided to quickly talk and cool down the situation,

"Hold on, chill out, we weren't here to hurt anyone"

Leus replied in a very apathetic tone

"Why should I believe you?"

"Because no one is hurt, and because instead of attacking you we ran away"

" ... You're right."

His words made Leus calm down just a bit, but still, they didn't answer any of Leus' questions.

"Still, Who are you and why are you here?"

"I can't answer"

"Then I'll make you"

Mayhem broke out

Leus cast Mud and covered the area around him in a quagmire, but

'It's not affecting him'

The man didn't seem to get affected at all by the mud, he added Water Mana to his sword, covered it with a layer of thick liquid, and dashed forward.

When Leus sensed the man about to dash forward he cast Lightweight on himself to increase his speed, then he quickly took a couple of steps back.

At the same time, he cast Poisonous Melee, summoned multiple black daggers, and directed them at his opponent.

The man was taken aback by the speed of Leus' casting

'Silently casting multiple elements ... That's definitely not normal'

But he quickly held his ground and sighed in relief

'Although I can't sense him in my Domain, I can sense all of his attacks'

The man's sword moved rapidly, blocking all the incoming attacks with relative ease.

Leus was closely noticing everything

'Before, his moves would've looked like a blur to me, but now I can clearly see how his sword moves'

The man's sword moved smoothly, deflecting and breaking all the daggers thrown at him.

Leus decided to step up his attacks and cast Blizzard, covering the area around him in a snowstorm and lowering the visibility.

Regardless, the man kept blocking the attacks with ease, he never depended on his vision to block, only his Domain.

'If that's how it is, then all I have to do is rain him down with attacks until he can no longer block them'

Leus cast Laser, adding tiny light beams into the mixture of attacks.

Because of the difference in speed between the daggers and the light beams, The man got hit by Laser twice, giving him burns on his right arm and his abdomen.

His expression immediately changed

'I didn't expect that I'd have to use my Skill, Here of all places...!'