[Underground Labyrinth] (8)

Cooper.

It was Cooper, who had knelt on the ground with his forehead pierced by a fingertip sized gaping hole that had its edges blazing with a near-black coloured mana with purple haze glaring in contrast.

"..... His voice is annoying....." Ken muttered under his breath, emotionlessly.

It was then that the crowd which had snapped their heads to gaze at Ken, hearing him speak, once again snapped their heads to gaze up at the transparent wall that housed the VIPS.

The transparent wall was said to be imbedded with the mana that could withstand even if a Ranker punched at it with all their might.

*

There was naturally a ranking system in which the authorities of the world, Miorus, ranked its people, namely:

• Mortal

• Rank – E

• Rank – D

• Rank – C

• Rank – B

• Rank – A

• Rank – S

• Semi-Dues

And the [Rankers] are people who are ranked above B.

Of course, even among these ranks, there were three stages; low, mid, and high.

*

Coming back to the fear eroded gazes of the crowd that gazed at the perfect fingertip-sized hole bulleted through the glass, on which none even dreamt of being able to even create a crack on.

Taking a deep breath, somebody in the midst of the crowd gazed around before his gaze landed on the subtly fluttering red coloured scarf, he shuddered and

"AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!" He screamed in utter fear, grazing at the fear hidden deep inside those around him, at the same time.

AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!

The crowd instantly turned frenzy again, but this time, instead of bloodlust marred excitement, it was from horror they felt for their lives.

AAAAAAAAA...

AAAARRRRRRGH!!

The horror eroded screams got a hint of anguish tainted screams soon after as the frenzied crowd caused a stampede for those that were unable to catch the rhythm of the crowd's panicked rush.

As they ran wild all around the arena which housed eleven people, ten of whom had their expressions dyed in horror while the other man had a rather annoyed expression.

Due to how sensitive his senses were, the screams gradually began to irk the already annoyed man.

At that moment,

The whole crowd felt a subtle chill run down their spines.

Next instance, they felt their feet turn cold.

Then, their fingertips,

Their palms,

Their ears,

And finally a massive headache assaulted them all while cold sweat trickled down there foreheads and backs which they hadn't realised up until that instance.

In a matter of mere seconds,

The panic marred crowd slowed down as they felt the pressure build up in the underground settlement,

But,

AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!

Their screams were yet to die down.

And instead of their cries dying down, they got louder as they felt for sure that they would die when they weren't ready.....

Ready for what you ask?

What else? To die, of course!

Then,

"Tsk..."

A sound of tongue clicking sounded and the entirety of the crowd shuddered and in an instant, eerie silence dyed the underground settlement.

"How noisy..." A cold and hoarse voice sounded, and this time, those words resounded throughout the arena while the crowd turned pale, all-while, the so-called VIPS hadn't even moved an inch from their seats.

Why?

Because they couldn't!

Because they knew full-well that the moment they did,

They'd die just like Cooper;

Without knowing what killed them.

"I'm trying to test something new, so shut up and don't disturb....." Ken stated indifferently.

In his mind,

Ken focused on the 'display window' that was always active in a part of his mind, and gazed at the skills added to the skill toggle function.

He selected;

[Abyssal senses]

Upon selecting which, a glaring purple haze enveloped him entirely before, with a snap, a pair of prism-shaped concentration of his mana shot out of his shoulder blades and remained their, giving him a vibe of a fairy that was the embodiment of ABSOLUTE EVIL.

+

[Sword Ki]

The sword in his hand cracked unable to hold the level at which his mana was being concentrated around it, before

CRINKLE....

SHATTER-!

The blade shattered and dropped on the ground with only the sword's hilt and handle remaining in his hand, as the concentrated pitch-black mana with purple haze enveloping it shot out of the hilt and formed a blade, that seemed sturdier and sharper than the previous sword he held.

+

[Ki control]

The shattered blade chunks on the ground floated before shooting out and floating behind him while spread out wide, aimed at everybody who wasn't him, as the purple haze around the shattered blade chunks swirled flashily before every shattered chunk turned similar to the blade in his hand.

+

[Ki breathing]

A small amount of his pitch-black mana with glaring purple haze turned into fog that he breathed in;

At that instance,

Ken felt a strange pain around his neck. While outwardly, scale-shaped purple haze with pitch-black darkness in its depths materialized and as if expanding as his breath travelled down, the scales created slight openings, through which the purple haze he breathed in was seen travelling down.

Next,

The pain around his neck moved to his chest, which forced him to open his mouth,

[Combination found!]

[Creating character's [Ex] skill....]

[Combination complete!]

Ken's brows twitched as his body slightly leaned forward as he suddenly had the urge to puke,

And,

Puke he did.

WHOOOOOOOOO.....ZZZZZMMMMMMH!!!!

With a violent spiralling concentration of his mana in his throat,

[Combination Skill [Breath of the Nameless Dragon [Ex]] activated!]

WHHHZZZZZZZZOOOO....OOOMMMMMMMMH-!!!!

A pitch-black spiralling beam with glaring purple haze shot out of his mouth, expanding and destroying everything that stood in its way.

In the way were the ten men, who didn't know what was going but still were scared shitless, arena's caged walls, ¼ of the panicked crowd, two chambers housing two different VIPS and their servants, the underground settlement's walls that separated the arena from the rest, different kinds of stalls that sold many expensive things, and many people; ten thousand in approximation,

Everything was destroyed as his breath razed everything in 2 kilometres long path.

Leaving behind a charred ground, on which; growth of anything worthwhile seemed impossible.

Those who survived were gazing at the devastation in utter horror as their expressions turned ashen while not even a peep left their throats as even breathing seemed impossible for them.

WHISTLE~

A whistle in the voice which itched horror into the very souls of those who witnessed what the so-called blind man was capable of sounded and that requiem-like whistle continuously resounded in their consciousness for quite a while as the ghastly silence eroded the entirety of the underground lair.

FLAP-!!

SKID...

WHOOOIIIISSSSHHHH.....

The strange sounds garnered the silenced crowd's attention, their heads creakingly and tremblingly turned to gaze at the red coloured scarf that was fluttering violently while the man who had that scarf as a blindfold was seen with his mana sword raised above his head, while the sword's handle was clenched with both of his hands.

The mana and air around the lair trembled and buzzed violently as the spot garnered a divine judgement or a lightning tribulation from a xianxia novel.