A huge feathered monster with 2 clawed bird legs and a pair of sharp silver wings instead of hands.
It had a semi-humanoid body and a tiger head, covered in crystallized ice and shooting ice beams out of its mouth.
It looked a little scary, but it was nothing compared to its opponent.
On the other side, a masked man clad in black clothes stood in the middle of the air, holding a longbow and staring sharply at the flying monster like a predator that found its prey.
The look in his eyes was anything but frightened. Just looking at them sent shivers down my spine.
"Finally a flying monster! Hehehe."
He laughed, his voice cold and sharp. He seed to be having fun. Just this morning, I had wondered how a sane person like him could be friends with soone like Zephyr.
Now I know the answer. He was never sane!
"Throw your bow and kick its ass!" Beside , Zephyr was cheering for Raylin. He was doing that since the start even though Raylin couldn’t hear him.
"Hey Zephyr." I called him with confusion in my voice and asked: "Did he fight monsters before? He seems to be used to that."
Liora and Selene stood closer to us as Zephyr answered: "Hmmm? No? Arthur, not just the monsters. Except for and his sister, he never fought anything at all. Ohh he is growing so fast..."
"Wha—!" I tried to say sothing, but soone suddenly cut off.
"So that monster tortured and little Lina in his first fight?!"
Sitting on the ground, Long Lei complained while rubbing his spirit’s head.
"And don’t forget." Leaning on a wall, Limitless added: "After hitting him with all those attacks and with his body bleeding from many places, he kept smiling! I was scared as hell!"
"M-Maybe he was just a little excited..." Selene began to defend him. "So people just like to fight. Look at Zephyr."
"At least I end it as fast as possible!"
"No you don’t!"
"GRAAAH!"
*BAM!*
Suddenly, the monster fell on the ground. We all stopped talking as we watched it trying to stand up, but there was a hidden force holding it firmly.
One of its wings was severed and the sa for one of its legs. There were many cuts marks and holes in arrow shape on its burning body, with one of its eyes missing.
*BAM!*
Raylin suddenly fell on its head, crushing it like a humanoid teor as he shouted. "Give it back!"
He had one arm left with many injuries in his body bleeding or frozen, but his face was still too calm despite all that.
He used his remaining hand and one of his legs to open the monster’s maw, then he took his arm from inside of it with only an irritated expression.,
I gulped silently as I saw Raylin making a lightning stiletto and using it to pierce the monster’s brain through its eyes.
Blood splashed over Raylin’s body and face, but he didn’t seem disgusted at all. He just smirked at it!
"Long Lei, you were right. That guy is probably a monster..." I said as I wondered what would happen if we fought.
The answer was simple, I’d win.
He wasn’t strong enough to match , and he didn’t seem to be good in close combat.
But for soone indifferent to pain like him, he would probably hit with 2 or 3 arrows and so magical attacks before falling.
I... wanted to fight him soday, not to win, but to improve.
I wanted to be the future king and unite all the races, but for that, I needed to beco even stronger.
My lips curled into a smile.
’Soday.’
•••
’Fuck! That hurts as hell!’
"Give it back!"
Using my remaining arm, one leg, and 2 phantom wind hands, I opened the monster’s mouth and took my arm.
The next mont, a lightning stiletto materialized in my hand, then I pierced the tiger’s eyes as its blood began to cover .
The strong scent of the warm blood hit instantly.
’Ohh just like the old days.’
I rembered my days as a hitman when I used to sll blood once a week at least. They were good days.
Unfortunately, this wasn’t a corrupted rich human, but a fake monster.
Suddenly, my dagger hit the monster’s brain as it let out one last scream before falling dead.
*BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!*
So fireworks exploded in the air, showing the line "4 win streaks!" Before disappearing.
Just then, I heard a voice in my ear.
—We will judge your performance fairly, so you can rest now.
The next mont, I was standing in the preparation room with only a healing potion in front of .
’Tsk, stingy bastards.’
I attached my severed arm in my shoulder, then using an invisible hand, I put a little of the liquid on it.
Regaining my arm’s feeling again, I drank the potion to heal my other injuries.
"...."
Looking around , I saw everyone staring at with different expressions.
"What? Is there sothing in my face? I an — except blood."
"...."
’Oh, I have to stop the fear effect.’
I stopped the fear effect ntally and my clothes turned into a normal black shirt and pants.
The awkward silence continued for a mont, then the silence got shattered suddenly.
"That was cool as fuck!"
"I swear you are a cockroach."
"Don’t co near !"
"Sadistic!"
"Psychopath!"
"Rember when you beco the next apex!"
"..."
I watched silently as so people cursed while the others praised . It seed like I got a complex reputation for so reason.
And why were they calling a psychopath?! I might be the kindest person after Arthur here!
I recalled all my fights, trying to figure out what I did wrong, but no matter how much I thought about it, nothing seed wrong.
’Maybe they are just jealous.’
I teleported to the seat beside Selene, who was looking at with a bright smile, and asked: "Why do many people seem to hate all of a sudden."
"Oh... about that...," She opened her bracelet and searched for sothing, then she began to show a video at a specific mont.
I was in the video, covered in blood with a wide smirk on my face.
Yep, it was too normal.
"Did they expect to give it a clean kill or sothing? I’m not that strong unfortunately."
"What? This isn’t what I... nevermind."
She let out a breath. I wanted to ask her about the problem, but suddenly—
*Ding!*
The next participants were decided.
On the hovering screen, 2 nas appeared beside each other.
’So things really never change.’
I sighed as I looked at the hovering nas, they were Arthur Sunblade and Zephyr Stormblade!
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