LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 76: Buzz away
The carefree atmosphere changed immediately and tension descended like a living thing. The teams moved and positioned themselves to face their opponents.
The spirit was still talking but no one listened as they began to study the others. Jael did the calculations. It'll take roughly around two minutes before the mana regulator successfully claims a zone, and if anything disturbs it during that time, then they'll have to start all over again.
And the place where the mana is the thickest, the center of the zone is on that throne. This means anyone who sits on that throne and can put the mana regulator on is the owner of the zone!
'Finally' Jael thought. 'How many days have we spent here? We'll finally see the end of this
Just then, the gate opened again, and three people came in; everyone focused on them sharply like a hawk on prey; they wore black and red robes with covered hoods and ignored everyone's attention.
Litha narrowed her eyes. "Why do they reek of blood so much?"
Jael looked over and sniffed. Right, they smelled of the Iron tang of blood, and the smell was now filling up the whole room; it was mixed with something sweet and familiar. Rose. 'It seems like I've smelled this before'
The spirit paused as if it wasn't expecting them. "Well....I'm sure they should be the last one, but just to make sure," The spirit raised its hand and mimicked locking a door, then it frowned and looked at the newcomer. "It's already locked?"
One of the new ones who just came turned to the spirit. "Will you explain the rules again?" The voice came out smooth with a rough drag to it.
Jael shivered. He had heard that voice before, but he couldn't put a hand on where, but he knew it wasn't someplace good.
The spirit explained the rules about what the last game is all about and the one who spoke nodded as he listened. Eventually, when the spirit was done, he chuckled. "So I just have to kill everyone else and sit on the throne right."
The spirit froze. "Well...that could work too I guess."
"Right." He replied. Then, the next seconds seemed to stretch on for an eternity before everything exploded. The other two standing beside the one who spoke exploded in a shower of glistening blood.
Spikes of solid blood flew out and targeted everyone at once. It was fast, but Litha was faster, and her shield snapped into place seconds before the attack did. The spikes pinged off the shield in a flash of blue light.
But some others weren't so lucky. One of the legal freelance Awakeners got herself a hole in the middle of the head and she collapsed without a sound. The other one was able to get unhurt by luck.
Arin slashed in front of him, cutting the air several times in the space of one second and creating a brief wall of steel that acted like a shield.
The Walkers just stood there and the attacks passed through them as if they were made of shadows.
Everyone turned to the one that made the attack, they had removed their hood and showed their face.
It was a beastman with dark fur and beady red eyes that shone with silent malice. "Oh? You are all still standing from the surprise explosion from my blood golme."
Jael shuddered with anger. So it was him after all. The beast-man likes to turn people into slaves.
"So you are the only one that came here? The others are some that are wearing a hood?" Cele called as if knowing the answer to the question will explain what in the actual fuck was going on.
Before the beastman answered, the spirit buzzed down in front of him and gestured to the chunk of solid blood on the floor and the dead Awakeners. "What have you done?" Its voice was cold, tight with anger. "You dare begin fighting when I have called the go-ahead with the stage?"
The beastman looked up as if it just noticed the spirit. "Eh? My name is Kaidos, and I have nothing to do with your spirit," he waved his hand as if he was slapping away an annoying fly. "Buzz away or something."
The spirit blinked. In all the thousands of years it was here and he had been conducting hundreds of tests for King Solomon, this was the first time someone would be dismissive of it. And it didn't like it one bit.
"Buzz away or something." It repeated flatly.
Kaidos turned and locked eyes with Jael. "Yes, you can buzz away."
The spirit's eyes darkened, and it remained silent for a while; the spirit was put in charge of this castle till they were claimed to have absolute power within it. Unless it was claimed then their power is Iron law.
But there was one thing about it....
The spirit was suddenly covered in a flash of shining light, silver bright that hurt to look at. "You dare disrespect the spirit here and behave as you want. Die!" It gestured and wrote on the air in shining letters.
The air around Kaidos bent, and the space ripped and shimmered, but the spell that the spirit cast washed over him like water, and the beast-man smiled. "Oh little spirit."
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"Impossible! My spell didn't work?" The spirit gestured and wrote again, the words hung in the air for seconds after it wrote it before drifting away. "Take that! I use even more powers!"
Everyone in the room felt the power behind the spell; the mana in the room trembled, and the air wavered. The spell squeezed around Kaidos in a move that should have crushed him but all it did was flap his robe.
The spirit's eyes widen and then narrowed. "You.. what have you done?! Impossible," the spirit wrote again but this time it came out jerk and hurried. The spirit waited then it flinched back. "You tampered with Time and space?"