Mark along with Razor standing in one corner of the platform and Wilhelm along with the members from blue flame alliance in the other corner of it.
The atmosphere became tense, there was pin drop silence, no one dared to mutter even a single word. New silhouettes started emerging around the platform. They were all dressed lavishly wearing costly robes and artifacts, presumably nobles and masters from rich aristocratic families and exhibited auras which surpasses lord class, presumably king class individuals
" Brother razor, I have exhausted much of my mana earlier. If it was me earlier, I had no fear even when facing against a peak class aura grand master. But right now, I can fight on equal grounds against an upper class grand master, at best. Buy me some time, it may take few minutes, before I have completely recovered my mana and ready to face them. " Mark wanted to test razor, since there was no lord class cultivators involved in the fight, he was not worried about razor getting himself killed, as he would ultimately be subdued by them after getting himself tired, where he had to go and rescue him. What he wanted to test was the time in which he would fall.
* Beep! *
The moment which every one had been eagerly waiting had arrived, the buzzer beeped loudly alarming the fighters along with the crowd present around them.
" Kill this Razor! His power can easily overwhelm an ordinary peak grade aura grand master. Once he's down and considering our advantage in numbers, defeating mark isn't gonna be hard at current circumstances. We can avenge our leader gaiden, and also other members who were badly trashed by mark earlier. " Bellowed Wilhelm with a wide sneer on his face.
If razor is killed in this battle, then Wilhelm could eliminate his enemy and at same time avoid being charged by his family, as well as uphold blue flame alliance honor after killing mark.
Though razor could be considered a genius, a dead genius isn't worth fighting for, and considering the fact that his father was also an elder of the family and a high ranked at that, the other elders would not offend him for a dead branched family genius, since the dead could not be revived.
Once razor is down the rest of the members from blue flame alliance can gang up on mark and extract out their vengeance, even if he displayed an another one of his tricks. So at a same time he could eliminate his potential enemy and make a name for himself through this event.
Three silhouette whose speed was much faster than others quickly made their way to razor. They were carrying a long blue coloured metal sword, which was an rare artifact exchanged in the arena.
" Triple blue! " The crowd exclaimed out. They were not surprised seeing those three to reach razor faster than others, they had made quite a fame for their very own tiny group.
They had won plenty of group matches, and finally recruited into blue flame alliance which warded off all their enemies since those enemies of them were not willing to offer blue flame alliance for their measly revenge. Each of triple blue had a cultivation base at upper class aura grand master, and when they combined their might they can even fight against a peak class individual of grand master on equal grounds.
Their strategy was always simpler, one move extremely faster to let the enemy not being able to spot their movements , second make several feints or after images, as to let the enemy get confused and thirdly strike at the vitals as to render the enemy helpless and win the game in seconds.
Like a rays of lights they started attacking him. Blue colour long swords holded within their arms which made several after images to confuse razor, and make a decisive blow on his body.
If it was for razor, the period before his break through. He might had successfully fallen to their trick, but after his upgrade not only had his body became more stronger, his perception and well as his sense was also upgraded, enabling him to see through their moves and guard himself well against their ongoing blows.
* Clang! Clang! Clang! *
Consecutive strikes was made by them, which has been resounding throughout the platform. Each time their sword moves towards his body, he quickly tackles them with the hard skin on his arms or parry them against his palm, redirecting it away from his main body.
After examining their pattern of attacks, he had spotting a weak spot in their attack formation thanks to his sharp eyes, he managed to grab the head of one among them and crushing it directly within his palms. Even peak grade grand master by this time would had difficulties in preserving their life against him, nevertheless a upper class expert who was caught by surprise when their formation broken.
His death had angered his other two mates, but they also had not been able to preserve their life and quickly been taken care of. Followed the exact same path as the one earlier. He had mercilessly slaughtered them with in seconds. Their blood drenched the floor below, and the bodies were scattered around him headless. The audience were startled by the sight, Since the enemy had the intent of killing him, he killing them instead could only be considered natural. But the one he had slaughtered was a member from blue flame alliance, the organization who's known to be stubborn, as they wont rest until they had successfully avenged their fallen comerad.
Razor put up his guard and was ready to face his next opponent.
" Kill! " the word could be heard by many. The members from alliance, earlier had no vengeance against razor, they only knew of the fact that he was also a cause, who's also responsible for present conflict.
Earlier the hatred was between wilhelm and razor, but now the vengeance was on them, they also wants to slaughter razor, mercilessly like mark.
One after the other, razor slaughtered the individuals who had killing intent directed on him and spared the life of the others that hadn't.
Before he even came to realize of their plot, he was surrounded by them in rows, completely entrapped in their kill formation.
By this time about twelve corpses were found on the ground excluding the triple blue group, and about ten disabled bodies could be seen that were growling with pains all over their bodies.
All of these bodies belonged to the members from blue flame alliance, all of them were well known figures and few were even the future cadets for elders position of their respective families.
The family members when saw the sight of their juniors being murdered by razor, their eyes turned bloody, killing intent was released from their bodies. If the platform wasn't sealed by a defensive formation, those experts would probably had jumped right on to the stage, and ruthlessly murder razor.
" Hahaha! " he exclaimed within his heart before making an angry face roaring from within the crowd exclaiming " Razor do you know your crime, are you ready to face your judgement. "
" My crime, hahaha..... yes! When a young master from the main family tried to humiliate his branched family members in obtaining favours from the external influence. To uphold our family honor. This subordinate had refused to kneel before them, who belonged to foreign families, should I instead ?
Later after my break through, I had also committed a grave sin, by being a member from branched family and exhibiting more potential than the main family's geniuses. making them unhappy for it.
Lastly, when the members from blue flame alliance had turned their killing intent over my self, and had also thrown their blows on my body, which was directed to kill. This branched family member can only kill them in order to preserve his life. As long as a person managed to survive, surely he would also have a day where he could finally get his revenge and should this branched family member wait for a cancerous threat to grow, which would act later and turn out to be deadly. Tell me young master wilhelm, is this the crimes this razor had done?
Correct myself if what I said earlier was wrong. You intend to kill this razor before a elder from the family took notice of my potential. Fearing that I would one day threaten your seat, you decided to act quickly, wantedly sended some pricks whom you called friends, to use this opportunity to get me rid. After the interference from mark your plan changed, so you also calculated him in your list to be eliminated, the plot seemed natural and flawless only the case where we both had been eliminated. Your only miscalculation was not calculating the tricks of mark. If you failed in terminating him, your plan would probably back fire on you, making you bear more losses than gains this time isn't it. But at last, the ones that are going to let young masters wilhelm plan succeed is blue flame alliance, who had to sacrifice quite a large group of them before your plot becomes a success. " Razor exclamation sarcastically, to sow a discord within them.
" Baseless accusations. " Wilhelm roared back immediately.
" Kill him fast! He's probably trying to buy himself some time, before he regains a bit of his mana and drag few more of us to hell along with him. " A lackey of wilhelm bellowed loudly.
" What's the hurry, let us kill him slowly in rounds. " A tall and bulky snow fiend race's demon youth exclaimed out, which was later supported by others as well.
" So you're the first one to die " he paused for a moment before releasing his aura around him.
Thick black colour radiance enveloped his existence which spreaded few meters around him like a fire which has ignited from beneath.
His eyes turned black, his size diminished further, reaching about six feet, his body started to release waves of destruction, which started to push the members from blue flame alliance, backwards.
They were confused as they had felt a slight being of inferiority when faced against him. Aren't we young masters from top families of the floor, unless it's an aura lord class individual, no other fighters in block 1 are not able to suppress us, but since when had a branched family member from lamia race had managed to suppress us.
" So it's started ah " mark sighed internally. The members from blue flame alliance cursed wilhelm, within their heart when they finally found out the cause of oppression. Six white colour fangs emerged out of his mouth which had almost shivered their spine.
Author's notes.
Snow fiend demon race's youth - the one who suggested the rest of members from blue flame alliance to slowly take their revenge on razor.