The spectators at the top were thrown into an uproar. They had never imagined that the small figure of mark which had escaped the traps with lethal injuries over his body had exited out the resting point shortly, but had turned back and headed straight towards the second division to help the other testers, that were having hard time dealing with the division masters.
The expression of testers family members had turned dull, which was unexpected to begin with. Though they didn't revealed it outwards, and they have to put on an act to prevent others from spotting out.
Earlier when the difficulty on the test tract had increased all of a sudden, the spectators that had a high cultivation to begin with, were able to spot an anomaly that caught their eyes easily.
They could help but sigh helpless, feeling pity at the testers that were about to face the remaining parts of the test with a high difficulty, they knew that this was all a set made to trap mark.
The puppet which was quite fragile and easy to defeat, had turned into an undying figure which were either capable to reconnect the lost parts or repair the damaged areas on its body at an astonishing speed.
Arlong had understood the cause for this abrupt raise in difficulty and instantly left the platform grounds to the control center.
Earlier when his subordinate westfield was not respond to his calls, he was worried that something went wrong with the control center. There has never been a day where his close friend, an upright subordinate that performs his work properly, has slacked off his work to begin with. As he considered it to an honor at serving the arena itself.
But when the aura of the test tract perceived to his eyes had turned dense, he was sure that some one had dragged the lever down, tampering the original set difficulty and increasing the test tracks hardness manually, breaching the rules that weren't meant to be.
Though he was troubled a bit, these incidents were not able to make him move out his place.
What made him leave his post, and rush straight towards the control centre was the deactivation of safety gear!
If the difficulty was raised, it's not a problem to begin with. At most the person would be tossed out the test tract, when the tester decides to quit the test.
With his authority he could at least enable them to continue taking the rest of the tests, under the pretext of malfunctioned stage.
But if the safety gear was disabled, along with the raise in difficulty, at best the testers would get an early death and be free from suffering, instead of being toyed around with the vast multitude of traps installed, that were quite lethal to begin with.
By this time, levi was able to see the factor she missed earlier, the actual reason behind her helplessness against the puppet.
She had to sigh helpless, as she didn't had a mana absorption skill or ability that could suck mana to begin with.
She was now determined that she had to follow mark commands, at later times. If she could, she would for sure clear his third division for good, and if the circumstances were to turn fortunate for them, they might even cross that legendary yellow line which was quite a honour to begin with.
Coming back to earlier, mark had been looking over the four in an intimidating way and exclaimed with his both hands behind like a mentor, stating " You fellow testers may be wondering as to why this young master mark had jumped the scenes to save your lives! "
Mark halted for a brief moment of ten seconds, to let the four make wild guesses about the statement earlier.
The more he drag this conversation, the more the benefits he could reap from their anticipation.
Mark didn't want the four to have a choice of their own. Though the role he intended them to play along was that of a minor one, it wasn't an insignificant in any perspective to begin with!
Had he offered them free help to ask for their assistance as of later. The result wouldn't be as what he intended it to be.
As that way of approach would be the worst kind possible for him to make them offer their assistance without a misconduct.
Only the case when their spirits were half broken, and they felt a sense of helpless, the help provided by him would have a huge impact, and the more domenering he would be the more easy would they be under his control. This was a fact which he learned from his stay in his old world, which was no way better than here, and could be considered a bit worse if pondered on!
" If it wasn't for the safety gear to go wrong, at the worst time possible, we woudnt have been reduced to state it begin with.
Much less get help from an enemy whose families are at war against each others. " Looking at their pitifully state, they all bellowed internally at once.
Seeing the confused expression over their faces, which were about to spat few words out their mouth, but they couldn't at their present shock, mark sighed internally thinking " Now the initial set had been laid, time to polish it with few promising words to make it a better impact. "
" You people may be wondering weather this set is still a test of talent to begin with? If it is... then your guesses are utterly incorrect to begin with! "
The earlier confused faces of them had turned ugly, as if a sudden revelation had struck their brains to begin with.
What mark said was reasonable to begin with, the undying division masters could had killed them if not for the timely entry of mark, who had devastated the puppets for them.
" If I say, this is more of a trap to begin with, a trap designed to kill a target... a target who is named mark. The one standing before you!
Yes this set was arranged to kill me! And right now you people are struck in the mess of the upper management's greed! " Before they could even curse back at mark, he continued with his words.
" The baits that were used to prevent others from suspecting were some five unfortunate beings, truly unfortunate as they include you four testers, that remained helpless against the second division master, much less the third and fourth that awaited later on. " Their faces had turned ugly after listening to marks exclamation.
" If I were to say helpless then yeah, you really are sure help less to begin with and a pitiable ones on top it. For the greed of a relic, your supporting families had decided to abandon you to this path of hell.
Disabling the safety gear and sudden empowerment of the puppets are just an appetizer to begin with, much more challenges are present ahead to deal with! Are you ready for that? "
Their composure on the face has changed, and were more of helpless to begin with. Though they wanted to curse back mark who was the reason they struck at this place to begin with, they couldn't as they had been casted aside by their families, if what mark said had been for true to begin with.
Right now they had several mixed feelings dwelling within their faces, and their brains were at a most vulnerable state to begin with, mark had made a smirk sighing " Yes the time to make a move had came at last! "
Mark went close to Gregor who was the strongest and most noble among the four. He extended his hands and exclaimed, " Since you people are abandoned by your family, how about you work under me?
Even if you break your crystal cores and take refuge at the resting point till the test ends, if it would we consider, you people have already been dead in the eyes of your family much less returning back to them, only to be silenced to keep the matters hidden and keep your existence away from staining the family names! "
" All the elements are set in order, and the chance for the things to go wrong is not present to begin with, I hope every thing goes the way I had intended it for.
Though I had shamelessly spouted few lies to begin with, they are too realistic to be neglected.
My baggage quickly say that you regret being a part of your shameless family and will join my lead.
Come on... come on... what are you waiting for? " Mark had sighed cunningly
" If a person among them were to suspect even a single hole I had spouted out, things will go the wrong way and I would get four enemies instead of four allies to clear this damn test to begin with. " Thinking about this fact mark didn't revealed a micro expression to begin with, which may necessarily reveal him out and looked straight at their eyes to get their answers.