Grabbing the fruit from the tree, it stopped glowing as the tree disintegrated into dust. Putting it in his spatial ring, he walked back the way he came from. After several minutes of blind walking, he had finally arrived at the entrance.
Looking ahead, he saw a bright light. Indicating that was the exit of the cave, as he got close and could see outside he ran back inside.
He had seen...
More than 100 people on wolves, there were packs of them. And from the back, he saw hundreds of huge carriages filled with men armed to the brim with weapons and armor coming from behind. It looked like they had come for a full-scale war.
Running back he looked around for places to hide so he could camouflage into their 'army' when they came in looking for the fruit. And with that he searched around, he was slowly getting nervous though his face didn't show one ounce of anxiety. He was calm as he tried looking around.
Finally, after a few minutes, he found an opening by the side of the wall. Entering in, it was tight. He squeezed him in nice and firm into the wall.
Then he went deeper in, he tried as much as possible to be hidden so he wouldn't be found. Hiding in this wall, he had made the hole bigger so he could hide better and escape into the crowd, later if they searched everywhere for the fruit. This would be a clue the fruit was long gone. So he could escape freely.
"Hope this works, or I'm screwed," He thought
Back to the entrance, everyone had arrived.
"Get down, you go park the carriage!" "Squab b on formation" "Everyone gets ready were moving in" "let's go in."
As soon as a red-haired figure said that,
"My my, little will I suggest you turn back. I have my eyes on this fruit." the green-haired figure said,
Looking to the right, the red-haired figure said,
"And?"
The red figure said,
"And if you know what's good for you William you'll turn back. I don't want your clan complaining that I killed a trash like you"
The green-haired figure said as he had a sharp glint in his eyes.
"Try me."
Once more an aura that felt unfathomable to those below C-rank erupted,
"My pleasure"
A similar aura burst forth in the surrounding area.
The red-haired figure pulled a sword out of nowhere as he raised it in front of him, pulling the mana around him as he coated it on his sword using it in a strange rhythm.
In an instant,
"Sonic stab"
He disappeared pounding right at the green figure,
*Smirk*
"Dragon claw"
Mana instantly gathered into his hand, converging into a rhythm as a green dragon claw appeared, he attacked arriving faster than the red-haired man
"BOOOOOM"
They had closed right into each other, as the ground underneath them sunk in.
Soon after their attendants stepped in front of the cave.
"While the young masters spar, please wait"
As several C-rank aura's exploded.
"Tch, nobles. Come on men, we ain't getting anything from this" A mercenary squad said as they left.
Soon after the rest followed as they got up to leave.
They had thought, they would only be fighting themselves. They were prepared for a brutal war amongst themselves. They knew how ruthless they were for a fruit that could have changed their lives.
Back to Evan.
"That aura... I need to run"
He forced himself out not caring about the pain and ran back deep into the cave, he felt the aura at the entrance 'he' was fighting there. He had to escape.
He ran at unprecedented speed to where the fruit was found going deeper, to his dismay not long after it was a dead-end... This cave was only one path as soon as the fight ended they were bound to find him.
C-rank's senses were superhuman, especially if they were close. They could hear heartbeats from a distance and small movements. Thank goodness he was a bit far from the entrance when he hid or he would've been found.
Sitting down he had to advance right now, or he would die. No question about that. A C-rank could easily slaughter a D-rank.
Taking out the fruit, he bit it. Opening his mouth he kept biting chewing the fruit he felt as if he was in heaven. The taste was heavenly just making his taste bud roaring to the ninth heaven.
It was so heavenly he forgot about everything as he finished it he remember his life was on the line again. He felt the intense mana inside of him, he had to control it or he would die.
"DAMN IT, I'll die if I don't control the mana. Isn't this fruit a death fruit???"
He said as he tried to control the mana within him. He tried as much as he could but the mana, it was too much... He couldn't control it!
"NO NO NO NOOOO"
He tried as much as he could to control the mana that was about to burst
Then suddenly he felt a force slowly guiding the mana to be absorbed into his body. He mimicked the way the 'force' was guiding the mana. Soon after he got lost following the 'force', falling into a trance he willed the mana to be absorbed into his body.