"Ugh! What is this nutjob doing here?" Ezio asked with irritation. Adrian was crazy. He didn't want to deal with him.
"Lu Ru, something went wrong after Adrian's breakthrough. Come and help!" The disciple of Demeter's Blessing shouted as he fended off the other two. Ezio looked at the fight and had to say, he was impressed. At first, he thought the fight was 2 vs 2. But Adrian's green flames were attacking anyone approaching his body. That guy was kiting his enemies towards Adrian to disturb their pace, at the same time he was fending off their attacks.
"Who is he?" Ezio asked in amazement. He didn't remember him from the tournament.
"He is the Third Prince. Our sect supports him in the throne war." Lu Ru said quickly as he jumped into the battle. Ezio was amazed by the Third Prince's finesse. Not only was he strong, his footwork, swordplay and battle mind were all superior to Xiao Chen's guards.
"Are you going to help or what?" The guy from Zeus's Fury said as he too jumped into the battle. In no time at all, three of them suppressed the duo, but they couldn't take them down. Now that there were other players, Prince's footwork wasn't as effective. He also couldn't kite the enemy towards Adrian. He tried once but almost pushed Lu Ru to flames, so he gave up.
Ezio realizing it was his time to shine, took out his black dagger and started to walk in the shadows. Within shadows, he watched them fight, and once again admired the Prince. When he first stepped into the shadow, he hid as he slowly approached so others wouldn't notice him, but the Prince was keeping an eye on him all the time. And only when he took position, he started to kite the enemies towards him.
When one of the guards was in his strike zone, Ezio left the shadows with a dash and stabbed the man on his spine. Although the man's cultivation was above his, he was still faster and the dagger crushed the spine with ease. The man fell to the ground like a playdoh. While his friend was distracted by this, Prince took the opportunity to appear in front of the man, and with his sword cut the man's neck with a deep wound. Not giving them any chance to strike back, he stabbed them in the heart before he turned to Ezio.
"Young Hero Ezio. My honor." Prince said royally.
"It is my honor, Prince." Ezio nodded as he looked at the man. He was a bit older than 20, but he was already in the Qi Crystallization Realm. His master said, the Third Prince was the most just among all the princes, so he had given him some brownie points.
"What happened to Adrian?" Lu Ru asked.
"After his breakthrough, his mental health deteriorated. He seemed unstable, so I took him here to hide, but no matter what I did, they could still locate us." Prince said with a sigh.
"They are tracking the keys." Shi Yang said as he approached Adrian to take a closer look.
"Don't get too close. The flames around him attack automatically." Prince said as he turned to Lu Ru. "The key is on Adrian right?"
"Yes." Lu Ru answered. "Sect Leader gave it to him."
"How are we going to take it?" Prince asked.
"We first have to wake him up." Ezio shook his head as he took a closer look. Adrian was floating in the air as if he was possessed. His eyes were wide open but only white could be seen in them. Green fires tainted by darkness were covering his body like an eggshell. He seemed like a demon about to evolve.
"How are you going to do that?" Shi Yang asked.
"No idea." Ezio shook his head, but then thought of something. Golden wind started to gather around his hands as he formed a giant ball of wind. When it was bigger than the membrane of fire around Adrian, he sent it towards him.
The wind at first clashed with the fire, but slowly, it penetrated into its defenses. Soon, there was a ball of wind spinning inside the green-black fires. When the wind was at the center, Ezio pulled the wind back and condensed it to the hand size ball. He sent it to the Mysterious Room.
Prince dashed forward to catch the falling Adrian, while others were looking at Ezio with amazement and fear.
"How did you do that?" Lu Ru asked? "What was that wind?"
"My Signium is from the Fifth Curtain, his is from Fourth." Ezio shrugged his shoulders. Although it was bullshit, it made sense. Lu Ru nodded hesitantly but dropped it. But the Prince was looking at him with a squint. Ezio ignored the look and walked to the unconscious teen, but as soon as he was arm-length away from him, Adrian opened his eyes and attacked him with a sword.
Ezio took a step back as he summoned his wings. He was about to dash forward, when a punch sent Adrian to the cave walls. His back hit the walls hard as he puked a mouthful of blood.
"You were about to kill your savior, Adrian." The Prince said with an angry face.
"Sorry, Big Brother. I thought he was an enemy." Adrian said in shame, but his eyes were still hostile.
"We are working together now, so put your shit together and stop acting like a child." Prince said then turned to Ezio. "I am sorry, Young Hero. Adrian is like a brother to me."
"It is nothing serious, Prince. I am glad he is okay." Ezio nodded curtly then asked. "What caused the previous situation? A new signium?"