After witnessing what just happened, Elydir started to retreat while at the same time that a blue talisman appeared inside his hand. He wouldn't risk continuing here, since all the people he brought with him, died to his enemies.
He gave one last look to Caizhi and swore he would obtain her for himself, if she left the dungeon still alive. His fingers made a quick motion to tear the blue talisman apart, but he saw a black shadow passing in front of his eyes, and the talisman disappeared from his hand.
Actually, his entire hand disappeared from his arm...
"ARGH!!!!!!"
Blood gushed out and Elydir knelt down of the floor while screaming in pain.
There was a black specter in front of him, holding his severed hand and the talisman he was about to shred.
Elydir looked towards it and felt despair. First of all, as an archer he would be doomed from here onwards if he somehow left this situation, since he lost a hand, but what made him despair even more, was that the talisman, his only way out of the dungeon, has been stolen.
The specter gave him a creepy and evil laugh and it melted down in the floor, making his hand and the talisman vanish from his sight.
Caizhi's group and Ilbrien's group watched that scene from afar and didn't understand it completely, but they felt that the dark specter was probably enemies with Elydir.
Not even the Eleventh Palace Master was able to identify the aura from that specter, since she was weakened and hurt.
Ilbrien looked towards Elydir and a fierce light flashed through his eyes. He activated his Praetor and rushed towards him with his top speed. Elydir was the culprit behind his master's death and he would never forgive him.
Elydir saw him approaching and didn't even try to fight, he stood up in fright and started to run. His spirit was crushed by that dark specter, leaving behind a spoiled Young Master that feared his death more than anything.
He run as if his life depended on it, but since he was losing too much blood from his injury, he started to feel dizzy and weak after some time.
"Arrhhh!" Elydir fell on the ground and Ilbrien reached him. He was so scared that he didn't even try to use his Mana Perception initial-stage Realm cultivation to support his escape.
Ilbrien was furious and felt no mercy for Elydir. At this moment he could only see him as a person who deserved the most painful death.
"Fucking scumbag, I'll make sure you suffer before you die."
His Praetor raised his lance and pierced Elydir's left leg, making him scream with pain. However, Ilbrien didn't stop his attacks after hearing his voice.
"Arrrhhhhhh!!! Stop! Father is going to kill you all!"
Ilbrien raised his lance and made sure to pierce the other leg too.
"Argh! Father! Save me!"
One after the other many holes started to appear in Elydir's body as he screamed in pain like a wailing banshee. After the eleventh hole, he suddenly stopped making any sound, since he lost his life, but Ilbrien kept piercing him ten times more. The hatred he felt after witnessing his master die right before his eyes, couldn't be easily washed away.
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A dark specter emerged from the ground some kilometers away while bringing back a talisman.
Seth was already holding a blue talisman he acquired from the corpse of that member of the Secret Security Unit that tried to attack the Elf Princess Rina. Now, he just got the second one, meaning that he could leave the dungeon and bring a person together with him.
"Good..."
"Good? What is good?" Rina was accompanying Seth all this while.
"Just a minor thing that I acquired."
Seth observed Elydir's dead body through his Soul Sense and could only lament that he wasn't able to kill him with his own hands.
"Seth... What was that black shadow you just used? Is that one of the human techniques?" Rina asked confused and curious about his abilities.
"Well... That is a very special skill and you won't find another human beside me that can use it."
"I see..."
"Rina, you should put your mask on, we are going to meet some people soon and it will be better if they don't realize who you are."
"Alright." The Elf Princess put her mask on and followed Seth to meet the people from his group.
However, just as they started to walk, another loud sound echoed inside the whole dungeon, but this time, people felt like the world was being ripped into two.
CRACK!
The barrier holding the Mana Realm beasts inside the inner layer thoroughly shattered, breaking into millions of small shards.
ROAR!
Roar!
GRRRR!
Hundreds of different roars and noises entered people's ears from everywhere. There were many parties of elves exploring the outer layer and many of them were very close to the inner layer right now. Those people were the first ones to be assaulted by the wild beasts that were out of control.
Many different explosions started to occur one after the other. The beasts attacked the first enemy that entered their field of vision after escaping the inner layer.
A party of five elves from the young generation of the Vivrem family, was venturing near the inner layer, trying to acquire a greater number of cores. When the barrier cracked, they felt the aura of a Mana Control beast hit them like a hammer. The five practitioners coughed blood and felt so pressured that they couldn't even move.
Suddenly, the protector of that family youths, a Mana Control middle-stage Realm cultivator stepped in, engaging in a fight with the beast. He was able to land many blows in that huge body, but didn't use any of his finishing moves. He kept trying to make the beast retreat because of the many injuries it was suffering, but his strategy proved to be useless.
The beast ignored the wounds and a red aura took control of it, making it go crazy in madness, as if it was demented. The red energy made the beast get stronger and tougher, attacking the protector with everything it had.
After many rounds of exchanging blows, the protector felt desperate, since his energy was being depleted at a fast rate, while the beast showed no signs of tiredness. At this moment, he regretted not finishing it faster.
"Nooo!!!"
The protector couldn't resist a direct clash with the beast, since his Mana has been thoroughly used and he received the blow head on. His body flew for more than two hundred meters, crashing in a huge boulder behind and dying instantly.
The beast approached the other humans and was about to attack them when a huge python appeared and killed it with a single bite.
HISSSS!
Just as the elves thought the snake would leave to eat its prey, its tail lashed out obliterating those elves in a single strike. Their bodies were thoroughly destroyed by that attack, since the difference in their power was immense.
The snake didn't even bother to eat that beast, since it was not hunting, but killing everything in sight. It continued to advance further and fight to the death.
AAAA!
Argh!
NO!
In many parts of the outer layer, shouts of fear and despair were resounding. The protectors entered the fray, buying time for their disciples to leave and search for help.
However, something different was starting to happen this time. Some of those people that were able to escape, had been in close contact with the crimson energy. It started to invade their pores and energy veins, poisoning their bodies slowly.
"Let's go sister! What are you doing?" An elf started to question a female elf that stopped moving.
Out of nowhere, she took her dagger and pierced his chest almost killing him directly.
"You! Why are you doing this, sister? Are you crazy?"
The female elf continued to attack him without stopping. The other three party members, quickly intervened and fought that woman back. They were able to repel her and help the man that was stabbed.
The female elf seemed to be unstoppable. Just after she was repelled back, she charged in once again. The three of them repelled her more than twenty times when suddenly she stopped moving.
Red lines started to appear in her skin and her skin started to turn red. Some crystals started to form in the surface of her skin, covering every part of her body in a matter of seconds. After that, her body cracked and she shattered, turning into red crystal pieces.
The elves didn't understand a single thing of what have happened. But they didn't even have time to think about it when suddenly the man they just protected, started to act impulsively. He stood up and attacked his team mates, doing the same thing and having the same ending as his sister.
Seth's heart started to beat faster after witnessing what was happening through his Soul Sense.
He turned towards Rina and said: "Let's go. We need to get there faster. There is something really serious happening right now."
Before Rina could say anything, he appeared beside her and lifter her from the ground, taking her in a princess carry.
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