While things on second Trial was about to over,the outside was already filled with buzz.
"When will the battle royal start?"A man spoke with a sigh.
"Who knows?"
"If not for those greedy bastards in the past taking advantage of the second trial to note and use the personal information to harm many students, we could have watched it now."
The other nobles' rolled their eyes as everyone knew how dirty the water was.
"This generation is a lot worse than the previous ones. In my time, we would have already fought halfway through the Battle Royal but this hasn't even started."
"If only the second trial was broadcasted, people wouldn't go crazy."
"Yeah, the second trial is the most important stage. It is like a precursor to selecting the winner."
"Who do you think will win this time?"
"It would be my daughter." Marquise Seyfried spoke haughtily.
"Did you forget Frederick and Charles?" Someone muttered from behind.
"Frederick!"The surrounding noble sneered upon hearing his name.
"That foul blood will never win. There is Charles and then there is my son Ezekiel."Duke Holmes spoke proudly.
"My son is one of the strongest contenders worthy to be number one. If not for that treacherous commoner pulling tricks to defeat my boy unfairly, his class would be won. He will surely show his prowess and create a superb impression."Duke Holmes boasted while caressing his mustache.
'Hmm! Let's see how many more years you can put on the air.' Other nobles snickered behind his back.
Duke Holmes is the weakest of all the Duke and even though their status seemed high it was just a hollow title that they are running on the last leg. Their foundation and roots aren't stable and they are a bunch of greedy and corrupt officials under him.
Their main bloodlines had been lost for ages and their current bloodline ability isn't impressive enough.
If not for the ancestor Duke Holmes getting a mandatory hereditary title that can't be revoked until they committed an offence similar to treason, their title would have been revoked ages ago.
"Okay, let's start betting. Due to a filthy commoner souring my mood, I haven't had a chance to enjoy it so let's have some fun."
"This time The committee made the correct choice. These commoners are filths. Everywhere they go, they would spread their filth. By this time, they would be howling and shouting wildly creating a large-scale disturbance. While our children are fighting by putting their honour on the line, they would be enjoying themselves here."
No one knew how the topic diverted to the point that commoners were getting cursed, however, the servants and guards who heard this had an ugly expression.
These groups of people just don't see commoners as human and were talking without care as if they are Gods and commoners were born to worship them.
They were fuming with anger seeing the sneers that were subtly directed at them.
While the noble discussed among themselves casually over a glass of wine, a loud shout interrupted their conversation.
"You all will die!"
"You all will pay for your heinous crime!"
A man with bloodshot eyes ran around cursing at the noble. The man wore the butler attire and seemed to be a servant of a noble.
"Which house does this guy belong to? People now can't even handle their servants."
The nobles mocked and clicked their tongues in annoyance.
"You all who committed crimes of killing the innocents, god will punish you!"
"He will be your judge!!"
At that time, several guards caught up to the man who was running around crazily.
"Just what are you saying?"
"What happened to you?"
The guards struggled to apprehend the guy who was throwing his hands and feet.
"Hahahahahahahahaahhaha!"
"You all are dead!!"
The man suddenly gave in and his body swelled up like a pig startling the onlooker.
"What?"
Before the guards could examine him, the man's body had swollen like a pig's burst and exploded creating a large shockwave and plunging his surroundings into the sea of flames and chaos.
....
"Leo, I didn't think you would appear here." Kai muttered in surprise while handing over a cigar to the black-cloaked man.
Leo extended his hand to take it out of instinct but stopped thinking about a cruel scene.
"Sorry, I can't." Leo shook his head.
Seeing his reaction, Frank gave Kai and Kevin a glance asking them to learn from him.
"It seems, your wife is keeping a tight leash on you. Come on, be a man. Stop being silly." Kevin spoke, raising his chin and giving a haughty look.
"Why don't you go and say that to my wife?"
Kevin choked and coughed loudly to the point that he almost fell off his seat.
'Sorry, this daddy has more years to live.'
"Let's get serious, why are you here?" Kevin asked with a solemn expression.
"I want to see them."
The atmosphere inside is frozen.
"Are you talking about the attacker?" Frank asked with a heavy voice.
"Yes, I will observe from the back and see if those people who stole everything from me are with Omen." Leo clenched his fist tightly and his eyes became cold with a murderous intent.
Looking at his desolate expression, all of them pitied him.
His demise was heartbreaking.
He was one of the mightiest of the Cyprus Kingdom and had nobility just below the King and had a wife that could go on a killing spree with a slight grievance.
He was the real winner in life however everything changed when his wife was 8 months pregnant and a group of people appeared out of nowhere and attacked him and took away his power.
Kevin standing up patted him and said,"Lessen your worries for now. Your kid is doing quite well.''
'So well that I want to kill him.' Kevin suppressed his anger and spoke with a smile.
"We will try to hide him as much as possible."
"Tha..."
BOOM!
Before Kevin could finish his sentence a loud blast occurred, shaking the whole stadium.
The whole box shook and when looking outside, they saw a sea of flames emitting a cloud of dark smoke.
"What the hell?!" Kevin screamed at the top of his lungs, making the whole space tremble.
Kevin took a step, followed by Kai and Frank.
Their images flickered and as they appeared outside they saw the space filled with chaos.
Kevin immediately contacted the guards and shouted.
"What is going on?"
"Sir, it seems we have greatly underestimated the opponent. Though we have tightened our security and caught many carrying bombs, it seems all of those were a deflection."
"The explosion that occurred now was caused by a human who blew himself up."
Kevin's eyes turn sharp hearing this and a sense of weariness flashed in his eye and at that time, another explosion resounded in the vicinity.
The people in the stadiums screamed in horror. While nobles managed to protect themselves the guards and nobles' servants were unable to do so.
"You never expected this, didn't you?"
"Hahaha!"
"You are going to watch these people die in misery."
"Hahaha!"
A group of maniacs appeared that started dancing around. What surprised Kevin and the others the most was that there were many nobles among the group of a protest that burnt their life force to blow themselves.
"Enough!"
Kevin roared followed by an outburst of tremendous pressure making the entire stadium freeze.
.....
Far away from Horizon.
A grey-haired man wearing black goggles lay on the recliner chair over the rooftop and stared at the sky.
"You aren't worried about the things happening in Horizon. They have changed their plans and have taken strict measures. Are you sure we don't have a traitor?"
A sweet seductive voice emerged from the lips of the woman who tucked her raven hair and sipped on the juice of coconut.
The man put down his black lens and stared at her cherry-luscious lips. She had a perfect enchanting hourglass figure with a voluptuous body and curves which could make any man her slave with just a mere glass.
"My dear Lisa."
"Yes, Dear Azrail."
"You should know better than anyone that traitors are the last thing we worry about." Azrail answered with a smile.
"Hmm! Your brainwashing abilities are becoming useless. You couldn't find the person who leaked our information." Lisa pouted and was about to lay back on her chair when Azrail's next words startled her.
"There is no leaker this time."
"Huhh?!"Her body sprang forward making her two huge assets jiggle.
"How do you know that?"
Azrail with a smiling face got up and walked towards the railing of the roof.
Looking ahead, he pressed his index figure on his head.
"There is a guy who seems to be calculating our steps. At the Dungeon Trial, the security was less tight because they didn't believe in him fully but this time they did. He must have told them about our plan to use bombs and many of our men with bombs were caught. Still, it didn't affect us much as we simply ordered humans to act as bombs at the last moment."
Azrail rubbed his chin and concluded,"He or she must be a commoner or someone of low status who had climbed up using our raiding information because if that person is noble, things during the invasion wouldn't have gone that way and our people couldn't have entered inside."
"Can we find him out?" Lisa's purple eyes burned with fire and she licked her lips.
"If such a person turned out to be a man, I can suck his essence."
Azrail folded his arms and assumed a thinking stance and replied after a moment.
"It's easy. Since the major forces had made a move, I am sure this person is someone who is either in contact with Dukes or the Royal families or their children. If we track the things like their interactions with other people whom they have trusted in a short exchange, we can easily narrow down the person.''
"Then let's do that. I want to see that guy or girl."
"Why bother?"
Azrail's next words made Lisa frown.
Azrail burst into laughter seeing Lisa darken her gaze.
"We have been unbridled for too long. Since we are evil, there is bound to be someone who would enforce justice and oppose us. Till now, we have never faced a worthy opponent and now there is someone who is trying to get back on us."
"So, let's just play freely. Whether this someone is just a firefly or a sun, we will know soon enough."
"Isn't it bad to let them grow? Look, they almost thwarted our arrangement and we had to change plans at the last second and lose the people who had great positions in the noble houses. What if he turned out to be stronger and killed us? " Lisa pouted with a wronged look and beckoned Azrail to give her some comfort.
Azrail moved closer and bent down, cupping her cheeks while his emotionless grey eyes stared deep into her misty purple gazes.
"So what if we lose? So what if we win? At the end of the day, we are just doing our job to wreak havoc and spread evil. It doesn't matter if we die. Maybe death is a blessing for us."
"Still,..."
"Stop pretending Lisa. You are the last person in this world who is afraid to die." Azrail lips moved closer to her ear and then he murmured.
"It's not like we will lose that easily."
"That guy thinks he knows me...Knows us.."
"But he doesn't know that even I don't know myself."
Followed by that languid voice, the sound of erratic breathing echoed.
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