Chapter 420: Disqualified (1)
Bam!
The air shook, the space quivered, and the landscape trembled. Khal had no choice but to watch as the heavy pressure that fell on his body until now at this very moment increased in weight, crushing him completely to the ground without any chance of resisting much less to put up a fight!
A huge crater with at least a fifty meters radius formed around Khal with him being at the center and him being at the very bottom while fissures as deep as an average well spread around him into every direction, swallowing everything that was in their paths!
"Bleargh!" without the slightest chance to open his mouth to say a few words, blood uncontrollably gushed into his mouth and onto the ground, quickly forming a smaller pond of blood below his body!
Furthermore, Khal could clearly feel how a few of his ribs cracked
"Did you really think you had the authority to break the rules I have set just because you have slightly greater strength than others? Know your limits, mortal." Nefia’s cold voice kept ringing in the air while the pressure kept increasing bit by bit with every passing second.
"Argh..." groaning in pain as blood kept flowing out of his mouth and now even from his nose, Khal struggled to push him onto his feet but failed.
No, it couldn’t even be said that he failed as he couldn’t even start moving much less start his resistance against the pressure that fell on his body from the sky like an eternal mountain!
"Pathetic." Nefia sneered coldly and raised her hand, but soon something she didn’t expect to happen, happened.
"F... Fo... Form!"
BOOOOM!
"W-What?" Nefia’s eyes widened with disbelief upon witnessing how the pressure on Khal’s figure all of a sudden vanished and how a bronze armament appeared on his body.
Furthermore, the gravity at least in a two miles radius decreased, giving Nefia a feeling as if her body all of a sudden became feather despite floating in empty air!
[You... Do you have a death wish? If she before didn’t want to kill you, now she definitely will!]
Slowly pushing himself into his feet and wiping the blood away from his face, Khal showed a confident smile and said, "She won’t."
[Huh? What do you me-]
Nova was about to ask what Khal meant by that, but suddenly, to her and Nefia’s absolute shock the space before Khal cracked and once it increased in size which was at least two meters in both height and width, a figure walked out of it!
"Look at you, bullying your juniors just because of a silly tournament. Did you really become this cold over the years, Nefia?"
The voice was calm and quiet, but for those that heard it was as if they have just heard a pleasant melody capable of soothing one’s mind and soul!
Golden hair that swayed in the lingering ripples and the low gravity that Khal’s Gravity Armament caused, flawless skin that even goddesses would carve for and feel jealousy over, and eyes that flickered with both deep wisdom and serenity, but hidden danger!
The one standing before Khal was someone that was the sole definition, or at the very least something close to that of a perfect being, one that was just a single margin below the so-called God that millions believed in! Or it could be that God was him, as for the truth, no one really knew.
"L-L-Lord Hale! W-What brings you here?" taking a hundred and eighty degrees turn in behavior, Nefia quickly became flustered as she glanced away and at Hale’s face from time to time, almost as if she suddenly became a shy little girl who met with her crush face to face for the first time!
Even her previously cold complexion which could have been able to kill anyone with a single stare became red like a tomato while her fingers wiggled against each other like little but delicate worms without rest!
Hale, standing between Khal and Nefia with a calm and extremely dazzling smile looked at Nefia for a few seconds before averting his gaze to see his surroundings.
"Look at this... Sigh... What was once beautiful scenery now became the land of destruction. What a pity..."
"L-Lord Hale, please... Let me explain!" mumbling and even extending both of her hands toward Hale only to realize her mistake and pull them back, Nefia glanced at Khal and said, "Lord Hale, that human you stand in front of... He broke the rules of the tournament and killed his opponent despite his opponent declaring his loss just in time. Death could have been avoidable."
Hale listened to Nefia’s words in silence and after pondering for a while ha turned around to face Khal.
Nefia believed Hale will punish Khal as she was well aware just how strict and serious was Hale when it came to rules, but to her utter shock instead of witnessing the awaited punishment, what she saw was the way Hale extended his hand forward in a way one would if they wished to shake someone’s hand!
"Look at you, always getting into trouble no matter where you go. Haha!"
Nefia became dumbfounded upon hearing the words of Hale, but her complexion became even more dumbfounded when she saw how the human called Khal showed a smile, almost as if he was smiling at an old friend, and even dared to casually accept the handshake.
No, what shook her to the very core the most was the fact that Hale, a being that always strived for perfection thus never allowed anything mishap to happen much less dirt fall on his skin now was shaking the hand of a human, a weak being whose hand was full of dirt and blood!
This made her feel as if the world around her began to spin all of a sudden, almost forcing her to lose consciousness and fall from the sky!
"I-Impossible... This must be a dream... Yeah, this is just a dream and if I close my eyes and open them again, everything will go back to reality." Nefia muttered under her breath and after taking a deep breath she closed her eyes and slowly opened them again.
However, the awaited change didn’t occur. As a fact, it worsened as Khal and Hale began to chit-chat between each other so casually that it was almost as if they were lost brothers that after a long time finally found each other thus had to tell everything to the other!
"This... This must be a joke... Right?" Nefia mumbled quietly, not knowing what she should do now.
