And so they waited.With his back leaning against the wall, Arran closed his eyes to rest and recover. Although it might not have seemed that away, Arran had truly lost a lot of strength during all that high-intensity fighting.Although Arran did not have to care about his essence energy running dry to fight the same did not be said about his stamina.The power Arran got from the world essence pulse bracer could replenish his own essence energy supply and at his level, Arran did not consume too much energy in the first place. that, coupled with the fact that his bloodline had been activated naturally gave Arran the confidence to fight a protracted battle.All this time, you would have been hearing about how great and powerful the Kingsman bloodline was and how it was feared and respected in the universe as one of the most powerful bloodlines in the universe but you have never really understood why this was so. Well then, let me clear up a few basic points

The massive tide of bugs drowned the entire alliance like an overwhelming flood. Screams of fear and despair could be heard as the alliance members all ran for their lives only to be swallowed by the bug stampede.Some of the alliance members tried to resist as they fought back against the coming tide as they launched one technique after the other into the tide.The abilities of the alliance members were varied and although one person might not have been enough to make a difference, when there were tens of people firing their abilities into the bug tide then there was bound to be some effect.With a few alliance members actively resisting, they were able to buy some time for themselves by taking out a few stampeding bugs at the front of the pack, but studies have shown that before the might of a stampede, all acts of resistance were simply futile.Although the resisting alliance members were able to take down a few of the bugs at the head of the stampede,

Somewhere in the cave, in the middle of thousands of black shelled bugs, a certain participant was desperately resisting the bug tide. There was a blue barrier layer that was made out of energy that was in place around the body of the participant which extended to up to one meter from his body. It was with this barrier that this participant had been able to last this long after being caught in this stampede.This participant was one of the few decision-makers that had been selected to supervise the alliance along with Carrum and his accomplices. For this person to be selected out of the many participants in the alliance, it could be said that his strength was recognized a little among their circle and that he was not too weak. But in the face of this disaster, this person proved not to be strong enough to do much except to hold on.even if this participant was still able to resit for this long but he could do no more than that and he was simply swept along with the bug

Arran and the cloaked figure looked at each other deeply for some time and it was only when a lone bug that was separated from the rest of its company passed through them at the speed of a race car leaving behind a trail of dust in its wake did the cloaked figure finally make a move.The cloaked figure raised his hand and lowered the hood of his cloak thereby exposing his face to Arran.With the fog veiling his face gone, Carrum's hard face was exposed to Arran. There was a grim look on Carrum's face and his gaze towards Arran had a hidden rage and murderous intent in them. It was like as he looked at Arran, what he saw wasn't a noble Kingsman but instead his mortal enemy.To be honest, Carrum like everybody else was very surprised to find out that Arran was in fact a Kingsman. Just like everybody else who had found out about Arran's identity as a kingsman, he had been confused since Arran was not known to anybody at all, unlike all the other kingsmen. But this

Carrum was sent flying a few meters away due to Arran's sudden attack. he had not been expecting Arran's sudden ambush and the result was that after Carrum was able to stabilize himself he found out that he had suffered a fair bit of damage.Carrum in order to stop himself from flying away due to Arran's attack used his leg to dig into the ground using the friction to make himself come to a sliding stop leaving deep furrows in the ground.After coming to a stop, Carrum felt around himself for any damage he might have suffered.Looking at his body, Carrum could see faint scorch marks on his clothes that were from the lightning properties of the attack. His body would twitch occasionally and go numb from the residual lightning that hit him and there was stuffiness in his chest from which was where he had suffered a direct hit from Arran.The stuffiness in his chest made Carrum uncomfortable and it was like there was a chestful of phlegm stuck in his chest.