Silence fell over the entire arena shortly after as everyone examined the man who was still groaning in pain as he clutched his hand tightly. If not told, the first guess when everyone sees the hand would be that he dipped his hand in a raging fire and got himself burnt in the process.Whisper started as everyone was shocked that the man was burnt, Elaris heard words behind him from other participants as well.“That man is from Visteria, he enjoys a good reputation of being powerful and he can’t hold it?”“I heard that he single handedly dealt with an entire crew that tried to begin a revolt at Vistereia but he is rejected here, what makes it seem like our own body would be beyond recognition? You better let us leave.”People started taking their leave one after the other after the first man to try was supported off stage as people tried to put healing powder or ointment on his burn. Elaris dipped his hand into his pocket and removed a piece of cloth that he tied firmly around his fac

Everybody froze with complicated expressions on their faces, there was no saying if they should advance forward and bash the two men standing with their back against each other or withdraw to their master who was already bleeding from the thin slice on his neck.There was a dead silence as everyone continued to stare at each other, Elaris and his partner continued to advance backward and near the houses, it was easier to find an escape route around their than at the front.“Boo,” Radai said, and Eadai glared hard ahead since he couldn’t turn his head or he would risk detaching his head from the body.“What the hell are you doing?” Eadai asked, his lips trembling as he clenched his hand tightly.“What does it look like, brother? I think it is self explanatory,” Radai replied.Elaris and his partner had walked a considerable distance from them all but then all the soldiers standing at the rare gate also came forward and stopped behind them.“Your time is up, you have pranced around for

The journey down the mountain and out of the desert was easier than when Elaris came in, yes, he had to deal with a few outlanders and he had to wind through a storm of sand but it didn’t take him long to arrive outside the desert and at the edge that led to Nethrowl city.Alone by himself with the necklace that contained the ashes of five brave people who had painstakingly gone on a journey that fulfilled nothing while also claiming their lives, he couldn’t bring himself to breathe in relief to appreciate the scenery or the environment that were much less harsh when compared to the desert. He still had things to do.He walked a bit further from the forest and it wasn’t long before he arrived at a small town which had a scarcity in the number of people walking on the street and looked like a mini version of Nethrowl’s capital as far the atmosphere was concerned, fortunately before he could walk further he saw a shop that he was looking for, he entered the shop that sold all sort of th

Traveling around Nethrowl wasn’t easy, but Ashton made sure to continue to drag Caden, Oliver and Estrina around the whole place. The best place for practice was the forests where there were a lot of beasts like the ashcrawler they dealt with on their way to Nethrowl and beasts who were fiercer and had different attributes than the ashcrawler.Ashton was doing this in order to ensure that they were all trained and get good control over the forms of their energy, it had been over a month since Elaris left without disclosing his destination and he would be damned if he came back and saw that there was no improvement.He got some strange news from his master the last week about strange things that happened in the desert and Faded Mountain, the whole Fragile Souls Establishment were scrambling around to find any information they could get on controllers whose aim for meeting up and controlling a whole horde of outlanders were still unknown.Two of them had been caught and placed in tortur

They watched as the swirl closed on them and tried to put a barrier or summoning their energies to take a form that would at least weaken the impact of what was coming, but no matter what they did in the direction of the force, it didn’t dissipate and there was no sign that it was being weakened, it still continued to charge towards them in full force.Just as it was about to hit them, a blast of crackling thunder appeared about them and white light shot towards the swirl that was closing in on them and stopped it in place, the men at the other side also increased their capability but another cackling light shot to the one which was already stopping the one there in the first place and the swirl was forced to shatter and burst, which made the men who attacked to stagger back as they stared in shock because they didn’t expected that their force would be stopped just like that.They conjured another one with higher capability but this time, there was simply a slash in the direction of t