As petro was about to leave, he suddenly felt a presence behind him. He went pale as soon as he turned around. Alex was standing there, his eyes had completely lost its color and his skin was pale.
"What?! How are you still alive?!" Petro said, taking a few steps back and pointing at Alex.
Alex didn't say anything or react in any way, he simply disappeared and in the very next second, Alex was behind him, his back facing Petro. As he was about to talk again, he noticed a sharp pain coming from his stomach and as he looked down, he saw that his entire body was split in half horizontally.
His upper body fell to the ground with a thud and he could feel his intestines going out of his body.
"H-How? How are you still alive...?"
"Have you ever heard of the term, 'awakenedpower?'" Alex said, heavily breathing. "If you have forgotten, let me remind you."
"When a person is about to die, his soul slowly evaporates and he officially dies. However, sometimes, the soul is awakened, causing his soul to return back to it's original body with a stronger and evolved version of his ability and realm" Alex said, about to leave.
"Impossible...a grade 1 like you...could never...awaken his power" Petro said on his last breath.
Alex looked around and saw Elvis sitting on a rock, a smile forming on her face. "Interesting. I didn't think you of all people would awaken."
Alex clicked his tongue and looked at Elvis with an angry face. "Why didn't you help me? I could have died you know? In fact, I did die."
Elvis simply smiled. "I had a feeling that you would defeat him."
"Huh? That doesn't even make sense" Alex said, unsheathing his sword. "Anyway, I would appreciate if you would heal Ken."
"Of course" Elvis said, standing up.
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"By the way...what should we do about him?" Cilia asked, looking at Ronx with a worried face.
Barrett looked at Ronx for a small moment and sighed. "There's nothing we can do, he's dead."
Suddenly, Ronx stood up in a fast motion. "Oh...what...?"
"Wait, the poison, ahhh! Help!! Wait...it's gone?" Ronx said, looking at his own body with a raised eyebrow, clearly confused. "Did Elvis heal me?"
Luke, Cilia and Barrett glanced at each other with mixed expressions.
"Elvis isn't here...and how did you...wait a second.." Luke said, his eyes widening.
"There's no way...hah...interesting" Cilia said, licking her lips with surprised eyes.
"I think...that he has awakened" Barrett whispered to Luke. "If the organization found out..."
"Shh, don't say anything more, especially not in front of him" Cilia whispered.
Ronx blinked a few times. "Um...what are you guys talking about?"
"Oh...It's nothing, let's uhm...find a way out and search for the missing members" Luke said, laughing nervously.
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Meanwhile, Group B had reached the giant castle after climbing the stairs for a few hours.
Some leaned against the wall, some sat on the ground while some fell to their knees. All because they were panting for air.
"I cannot go any further, you must enter by yourselves" Anthony said, his arm pointing to the giant door in front of them, disappearing in the very next second.
Zombie hesitated but opened the giant door or at least tried to as he barely opened the door, barely managing to fit in.
As all of the members entered the hall of the castle, they noticed that it was quite unusual and terrifying.
All of the furniture and interiors, including the paintings, were quite old. They looked like they belonged to the medieval era. However, everything was still quite fancy and looked quite expensive. Though, they couldn't see much due to the entire hall being completely dark. The only light was the red moonlight coming from the blood moon.
Which made the entire hall slightly red. Not only that but the smell of dust and blood gave the entire area an eerie and strange atmosphere, further enhancing the look of the entire hall.
Before anyone of them could speak, a man started to walk down the stairs, his footsteps being the only sound in the hall.
He wore extremely baggy and large pants that was much larger than his legs. Furthermore, he didn't wear any sort of jacket or shirt, making his upper body completely naked.
"It seems that the visitors are here" the man said.
"Huh, who the hell is this guy?" Blake said, cracking his knuckles and neck. "Looks like a punching bag to me."
"My name is Parlo greenfield" Parlo answered. "But you can call me Parlo for short."
"Cut the small talk" Zombie said, his eyes dead serious. "Take us to your boss."
"My boss? Oh, you mean him." Parlo said. "I refuse. If you want to meet him then you will need to go through me first."
"Deal accepted" Zombie said. Though, instead of rushing straight at him, he looked at the two unknown special grades who were wearing dark cloaks to hide their identity. "You two, attack him."
"We aren't here to follow your order, we both are the same grade" The unknown special grade answered, the same person with the ice powers while the other unknown special grade didn't say anything.
Zombie then looked at Vivian with a pleading face. "Can you...defeat him?"
"I ain't doing anything unless I get money" Vivian said, leaning against the wall and calmly smoking a cigarette like usual.
Zombie let out a small sigh. "Fuck. My ability isn't something that you would mainly use in fighting but I'll try my best. Bring it on."