Vile Presence

Sophia is perplexed by Bryan's response, but she does not pursue the conversation any further.

Since looking into Bryan's eyes earlier had frightened her to some extent. As if she seemed to be staring at someone else.

She couldn't find the right words to describe it, but it just seems to be something evil, something vile, something sinister. That is merged into a single person.

With that terrifying look on his face and which is also accentuated by his bloodshot pupils. Made her feel like a caged rabbit as if she was looking at the hunter who had captured her, ready to pounce and devour his prey.

In the end, the sense of pressure that he's emitting was so unimaginable that, she has this nagging suspicion that there is a fundamental difference between Mister Pyg and Bryan.

Based on what she's looking, if she had to compare the two in simple terms, it was as if she sensed a wisp of an unfathomable presence in him, while Mister Pyg seemed to be a gigantic summit high above the clouds, unreachable.

However, when she was looking at the unreachable summit where Mister Pyg was situated, she knew for the fact that she could reach that goal, and stand beside him in the later future.

It might be way above the clouds for her right now, but she realized that it wasn't an impossible challenge to accomplish.

Yet, for Bryan, when she was looking at him before, he seemed to be a bottomless pit of darkness with no limit to its depths.

In the process of all of this, her heart was beating nonstop as if it was about to explode, therefore, she immediately shifted her gaze away from Bryan, and without hesitation, she took her chair farther away from him and sat beneath the dim light.

With the light illuminating her, she felt a sense of warmth and security. She knew that this light couldn't protect her, but it was a lot better than standing in near proximity to Bryan's vile aura.

"What the heck is going on with him? He said he was alright a few seconds ago, yet something must have changed inside him in that short period of time... He truly is giving me the creeps right now. I'm not sure what I need to do right now. But for the time being, I need to stay away from him, the farther the better. Seeing that he's in an unknown kind of state. He's probably not on his best mind right now... " Sophia fearfully thought.

In a matter of seconds, Bryan's transformation was almost instantaneous, he had changed with no indication of any kind. As if he was lightning that struck the earth, quick and ferocious.

She reasoned that something must have happened in that split-second when he was resting and it must have triggered something inside him, like some kind of switch.

She soon recalled that, prior to his transformation, Bryan had told her of something related to his inner concerns, which he managed to overcome in his mind.

"He didn't really explain it to me in full detail... Perhaps, was that it? Is that what he was trying to say? What exactly are these inner concerns that he had mentioned? And how did he go from resting in one moment to his present state?"

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On the other hand, Mister Pyg had already been aware of Bryan's unusual condition from the very start.

In that exact moment ago, he had unexpectedly detected a faint wisp of a familiar aura in that tiny figure sitting in the darkness for only a short period of time.

And upon sensing that, he immediately concentrated on him and suddenly felt that the pressure emanating from that lower lifeform is steadily becoming stronger at a very rapid rate, and was almost reaching up to him.

After a few seconds passed, he sensed that his power is now comparable to his.

His heightened senses instantly tingled with fright as if he had realized that this enormous pressure did not belong to any lower lifeform, but to a higher class being, that was far higher than himself.

Nonetheless, that brat's power may have reached his level of strength, but he detected that the purity of that power was well beyond his, and when he sensed that, his face grew grim.

Realizing that this crisis had to be stopped. Mister Pyg quickly stood up and adopted a battle stance.

In an instant, the hair on his body stood up like spikes, and his muscles bulged out, raising its bulk by twofold and giving it the look of steel. Meanwhile, his veins proliferated vigorously in his arms, demonstrating his boundless strength.

Slowly but steadily, the spikes changed from a blackish hue to a more purplish look. And it doesn't appear to be slowing down as it was about to turn colors again, alongside with his body has now taken the same height as the huge door beside him; appearing as a massive behemoth with no intention of slowing down his growth.

"Brat! Put an end to it right now! Or you'll die by my hands today!"

Hearing that booming voice, Sophia felt her ears were about to burst, at the same time, the feeling of helplessness washed over her when she sensed that immense strength coming from afar.

She couldn't help but felt her heart sink when she thought of her absurd idea that she had already seen the limits of this Pig's strength.

When she saw this scene frightening scene, it instantly left her trembling in fear when she realized that she had grossly underestimated this pig's strength.

After a few moments passed while gazing at that giant. It dawned upon her, that he must've been playing with them the whole entire time when they were still inside that room.

Since the power emanating from this pig now is so intense that it greatly outstripped Bryan. Showing that the insurmountable mountain she had once imagined this pig to be, was in fact, a major understatement.

She realized that she really doesn't have the qualifications to gauge his power, as it is far beyond her league and she was nothing more than an ant in his eyes.

While Sophia was regretting her foolish ideas, Bryan on the other hand can be seen by the pair standing up motionless in the dark, as if blending in.

All of a sudden, Sophia and Mister Pyg, heard a sharp crack in succession, and in an instant, the lights died out and the whole hallway turned into complete darkness.

Seeing what had just happened, Sophia was stunned and horrified by that sudden change, and she instinctively hugged the walls closely and clung to the vein-like capillaries, as though her life depended on it.

At the same time, holding her breath in fear. As she felt her cold sweat trickle down her back.

"Who are you!? You are not that Brat from before! However, You think a simple trick like destroying the Smithsonian Gems and causing it to turn into complete darkness will save you!? Then your dead wrong!"

While Sophia was clung to the veins, she heard that enraged voice in the darkness, and she immediately recognized it as the giant pig speaking.

As she was about to turn her face in that direction, she suddenly sensed the surrounding air becoming chaotic and was moving in the direction of that pig.

She couldn't tell what was happening, but she knew in every fiber of her being that something terrible is about to happen and that no one, not even Bryan, could stop it.

Unexpectedly, she noticed a small speck of light in the darkness coming from that direction and was gradually becoming brighter and brighter until she sees that it was a swirling ball of light glowing at the center of that monster's massive fist.

In the entire time, she's staring at that swirling ball of light until it reached the size of a small minivan, and she can finally see the pig's insane expression as if he's about to put an end to this stand-off once and for all.

She might not have been in contract on it in close proximity. But, Sophia sucked in a mouthful of cold air, when she sensed that death was close by.

She then started to wept and apologized for not being with her mum at the very last second, and for not seeing his older brother until the day she died.

She regretted not attending her mum at the hospital today, since she has a lot of work to do, in order to pay off the hospital bills. And Knowing that death was the only possible outcome in this situation.

She braced herself for impending impact, as she curled her body into a ball in a corner, hugging the veins like capillaries with all her strength, and gritting her teeth, and waited for the giant fist to unleash that devastating power.

"It was fun while it lasted, whoever you are! But it's time for you to die!"