14: Comply

"Frozen Halberd!" A thick icycle formed into a halberd flew to the group.

"Golden Bullet!" Bang! The guard who was holding a gun fired out, a gold plated bullet then whistled through the air. Which then almost hit Jude.

The three other guards rushed for a hand to hand comebat all of them were holding a knife. Adam and Althea arrived at the perfect moment when the battle is about to start.

Jude and Kyle attacked the guard with a gun quickly as it was a long range and had a weak hand to hand combat abilities.

"Light!" He held out his hand, his palm facing the guard as a blinding light came and blinded the man temporarily. "Now!" He shouted.

Kyle dashed and was about to punch the head of the guard when an ice halberd flew over him and hit his hand. Blood then gushed out from his wound as he let out a painful cry.

Kleisha attacked the Guard using a halberd with eyes full of hatred.

'Pheonix!' A phoenix made of flames then shot forward and burned everything in its path. The guard tried to resist but later on burned into nothing. The other guards saw this and thought that they shouldn't underestimate their enemies anymore.

"Fuck! Call the leader!" The guard shouted to his colleague. The guard then rushed downstairs to call the leader.

"Tigers Claw!" With a wave of Alexis's hand a claw mark rushed to the guard who was about to go downstairs. He was cut into four pieces unknowingly to him.

There were only four guards left in the hall, all of them looking anxious as there were no escape i this psychopaths. They were all smiling at them like a beast looking at its prey.

Adam the rushed forward and smashed the four with his large hammer. The four guards couldn't even move, they were petrified by the sight of death heading towards them.

Boom! Squashh~

The four was flatten into the ground their organs and blood littered in the hall. Althea and the group was a bit angry as the outcome was a mess and the blood and organs dirties their clothes.

"It was a bad idea to let Adam take the final blow." Kyle said as he looked at his shirt that was now red.

Adam laughed awkwardly amd didn't know what to say to the group, he then asked, "what's up with Perseus?"

"I don't know he did told me to give him a knife, for the reason i dont know."

The group was in confusion. But they didn't return to their rooms yet due to the leader downstairs.

Tock Tock Tock

They heard footsteps coming from the stairs and there thay saw a long haired man who seemed cold and aloof, the leader of the guards has come.

"Shit!" Althea cursed as she looked at this domineering man who looked at thwm coldly. As if they were already dead.

Perseus who was inside was breathing heavily but theres a smile that hung on his face. A smile that symbolizes madness.

'I've finally done it HAHA, I have completed the passage. With this i can consume cores more efficiently i wonder what will happen to others if I fed them a core.' When he thought of this he looked towards the door when he felt an aura stronger than the others outside.

Perseus took out all the high level cores even bigger ones than the others, he then swallowed every single core like it was candy.

All different colors of light enveloped his body, he then absorbed all the light around him. He continued to absorb all the remaining light and cores until there is nothing left.

'this modification truly is amazing, I felt even more powerful than I ever was!' he thought. His body is full of vigor his muscles were more refined then ever. He stood up and was surprised he gained height as well. Then walked towards the door and opened it.

The group was fighting the leader seriously but the leader seemed relax and wasn't even owying attention to them.

'Hammering the Earth!' Adam smashed his iron hammer onto the leader.

'Tiger's Roar!' Alexis then roared as the waves hit the leader.

But all of their attackes were all for naught. The leader punched out to Adams hammer as he flew away from the impact as the leader a cast a skill on him.

'Lance!' a light that shaped into a lance shot forward and hit Adam into his abdomin.

After that they heard a door squaking, Perseus's door opened. When he saw Adam's state he felt weirdly unsympathetic. At this point he should be angry as his friend is in deaths door. But all he could feel is pity.

He then looked at the others who was badly beaten up. The stare that Perseus gave them felt like they were so little in his eyes, this made them looked at the ground, feeling weak.

Perseus then walked towards the leader until he was now standing one step away from him, and said coldly, "Why do you need me?"

The leader then looked Perseus in the eye, and all he can see was darkness not even a gleam. He felt those eyes stared directly at his soul not his physical body. He then said, "I am here to only take you to the lord."

"What if i don't comply."

"Then I'll hqve to use force." He said as he readied himself up.

"Sure! But take him to a healer first." Said Perseus while pointing at Adam who was still bleeding.

The leader and the others were stupefied he'll just come like that? Maybe the enemy infront is too strong for us. They all thought.

The guard nodded and later on after Adam was in the hospital he guuded Perseus towards the lord's mansion.

"Do you think he'll be alright?" Asked Kleisha.

"He'll be fine." Said Jude after a moment of thinking.

They then went to a new hotel as the hotel earlier was almost destroyed from the battle.