One of Those

Walking towards the elevator I was greeted by the sight of all the dead and dismembered bodies all over the ground.

There were some decapitated, burned, and skinned. There were even some who had their organs harvested just for them to have slow and painful deaths, but then again I just killed a person who kills his enemies by hemorrhage.

Stopping in front of the elevator I injected my arcana into the pad and waited for the elevator to come up. I could still hear the screams and blast from everyone attacking one another thanks to my racial traits I could hear everything pretty clearly...even things I honestly wished I didn't hear.

After about five minutes the elevator doors finally opened and I was greeted with an attack by a muscular man with a hammer. He had black pants on, he was shirtless and had short blue hair. He had a huge black hammer on his shoulder as he looked at me with greed and battle intent.

"The Asuran Prince, I was just looking for you." Said the burly man

I furrowed my eyebrows and frowned, I had no idea who this guy was as I have never seen him before. At least I'm sure I haven't, this guy has never been in any of my classes and hasn't been watching me. This could only mean that there is a secret force watching me and probably the other seven as well since I'm not the only high-value target here. Looks like things won't be as carefree as I thought.

I took out my blade and pointed it at him as I smiled, "What's your name? I'm pretty sure that I haven't seen you before and since you know me and came to this floor looking for me specifically you should have a decent force behind you."

The man smiled and laughed in amusement, "Quite perceptive of you. Yes, I do have a force that is targeting you and I think it should be fine knowing the name of your killer so you don't die with no regrets. My name is Rigamortis."

My body trembled as I tried my hardest not to laugh at this guy's name, but I had to be honest...I was probably gonna fail.

Too cruel...His parents are too cruel.

"What, scared already?" Rigamortis sneered in contempt.

I shook my head after I regained control of myself, "No. I just found your name hilarious and tragic. It's clear that your parents don't love you as if they did they wouldn't give you a name such as that. Allow me to you a service and put you out of your misery."

Before he could even realize what happened his head had already fallen off his body. He still had that confident look in his eyes, not even realizing that he died. I used my abyssal flame to burn the blood and corpse of Rigamortis and took his spiral ring as well. I don't know what group is behind him but I'm sure that when they find out he is dead they will look for his body a destroy his ring in an attempt to cover their tracks. Although, he does seem like a muscle-headed brute so I'm not expecting much from his ring.

Pressing the button on the elevator to take me down to the ground floor I looked to my left and saw the corpse of a man that had the same robes on as Valen, it was what was left of him. Most of his torse was gone and his spinal cord had mostly turned to dust. But it was the way he went out that made me feel pity for him, he died face down ass up.

"God forbid I go out like that. Regret is not even the words to describe what went through his mind as he died."

The doors opened and as I walked through the lobby, passing by the corpses and debris of the area I was drawn by the noises of battle and yells. I went to the source of the conflict and was surprised to see Lian Taiyang fighting off a group of seven men but I was also surprised was that she was not fighting alone, in fact, she was fighting alongside someone who I thought was too much of a coincidence to meet after my first battle.

The men were strong, the weakest was at the peak of nascent soul while the strongest was at the seventh stage of heavenly transformation. But it was clear that they were barely holding on, even with the numbers being over triple they were still getting their asses handed to them. One of them looked like they were about to keel over and die may second now.

"Lian Taiyang!! Do you really think that you will survive after getting away with this?! One his highness Reynold finds out what do you think will happen? He will slaughter everyone you love and will use you as his personal toy, do you really think you can escape such a fate?!" shouted Micah a person who I have seen around the clan, he was a genius but that was by normal standards, in reality, he was above average at best, even Zantar could whoop his ass. While in my opinion, Zantar is more powerful than most people will give him credit for but people hate him too much to admit that.

What drew my interest though was him mentioning Reynolds, the crown prince of the black dragon clan. He was the leader of the Tactical Pressure faction where Rizen served as Vice Leader, it seems that he is making moves already. Him wanting Lian Taiyang was not a secret as almost everyone royal scion in the Federation did, if it wasn't for her strength she would've been raped by now no question. But it seems I should sit back and watch this, I should enjoy these last moments of peace while I still can.

As soon as that bitch sees me I'm not going to hear the end of it.