Dominating Through Fear(2)

Be it Herald, Karen, the other Scarlet Prince Adventurers, or the other animals and monsters near them, distance themselves without thinking twice, except for Stella, Brock, and Marcel for some reason. Meanwhile on Delirious, a cold chill traveled around him.

"W-What is going on?"

Stopping midway, the one who mocked Delirious felt as if his legs were made of lead. He couldn't move. 

"Y-You what have you done to me!?"

The moment that the freak opens his eyes through his mask. As if an invisible hand had grasped his neck, his speech stuttered and his eyes dilated. 

This was the first time he had ever felt such dread from someone. He could barely utter a word as his body convulsed slightly. 

Swaying left and right, he tried his best to remain standing.

His heartbeat increased, his back was slowly getting drenched, his eyes dilated, and his breathing became rugged. 

He was suffocating. 

At this moment, in the eyes of the people around him, Delirious looked incomparably scary. With just one look, his opponent could barely stand. Even his big brother, the strongest among them, was affected as droplets of sweat appeared by the side of his head. 

Noticing that he was still standing, Delirious felt a bit of joy, he felt he liked to make it a bit more.

{Aura of Despair - 15%}

By the time he commanded it in his thoughts, the pressure intensified. 

Right after Delirious did that, the Scarlet Prince member's mind almost collapsed. He let out a sharp and pained cry. 

"Haa!"

But Delirious ignored him and seemed to be enjoying.

His dark blue pacific oceanic eyes remained fixed on him.

The more he looked into Delirious, the more fear and pressure he felt. It felt as though he was looking at a Demon who brutally killed his family right in front of his eyes.

While he froze in place, this got the opportunity for Delirious as he cracked his own knuckles and pulls out a weapon.

"Whatha gotta do with a baseball bat!"

*Boom!*

With a thunderous sound, Delirious' baseball bat hit the man's belly.

The man was still frozen in fear. But an instant later, he was sent flying away, vomiting blood and knocking off some trees.

Delirious glared at him disdainfully and put on a menacing look while putting the bat onto his shoulders.

None of the people in the group was able to react. First they felt a terrifying aura of fear around Delirious, then they looked agape while Delirious' Bat hit the man's belly.

After all, he was Rank-4. How much damage could provoke from a Rank-3 young man's blow?

However, underestimating him was his mistake.

As soon as Delirious activate his newfound skill, the man froze which gets the opportunity for the blue guy to attack, as his Bat touched the man, the man felt an incredible strength impacting against his body, then, his body was sent flying!

*Boom!*

*Crash!*

Only after knocking a pair of trees down, the man stopped flying.

"Little brother!" Garold, the leader of Scarlet Prince, cried in panic and rushed towards the man. He grabbed his arm and sent a bit of mana into his body to stabilize his condition.

*Cough* *Cough!*

The man vomited a mouthful of scarlet blood and opened his eyes. He then looked towards Delirious in fear.

Not only had Delirious sent him flying with one blow, but he even managed to do so, breaking a bit of his bones and internal organs. In fact, besides the mouthful the blood he vomited before and a bit of pain, the man was a bit uninjured, but still, it hurts as hell.

Delirious then felt his gaze and looked at him in disdain. "You are physically stronger than us, but in the end of the day one normal fucking zombie can gave us a great fight than ya."

Moo & Basically: [GIF]

He then turned around and walked towards his friends as though looking at him as some insect biting his neck.

"You bastard!" Garold, the party leader of Scarlet Prince, stood up and looked at Delirious angrily. "What the fuck is your problem!?"

"What? It was just a light hit. Besides, he started it." Delirious shrugged innocently.

Garold's face turned ugly. He looked at their men and nodded. In the next second, Scarlet Prince's men had unsheathed their weapons.

However, the three Dupe Group's boys reacted at the same time.

With a sci-fi mechanical sound, two plasma pistols appeared on Marcel's hands. At the same time, Moo grabbed his Enchanted Diamond sword and an RPG in his inventory, and Xavier got ready to fight.

In an instant, the situation had escalated near a boiling point.

"Oh ho! Look at what we have here, boys! Now we got a fucking mexican standoff here!" Delirious yelled in excitement as he readying his baseball bat for the upcoming battle.

While two sides stood there in what Delirious said, a Mexican Standoff, Herald immediately stepped forward and shouted. 

"Everyone stop! What are you doing!?"

Neither the three nor the other group moved. They just looked at each other like some mexican standoff without caring for Herald's shout.

"Garold, order your men to lower their weapons!" Herald ordered with a frown.

"But young master—!"

"It's an order!"

Garold furrowed his brows, but in the end, he nodded and waved his hand.

The three looked at them and shrugged, putting all of their weapons back to their inventory.

Herald sighed in relief. "Okay, now let's talk."

"There is nothing to talk about, Young Master Herald. The boy must apologize to my brother, or I will not let this pass."

Delirious chuckles with his signature laugh, "Who do you think you are? You should be grateful that I held myself back, or you would be seeing his corpse. The fact that he dared to insult something like that was enough to get his family killed and all the people he cared about."

Herald frowned. He looked at Marcel and Moo as though asking him for help, but Marcel just shrugged. 

"Sorry, man, I'm with my friend this time."

"Ditto."

Delirious heard his friend's words and smiled gratefully towards the two.

But Herald's expression was not so good.

In truth, he was the one that asked Scarlet Prince to provoke one of them. In fact, when he saw Delirious' attack, he laughed inwardly, rejoicing that things were going according to his expectations.

But he never expected that he would be so strong. With just a blow, he incapacitated a Master Realm Individual!

It was a fucking Master Realm! One Realm higher than him! Even if part of the reason he was successful was that the man underestimated him, the fact that he just needed a blow meant that he probably would be a match for him even in a fight.

Unbeknownst to everyone except for Brock and Marcel, Delirious drank a potion of Strength just a few minutes ago, he just put the juices into a flask as a disguise. The boys knew that these adventurers were quite strong and experienced in fighting, so that's why they used potions to enhance their physical prowess nearly equivalent to a Rank-4.

Since that point, everything has escaped his control. He could see that Harold was truly planning to attack the group, but he knew they could not defeat Delirious and the others even though they have far superior strength. On the other hand, their attitude was unexpectedly tough, as though he did not even consider easing the tension.

Of course, Brock and Marcel did not consider it. Although the three of them did not know Herald and Scarlet Prince's plans, they only needed to think for a moment to understand most of it. So, they just simply stood there and enjoyed the show.

When Herald saw that they were not planning to take a step back, he sighed. He exchanged gazes with Harold briefly and shook his head.

Understanding his meaning, Garold frowned.

In the end, he ordered his men to relax and shot a deep look at the three.

"You better be careful. Many people die accidentally in hunts like this."

Delirious scoffed and Moo wrinkled his brows. Marcel, on the other hand, just shrugged.

"Thanks for your advice."

Garold looked at Moo and the others last time and turned around. "Let's go, we will reach the Tempest Fennec habitat soon."