Upon hearing Lucius' words and glancing at the faceless man's body whose veins is slowly turning purple, I also heaved out a sigh of relief as I let my body collapse to the ground.
I know better that we shouldn't let our guard down in this place, but we felt that everything in this trial is over.
I achieved a great breakthrough. After almost a week in this place, I already achieved a powerful asset for my path of being the greatest. I achieved great Senses and a Danger Sense at that. It truly is a great reward. The suffering was all worth it.
Although I still feel my Core stagnating....but that is a matter for the future.
We took a few minutes off the clock by resting in this luminous cave and catching our breaths. Once we were done resting, I then got up from the ground first and approached the man's body.
I stared at it for a moment before closing my eyes and lowering my sword, paying my respects to it.
'May you rest in peace'
I don't even know why I am doing this in the first place. This one was not human that should be respected....but as a warrior, I definitely have respect for him. He was a tough one.
Lucius also followed my gesture, as someone who knows the warrior's code of honor, he also did the same as paying respect to a great warrior. Even though he defeated this honorable warrior through underhanded tactics like poison, It was still a life or death battle between men.
Come to think of it, was that Dance of Cockatrice technique that he kept spamming, a poisoned one? Was this guy trying to poison me on our first meet?
Shaking my head off those thoughts, I activated the enchantment on Flesh Eater with my little bit ki as I set the man's corpse ablaze as my final act of respect. I cannot bury his body since I have no shovel or leave it to rot, so best way was to burn it.
But as me and Lucius watch the flesh of the man slowly get burned, surprisingly, the cave was not filled with smoke as the man's body slowly dissolved.
I frowned at that sight, Lucius also did the same.
After the flames of flesh eater slowly dissipate and the man's body was dissolved...all we could see was a key. The key was not metal, if anything it was like....a mass of energy? Kinda like Ki or Mana.
I analyzed this and then after a moment, Lucius uttered:
"Is this the key to that giant stone door?"
Upon hearing those words, I then had a realization as I nodded to his question.
"It might be so"
Picking up that key, I then tried to store it in my magic ring and was surprised to see that it cannot be stored.
What is this shit?
"You cannot put it in?"
"Yeah....I think it must be because it is magical or I don't know why"
"Hm.....then I guess for now we should just carry it ourselves then"
"Yeah"
I sighed at those words and then stored the key away in my pocket.
Once everything was done, we then decided to go back to our way and try to challenge the other paths.
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As the fight between Jinsung and Yuri reach its peak. Shockwaves occured everywhere as I watched there with popcorn in my hand...just imagine if there is one.
'Absolute Cinema'
I quoted a popular joke back in the earth.
I must say, despite me being already buffed with a lot of things like cheat abilities. This fight is truly astonishing for me, I don't even have any confidence to produce this kind of fight quality.
Both of them are using Flashy techniques that it was such a sweet apple on my eyes.
Then once they were about to end the fight with one last technique, I saw Yuri have a faint smile on her face as she found the fight somewhat entertaining.
Huh....I guess that Jinsung guy is somewhat decent then? To get the battle junkie out of Yuri.
The two of them then rush towards each other. Yuri wielding her Rapier in a stabbing motion as the other guy prepared a powerful fiery jab with his fist like the meteorites.
But as their attacks were about to collide, the two of them stopped and dismissed their techniques.
They stared to each other before they looked around and with a cheeky smile, Jinsung then declared.
"All of you Hyenas waiting for one of us to go down and take down the other, how about you come out now?"
Ah, he finally noticed eh? Hahaha such a shame. I was actually going to do a cheapshot when one of them falls down, guess it can't be helped now that I have been found out...no, not just me.
Stepping out from the shadows, I saw other people from other directions. I saw at least 5 musket wielding guys led by a man with a military cap. Is it even a man with that feminine looks? But by his voice, he does sound like a man.
"What can we do? You two are very much taking all of the attention in this game. There is no way we wouldn't be drawn"
The man with feminine appearance chuckled.
Then another group stepped out also, it was from another direction and I found someone familiar. It was my pursuers earlier.
The guy with slit eyes and a pony tailed blue haired stepped out from the shadows with a sly smile, behind him a bunch of Astrean punks are also there.
"Sorry, Jinsung. We've always wanted to take you down. We didn't know that there is another monster like you though, fufu"
The slit eyed man chuckled slightly which made Jinsuny smile at him like a proud dad looking at his son achieving great things.
"Guess a snake is always a snake huh?"
Jinsung replied while Yuri just closed her eyes beside him and did not answer anyone.
The people that surrounded the two of them did not end with just that. There are three more groups including me alone.
The other two groups came from our Continent.
"Hello, Yuri. Sorry but we must take you down~"
Princess Aleah of Eldian Kingdom smiled as a group of students followed behind her, I also saw Serena, Helen and Viego there.
Then the other group was a group led by Azriel. Why is he there?
"I mean no harm, Princess Yuri. I am merely watching the fight. It is a dishonor for a knight to strike down a lady"
The weirdo quoted as another bunch of chivalrous knights nodded behind him. From his words and the intent behind it, One could really believe it. I mean, that guy is known for being Chivalric. But his glare towards the bigger guy, Jinsung was not hidden. So he is indeed just another Hyena.
"Cute guy"
Jinsung chuckled at Azriel who raised his sword together with the knights behind him.
Yuri just stayed quiet throughout the whole exchange, her eyes were closed and she just stood there. Before her Jewelled Blue eyes landed on me. As if she was asking my business.
"Ah, me? I am just here for the Fun."
I smiled playfully and hid my true intents.
Right now, the two monsters are surrounded by around 20 people.