Chapter 102: How are you guys? We’re not well, adrian.

The scorching sunlight mixed with the smell of various meats and vegetables, the voices of various merchants could be heard selling their goods followed by the sound of conversations from hundreds of people crowding the market.

Alex stepped with feet that were only wrapped in cloth to chase the silver-haired woman, Alex’s figure that shined golden seemed unable to be seen by other people.

Alex finally reached the silver-haired woman who was standing in front of a meat merchant, Alex stared at the woman’s face from the side, he watched every movement on her face, he sometimes saw a slight smile carved there. Alex muttered inside his heart that could only be heard by himself ’Clarisa....’

After some time, Clarisa finally continued her journey, she once again blended with the crowd while Alex kept following her without Clarisa realizing it.

Alex felt something following Clarisa from behind him, Alex tried to turn backward, but Clarisa turned around first, she pulled out a small pistol from her shopping bag, Clarisa fired several times where those bullets penetrated Alex’s body and reached the people following her.

Alex gritted his teeth, he saw three people lying stiff after Clarisa shot them ’shit! This is a public place...’ the screams of the residents were heard after Clarisa’s gunshots, they immediately ran or crouched down to hide.

An explosion was heard again which made Alex turn his body to look at Clarisa, there one of the merchant stalls was destroyed when it was crashed into by a man with a height of two meters.

The man directed his fist toward Clarisa, but Clarisa immediately pointed the muzzle of her pistol at the man’s head. The man instantly responded by covering the barrel of Clarisa’s pistol with his left palm, he let his hand become pierced by the pistol shot while his fist struck Clarisa’s face.

The screams of the citizens became the background of that sudden attack, they slowly moved away as if giving a stage of death to Clarisa, meanwhile Clarisa staggered backward and Alex could only stare at Clarisa’s back, he could not do anything.

Clarisa immediately pointed her pistol toward the two-meter-tall man who wanted to approach her, but the sound of barking dogs distracted her, two large dogs passed through Alex and immediately bit Clarisa.

Alex’s body trembled, his black eyes reflected Clarisa who was now being bitten and torn apart by two dogs that were almost as large as herself, her screams echoed in the now silent market, Alex covered his ears, he could not bear to hear Clarisa’s screams of pain ’no...no...Clarisa...’

Clarisa kept fighting with all her strength, her white dress that was once clean was now filled with stains of her own blood, she repeatedly struck and fired her pistol at the two dogs, no one helped Clarisa in the middle of the crowd watching her.

In the end Clarisa managed to kill the two dogs, but her body had now lost its strength, she lost her left arm while her stomach was torn open and continuously bled, her eyes that once smiled now only stared blankly as if life no longer shone from them.

Several people began to appear, one of them grabbed Clarisa’s now messy silver hair, he dragged Clarisa’s body in front of the two-meter-tall man while another person gave a large sword to that man.

The man gripped his large sword with both hands, he did not groan even though his left palm had a hole in it, he directed the falling slash toward Clarisa’s neck while another person grabbed her silver hair.

"Rejoice before the imperial sword, Clarisa...." The two-meter-tall man paused "....enjoy your hell while your flesh and bones become the feast of those who are hungry."

The man swung his large sword which instantly separated Clarisa’s head, the person grabbing Clarisa’s silver hair immediately raised Clarisa’s head as high as possible "who is hungry?!"

The citizens who saw that person raising Clarisa’s head immediately ran away, the market became empty in an instant, but some people still stayed, they began approaching Clarisa’s body with drool dripping "I haven’t eaten meat for a long time..."

Alex closed his eyes, he lowered his head, his tears had completely run out, now what came out was blood that immediately soaked his entire face, his golden light slowly began to dim little by little.

The place where he stood began to be erased and painted once again, now the sound of loud machines entered Alex’s ears, endless vibrations struck Alex’s shoulders who now sat upright, the sound of a train horn was heard which made Alex turn to the left, in the window there could be seen the scenery of snowy mountains.

Blood did not stop coming out from both of Alex’s eyes, the pain began burning his brain, a voice made Alex shift his gaze, he looked forward.

In front of Alex a one-eyed man sat while joining both of his hands together as if praying, the sound of the moving train did not make Alex struggle to hear the prayer of that one-eyed man ’Riko...’

Riko kept muttering while his joined hands trembled "oh god...forgive my sins, forgive the sins of my friends..." Riko’s lips trembled "oh god...bless my body so I can punish them..."

Riko took a deep breath and exhaled it "gather the seven of us in your eternal heaven later oh god..." Riko opened his one eye, he leaned his back against the hard train seat, his eyes stared at the place where Alex sat, they stared at each other. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

A tired sigh was heard from Alex, but Riko could not hear it, Alex’s lips trembled "Clarisa is dead, Riko..." the blood flowing from Alex’s eyes began falling onto his lap "all of this is my fault...I left all of you so suddenly..."

A rough sigh was heard from Riko which made Alex look at him, Riko only stared outside the window where snow began falling, the shaking of the train did not stop his head from leaning against the hard backrest. "You know, Adrian?" Alex’s black eyes that bled widened, his heart beat rapidly as if it would explode.

Riko spoke again "Kiki has now returned to the kingdom he hates so much...he became a tutor for the little prince there." Riko chuckled, a faint smile carved on his trembling lips "isn’t that funny? Even though all of us kept forcing him, but he never wanted to do that..."

Riko’s body trembled, tears began flowing from both his eyes, Alex could see it even from the reflection of the window glass "Clarisa is dead...I should have taken her far away and forgotten revenge..."

Riko wiped his tears with hands trembling like the train carriage "I will follow all of you...surely we will gather in heaven right? I will search for all of you even if I have to search every place in heaven..."

Riko’s sigh was heard, he now smiled widely, his body no longer trembled, he slowly stood up and began leaving Alex, he walked to another carriage behind his carriage.

Alex only turned from his seat to look at Riko’s back, meanwhile Riko was stopped by two guards. But Riko immediately shot their heads which instantly caused chaos throughout the carriage.

Riko immediately opened the carriage door and shot several people, he also did not escape from bullets directed toward his body, the screams of men and women echoed throughout the carriage while the guards began running toward the carriage where Riko went mad by paying with his life.

Alex could see Riko’s back standing upright even though several guards blocked him, he saw Riko raising his left hand where he held a red button.

Riko’s laughter echoed together with the train that kept moving "THIS IS RIKO FROM SQUAD 41 YOU BASTARDS!!!" once Riko’s shout stopped, an explosion replaced it, an explosion that blew up Riko’s body and the entire carriage.

That carriage was instantly severed, its shockwave struck Alex and made both of his ears bleed, Alex’s golden light began dimming faster, that light almost disappeared.

Slowly the train carriage where Alex stayed began to be erased, Alex stood inside a white void, his eyes and ears bled without stopping, the pain began making him surrender, but that white void began to be painted once again.

But this time the painting was imperfect, Alex only saw many corpses scattered around, some of them did not have complete body parts, all of them looked cold and no one approached.

Except for one body whose stomach and heart were filled with dozens of embedded swords and knives, a woman with snow-white hair that shined like ice hugged that body, her delicate hands touched the gaps where that body was not pierced.

Alex’s ears rang when the sound of the woman crying was heard "Adrian...Adrian....you must not leave me alone..." Alex’s body trembled, a hot feeling began spreading through his body, he looked at the white-haired woman "that is Tika...and...it seems myself."

Alex slowly stepped closer, but his strength disappeared and he fell, the golden light coming from his body began disappearing and together with that Alex coughed blood, his body began stretching painfully, Alex slowly convulsed while releasing blood from every hole on his face.

His black pupils began disappearing, his hands and feet bent in strange ways, his body became stiff during the convulsions, slowly the sky and ground where he stood began collapsing.

Alex’s convulsing body now lay on top of desert sand, his body now beneath the sea of stars decorating the black sky, the blowing wind struck Alex’s body together with the touch of Sesa’s hand.

Sesa’s face was filled with worry and confusion, she now saw Alex unlike his usual self, she never thought she would see Alex like that, Sesa’s red fox eyes trembled "Alex!! Alex!!" Sesa’s voice did not reach Alex whose convulsions still had not stopped.

Instead a shouting voice was directed toward Sesa "Sesa!! Is the plan the same as before?!" Sesa turned, there Aera shouted while looking right and left, the students also formed a circle to look in every direction.

Dozens of sand mounds with glowing eyes began approaching them, Sesa gritted her teeth, she opened her mouth to speak, but the sound of an eagle screech came first.

The eagle’s sound made the students look upward, there an eagle glided downward, one of Sesa’s eyebrows lifted ’master...?’ The eagle slowly shattered and transformed into the figure of Saint Azara falling from the sky.

That Saint Azara figure joined both fists together, a tremendous burst of mana came out from his body, that burst of mana even pulled the air toward the night sky where that figure stood.

Slowly behind the back of the Saint Azara figure facing the sea of stars appeared a fireball, that fireball kept enlarging rapidly until it finally became a sun, its light immediately illuminated the desert and made the sand mounds approaching the students stop.

That sun kept enlarging as if it would cover the entire desert like a real sun, waves of hot fire struck the students and everything in the desert beneath it, slowly from that sun hundreds of house-sized fireballs began falling.

In an instant, a rain of fireballs descended upon the desert, that rain of house-sized fireballs immediately burned the desert inhabited by the sand mounds, their screams of pain were heard trying to beg for mercy.

The sea of sand now turned into a sea of fire in an instant, that rain of fire did not stop for some time, the students could only stare around them which was now surrounded by waves of fire far taller than them.

Sweat began pouring out together with a feeling of relief. Slowly the figure of Saint Azara began descending, the figure leaving his sun still shining in the night sky.

That figure landed without a sound near Alex, his body slowly changed form into Kong. He then immediately examined Alex’s body which made Sesa ask him.

Meanwhile Kong only focused on examining Alex, he gritted his teeth when seeing Alex’s body that continuously convulsed and bled ’damn...that earlier was a personal world...’

Kong looked at every inch of Alex’s convulsing body ’even though we still do not know its uniqueness...’ Kong slowly pressed his smart bracelet while the students began approaching him in the middle of the sea of fire.

Noisy voices from Kong’s smart bracelet were immediately heard, those voices came from dozens of people, but Kong immediately stopped them making them fall silent.

"Listen...I will speak only once." Kong looked at the sea of fire he created, he also looked at the overheated students "stop the exam, bring the students back to the fortress..."

The simultaneous voices of dozens of people immediately answered Kong’s command, which made Kong immediately stand up, he slowly pointed at Alex’s convulsing body "come on, help me lift him onto my back" Kong began transforming into a dragon with brown scales, his body enlarged making it enough for dozens of students to ride on his back. They finally left by flying above the sea of fire.