Black Online-Chapter 195: Risk Zone Orb

"Shall we start heading back?"

Rock suggested.

It was getting late, and they had to get up early for tomorrow’s matches.

"Mm."

Fang Raon agreed.

He also had to do a quick visit to the real world to take a shower, get some food, and then call Chaewon.

"..."

Della nodded, but she was focusing her attention elsewhere as she looked at all the couples mingling in the park.

They were hugging, kissing, and just looking madly in love. It made Della feel a pang of jealousy.

"Let’s get going then."

Elena tapped her daughter’s leg, and they then stood up from the bench and started heading back to the village.

While walking, they arrived at the main street and saw the long parade making rounds—music followed wherever it went.

"...Lanterns waking on the riverbend, gold on every windowpane, morning spills its honeyed breath through fields of amber grain...

"...From the longest nights we wandered, through the hush of silver skies, now the horizon burns with promise reflected in our eyes..."

A woman with an extremely sweet voice sang. She wore a tight corset that was especially tight around her chest, with breasts threatening to spill out.

She had chocolate-brown hair that flowed in perfect waves down her back, framing her delicate features with an air of elegance and mystery.

She was a singer back in the real world as well—not that well-known—but she had done a couple opera performances that had garnered some attention.

"..."

Fang Raon looked at her one second longer than he should’ve, and thus, Della yanked him by the hand and almost dragged him away.

"...Maybe my grandpa was right about you..."

Della whispered with a pout.

’Hmm? I just thought she was a good singer...’

Fang Raon tilted his head in confusion and let her drag him away while Rock and Elena followed closely behind.

The sky had turned dark—but it also hadn’t—as the beautiful moon hung high with a halo of stars sparkling around it.

It was even possible to see the galaxies beyond shimmering in the distance.

Since the sun wasn’t in sight, it was easy to mistake this festival as the Moon Festival instead.

However.

There was a reason why this festival started at night.

It was tradition to start the festival at night, then party through the night, and then welcome the sun as it rose in the morning.

When the sun rises, you must bow towards it three times, then clap your hands three times, and then do the sun dance.

Sun dance was easy to learn. It was a very simple one. Even children knew how to do it, and everyone had been taught it on the 6th floor.

"No fucking way..."

While walking, Fang Raon heard a voice. It made his feet stop. Della, who couldn’t drag him anymore, turned around to look at him in confusion.

’...No.’

Fang Raon’s face turned pale, and he turned to look at a group of players seated at the patio of a local bar.

They wore black leather jackets, like they were trying to look like bikers, and at the back, there was "Bastard Men" etched into the leather.

"It’s indeed you."

A black-haired man said as he stared at Fang Raon, and he slowly stood up to reveal his towering height.

He was skinny, like a thin tree, and he looked smug—as if he thought he was better than everybody else around him.

’I feared that he might be here...’

Fang Raon thought, and he gulped.

In that moment, Della, Rock, and Elena noticed that it seemed like Fang Raon knew the skinny-looking man. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

’...Bastard Men?’

Della’s eyes widened in surprise as she noticed the name on the backs of the leather jackets.

It was a guild that she knew really well.

Bastard Men was guild ranked 7th in the Global Guild Rankings, and they were a strange, only-men guild that consisted of members who were all extremely loyal to each other.

They didn’t accept women in their ranks.

And...

Della then remembered the name of the leader of Bastard Men and looked worryingly at Fang Raon.

"It’s been a while, huh, little brother?"

Fang Raikou said with a smirk.

He approached Fang Raon—he saw him stare straight at him—and then he snapped his fingers in front of Fang Raon’s eyes.

Fang Raon showed a reaction as his eyes twitched slightly.

"...Holy shit, you can actually see."

Raikou said, his eyes wide with disbelief.

"Let’s go..."

Fang Raon turned and said to Della, as he didn’t want to talk to Raikou, but as he was leaving, his hair suddenly got yanked.

"Where the hell do you think you are going, little brother? We are just having a chat, you rude little shit."

Raikou said with a smirk as he grabbed Fang Raon by his hair and yanked with such force that it was surprising that he didn’t lose health in the process.

"Hey, what the hell do you think you are doing?"

Della asked angrily.

"...Oh, you got a little girlfriend now too? You’re moving up in life, huh? Did you trick her by using the Fang Family name? Just so you know, beautiful girl, Raon won’t have any kind of inheritance.

"So if you are with him for the money, you should rethink. This guy is poorer than the fucking garbage man."

Raikou said with a loud laugh.

"Fuck you!"

In that moment, Fang Raon pushed him off, and Raikou stumbled a few steps, but he gathered himself nicely.

"Ooooooh~"

The members of the Bastard Men guild laughed and clapped at the scene unfolding before them.

"Hah... You fucking..."

Raikou’s voice trailed off into a growl.

’Raikou is even more unreasonable than Raizen. At least Raizen won’t go out of his way to make my life a fucking misery. He would just ignore me. But not Raikou, no... He has to always make me feel like shit.’

Fang Raon frowned.

The commotion garnered some attention as locals and some players stopped whatever they were doing to watch.

It wasn’t all that uncommon for some drunken men to start brawling in the streets of the city.

Which was why you needed to be very careful about how much you wanted to drink, as you wouldn’t want to get banned in a drunken stupor.

"We should leave, Raon."

Della tried pulling him away, but Fang Raon kept angrily glaring at Raikou, and there was nothing she could do to calm him down.

"...Take Della back to the village."

Rock said to Elena.

"Mmh."

Elena grabbed Della’s hand, and even though she tried resisting, eventually, her mother managed to take her away.

"I will show you your place, bitch."

Raikou said angrily.

In that moment, he pulled out a strange-looking orb from his inventory, and it looked to be a special artifact.

"Guild master, don’t!"

Some of his guild members shouted, but Raikou was so pissed off that he didn’t listen, and he crushed it in his hand.

At that moment.

A dome surrounded the bar and the small area around it—they were all inside the dome—and then an interface notification appeared in front of them.

[Safe Zone Disabled!]

"That was Risk Zone Orb!"

Rock cried out in shock.

He didn’t think that Raikou was crazy enough to use such an insanely rare item for something like this.

It was foolishness!

"What’s that?"

Fang Raon asked with a frown.

"With that orb, it is possible to remove the Safe Zone from a certain area. It’s a very rare item. I, myself, haven’t seen that item even once."

Rock said.

’So.... While I am inside this dome, I can be killed without Raikou getting any kind of penalty. I guess I really pissed him off.

’He has never been good at controlling his emotions, and I expected him to do something extremely reckless.’

Fang Raon thought with a long sigh.

"I have two of those orbs left. I don’t mind using one of them to discipline my shitty little brother, who has forgotten to show some respect for his elders!"

Raikou said angrily, and then he pulled out his dual daggers from his belt—those were Assassin daggers.

It didn’t look like his guild members planned to do anything as they were just enjoying the show with their beers.

"Shadow Skip!"

At that moment.

Raikou stepped forward, and he left behind some strange shadows on the ground, but while he was walking forward, he suddenly sank into his shadows.

It was like his shadow had become quicksand.

And then.

Fang Raon’s shadow started stretching like it was being pulled, and at that moment, Raikou jumped out of his shadow with the daggers in hand.

Raikou swung the daggers, going for Fang Raon’s neck, as he was going for an instant-kill move.

There was no mercy between brothers, it looked like.

"Hound Arm!"

At that moment.

Rock’s left arm turned into a massive, scary-looking hound, and its mouth opened wide—so wide that it could swallow a human!

"?!"

Raikou saw the hound coming at him.

If he completed his attack, he wouldn’t have enough time to dodge the hound, and thus, there was only one thing to do.

He sank back into Fang Raon’s shadow, then appeared back where he left his own shadows and jumped back out.

"...Who are you?"

Raikou asked as he looked at Rock with a frown.

"Rock Rose."

He said coldly while his left arm turned back to normal.

’...Rock Rose... Isn’t that the person that taught my dear older brother? I know Raizen respects him immensely... But why is he with that loser?’

Raikou thought in annoyance.