Brianna heard Arran's question and her heart skipped a beat for a moment. Brianna was feeling stuffy in her chest... like her heart was stuck in her throat.
After the feeling passed, Brianna finally sighed in resignation. she knew that sooner or later Arran would ask her about this issue and she would have no choice but to tell him. Brianna had just hoped that Arran would have never asked her in the first place so that she wouldn't have to talk about it.
In fact, it was not as if Brianna's state at that time was a particularly big secret or anything. many people who were close to her knew about it and Brianna could tell anybody that she wised as it would not have any adverse effect on her at all.
It was just that it was a rather sensitive and embarrassing topic for Brianna so she did not like to bring it up at all. That was why she had not taken the initiative to explain things to Arran and had avoided bringing up the topic in the first place.
Arran had p
The alliance members were gathered just in front of the entrance of the cave and they were currently discussing various measures to tackle the issue of locating Arran and Brianna. Those people who were gathered here included the ten temporary leaders of the alliance as well as some other participants who were recognized by everybody for their reputation outside the ceremony as well as their strength and contributions to the alliance.As a method to ensure fairness in the alliance and to prevent being cheated by anybody, although the ten temporary leaders could be said to hold decision-making power in the alliance they were not allowed to lead the alliance by themselves alone. The alliance members had also nominated some other participants to share the decision-making role with the first ten and they were specially tasked with monitoring the storage of the tokens the alliance had collected.Of course, all the alliance members would have liked it if they were the ones wh
During the time when the alliance leaders and the other decision-maker were in conflict with each other, Arran and Brianna had not paused their attacks on the rest of the alliance members. By the time the alliance had finally decided to use the tokens to search for Arran, they had already suffered more losses as a few of their teams had been defeated at the hands of the duo.Right now, the alliance had divided the tokens in their possession into five parts and they had restructured the teams searching for Arran. The alliance teams were no longer divided into individual teams of twenty but instead, all the alliance teams had been integrated together into form five large teams.Each of these five teams had with them a portion of the tokens that the alliance had gathered and they had spread out to all the corners of the cave. They were going to perform a blanket search from all corners starting from the edge of the cave until they would gradually meet at the center of the
A certain alliance team was patrolling an area of the cave searching for Arran and Brianna. It was a standard team that the alliance deployed to look for the two of them with the only difference being that the original twenty members had now increased to thirty and each of them was highly vigilant.The thirty alliance members each held in their hands a small round ball no bigger than an egg and it was clutched very tightly in their hands as if the alliance members were afraid that it would drop.Arran and Brianna who were both observing this team from a distance recognized this ball to be a common smoke bomb that was used to send smoke signals to one's allies in the vicinity. from this, it was easy to understand for what purpose this alliance team was holding it. As soon as any trace of Arran or Brianna was found by this team, they would immediately use the smoke bombs to send a signal to their allies first of all before thinking of a way to hold on until they arrived.
Somewhere in the cave, Carrum and his nine accomplices were discussing how they were going to tackle the problem of Arran once and for all and they were making preparations for when they will eventually betray all of the alliance.Naturally, since the ten of them were talking about betraying the alliance, it was not something that should be taken lightly at all. The ten of them had to make sure that there were no unexpected elements that would crop up all of a sudden and ruin their plans.For something like this, there would definitely be some amongst the alliance and the other participants who would have already guessed at their plans so what they needed to do was to make sure that things would smoothly for them. as for the aftermath that would follow their actions, that was not something the ten of them were concerned with at all.While the ten of them were discussing and making preparations, suddenly, one of the ten was attracted by something in the distance
Carrum and his nine accomplices had gathered all the alliance members they could bring together and they were hurriedly rushing to the place where the smoke signal had been set off. they were in a rush to catch up to Arran and Brianna and make sure they do not escape from them once again.Previously, after the meeting that Carrum, his nine accomplices, and the other nominated decision-makers had conducted, all of them had come to a consensus to deploy the alliance members around the cave and equip a few of them with a few tokens so that it would make locating Arran much easier. At the same time, they had taken the time to restructure the formation of the various teams of the alliance by adding a few more members to the existing teams and letting them carry smoke bombs around to use as a signal.Right now, not only Carrum and his accomplices but also the other alliance that had been deployed around the entire cave were making their way towards Arran's and Brianna's posi
Carrum and his group had sped up while some others retreated. Every participant each had plans of their own stemming from different motivations. It didn't matters what those motivations were, the only thing that matter is if it was strong enough for them to risk everything for that slim chance of succeeding. All this did not matter to Arran and Brianna at all and they were only concerned with winning. With Arran taking the lead, he and Brianna charged straight through the teams of alliance members as they cut a bloody path towards their goals. On the way, Arran and Brianna encounter different waves of alliance members that were using their bodies as a solid wall to block their way and buy time for the rest of the alliance to arrive. On the way, it was very natural that Arran would come across a team of alliance members who had a token in their possession. Of course, Arran would have liked to retrieve this token since he was only lacking two more to ma
And so they waited.With his back leaning against the wall, Arran closed his eyes to rest and recover. Although it might not have seemed that away, Arran had truly lost a lot of strength during all that high-intensity fighting.Although Arran did not have to care about his essence energy running dry to fight the same did not be said about his stamina.The power Arran got from the world essence pulse bracer could replenish his own essence energy supply and at his level, Arran did not consume too much energy in the first place. that, coupled with the fact that his bloodline had been activated naturally gave Arran the confidence to fight a protracted battle.All this time, you would have been hearing about how great and powerful the Kingsman bloodline was and how it was feared and respected in the universe as one of the most powerful bloodlines in the universe but you have never really understood why this was so. Well then, let me clear up a few basic points
Carrum taunted and mocked Arran as soon as they met. He was feeling really good about himself right about now.This situation was kind of like before when they had first met outside the entrance of the cave. at that time, Arran had also been backed against a wall... figuratively speaking... and Carrum was the one who had pushed him towards the wall.The only thing that was different about the situation is that before, Arran at least had a bit of room to maneuver but now, Arran was completely helpless. because of this, what had happened the last time would not happen again this time.Before, Carrum had wanted to rope Arran in and make him willing to offer up his token with his own hands. That had not worked out too well, so Carrum had decided to thoroughly defeat Arran this time and not give him the chance to make a comeback.With that thought in mind, Carrum looked towards Arran hoping to see the despair and resignation on his face as he came to grips wit