There was a flash of blue lightning followed by the loud clap of thunder that resounded in the enclosed space of the tunnel... deafening the ears of all within ear's reach.
Apart from the thunder and lightning, there were also the sounds of an explosion and the screams of people that formed a symphony of pain and suffering in the tunnels.
The dust finally settled and from it appeared Arran who was covered in dirt and sand and he held his sword in front of him.
Arran was had just straightened his posture from adopting an attacking pose and all around him were the unconscious bodies of a few participants who were members of the alliance of defeated participants.
Directly in front of Arran was a single member of the alliance who had his leg pierced by Arran's sword with blood flowing in a steady stream from the blade of the sword, down to the tip until finally, it dropped onto the ground below.
This participant was the only conscious person among the
Hearing Brianna's urgent message, Arran frowned as he digested the implication of what he had just heard.After thinking for a moment, Arran simply sighed in resignation.Arran thought to himself, 'Indeed, what is meant to happen will definitely happen! Although I expected to be found sooner or later, I never thought that it would be this soon. I had thought that I would still have a bit of time to cause some chaos and reduce the combat strength of the alliance. Now that I'm already found out, I guess there is no need to stall any longer. I should end this now while I'm still ahead.'With these thoughts in his mind, Arran quickly raised his Holowatch and contacted Brianna who immediately picked up the call.From the other end of the Holowatch, Arran could make out Brianna's word coming out in a hurry as she didn't let him speak before she started asking."Hello Arran, can you hear me? Thank god you finally contacted me.""Where are you right
While Brianna was contacting Arran...Outside the cave, crowds of participants gathered together to siege the cave.These people belonged to the alliance and they were the first batch of alliance members to have arrived after the discovery of the cave was made.As the alliance members arrived, they immediately joined the siege on the cave launching different attacks of various kinds at the cave one after the other in a bid to exhaust the defenses of the cave.Most of the alliance members did not dare to get close to the cave because of the various kinds of traps and formations that had been set up outside the cave.It was not like the traps were too much for the alliance members to handle... at most it would only be a little troublesome and would require a lot of time before they could fully deal with them... but that was where the issue lay.The traps and formations outside the cave were just too numerous and they were closely packed togeth
"Ah, if it isn't Mister Reed. Come, come and join us and let us have a look at you."As soon as the temporary leaders of the alliance saw Reed Truman coming over to them, they immediately generated smiles on their faces and called out to him jovially.With the way they were responding to reed's presence, it was like they were facing an important dignitary, one whose standing was not one bit inferior to them.If people saw this scene right now, they would think that the ten temporary leaders of the alliance were meeting with a foreign supervisor and not one who was technically their subordinate.Reed's expression was unchanging and he had a straight poker face plastered for all to see.His expression was unreadable and nobody could pry into the thoughts in his head.Reed finally reached the ten temporary leaders and he bowed nodded slightly to the ten of them as a basic show of respect.Since all of them were peers of the same generati
Indeed, just as Reed Truman had predicted, it didn't take long before all the traps and formations outside the cave were completely disabled and rendered useless.Two minutes later, with a single attack from an alliance member, the final formation that was used to create a barrier outside the cave, preventing others from entering finally collapsed, and the green shimmer that covered the entrance slowly dissipated and disappeared.This formation barrier had been the last obstacle guarding the entrance of the cave and it had been unbelievably tough to destroy it.The formation barrier had been able to withstand a lot of attacks that would have seen other barriers destroyed a long time ago. From this, it could be seen that this barrier had not been ordinary and it could serve as a trump card in normal families to guard their important treasures.t was only by being bombarded by the attacks of almost one thousand participants that the energy supplying the for
People were wondering why the alliance did not just immediately storm the cave and defeat whoever was inside. With their numbers, the alliance should be able to do this quite easily. After all, that was what gave the alliance to run rampant in this mountain.With their numbers, not many people were willing to mess with them and even those that were not afraid of the alliance would still never fight a prolonged battle with the alliance members.They wouldn't want to be overrun by the endless flood of reinforcement that the alliance could muster.Some people felt that this was actually a correct move by the alliance.Everybody had seen the large numbers of traps and formations that had been set up all over the tunnels leading to this cave.Some of those present here had been unlucky enough to fall into those traps and trigger the formations and they knew just how troublesome and sinister the traps were. anybody that was not prepared would definitely
Arran had suddenly appeared out of nowhere surprising Brianna and everybody else.Looking at Arran who was calmly leaning against the wall of the cave, it was like he had always been there from the very beginning and he had seen what had transpired between Brianna and Conrad, only that nobody had noticed him.As soon as Brianna set her eyes on Arran, the cold and frosty air around her suddenly thawed and the temperature in the cave started to heat up once again.As the icy aura around Brianna faded away, her skin that had taken up the shade of a winter morning started to lighten up and the paleness in her skin developed a warm hue.Brianna's face had turned red and she blushed very hard up to her ears with hints of tears in her eyes as she stared at Arran deeply.At this moment, no longer was the cold and icy Brianna present but she had been replaced by a girl who looked like a warm ray of sunlight shining through frosted glass.There was a cu
The first thing Brianna saw when she woke up was the smiling face of Arran as he looked down on her like how a parent would look at their ailing daughter or a husband his sick wife.Brianna was in a daze.She did not know what was happening or why Arran was looking over her from above but she knew that she had fainted due to a lack of energy and the last thing she remembered before then was Arran rushing to her.Seeing as Arran was a little bit too close to her, Brianna blushed a little then she turned her head away before saying to Arran."Liar...""Hmm!'Arran was confused.'Was she cursing at him?' Arran thought."What's that you said? I didn't quite hear you clearly, could you say it again?"Brianna's face flushed even harder and she refused to look arranged in the eye.Seeing Brianna behaving this way, Arran thought.'Did this silly girl become stupid from losing consciousness? Why is her face so red,
"I hope you will not refuse my gift. This is both my offering of apology as well as a gesture of my appreciation for you helping me during my time of need. It would make me sad should you refuse to take it."Brianna implored Arran to accept her gift.It was true that Brianna wanted to apologize for being rude when she had previously pried into Arran's secret and it was also true that she was trying to thank Arran for helping her when she had fallen unconscious.Brianna was quite sincere regarding this.But while all these were true, underneath her gesture of sincere apology and thanks, there was another reason for Brianna doing this.Arran did not think much about Brianna's offer not did he consider what her motives were.He simply said, "You don't really have to do this. we have already agreed to cooperate together this time so it is only natural that I helped you. I only did what I was supposed to given the circumstances especially since I