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
Winston immediately replied to the main leader."I swear on my life that what I told you is completely accurate. There is indeed only a single entrance and exit to the cave and there is no other way to enter or exit this cave except through this place. Even if it is a fly or an ant, they would have to choice but to go in or come out through here."The leaders of the alliance listened to Winston as he solemnly swore on his life.They were immediately gratified.Even if Winston swearing on his life was quite meaningless since he did not invoke any entities to bear witness to his oath, but the fact was that it showed his attitude towards them and this at least reassured them a little.At least the alliance leaders did not have to worry about whoever was inside escaping through elsewhere and they could play the long game with them.Since they had already received confirmation from Winston, one of the ten leaders asked."So what are we goi
Somebody walked out of the cave and who else could it be if not Arran.Finally, after such a long time, Arran felt that it was time to confront the alliance...putting an end to this farce.When Arran calmly walked out of the cave, the first person to recognize him was Winston, and seeing Arran again made Winston unconsciously let out a loud gasp."Ahh!"Hearing Winston's gasp, the alliance leaders who had been paying close attention to Arran and were watching his entire moves, all turned to focus on Winston instead. The main leaders then asked him."Do you recognize that person? You know who he is don't you?"Startled, Winston furiously nodded his head and he replied."Yes... yes, I do. I can never forget that despicable face even if I wanted to.""It was this bastard who had ambushed me and had stolen my token. This bastard is the reason why have had so much bad luck in this elimination round. Oh, how I wish I could just grind
No matter what was said in the background, Arran did not seem to care.All Arran did was take his time in cleaning his ears with his fingers and when he was done, Arran flicked the wax away towards the alliance leader Carrum.Looking at Arran bring so disrespectful and arrogant even in the face of the hundreds of members of the alliance, it was so infuriating. This was especially so since Carrum had already humbled himself to Arran even when he was in the superior position.After all, it was said that one should not hit a smiling face, but in this case, Arran was not only delivering a tight slap to Carrum's face but he was also rubbing his dirty feet all over Carrum's face.One had to know that right now, Carrum's face represented the face of the alliance so as Arran was disrespecting Carrum like this, it was the same as Arran disrespecting the alliance.Just when it seemed like the alliance members were about to get out of control and nobody could
"It is indeed my fault not taking you into consideration at all brother Arran. My face is truly not worth as much as yours is so it was truly presumptuous of me to ask for you to give me face. For that, I sincerely apologize."Carrum shamelessly apologized to Arran surprising everybody there. Nobody expected that after all the insults Arran had piled up on Carrum that he would be so magnanimous as to admit he's wrong and apologize.Although not many people were familiar with Carrum but everybody knew that for somebody who was able to gather most of the defeated participants in this ceremony, this kind of person would never really be so humble.It takes more than sweet words and a vision to lead a group of people and at times people needed to be ruthless to be able to hold steadily onto their position.Although ruthlessness was frowned upon by others, but to certain people... especially leaders of any organization or group... being ruthlessly held its own
With the swing of Arran's sword, the curtained opened up to the epic battle between Arran and the alliance.Following Arran's attack, a long bolt of lightning streaked across the distance between Arran and Carrum the alliance leader in an arc and it was headed his way at a blindingly fast speed.Like a heart-seeking beam, Arran's attack arrived in front of Carrum and it was about to hit its target.In response to this attack, Carrum stretched his hands forward and a veil of dark brown light extended from his outstretched hands covering Carrum's entire body from the front.This veil of light had the heaviness of earth and with Carrum as the center, a suffocating pressure came out of his body. The air around Carrum solidified as Carrum got ready to resist Arran's attack.All this happened in mere seconds and before anybody could react, both parties had made their moves.Arran's lightning attack hit Carrum's defense and the result was a resound
Arghhh!!Charge!!Brothers, kill!!Sounds of yelling could be heard coming from the entrance of the cave and both Arran and Brianna silently waited for the members of the alliance to finally charge into the so that they could finally get started and fight to their heart's content.After what seemed like hours but was in fact only just a few seconds, the first member of the alliance finally appeared.After running into the cave, this alliance member first saw Arran as well as Brianna as they waited at a place that was not far from the entrance with their weapons held at the ready.Upon seeing Arran, even though this member was surprised to see that he was not the only one waiting for them, he did not seem to care and he immediately raised his weapon and yelled his battle cry."Brothers, follow me. Kill!"At once, after yelling his battle cry and encouraging his fellow alliance members, that participant charged towards Arran head
At the place that overlooked a wide ocean...Up in the platform were various important dignitaries and people who were from powerful and important families in the Aeth were gathered.As always, everybody here was paying very close attention to what was going on in the ceremony. Most especially, these people were paying close attention to what was going on around Arran.Ever since the announcement regarding Arran almost fulfilling the conditions to advance to the next round had been made to all the participants in the second elimination round, slowly but surely, the focus of this elimination round had taken a turn from having the participants search high and low for a token to claim wherein the process they would end up having to rob and pillage from each other.Now the focus had shifted to hunting down Arran to rob him of his own token.This sudden shift in the goal of the second elimination round came as a surprise to all the audience watching thi