Chapter 73: Time Stop. (2/2)

A bloodbath.

Quite literally, most of the room had become a bloodied red. The walls, the arenas, the bridges. Large chunks of monster corpses could be seen lying around. It almost seemed as if they had burst from the inside out.

And in the middle of it, Gray could be seen carrying the figure of a young beauty with long pitch-black hair. The detached arm of a monster could be seen sticking out of her stomach.

What were they looking at? What was this?

So many questions passed through their minds, but those very thoughts were interrupted as in an instant, Gray appeared in between them.

”I've cleared the floor. She's paused. I'll look for someone to heal her.”

Those were his last words before vanishing once more. Not even a whisper of wind could be heard.

Violet and Aurora both quickly turned back, before rushing to glance up the staircase, but he was completely gone.

”Hey… Aurora… He was only 30 seconds ahead of us, right…?” Violet asked

Aurora hesitantly nodded.

”So how… Just how in thirty seconds, did he clear this entire floor by himself? Surely it was already cleared… Right…?”

”Y-Yeah…” She replied, still somewhat shocked.

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”What's this?” The voice of a female could be heard as she stepped into the Labyrinth's first floor where their camp was set up.

At the entrance, fresh blood could be seen splattered across the floor and walls but not a body could be seen. Not to mention the door had been broken open and the tension which ran across from the inside, as the group of horned ones sat there waiting with weapons in their hands.

”Two people keep watch. When he and his group returns, we'll kill them. They're not to escape.”

The one speaking was an orange ranked horned one. His hair was long and a light orange in terms of color. He was one of the three who had gotten close to killing Aurora and Violet. Based on his expression and the dark flow of energy releasing from him, it was easy to tell that he was pissed.

”Kill who?” The girl asked.

”Who the hell-”

The orange horned one's jaws dropped once he saw who it was. A young lady with a gentle aura to herself. Her long black hair was tied into twin tails by two red ribbons resting on her head. Her eyes reflected golden glow as the top half of the black horns on her head shined a crimson red.

Over her shoulder, a large golden gemmed war Axe could be seen. Being almost twice her body size it was truly fascinating and unusual to see her wield it.

Without bothering to finish his sentence, he quickly dropped to one of his knees before bowing his head. ”P-Princess, my humblest apologies, I-I mistook you for someone else.”

A nervous smile grew on her face as she was still not used to all the formalities.

”It's fine, mistakes are normal. More importantly, what happened?” She asked.

”Ah- Right… A young man accompanied by two girls appeared and… Well… They managed to get past us towards the lower floors. F-Fret not, we have already sent some of our men after his head. They should be arriving at any moment now.”

”Hm~”. She proceeded to point at the small gates just behind them. ”Is that him?”

They turned their heads back and their pupils dilated. Standing by the gates, the very same Gray haired young man could be seen. In his hands rested a book, with the titles [Chronicles of The Chronos]. His eyes were cold and dark as he demanded.

”Bring me a healer.”

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