Chapter 153: Murder in broad daylight, and a peculiar skill (1/2)
Chapter 153: Murder in broad daylight, and a peculiar skill
Exclamations and cheers rose without interruption from the Arena of Fire and Blood, soaring to the horizon. The air in the whole of Eichemalar seemed to be shaking.
An arcane master in charge of routine patrols walked out of a tunnel and looked at a scoreboard beside the field. This man wearing a silver-white mask on the left side of his face, apparently around the same age as Carter and the others, smiled faintly and mumbled to himself, “This year, all the teams from St. Lauren seem pretty good. Agate Academy is actually leading Hunter Academy three to one.”
After talking to himself, this arcane master no longer looked at the field. He swept his eyes over the stands in front of him, looking for any potential suspicious person.
His body froze just then. A terrible aura hard to put into words suddenly got a hold of him.
All the stands around him, including the sky above the arena, everything seemed to have become incomparably pale in his eyes.
These cheers and acclaims arising nonstop from the stands also seemed to be separated from him by countless layers of space, as though they were infinitely remote.
“Hueff… Hueff…”
He heard his own strange breathing, but he couldn’t make any sound right now. What made him thoroughly chilled was, his arcane particles were also entirely frozen.
There was an icy aura that seemed to pervade his insides, nearing his heart, becoming in his perception an icy claw that clutched his heart.
“Reynolds, how many years has it been since we last saw each other… It’s the first time in so many years I set foot in the arena, I didn’t expect you to be the patrol I’d happen to come across. This must be fate, don’t you think?”
A faint voice came from behind this arcane master wearing a silver-white mask on one half of his face. The voice seemed to make the world around him even paler and more remote.
“Dias!”
Blood thoroughly froze in this instant for this arcane master called Reynolds. “How dare you actually come to Eichemalar!”
“That’s because I missed you people so much.”
The voice sighed softly behind his back, “Reynolds, you were among the arcane masters who chased and tried to kill me back then. If not for you people following so tight behind me, not leaving me any time to stop over and replenish my arcane particles, maybe I could have saved my younger brother. That said, haven’t you spent these years in too much comfort? You really made so little progress, you surprisingly can’t even resist a single arcane skill of mine.”
Reynolds kept silent.
“Before I kill you as revenge for my brother, since we’re old acquaintances from the olden days, do you have any last words?” the voice behind him quietly said.
“Eichemalar will be the end for you,” Reynolds coldly said. “No matter what kind of sinister plan you came to Eichemalar with, you’ll still end up defeated just like before. You’ll be exposed as soon as you act. You won’t be able to run away this time. This is also your fate.”
“Too bad, I never believed in any sort of fate…”
The voice behind his back started laughing quietly.
The pale wan world around him turned black. His vision also became completely black; his entire consciousness turned to ice. His heart stopped beating, as though the God of Death had touched it with his hand.
…
In the stands, no one noticed this arcane master’s life fading away, his body becoming icy-cold.
But after several seconds, a bizarre layer of grayness emerged on the face of this already dead arcane master. Some dots of revolving pale-white light suddenly flashed in these eyes that had already lost their life-force.
His already stiff hands suddenly lifted toward the countless spectators in front of him, entirely unaware of what had transpired. Pale rays of light flashed on his hands.
“Ah!”
The many spectators in front of him finally sensed a terrifying aura behind them. When they turned their heads around and saw the pale light gushing from his hands, saw the aura of death flowing on his face, they yelled with horror, overwhelmed with shock.
“Reynolds!”
“This is…!”
“Evil Spirit – Seal!”
At this instant, many urgent voices and chants rose at the same time.
More than a dozen transparent chains suddenly wrapped around Reynolds, then sank inside him.
Reynolds bellowed then. An ashen-gray stream of air rushed out of his mouth.
But his body didn’t move any further. The sickly white light also immediately vanished from his eyes and his hands.
“Swish!” “Swish!” “Swish!”
Three figures appeared around Reynolds’ corpse in a triangular formation.
“This is Di…”
“Don’t… panic…”
“Search…”
In quiet whispers, the three arcane masters who’d appeared near Reynolds concluded their rapid conversation within mere seconds. Even the ones closest to them in the stands couldn’t clearly hear what they said.
…
“Did something happens in the stands over there?”
“The elite arcane patrol team took away with them some spectators in the back rows.”
“I don’t know, is there someone suspicious in the back rows?”
Some people in the stands saw something unusual happen in the back rows in the stands over there, but none of them understood what was truly happening.
“Connie, do your best!”
Ayrin and Charlotte hadn’t noticed the anomaly in the stands on the left behind them. They were entirely unaware that, just a few minutes ago, a hackles-raising revenge and murder had taken place.
Ayrin only thought about shouting encouragements at the top of his lungs for Connie, the second fighter to take to the field for Agate Lake Academy.
Previously in the match, Helena, the first one to fight for Agate Lake Academy, had defeated back to back two contestants from Hunter Academy, and she’d even made the third contestant waste more than half his arcane particles. Coming into the field after her for Agate Lake Academy, Connie had already defeated team Hunter’s third contestant, and was now waging a fierce battle with Bishu, the fourth contestant from team Hunter.
Right now, Connie had already used Agate Lake’s secret skill “Radiant Goddess.”