Chapter 463 - A Trio (1/2)
When some time had passed, and they had yet to see the beast arrive in the arena. The workers started to wonder what was going on. This led to the original organiser of the arena to send his men underground.
This was where the beasts would be kept, King tier, all the way up to the emperor tier. Usually, the place would have a routine check-up. Still, due to the beasts' aggressive nature, they would try to keep people out of there whenever possible.
The cages were strong, but eventually, they would be worn down, especially by the stronger beasts. However, when the men went to check out what was going on, perhaps their automated system had malfunctioned, as soon as they entered the dark pit, a strange smell hit them.
It was thick and heavy, the smell of death. Entering the room, each one of the cages that held the beasts in places had been destroyed, and inside, all of the beasts had been killed.
”What could have done all this?” One of the guards said.
They all seemed to have two things in common, first, their heads ripped from their body, and second a puncture wound in a certain place. Most commonly, where the beast crystal would be. Beasts crystals could be anywhere inside a beast, so even if the puncture wounds seemed random, they weren't.
It made sense on the weaker beasts if something or someone did this, but as the two guards walked forward, the tier of beast increased, and the pattern was the same.
”Were they not even able to put up a fight, how strong was the thing that killed them?” Then they saw it, they saw the three emperor tiers they had in captivity all killed the same way.
This was reported as soon as possible, and when the information had finally reached the emperor's ears, he was already looking at the beast that caused it all.
The humanoid ant beast had just killed one of the contestants', and from his pressure alone they were struck with fear, too scared to move.
”Hey what do we do, should we go down there or let the empire deal with this?” Kyle said. Right now this was a foreign land. In a way, the emperor was the enemy, so he was confused with what to do, but these people were innocent as well.
The one they all turned to look at was Sylvia. However, she was completely out of it, grabbing her eyepatch.
”Hey is she going to be okay?” Kyle asked.
Roy rushed over and snatched off the eyepatch covering her eye. The shadow inside it was moving about, and slowly it looked like it was creeping over to the other side.
”This is bad,” Roy said, looking at the beast. It seemed like somehow the beast in front of them was affecting Sylvia, but Roy was starting to fear the worst.
The shadow ant stood there, and from its four hands that were clenched shut at this point, it opened them, dropping something on the ground. The others knew what they were, but the ones who could sense Ki greatly or the ones that could see a little better like the contestants in the trench could see it.
It had dropped several crystals down on the floor. It was clear that some of them were at the emperor tier level and king tier, while there were a few others.
Knowing this fact alone just added to the intense moment.
The normal calm and calculated Alexander looked frustrated, this clearly wasn't part of the show nor in his plans at all.
”I never thought the shadow would come for us so soon,” Alexander said. They were the furthest away from the shadow continent and at the same time had done the least to harm them. They never helped the other kingdoms and had really only had a few scuffles with shadow beasts here and there.
Unlike the other kingdoms who had gone into battle, especially the Alure kingdom.
'Was it because of the facility, did they find out what we were trying to do?” Alexander thought. It was the only thing he could think of.
He grabbed one of the crystals which allowed him to communicate with both Sera and Roki directly. ”That beast, you need to get rid of it now, before it brings this entire empire down!”
”Tell them the event is Called Off, and get the people to leave now!” Alexander said to his aide, who was off.
The scene down below was still at a standstill, no one had moved and that included the ant beast. It seems like the message had reached the audience's ears, and they started to leave. However, screams were heard, and some chose to rush in back to the arena.
”Keep an eye on her.” Kyle said, as he ran through the people and rushed to the top of the arena. He used his black sash skills to help him scale up the wall until he finally reached the highest point allowing him to see out of the arena.
On the ground floor, he could see several different people all coming towards the arena. They were surrounding it. The knights from the arena went out to engage with them, but they were killed with a few swings and hits.
”Great,” Kyle said. ”Now all we need is the Dark Guild leader to appear out of nowhere,” Kyle complained referencing the fact at Avrion's own tournament something similar had occurred.