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Chapter 521 The Strongest In One Place
At the end of his hand, Raze held onto the head of another warrior, his body shrinking in front of him, until he had become nothing. Letting go, he dropped him onto the floor.
“That deals with all of them then,” Raze said as he looked at the entire room.
There had to be around thirty or more who had come to attack him in the main reception. His commotion had caused quite a bit of noise, and since he was in the clan’s base, they had a large number of members.
On the ground, every single warrior had been absorbed using his extraction technique. He could feel their Qi being added to his, swirling around in his body.
‘I used my Qi to fight more than my magic with these guys because the extraction technique, when used, restores and adds to my own Qi,’ Raze concluded. ‘Using it allows me to keep on fighting with next to no trouble at all, and I might need to save my mana because I’m worried.’
Right now, Raze had decided rather than going left or right, he would head up one of the two winding staircases that led to the second floor.
He walked past all of those he had defeated. ‘Everyone I’ve fought against so far, not a single one of them had posed any trouble. Were Feebie and the middle-class warriors at the summoning ceremony the only strong ones in the clan? I refuse to believe that.’
Raze had reached the second floor, and there was a large hallway that led to the back of the room. The hallway itself was decorated with a number of vases and paintings on the wall with more doors to the left and right.
As he walked down, he didn’t bother opening any of the doors; he just continued to head forward.
‘I refuse to believe that one of the top clans only has this much strength. They must be somewhere, and my gut is telling me they’re behind this door.’
Reaching the end of the hallway, Raze was now staring at a semi-oval large double white door. The outside of the door itself had golden inlays. Out of all the doors he had seen in the base so far, this one by far looked the most luxurious, which was why he was sure he had hit a jackpot.
—— After Anna had successfully unlocked the red door to the underground cell, Harbour rushed forward. For too long had the others done the work that he wished to do.
As he reached the bottom of the stairs, there were more members of the Lethal Bite Clan. One he quickly shifted with a foot technique and then grabbed him by his chest.
He slammed him against the wall, knocking him out in an instant, and as for the other, Harbour had quickly spun his body and hit one of the men’s heads with the back of his fist.
It had caused the man’s head to go flying, crashing into the bars, killing him almost instantly.
Going back to the first person he had injured, he lifted his foot and stomped down, making sure there would be no signs of life.
“These people, they are helping Niang. I have no mercy for them,” Harbour said.
The holding cells were small, it was only one large cell room because they would only stay here for a few days at most while waiting for trial, so it didn’t take them long to find the people they were looking for.
Anna went straight to one of the doors and lifted the metal bars, flinging them to the side. All of them entered and could see three people sitting on the ground.
“Sir Harbour!” Ivor shouted out.
Bargo looked up at them, wincing in pain, with bandages covering his right side.
“There is no longer the need for you to call me sir. You have to explain what happened?” Harbour asked.
“It was a trap!” Ivor shouted instantly. “We came here from the barracks to make the report as we had been asked to directly. When we entered, we were told to wait in a room, and then, Sir Niang had entered.
“He started to interrogate us, we reported everything as he did to you, and then he imprisoned us here. Bargo tried to fight back, and this is the result.”
“Are you saying Niang did this!” Harbour was a bit shocked.
The wound looked like a fairly bad one, but it wasn’t just that. Bargo was from the Moon Shield Clan, a clan that focused on defensive techniques.
From what he knew, Niang wasn’t much of a fighter, he was just smart with his head, using people around him, so how could he do such a thing in the first place.
“Wasn’t there three of you?” Anna asked.
“That no-name… I don’t know how, but he managed to escape before we even reached the cells, so I have no clue where he went,” Ivor answered.
“How did you get to us? You couldn’t have possibly gone against the whole clan?” Bargo asked as he was helped up to his feet.
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“That’s because of the young warrior named Raze. He is attacking them straight ahead and is going for Niang; he has been causing quite the mess,” Harbour answered.
Bargo thought as much, after remembering what he had done to those middle-stage warriors beforehand. As to why they were here, he had no clue.
“Wait, did you say he was attacking them straight ahead… if he’s after Niang, this could be bad,” Ivor commented. “Right now, the reason why there are so few guards is because they’re having the passing ceremony.”
Everyone looked at each other as they had no idea what that was, all apart from Harbour.
“We need to hurry quickly and head to Raze now; he’s in serious trouble!” Harbour said as they rushed up the stairs.
“Wait, what is this passing Ceremony, why is it so dangerous?” Charlotte asked.
“The Ceremony’s not dangerous; it’s just the fact that the ceremony is taking place,” Harbour answered. “It’s the selection of a new clan head. They are officially making Niang the clan head.”
“Which means, right now, all of the Elders, the top members of the Lethal Bite Clan, have all gathered in one place to congratulate Niang. The strongest people in the Lethal Bite Clan will all be in one place.”
—— At the same time, Raze had done the same as before and pushed the door open. In front of him on the ground was a gold-clothed walkway. Bright light shot in from the glass windows at the back, and on stage, he could see a few people standing.
However, inside the room, there were at least a hundred members standing on the left and right side, all who had been looking at the stage.
As soon as they heard the door, though, they had turned around to see who had just rudely interrupted such an important celebration.
“So this is where you all were,” Raze said as he raised his sword in the air and held it with both of his hands, turning his blade almost obsidian black.
Chapter 522 1 Vs 100
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As soon as Raze had opened the door, he could sense the gazes that were staring right back at him. It was quite clear they saw him as an intruder, and in response to that, each one of them was building up the Qi in their bodies, ready to strike.
Judging by the people he could see in the room and the strength that they all had, he was sure that he was in the right place.
‘Most of these guys in here are high stage initial warriors or at the middle stage. It looks like I’ve come to the right place.’
Raze placed both hands on his Ghost blade above, and Dark magic started to encase the sword, turning it obsidian black.
‘While this group of people is distracted and unsure of what is going on, it’s the best time to attack!’
“Dark Edge Magic Sword Arts second formation, Eclipse Strike!” Raze swung his sword down and activated his most powerful magic, his Dark magic.
The blow struck down on one half of the room. Some of the warriors tried to gather their Qi to strike back; others tried to move out of the way, but the large attack was powerful. The Qi, added with the magic, engulfed the entirety of one side of the room, even destroying the walls behind it. The attack had continued on beyond the walls, and from the outside, people were able to catch a glimpse of the attack in the air before it dissipated.
Raze placed the sword to his side and looked at the carnage he had caused. One half of the grand room, the floor was completely destroyed, light was being let in now from the destroyed walls. Most of all, though, a large chunk, at least one third of the warriors that were in the room, were no longer present.
“Who is that man!” Niang shouted from the stage, looking down, as he heard the elders, the minister, and the high officials by his side.
Just moments ago, he had received the title as Head of the Clan, and now he was officially the head, but a stranger had come in and attacked on the first day.
“All members of the Lethal Bite Clan, eliminate him!” Niang ordered with every bone in his body shaking in anger.
Raze readied himself as he watched the warriors come right at him; one of his hands was starting to spark, while Qi was being gathered in the other, making the sword turn a bright orange.
“It’s good that attack didn’t get rid of too many of you, because I need the rest of you!” Raze dashed forward and cast a lightning spell at the men closest.
As it hit the center of their bodies, it shocked two to three by the side. Those coming from another side, Raze swung his sword, performing the Crimson Slash, letting out a flurry of attacks.
The warriors, being more decent than the ones that he had faced so far, were able to block them with their skills and fight back against it.
However, that wasn’t what Raze was aiming for in the first place.
The first group that had attacked them, he had placed his hand on their head and while fending off the others with one hand, he was absorbing the Qi and the energies of the others.
Seeing this, some of the warriors had leapt up and started to strike from above. Raze had promptly let go of the drained warrior and jumped backward.
As he did, he had ventured over to the destroyed half of the room, and he felt his foot tap one of the already perished warriors.
“It looks like I need some more help; let’s just slow them down a bit.”
“Ice Wall!” Raze cast with one of his hands, and as with the spell’s name, a wall of ice had appeared between the two.
Raze knew that the ice wouldn’t hold them; they were strong enough to break through it, but he needed to do something else.
Leaning down on the one that had perished, Raze’s Dark magic surrounded his whole body.
“Recreate!”
The shrouded Dark magic started to form into a human shape, and just as Raze had predicted, using their skills they had smashed the ice apart.
The moment they came through, the Dark magic warrior that had been made, had leapt from his position, diving right into the rest of them.
The sword struck theirs, and it had blasted one of the warriors as if a Dark Pulse had been used on it. However, the rest of the warriors stabbed, hit, and punched the Dark magic with their Qi, easily dealing with it.
The Dark magic was being torn apart, and that’s when Raze had made the order.
“Destroy!”
The Dark magic exploded into all directions everywhere, hurting multiple of the warriors that were nearby, and while they were being hurt and trying to take cover, Raze still wasn’t letting up.
He got in close to one that had been injured on the leg, grabbed them by the head, and slammed them into the floor. Immediately, he started to use the extraction technique.
“Don’t worry; none of your lives will be going to waste; the years you dedicated to training yourselves to getting stronger and stronger, all of that will go to me!” Raze exclaimed.
Niang, Conner, and more of the elders and high-ranking officials were stunned by what was going on. Their warriors weren’t even able to make a mark on this single individual.
They were using the Clan’s technique that had been honed over centuries, yet this man was using techniques they had never seen before, being able to cast lightning and ice powers.
“Who sent this man? Why is he attacking our clan?” Conner claimed.
“I don’t think that matters right now!” Niang said. “If he gets rid of everyone in this room, and nothing is done to him, then there won’t be a clan left!”
After leaving the cell, the group had headed from the side of the building they were in and had now entered the reception.
They had stopped for a moment as they looked at all the defeated clan members that were on the ground.
“What happened here? Is this all that newcomer’s doing?” Ivor asked. “It can’t be; how can a single person take out so many from our clan?”
“Middle stage warriors are capable of taking out an army of initial stage warriors, especially of this caliber,” Bargo explained.
“Does that mean that man is a middle stage warrior?” Ivor asked.
Anna was trying to analyze the room, to try and find out which path Raze had taken, and she had found the way as she pointed out the top of the stairs.
As they continued to follow Anna, Bargo was thinking about what Ivor had said because that was the thing; he was sure Raze wasn’t a middle stage warrior, but then how could anyone explain what was happening.
“We have to hurry; although we have gone past a lot of clan people, the real troublesome ones will be in…” Harbour’s footsteps started to slow down.
He had seen the room up ahead; one of the doors was left open. He walked in with all the others and could see the light shining from the broken wall down onto the iron mask.
While Raze stood there in the center, with nearly the entire Lethal Bite Clan defeated, the only ones that were still standing were those on the stage.
“He’s really going to do it… this man is going to take out the entire clan!” Harbour said to himself.
Raze ignored those who had just entered and instead looked to the stage of warriors.
“No… still not enough, they weren’t enough, I need the rest of you,” Raze said as he pointed his sword right toward Niang standing in the center.
Chapter 523 Taking Off The Head
Harbour, Anna, Charlotte, Ivor, and Bargo had all entered the ceremonial room. It was a room created by the Lethal Bite Clan for celebrations and usually to honor those moving up in rank.
Today was one of the biggest days in the Lethal Bite Clan’s long history as they had come to a decision as to who they wished to make their leader.
When they entered the room, it was nothing like the last time Harbour had seen it. How could a room filled with so much death feel like a joyous occasion?
Most of the bodies were shriveled up beyond recognition. Parts of their limbs cut and torn, injured.
Standing in the center of it all was none other than Raze.
“He did all of this?” Bargo commented, being surprised. He was wondering if this was something even the Clan Head of the Moon Shield Clan would have been capable of.
Perhaps so, but in such a short time frame, was a different story entirely, and even more so when looking at Raze. Apart from the blood on his clothing, there didn’t appear to be a scratch on him.
Standing on the stage in the room was Niang, the new Clan Head, a few of the Elders including Connor, and several of the supporters that were deciding people in bringing Niang to the position he had achieved.
However, as Raze was taking care of the clan members at a fast speed one after the other, they were dumbfounded with not a single one of them jumping in, and before they knew it, all the warriors in the room had fallen.
“No… still not enough, they weren’t enough, I need the rest of you,” Raze said as he pointed his sword right toward Niang standing in the center.
“Who are you, who sent you to do this to our clan!” Niang shouted, his head still shaking with anger. As he shouted at Raze though, he could see behind him the group of people that had just arrived.
“Harbour?” Niang called out with a raised eyebrow. “And the others you brought with you… it was you, you were the one that sent this man to attack us, is he from the Moon Shield Clan, huh!”
Harbour couldn’t believe it, even now, in the situation he was in, Niang was still keeping up with the lies that he had made.
But, there couldn’t have been a larger smile on his face right now.
“You are a fool, that has brought this upon yourself,” Harbour claimed. “All of you standing there, you all brought this upon yourself.”
“You didn’t believe a word I had to say and just trusted the twisted words of this vile man that is now the head of the clan!”
“The Moon Shield Clan? Do you really think a member of the Moon Shield Clan can wield this power? Someone that we didn’t know about other than the clan leader?”
Those on the stage looked at the man below. Due to his mask, they couldn’t see his face, but one thing they could tell was based on his body shape, he didn’t seem to be the Moon Shield Clan leader. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
But who else could it be, who could Harbour have connections with to be able to bring so much chaos to the Lethal Bite Clan?
“Everything seems to just be a string of fate, as you can see, I rescued Bargo and Ivor, the Vice Head of the Moon Shield Clan, and the Clan member in charge of the barracks that I sent here.
“Do you care to explain why they were locked up in our cells!”
Connor’s gaze was staring at Niang from the corner of his eyes. Originally, they had believed that Bargo had run away.
It made him look guilty of his crimes, and Connor thought it might have been a plan set up by the other Clans. Yet, why would Bargo be here now of all things.
“Do you have an answer?” Connor asked.
“An answer?” Niang replied as he moved closer to Connor. “Do you think this man down there had the right, after bringing someone that took down our entire clan? He has brought the clan to ruin.”
“If he was the leader, look what would have happened.”
“Are you really that clouded in your own judgment, living in your own world!” Harbour shouted. “All of this has only happened because of what you have done.”
“You went too far. You could have just kicked me out of the clan, but instead you even went after my family. All of what is happening today is a result of your own actions!”
A thread of guilt was overflowing in Connor right now. When they had the meeting, the evidence was stacking up against Harbour overwhelmingly. To the point even those that supported him had crossed him.
When did it happen, when did he fail to notice that Niang had so much influence over the clan? It had to be something that was brewing for a long time, even during the reign of Feebie and Royo being at the top.
“I’m sorry for what has happened, Harbour, my negligence in the Clan matters has failed the whole clan-“
In the middle of his speech, a dagger had appeared right through Connor’s throat, out to the back of his head covered in blood.
“Shut up!” Niang said as he pulled out the sword, and Connor fell to the floor. “Are you saying that my reign that has only been so small is a failure?”
“I am at the helm of the Lethal Bite Clan that will make history. Our clan will be the biggest it’s ever been and will lead the Dark Faction to conquer all other factions and unite the continents.”
“I was able to unite the Lethal Bite Clan, by taking out all of those that were useless and not loyal to the cause, and I will do the same with the rest of the Dark Faction. I will not have someone tarnish the name of the new Lethal Bite Clan while I am at its head.”
Harbour shook his head. It wasn’t at the sight of the Lethal Bite Clan Connor losing his life. Because Harbour wanted to take that from him as well.
In his mind, he blamed all of the Lethal Bite Clan for not looking into matters. He did everything for the clan, gave his whole life to the clan, and they repaid him by killing his family.
However, he shook his head at the reason for all of it happening, and Niang’s goal in all of this, it was truly saddening for him to hear.
“You’re right, you will be remembered in the history of the Lethal Bite Clan as the one who was at the head when the Lethal Bite Clan was no longer and fell to oblivion.”
Harbour was screaming at the top of his lungs that his throat hurt, he was so saddened by his words that tears were streaming down his face again.
“You said you will grant me my wish… so please, grant it for me, get rid of that man!” Harbour demanded.
“Don’t worry, I was already planning to,” Raze answered. “He is the current head of the Lethal Bite Clan, and as long as there is a head, the Clan will always exist.”
Raze crouched down, holding the sword by his side, and his Qi started to pulsate right by the hilt.
Chapter 524 A Surprise power
“What are you all doing?” Niang said as he flung his dagger by his side, causing the blood to drop to the floor.
“These people in front of us have taken out most of the Lethal Bite Clan. If we don’t deal with them now, then the whole Clan will fall.
“Centuries of history will fade. He’s been fighting non-stop; surely he’s tired by now. Get them!”
Those standing on stage were shocked that the Elder Connor had just been killed. The oldest member of the clan.
The Clan had already lost so much, and they were struck by what Niang had done, but two things drove them.
One, the fact that the Clan’s whole existence was on the line, and the second thing was Niang doing the same thing to them.
They rushed off the stage and quickly went down to the targets below, but they weren’t just going to let them attack Raze.
Bargo, although injured, drew his sword and deflected one of the swords. Anna charged forward and grabbed two of them by the wrist, flinging them onto the floor.
Charlotte had even cast a heat spell along with a wind one, causing a vortex of flames to hit one of the warriors in the stomach.
Enough powers and such had already been revealed. The case for hiding the powers was dealt with. Lastly, Harbour had joined the fight, as he gathered his fist and dodged a blow, pulling one of the Elders and hitting them right in the face.
Before they would fall down, he grabbed the Elder again.
“None of you had to go that far; you killed my family, and against one of your own! After everything I did, you guys had no right to decide that!” Harbour shouted.
“Are you saying you wouldn’t have done the same?” The elder replied. “If we had found the same type of evidence of Niang, you wouldn’t have ordered the same if he had a family.”
It was the usual Pagna way. The offense of one person was a whole family’s offense. Not just that, but if one were to leave any survivors, then it was always a cause of retaliation.
You had to pull up the whole problem by its roots; otherwise, it would just grow back.
“You lost nothing, while I lost everything!” Harbour shouted, hitting him right in the stomach.
Bargo and Harbour were now back to back, as there were more from the stage, and these were quite skilled warriors unlike the rest that they had come across so far.
“We can handle these; everyone else seems to be holding their own as well. Apart from Ivor,” Bargo commented, as Ivor was busy hiding behind the orange-haired girl with magical powers.
He was cheering her on and being a lookout for her, since her senses weren’t as sharp, but he wasn’t directly getting involved in the fighting himself.
“Do you think that the new guy will be okay?” Harbour asked.
“The leader, he’s a middle-stage warrior, and a low one if I’m correct. His strength should be no less than those that had attacked us at the stone manor,” Bargo answered. “If that is all he needs to deal with, then that young one will be fine.”
“I’m worried though, after everything he had seen us do, and everyone in here, Niang still doesn’t look afraid. He might be a weak middle-stage warrior, but I just feel like he has something up his sleeve!” Harbour exclaimed.
Raze looked at Niang’s devious smile, and with the sword by his side, he gripped the hilt tight. His Qi was starting to gather and pulsate around the hilt of his weapon.
‘If he’s a middle-stage warrior, then using just the Dark Edge Sword Arts without the magic should be enough!’ Raze thought.
Shifting his feet forward, Raze used the descending step to leap right at his enemy. He had made it from his position almost right up to where Niang was.
“The fourth Dark Edge Sword Arts!”
The Qi was gathered in the hilt of the weapon rather than the blade.
‘Let’s get this over with, in one hit!’ Raze thought.
‘The Void Pulse formation!’
Qi pulsated outward from the back of the weapon. The mass amount of power had hit some of the attackers that were dealing with the rest of the group from behind, causing them to fumble.
However, the power of the thrusting attack was dealt with from the front, as Raze’s sword had gone right through Niang’s chest.
It had pierced right where his heart would be; the sword had broken through, and Niang’s face was one of pain.
“With this, the Lethal Bite Clan will fall, and one of the five pillars that hold up the Dark Faction will start to crumble,” Raze spoke.
Anna looked over as she twisted another attack and pushed their head into the ground once again.
“Ah right, I forgot, I was meant to interrogate the leader to find out if he was part of the deaths in the other cities as well… it looks like that won’t be possible right now,” Anna said to herself.
Niang, his face one of pain, soon started to change though to one of smiles.
“You… want to take down the Dark Faction, what grand ambitions you have,” Niang managed to speak out.
“Take down,” Raze replied to him. “No, that’s not exactly right… It seems my enemy has a large force, one that has its eyes everywhere. I don’t want to take out the Dark Faction; I want to control it and make it my own.”
“Then it seems like our goals are the same, too bad you won’t succeed.” Niang had a smile on his face, and with his hand, he had reached down quickly to his side.
Raze pulled out the sword from his chest quickly. Something wasn’t right; he should have been dead by now, but that wasn’t the case.
If stabbing one through the heart wouldn’t kill them, then he would just have to go for the head.
As Raze went to strike though, Niang already had his sword in his hand. It was shining brightly, a white glow to it, that hurt his eyes.
Before he knew it, from the tip of the blade, a large beam of energy fired out. It hit Raze instantly, pushing him back, right down to the ground.
His hidden blazer had activated immediately, creating a force field around him; it was blocking the beam of energy from the sword and had eventually stopped.
Niang held the glowing sword in his hand, radiating with power, and as for the wound on his chest. Through the cut cloth, one could see it healing visibly to the eye.
It was as if the wound was never there in the first place.
“You thought you had killed me; did you think your sword, with your strength, could do such a thing?” Niang started to laugh, holding onto the sword.
Harbour, seeing what had occurred, knew he was right, Niang was hiding something.
However, back in the center of the room, Raze was unhurt as well; he was looking to the floor, holding onto his face.
“If it wasn’t for the effects of the blazer, that would have been dangerous,” Raze looked up, his hand still holding onto his mask.
Half of it had been destroyed by the attack. Letting go and placing his hand by his side, his mask fell onto the floor, revealing his entire face.
“You have a few hidden weapons I see, but you have no idea what I’m capable of,” Raze chuckled off his Pagna clothing, and magic covered his body as it was replaced, revealing the finely crafted blazer that had saved him.
“Let’s see who has more surprises,” Raze smiled.