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Chapter 16
Midnight narrowly dodge the punch than came at him and did flips backward, to maintain a reasonable distance between him and Micah, who obviously was on a higher par than he was.

On the other hand, Spider sent three strands of huge hairs at Jude, moving with great speed, the first strand smacked Jude on the stomach, grinning widely, the second strand smashed him on the face, splitting his skin directly below the left eye, with the third strand coming in swiftly, Spider felt a soft pull and suddenly Jude grabbed the third hair.

Already holding firm to the third strand of hair, and the previous two strands Jude smiled wickedly and spat out blood from his mouth.

“While you’re busy sending attacks, I noticed you cant re track your hairs unless all strands already completes their attack” Jude said, still grinning widely and pulled the hair tightly with his hands

“Hellll Fiiiirrreeee!!!!” Jude shouted and pulled Spider forward with great strength.
Fire from Jude’s body, suddenly moved through his hands and next through the hairs moving swiftly along the hairs towards Spider’s main body.

“My attack aren’t working” Spider muttered, this time fear was already all over his face.

“Ode!!, My hell fire technique burns through anything, although it takes a long time to activate” Jude said and watched as the fire engulfed Spider who screamed out in pain.

Micah dashed at Midnight and disappeared before him, Midnight grinned and before he could react to what was going to happen next, Micah appeared before him and smashed him hard on the stomach, sending him crashing hard against the wall.

“What’s wrong, is your vision becoming blurry?” Micah asked and flicked the sweat on his face off.

“How?” Midnight said grunting in pains as he picked himself up.

“It’s a pity you don’t know the flaws of your powers, you can see just a minute into the future, when fighting and you activate that power, you have to wait for three seconds before you can see into the next fight future, and that three seconds is enough for me to end your miserable life, so if I notice you’ve used your power, I’ll have to wait one minute before attacking” Micah said and squatted, he leaned his left leg backward and pushed his two hands forward.

“You can see into the future, then you should know that you cant dodge this attack” Micah said and smiled widely.

“Nine Dragon, Malicious Intent!!” Micah screamed and next from his hands came out a smoky huge dragon, that roared out loudly and dived into the air, smashing hard against the ceiling of the building, crashing down bricks, the dragon rampaged around the room and dived towards Midnight who was already frightened to the bone.

The dragon smashed itself hard against Midnight and caught him between its strong jaws and dived up, bursting through the ceiling, straight out of the entire building and disappeared into the sky.

“I’m drained” Jude said and coughed out blood from his mouth, clinching tight to his stomach “Hell Fire, that’s my final move, it drains all my energy” He said and went on his knees and placed his hand on the ground, coughing out blood.

“You should rest here” Micah replied, and helped Jude lay on his back “I just have to burst through and give that man the beating he deserves”

“It wont be easy, seems you don’t know about his champion, Bloodlust” Jude said groaning

“What about him?”

“He is an anti magic user, when you attack him, instead of him feeling the pains, you are the one who feels it, and it five folds stronger” Jude said and grinned

“Such monster” Micah said and grinned angrily.

“Not that I underestimate you, but I don’t think this is a fight you can win this time around” Jude added and coughed lightly

“Maybe, but if we don’t do it, we wont know” Micah said and sighed “I am off” He said and disappeared

Chapter 15

Midnight went into a fight frenzy, easily overpowering both Micah and Jude, he smashed his right feet right at Micah’s head, sending it deep into the hard floor. Turning around to face Jude next, Midnight phased into thine air and appeared behind Jude, and sent a punch at him, narrowly dodging the punch that came at his face, Jude gasped for breathe as he tried gaining balance, before he could decide what next, Midnight was already at him again.

“Nothing you do is useful, I can see all your attacks before you even start” Midnight shouted and gave Jude a powerful headbutt.

Micah laid still on the ground, barely conscious, he laid motionless, with his eyes wide opened.

Midnight held Jude by the right arm and flipped him hard straight into the ground and smacked his stomach with his left leg and let out a loud laughter.

“Weaklings” he screamed out in excitement.

Director Gaba let out a soft smile on the corner of his lip, satisfied with what he saw Midnight did to the two fighters. He lit the cigar in his mouth and puffed out smoke from his mouth.

“That settles it, that dragon is the answer to my desire” he said and looked at Director Churchill and smiled.

“If I may ask, why do you need him?” Director Churchill asked calmly, staring at the television before them

“Isnt it obvious already” Director Gaba replied and smiled before speaking again “That kid is a pure walking energy, if my guesses are right, he possesses the dragon slayer magic, something that is very rare, in this 21st century” Director Gaba replied and smiled.

“I still don’t fully understand”

“You see my friend, after money, what comes next?”

“Power” Director Churchill replied

“Exactly, at first, I never intended for anyone to take over my seat as the chairman of all companies in this country, but since this kid showed up, I realized my worst fear, the fear of death could be conquered with this magic this boy possess, a power that replenishes you constantly, making it impossible for you to die” Director Gaba said and heaved “And now that he is here, I have to get it to myself at all cost, I want to rule forever”

Director Churchill frowned within himself and suddenly it struck him, more reason why Director Gaba was so set on getting the boy.

“That’s it, before he became Chairman, 17 years ago, he had a blood contract with a dark magic soul, which was sent into the body of Bloodlust, his fighter and champion for over 17 years now, if the rumors are true, that means, Gaba has been asked to pay back the price of the contract which is probably his life, or worst still, his family, with this power he can actually cancel the contract”
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Micah noticed himself floating in a mildly dark environment, floating freely out of his own will.

“Tell me Micah, would you stand and watch the name of Dragon Fist be trampled and dragged in the mud by someone who is not worthy at all?” a calm resounding voice said to him.

Micah slowly opened his eyes and saw he was in a dark environment

“June, is that you?”

“I didn’t raise you to be a weakling Micah, I am sure your brother doesn’t expect you to be one also, that’s why he trusted in you”

“Hmmm, a brother” Micah muttered in confusion.

“Now is not the time to bother about this that are minor” the voice said and faded off, then suddenly “Will you get up this instant!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“Tsk, even in death, you are as loud as always, is that how you keep shouting in the world beyond, they would be tired of you and send you back” Micah said with a bright smile on his face.

Jude smashed his fist to the ground, grinning widely and filled with rage, his arms went up in flames and spread through his entire body.

“You really hurt my pride” Jude shouted and stood up, filled with rage and energy.

“The Nine Dragon isn’t something you can get rid off so lightly” Micah said as he pulled himself from the ground.

“Ehh, standing already” Midnight said with a wide grin “Argh, that is not my most powerful move”

“Come with all you have”

Director Gaba stood in shock, seeing the two get back up to their feet feeling revived like nothing had happened to them earlier.

“Yes, that is the power I want, Bloodlust, get ready, you will bring me both of them this time, no matter what happens”

Chapter 13

“Moooorrrrreeeeeeeeee!!” Jude screamed at the top of his voice as he smacked his right fist into the stomach of a Dead Force shoulder and suddenly his hands going up in flame “Shoot Styllleeeeeee” he screamed aloud as loud explosion from him rocked everywhere.

“That’s some crazy power” Director Josh thought within himself, while dodging the swift attack that came at him.

“Director!!” Micah shouted from where he stood, surrounded by Dead Force soldiers, who were cautious about attacking him blindly, since he was only taking them out with one smack to the stomach, which resulted in fatal damage to their body, no matter the fight technique that was launched at him.

“I’ll leave things here to you and the Henry, I have something to do” Micah said and slashed his hand into the air and instantly all Dead Army before him were slashed into two halves from the stomach. “Tch”

“Defense Palace” Director Josh muttered as his body became made of steel, fending off the attacks that came at him “Don’t die on me, brother” Director Josh muttered again as he nodded his head affirmatively to what Micah had said.

“Waitttttt, you cant have all the fun to yourrrrseeelllfff!!!!, the bad guys are always watching from behind, this is no fuuunnnnn!!!!!” Jude shouted and roared out fire from his mouth.

“Youre so loud, Don’t fall behind” Micah replied and disappeared.

Director Gaba grinned widely, a little feeling of uncertainty, he starred deep at the television set that showed everything that was going on in the destroyed part of the building and grunted.

“Those boys are going to be trouble” Director Churchill muttered, sitting down next to Director Gaba.

“The kid that used Nine Dragon Fist in his first match, it bothers me that that his is weakest technique after all, but at the same time, he is what we’ve been looking for, the key that finally brings us to our dear ambition, Spider, Midnight, Doctor Shoot, you’re the last line of defense, you can kill the Salamandar, but bring that Dragon to me alive” Director Gaba said and smiled evilly.

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Micah leaned on the elevator as it moved towards the last floor of the hotel, he grinned and turned to look at Jude and noticed the sad expression on his face, at first he thought to ignore, but spoke

“If you’re scared, you should go back” Micah said coldly

“Scared, no, I am all fired up, I joined this tournament to get a closer look at the evil behind the suffering in this country and to be able to defend those that are important to me, I mean everyone, a world filled with powers, but yet injustice, the sad expression on my face, is that of many that has suffered for unjust reason because of people like Director Gaba, he has done so many unforgiveable things” Jude replied and made his fist go up in flame.

“Tsk, I once had friend who got caught up in this mess and died, the pain in the face of his parents, I still see it even know, the only child of his struggling parents, his life was caught short, I am only here to revenge him, but along the way I found something really interesting” Micah said

DING! The elevator sounded and came to a halt, the doors slowly came apart and before them were standing the Three Knights of Leading House Magazine
Doctor Shoot, dressed in overall red flowing gown and a hood that covered his face, beneath his cloth are rumoured to be various fire powers and he never misses his shot.

Midnight, dressed in plain black clothing, he can see a minute into the future, when he is fighting, predicting the next step of his opponent, he controls legions of demons and can manipulate them at will

And lastly Spider, who is always on all four limbs, and has hairs that are about fourteen feet long, his hairs are as sharp as steel, cutting through metals, he can change the structure of his hairs as he pleases.

Chapter 12
Another shot came at Micah’s chest, making him stagger few steps backward
“The first one came from the right, the bullet to the chest came from the right, from below, nice trick to keep yourself hidden” Micah muttered “But between both shots were six seconds difference, that’s right he is changing direction while also reloading, just one more shot at me and youre done” Micah muttered and took a defense posture.

He looked back at Mr. Kaine who was visible frightened, no matter how hard he tried to hid it.

“From behind”

Micah grabbed Mr. Kaine by the head and pushed him hard to the right, away from the incoming bullets, narrowly dodging the bullet himself, Micah dashed barely visible. He sent a heavy punch forward, screaming at the top of his voice

“Dragonnnnn Dannnceee!!!” he shouted as he sent the punch forward.

SMACK!! The punch hit someone invisible, immediately contact was made right on the forehead, the opponent instantly became visible. The punch smashed through his skull, shattering it completely off the neck.

“Very predictable, I knew you would fall for the bait, looking back at Mr. Kaine would make you realize I have a blind spot behind me” Micah muttered as he moved his fingers.

The ceiling of the hall, slowly began to crumble, first were few block dropping down, and next of sudden it came down completely.

Dust went up into the air, completely covering the entire leveled area. The blue shield died down, with everyone in it unhurt. Director Josh gasped for breathe and stood upright, seeing the development of the situation before them.

“That is the Dead Force, the machineries the Chairman control” Director Henry said grinning from ear to ear.

Completely surrounding them were men dressed in complete overall red cloths, completely covering even the whole of their face and head.

“I cant even pick out their heartbeats, they are probably highly skilled and dangerous, their composure and all” Director Josh added and made a circle in the air.

A black hole formed out of the gesture he made in the air, he dipped his hand into it and brought out two Katanas (A Japanese sword).

“Blood Blade” he muttered as he swayed the sword in the air “I really hate using these, when the bloodlust comes in, its hard to stop” he said to himself and smiled

“Heaven Accompany” Director Henry muttered and next was his body covered in light looking armors, light as cloth

“Only five Director remaining” Jude muttered and scoffed

“We surrender” all remaining Directors shouted in unison alongside with their fighters.

Before them, the Dead Force made a path for those who had surrendered, allowing them to leave unscathed

“What about you, you have no score to settle with the Chairman, you should leave” Director Josh said to Henry

“Distorting the balance of a competition is enough reason for me to fight back and I need to settle that score” Director Henry replied “And apart from that, I feel this should be like strolling the park”

Chapter 11
Henry suddenly appeared at the top of the hotel building and sniffed into the cold night air and sighed.

“What you did back there at the fight with Hanabi, its quite strange” Henry said and turned around towards the water tank, where Micah was standing.

“I did nothing to her”

“I heard what you said to your boss, even if you communicated with him through telepathy” Henry said and smiled “You’re strange” Henry said and disappeared.

“I’m here for the man who took my friend from me and nothing else, and I will play those card according to how I want it to turn out and use every one of you as a pawn to achieve that even if it means taking out all I have in me to achieve it and I won’t stop at that only” Micah said coldly and smiled as he faded off into the night.

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Director Josh watched as Micah walked in, standing by the bar, a bottle with him, he stretched out his hands and halted Micah.

“You should be careful how you move around this place, you know better that it is not save for any one of us and I am sure you know of that perfectly” Director Josh said calmly.

“I know, I just had to make my own findings”

“We are being summouned by the leading Chairman, it has to do with the strange occurrence with Hanabi I think, and you should refrain from saying anything even if the question is to directed at you”

“I don’t know if you’ve been having some strange feeling like a being much more stronger has been lurking around” Micah said and waited for Director Josh to put down his hand

A knock suddenly came at the door of their room, which interrupted their discussion. Mr. Kaine adjusted his cloth and made for the door. On the other side was Director Henry and his brother Jude, he ushered them and closed the door behind them.

“Something is up, something really strange” Director Henry said and placed his right palm on his face and sighed.

“We know, but we don’t know the details” Director Josh said and stood right.

“The chairman has no intention of giving up his position, and silently he has been eliminating weak fighters with his machineries, behind the scene, I have every reason to believe the urgent meeting is meant to be a mass massacre” Director Henry said

“That bastard, that means staying Chairman isn’t enough, there is more to these things” Jude chipped in.

“I don’t care what it is, as long as no one holds me back” Micah said and looked at the ceiling

“It is becoming a drag, well, we are moving out, I just came to inform you of the possibility of what might be the outcome at the meeting” Director Henry said and turned to take his leave.

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Micah walked in last after Director Josh, manning the doors were gunmen, one on each sides of the metal door that led into the wide meeting hall were everyone were to converge.

Micah after entering stood still and looked around the hall, from what he could count, they were only 10 fighters and their manager. He looked at the multiple entrance at the other end of the hall. He walked closer to the wall and placed his left palm on it.

“Tch” He muttered as he pulled his hand out.

“There are others outside on the other end of those doors, I sense at least thirty of them, with no good intents, the Chairman isn’t part of them, seems this is a massacre” Micah said to Director Josh who was standing next to Director Henry and his brother.

The walls of the hall suddenly began to shake furiously, and from above it cracked, dropping large quantity of dust on them.

An uproar took over from everyone in the hall, not sure about what was happening.

“It’s everyman to himself” Micah said and tapped his left feet on the ground.

Director Josh saw this and also slammed his palms together and smashed them into the ground, making a blue shield spread out and covering everyone in the hall.

“Stay still, this isn’t supposed to be a meeting as said by the Chairman, it’s a massacre” Director Henry shouted and placed his hands on Director Josh.

“I’m lending you my strength” he said as his hands began to glow brightly.

A Director suddenly fell to the ground, with his head blown to pieces, another Director suddenly got cut into halves and another dropped instantly.

“Their taking out the Directors, which nullifies a fighter” Jude shouted

Micah suddenly took to his heels, almost becoming invisible, he stood before Mr. Kaine and at that instant a bullet smacked his forehead.

Micah groaned as the bullet dropped to the ground, with his skin which made contact with the bullet broken and oozing out blood.

Chapter 10

Micah scoffed as Jude sat next to him, while Director Josh and Henry sat on the far end, everyone fixed on the ongoing match between Evergreen Markets and Green Garden.

Evergreen Markets’ Champion: Hanabi, a total record of 21 fights and 18 wins and 3 losses.
Green Garden’s Champion: Night Cloud, a total record of 13 fights, and 13 wins

Hanabi moved a great distance away from her opponent who didn’t give any breathing space in his attack, as he went from one barraging to another. Hanabi panted heavily as she spat out blood out from her mouth to the ground and snarled as she watched her opponent dashing furiously back at her.

“She is at a very large disadvantage” Jude said and scoffed, at the very least not expecting Micah to give him a reply.

“She is not” Micah replied coldly “From the way she fights, her method is to watch her opponent closely, and find the perfect opening, by her calculations, she has found 20 opening so far, but she is finding the perfect moment to strike a blow that will completely take him out of the arena, she is smart” Micah said and clicked his tongue.

Henry with the corner of his eyes looked at his brother who was being lectured by Micah

“I hope you now fully understand you both are not fit to be on the same level, he has more experience than you and you are no match for him” Henry thought within himself and sighed.

Hanabi moved around swiftly as Night Cloud attacked her, bending down swiftly she sent a swift kick right at his stomach and like he had predicted the attack, he leaped backward and jammed his palms together, making strong waves dispatch out from his hand which sent Hanabi off her feet, sending her crashing her to the ground.

Micah scoffed and stood up, tucked his hands into his pocket and made to leave.

“Where are you going?” Director Josh asked

“It’s an unfair fight, I am going to lecture the girl” Micah replied staring deep at Director Josh.

“Tsk” Director Josh said as Micah walked on.

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A hard punch grazed her lower jaw, which split her lips and sent her flying distance away, crashing hard against the wall, and falling almost lifeless to the ground.

A bright light shown before her, she slowly raised her head and saw Micah standing right before her, stretching his hand at her.

“Come on, let me take over” he said as he pulled her up.

“She is standing up, even after taking the famous One Cloud Punch that has always brought hopelessness to everyone it ever came across to” The commentator shouted in awe.

“Tsk, this is one tough opponent, I should have gone all out on her” Night Cloud said and tighten the glove strap around his hand.

Micah pulled her up, his body oozing out white fumes, with a fierce look on his face. Hanabi stood to her feet, unsure about what just happened, but it was certain she was oozing with unlimited powers and strength and it seemed like she had no particular control over her body.

In one swift move, she dashed at Night Cloud, and crashed her body against him and sent him flying, she grabbed his legs and pulled him back grabbed him by the neck and smashed him into the ground.

“What is happening here is kind of unbelievable, did that boy just go into ancestral mode and walked into the girl?” Henry said and turned to look at Director and saw he was no where to be found on his seat. “Tsk, one opponent I wouldn’t want my stupid brother to come across really”

Jude turned round to look at his brother and gulped.

Director Gaba from where he sat from the peak of the fight arena, had a strong unfriendly countenance on his face and stood up.

“Hmmmmmmm” he said and he walked out of the arena “Get all Director’s and their fighters, to converge at the great hall” he said as he walked on with his cigarette in his mouth.

Chapter 9

Micah swung the pole around his body skillfully as he approached Jude who was grinning from ear to ear, Micah pointed the tip of the pole from where he was at Jude and smiled widely
“Death bullet” he muttered and from the tip of the pole came out bullets.
TRAAAA TRAAA TRAAA!!! The bullet rushed out like they were fired from a rifle
Jude opened his eyes widely as the bullets came at him, he wasn’t expecting a long range attack which he was poor at defending.
“Tch, what is this, I have always controlled my opponents from the start of the game, but, but, this guy is on a whole total level, seems like he is going all out on me, yet, this BOILS MY BLOOD” Jude said and dashed forward at the bullets.

A loud crash suddenly came before him, the crash wave, sending him distance off, while Micah stood his ground until the crash died down and revealed Director Josh and Henry standing side by side, and facing each of the fighter.

“What in hell’s name are you both doing?” Director Josh asked Micah furiously

Micah scoffed and made his pole fade off, he smiled at Director Josh and leaped off the building.

Henry walked closer to his brother and as he walked passed his whispered into his ear

“Have you seen the huge distance between you both, that boy is bred by monsters, his past his something you don’t want to know, I hope he crashes out early, so you don’t have to feel his wrath, but at the same time, I don’t think that is possible” Henry said and also leaped off the building.

“Why is my brother so scared of him, and who is this guy, who has my brother’s respect?” Jude thought within himself and sighed.

“You both should not just go around acting foolish” Director Josh said and disappeared.

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Director Josh walked into the room and met Mr. Kaine trembling with a white envelop on his hands, while Micah sat on the sofa chair fixed to the show on the television screen. Mr. Kaine raised up his head and gritted his teeth trying to maintain his composure.

“You look pathetic and what’s the matter?” Director Josh asked as he walked closer.

“Some dumbass delivered a message, asking me to lose my next match, pathetic lots” Micah said and heaved.

Director Josh heaved and adjusted his tie, he fixed his gaze on Micah who at the moment was beaming with more than enough confidence.

“Micah, we need to talk about you fighting irregular matches, like today” Director Josh said calmly as he walked forward.

“I wasn’t going to hurt him” Micah said and stood up, “There are matches tomorrow, I have to rest and go spectate” Micah said and walked into the inner room.

Mr. Kaine stood up from where he sat and walked closer to Josh

“I found something about the boy that might really interest you” Mr. Kaine said and slightly nodded his head to the left.

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Director Gaba puffed out smoke from his mouth, relaxed in his private pub room, a pool at the centre of the large room, a bar to the left, he let out satisfying moan as the ladies on both sides massaged his chest.

An image suddenly appeared at the entrance, its head lowered and slowly proceeded forward, standing at a height of four inches, the figure crawled up closer to the pool, its long hairs, dragging along the ground as it moved.

“Spider” Director Gaba said slowly and puffed out smoke from his mouth.

“Boss, the messages have been delivered, as expected most are already dropping out and some are demanding explanation, while some have decided not to heed” Spider said as saliva dripped down from his mouth.

“Exactly the point where we I had to direct all matches here to my turf” Director Gaba said and smiled “This is my turf and I decide who wins or fight” he said again and puffed “What about the boy?”

“Nothing about Grand Publisher fighter is certain for now” Spider replied and snarled.

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DAY ONE FIGHT ONE
EVERGREEN MARKETS VERSUS ROYAL GARDEN

Mr. Josh walked out of the bathroom and stood before the standing mirror in his room as he used the face towel with him to wipe off his face and sighed. The door to the room came open and it was Mr. Kaine who walked in, looking refreshed.

“If you wont be going to the main center to watch the match, it will be broadcasted live, you can view it from the television” Mr. Kaine said and switched on the television.

“Thank you Kaine, but there is no need, we would be going to watch it first hand and have the chance of analyzing every fighter, what about Micah?”

“He woke up earlier than usual and has already gotten us a spot on the very front row” Mr. Kaine replied

“You did a good work searching out his background, in the wrong hands, that boy is a ticking bomb that is enough to bring world power down to its kneel, and it bugs me that we share so many things in common, especially the family background aspect, tsk, you know what to do right?”

Director Josh walked into the hallway that led directly beneath the fight arena, coming out into the open, he saw Micah seated by the right wing of the fight arena and walked up to him.

“Director Josh” an unfamiliar voice called out to him.

Director Josh paused for a few second before turning back, while fumbling with the right sleeve of his cloth.

“Before him was Henry, director of Purple Hotel, standing beside him with his brother Jude who had his gaze fixed on Micah all these while.

“I am really sorry for the unnecessary show my brother had to put up” Henry said and slightly lowered his head.

“These kids have a funny way of putting two people together I think” Director Josh replied “If you really don’t mind, seems there are more spaces” he concluded and led the way.

Henry took a quick look at his brother and pulled him along.

Soon brother, we got a movie animation project on our neck and it's been stress upon stress.

Hopefully I begin updating in three days time

Chapter 8
Director Gaba walked into the fight arena, followed by two of his guards, each strapping a rifle around their chest, looking fierce, with various scars running down their face. Director Gaba puffed out thick fumes out from his mouth and raised his head up to look at the massive crowd that had gathered to watch the fight and the competitors alike.

“The fun is yet to begin!!!” He shouted at the top of his voice and adjusted his tie, with a wicked grin on his face “In here, I make the rules, along with the committee, because I am the champion, three times consecutive winner and no one has been able to defeat my champion” he said proudly and beat his chest repeatedly.

“This fight shall span within two weeks, 20 fighters, 10 moves to the next round, then five, then the last man standing faces my champion, the next fight and all other fights takes place in my 10 star hotel……”

Micah scoffed from where he sat and sniffed before speaking

“A means to draw more sales to himself, such selfish frog” he said and turned his head to the left.

His eyes met with Jude who had been staring at him all along, feeling unease by the stare, Micah smiled awkwardly and looked back at the man speaking on the fight arena.

“I wish I could fight him in the next round, brother can you make that happen?” Jude asked, excitement written all over his face

“You are no match for him, if you would want to test that out, fight him outside, it is allowed” Henry replied and looked at Micah from where he sat.

“There is something odd about that boy, he carries a rare presence with him” Henry thought within himself and looked away.

“…….Everything you need is available, free food on budget for all fighters and their Directors” Director Gaba said and puffed out smoke from his mouth and began to take his leave.

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Micah assisted Mr. Kaine carry a huge luggage, making it look it was made of paper, as he flipped it on his shoulder and tagged beside him, while other fighters also brought in their properties, things they would be needing to get themselves comfortable for the span of two weeks.

Micah turned to the left, walking behind Mr. Kaine who took the lead, and Director Josh walking behind Micah.

“Lodge 18” Director Josh said.

Mr. Kaine stood before the door that had the number 18 on it and brought out the keys from his pocket, and tried inserting it into the key hole. While he was still attempting to get the door open, Jude and his brother Director Henry got closer to them, having their own room at 19.

“Director Josh” Henry greeted with a plain look on his face and stretched his hand forward for a handshake.

Director Josh received the gesture and returned his hands into his pocket

“I’ve seen the reputation you’ve built for yourself, coming back to do what your father couldn’t” Henry said smiling.

“I knew the market better here than any other place” Josh replied and heaved “I see the brightness still runs in your family”

“Yes, and this is my brother, Jude, representing the business, I brought him to have experience of what the outside world looks like and how cruel it could be” Henry said pointing to his brother who was already smiling widely at Micah who was uncomfortable by his presence.

“I see, you have to be careful then, you know how these people are” Director Josh replied, just then Mr. Kaine opened the door and walked in, followed by Micah who quickly rushed in to get away from Jude.

“There are cameras planted in the rooms of each fighter, edge of the bed, get rid of it” Henry said and walked off.

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Micah stood at the very peak of the hotel, get there by leaping from wall to wall, he needed every peace and calmness he could get, so he could easily meditate.

“Never thought I would find you here” a voice said in the dark corner, behind the huge metal water tank on the top of the hotel.

Micah turned around and saw Jude leaning on the tank

“’Hey, Jude right?”

“yup, while we are here, lets see what we are made of” Jude said and turned his left arm into metal, after he had imitated the material of the tank.

“I don’t think that would be necessary”

“You have no choice” Jude replied and smiled.

“Have it your way” Micah replied “Singing blade, wind rush” he muttered and next was a metal pole on his left hand.

Micah smacked the butt of the pole on the ground and immediately the ground caught fire and let out slight crack.

“This should be fun, I haven’t have the opportunity to vent out my anger on anyone yet, I might as well use you as a compensation for that” Micah thought within himself and dashed forward.

Chapter 7

Micah got himself grilled meat from the barbecue stand right at the entrance of the fight arena, stretching his pay right to the man, he smiled as he turned around to take his leave. Narrowly missing the huge man that suddenly showed up behind him.

“I heard he took out Kazim with just one hit” a boy as young as Micah asked the older man beside him from where they both stood devouring their grilled meat

“I brought you here not to win, but to learn from various fighters in this tournament, to unlearn and learn” The older man replied and stood up from the chair.

“But Bro Henry, you should also free me, so I can catch up on the fun also” the boy replied and stood up.

“You will get your fun when you face a worthy opponent” Henry replied and looked back at the boy “Jude, I will want you to know, strength alone does not solve everything, you have to go extra mile by thinking ahead before taking any step, know this and almost all your problems are solved”

“Yeah yeah, you always say that, I still wonder why you dropped out when you got to the semi final last three year and now you took over father’s company when you should be the one doing the bashing” Jude said and slurped

“It became boring, and all we needed was to establish our company’s structure, the Purple Hotel, we never needed to win, more fighting are done behind closed doors than you see in this tournament” Henry replied “Come on, the fight has started already, I need you to spectate the fighters”

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“Representing Royal Garden is Dare, standing at 6.7 ft, a company net worth of 1 billion, a match record of 2 fights and 2 wins” the female commentator shouted at the top of her voice, standing right at the middle of the fight ground, dressed in a skimpy green skirt and a cloth that barely covered her upper body.

The whole arena went pitch black and from the entrance that led into the fight arena came halogen lights that illuminated through the dark and from the entrance came out Dare, as he approached, the darkness slowly faded, revealing his well toned body for an average man.

“And his opponent, a female by look, but with the strength of a man, and skills beyond the feminine body is Jinx of the Evergreen Markets, with 15 matches, and 10 wins, fighting for a company of net worth 192 million”

Jinx ran out into the fight ground, without any special entrance effect, dressed in black short and a tight cloth around her upper body and red hand fight gloves.

“I will crush you like the insect you are” Dare said and smiled devilish

FIGHT

Director Josh from turned to his left to look at Micah who was busy feasting on his grilled meat, paying less attention to the ongoing fight.

“You should be watching this keenly” Director Josh said

“There is nothing to watch here, the girl wins, she moved taking the left flank, and covered that little distance in 2 seconds, although she is slow, but she still has the fair advantage, based on speed, that speed she moved out with increases her punch accuracy by 8% which is enough to take him out, if she hits him repeatedly” Micah replied smiling.

Director Josh turned to the left to look at Mr. Kaine who quickly looked away like he saw nothing happen.

Jinx sent series of punch on Dare’s chest, each hit pulling him backward, she leapt into the air and landed a kick on his head, which sent him to the ground.

“Jinx is not taking any chance, giving in all she has, can she continues with this form?”

Dare, rolled on the ground, dodging the kick that came at him, he suddenly turned into dust and was out of sight

“and that is his special move, he wants to end this quickly”

A hard punch suddenly crushed Jinx’s face, splitting her lips, before she could react, another one graced her stomach, which sent out blood from her mouth, a hard kick on her right knee followed next, making her go on her right knee, he appeared before her and stretched his legs backward five steps

“Is he really going to do that, the super leg smash, which is capable of smashing the hardest rock, a kick that has killed a full grown lion” the commentator shouted with her eyes wide open, and following along was the loud cheer of the audience.

He squatted and clapped his hands together, and slammed them against his laps, he breathed in and out and suddenly dashed forward.

“If I was her, I would step two feet either to the left or right, he is going to be going in full speed which puts him at a disadvantage of taking a sharp turn, he just out did himself” Jude said and shook his head “Are these people naturally dumb or what?”

Dare dashed forward, screaming out loudly, getting closer to Jinx, about three seconds to smash into her, she stood up and moved two steps to the left. Unable to control himself Dare dashed passed her.

Jinx pulled off her gloves and suddenly pistols appeared on her hands. She aimed for Dare’s legs and pulled the trigger of the gun.

Dare screamed out in pain, as the bullets went right into his knee caps from behind, groaning in pain as he crashed down.

“POWWW POWWWW!, that is the finisher” Micah said and smiled “I like her already”

Chapter 6

Director Josh grabbed Micah by the head and smacked his right knee right into his face, which made Micah stagger backward, feeling brief sharp pains, he whirled his mouth and moved his jaws. Taking few steps backward, he watched as Director Josh stood still.

Director Josh dashed forward, as he got closer, he went low, below waist level and launched himself at Micah, grabbed him by the waist, shifted his body towards the back and raised Micah up in the air and slammed him with a backward slam.

“Crouching Jug” Mr. Kaine muttered and shook his head “This still remains his favorite take down, even with the ability to copy anyone’s fight technique, after seeing them for the first time, another rare technique known as Agemo”

Micah muffled as he crashed to the ground, rolling over, he sprang to his feet, and moved distance away from Director Josh.

“He execute fast and swift close combat skills, or I might be wrong, neither of us are showing our true form” Micah thought within himself and launched himself forward.

Getting closer, he threw the first punch, which Director Josh, blocked, he threw another one again, and began to increase the pace at which he threw his punch.

He executed an upper cut punch and stopped right before the punch could smash Director Josh face. Using it as a decoy, he threw his left hook and smashed Director Josh on the ear.
TWWWIIIIIINNNNNNNN!!! The noise reechoed in Director’s Josh head, as he fell to the ground.

“And that is the finisher” Mr. Kaine said with a bright smile.

Director Josh smiled brightly from where he laid on the floor and looked at Micah.

“You are ready, I and Kaine would dig deeper into the competition and see what we can find, it is more than we think it is” he said as he stood up. “You need a costume and for the main time, everything school stays put, I will work that out” he said, walking closer to the disorganized bar.

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Director Lily of Evergreen Markets stood alone in the large fight arena that would be hosting the first fight of the competition, wide audience seat and a very large dusty fight arena. She heaved as she took a glance at her tablet and viewed the fighter her champion would be going up against and squinted her eyes.

“A game of twenty contestants, 10 winners, reduces to 5 and to 3, the last man standing fighting against the current chairman’s champion, this is a game of blood” she said the lady standing next to her.

“This fight should come easy for us, we are against Royal Garden” the lady next to Director Lily said

“All the same, they are fighters you should watch out for, the Demon Ryo, the new kid from Grand Publisher, the Fury Cop and more, we have to thread carefully from here on out, this is a match that is full of surprises”

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Director Gaba sat in the dark corner of his office and puffed out smoke from his mouth, standing next to him in the dark was an unclear figure, but huge in stature and a red glowing eyes.

“And let the game begin”

Chapter 5

Director Josh walked into the doctor’s office and exchanged greetings alongside Mr. Kaine who tagged along. Josh made himself comfortable on the leather chair before the Doctor, separated by a wide table that had a complete computer system on it.

“The boy that was brought in here with his dead friend, he is my brother” Director Josh said calmly

The doctor let out a bright smile and spoke

“The boy’s parent who died, already came for his body and for your brother, he is doing fine, his wounds are already healed and he is ready to be discharged”

Director Josh sighed in relieve and starred at the doctor for a while, noticing he was hiding some more details from him.

“There is something you are not saying Doc” Director Josh asked and relaxed his back

The Doctor sighed and grabbed his pen on the table fumbling with the nib, he looked up and spoke.

“The boy who died, his parents are not pursuing any case, seems whatever competition you are engaged in, someone is trying to boycott it, your fighter is not the only person who has been shot today, there are reported cases all over the country, at least 30 only today, and about just 5 of them survived” The doctor said and stood up “That is as far as I can give you, the rest remains confidential” he said and stretched his hand forward, offering a handshake to Director Josh.

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Micah sat at the front seat of the SUV jeep, stuck in traffic and followed by drizzling of rain, Micah looked out from the window, absent minded, his thought probably filled with though of his dead friend.

Mr. Kaine would constantly looked at him through the corner of his eyes and focus next on the driving, steadily turning the steering.

Director Josh closed his eyes, tightly shut, also filled with his own thought.

Alighting from the car, after it had been parked in the huge parking space, an underground dedicated space specially made for parking of all exotic cars that belong to Director Josh. Micah alighted and flipped his school bag over his shoulder and waited patiently for Director Josh to alight and tagged along him, walking towards the lift that was on the far end of the parking space.

Getting to the main living room, which had a very wide space, filled with only a three seater leather chair and nothing else, Director Josh stepped out of the elevator and threw his suit to the ground, as he walked towards the beer bar and helped himself to a bottle of wine and pop the bottle open and drank from it, and let out a loud sigh as he dropped the bottle on the bar.

“I want to enter into the competition” Micah said breaking the silence

“And the competition you shall enter, first I need to see what you are made of personally, you took out Kazim with just one punch and you survived fifteen bullet and completely healed, which means the weak ones have been filtered out from the competition or it is being hijacked, form this point, you will meet only people either as strong as you or stronger” Director Josh said and gulped down the content in the bottle.

Mr. Kaine sighed and moved to a safe distance as he watched Director Josh pull up the sleeve of his shirt and loosed the first two buttons of his shirt and cracked his knuckles.

“Are you sure about this?” Micah asked with a serious tone.

“Bring out all your anger on me, if you bring me down, then you have my full support” Director Josh said and smiled wickedly.

“This is madness, both of them are clearly out of their minds, they are only finding a means to leash out the anger in them” Mr. Kaine said and moved back much more backward so as not to be cut in their frustrating match.

Micah dashed at Director Josh and sent a punch at his face, moving back swiftly Director Josh, evaded the punch, moving his body to the right.

“You’re open!!” Director Josh shouted, as he sent a blow at Micah’s chest.

“You think so” Micah shouted as he intercepted the punch and grabbed Director Josh’s incoming punch and flipped him over his shoulder.

Director Josh landed and sent his right knee forward, blocking it swiftly, Micah did three back flips to avoid close combat with Director Josh.

“Nine Dragon Fist!!” Micah shouted and slammed his fist together.

Blue flames suddenly engulfed Micah’s fist and disappeared, next he began to bounce on his toes, and throwing his jabs as he moved from left to right.

“Nine Dragon?, Who exactly is this boy? This technique is as ancient as time itself and thought to have been forgotten since no one could master the fight style effectively” Mr. Kaine muttered to himself looking surprised and suspicious at the same time.

Micah tapped his right big toe on the ground and suddenly appeared before Director Josh, and smacked his right fist on his face, which in return sent him crashing the bar, and breaking almost all the drinks.

He tapped his left big toe and appeared behind Director Josh, grabbed him by the neck and slammed him down, grappling Director’s Josh waist with his legs firmly and his hands choking out breathe out of Director Josh.

“It is assumed that all fighter first use the weakest of all their fighting style and as the fight gets tougher, their main skills begins to manifest, which means, the Nine Dragon Fist is the least of his abilities and yet that technique is one of the effective technique ever known” Mr. Kaine said and adjusted his tie.

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Chapter 4
Director Josh passed a cheque slip to Micah seated on his favorite position of the conference room, while Micah stood beside him.

Micah smiled as he pulled the slip into his pocket and cleared his throat.

"This is really much, do you know what I can do with this amount? I'm set for life" Micah said lowly, his voice beginning to become unsteady as he began to cry.

"The deal is done, get out" Director Josh said coldly and pointed towards the exit.

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Micah closed the door of his house and slump into the tattered chair in the room. Piles of book neatly arranged on the left corner of the room, a reading table before the books, and three shirts and trousers hanging on the wall

He brought out the cheque slip and smiled brightly as he started deeply at it, an unbelievable amount, not in his wildest dream have he thought such could come to him.

"I'm moving out of here today" he said and fling himself up.

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The Next Day

Micah sat on the school field track, lacing up his new racing boot, he raised his head up and saw others also lacing up their boots and warming up for practice.

An aged man blew the whistle with him loudly and raised his hands in the air, signalling them to gather around.

Micah stood up and jogged towards the man, in total they were six who gathered around, three girls and three boys.

"Coach" they all chorused.

"Alright guys, let's do this one more time, Micah, Billy, you're up" the coach shouted and clapped his hands loudly "Five laps go go go go" he screamed out.

"Goooo"

Micah sprang forward with swift reflex, grinning widely he suddenly dashed off, leaving a very wide gap between him and Billy. While Billy was on the second lap, Micah has already gone all five.

"Come on Billy, get your sorry self running " the coach shouted as he approached Micah who didn't look exhausted.

"It's a good thing your grades are good, the school team can't afford loosing you, that was 56 mph"

"Is he a car? " one of the girls whispered.

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Both Billy and Micah walked out of the school gate dressed in their blue track suit and their bags strapped to their backs.

A car suddenly drove by roughly, the glass came down and followed was rain of bullets, a bullet went through Billy's head, drooping him instantly to the ground

Micah grinned as various bullet pierced through his body, he grinned as he slowly blanked out.

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Director Josh attention shifted from his phone to Mr. Kaine who dashed into the conference room panting heavily.

"Director, you have to see this " he said panting heavily "The boy Micah was attacked by unknown gun men"

Hearing this, Director Josh quickly jolted and dashed after Kaine.

Chapter 3

Parked on the other side of the road, opposite the school they had traced the boy to, Director Josh took a quick glance at his wrist watch and sighed relieve, it was 4:12PM already.

Pupils began to troop out of the school gate in groups.

"We can't lose him" Josh said to Kaine who adjusted his glasses.

"There he is"
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Mr. Kaine drove the car skillfully through the traffic after the boy, who had noticed them earlier and took to his heels, cutting through alleys and street ways. Kaine intercepted him and quickly opened the door.

"Hey, stop running" Mr. Kaine shouted in frustration

"Then you should explain why you kept tagging after me? " the boy replied, his hands folded into a fist, raises up to his head level.

"Micah, get in" Director Josh said after he had pulled down the window on the driver seat and pulled the door open.

Micah lowered his guard and took a look at Director Josh

"Doesn't look suspicious" Micah thought within himself and moved closer "My intuition is never wrong"

Micah hopped in and shut the door close, while Mr. Kaine ignited the engine and drove off.

"You snapped out my fighter with one kick and you have to replace him in the Chairman tournament, it's simple, I don't want to win, so make sure you lose on your first fight tonight and your work is done" Director Josh said and passed his tablet to Micah.

"That's the profile of your opponent, he is fierce and he is from the blood line of Ajagun, a very fierce blood line that kills for pleasure, they specialise in spear fight technique, slow but with deadly attack" Director Josh said and looked at Micah who was fixed on the tablet.

"You want me to loose and you give me a full profile of my opponent? "

"No, I gave you so you decide how to lose" Director Josh added "What blood line do you come from? "

"Thought you made your findings, I'm an orphan" Micah said and smiled at Director Josh.

"We're here" Mr. Kaine announced and pulled the car into the parking lot.

"You have an hour to get prepared, remember you are loosing "

"One quick question" Micah said before alighting with a bright smile "Your fighter, hoe many bones did I break? "

"32" Mr. Kaine replied and alighted.

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"I heard Olakunle's son also entered into the comtest" A man probably in his late sixties said and puffed out smoke from his mouth and nostrils.

Seated under the red dim club light were two influential Directors, Director Gaba of Leading House Magazine, a chubby looking man and present Chairman of Company, Director Churchill of Country Airline, a very dark skin man with large eyes.

"His father was such a coward, he left the country to go oversea" Director Churchill replied and relaxed his back on the large cushion chair.

It was a private section of the fight arena that they had kept themselves in and catching up on the tournament

"He lack balls just like his father "

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The fight arena in no time was filled to the brim, by fighter and their contractors alike, each on their designated seat, few special invited guest and half naked girls that moved from one end to another, with metal trays on their hand, serving alcoholic drinks.

"And the moment we've been waiting for, the first preliminary match, the sole aim of this is to give Directors a chance to see their champions in action, and make a final decision either to change fighters or carry on with the current one........."

Director Josh stood up from the bench he sat on in the changing room and began to pace around as the announcement was being made by the female commentator.

"Huhn looks like its time" Micah said and powered off his phone and stood up.

He pulled off his blue academic suit, leaving his white shirt nearly tucked in and pulled off his shoe.

"Don't drag matters in that ring, fight, lose and get out" Director Josh said.

"Depends " Micah replied and smiled.

"Fighting for Blue Kitchen, which worth about 80 million of net worth is Ajagun Kazim, he has participated in 30 under dog fight and won 27 of it, with a strong taste for blood!" the commentator screamed at the top of her voice

It was followed next by a loud rumbling noise that blasted out from the massive speakers in the fight hall, pop music followed next and next everywhere went dark, the light came back on revealing Karim right in the center of the ring, dressed in only red fight short, his hairs braided into three huge rows, a scarred face along with a menacing look

"Wow, such dramatic entrance, do I also get to have one" Micah said and grinned widely.

"And coming up against him, is a old but new company, fighting for Grand Publisher a company which worth more than 13 billion, is Micah, numbera of fight 0, numbers won 0,is this really a fight or what? "

Director Gaba scoffed from where he was seated and puffed out smoke from his mouth.

"There is nothing to see here, after all it's the preliminary "

Micah walked out of the dressing room into the arena, with a blank look on his face, he watched as his opponent tried intimidating him and grinned widely.

FIGHT!!

Kazim rushed at Micah closing the space in between in few seconds and sent the first blow towards Micah's head. Micah dodged it softly and moved back, creating enough distance.

"Wow, such preciseness and flexibility from the newbie, dodging Kazim's punch like it was already expected " the commentator remarked with excitement

Kazim threw more punches at Micah who continued to move around, leaping and dodging his attack.

"I'll end this once and all" Kazim screamed annoyingly "Blood Fist!! "

"Ohh man, Kazim just summoned his famous blood fist, which has saw him win majority of his matches, it's always exciting to seeeeeeeee!!!! "

Kazim's fists from the fingers down to the elbow turned red, oozing with evil all over, he dashed at Micah and sent the blow at him.

THUUUUDDDDD

Dust went up in the air, which immediately sent chill through the spines of everyone.

"Is that your super power? " Micah asked, using his hands to block the attack.

"UNBEEELIEVABLE... kazim's famous finisher couldn't even do anything to the new kid"

Director Gaba stood up to his feet in awe, while Director Churchill threw away his cigarette with his mouth widely open

"Did that just happen? , even my champion can't stop that " Director Gaba thought within himself.

Micah grabbed Kazim by the right hand and flipped him over, pulling him to the ground. Micah stood over Kazim and sent the first hit which instantly took Kazim out.

"This is promising, a new age of fighters, earlier Micah had instead of waiting for Kazim punch to make its mark, he went at it, reducing the force of impact greatly, it's still a mystery how Kazim went down in one hit" the commentator shouted with ecstasy as the whole arena went wild.

"He just brought us unnecessary attention " Director Josh said as he watch Micah run out of the arena.

"Did I do well? " Micah shouted as he got closer.

"The plan was to loose" Josh said calmly.

Director Gaba and Churchill walled in minutes later into the changing room and both clapped their hands, drawing everyone's attention.

"And I thought you never had the balls like your father" Director Churchill said with a smile.

"Churchill " Josh muttered lowly.

"Your fighter, he is amazing, hope he keeps up the good form " Gaba added and both tool their leave.

"Tch, Leta get out of here" Josh said and turned to leave.

"Perfect idea"

Chapter 2

Vincent was ushered into the conference room, dressed in a black round neck that made his muscles pop out more, he smiled widely as he walked in.

Director Josh seated on his normal seat, he watched as Vincent crashed into the first seat and smiled widely at him.

"I invited you to discuss your payment" Josh said and adjusted his blue tie.

Mr. Kaine stood by the entrance and watched as the drama before him unfolds.

"I have a strong conviction that, your first payment will be used to pay for your hospital bill" Director Josh said with a soothing voice and closed his eyes.

"It's the preliminary stage, and I house the strength of ten men, I've never been defeated " Vincent said boasting while pointing his left thumb at his chest

"Whatever the case is, one lose and I'm done with you " Josh said and stood up "3 million for a start" he added and walked out, getting to the door, Josh halted and spoke "Venue is the Big Burger arena, 7:30pm" Josh said and walked out, followed by Kaine.
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Director Josh grabbed a bottle of vodka from the wine shelf in his large living room, which was spacious, save for the only blue leather chair in the center of the room and two empty shelves on the far end of the room.

He poured a half full wine cup and gulped down and sighed.

"Director, your fighter" Mr. Kaine said as he walked closer to Josh.

"He is not qualified one bit" Josh replied and poured himself a drink.

"Then you shouldn't have made a seal with him"

"No, since he is not certain to make it pass first stage, all we need is just to be in the tournament, doesn't matter if we win or lose " Josh said as heoved the wine glass in circular motion, making the liquid swirl.

"Hopefully whoever wins doesn't not get power drunk" Kaine said and bit his lower lip.

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9:00 PM

Vincent walked out of brothel, laughing horribly while he carried a fragile looking girl in his arms, with his large arms which really made the girl cry out.

"I paid to enjoy the night with you!! " Vincent shouted

Mr. Kaine rolled up the car glasses from where he parked, he picked up his phone and dialled Josh's number.

"I have eyes on him, drunk and very unreasonable " he said and nodded his head

"Yes sir"

Vincent while catching his fun smashed his huge body against a boy that was passing by, spilling his goods to the ground.

The boy picked himself up and raised the torn bag up and smirked

"That a new phone you know" the boy said and picked up the broken phone "I need you apologies" the boy added staring at Vincent.

"What? " Vincent asked sarcastically and let go off the girl

"Apologies or I loose my temper and I'm bad at controlling it" the boy said and walked closer to Vincent, this time the huge difference between the two men was clear.

"I'll spare with you then, I should really do that to teach you a less...... "

Before Vincent could complete his statement, a hard kick landed on his neck, which sent him straight to the ground.

"Sir, something happened, I'm sending you the video " Kaine said hurriedly and hanged up.

The boy knelt down next to unconscious Vincent and examined him.

"I really hit him hard, he'll survive, just few broken bones" the boy said and stood, looked around at the on lookers and headed his way.

Mr. Kaine ignited his car and quickly drove after the boy, trailing him.

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The Next Day
Director Josh walked into the Directors of Companies conference hall and located his seat among hundred of other, everyone having their fighters next to them except him.

"We are all present and the preliminary is taking place soon, the lots have been drawing and can be seen above" The lady on the podium before the entire room said.

The projector board above began to list all matches and third time

"First is Grand Publisher versus Blue Kitchen" the lady announced "Please rise for identification "

Josh stood up and on the third row behind him, a lady also stood up with her fighter next to her.

"Where is your fighter? "

"Huhhn, currently indisposed " Josh replied which resulted into low murmuring from others.

"The rule states that you must have a fighter, without one, you a on tip of loosing 60% of your company's annual profit and your company is worth a whooping 30 billion, which places you 13th on the list " the lady on the podium said.

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Josh walked out angrily, banging the door hard behind him, he opened the door of his car, sat down, closed the door and sighed as he adjusted his tie.

"Take me to the school, I have to find that boy before the preliminary match" Josh said frustrated.

"He is just 17, is it a right thing to do? " Kaine asked as he drove off.

"It's a one match thing" Josh replied and sighed.

Blood Link
Tag: Highschool, Action, Technique.

Written by Olusegun Ayomide Shedrach
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Introduction

Every two years, a fight for position of the Chairman of Companies takes place with each each directors of companies having their own fighters or champions each with a unique style of fighting which has been passed down from generations or which were newly discovered.

The fighter who emerge winner, gives the director a direct ticket to being the Chairman of all companies, which means more money, more power, more connections and above all immunity to government and private policies.

Chapter 1
Director Josh walked into the small cozy conference room, a round table at the middle of the room and just three chairs around it.

Director Josh made himself comfortable on the middle chair and placed his legs on the table, his shoes neatly polished and shiny. He pulled off his red tie and undid the first two buttons of his white shirt and threw it to the ground. He stretched his hand forward at the table and grabbed the mobile tablet on it and powered it on.

"Now all I need is a fighter, left to me, I have no interest, but it's a norm, know let's see who is on the list" he muttered to himself as he squinted his eyes, while he swiped the screen of his tablet going through the profile of available fighters.

He stood up and heaved and began to pace round the room, with his hands tucked into the pocket of his neatly iron black trouser.

Director Josh raised his head up and pulled out his phone, he dialled a number, placed it on loud speaker and dropped it on the table, beside the tablet.

"Mr. Kaine, ready the car, we are visiting the underground fight arena, I can't find a fighter I want from this list you gave me, I'll be ready in 5" Director Josh said, without the other end replying, the phone hanged up.

Director Josh, picked up his tie and grabbed both phones and walked out of the room.
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Director Josh looked out from the car, where he sat at the owner seat, in deep thought. From a wealthy family, he lost his mother, when she gave birth to him and because his father was a really busy person, he couldn't afford getting married again.

His father ran a solo publishing company, that really succeeded, after his father died a year ago in a automobile accident, after which he took up the Publishing Business and he didn't grew up outside the country, so he had to move the headquarter of his business down to Nigeria, while he had put someone in charge of the one oversea, since he knew the system of his home country better than somewhere else.

"Director, what's the matter? " Mr. Kaine asked, taking a quick look at his boss from the mirror above him.

"I really don't want to enter into this competition, but since it's a necessity, I can't help but imagine the risk of life involved" Josh replied calmly and sighed.

"Mainly the reason why your father kept hid business away from Nigeria" Kaine replied and squeezed his mouth.

Kaine adjusted his glasses, while he steered with his left hand, he placed his right hand back on the steering wheel and mumbled inaudible words, his wrinkled face which suggested he was probably in his late 70s.

Josh, a chocolate skin man, well built and a man of tranquility, he avoided drawing attention to himself as much as possible and always enjoyed the company of himself, Kaine was the only person he considered family.

"We are here" Mr. Kaine announced and pulled the car into the parking lot, he pulled the hand brake and turned off the running engine.

Director Josh alighted and heaved, he waited for Kaine to get prepared and took the lead.

Entering into the underground fight arena, a dead male was dragged out of the fight arena filled with blood.

He folded his arms into each other and watched as another set of fighters walked into the area and people placing bet.

"None interest me" Josh said and looked at Kaine

"He doesn't want to get involve and yet he is choosy about his fighter, shouldn't he just go for one?" Kaine thought within himself as he tagged along.

"HEEEYYYYYY!!! " a loud husky voice drew their attention.

Director Josh slowly turned around and before him was a huge man, with bare chest, a dragon tattoo all over his body, a menacing look and strong arms.

"You need a fighter for the upcoming Chairman fight I'm your man" the man said, full of himself.

"I use the legendary Gidi fight technique, and demon possess" the man said and snapped his fingers and behind him, three demons appeared.

Director Josh dipped his hand into his pocket and retrieved his business card and threw it at the man.

"Tommorow" Director Josh said and turned to take his leave "Don't be late" he added as he walked out.

"Vincent is never late" the man replied with an evil smile on his face.
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Mr. Kaine ignited the car engine and heaved before speaking.

"You brought him just like that"
"Hmm, he has to prove himself, next tomorrow is the preliminary, let's see what he is up to" Director Josh replied and relaxed his back.

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Chapter 57
MDS Finale
Us United

The head of a wolf, fell before Lord Supreme and next Kareem landed to the ground, making cracks on the ground and sending stones into the air.

"I believe that's your brother " Kareem said with his head up at Fanada

Fanada snorted and changed back to his human form and smiled

"There is something I need to take care of" Fanada said

"What? " Lord Supreme asked calmly

"You'll see " Fanada replied and stretched his body before elevating into the sky "I'll be back" he said and swooshed into the sky.

"It's now or never, gather everyone, every hunter, every dwarf, every elf, we take the fight to her" Kareem said, his eyes glowing white.

"We have the force to stop her" Kareem added and patted Lord Supreme on the shoulder "I know what's on your mind and I'm not bothered "

"Come on, we have to plan it"

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Jemima grabbed North demon by the neck and threw her against the wall

"How dare you report such news to me" she barked and puffed out.

"Gather everyone, every demons, every beast, every monsters, it's time"

The ship splutter into three parts and slowly their lids came apart, hissing loudly as it moved apart and releasing out white fumes.

On the first part of the ship were demons of high ranks, on the swings part were dark elves and the third mobsters from the pit of hell, each in their thousands.

"Keep the reserve tank, we use them as backup, distribute the divine seed, spread it in abundance, this is a way we must win"

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Dwarves trooped out in their thousands, their small stature making then look like grains on the beach from where Kareem stood watching as everyone rallied their kinds into Pearl Village.

"It's time" Jin said behind Kareem.

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Lord Supreme spread the scroll with him on the bare floor and took a glance at the broken table and back at Majid before speaking.

"We have the dwarves, and elves, gods and hunters, Jin came with report, every demon city are emptied, they're are rallying together and that means battle" Lord Supreme said, he could hear everyone's heart beat as the thud except for Kareem.

"The dwarves are taking the front line with the hunters, Elves are better from a far range, they'll cover with the arrows, Jin and the kids would go directly for the base, taking another route other than the war front, I and Kareem will take out their strong holds, Julius, Dan and Layla are attacking from the left flank, remember, LEAVE NO MAM BEHIND, my wife and the security team will be on standby to treat the injured" Lord Supreme concluded and sighed

"It's going to be a long day, everyone move out"

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Lord Supreme caught up with Kareem as they all trooped out and smiled at him.

"Are you okay? " He asked calmly.

"She choose her path already, there is no use crying over spilled milk" Kareem replied and walked on.

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Jin dashed through the woods, as fast as his legs could carry him, each step he took was propelled forward by shooting flames beneath his leg.

"No wonder he is best for a spy job " Maze thought as he tried to keep up.

Gradually leaving green pastures and approaching a mountain, Jin leaped into the air and got shot into the sky by the flames that came out from his leg.

Maze, Amen and Michell all came to a stop, looking up at Jin who was standing on the mountain.

"Keep up" Jin said and dashed off.

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Lord Supreme and Kareem took the front line as they all matched out in their thousands towards the battle ground, the dwarves chanting war songs and smashing the bass drum on them.

"Is that even necessary? " Lord Supreme asked, stabling his horse.

"It's been our culture and part of us, it gingers us" Majid replied from his warthog which he sat on.

Getting to the battle ground, silence fell on everyone as what they saw before them was unimaginable. Jemima had am army four times as larger than theirs, huge monsters as tall as Lilith scattered all over and above all their power chart was of grid.

"Kareem do you also sense that power chart it's above normal " Lord Supreme said

"Aye boy, their strong not smart" Majid replied and raised his sword up "For honor, FOR HONOOOOOORRRRRR!!! " majid shouted and was taken up by the dwarves, each screaming their veins out.

They all ran as fast as their feet could carry them, screaming to increase their morale.

Lord Supreme elevated into the air, along with Kareem.

"Smash through the big ones" Kareem said and flew into the sky.

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Getting to the demon base, Jin sighed as he scout the area, fully guarded by demons, he squinted his eyes and saw Maze had already ran down the cliff


Maze slashed the first monster by the waist, and grabbed the upper body on his left hand as he walked further.

"He never sticks to plan" Jin muttered and also ran down the cliff, followed the Amen and Jemima.

Amen summoned out Lilith who took the lead, smashing through demons with her huge feet.

"They keep coming out, you and Amen should go, I and Michell will shake these ones off " Jin said and locked his palms together and made them flame up.

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Arrows went up in the sky, completely covering the sun, as the came below it, moving with swiftness and magic, it rained down heavily on the demons taking them out in large numbers.

Kareem rammed his body in the air, through the huge monster, slashing odd their head with his hands and moving to the next one.

Lord Supreme due to his inability to stay long in the air, would leaped into the air, use his heaven gattling to bore huge bullet holes into the huge demons.

Maid grunted as he dived under the legs of the demons and slashed them off, moving swiftly for someone his size and weight, he grunted as he took each swing of his axe.

"Come-on, their strong not wise" Majid shouted as he advanced further.

North and South demon joined the battle, grabbing Majid by the beards, she threw him off into the distance, channeling their power house into their legs, the smashes the dwarves, breaking their bones completely and their legs stained with blood.

North demon screamed as she kicked off a dwarf head.

"I haven't had this much fun" South demon shouted with her mouth filled with blood, she dropped the lifeless dwarf to the ground and growled.

"The unending strength "

Majid grunted as he hit ground and looked at his axe already broken, from where he laid, he watched as his men were being smashed, their guts and brains flying out like they were nothing, while the top demons feasted on them.

Another set of arrows went up into the sky and suddenly they all ceased in the air, flip backward facing the elves and hurled at them

"No no" Lord Supreme muttered as he watched the arrows pierce through the body of the elves, dropping them in their large numbers.

"Kareem, what's wrong?"

"There is an invert magic user" Kareem replied.

"I'll find it" Lord Supreme said and fell to the ground.

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Julius grabbed a demon and threw it at Dan who grabbed it by the neck and snapped it, each fighting fervently, Layla pulling out her arrows, She drew out the last three arrows from the quiver and laid them on her bow and released the string.

"Spirit arrow, final form" she said and pulled the string of her bow, the head of the arrow grew in size, getting her desired size, she let go of the string.

The arrow moved swiftly, clearing everything on it's path, tearing demons apart for more than a mile.

"Easy" Layla said and sniffed.

"Why is it coming back? " Julius asked surprised.

"It shouldn't, it ought to have died down" Layla replied.

"Which means you can't control it" Dan added.

The arrow hurled swiftly at them, before they could react it collided with them. It dispersed, while the three were laying down unconscious

The tide suddenly turned around, as the demons began to overpower the hunters, killing them in large numbers.

"Retreeeeettttt!! " the shout came from all over as the hunters scrambled off.

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Maze stood inside the wide hall, me beside him and Jemima seated on her throne, not bothered by their presence

"Jem!!" Maze shouted at the top of his voice

"I commend your effort on killing Otto you did well" Jemima said and stood up "Do you have the resolve to kill me? " Jemima asked as she began to descend the stairs.

"There is only one way to find out" Maze said and drew out hid sword.

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Lord Supreme got intercepted by both North and South demon, distance away was his target, covered in black overall torn rag, manipulating the outcome.

"A mistake to have kept you both alive" Lord Supreme said with regret

"Yes, a grave one"

North demon dashed forward, she transformed her left hand into a sword as she got closer, she suddenly disappeared and appeared behind Lots Supreme, South demon suddenly appeared before him and smashed his chest with her leg, while North demon slashed his from behind.

"You can't keep up? "

"If I don't do away with that invert user, I won't last long" Lord Supreme thought within himself and disappeared, he appeared before the invert user and was about grabbing him when North demon intercepted and headbutt Lord Supreme, South demon scrapped Lord Supreme off his feet and before he could touch ground smashed his head in mid air to the ground.

"Hear the cry of your people, you can't save them, this world is ours to claim" Birth demon shouted as she circled Lord Supreme.

Lord Supreme picked himself up and grinned "That invert user is becoming a pain"

The sky suddenly went dark, followed next by howling of wolves, howling of more than three wolf packs.

"Fanada? " Lord Supreme asked himself unsure.

Something dropped to the ground that raided huge dust into the air, which quickly spread all over, as the dust settled it revealed wolves in the multitudes each taller than Fanada.

A kick suddenly landed on the neck of the invert user, cracking his neck bones and instantly went dead.

"Sorry I came late, had a tough time convincing my brothers" Fanada said from behind the top tier demons in his human form.

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Maze kicked Jemima on the stomach and smashed the butt of his sword on her head repeatedly

"If you're in there, I need you to come out"

Jemima grabbed his hands and smiled "No one is in there, just me"

She slapped Maze on the cheeks which resulted in a splutter lips, with blood gushing out from his mouth.

She threw him off against the wall and grabbed him by the neck, choking him.

Amen opened his eyes from where he laid and managed to pick himself up

"Lilith " he muttered and at that moment she came forth.

Lilith dashed at Jemima, grabbed her by the waist and smashed her down, attempting another punch, Jemima grabbed her wrist and as huge as she was, Jemima pulled her down effortlessly and punched her on the face.

Maze dived at Jemima, grabbing her by the waist he raised her up and Gabe her a backward slam.

Maze stood up and pulled his sword out from the ground, Jemima gritted her teeth and stretched her hands forward

"Blending fist!!"

Maze blocked the incoming attack from his right side with his sword, whichoved him aside a little, he blocked the next on, which resulted in a spark on his sword. Acting on reading the floe of power house he was able to evade all invisible attack Jemima castes at him.

"Is that all, Demon Sister? " Maze asked and drove his sword to the ground.

He looked at the tattoo on his hand and ripped off his shirt.

"To think I know how to use this power after getting it today is overwhelming " Maze said and stretched his hand forward.

"I don't have the mind to kill you, but I can cast you to the very depth of Judecca" Maze said "Dragon Flame, overturn the law of the outworld, obey my command.... "

Jemima moved back in fright, scared by what was about to happen next, she dropped down to her knees and began sobbing.

Maze stopped what he was uttering and watched as the dragon coming out from his hand return to being a tattoo. He felt remorse and walked closer to Jemima.

As he got closer, Jemima drove her hand right into his stomach and screamed with ecstasy as he hand went through, coming out on the other side.

Her countenance changed as what she thought to be Maze transformed into dust.

"Replacement technique complete" Jin muttered and he and Michell appeared at the entrance of the hall.

"...cast and bind, to the very depth of hell" Maze said behind Jemima

The black dragon came out of Maze hand and gripped Jemima within its mouth, raised her up into the air and dived back to the ground, and suddenly disappeared as it hit ground.

The dragon tattoo slowly faded off Maze hand


"I guess it's a one time use " Maze said and scoffed "Did we win"

Kareem watched as all demons began to fall to their feet, turning into dust and fading off

"We really did win"

Dan slowly opened his eyes, titled his head to the left and saw Layla and Julius already on their feet, helping the injured.

"I really did pass out" he said and stood up "We won"

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"You all did well, fought and conquered, together we were strong, to the dwarves, thank you, elves you were exceptional, and to the gods, we truly thank you. Although our loss can't be counted. I really appreciate the kids of ten seven, without them the storybooks be different.... "

"Tch, old man" Amen muttered.

"...this is inform team 7 that they are now reinstalled to their ranks and moved upward to being a red velvet, with Julius being their new team captain"

Maze fell to the ground on hearing the statement

"....Layla, this is for you from Dan, hey Dan come here, you should be the one telling her this, not me"

"And I believe we can peacefully Co exist together, humans, and elves, probably with gods"

Za End

Chapter 56

Fanada came out of Lord Supreme, both starring at the huge black ball, grew bigger and larger. People in the city ran into their houses taking shelter and hoping someiracle would happen.

"It's that time when we begin to say all we wish we could have done but couldn't do" Dan said and squeezed Layla's hands softly and heaved.

Majid placed his axe on his chest as tears rolled down his cheeks.

"Well, I'm convinced this ain't the end, I saw my future I had kids" Jin said and sniffed "No, I can't die now" he cried out and began to sob uncontrollably.

Kareem raised his head up and stood up, he walked towards the wide window frame of his house and looked outside from it.

"Otto is dead, Maze did it" Kareem muttered and fell to his knees.

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"Fanada, I know we can't stop this, but can we keep it at minimal?"

"Assuming Kareem was available, we could stop it entirely" Fanada replied and transformed into his true form.

A wold standing about half the distance from the sky to the earth, complete blue furs, a horn at the center if his head.

Amen and Michell gasped from where they stood, watching SD everything unfold

"That is what father has been keeping within him, such tremendous powers, that is Fanada " Amen gasped.

"That is Fanada's brother, They can't stop that, it's a suicide mission, your father knows he would die and yet he is still protecting the village by minimizing the damage" Lilith said with her eye wide open.

Hearing this, Amen attempted to run out, but was held back by Lilith

"I can't let you do that, he is making a huge sacrifice, be wise enough to carry on his legacy, as Maze has carried on his father's legacy by killing Otto" Lilith added.

"Maze killed Otto? " Michell asked lowly.

Fanada gave a loud howl and widely opened his mouth, from it came a large blue fury ball, same as the black one. The blue ball began to grow larger.

Lord Supreme locked his palms together and breathed in.

"Divine shield, complete transformation " he muttered and instantly a white line shout out from his hand and collided with the huge ball Fanada made

The collision resulted in bringing out a white sparkling light that illuminated the entire village, when it died down the entire village and greatly sway from the boundaries were covered with a blue transparent shield.

"And here it comes"

The black ball suddenly collided with the shield, the boom sound, furiously shaking the entire land mass of Pearl Village and beyond, fee houses bulding up cracks on the walls.

The ball continued rolling furiously as it slowly penetrated through the shield. Lord Supreme held out his hands above his head, breathing heavily as he tried holding the shield, also Fanada gritting his teeth.

"I can't hold longer, I don't think the demon ball is reducing its fierceness " Lord Supreme said within himself.

"Just keep holding " Fanada replied.

Lord Supreme's leg cracked the ground open and his leg went in, also same as Fanada.

The demon ball, continued crashing through the shield and next was another demon ball building up behind the one trying to crash through.

"We are doomed" Julius muttered as he watched another ball build up.

The second ball also crashed against the shield completely shattering it.

"This is the end" Fanada muttered as he watched the balls descended on them.

Something with the speed of light suddenly shot into the sky and ranks through the balls at the same time, completely shattering the demon balls into pieces.

"What just happened " Lord Supreme muttered as he started at the sky to see the miracle that happened in split seconds when all hope was lost.

"Kareem" Julius muttered as he strained his eyes looking up at the sky "ITS KAREEM!! " Julius shouted with joy as tears dropped down his face.

"Kareem" Lord Supreme said lowly.

Kareem suspended in the air, his hairs illuminating so brightly like the sun.

Kareem swooshed off out of Pearl region, right to the demon that created the balls.


One more chapter to go

Chapter 55

Otto acted on instinct and did a back flip, giving enough distance as Maze tried to flash him with his sword. Maze hair danced to the rhythm of the wind, breathing hard,axe slashed his sword in the air and stood upright.

"You should know already, I'm not leaving here without your head " Maze said and scoffed.

"His hairs are white already, I'll just get away with this quickly, he might be her brother, but killing him will only be part of progress" Otto thought within himself and smiled.

"I'll make this quick and give you a bdffiting death because of who you are" Otto said and smiled, he reached for the red gem on his forehead, pulled it out and swallowed it.

Otto suddenly appeared before Maze, raising dust up in the air, he thrust his right hand forward at Maze, with a wicked grin on his face.

"Hunhnn" Otto said and instantly the expression on his face changed.

"Is that the fastest you can go" Maze shouted behind Otto and slammed his feet on Otto's face, sending Otto crashing to the ground and blanking out for a few seconds.

"How is that even possible? " Otto muttered as blood dripped down his mouth.

"I guess you haven't fought with someone so keen with revenge and at the same time trying to catch fun" Maze asked and lied with evil intentions.

"The things I'll do to you, you won't comprehend" Maze said.

Otto went into the sky, thrown by a water scynth.

"When did he do that? Did he just appear in split seconds and execute his water scynth, is this the power of arcane gods? " Otto asked himself as he went into the sky "I can't go down without putting up a fight"

Otto titled his body around, narrowly dodging Maze's punch, that came at him in the sky. Maze sent another hit at his face, which Otto dodged again.

Maze doubled the speed of his attack, going into a punch frenzy, which Otto was unable to keep up with. As each point graced Otto's face, he let out painful mourns, his face splitting at each punch.

"WHY CANT YOU KEEP UP?!!!" Maze shouted as he continued his punch barrage "THIS IS MY RAGE OF THREE YEARS IM LEASING OUT ON YOU!!!! FIGHT BACK FIGHT BAAAAACCCCCKKKKKKK" Maze shouted as he gave the last punch which sent Otto straight down with speed of light, releasing a sonic boom as he crashed to the ground.

Maze came to a running landing, and made an ice sword to on his left hand, and his empyrean steel on his right. He stood before Otto and placed his leg on Otto's chest.

Otto gasped for breath, his face completely disfigured, filled with blood.

"To think you even used that seed when you fought with my father still baffles me, you are weak, is this how the second tier gods are? " Maze asked and pressed down his feet on Otto's chest.

"You have a troublesome burden before you boy" Otto said weakly and spat out blood "Anyone who defeats a God becomes powerful and saddened with a troubled future "

"Keep that to yourself" Maze said and slashed off Otto's head.

Maze noticed his left hand began to feel weird and next was a black line forming around it, till it formed a dragon tattoo on his left arm right to the chest.

Chapter 54

Kareem sat on the bare floor of his living room, his hairs looking dirty and unkempt, his clothes were already old and torn, it had not come off him in three years, his white hairs tightly locked into one another, his moustache rough and dirty, his nails were long and so dark.

Lord Supreme placed the food he brought for him on the ground before Kareem and sat down on the floor in front of him.

"I know how painful it is to loose a child, I also lost my first kid days after birth, you were there to pull me out of my trouble, we need you Kareem, we need you " Lord Supreme said amidst tears.

"There is a problem" Dan said as he dashed into the living room, panting softly.

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Lord Supreme walked out of the village boundary, along with Julius, standing few distance away from the messenger Jemima had sent to Pearl. Chirping of birds constantly filled the silent environment, the sun completely covered by the white cloud that hovered in the sky.

"I believe you have a message" Lord Supreme said.

"Yes, we have this" the messenger replied let out a loud scream "Attackkkkk!!!! "

Lord Supreme gasped, confused at the whole turn out. Julius grabbed Lord Supreme by the shirt and pulled him back, instantly from the previous position Lord Supreme was, the ground shot out spikes.

"She's trying to take us both out, that way it would be easier to end Pearl, we should be able to take them head on" Julius said and took a deep breathe in.

"Nobody cones out" Lord Supreme shouted the orders to the hunters behind the veil that protected Pearl.

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Maze stood on the mountain, that acted as the boundary line of the central province and grinned, his heart filled with hatred and revenge. From where he stood, he could see the Central Village, which consisted of five villages going up in flames, loud screams of agony.

"Where are you? " Maze mumbled searching for Otto.

He moved his eyes from one end to another, until his eyes finally got what he wanted

"There" Maze muttered and disappeared.

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Blood splattered on Lord Supreme's face as he tore a demon apart, he threw the half part on his right hand towards an approaching demon and let go off the other.

"Fanada"

Julius smashed his feet on the ground raising huge stones into the air from the ground, moving his hands in circular motion, the stones formed a circular motion, moving around Julius so fast it smashed the demons that tried getting closer.

"Sand storm, dancing pyramid" Julius muttered.

The ground suddenly splutter before Julius and next was a huge pyramids sprouting out from the ground, trapping demons within them and smashing hard agony themselves.

"They keep coming out, Jin was right, they have been recruiting themselves right pm our borders " Lord Supreme muttered

"Julius, get behind me, I'll like to finish this once and for all, Fanada, I hope you're not asleep" Lord Supreme shouted and moved his left leg backward, his hands stretched forward, with his fingers all stretched out.

Two of the circle tattoos on Lord Supreme's hand suddenly faded off.

"Heaven roar, barrel hatting technique!!" Lord Supreme shouted.

Flames suddenly gutted his arms, and quickly ran through his hands, getting larger in size, on reaching his finger tips, the fire solidified, and began shooting out as bullets with the speed of light.

TRAAAA TRRAAA TAAAAA TAAAAA TRAAAA!!!!

The fire bullet fired out, one bullet dropping down about five demons that were on its path of motion. Lord Supreme fired rapidly, slowly his shirt sleeves began to tear off.

"Pheeewww" Lord Supreme sighed exhausted, all demons already dead in that instance "It took a great deal of my power "

"It's worth it" Julius replied and looked at the pile if seas demons, enough to fence the while of Pearl thrice.

A black huge ball, suddenly raised into the sky, completely covering the entire Pearl Village and beyond.

"Fanada what's that? " Lord Supreme asked, noticing Fanada was scared with him.

"I though he was dead, Rising Dark Demon, my brother, banished into hell for treason, he was suppose to die in hell" Fanada said and gulped.

"He will fall on Pearl and nothing will remain they only waited for us to use a great deal of our power, Emmy, we can't stop that thing, no matter how we try, it's the end for us" Fanada added.

"Tch, to think Jemima was this evil"

Chapter 53

3 Years Later

Majid slashed his axe right on Lord Supreme's table, breaking it into two halves, his beards touching bare floor as he paced around angrily.

He mumbled inaudible words, starred at Lord Supreme who sat on his seat, and next to Jin and the elf man standing by the door.

"Short men and their anger" the elf man said and chuckled.

"Max, be careful of the next word that comes out of your mouth, it is run my axe through you" Major shouted in anger and suddenly his sword caught fire.

"Jemima now controls more than half of the territory, wiped out every village completely without taking any hostage, and all we can do is argue among ourselves " Lord Supreme said and stood up.

"And there Kareem can't be brought back to his sanity, always brooding and getting himself drunk and Maze, the kid isn't himself also, and Jemima, she isn't stopping, she is saving us for last" Max said and sighed.

"Jin did you get the Intel needed?" Julius asked as he walked in on them.

"Yes, the divine tree isn't any important, just adding to their powers one seed charges them for ten years without diminishing, the truth is, there is no weakness to them, we can only win this, by just brute strength and strategy and I'm not sure we can win with this our present state, Kareem and Maze are our top backup, and Lilith and Fanada tagging behind " Jim said and lowered his head "All she ask for is for us to surrender our territory to her rule"

"Jemima never negotiate, we know this, for her to bring this up, there is something she is probably scared of about Pearl Village" Julius replied.

"And what could that be? " Major asked raising his head up at Julius.

"I don't know, we just have to find out"

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Maze screamed as he sent out water synch out from his hands slashing down tree that it came across.

"How long would it take Maze to get a hold of himself?" Michell asked from the distance her and Amen sat from, watching as trees fell to the ground.

"He is holding tight, I would have gone worse, it's being three good years" Amen said and scratched his beards.

"He won't let us help him either"

Lilith came out of Amen and sat next to him, she looked at the distance and spoke.

"He wants Otto, I peeped into the future it's a good one, give him Otto" Lilith said calmly.

"I appreciate your gesture Lilith, but it's a bad one" Amen said

"Not entirely, it might be all we need after all, him killing Otto might be the chance, and we know how strong he has become, his hairs has gone purely white, whiter than Kareem's, who knows what might happen if he kills Otto" Michell said and stood up "The adults are not doing things right, they are out of option, let's try ours, after all, if we sit around for long, death will find us, either ways we die "

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Jemima stood up from her golden throne, looking much more matured, with a calm dense look on her face, that said a complete opposite of her demon and powerful personality.

Otto standing by her right hand side, his menacing look still as deadly as ever. North and South demon opened the door that led into the hall and bowed their heads both going down on a knee.

"Highness, it is done, the northern province is already ours, captured and all humans eradicated, we are setting up our new civilization and deploying citizens to occupy, the economy is looking good, the human flesh are in massive order" South demon reported

"What about the central province? " Otto asked

"They sent resistance, we don't have enough troop to take over, if only we could get fruits from the tree" North demon answered

Otto descended down the stairs, his hands folded behind his back, he got closer to North Demon and walked behind her, pacing around.

"It's a direct order, no one touches the tree, leave the central province, I'll take my team and bring them down, focus on building the new villages" Otto said and suddenly was appearing beside Jemima.

"Yes My Lord" both demons answered in unison

"Get out and send a messenger to Pearl" Jemima added and signalled them to leave.

Chapter 52

Maze sat by his father's sick bed and sighed with tears rolling down his cheeks, he gulped down and but his lower lips, with his voice breaking.

"I dddiii....dd very stupid dad" Maze said stuttering "And now it's beyond any of us" Maze said and sniffed as he cried out.

He held his fathers right hand and squeezed it softly as he lowered his head crying.

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Amen rested his back on Lilith's huge legs, while she sat behind him, her back resting on the wall of the training hall. While Michell sat in front of them, all in their own thought.

"We lost on all sides" Amen said and laughed widely.

"Not yet, things are not just going well for us, maybe we can peep into the future" Michell suggested

"No, there is something about seeing the future, after you get a glimpse of the future, everything you do to stop it will only work towards fulfilling that future, it's better to work in dark and blind of the future than to see it and work towards stopping the evil in it " Lilith said calmly and blinked her eyes repeatedly.

"I'm sorry" Maze said standing at the entrance of the training hall.

An unseen force suddenly smashed Maze from the back, sending him forward and crashing to the ground.

"I told you to kill her" The elf girl shouted in annoyance, standing at the entrance of the hall.

"Elf, who is she? " Michell asked and turned herself into Lilith, with a huge icy sword on both of her hands.

"I meet her three days ago" Maze said.

Lilith looked at her clone, which Michell turned into and a little bit of fright was registered on her face.

"I warned you, all you had to do was strike that sword right into her heart and the trouble to come would have been averted, one life would have just saved everyone that would die in future time" The elf girl shouted.

"Hey hey hey, why didn't you do it for yourself, since you knew the future" Amen asked and locked his palms together.

"Normally we shouldn't be seen"

The elf girl suddenly went numb and fell to the ground, and next was Lord Supreme and Jin standing behind her, at the entrance.

"Who knew they really existed " Jin muttered and picked her body up "Who is the real Lilith? "

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Otto walked into the endless looking hall, holding Jemima by the left hand.

"Welcome Otto" the voice said to him calmly.

"Open the door, where Lord Noir is asleep, it is time for him to wake up from his slumbers " Otto said.

"Are you sire it it right to wake up Lord Noir, he is young and doesn't even know how to rule"

"Do I need to remind you of your place in this hierarchy, you survived only because Noir infused your consciousness into this ship, this shop still functions perfectly without you Gera " Otto said sternly.

A door slowly cane open before them, on the inside were sin red lights and shined lowly.

Otto walked in with Jemima tagging behind. The room was a rather small one, on the end was a young boy, looking as young as Jemima infused in a tube filled with slimy green liquid.

Otto made a glass appear in his hand, and inside was the divine tree, reduced greatly in size to fit into the glass, right on Otto's palm.

"It is time " Otto said and walked to the right end of the room and placed the tree on the ground, which instantly began to increase in size. He plucked a divine fruit and dipped his teeth into it.

"Hmm, take one and taste what power feels like" Otto said to Jemima, his eyes closed and feeling the power juice that flowed through him.

Otto opened his eyes and saw Jemima on the third divine fruit and smiled "Take as much as you want"

He walked to the tube and placed the finger before his thumb on it, pressing his finger against the tube, it shattered into pieces and he caught the boy, smiled as he dipped a divine fruit into his mouth.

The whole of the ship began to illuminate, revealing the master piece it was, perfect symmetric paintings on the wall, the entire lower deck of the ship filled with demon armies uncountable in their millions.

The boy's feet touched ground and he let out a bright smile and looked at Otto.

"Otto" he said and hugged him tightly "You finally did it"

"Yes my Lord" Otto replied.

Jemima watched as the boy came closer to her, getting closer, she suddenly drive her hand into his chest, and pulled his heart out at the back.

Jemima smiled wickedly as the boy gasped for breath

"Two Lords can't rule a kingdom, she said into the ears of the dying Lord and pulled out his heart.

The boy fell to the ground and Jemima looked at Otto who didn't look surprised. She smiled and brought the heart closer to her mouth and dipped it into her mouth.

She slurped abd licked the blood on her hands off and smiled at Otto.

"A new order begins"

Chapter 50

Lord Supreme sat on the bare floor of the training hall, disappointed by all what happened, he smacked his fist on the ground, leaving a hole on the ground. He stood up and walked closer to Amen and grabbed him by the shirt.

"Are you listening, or you're in there, hiding like the manipulative trickster you are " Lord Supreme said annoyingly.

He let go off Amen and next was Lilith standing in between Lord Supreme and Amen.

"Is this her, Lilith? " Julius muttered lowly and gulped, seeing how huge and tall she was.

"First I know you don't do things without cause, what deal did you make with him?" Lord Supreme asked, easing up his head to stare into her eyes.

"It's between the master and I, why do you summon me, I only answered because of Fanada, now don't misuse that chance " Lilith said and knelt down, even at that she still stood taller than everyone in the hall.

"Even without Fanada, you must answer to a higher authority, I am higher than Fanada, now we need you to make a dimension to the out world "

Lilith countenance dropped in disappointment, her pupils dilated and her jaws dropped.

"There is very little I can do, going such long distance without a blood contract could be risky" Lilith replied like a scolded child.

"Wait! " Julius cut in and stepped forward "Did he Mame a blood contract with you before opening the previous portal? " He asked.

"No, he wasn't even the one who opened it, he was only a supporter, the witch opened it" Lilith replied.

Amen gulped and looked briefly at Michell, and walked closer to her.

"What about the blood contract, how does it happen? " Lord Supreme ask "I'm here, I will sign any contract"

"Not you, him, I can only make a contract with him" Lilith said and pointed at Amen

"What do you want? "

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Jin went down forcefully on his left knee, with his hand above his head, intercepting Otto's blow that came at Maze, he made his hands glow yellow and with sharp spikes from each of his knuckles and smashed Otto on the jaw, sending him into mid air.

Maze grabbed his sword and smashed Otto on the stomach with the butt of the sword, crashing him hard to the ground.

"Don't forget you're just a decoy, I'm the one smashing the blows, don't get ahead, he is strong, but he can't keep up with two attackers at a time" Jin said and spat out blood from his mouth.

"Use you Power house to read his movement, your power house has so many hidden tactics, people don't know, channeling your power house to your eyes and heart, or gives you ability to detect moves, your training begins here" Jin said and watched as Otto stood up.

"I see you both have a compatible sync movement, good" Otto said and folded his palms.

"Something isn't right, he is leaving Jemima wide open for us to get access, he isn't bothered about it" Jin muttered and began to pick up pace.

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"His right eye is what I want, it's the only way I can get a feel of the outside world willingly" Lilith said

"I know your plans, you want freedom and bring back your chaos, weren't you imprisoned by a spatial user to be released when your heart reconciles? " Julius asked calmly.

"Yes, and the time is now " Lilith replied

"And you still need a blood contract? " Michell asked

"I will free you, only if you become ally with Pearl Village, it's a deal we can both agree on, for your freedom" Amen said

Lilith suddenly raised her head up, feeling strange and spoke out.

"The outworld, it's a deal, but something bad is about to happen, if the girl is pulled out of the Divine tree without complete transformation, she becomes the demon we don't want, even I won't be able to stop her" Lilith said and disappeared.

Amen clapped his hands together and immediately a stable portal opened right before them.

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Maze slashed the vines of the tree that had around covered Jemima fully, slashing them off, he grabbed Jemima by the hand and began to pull her out.

Jin held Otto by the head and smashed his head into the ground.

"I thought you're a god, how did you manage to defeat Kareem? " Jin shouted.

Lord Supreme dashed out of the portal, fillers by Julius, Michell and Amen.

"Everything is going according to plan" Otto replied and began to laugh hysterically.

"Mazeeeeee, don't pull her oooouuuuttt!!!!!! " Lord Supreme shouted as he began to dash forward

Maze screamed with all his might and pulled out Jemima out from the tree, both of them falling hard to the ground.

"And now it is complete" Otto said and smiled.

He suddenly appeared behind Maze and grabbed him by the shirt, threw him off at Jin and carried Jemima in his hands.

"You only made my mission easier, the tree is about 80% done, which is enough for us, the girl has become the grand tier demon, taking our sides, the time has come" Otto said and disappeared with Jemima.

"What have we done? " Lord Supreme muttered and fell to his knees.

Chapter 49

Jin walked into the training hall and stopped right at the middle, he turned around and faced the children and folded his arms into each other.

"The first person to hit me" he said calmly with his head bowed "Let it all out, your angers, your fear, the hatred and pains, let it all out on me and don't hold back"

Maze sniffed and without thinking twice dashed forward, attacking in a frenzy, throwing punches at Jin who skillfully dodged the blows, moving back swiftly while Maze continued his attack, giving no breathing space.

Michell joined in the rush, yelling as she threw her punches alongside Maze at Jin. Jin moved around dodging the punches, passing in between them skillfully, like he knew their movement even before they made it.

Amen also dashed forward, and joined the punch barrage, each trying to land a hit at Jin, with anger burning in them.

After hours of throwing punches, and meeting with the air, Maze fell to the ground, drops of sweat rushing down bus face to the ground, his body fully soaked.

Michell followed suit, willingly allowing herself to collapse to the ground. Amen bent down, panting loudly.

"After an hour, none of you could successfully make a hit" Jin said and walked out.

The three all kept mute, with various thoughts running through their minds, it was Amen who spoke first.

"I am sorry" Amen said in remorse and fell to his knees.

Jin smiled from where he hid himself and listened as the children made resolve among themselves.

"It worked, Dan has some strange method of pulling people get along'

"We should have let you know, you had every right to know, but what now, we don't have enough energy house to move to the outer realm and Lilith is saying she can go there but it's beyond her since she only operates in this realm and hell" Amen said calmly.

"It might be tougher than we thought " Michell chipped in

"I believe in you both" Maze said and where he laid and sighed.

"Argh, alright witch let's go this and rupture that space dimension" Amen said, grunting as he stood to his feet.

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Lord Supreme stood at the peak of the mountain in the village, a spot he always visited whenever he was troubled, he looked at the entire landscape of Pearl Village from where he stood and sighed, trying to imagine how horrible it would become if nothing was done to curb the threat that was greater than them.

"How would Kareem handle the thought of his daughter bring killed, everything just keeps getting messier " He thought within himself and rubbed his palms together, moved them towards his mouth and breathed into it.

"You and Kareem are still attached to this spot? " Julius asked from behind and got closer to Lord Supreme.

"The options laid down before us are tough ones, the top grade hunters are all dead, except you and Jin, the junior hunters lack experience, except for Dan's team" Lord Supreme said calmly.

They both looked up at same time and turned to look at themselves

"Do you also feel that? " Julius asked

"Yes, the children opened it" Lord Supreme said and leaped down the mountain.

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Amen grinned, trying to get a hold of himself, the portal right before them was barely wide enough to let a grown adult into it, Michell on the other hand, held tight to Amen's right hand, while she also stretched out her free hand forward, trying to sustain the portal.

"Almost there, try making it bigger " Lord Supreme said hoping to dash right into it immediately there was enough space.

Seeing this, Maze looked around, sure no one was paying attention to him, he dashed forward and dived into the portal.

"Mazeee!! " Jin shouted and dived in after him, folding his body so he could get into the portal unhurt.

Bith Amen and Michell suddenly collapsed to the ground, exhausted and out of energy house.

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Maze fell hard to the ground, from above, the next seconds Jin also landed on his feet and pulled Maze up

"What we're you thinking? " Jin asked.

"There, that's the tree" Maze pointed forward, brewing with anger "And that's Maze in it" he grunted and was about dashing forward, immediately Jin pulled him back.

"There is a fine line between bravery and stupidity, since both of us are the only one here, initially you've disrupted the initial plan, and we have to restrategize, that guy did a major blow on your father, he is not to be taking lightly " Jin said and let go off Maze cloth.

"So, what now? "

Chapter 48

Otto walked into the room, where Jemima was kept, hypnotised and barely conscious. Jemima floated in mid air, Otto grabbed her by the leg and pulled her along as he walked out of the room. Outside the ship, in the out world, which was vast and with red sun barely illuminating the entire planet.

A dead tree stood distance away from the ship, barely standing upright. Otto pulled Jemima along as he walked out of the ship, descended to the ground, still pulling Jemima along by the leg in mid air.

"Finally what we lost will be brought back, the power we sought will be ours" Otto said as he walked closer to the tree.

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Maze suddenly crashed into the training hall, sighting Amen first, he dashed at him, with full rage, he sent a resounding punch at Amen, the punch graced Amen's face.

CRACCCCKKK!! the blow crushed Amen's jaw and sent him flying off.

"Hey, Maze " Michell shouted in surprise.

Maze turned to face her and picked up speed, dashing at her. Knowing it was trouble, Michell placed her hand on the ground and turned into Lord Supreme

"Trust me that trick won't save you from tasting the fury in me" Maze shouted as he leaped into the air.

Michell in Lord Supreme's form, stretched out her hands
"Perfect illusion" she said hoping the technique would get hold of Maze.

"All I see are the things I wished for, a perfect family, but that illusion trick won't work on me" Maze shouted and grabbed Michell by the neck, flipped her backward and smashed her head straight into the ground.

Maze screamed out loudly, growling hard and painfully.

"Tell me why you kept it from me, you knew about Jemima and you kept it from me!! " Maze shouted dashed at Amen, scrapped him off his feet and rammed a punch through his stomach in mid air.

"Speakkkkk!! " Maze shouted and dashed at Michell. He appeared before her, disappeared and appeared at her back, held her by the air and smacked her back into the ground.

"ENOOUUUGHHH" lord Supreme shouted "Paralysis technique " Lord Supreme said, making Maze immediately go numb, paralyzed all over

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"How did he expect us to say such, hey Maze your sister will be the demon we would be killing next, we couldn't tell anyone" Michell said, her left eye swollen and almost closed up, with bruises all over her face.

"This is a situation we should tackle together and you kept it from everyone, both of you? " Lord Supreme shouted in annoyance.

"Hey, Old man, we need to confirm things first, don't act all righteous, first you crushed our confidence, took us off the tournament and banned us for two years and you expect us to confide in you, when you couldn't even trust us when we said our part of what happened, you degraded us to please a total stranger " Amen shouted in annoyance and flared up.

"You don't speak to me in such manner!! " Lord Supreme shouted and suddenly appeared before Amen.

"Or what, you're going to crush me? Go ahead" Amen shouted.

"Hey, Amen, follow me" Jin said from where he stood next to the door.

Amen starred at his father angrily before turning around to leave with Jin.

"And you two " Jin said to Michell and Maze.

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Otto placed Jemima in between the tree and split his right palm, he folded his palm as blood dripped down his palm, he made the blood drip on Jemima's mouth and slowly the tree began to come alive, vines began to grow out and slowly began to wrap around Jemima, sucking out the life form in her and gradually began to grow pale and thin.

Chapter 47

Dan walked in Lord Supreme who was deep in thought, sitting next to Kareem's bed where he laid unconscious, wraps of white cloth wrapped all over his body, covering his face completely.

"Brother" Dan said and patted Lord Supreme on the shoulder.

Lord Supreme slowly raised his head and sighed.

"You're lost in thought again"

"Yeah, I am, even before the fight Kareem was engaged in, he told me he was scares, I have never heard him say so or lack confidence, first time Kareem lost confidence, Kareem is bolder than any one of us look at his current state, what do you think will happen to any one of us" Lord Supreme said with tears alley dripping down his face.

Dan gulped loudly, it was at that moment he knew the mess they were all in

"Jemima is gone, we are surely on the loosing end, the ship is gone, Emmy, what do we do? " Dan asked and starred at unconscious Kareem

"Right now we are depending on Jin and Amen, if they don't find a way, then it's all lost"

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North Demon laughed out loudly, her voice echoed through the huge cave, she finally settled and slurped before talking.

"So Kareem couldn't out up a decent fight after all " She said and began pacing around from one end to another.

"It is glaring whose side we should be on already" South Demon replied and let out a bright smile.

"Can you get us access to the outworld, that is the only place they could be, to keep everything on track " North demon said, stopped pacing and looked at South Demon

"Ehehe, let's move out, but we don't have a price to present, they are gods and they really don't need our assistance, we might end up becoming their errand slaves" North demon said in low voice.

"No, they are the last of the second tier god, they have billion of armies, and they surely need more experienced hands to give out the orders, at this point, Lord Supreme and Kareem are just pawns"

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Maze dashed through the woods, running as fast as hid legs could carry him, on his right hand, an arrow end with ancient writing on it, he knew what he was holding, an ancient relic, which had come from nowhere to hit him on the head.

"Slow down you bloody elf, I knew you weren't extinct, you're too smart to be" Maze shouted as he dashed through the woods, chasing the white figure that disappeared and appeared in the distance.

Maze locked his palms together as he dashed forward

"From my calculations, it keeps disappearing and appearing third seconds into the distance from the previous point, I'm three minutes behind, if I could just double up my speed, one minute further, my ice sealing technique should be able to catch up" Maze said.

Maze leaped on the tree before him, leaping from it to another and slowly covering the distance since he moved faster on trees than he did on ground.

"There you are, Water Scynth 14th form, ice sealing technique "

Maze shot out water from thumbs, which we locked together, pointing forward.

Before the white blur could disappear, the ice box caught up with it, quickly sealed around it and dropped to the ground.

"Easy, you all keep showing faces, keeping track of what is going on here, but never offer help" Maze said aa he ran towards the ice seal.

Getting closer, Maze gasped at the sight before him, inside the ice was a white skin human, with white long hairs and pointed ears.

"Release" Maze said and instantly the ice melted "Do you wish to talk, or I should help you do that"

"You people never cease to amaze us" the elf said as it stood up, standing at almost same height as Maze.

"You're a lady, no wonder I caught you easily " Maze said and pointed his water sword at her neck.

"Maybe, I heard Kareem got defeated and I heard to come see for myself, we depend on him" the elf said and turned around.

Maze made his sword disperse and tagged behind her

"You elves have always been on hiding, the dwarves only heaven knows who others are hiding from humans" Maze said.

"We never hid, we were to powerful for humans to cope with so we had to move into another dimension, even though we walked the earth first" the elf replied Maze and titled her head backward to look at him.

"But you still depend on Kareem"

"Your father is a god not human, if he dies or becomes useless, we will be forced to fight against the threat, demons also moved to another dimension, having their own civilization, their currency, and use humans as animals"

"Well, nothing surprises me anymore " Maze replied

"But your demon sister has to die, if we need to win, the second tier gods aren't the main problem here, but your sister, her kidnapping will bring out her full potential, her powers will drive her mad and she'll become the demon we never wanted, your demon sister has to die "

Maze grabbed the elf girl by the neck and raised her up in the air, brewing with anger, he made a spear forge out from his left hand and pointed it at the girl's neck.

"Where did those trash come out from? " Maze asked

The girl suddenly was out of Maze grip, standing on the brand of the tree before Maze.

"You caught me because I wanted you to, your sister will bring back the demon order, if you don't believe me, ask Amen, he knows, ask the witch, she knows, those two can tap into the future and see what happens, the demon threat we've once experienced is just a tip of an iceberg, Jemima will return the greatest demon order of all, alright take care, I hope you find the strength to kill her, or else I will do that for you" the elf girl said and vanished into thine air.

Maze at this point became confuse, brewing with anger, he turned towards Peale Village and dashed off.