Dark Magus Returns

When Harmon from the Light Faction saw the walls go up, there was relief that had left his entire body. After suffering from the large attack, his whole body was tense and sore. He needed some time to recover before he could do anything.

'He hit us quite far away, and the maze is impossible to figure out in the short time this event goes on for,' Harmon thought. 'So it's best that I locate Charlotte, and the two of us team up again.

'Right now, we only have two crystals between us; I'm sure the Dark Faction will have more.'

Finally getting up off his feet, Harmon could feel a great pain shooting down his entire leg. He used his hand to lean up against the wall. He was more injured than he thought from the last attack.

However, that's when he noticed something; he could hear a strange sound, a knocking that was getting slightly louder.

He ignored it at first because the sound was shallow, and between each knock, there was a lot of time. But the sound of the knocks was getting louder and quicker.

He pressed his hand on his chest.

'For a second, I thought it might have been my heartbeat. I should just focus on finding Charlotte.'

Twisting his bracelet, he could see it light up and move in the air toward a location. Just as he was about to move, though, he could hear the crowd shouting behind him.

"Move! Run! Get out of there, he's coming!"

"Just run!"

The crowd was screaming at the top of their lungs, but Harmon had no idea what for. Run from who, and what?

A loud thud was heard from his side, and part of the wall had collapsed into nothing but dust.

"I found you," the Demonic Faction student said.

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Seeing the walls of the event being destroyed one by one like so, in a strange manner, there was slight panic in the Light Faction Clan Head area.

"How is he able to do such a thing? That should be impossible for Pagna warriors!" Ricar said.

At that point, Kawak stood up and turned around.

"Carry on watching the match; there isn't much time left, but I need to look into things."

After finishing his words, in a flash of light, he had disappeared from the room.

A short while later, and Kawak was now in a deep dark room. Due to the darkness, it was hard to tell how big the room was.

There was only a single ray of light, a large round ball, that had a glowing ring placed around it, and there were four men that were stationed around the large ball.

"Are you aware of what is happening right now, what is happening above?" Kawak asked.

"We have access to the mirrors as well," one of the men in white replied. "We are aware, and I'm sure you are looking for answers."

One of the men quickly left the large ball and went on his knees in front of Kawak as he went to give an explanation.

"It appears that the student is using the special extraction technique that was created by the Demonic Faction."

"All of that was done by that crude technique?" Kawak replied.

"Yes, we knew this was a possibility, due to the structure of what the walls were made from and the Artifact. However, for someone to take down walls so fast, they must have a great grasp on the extraction technique, better than some clan heads even."

Kawak had gotten the information he needed. He was quite satisfied with the answer because he feared that it was possible that it was something else, and with that, he had turned around to view the rest of the event.

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Standing there looking at Harmon was Raze.

Harmon's body completely froze up. No matter how hard he tried to move, he couldn't, and it wasn't because of the injuries on his body.

Immediately, Raze grabbed him by his neck and slammed him onto the wall. There was no resistance from Harmon, and even if he tried, he was sure that it would amount to nothing.

Raze didn't say anything and instead looked down at the bracelet that was still around his arm. Placing his sword away, Raze made sure that his grip was tighter around Harmon's neck.

He then grabbed onto the round circle bracelet and tried to move it down, but Harmon's hand was far too big to simply take it off, and there appeared to be no mechanism to take the bracelet off.

"What are you doing?" Harmon asked; there was almost a slight panic in his voice. Why, in this situation, would someone go for the bracelet?

Raze continued to tug at the bracelet, trying to take it off in some way, and Harmon's heartbeat was going faster by the second.

"You… do you have any idea what's going to happen to you… you shouldn't mess with things you don't understand!" Harmon shouted.

At that point, Raze stopped trying to carefully pull the hard bracelet down. Instead, he held onto the ring firmly and then pulled down, forcing the bracelet off. It had cut part of Harmon's skin off while breaking a couple of fingers as well to allow the bracelet to come through.

"ARGHHH!!" Harmon screamed.

"Judging by your reaction, you knew what this did as well," Raze said. "I thought the Light Faction was all about honor; what you did back there and using things like this, for what?"

"You could have ruined another student's life back there, all for your selfish gains. I think you are the one that needs to be taught a lesson."

Raze's veins on his hand started to bulge again, and the energy was being drained directly out of the student. Raze was careful though; after absorbing all of that which was in his dantian, he quickly let go of Harmon, not taking any of his life.

Right after that, he held up the bracelet, and could feel it pulling in a particular direction.

Turning around, Raze went where the bracelet was pulling and placed his hand on the wall.

"What did you… what did you do to me?" Harmon screamed, knowing he could no longer sense the Qi in his body.

He was completely drained; his senses had lowered. He had no clue what all of this was.

"I was always told the world of Pagna is a place where warriors can die at any moment, and even students at this event lose their lives; be thankful that you haven't lost yours."

With those words spoken, the wall turned to dust, and Raze started to walk through. He was now doing the same as he did before.

Each time he placed his hand on the wall, part of it would turn to dust, and he stepped through, heading in one direction in particular.

The crowd could see exactly where he was heading to, as if he had x-ray vision; he was now heading straight for Charlotte.

"RUN! Get out of there; he'll get you too!"

The screams from the crowd grew; they felt like they were about to watch a mass murderer reach his next victim as he got closer and closer yet none of them could do anything.

Then, when Raze broke through another wall, he could see Charlotte in his sight.

"No!" Charlotte said, her heart pounding out of her chest.

Raze took a step forward, and the sound of a loud alarm had gone off. The timer of the event; it was over.

As Raze reached out, he felt four blades pointed right at his neck, and several warriors from above.

"This event is over; you are not permitted to move any further!"

The Light Faction that were on the edge of the arena had all come down at once and now had Raze surrounded.