Rise of the Cosmic_Emperor

Leader one's eyes widened at such a proclamation and he eyed every other member of Han Doe's group.

Han Doe was not done, choosing to continue from Leader One's wide-eyed expression,

"Ah, that amazes you doesn't it? That proclamation of strength made you shiver, didn't it? Well, I don't blame you. You should be amazed.

The true leaders of the young generation, me included, on the Haron continent have formed their teams and as it turns out, we're ten and have formed groups with those in whose abilities we trust.

I assure you no one will be eliminating our teams.

Thus, the spots are all filled. No one can..."

"What of the mysterious five?" Leader one suddenly cut in with an interruption that quickly disrupted Han Doe's flow and he looked into the leader's face.

"The what?" Han Doe asked with furrowed brows.

"The mysterious five. They are a group of five individuals who are so fierce, no one really has a description of what they look like. They have been going about hunting groups down.

Appearing out of nowhere to interfere in fights.

As far as I know, none of them has so far identified or been identified as a leader of the young generation"

Their motto is 'We're taking you down before you take us down, you dumbasses!'

You haven't heard of them?" Leader one asked with incredulity.

"Of course not. Because they don't exist" Han Doe said with a frown.

A frown that Leader one quickly mirrored but it was not him who spoke next, but one of those in his group,

"They do. The hunting has been going on for about forty minutes and the news of their prowess has already spread..." Said the group member before he shut up when Han Doe turned in his direction,

"Don't you see, you idiots? If this group actually exists and they are as fierce as you make them out to be, there would be no one to spread the news of said prowess.

All teams they come across would have been defeated." Han Doe said and he made a good point but a voice sounded suddenly to answer his head-scratching question,

"Not if the mysterious five decided to let an entire team go free all for the purpose of spreading the word" said the voice and all eyes turned towards it to see a devilishly handsome calm sapphire-eyed young man leaning against a building.

Seeming as though he had been there all along which was impossible as Han Doe was sure his senses would have caught his arrival.

He was not a mid-stage Cosmic Aurora expert for nothing.

Even those watching the broadcast and had been expecting Hal and his group to arrive out of nowhere and dazzle the screens with impressive strength like they had been doing for the last hour or so had no idea how and when he arrived.

Hal had taken full advantage of the broadcasting blind spots which were anywhere something interesting was not happening to turn visible away from the sight of those watching in the coliseum.

As for Han Doe, what hope did he have in sensing Hal whose invisibility at the moment, as long as he did not make use of energy, would keep him hidden from even the senses of saints?

"Who are you?" Han Doe asked Hal with a frown.

Hal raised a brow in surprise,

"I thought that will be obvious. I'm Hal, a member of the mysterious five. And as I was saying, the reason news of our prowess spread was because we let it spread"

"That's stupid. Why let a group go free if you are all about hunting groups?" Han Doe asked with a hint of mockery before Hal chuckled,

"Who said anything about letting a team go free? We found the most passionate team we could. A team in which all members would do anything to pass the first stage and then we took one of their members hostage.

Promising to only let the member go free when everyone in this rundown district knew the name of our fearsome group."

"Why?" Han Doe was confused at what he considered unnecessary.

Hal shrugged,

"Same reason you came here and instead of just going right at it and defeating this group, you decided to dilly-dally and tell them all ten spots are filled.

Speaking of which, who are you to say all ten spots are filled?" He asked with a mocking smile.

Han Doe thrust his chest out and made to speak but Hal quickly interrupted with a mocking laugh,

"What the hell was that? Am I supposed to be worried because you have a chicken drawn on your chest?" He asked and gestured at the embroidered golden bird on the front of Han Doe's chest.

"How dare you insult the glorious emblem of my Golden Crow sect?" Han Doe said in anger jut that only served to make Hal laugh louder,

"Golden crow? Haha, in case the founders of your sect are blind, allow me to set the record straight... Crows are black, not golden"

Almost as soon as he was done talking, Han Doe's senses picked the sudden arriving presence of four individuals and had only made to mobilize his group when a column of golden flames descended on the scene...

*BOOM!!!*

... Causing a massive explosion that separated everyone.

The only ones not blown away were Hal, who had known the attack was coming, and Han Doe who had reacted fast enough to avoid getting blown away.

The blast had been too much for a member of Leader one's group and as soon as his device went red, that of every other member of the group went red as well.

With Leader one happy to be sent away as this battle was clearly not on a scale he could participate anymore.

Hal rallied with his group members while Han Doe who was brushing dirt off his robe looked over at the five right at the time the other six members of his group stood to their feet still looking fairly healthy especially after quickly taking mending pills of which they had many.

"Bastards" said one.

"Cowards" said another both probably referring to the sneak attack of sorts.

"So you are the mysterious five." Han Doe said but none of the members of Hal's group acknowledged him.

"It wasn't enough" Melinda said having used the flames of her bloodline as opposed to that of her ordinance which she could not yet accurately control and could not be sure would not kill anyone.

"It made for a good entrance. And it gives us a chance to give them a thrashing." Nicole said with a grin.

Adeline eyed Hal,

"I have to say, you found a good group" she said with a light smile.

"You asked for a much more fun battle and I delivered" he said.

He had volunteered to scout ahead for groups worth their attention and when he had happened on the battle between the two already defeated groups, he hardly considered any of them worthy until Han Doe of the golden chicken sect showed himself.

The moment he turned visible, he had used his device to send a signal to call the rest of the group to his location.

"I still really dislike you though" Adeline quickly added.

Hal shrugged,

"And I don't care"