Armipotent

Chapter 1096: Confusing Yet Convincing

The clash between the two different fires blew up to the sky. A figure flew off the explosion, and the figure was Faran. He flew in the air, crashing into the trees before falling to the ground. Smoke came out from his mouth and nostril while coughing up. His armor and shield lost their luster, charred with burned marks.

Faran got up immediately, looking up at the explosion. His left hand was still trembling from the clash earlier. The strike was too much for him to hold, and his heartbeat spiked up. From that one clash, he realized that the guild's information was wrong. Or the guild gave them the wrong information about Ying. There was no way that a summoner could overpower him like this. Also, the black fire confirmed his suspicion that Ying was not a summoner. It was too powerful for a spell cast by a summoner.

'What is this? Does the Karian Adventurer Guild try to protect Ying? But they just could send them back to Karian instead of letting him go outside the city?' Faran was confused. There was so much misinformation about Ying. 'But why does the guild want to protect him? If the Guild Master tried harder to protect Ying in the council, he had a big influence to do so, but he did not.'

Faran tried to process all information he had about Ying in his current situation. He tried to think why the guild would abandon someone that could rival a Primordial Rank even though the person was still Ancient Rank. Then he remembered one piece of information Ying was the last-minute S Rank Adventurer addition. It was not strange if that piece of information stood alone, but it would form a connection when everything was put together.

"The additional S Rank Adventurer is not from Karian World but from the other starter city." It was absurd that he could reach that conclusion, but otherwise, it did not explain why Ying did not return to Karian and decided to escape.

"You are quite smart, hah? You can guess my identity." Tang Shaoyang came out of the billowing smoke from the explosion and stood ten meters away from Faran. He heard what Faran said clearly just now. Even though it was just a guest, Faran was spot on with his guess.

Faran could not wrap it up as it was hard to understand why the Guild Master brought someone from outside into the guild. What was the reason the Guild Master brought Ying in? It made sense, and it also did not make sense at all. It made sense the guild abandoned Ying because he was not part of the guild in the first place. It did not make sense because he could not see the benefit of bringing someone like Ying into the guild. Ying's identity could jeopardize the Karian Guild's status within the city because what the guild did was an act of betrayal to the city for allowing a player from the other starter city to enter their starter city.

"It still does not make sense." Faran really tried to think of why the Guild Master brought Ying into the guild, but he could not find the answer. What was the benefit an Ancient Rank could bring to someone at Demi-God Rank?

"What are you thinking so hard? And what's the point of thinking so hard when you are about to die?" Tang Shaoyang directed the battle-ax toward Faran.

"Wait…. It made sense all along…." Faran seemed to realize something. "The guild did not tell the wrong information, but the guild did not really know your class in the first place. They just told us what you told the guild?"

"My information? My class? Ah, I did indeed tell them that I am Summoner. You are correct, but what's the point of it? It baffles me that you are more curious about me than your life. You are thinking so hard to figure this out, but for what?" Tang Shaoyang shook his head as it was really hard to understand what the man was doing right now.

It seemed to figure out his identity, and what happened between him and the guild was more important than his life.

"That might not be important for you, but it's important for me. So, even if I fail to capture you or the dragon, I bring information that could jeopardize the guild's stand in the city. The Crown Prince will not kill me." Faran regained his confidence after the initial shock. "You might be stronger than me in a fight, but if I use everything to escape, you will not be able to stop me."

"I don't know where that confidence comes from, but you can try if you really can escape from me." Tang Shaoyang grinned ear to ear. He did not play around anymore as he used Grand Dragon Transformation. He did not know what the enemy would do, so he used the bloodline transformation in case Faran did something weird to escape. He did not want the people from the starter city #5 to know his whereabouts, not yet until he visited the other two dangerous places mentioned by Areth.

At the same time, Faran took out a scroll from his inventory. He opened the scroll, and the scroll burst out into smoke. His presence also disappeared along with the smoke. It was an escape scroll, an item that teleported him a thousand meters away from his location to a random location. The only drawback was that he could not control where he would be teleported, but it should be enough to escape from Ying.

At least, that was what he thought until he saw Ying once more ten seconds later. Faran could not believe that the escape scroll did not even buy him a minute of time to escape.

"I thought you had something incredible, but just this?" Tang Shaoyang shook his head. He could easily find the man with his Spirit Eyes. Even with no Spirit Eyes, he could smell the guy from a thousand meters away.

Faran's face turned ugly as he looked at the figure above him, and he tried to use one more escape scroll. However, he failed to use the scroll as the scroll was burned by the black figure before he could use it. What followed after the burning scroll was the battle-ax coming down at him. He managed to dodge the battle-ax by leaping backward.

Faran felt a sting on his forehead. He touched it with his finger and realized that the battle-ax left a swallow cut on his forehead. He barely dodged the battle-ax, and it looked like the battle-ax was far from touching, yet it still reached him. 'He had many weird things that I can't predict, and with the rumored dragon transformation, it would be hard for me to escape. I have two more escape scrolls, but I don't think I will be able to use them again in front of him.'

Faran had not figured out what burned the scroll. He did not see the fire coming from Ying. The black fire suddenly lit up the scroll even though his enemy did not touch it. If he took out another escape scroll, it would be burned again.

Tang Shaoyang used [Blink] and appeared right before Faran. [Blink] was his best movement skill so far as the skill always caught his enemy off guard. He swung down the battle-ax.

Faran managed to react despite the surprise. He was about to jump backward, but something caught his ankle. He looked down and saw Ying's tail catching his left ankle. There was no hesitation from Faran as he swung the sword to cut his ankle. The no-hesitation action to cut his left ankle saved him from getting split into two. With his eyes, he managed to avoid death and saw the blade of the battle-ax was a few centimeters away from his body. Even though the battle-ax did not cut him, his body was cut. It was another swallow cut into his body, deeper than the cut on his forehead. He fell on the ground backward, rolling on the ground from the impact of cutting his own left ankle.

As soon as his body stopped moving from the falling, he immediately took out the regeneration potion from his inventory. He needed to regenerate his missing leg if he wanted to escape from this monster. But it was too late because the man was right above him, looking down at him with those sharp eyes.

"D-Don't k-kill me! I will do anything for you, but please don't kill me!" Faran was begging for his life.

"I thought you could entertain me somehow, just like those knights from the Divine Church, but you are quite disappointing. The only thing you can do for me is to help me level up with your life." Tang Shaoyang grinned, showing his sharp teeth. "If you are ready to kill someone, you should be ready to die too."

With those last words, the new battle-ax took its first kill. The lion's head rolled into the ground with his eyes opened wide in fear and terror in his last moment. What came after that was the notification from the system as he got forty-two levels from killing a Primordial Rank.

"It seems I need to aim higher if I really want to get Myth Rank soon." He scratched his head. "I killed the Primordial Rank easily. Does that mean I can kill the Legend Rank too? Or is this guy weak for someone at Primordial Rank?"

He overpowered Faran with just [Wrath] and [Attribute Shift]. With the Dragon Transformation, Faran was helpless against him. He had not used [Spirit Integration] or even [Slayer Energy] yet, but he killed a Primordial Rank without a fight.