Odyssey of the Blind God

Chapter 424 Altering The Mind

"Do whatever you want!" The Dojo Master said with a bright smile on his face.

He was ready to face all the consequences if something were to go wrong but he wanted to see the six Valxians suffer.

There were many distinguished families at high positions in the government of the Valxians and the six youngsters around Nial belonged to six influential families that had a few powerhouses amongst them and an abundance of wealth and resources.

The powerhouses had accumulated their fortune and the six families had left no stone unturned to increase their wealth because it would result in a drastic increase in the amount of resources they could procure. With that, producing powerful offsprings and nurturing them wouldn't be difficult anymore.

"In that case, let me fight all of them at once!" Nial said all of a sudden, causing a commotion as the six young Valxians began to murmur. Their expressions had changed drastically and Nial perceived that they had instinctively activated their Berserk racial trait, which was quite an interesting sight.

'Their temperament is even worse than that of Khain's. Looks like most Valxians' are level-headed and unable to control themselves,' Nial thought before he visualized the Dojo Master. He was calm and composed right now, which was quite different from how he had been before.

There was no sight of his earlier annoyance anymore, and it was already quite a bit astonishing for Nial to see the Dojo Master lose his calm to begin with. It was an indicator of just how bothersome the existence of the six Valxians was for the Dojo Master.

"Fight all of us at once? Are you a fucking idiot?" One of the young Valxians shouted at Nial, who remained completely unbothered even after the other Valxians joined him in the accusations.

"If you like getting beaten up, suit yourself, loser!"

"How about you just give up immediately and save us some trouble? Maybe we can accept you as our errand boy and won't beat you to a pulp!!"

"You're just a tiny human. Don't you think it would be better for you to know your fucking place?! You belong in the dirt below us, not in our equal standing!"

"You might be revered as a powerful Original, but in comparison to our greatness, you are just a tiny peasant!!"

Nial almost burst into laughter when he listens to the young Valxians' lame attempt to insult him. Not only were they horribly wrong but they had just added fuel to the flame. Nial was motivated to beat them to a pulp because they were too arrogant for their own good.

Destroying their seemingly unshakable confidence was something he looked forward to.

"You guys will fight him together. If you don't want that you can always give up the challenge before it even started," The Dojo Master instructed calmly as he looked at the six young Valxians before he added, "but that would also mean you will never be able to challenge the entrance test of the Thousand Bodies Refinements Dojo!"

The six young Valxians stared deeply at the Dojo Master before their eyes turned to Nial almost simultaneously.

"Will we really become your disciples once we defeat this pimp?" One of them asked, uncertain why the Dojo Master was so confident in Nial.

After all, they would have a numerical advantage and Nial was blind which should make him look even more worried. However, Nial was extremely calm as well, which meant that he was also confident in his capabilities. That was pretty interesting and also something that worried the Valxians. Only one of them was smart enough to use his rational thinking in the current situation.

The other five Valxians was not in the condition to ask themselves why both the Dojo Master and Nial were so calm in the current situation.

"We will clear the arena for you guys. You can start after I step out of the arena's markings!" The Dojo Master instructed before he moved slowly to the outer area of the arena.

He clasped his hand together and as if on command all students of the Dojo began to move outward and away from the arena's ground. Following their actions, the challengers left the arena as well, leaving behind Nial, the six Valxians, and the Dojo Master.

The Dojo Master's steps were slow and rhythmic. This gave the seven people in the Arena a pretty clear understanding of when the start of the battle would be.

Nial didn't move an inch from his earlier position while the six Valxians had moved around him to form a circle. They formed a loose circle around him and kept a distance of over 50 meters but that was basically nothing considering that their height alone was already above an average of five meters. With their cultivation being at the Prometheus rank, they would have a very easy time leaping forward and snatching Nial within a second.

They wanted to make use of their physical strength while preventing Nial from using some Broken Runic armament that required a few seconds to be unleashed.

Those runic armaments were the worst because their prowess was much higher than runic armaments that released an effect immediately after it had been activated.

Nial just smiled after perceiving what the Valxians planned and the intelligent looked at him warily. He really didn't like the fact that Nial was still smiling and grew more uneasy when he saw his smile widen.

That was not supposed to happen and the Valxian was just about to warn the others about his bad feeling when the Dojo Master stepped outside the arena.

The instant the Dojo Master left the arena, Nial unleashed [Dominion] in its strongest form. He didn't use any of the accumulated energy within the Blood Eclipse Moon, or the Heart of Darkness, but that was not necessary, to begin with.

Nial's proficiency with [Dominion] had increased to such an extent that he knew what he had to do in order to achieve a specific result.

There was no need for him to change or subdue the mind of his opponents in their entirety. On the contrary, the only thing he had to do was to plant an idea or thought in his opponents' minds.

[Dominion] was mostly used to overwhelm the mind of his opponents and force them to do certain things, but that was not a necessity. The ability evolved from [Mental Control], meaning that the standard functions of the ability hadn't been lost even after evolving to something else.

Nial was thus naturally able to control the mentality and mind of his targets and make them dance to his tunes.

Upon using [Dominion] with a tremendous amount of mana, Nial quickly noticed that not everyone was as absentminded as they initially seemed. However, that was not necessary because the thought he created in the minds of the others was pretty simple.

[You need to defeat the Valxian next to you to get accepted as the Dojo Master's direct disciple. He will reward you greatly provided you beat your opponent in an overwhelming manner!]

Nial hadn't thought long about the content of the message he'd wanted to convey to the Valxians but that had not been necessary, to begin with. The picture that had formed in his mind was more than enough to achieve everything he was looking forward to.

Thus, he ended up saying a single word while his eyes turned crimson in their entirety.

"Fight!"

Nial visualized everything around him clearly. Five out of six Valxians had been ready to attack Nial the moment the battle started. Yet, just a split second later, his booming voice and command rang through their ears, and it was as if a dam had been broken.

A flood was unleashed and the Valxians changed their target almost instantly as they flicked their head in the direction of their neighbor to their right, forgetting all of their schemings and earlier plans to defeat Nial.

The five Valxians' eyes turned bloodshot and they activated their Berserk racial trait and clocked it to the maximum possible level to make sure that they could defeat their opponent as quickly as possible and in the most destructive way.

This was something they achieved but the result was against everyone's expectations.

The Valxians started a brutal fight amongst each other and the horrifying sound of fists smashing mercilessly on their opponents along with the cracking of bones resounded through the arena. They had lost their capacity to think rationally and they even ignored paying attention to self-defense.

Their sole goal was to break their opponents' bones and literally turn them into a mashed pulp!

Nial stood back with his hands folded as he surveyed the arena with a satisfied expression, his eyes glinting with a hint of wicked euphoria.

Meanwhile, the rest of the spectators were utterly gobsmacked and their mouths hung wide open as they witnessed how the Valxians around Nial attacked each other and left the blind youth alone.

Only one Valxian was not under the full effect of [Dominion]. He was the only one who could tell that there was something wrong but his mind was befuddled to understand what exactly was going on.

Even when his own friend began to attack him and the rest of them were at each other's throats as if it was perfectly normal.

But something was terribly wrong…that the Valxian knew!

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