Chapter 17: The Challenge part 1

“Ok… your twelve hours start… now. Good luck” the elder shouted to the disciples.

Suddenly a torrent of people started rushing towards the hill.

“Idiots” Elias muttered under his breath.

This immediately made Elias smile on the inside as not only would most of the ‘trash’ disciples lose most of their Ki energy by the time Elias plans to strike, but also it would help him get better grasp of the disciples he should be wary of.

Looking around, Elias observed around two hundred people still resting for the time limit to go down, most of these people were smart but with average strength, but there were a few hidden B ranks in between all of the disciples still sitting, this made Elias worry a bit about Jessica’s position. Thinking about it Elias would just smash his way through with Jessica in tow.

After a few hours had passed. Bodies were scattered all over the place, which gave Elias an advantage when it came to his elements but he was still bothered about the smell, as hundreds of dead bodies did not particularly smell pleasant.

Opening her eyes from training, Jessica asked “Lord, may I ask if you have a plan to make your way up, and at what time shall I be ready for”.

Elias turned to her and plainly said “We’ll leave with half an hour to spare, for a plan… I shall go in front taking advantage of the many corpses to take on groups of people, and you can take on the stragglers. Agreed?”.

“Of course” Jessica followed up.

Half an hour to go till the end of the challenge, Elias abruptly stood up followed by Jessica. Spying around as soon as Elias stood up many others did as well. This led to Elias having a smile on his face as he always enjoyed a challenge.

Walking up to the bottom of the hill, there were many corpses around; Elias immediately activated his blood element, creating ten swords floating around him and Jessica. Looking up the hill Elias saw many battles taking place. Smiling Elias slowly walked up the hill without a care in the world.

Gradually climbing the hill, many low ranked people came to attack Elias foolishly, as all Elias had to do was lift a finger towards the person and a sword would abruptly stab them, in fact Elias could just control the swords using his mind but Elias found it much cooler to point a finger at someone and kill them instantly.

1….. 5…….. 13…… weak ….. 21…….. 33 … weak ….. 45 ……… 59 ………..100 … WEAK …. 127

Elias was very frustrated the more he killed the weak people and actually pondered if they had any common sense as they could see people getting mowed down by him, but they still judged him by appearance.

Soon enough Elias just gave up and de-summoned the blood swords and let Jessica take care of the bothers.

Half way up the hill Elias sensed two B ranked disciples, both were boys, twins in fact both with almond brown hair, but one had grey irises while the other had murky blue the one with grey irises seemed to have a more pudgy body compared to the others lean but muscular body.

No words were spoken as both parties knew what would happen, Elias used this as a perfect time to test his sword skills, bringing out his sword which didn’t suit his height and got into a slight stance, the two boys immediately rushed down hill at him one going to the left the other to the right.

Elias straight away knew these two had quite good teamwork as both matched each others speed well. Coming closer to Elias the fatter twin swept his leg from behind while the other kicked towards Elias’s body in front of him trying to trap him in, but Elias of course wouldn’t fall for this as he immediately slashed his sword down to the front twins ankle while stepping forward to avoid the behind kick.

Hitting the boy’s ankle didn’t result well as both boys had high ranked magical plating on their hands and legs, this resulted in Elias’s hands going numb, Elias knew that the sword needed to absorb more blood to get stronger and sharper.

The two boys went in again both trying to wear down Elias by making him dodge punches, not finding an opening Elias decided to take the full force of one of the punches from the boys, doing this shocked him for a moment and that moment was all Elias needed for him to cut his head off.

This made the other boys go into a frenzy, making his Ki go wild which resulted in a high rebound but gave him triple strength and a faster attack time, knowing he couldn't take the punches head on, he waited for an obvious let down in guard and as he did he twisted his body as fast as possible to get to the right side of his opponent but as he did a punch grazed his shoulder causing a dislocation but Elias kept going and swiftly turning his sword matching the momentum sliced the boy in half.

Seeing this spectacle, all of the lower ranked people now knew not to approach him, letting his sword absorb the two’s blood, Elias turned to watch the separated Jessica but turning round he saw a female demon as Jessica was using all sorts of methods to kill her opponents, while walking on top of the already killed bodies.

A small chill passed through Elias as he saw this but paid no mind to it, after a few minutes Jessica walked up to Elias with a keen urge to carry on, seeing this Elias popped his shoulder back into place, and started his journey back up to the top.