THE LIAR FACE DEMON (Legendary Wizard Saint)

J. TNANGA

Chapter 25: Do dancing sharks exist? Today we shall find out….

“Today for the first wave, we unleashed the demonic bear, it was my fault for getting all excited and thinking that the demons participating in this tournament could protect themselves against their attacks” stated the Demon Emperor. “I am very sadden by the numerous deaths we have today. A great many of our demon contestants have lost their lives due to the demonic bears. But remember, when you all signed up for this tournament, you all agreed to put your life at risk”

“Please remember that you all agreed to risk your life to become a member of the royal guard, whose duty is to risk their life for the demonic race, and to defeat all enemies. The tournament is not supposed to be easy, people loses their life every day, remember this is a harsh tournament, and do your best to protect those you care for, and yourself. Thank You.” Said the Demon Emperor, as one drop of sweat fell from his forehead.

“I knew it” thought Demon. “The bears were not a mistake, it was really part of the tournament, guess they are really getting serious in deciding who will be the royal guards”

Another administrator then replaced the Demon Emperor, and delivered a message that brought not only surprise faces but massive amount of footsteps, as well as a huge fear buildup, but in front of Demon, none of that matters……since his mind was preoccupied with worries for Marytus….

“All of you demons that want to continue in this tournament remain here. All those not ready to face monsters on the scale of the demonic bears please leave. Ah, right, that also include all those in the other waves as well, if you don’t think you can win against gigantic creatures as harsh or maybe even harsher than the gigantic demonic bears, please leave” states Kiarria with a serious tone, as if she is not kidding at all. “But don’t feel bad, it just means that you don’t have the power to do so yet”

Everywhere massive amount of demons started departing. None were crazy enough to continue in the tournament any longer. Of course some remained. Demon was of course one of them.

Demon remained for the sole reason because while Kiarria was giving the speech, he was too busy worrying about Marytus that he didn’t hear a single word, if he knew that they could just leave like that, he would have left and just gone on a search for Marytus.

With his mind, starting to clear a little bit, Demon came to his senses and realized the place was very quiet. The remaining participants were 70. Which means out of the 3 thousand that came this morning, let’s ignore those that went underground [1000], 1,950 decided to leave.

Out of those underground that survived the bears and remained underground until the signal that the wave was finished rang, was only 20. Which means, from the two thousand that were waiting for their wave to start, only 50 decided to stay. Making a grand total of 70 remaining participants.

This kind of situation was shocking. Even the audience, Demon Emperor, Kiarria, Zonisk and all those watching were shocked. I mean, they knew that the gigantic bears were dangerous, but for so few to remain and fight monsters on such levels, this was shocking indeed.

The audience in the stadium went completely silent. Not a single individual said a word. They were too busy trying to process the information.

It is with all of those unforeseen situations that Day four of the tournament enters its second wave, a wave not even consisting of 1000 individuals, no, not even one hundred. This was quite embarrassing, especially for a race such as the demon race that pride themselves in their strength.

The second wave was none other than the water-wave….

“I messed up so badly” said the Demon Emperor. “I can’t even look at myself anymore”

“Ah, don’t say that Demon Emperor” stated Kiarria. “You didn’t mean harm, except for Demon-sama, you didn’t mean harm to the others, it was clearly unfortunate….”

“Yeah, I don’t feel like making bets in this” states Zonisk. “It would leave a bad taste in my mouth”

“Yeah, all the bets are cancelled” said the Demon Emperor.

“Yeah” replied both Zonisk and Kiarria.

“Father, I want Demon to become a royal guard, he did more than help us in that situation, don’t you think?” said Carlardantis.

“Yes, I’ll definitely make him one of the royal guards, he has the strength necessary and even helped those other demons needing his help” said the Demon Emperor, with a voice showing he really mean it.

“Also, what kind of monster did you put in the water for the water wave?” asked Carlardantis.

“Some sharks….” Replied the Demon Emperor.

“Regular or gigantic?” Asked Carlardantis with a very sweet and deadly smile.

“………..” (Demon Emperor)

“Father??” asked Carlardantis.

“……………antic” replied the Demon Emperor.

“I didn’t really hear that” replied Carlardantis, again with that sweet and innocent expression that is hiding her true deadly intentions.

“……gigantic” said the Demon Emperor.

“I see; I see……” replied Carlardantis. “So that’s how it is then, okay then, may I talk to you privately, father?”

“No……um, it’s fine right here” said the Demon Emperor.

“No, no, it has to be private” explained Carlardantis as she grabs her father’s arms and is dragging him away…

“Wait….stop…..what are you doing?” asked the Demon Emperor scared. “Hey, Zonisk, Kiarria, help me, don’t just stand there and act like you are not seeing anything!!”

“lalalalaala” said both Kiarria and Zonisk. “Nothing weird is going on here. Today is just a typical normal day. So mundane”

“We haven’t seen the Emperor in a while, right?” asked Zonisk to Kiarria.

“Yeah, he hasn’t shown up ever since he gave that speech, I wonder where he went?” replied Kiarria.

“Wait….Why are you guys being like that? I thought we were friends” yelled the Demon Emperor as Carlardantis has successfully dragged him out of his own booth and closed the door so that the others wouldn’t hear any sound coming from outside.

With one evil glance at the Demon Emperor, Carlardantis caused the Demon Emperor to sweat at a really fast pace. The Demon Emperor was sweating so much, he looks like a little kid that got caught doing something naughty in his sister’s room, and his sister is going to make him suffer greatly for this….

“Father, let’s have a nice little chat” said Carlardantis with an evil tone and an evil wicked smile in her face. “Don’t worry, after this little chat, you’ll become a nice, sweet, RESPONSIBLE FATHER, that is of course if you survive. Don’t worry though, someone of your skills might survive………. probably…………… you never know, you might get lucky………… maybe……”

The Demon Emperor gulped for what could be his last time and was then dragged once more by his cute and adorable daughter, that for some reason looked like a real devil at this particular moment, to a dark corridor, in a dark chamber, in total darkness, with sound-proof doors closing, as to not allow any screams to be heard….

The Demon Emperor was thus never seen again………….

..................for quite some time (4 hours)…………..and when he came back, he was a change man, a change person……

The second wave consisted of going inside a gigantic water bubble. It was immensely huge and had many sharks in it. The second wave was just like the first……a survival game. Any demon that survive until the time limit wins, all of the rest lose.

Once inside the water bubble, the water bubble with the limited oxygen inside will then fly up in the sky (similar to the air balloon from before) and drop you inside a demon-made artificial sea.

Then the game will truly start.

Of course the moment you enter the bubble, the sharks inside will start attacking you, and you have to breathe and gather oxygen, until you are dropped in the artificial sea. When you are dropped in the artificial sea, you will no longer have access to the limited oxygen, you will have to rely on the oxygen you have gathered during your time in the bubble.

The admins had a table ready for the participants to grab one oxygen-absorber necklace called Oxyklace. Once you put the Oxyklace on, and enters the bubble, it will absorb the oxygen there. It will turn blue when absorbing, once finished it will turn green.

The Oxyklace also has another feature, it allows the wearer to communicate with each other without having to open their mouths for their voice to communicate.

An individual’s voice, before opening their mouths, have an vocal cord, that allow them to create a voice to communicate, using that principle, the Oxyklace once on the wearers neck, automatically connects to the person’s vocal cord. Therefore, any time the person wants to talk, all they have to do is talk as if they would talk normally but with their mouth closed.

The Oxyklace was created with that feature as to not allowed salt-water to enter people’s mouths and such. This has greatly benefited the great swimmers that exist in the Demonic continent.

During the few moments in the bubble, you also have to take a breath and hold it when you are about to drop to the sea. You do not want to use your Oxyklace right away, the admins did not say what the time limit was.

With all those things explained in a casual way, Demon and the rest enter the gigantic blue bubble…..and the very first thing Demon felt was…..water.

“Whoa…..I am wet…..” thought Demon. “I hope they don’t make my clothes look gross……Man, this take me back to the good old days when I used to make bubbles like these on my whim to pass time….”

Demon realized that he can breathe even though he is surrounded by water inside the bubble.

“They are utilizing wind magic as well as water magic perfectly….” Thought Demon. “They are doing it exactly like I used to do it when I was 8 years old…..those were good times….”

As soon as about everyone has entered the bubble, the sharks sensed them. The sharks knew that it was finally their time to eat dinner. And they were hungry….and even though the sharks were really far from where the contestants were, it only took a few minutes for them to reach the area the contestants are in. And the shark battle commences…

The sharks opened their gigantic jaws and advanced at great speed as if preparing to devour all!! Demon then used iron steel body technique to make his body super tough. He punches one of the oncoming demonic sharks right in the freaking face.

The shark got pushed back, bled a little and went back on the offensive…

“Damn it!!” thought Demon. “I cannot use water magic, fire magic, wind magic, or earth magic!!”

“I am in a freaking bubble, if I use water magic since there is water in the bubble, I might accidentally pop the bubble and that would be bad” continued Demon in his thought process. “If I use fire, it would be useless due to the amount of water we are expose to”

“If I used wind, it’ll be even more catastrophic, since the bubble is currently up in the air, it might create more damage than good” continued Demon. “And I can’t use earth for the obvious reason that I don’t have enough space to use it. If I make it too tall it might pop the bubble. I am in a real pickle!!!”

“What do I do?” thought Demon, right before a shark came his way to attack…

Demon then tried to punch again like he did last time, only it didn’t work this time. The shark knew it was coming and dodge and right when Demon’s body was left momentarily off-guard, the shark tried to bite Demon using its sharp and powerful teeth.

Demon teleported but all too late and reappeared at the far away corner where the sharks were before. Demon had a large wound near his abdomen. It was a flesh wound and red blood came out and the bite mark could be seen. Demon was in deep pain.

“To think it was strong enough to bite me even when I am using iron steel body technique…..Damn” thought Demon as he brought his right hand to his wound and healed it. “We should be arriving at the artificial sea soon, then I’ll show them no mercy”

Three sharks that smelled the blood from Demon’s wound, followed the scent right to Demon. Those were three hungry-pissed off looking sharks. Demon knew he couldn’t defeat them at this time, so he teleported away.

When Demon reappeared, he was in the middle of a battle between a demon magician that is blowing the sharks up merely by making a physical contact with them. The three sharks from before also came back and Demon had to teleport away again. Demon kept teleporting away everything a shark came near him.

The sharks were biting the other contestants, and even though they found them to be difficult, they knew in the end they would win. The battle was tough but for them, they were not tired unlike how most of the remaining contestants have become. The sharks were still full of energy.

But they found it increasingly difficult to hurt Demon. From the very first wound that Demon suffered since arriving in the bubble, none of the sharks have managed to hurt Demon ever since.

The sharks were hurting the other contestants as if it was a sport. They’ll each take turns. One shark would suddenly go and bite an arm off of a contestant and while that contestant would be down with extreme pain, another shark out of nowhere would come and take another piece off that demon.

It was if the sharks were organized. But with Demon it was difficult. The sharks looked like they were dancing with Demon.

Demon would suddenly reappear in a different area, three to four of the sharks would follow after Demon, and when they get a little close, Demon would then teleport away again and a new group of sharks would follow after Demon, then they would give up and another group would decide it was their time to chase Demon. It was like a dancing tag game.

The sharks were going round and round searching for Demon. Trying to find where Demon would reappear. They were going in circles, round and round again and again… It was quite the spectacular sight….

“Hehehehe” laughed Demon with a smirk. “I guess a little children group of sharks can’t catch me, hehehehe”

Demon’s laugh and his mocking tone further infuriated the sharks. The sharks have now become obsessed with chasing after him. It was as if Demon was a ball, and the children would chase after it……only the ball (Demon) would keep teleporting to another place and the following sharks would have to make a U-turn.

“Hahahaha” laughed the demons in the stadium. “As expected of Demon-sama, the sharks just cannot resist dancing with him…….it really looks like a dance”

“Dancing sharks!!! Dancing sharks!!! Dancing sharks” those were the words that reverberate throughout the stadium and even people not in the stadium were shouting it in the minds. It was but ridiculously funny and phenomenal….