48 The Punishmen

[A few hours ago].

Lyssia and Alex and the other participants followed Hu Zhao as they started walking towards the stairs that led to the 4th floor. As they reached the floor in the tower, They got surprised a little.

The 4th floor was very huge as it was ten times bigger than the previous floors. This floor was a huge library that contained perhaps all the books that Charles gathered during his lifetime.

Everyone was shocked by the huge amounts of shelves that seemed to contain many books of all sizes and shapes. Hu Zhao was a little amused by their expressions of surprise and shock at the library.

"Surprised, right? I was also the same when I saw this for the first time. I felt very much overwhelmed by all the amount of knowledge present in this place. Even after staying here all this time, I only read about ten thousand books while there is at least a million book here".

After hearing what Hu Zhao said, all the Mages present in the group opened their mouths from the huge amount of books. They could imagine themselves swimming in a sea of books full ok all knowledge about magic and this world.

It took them almost an hour to walk through the whole library because of the big size. They then reached the fifth floor which seems like a laboratory of magic that was also very huge and seemed full of weird potions and pills that seemed also very tempting.

Saya who was very interested in alchemy couldn't keep her calm as her eyes shined with everything around her. She then asked Hu Zhao and said to him.

"Sir Hu Zhao, can I ask you if it's possible to stay here after the trials so I can do some research and experiments in this laboratory".

"Ahhh...well, you have to ask Charles for that. I'm only living here and I'm not really into alchemy so I can't help you much".

"Ah!!...okay then. I will make sure to ask him about that".

After they reached the sixth floor, they were surprised that it was a smithing place. People became more surprised by this magic tower which contained almost everything for all professions.

After walking through the seventh and eighth floor, they finally reached the ninth and final floor which seemed to be a huge room of meeting which seemed to be a huge meeting room. This room was very huge and had only a table in the middle with four seats.

People didn't understand why Did Hu Zhao bring them here but they didn't question him. They waited for the appearance of Charles so that he can explain to them what is going to happen.

They didn't for too much as a blinding light appeared in the middle of the room and after some time, the light started disappearing and its place appeared an old man who seemed to have a lower half being almost transparent just like that of a ghost.

This old man was wearing eastern clothes and seemed very friendly. It was none other than Charles, The Spirit of the great Saint Mage.

AN: [https://pin.it/cne4wt6eyocvdv (Charles)].

Everybody looked at him as he sat on the north seat of the table as the atmosphere turned tense and he then started talking.

"Welcome, young and brave souls of the western continent. As you may know, this world is Called the Sarna world and it's a very vast and big world. It's known that our continent is one of the six main continents and that each continent has a special name. Ours was given to us by those who came here and told us that our continent is at the west of the great big Sarna world and so the name of the western continent was given to this land".

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Saya and the others didn't understand why Charles started talking about the world and the continent. Only Hu Zhao and Dian long who appeared beside him and heard what He was saying.

"What you might not know is that almost a million years ago each continent housed one main race or many sub-races. The western continent was home for the human race and some demi-humans. Now, because of the huge distance between each continent and the great oceans that separated us, each main race had minimal contact with the other ones and so there was hardly a war between different races".

People suddenly started getting more curious about the history Charles was narrating because right now at the present, the western continent has many different races and this means that something happened in the past and made the other races come here.

"But this so-called peace between the races didn't last because but because of a cataclysmic event, four out of the six continents got destroyed and only two remained, the western continent we're living in and finally the other continent in the north-east direction, the Azari continent

The Azari continent was home for only magical beasts and some demon beasts and divine beasts. The survivors of the other races who got their continent destroyed didn't have a choice but to immigrate to the other two remaining continents. Now, Imagine All the races in one place and fighting for the ruling of the continent.

After some years of that event, eight great empires formed on this continent. After that came an era of peace and then an era of war again and then an era of peace again and so on. hundreds of thousands of years of peace and out of the 8 empires, only five remained.

Instead of the three empires, seven kingdoms formed and the world was finally shaped as we know now but this didn't end just like that because of a great event four hundred thousand years..."

Clap!! Clap!!

Charles's speech was interrupted by a clapping sound that came behind at the end. The man was holding in his hand a spear with a dragon shaft.

Everyone was surprised by the sudden appearance of Riss behind as they didn't see him at all during the trials which mean that broke into the tower.

Charles became completely shocked as he looked at Riss face. You could see that Charles's calm expression that he always showed disappeared and what remains is shock and surprise as he seemed to remember something.

Seath, Dario and Rei who saw Riss appear became a little surprised but they didn't think too much as they started walking towards his direction while other men who seemed to be from the black market alliance started following their leaders until all of them stand now behind Riss.

Almost half the participants were members of the black market alliance and they even had a high level among the participants. Alex who saw that sighed and then looked at them.

"I can't believe it. It seems like they've outnumbered us. Now, with that mysterious guy who suddenly came, we won't have a chance".

Hu Zhao: "Hey, No matter how powerful they are, I believe that I can take them down. For now, let's see what they're gonna do".

Lyssia also got interested and wanted to see what's gonna happen. Everyone wanted to see what is going to happen as they didn't feel that much threatened with Charles and Hu Zhao's present here.

Charles, on the other hand, was shocked and even a little afraid as he looked at Riss. It seemed like it brought him bad memories. His voice started trembling as he said, "...h..how..."

Before Charles could continue, Riss raised His index finger and smiled he only said one thing, "Give me a second". As he stopped and interrupted him from talking, His hand gripped on the handle of the Spear and then he did something unexpected.

*Swoosh*.....*Slash*

Everyone looked at Riss as he cut Seath who was beside him with cold blood. No one understood what happened even Seath himself. Riss gave Seath a very deep cut injury from his right shoulder to his left waist.

Thump!

"..... w..why?". That's the only thing Seath could say while trembling. He couldn't understand what happened as they were from the same organization and yet this man who was one of the executioners of the number one guild of the black market alliance stabbed him without any thought.

Even the other members and the other Titans didn't understand what was happening. Riss started fixing his hair as it turned a little missy when he attacked suddenly earlier.

His red blood eyes suddenly turned black like it was filled with darkness but it was just for a moment as they turned red again immediately. He then looked at Seath body and he said to him.

"It's because the boss ordered that and even the leader of your guild agreed. Your guild master also said to you that he already knows about the woman and that he will make her an example for those who defy him. This is your punishment, Seath".

Seath face turned ugly as he only understood what Riss words meant. His teeth started clenching as he looked at Riss and said to hi. before losing consciousness.

"... you....piece.....of...SHIT!!".

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[Present time].

Riss ignored him as he turned back at Charles and smiled as he said to him, "It's been a while old friend. After all of these years, we meet again".

Charles has a shocked face and became numb as he couldn't believe that the man in front of him is still alive.

"How?? after all these years. How are you alive?? No one can live that much".

Riss, on the other hand, seemed calm as he didn't answer Charles and just started swinging the spear so the blood can go off from the tip of his spear.

"Now, how should we celebrate our joyous meeting?".

Everyone including Charles became nervous as they looked at him waiting for what he is going to say.

"Well. First, we should take down the people interrupting us. Black market soldiers, take down all the people who don't belong to our organization".

The moment he said that, everyone who was behind him including Rei and Dario jumped as they went directly to remove all the remaining people.

Alex and the others got their weapons out. They took their battle stance as they prepared for the clash. Even Hu Zhao unsheathed his sword and went to battle.

*Swoosh*....*Swoosh*

Before the battle could start, a blinding light engulfed everybody and reported them out of the tower into the forest. It was Charles who snapped his fingers and he used what he had left of mana to get them to battle outside so they don't destroy the place.

The only ones who didn't get teleported are Seath who seemed to be very injured and Riss who didn't care about the battle he moved towards the table and took the seat opposite to Charles's. Dian Long didn't care as well and about the battle and he also wasn't teleported so he just took another seat.

Riss looked at him and had a shocked expression. Dian long showed an expressionless face as he looked at him and said.

"It seemed like you survived by joining the black market alliance. and you also hid your identity as well".

"I didn't expect you to survive as well. It seems that all of us have the shared fate to see the consequences of our actions on future generations but I must say that both you use the magic source inside this tower to use your powers but now that my subordinate had destroyed, you're pretty much useless".

"You!!!!....."

"He's right Dian Long. You don't need to be angry about it. He outsmarted us and that's a fact".

"That's why I always like you, Charles. You're always a good looser. It seems that your shocked face had disappeared and you've got your calm back. Also, if you're betting on Aiden somehow coming to save you all then you're definitely wrong. I left him under the rubble in the middle of the night to make sure that he doesn't survive".

When Charles heard that, he just smiled and looked at Riss and said to him, "You will be surprised by how tenacious Aiden can be. I don't wish for anybody to become an enemy of his".

Boooooommmm

An explosion happened that blew the door that led to the room and smokes blinded them from seeing who it was. Finally, after the smoke started being cleared, Aiden started walking while holding the Axe and also looking at Riss and smiling.

Riss rose from his seat as he looked at Aiden while being a little pissed but still keeping his smile. He then turned expressionless again as he looked at Aiden who just walked towards him and said to him.

"found you! Now you won't escape from me again".

"Hmph, who said that I escaped from you??".

"Oh Ho, then let me see how you will prove otherwise??".