Chapter 180: Play For Power (II): Barrier

"Duck!!!"

It wasn't too much of a stress for Rezar to return the favor as he held the chain tightly and heaved, dragging the troll across the ground before turning his body sharply and swinging the chain before letting go. This move alone was so physically demanding that Rezar felt his right shoulder dislocate from the strain, as strong as he was it looks like the troll had more mass than he expected. Rezar reckoned if the troll was dropped from a high enough altitude it would be something similar to a meteor that would smash a hole into the earth or maybe cause an explosion of epic proportions whenever its unlucky enough to land.

But in this case, it could be considered that luck and significant amount of bad luck was in play, as Rezar was strong to completely throw the Troll over the vast distance, across the lake towards the other bank, where it smashed into a couple of people, smashing them all into pulp, before a green barrier was hastily raised that ended its rampage in a manner that looked like a bowling pin. Rezar had vanquished his assailants and their pet troll, but in return Durga lost more than half his team to the sheer force and mass of the troll.

The green barrier he had seen proved to him that it wasn't just them killing people, having pet trolls or whatever little lie they had told, they could also use skills I here. The two dead ninjas were proof of that, which meant he was at a massive disadvantage against them. he had no passive skills, and no active skills to rely on, his weapons weren't even on his body, just what was left within this obviously rigged trial location. The best bet he had now was to hope that at least that day time slot given as the duration of the trial was actually true and he could get out then, or better yet he had to look for the portal and see if he could get the fuck out of here.

Ultimately he would have to play a game of hide and seek with them, they had the advantage, and it didn't matter just how strong he was out there. In here he was severely handicapped, and nothing more than his wit and boat load of wisdom would help him survive the shit storm he just found himself in. and it's even more prevalent now that he had smashed apart their happy camp just a few minutes after they set it up, plus quite a bunch of their friends were dead too, so they were probably super pissed at him. Rezar quickly turned around to hobble away, when an arrow took him in the shoulder, going clean through his body and taking him forwards with enough force to smash his body through a tree.

"Rezar Deathwind! I'll find you! I'll never forgive you! I'll kill you, you bastard! I'll kill everyone you love! Die! Arrghhhhhh!"

The screams were coming all the way from the other side of the lake, but Rezar could hear it really clearly. He took a quick peak to see one pair of the lovers, an orc, the female of the duo screaming towards his direction with a bow in her hands. Lying at her feet was the crushed body of her very smooshed and dead boyfriend or husband. Rezar shook his head, trying to remove the cobwebs and dazed feeling he had was currently feeling. So he killed someone's husband, or was it her boyfriend…. he painfully got up and then looked in their direction to see they were actually preparing to go round the lake to get to him.

"Sorry! I told him to duck!" Rezar shouted back with all innocence laced in his voice, he could see the look of shock and then abject fury on the face of the orc woman, before she actually started running into the lake to swim towards him, a couple of her friends were right behind her, holding on to her and telling her to calm down, but she was practically manic, not until a hulking tiger man came and knocked her out with a swift blow to the back of her head. Rezar didn't stick around for the rest of the show, he turned around and carried his injured body into the forest, letting it swallow him, completely erasing his presence.

Now it was obvious that they would chase after him, he was practically the prime target, and they would absolutely anything to eliminate him. Rezar ran for close to fifteen minutes, hobbling and alternatively putting pressure on different parts of his body as he urged them to heal from the injuries he had received. The clothes he had on were bloodied and had seen better days, his white hair dirtied and stained, but his eyes ever as blue and ever as bright and eerie as someone aligned with darkness was. By the time his body had fully healed, or at least all of the physical parts seemed okay and all that mattered was insides, Rezar stopped paying attention to healing them and let the entire process go on by itself; he started moving about by jumping from tree to tree.

"BONG!!!"

That sound practically came out of nowhere and Rezar was caught off guard as a bright and shining silver barrier came up on in front of him. He had run away from the lake going in the opposite direction that he reckoned was south, but now this barrier showed up and what was even crazier was the fact that it seemed to be collapsing, moving towards Rezar's direction. It went over a few trees and they seemed largely unaffected by the barrier, but then.

"Arrghhhhhh!"

The scream came from the west, and what Rezar saw made his blood run cold. Someone had been caught outside of the barrier as it moved inwards, his body was frozen as his flesh started peeling of one flake at a time, exposing tissue, muscle, bone and organs as he was slowly torn apart. By this point the barrier was only a meter away from him. Rezar didn't think twice, he turned around and ran for his life, right back in the direction of the people trying to kill him.