Jael couldn't summon his Codex to read what his abilities were; it would alert them. he tried to check it inside him, but all he could get was that no active abilities were working. Maybe it was because he wasn't in tune with it yet, but he was getting very little information from it.
So no passive abilities, Jael frowned. And what is the [Monster Taming Necromancer Art?] Is that the mage class or the tamer? He pushed that aside for now, as he got more information from the Codex.
And what is the deal with him starting Awakening from Iron rank? It should have been from bronze. Is that the work of his Codex?
Jael only has three abilities at his Iron rank, and none of them he could activate for now; he didn't even know what they were. 'So I can only rely on my physical strength.." he felt a smile curled around his lips, 'to think I would start from Iron rank'
The two men escorting his carriage are bronze ranks but Jael could feel an Iron rank in front escorting other carriages. 'If I can surprise the two here I can get away before the Iron know what's happening. No way I'm fighting an Iron with their skills'
So he continued playing at being unconscious, with his eyes slightly open. The tunnel ended in a big chamber, and they entered it; heat rolled over them, followed by the smell of blood so thick it swallowed everything else.
Jael gulped. 'What is with me and altar today?' In the middle of the chamber was a big altar, it dominated almost the entire space. Its middle had been hollowed out, and the inside was filled with boiling blood and other things.
There were steps cut into the altar that led down to the place where the blood pit was.
They placed the platforms down at the edge and the masked men all looked down into the hole. "I don't feel like carrying them on those steps. I don't want to fall into the ritual."
"Can't we just throw them? We threw all the others from here."
"Idiot. All the others aren't like this. These get a special Codex. We need to bleed them slowly into the ritual. It also has to be timed." The Iron ranked said.
Immediately, the fifth looked away towards those trying to lift the Khantari's cage, and Jael sprang into action. He crouched and shot his hands forward, gripping the bars and then bending them. He thought they would resist him but the bars bent with ease with a screeching sound that alerted others.
The fifth didn't stand a chance as Jael collided with him and sent him falling from the top of the pit. The others lifted the big cage and turned in surprise, and it was then that the Khantari jumped from his cage; his weight slammed the cage down and threw them off balance.
One of them fell off with a scream.
The three of them dropped the cage and faced Jael.
Suddenly,, Jael didn't feel as confident as he felt earlier, especially when one of them summoned a Codex, and his hands glowed with power.
He looked around for a weapon of his own but the only thing he saw around was the bent cage. So he lifted it just in time before a purple bolt hit it and started to melt it. Jael didn't want the melting metal near him so he threw it with all his strength.
It shot off like a bullet, hit one of the masked men with a horrible crunch, and he collapsed without a sound, dead before he even hit the floor.
Jael looked at his hand in surprise. He is Iron rank.
"S..s...stop! Or I'll melt your chest." One of them said but his voice betrayed him.
Jael grinned. "I don't think so." And he took off towards him. He's clumsy as a newborn lamb, but he's still as fast as an Iron, and he reached the man before he could unleash his attack. He caught the man's hand and bent it upward, then he lifted him bodily off the floor and used him like a sword to the one who was trying to sneak an attack on him. Sending the two of them off.
"This is intense." He said.