Chapter 33

“So it’s Claude Preston of the Preston Family…” Florine mumbled while nodding her head

With this, she is not that doubtful anymore that Rezen can supply him with these spirit plants

The Preston Family after all is famous for their wide variety of spirit plants!

If it’s them then although this is still a surprise, it isn’t as weird as a random young man supplying these special spirit plants

“Hmm?” Rezen was confused by the reaction but he didn’t show it much on his face

The three continue the negotiation. They have settled the ‘big matters’ but it’s too broad and general

They have to make their agreement more specific when…

Crack!

The sound of space ripping buzzed in everyone’s ears and Rezen found his body was being dragged away

In his waist, a green vine was coiled and behind him was the magic circle that it came from. Rezen wasn’t even able to react when Florine already casts her spell

At first, Rezen thought that he might have offended the sisters with his scheme but in the next second, he found out the reason why Florine did this

Several meters away, from where they were originally, a ‘crack’ in the space can be seen

No one can see what was inside of that crack as it was completely pitched black in color and honestly speaking, it looks eerie

After all, that ‘thing’ really looks like a crack in space, how can it not be terrifying?

“A hole in a blessed land!” Florine exclaimed in surprise. Clearly, she didn’t expect that a hole in a blessed land would form inside a shopping mall!

“Blessed Land?” Rezen muttered in a questioning tone but both Florine and Rain don’t have the time to explain anything to him

“Go and ask the civilians to evacuate immediately! We don’t know if strong entities would come out of the hole! Entities stronger than me might even come out from that!” Florine said in a grave tone as she is completely aware of the background of a blessed land

It was something that even 6th fusion grade mages would covet but at the same time, it might be filled with dangers!

If a strong entity comes out of that hole then who knows how many humans would die today?

As Rezen is not filled with the blind heroism of the youth, he 100% planned on escaping!

What a joke! If entities stronger than even the 6th fusion rank mage come out, Rezen might die with just their sneeze!

However, before Rezen can do that, a being already came out of that hole

“A human?” The three were surprised to see a human or at least a human-like entity coming out of the hole

This human looks like an old man wearing a long and baggy robe that covered him from the neck down to his legs

His long hair that reach his hips was completely white in color while his hands were placed on his back

“Aahhh!!”

“W-what the hell is that?”

“Mommy!”

The old man does not look scary but the crack in space does. This is after all a world of magic, strange and unknown things are scary in such a place

“Who are you?” Florine questioned, not lowering her guard even after seeing a human

However, the old man seems to have no intention of answering her as strange tattoos spread from his face and although they can’t see it, the tattoos should have spread further down in his neck and arms

“A-a Tattoo Warrior!” Rain exclaimed after seeing the tattoo in the old man that resonates with the natural laws, giving him great power!

The old man didn’t say anything as he just waved his hand and he fired beams of white light from his palm

Rezen doesn’t know what a Tattoo Warrior is but he finds it strange that the old man could actually use magic without a mystic gem and a magic circle

He has never seen anyone doing something like that

“A Tattoo Warrior that can attack in long distances!” Florin cried out, her plant-type mystic gem hovering in front of her as she formed several magic circles

Rezen can at most maybe create three magic circles at once but Florine made more than a dozen!

From those magic circles, vines came out and they tried to intercept the beams of light but who would have thought that those beams were actually nimble?

They dodged all the vines and landed on the civilians in and outside of the coffee shop causing screams of fear to loudly rang around

Even Rezen was not let off!

Those beams of light were too fast and nimble. Even Florine a 6th fusion rank mage and Rain a 5th fusion rank mage was not able to do anything

Fortunately, after the beams of light hit the civilians, they didn’t kill them

Instead, the beams of light suddenly expanded and turned into thick threads that connected the civilians to the old man

As if he merely took a stroll, the old man jumped back inside the hole while pulling the civilians with him

“No! What the hell!” Rezen cursed, he tried to cast his spell but the pulling speed of the thread of light was too fast

It didn’t even give his mystic gem the time to come out from his elixir field and Rezen was forcefully dragged inside that hole

Florine and Rain tried to take him back but even they were not strong enough and they can only watch in despair as the hole in the blessed land closes up

——

When Rezen came to his senses, he found himself standing in the middle of a forest with large and towering trees

Rezen is not alone as with him were the other humans that were pulled here against their will. There were around fifteen of them

Aside from the captives. there were more humans or at least human-like entities surrounding them including the old man from before

“Grandpa, Zero, are these the candidates?” One of the human-like entities with a red hair asks playfully

His expression was one of amusement

“Yes, I can only grab random humans here since we can’t maintain the hole for a long time if we don’t want our coordinates to be revealed” the old man answered affirmatively, and just like one would expect, the captive humans started to complain in both fear and anger

“What is this?”

“Where is this place?”

“Why have you taken us? Bring us back!”

“Fuck you, this is kidnapping! I will sue you all!”

As for Rezen, he decided to keep his mouth shut. Since he doesn’t know what is up with these people, he would rather not take the risk of offending them

Rezen thought that these kidnappers would at least explain some things but he was taken aback by the next scene

The red hair was wearing black armor that only covered his chest and bikini area along with his joints

He has a wild aura around him and he was also lean yet muscular

He looks displeased by the complaints that he received as strange tattoos also appeared on his body

They started from his forehead down to his face, neck, arms, and even legs

The mysterious lines of tattoo basically covered the whole body of this man

‘Is there also a tattoo on his… forget it, what a strange thought!’

Rezen was still thinking something indecent in his mind but the next thing he knew was that the red hair already vanished from his original position

In his perspective, the red hair teleported but that was not the case

The red hair was just insanely fast for Rezen to catch his movements!

In the next split second, one of the human captives, specifically the man that curses earlier already died. As for the cause? His head was directly punched into smithereens

The blood, pieces of flesh, and brain matter even splattered around! Some of them landed on Rezen’s body and he almost puked!

He is already used to killing magic beasts but seeing a human with his head blown to pieces with a single punch is still too disgusting!

“Bleeegghh!”

“Aahhhh!!!”

“M-murder!”

“Huhu, mommy!”

The captives trembled in fear and Rezen was no exemption. What a joke! Even if Rezen has millions of recovery pills it would be useless if he would be instakill!

How could he use the pills if his head including his mouth and throat was smashed to pieces?

“Shut up! This is a great chance for all of you no matter how lowly you are but you dare complain?! See if I won’t kill you!” The red hair with a short temper raged

Rezen wanted to retort and say ‘The last sentence is unnecessary since you already killed one of us’ but he just kept that to himself in fear that he would become the second headless human

“Fifteen, calm down. Don’t kill again. We cannot open another hole in the blessed land. They are our only chance” the old man said