161 Chapter 161

“Yes, I am. I am aware of the law of the jungle… that exact law is what I would use to bring the earth back to its prime. A realm that is not in the path of destruction”

“Space Monarch, I appreciate the Tournament that you regularly held. For now, I’ll let you finish the Tournament for the sake of the contestants”

“But… after this is over… I hope that you could surrender your Blessed Land and… life to stop our realm’s destruction”

After saying his piece, Claude’s body suddenly dissolved into specks of light. Even Space Monarch couldn’t sense where Claude went causing him to squint his eyes

A mage that is clearly not at the 7th rank used magic without the aid of a magic circle and even evaded Space Monarch’s senses

“How…” he muttered while staring at the place where Claude vanishes. Even someone as powerful and ancient as him couldn’t understand how Claude managed to do what he did

If the earth’s laws are not broken, mages could definitely not use magic circles to channel their magic. But that was not the case. Earth is simply hell for mages

What Claude did was defying common sense and Space Monarch suddenly had a bad premonition about this

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Inside a hotel room, Rezen could be seen sitting in front of a table. On top of the table were a tea glass and a book about magic

The tea was what aided Rezen and increased his comprehension talent albeit temporarily

As long as he has free time, Rezen would use it to study. While the mysterious peaches and banana let him advance in rank perfectly, learning magic from scratch still has its advantages

While Rezen was reading and flipping the page, his ears suddenly perked up as he heard the sound of magic clashing

His senses also picked up magic fluctuations and Rezen immediately stood up, raising his guard if someone were to try and attack him

After a few moments, no one has come to attack him and Rezen slowly walked towards his room’s door. He summoned his sun-type mystic gem and activated his mystic tattoo before opening the door

Outside, he saw the guards that Kacy assigned to protect him dealing with an intruder wearing a lion’s mask

With that kind of get-up, that intruder might have come from the Twighlight Beast

This intruder was pretty powerful, a mage at the 5th fusion rank. Unfortunately for him, all the guards that Rezen has are at the same rank causing the intruder to fail

Kacy puts heavy importance on Rezen considering how miraculous the recovery pills were. His security was tight and he is not someone that could be easily assassinated

“[Earth Prison!]”

Three of the six guards that showed themselves casts the same spell. Around the intruder, three earthen brown magic circles formed and the ground suddenly moved

Pieces of rocks clung to the intruder starting from his legs up to his thighs, arms, and chest

Only his head was not covered with small pieces of rocks. With Rezen’s skillful and powerful guards, the intruder was easily captured

“Sir Rezen, we apologize for the commotion. We’ll deal with all the dangers” one of the guards stepped forward and bowed his head while apologizing

If this was any other intruder, Rezen might just let these guards of his do the work for him but this was no ordinary intruder. This might be an assassin sent by the Twighlight Beast! Rezen’s archenemy!

“Bring him inside my room” Rezen ordered and the guards looked at each other before one of them responded

“It’s dangerous, sir. Please let us handle this. We’ll get to the bottom of the matter”

“I said bring him inside. I’m not any weaker than any of you”

With Rezen’s firm tone, the guards could only carry the intruder that could only move his head inside Rezen’s hotel room

Rezen dismissed the guards and let them talk to the manager of the hotel to deal with the issue. Magic after all is not something that should be activated in human infrastructures for no reason as there was a risk of destruction of the property

Rezen stared at his captive that aside from trying to break free from his restraints didn’t do as much as speaking

As a 5th fusion rank mage, this intruder might be a professional already. The ones that know what to say or do in almost every situation

An assassin that wouldn’t easily give in to torture. Fortunately, Rezen is confident that he could deal with this

He walked toward his captive and removed his mask to see a man that Rezen is not familiar with

Rezen stared at the intruder and the intruder stared back at him without a hint of fear or not least he doesn’t show it

“Are you from the Twighlight Beast?” Rezen questioned but the captive refused to give him any answer

“Alright then” he nodded his head before retrieving a piece of mutated red chili from his void storage ring

Rezen then grabbed the intruder’s jaw tightly and forced him to open his mouth. The captive tried to resist but under Rezen’s physical strength as a Tattoo Warrior, that resistance is futile, and was not able to do much

With not much difficulty, Rezen succeeded in feeding his captive the mutated red chili

“You will answer every question I have” Rezen said like a statement of fact but the intruder merely moved his head to the side, choosing to keep his silence

“If you don’t answer then this is what would happen”

With a click of Rezen’s fingers, the captive suddenly felt as if there was a ball of fire in his mouth

It was extremely painful and the pain doesn’t end in his mouth. The burning hot pain traveled from his mouth down to his throat

He can clearly feel his throat burning despite the fact that there was no fire in there

The burning pain continued to travel down and reaches his stomach. The intruder released a bloodcurdling scream as if his insides were being boiled to death

It doesn’t even end there, after stopping at his stomach for a moment, the burning pain continues to spread to every part and inch of his body

The pain was on a completely another level compared to all the pain that he had ever experienced in his life

There was simply no comparison at all. Even splitting one’s soul might not be as painful as this experience

“AAAAGGHHH!!!!”

“P-please!!!”

“N-no!”

“M-make it s-stop!

“P-please, I-I beg you aaahhhgggh!!!”

“I-I’ll aahkk! S-speak!! P-please! Stop!”

The intruder’s face turned completely red in color. There was clearly no fire spreading on his insides but it felt like he was burning inside

The pain was so severe that his mental defense collapses as if he doesn’t have any in the first place

However, despite saying that he would speak, Rezen’s indifferent eyes simply stared at the wailing captive of his

The man was screaming so loudly that even the guards outside of the hotel room could hear him and they had a goosebumps

They never heard a cry as painful as that one and the view they had of Rezen changed instantly

They couldn’t imagine the type of torture that Rezen was implementing to cause the captive to break like that

It wasn’t long since the guards left the room but the captive was already crying in that way

They took a mental note of never offending Rezen if they don’t want to also he tortured

Rezen waited for at least ten minutes before he clicked his fingers together and the pain that the captive was suffering from instantly vanishes

This devilish red chili is a new addition to Rezen’s mutated crops. Those that suffered from it would wish that they are killed rather than experience such a high level of pain

With the assassin broken, Rezen extracted all the information that he needed but sadly, it wasn’t much

Rezen did activate the chili’s effect for the second and third time but it was no use. He didn’t obtain much useful information

The most note-worthy information might have been the fact that the Twighlight Beast was targeting not just Rezen but also the mages that showed great performance in the trial earlier this day

However, Rezen is given more importance. The Twighlight Beast knows his performance back on the attack at Greenwood City

The number of enemies he killed was more than what 5th fusion rank mages killed

That placed Rezen on the top list of the ones that the Twighlight Beast wanted to kill with their vengeful attitude

Tonight’s attack was simply to gouge out the strength of his security. 6th fusion rank mages even the ordinary ones aren’t potatoes

Every single death of them is painful and if they sent such a mage while Rezen has a guard at the same level then the assassin that Twighlight Beast dispatches might die in vain