Chapter 800. Killing a Royal Fate Ranker.
Chapter 800. Killing a Royal Fate Ranker.
Kailen pointed his left hand toward Damien. His face was calm, his long hair and long coat billowing in the wind. The void rippled and twisted as the ethereal spatial katana in his hand floated in the air. It grew longer.
Damien’s eyes revealed a desperate glint. Several streams of water circled across him. The streams of water condensed into a very large water wheel. It was very colossal and looked very overbearing. The colossal water wheel blotted out the skies. The water wheel started to spin as Damien’s desperate glint grew more prominent.
"Die!" he shouted.
Whoossh...
The water wheel shot towards Kailen Darkhaven with overbearing might, tearing through everything. Even some rank 4 novice stage transcendents among the audience felt the sheer lethality of the attack.
Would Kailen Darkhaven really be able to deal with this? Was he really stronger than Damien Lee? Would Damien Lee die, or would Kailen Darkhaven kill a Royal Fate ranker after just appearing in the academy for just a few years?
Kailen Darkhaven’s ethereal spatial katana sliced through the void and disappeared.
It appeared right before Damien’s approaching water wheel. The water wheel and the spatial katana clashed.
For a moment, everywhere was silent as everyone watched. Time seemed to have come to a halt. The water wheel seemed to have the upper hand. It was as if it was about to obliterate the spatial katana.
Damien’s eyes flashed with relief. His sister’s expression softened. Thankfully... It seemed Kailen Darkhaven would die here.
"Had Kailen Darkhaven overestimated himself?" some thought as they stared at the ultimate attacks of the duo, locked in a stalemate.
Kailen Darkhaven himself was calm. He did something no one expected. He turned to leave.
What was this fellow doing? Was he not exposing himself to the attack of the enemy? Then, they realised why he had turned to leave.
"Look, the water wheel!"
Everyone looked at the water wheel. The spatial katana sliced through it. The water wheel twisted and bent. It cracked, then as if swallowed by something, it disappeared completely from existence.
Damien sighed. He had offended the wrong person. And this was the outcome. So what if he had regrets? He had accepted his fate. He had done everything. Used everything in his arsenal.But Kailen Darkhaven was stronger than him. And the weak were prey to the strong.
He turned to his sister, who was currently staring at him with worry. She sent him a thought transmission. "Don’t worry. I will have revenge for you. Regardless of what I have to do."
Damien nodded, as he sent another thought transmission back to his sister, "Don’t bother, sister. I have a feeling that offending this guy will get you killed too."
"I will have my revenge."
Damien sighed. These were the last words Damien heard from his sister through thought transmission before Kailen Darkhaven’s spatial katana appeared in his line of vision after destroying the water wheel. The spatial katana hollowed him out of existence completely as his dying screams echoed shortly before he ceased to exist.
The arena was completely silent. Several stared at the fellow in a long coat and sneakers, with void-like eyes and hair floating above the arena. Kailen Darkhaven had really managed to kill someone on the Royal Fate rankings. After just a few years of arriving in the academy, he had caused such an uproar. The fellow he had killed was Damien Lee, someone equal in strength to WhiskerFang, ranked 395 on the Heavenly Fate rankings.
How strong was Kailen Darkhaven really? It also seemed he killed his enemy effortlessly.
"This fellow is really terrifying," several thought. He could not be treated like a new student. Many rank 4 novice stage transcendents made mental notes to never cross this fellow.
"I can now focus on my next mission. But I need to make preparations for those his sister will send after me," Kailen thought. He did not even have to use emotional resonance to know Xesla would come after him. He had just killed her twin brother. It was only natural. And since her strength was on the same wavelength as her dead brother, she knew she could not have a death duel with Kailen Darkhaven because it would get her killed. So, the natural course of action would be to try and deal with him with assasins when he was outside the academy for missions.
At this moment, someone stood up and floated out of the death arenas as several people followed him. The person gave Kailen Darkhaven an amused smile before he and his entourage flocked away.
"It’s the crown prince."
"He came to watch?"
"Look at how he stared at Kailen Darkhaven."
"Interesting. This Kailen Darkhaven is really interesting. He actually managed to earn the interest of the first ranker of the Royal Fate rankings, huh?"
"It seems the crown prince still holds a grudge against him after their altercation several years ago. But for some personal reasons, the crown prince is not making a move against him."
"Yeah."
Suddenly, everyone’s expression shifted towards a particular part of the bleachers. Someone was looking at Kailen Darkhaven with extreme coldness.
Kailen Darkhaven, who had just floated out of the death arena, which had returned to its original form, stared back at her and smiled. After that, he simply turned to another direction and nodded towards WhiskerFang politely. WhiskerFang nodded back. Kailen disappeared.
"Ho... she’s Xesla, ranked 135 on the Royal Fate rankings. Seems she wants to rip Kailen Darkhaven into shreds for killing her brother. However, she knows he’s stronger than her. So she’s holding back. I bet she will definitely use unconventional methods to attempt to get rid of Kailen Darkhaven when he’s out of the academy for missions."
"Yeah"
" But that smile of his as a response to her..this guy is dangerous"
"But did you notice that Kailen Darkhaven and WhiskerFang exchanged greetings?"
"Yeah. I did."
"Interesting. I wonder how they know each other."
"Could it be that Kailen Darkhaven decided to get revenge for WhiskerFang, since Damien Lee killed his brother?"
These whispers spread across the death arenas as several individuals were leaving.
WhiskerFang’s friends, who were also on the Heavenly Fate rankings, probed. "Is it as everyone is thinking?" one of them, a female witch ranked 390 on the Heavenly Fate rankings, Nelsina, said.
"Nah, Nelsina," WhiskerFang explained as his friends listened. "Apparently, he arrived in a location of that secret realm where I was having a battle with Damien Lee after Damien Lee killed my brother. But he decided to leave the place. After I launched an attack towards Damien Lee, Damien tried to use Kailen as a meat shield to block the attack."
The group of friends and several others who were also listening to the conversation between WhiskerFang and co said, "Oh. So that’s the case."
"Yeah... after that... Kailen Darkhaven used a space principle attack to destroy one of his arms. Damien Lee fled, holding a grudge. Naturally, such a turn of events would lead to a death duel."
Everyone nodded in understanding.
"So this was why he killed Damien Lee. It was not because he was having revenge for your brother. You were only being overly supportive of him because you had seen his strength and had hopes that his personal grudge with Damien could lead to Damien’s death, which would be a fitting death for someone who killed your brother," another one of his friends, a gnome ranked 389 on the Heavenly Fate rankings, Mioner, said.
Those listening in on the conversations from around the place also had the same thoughts.
"Exactly, Mioner," WhiskerFang said. "That fellow is simply too terrifying. I have a feeling some of us may not even be a match for him."
The group nodded. This Kailen Darkhaven. He was not worth offending if one was at the rank 4 novice stage transcendent level. No one even knew how powerful he was.
"I wonder if he’s single?" Nelsina said what a couple of female transcendents were all thinking.
The group laughed and left the place. Those listening in on the conversations also left with full understanding of what led to the death duel between Darkhaven and Damien Lee.
As for Damien Lee’s sister, Xesla, she left the place with coldness and wetness in her eyes. So what if her brother had bitten off more than he could chew and had gotten himself killed? It didn’t change the fact that Kailen Darkhaven had killed him. She would naturally use unconventional methods to get rid of him when he left the academy for his missions.
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