Boom! Bam!
The snake and the man exchanged blows, but within a few minutes, the man was on the back foot. He was no match for the snake, at this moment, he realized the best thing to do was to escape.
Void would naturally not allow this to happen. He used his space domain to block the space around them, making it impossible for the man to escape. The snake continued its assault on it.
After almost ten minutes, the man was finally defeated with Void's help. Although the snake was stronger than the man, it was unable to kill the man on its own, if not for Void, the man wouldn't have any issues with escaping.
"Killing me will only make matters worse for him." The man said as he struggled to get on his feet.
"Will you be affected by it?" Void turned to Keith.
"They're already trying to kill me, what else is worse than that?" Keith shrugged, giving Void the go ahead to kill the man.
"You little runt, after everything I've done for you, this is how you choose to repay me?" The man questioned Keith angrily.
"You came trying to kill me, I see no reason in feeling sad that you'll die. This will mean one enemy out." Keith didn't feel bothered by the man's words.
The man wanted to continue pleading, but Void had seen and heard enough. A black orb appeared on the back of the man, and he started to break apart. This was his spatial distortion skill. The attack had grown stronger with the increase in his Rank.
The trio watched on as the man disappeared from existence. Their eyes wide open from disbelief, the man followed them to ensure that Keith was killed, however, he was the first person to die. How ironic.
Void turned to look at the trio when the man disappeared completely, "Now, back to you three."
They shivered from his gaze, clearly afraid he would kill them.
"Please, we are only following instructions, don't kill us." The leader of the trio fell on his knees and started begging.
The others followed his lead and also started to beg as well. They couldn't be bothered with their pride, as long as they lived, they would do anything.
Void turned to look at Keith, and he could feel an intense killing intent coming from him.
"My hands are tied, I really wanted to let you guys live, but as you can see, I'm only following orders as well." Void said with a chuckle.
Anyone would know he was only saying this for fun. The trio could only watch as their bodies started to disintegrate. Void's method of killing people was quite unique, there is not even a speck of dust from the person to indicate that he was there in the first place.
Keith watched on as the trio vanished. If he wasn't with Void, he wouldn't have known that they were dead.
"What now?" Void asked after killing the trio. It hadn't even been up to two hours they left the Faction, he didn't want to go back so early.
"You can accompany me to complete my mission." Keith suggested.
Having a powerful backup like Void with him was reassuring, at least he wouldn't need to be too scared about losing his life on the mission.
Void thought about it for some time before nodding his head. He didn't want to go back anyway. He communicated with Grey about his intentions to accompany Keith, not forgetting to tell him that he had already killed the trio who wanted to harm Keith.
Grey didn't object to him leaving with Keith, he needed some alone time to focus on his arrays anyway. Void would be bored if he returned.
This mission would take at least a week, so he wanted to focus all his time and attention on arrays for now.
Two months went by in the blink of an eye.
Grey had been part of the Faction for over three months now, his progress had stalled after his last double breakthrough. Now, he was focused on getting his physical strength to the Peak of the Overlord Plane. After two months, he had managed to get it to the Ninth stage, but he hadn't been able to advance again.
With the help of his gravitational force field, training his physical body was easier than before. But it still took time nonetheless.
Void has been accompanying Keith whenever he's going out on a mission. Grey had been in the Faction all this while, not bothering to go out for any missions. He was already out of points, but he was still able to research arrays with the knowledge he acquired from the books he read, as well as the class he had been going to.
"Hey, the Faction is holding a sparring contest, will you take part?" Keith asked Grey as he walked into the place.
"I'm not interested." Grey shook his head. He didn't want to do anything that will make him stand out at the moment. Keeping a low profile was his objective now.
"This contest will bring out those who will participate in a competition held every decade between our Faction and the Syphilis Faction." Keith told Grey what he knew about the competition.
This competition will decide who would have rights to a particular realm. It was just like what Sylvia was recruiting him for.
After thinking about it, Grey still didn't want to go since he wasn't interested in those things. The only thing that tempted him was the possibility of going into the realm to cultivate. Since he was already at the Peak of the Overlord Plane, it would be beneficial for him to go out more often to seek a breakthrough to the next Plane.
"I'll think about it, maybe I'll partake in it." He said after careful consideration, "Oh, by the way, when's the sparring contest?"
"Next month." Keith replied.
Grey nodded and they continued speaking about something else. Keith had already decided to partake in the contest. He couldn't miss any chance to grow stronger.
A month soon went by.
It was the day the sparring contest was taking place.
Grey was sitting in his place leisurely when he suddenly saw a figure standing in front of him.
He raised his brow to look at the figure properly, it was the Elder who brought him into the Faction.
"Hello." He stood up to greet the Elder.
The Elder nodded before looking at him, it was as if he was trying to gaze into his soul.
"I see you've made good advancements." The Elder nodded.
When Grey joined the Faction, he was still in the Eighth stage of three Overlord Plane, now in the space of four months, he had broken through to the Peak of the Overlord Plane. In fact, he knew that Grey had already broken through three months back since he had been monitoring him all this while.
"I was lucky." Grey replied with a collected expression.
"I see." The Elder nodded before looking at Grey again, "Why are you here?"
"Huh?" Grey was taken aback by this question.
"Why are you here?" The Elder asked again.
Grey paused and quickly understood what the Elder was implying. The Elder wanted to know why he wasn't taking part in this contest.
"I..." He was about to explain when the Elder stopped him.
"I don't need to know your reason. Normally, I wouldn't be bothered with who decide to take part in a sparring contest, but this competition is very important to the Faction. Of the ten people who would be taking part in the competition, six has been chosen, the reason we are doing this contest is to pick out the other four." The Elder looked at Grey and continued.
"With your talent, I know you're by no way weaker than the six people already picked out. In the Overlord Plane, you have very few opponents, added with your domain, you're almost invincible. I've recommended you to the Faction Leader, however, as you can already tell, no member of the Faction is given special treatment, so you will still need to prove to everyone that you can partake in the competition through this contest."
Grey didn't say anything and looked at the Elder, unsure of what to say. He knew the Elder was pleading with him to take part of the contest.
The Faction's Training Ground.
It was filled to the brim with people standing around. There were platforms raised around the place for battles, and a few people could be seen fighting.
Keith was currently seated some distance away from the platform, staring at the battles taking place. All the fighters were at the Peak of the Overlord Plane, and most of them looked to be younger than Grey.
"Do you think he'll come?" He asked Void who was with him.
"I have no idea what goes through his head. He might, he might not come. It mainly depends on his mood." Void replied with a shrug.
They were still speaking when he sensed Grey's presence, he looked in the direction and saw him walking over with the Elder who welcomed them into the Faction.
"Isn't that the Elder who brought us into the Faction?" He drew Keith's attention to them.
"Yeah, why is he with Grey. Don't tell me he went to bring Grey himself?" Keith was shocked.
If this was what happened, he didn't know what to think. The fact that an Elder went to bring Grey himself showed how much they valued him.
"It just might be." Void commented.
