Mykel walked to the side and sat down on a bench that was made of a giant log as he smoked his cigarette. He watched the red-haired guy and the blonde-haired guy stared at Agnez walking closer toward them.
Gunnar and the others stayed put and let Agnez handle everything but Kastor was thinking otherwise. He grabbed Agnez's shoulder and Agnez almost thought of chopping his hand off but she didn't do it.
"Let me handle this, you can't approach someone like that," Kastor said while Agnez kept staring at his hand.
"Get your hand off of me," Agnez stared at Kastor from the corner of her eyes.
Kastor removed his hand and then he walked past Agnez with his hands raised in the air. He walked toward those two carefully and slowly.
"There's no need to be cautious, we are here not to do any harm. Whatever you both are thinking, we are here not for that, we are here to clear the fifteenth floor," Kastor said as he looked at both of them back and forth.
"That's exactly why we are doing this you moron," The red-haired guy said. "We are the ones who came here first, and we are also the ones who prevented the demons from invading this floor,"
"Shut the fuck up, this whole place isn't yours, everyone can do whatever they want and that includes entering the portal over there," The blonde-haired guy said as he pointed at the portal.
"Of course, everyone can do whatever they want, and that includes us preventing anyone from entering the portal since there's no rule for it," The red-haired guy replied.
Kastor watched those two and decided to walk in between them.
"That's enough, if you think that you're the first to come here, then I should tell you that it was us who cleared the four floors. Technically, you have no right of doing this," Kastor said as he stared at the red-haired guy.
Both of them stared at Kastor and started to laugh.
"Yeah, sure," The blonde-haired guy said. "As if we are going to believe that,"
The commotion attracted the villagers and finally, a giant guy with scars on his body walked toward them. He was Lark, the warrior that Gunnar and the other mentioned earlier, the chief and the warrior of the fourteenth floor.
Kastor turned around and looked at Lark, he then pointed his finger at him. "You can ask the chief, he will tell you that I'm telling the truth," Kastor said.
Lark stared down at Kastor with a straight face. "That's right, these people were the ones who came here first and saved us from the demons," Lark explained to those two.
"See?" Kastor looked at them both.
"But you weren't there when our village got invaded by the demons, and they were the ones who came to help us," Lark continued as he pointed at the red-haired guy and his people. "Without them, we would die here, and we are indebted to them,"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Kastor asked as he stared at Lark with confusion.
"It means that it's up to them whether they would let anyone enter the portal or not," Lark replied. "I have nothing else to say, and we have nothing to do with your affair so if you want to solve the problem, do it outside the village,"
Lark left while Kastor and the others stared at him with disbelief.
Mykel stared at Lark and he was curious about what would happen because the giant race were savages and they didn't care about what was right or wrong. All they cared about was who was the strongest and they would follow that person, and they would do anything to see chaos or war.
Lark was trying to stir problems amongst those three, and whoever stood above the other, that person would be the one those giants followed.
All the worlds that were conquered by Demon King Behemoth were worlds full of savages. Violence was the only thing he cared about and his blood ran through Mazikeen's blood which completed the set. Nothing could be called normal or civilized in the worlds that he conquered.
"You're useless, move," Agnez said as she walked past Kastor and pushed him away.
Kastor looked at Agnez who walked toward the red-haired guy and then she stood right in front of him.
"You heard him, let's "solve" this problem outside the village," Agnez said as she crossed her arms and tilted her head at the gate on the east of the village. "I don't want to waste my time here, and I'm tired of doing nothing,"
A man in a white robe walked past through the crowd and then he patted the red-haired guy's shoulder. "Jaste, I can sense an evil aura around her," He whispered into Jaste's ear as he stared at Agnez. "I think she's up to no good and she's strong,"
Jaste furrowed his eyebrows as he leaned his head toward the man in a white robe and stole a glance at Agnez. Jaste nodded with understanding and immediately became cautious with Agnez, and by the look of it, that man in the white robe could sense the demon inside Agnez's body.
"What are you guys whispering about?" The blonde-haired guy asked while he rested his hands on his waist and stared at Jaste.
Jaste glanced at the blonde-haired guy and then stared back at Agnez. "Are you the team leader?" Jaste asked.
"Yes, but that guy and his team aren't part of my team," Agnez answered and stared at Kastor from the corner of her eyes. "Still, I'm the one who's in charge,"
"Stop with the talk, let's get this over with," The blonde-hair guy said as he unsheathed his broadsword and rested it on his shoulder.
All of them walked toward the east gate and Agnez was far ahead of the others.
"Are we really going to fight them? Can we just use words to settle this down?" Asmond asked Kastor who walked next to him.
"They're all set to do this and it's that red-haired guy's intention in the first place," Kastor answered as he pulled his long hair back. "I don't like this and I don't want to risk anyone's life because of this,"
Gunnar overheard their conversation and turned his head. "It will be fine, it's not like Agnez is planning on killing them," Gunnar explained but then he realized that it was Agnez they were talking about. "Shit, she might kill all of them,"
Mykel chuckled softly because he found it funny, and that made Gunnar and the others turned their heads at Mykel to see his expression.
"Wow, you made him chuckle," Rozan said and stared at Mykel with disbelief.
Kastor forgot that Mykel was coming along because he couldn't feel his presence at all ever since he entered the tower name because his [Perception] skill was too low. Mykel was in fact hiding his presence and he wouldn't remember if Rozan didn't mention his name.
"Mykel, can you tell her to stop being reckless and do as she pleases?" Kastor asked and stared at Mykel.
"Why don't you tell her yourself? I know that Agnez won't do anything reckless, and the others think so as well since they know her better," Mykel replied as he looked at Agnez. "Even if tell her not to do anything, it won't stop those two from fighting each other since it was their plan all along,"
Kastor sighed as he shook his head and rubbed his forehead while Asmond was staring at Jeanne who seemed not bothered by it.
Agnez stopped and unsheathed her sword while she stared at the two teams started to walk away from each other. They unsheathed their weapons and they were all ready to charge at each other, but then Agnez swung her sword down from left to the right hard enough to create a projectile attack that split the ground in front of her.
All of them were shocked by how strong her swing was and looked at the ground that got shattered.
"I'm not going to use my sword because I don't want to kill you all accidentally," Agnez said as she stabbed her sword into the ground and then walked past the shattered ground. "I will use this instead for a handicap," Agnez removed her belt and grabbed her scabbard then swung it around that was still strong enough to create strong wind on each swing.
Jaste started to regret it after witnessing what Agnez was capable of, and it wasn't just him but everyone on his team was also thinking the same thing. The blonde-haired guy got anxious and gulped nervously because of the same reason.
Jaste and the blonde-haired guy looked at each other for a second with panicked expressions but then their expression changed immediately because they didn't want to be seen as a coward.
"Don't blame me if you die from this, because if you do, then you're just weak," Agnez said as she walked toward them so slowly with a sinister smile on her face.
