Three minutes back, the moment Kai lost his consciousness.
Kai had woken up in the dungeon again, looking around he found it was the chamber of the hidden boss. But he quickly got serious, drifting into thoughts as the system screen came up to him right away;
“Welcome back adventurer! It feels like it has been ages since you came here. How have you been? Did you miss me?”
But Kai remained indifferent, still in his thoughts. The system screen began to float around him, with a question mark. But then, Kai spoke up.
“Can you summon me after some time?”
The floating screen came to a stop, as it asked why Kai wanted to go back right away without doing any quest. To this, Kai just looked with the screen with a serious look; not saying a word. The system came to pause on his gaze, with Kai's gaze filled with serious, cold look; as the system screen slowly began to show words again.
“We don’t know why you want to go back, but it’s something very serious for you, right? Then just accept this first.”
As it read it, another screen came up with a reward interface;
“Reward for clearing the hidden boss: Avatar”
In the screen below, showed bonus boost for stats, few equipment on the list, huge amount of exp gain and a key appearance item named; Infinity Key.
Kai took a glance at the screen, when the system came to him saying he must accept the infinity key. Further explaining, it stated that infinity key would allow him to enter and exit the dungeon whenever he wants without being forced summon in it.
To this, Kai just gave a nod as a key appeared in front of him and he took it in his hand; which instantly vanished right in his palm. An aura covered around Kai, as he asked if he can exit now. The system just replied saying he just needs to think of exiting the dungeon; and he will be back in the real world.
Kai smiled to this, as he slowly started to vanish; starting from toe. But before completely vanishing, he spoke up.
“I accept that last reward as well. The additional one!”
Saying so, he was gone now. The system screen still floated in the air, but the words in it kept changing.
“Wait, did he notice the additional reward?”
“Even when it was in such small words…?”
“Didn’t I told you guys that he will notice it!”
“Isn’t it great then! He will have his first summon now!”
“But isn’t it too good for him?”
“…”
As the first screen kept changing the words forming in it, the second screen with the reward still kept floating. In the list of rewards, by the end corner to the left stated another reward in very small words;
“Additional reward: The adventurer has surpassed the level of a boss monster after clearing the hidden boss. Since the adventurer didn’t have any summon so far, would you like to accept the additional reward of having the hidden boss as your first summon?”
[YES/NO]
In that screen, the [YES] slowly started to glow with the dungeon fading away.
In the real world, in the room where Kai lost his consciousness.
It has been a minute since he was forced summon; and now back. Looking around, he noticed a barrier had formed around the mansion through the window. He just blankly stared out, when Eva’s screen materialized in front of him, with a layout of the whole mansion; showing where and how many people are making their movements.
Another screen materialized next to the first one, showing Nino and the rest in Ray’s room; all in fear. A third screen came to the right of the first screen, showing the assassins looking at the first injured female assassin.
“Seems like the security is working nice.”
Kai thought to himself, as he didn’t reach towards the wheelchair; but stood on his legs. Dusting of his clothes, Kai pulled out a pocket watch from his right pocket. Looking at the time, he put it back as he walked towards the window; as his voice rang in the room, directed from his mouth.
“I better put up another barrier.”
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Saying so, he snapped his fingers of his right arm as an invisible barrier formed around the main door, and all the windows around the mansion. After so, he walked back towards the door as he whispered to himself;
“Now, let's greet these uninvited guests.”
Saying so, he first headed for the main hall in the ground floor. There, he took off the mana stone that was keeping the lights in the mansion. Before he walked away in the darkness, he looked over the orb placed at the center; slowly his eyes began to glow red as he stared at the orb. To this, the orb too began to glow, but it glowed in a bloody, red color.
As it shined in red, Kai just smirked as he walked away in the darkness; towards his first three pray. In just a minute from then, he had installed fear in the remaining assassins and lowered their numbers; only to be left fifteen. And soon enough, he made these number reach to remain only four; which brings him to the current situation.
Kai stood in front of the four assassins; who are all shocked and frightened at the same time. They all looked at Kai, from head to toe; who stood straight, looking at them with his cold, red glowing eyes. They all stayed silent, the assassins wondering if Kai had been hiding his capabilities. The room had a mysterious air in it, as Kai finally spoke up;
“Too scared to even speak huh. Anyways, I will give you thirty seconds. So, tell me everything you know.”
Saying so, Kai leaned back; when suddenly a chair materialized in the form of mana, as Kai sat down on it. His right leg over the left, arms crossed as he leaned on the left side; looking straight at the four assassins, he said;
“Your time starts now.”
As he said so, a timer appeared right above Kai; in the form of magic, it began the count from thirty, twenty-nine, twenty-eight, and so on. The assassins looked at the timer going on, as the one from the back shouted at Kai, saying now that Kai has revealed himself, they can easily kill him. But Kai remained calm to this, just staring at the four.
The female assassin began to work her mind, thinking of how come Kai is the one doing all this, why can’t she sense his mana, and why does he look like a monster in a human form…
No one spoke anything. Kai silently kept his stare at them, and so did the assassins on him. The moment the timer reached zero, Kai stood up, the chair of mana behind him vanishing in thin air.
“So, you all won’t say, huh. Fine then, you all are not really that useful to me anyway.”
Saying so, he pulled out his pocket watch as he spoke up and looked over it and putting it back again, saying;
“Three…”
Just as he said so, the assassin among the four at the end, began to cough blood; blood flowing from his mouth, eyes widened. And in the blink of an eye, his body suddenly burst; blood filling all over the room. The remaining assassins were covered in more blood again, their eyes widened. Kai however, stood firm as the blood that came over him but froze midway in the invisible barrier. He opened his mouth again, this time saying the number two; as the assassin to the right experienced the same fate. Next, he said the number one, as the one at left also burst into form of blood.
Now only the female assassin was left, petrified as she stared at Kai in horror. Her body was shaking, sweat on her forehead; her voice stuck in her throat. And only one thought rammed in her mind; must run for life. But it seemed her legs already gave up on it, unable to move as she fell on her knees. Tears began to fall from her eyes; feeling the fear.
Kai however kept looking at her expressionless. As he opened his mouth again, about to speak; the female assassin spoke up.
“…W-Wai..wait… please…”
She spoke up, her voice very low and shaking. Tears kept falling from her cheeks, her head lowered as Kai paused and looked over her. Choking and sniffing, she slowly spoke up saying she can’t tell him since she and the rest were under a puppet spell; that if any of them were to reveal the truth, they would have their heart instantly stop. She kept crying, until Kai walked up to her and put his left hand on her head.
“Take some rest I guess,”
He said, as suddenly the female assassin felt a shock and fell on the floor unconscious. Kai gave a big sigh, as he looked outside towards the window. His eyes came back to real, from ruby red to obsidian. He stared to the outside, pulling out his pocket watch as he said;
“You should come inside Ray.”
Just behind the door, Ray froze up. He was gripping onto his arquebus, taking a deep breath. Moving his hand, he slowly opened the door as he looked at Kai with a serious expression.
Kai too looked back, looking at Ray with a smile. The two just kept staring at each other, while in the outside; Hiro returned. He was covered in blood strains on his clothes; but everyone looked at him in hope, as he walked up to Sakura, who was crying. He bent down to her, helping her up as he said;
“Everything is fine now.”
Sakura looked at him, her face filled with tears as Hiro rubbed off her cheeks. He smiled at her, then slowly turned to look at the mansion main door. Slowly walking forward, he made a knock on the invisible barrier. With that one knock, the barrier began to crack, slowly shattering into pieces, falling and vanishing in thin air.
-To be Continued