Kai put the map on the table and saw the tracks on the map. Soon he found what he was looking for.

"The ventilation system".

Kai would have to wait until tomorrow for his plan to take full effect. When he realized that he had nothing else to do, he went back to bed. He was about to lie down when he felt the stench coming from the bed.

The smell disgusted Kai. A couple had just had an affair here and died before they could clean up. Kai hadn't even thought about cleaning it up.

Kai grabbed the sword on his back again. At the same moment, the blanket flew into the air and the flames engulfed and destroyed it. At the same moment, the sheet was also covered in flames and destroyed by Kai. Kai lay on the bed and waited for this night to end.

***

In the morning Kai woke up and took a deep breath and looked out of the window at the sun. The warmth he felt in his body gave him a strange feeling.

"I haven't slept in a place like this for a long time."

The feeling reminded him of his days at the Academy. It had been nearly a year and a half. Time passed quickly and incessantly. Kai was 1.78 meters tall, but his body was much bigger than before. After the age of 20, he wouldn't grow anymore. He had 4 years left.

Kai didn't think any further and quickly stood up and put the map in his pocket, but this time he didn't wear his red robes or cape. He only had his second poison bottle and his sword with him. He wore the same black clothes as the envoy. He would travel incognito. If he took his bag and other belongings with him, the people in Red Lightning would be able to spot him. With nothing on him, not even the City Lord would notice him. He was just an ordinary developmentalist.

Kai went out the back window and jumped onto the roof. At the same moment, a map appeared in his hand. Of course, he didn't want to walk around this unknown city without a map.

Kai jumped off the roof and went silently to the ventilation center.

A city has many problems. Even though the people here were in a tournament, they still had to live. There were hot and cold periods. That's why skilled people built ventilation lines, water lines, or sewer lines in cities.

Kai needed the ventilation pipe for phase 2 of his plan. As he moved through the shadows, no one noticed this dangerous young man.

Kai saw the ventilation pipe. It wasn't a very large building. But it was very close to the epicenter and therefore very dangerous. But that wasn't scary for Kai. This was just a stop. He would stay here for a while and then move on.

The headquarters building looked like a six-story apartment building, but it was much larger and made of stone. It was like a small fortress.

The ventilation center was attached to it. It had two floors and was very small. That's why people thought it was a room in the headquarters building, but the fact that the ventilation building also had a door proved that theory wrong.

Kai couldn't think anymore, so he hurried forward and stepped through the glass. He wanted to use his enhancement as little as possible, but perfection required danger and danger required strength.

Once through the window, Kai walked forward for a while and saw two 20-year-olds in the ventilation center. They wore cloaks that said they were titled, but they were dealing with ventilation problems. One of them had a list in his hand and the other one had opened the pipes and was checking something.

Meanwhile, Kai ignored them. Suddenly he jumped up and appeared behind the one with the list. As soon as he put his hand around the boy's neck, he squeezed his thumb lightly and a red mark appeared visibly on the boy's neck and the boy with the list fell to the ground. The boy with the pipes was about to speak when Kai lunged forward and did the same to him. During the time he had been with Randal, he had learned as much as he could from him, absorbing the knowledge from their past lives and the library knowledge he had received in the Garden of Eden. There were very few parts of the body he didn't know by now.

Then he approached the pipes.

"So these pipes spread all over the city."

Kai reached for the flask and made a small hole in the flask filled with poison. And then he poured it into one of the pipes.

Then he took his sword with his other hand and brought its surface close to the pipe into which he poured the poison. The liquid poison should have been completely gassed by the heat of the sword.

At that moment, Kai lifted the two young men to their feet and touched their foreheads with his hands.

You will tell no one about me and you will make sure that the gas is spread in all the sinks of the city.

The two nodded, then turned and started to arrange something. They ignored Kai as if he wasn't even there.

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Kai ignored them no more and left the way he had come. Nobody noticed that he had come here.

After a while, Kai went to a park where there were not many people. He took a piece of paper out of his pocket and looked at the map.

"Jade Park. That must be it."

Kai suddenly landed on the ground and started walking down the street like normal people. His clothes were not a problem, because the people here were already at war. It was normal not to walk like normal people.

Kai sat down on a bench in the park and waited. His wait was not long. When he saw the cloaked red-haired youth coming out of the alley, he took a deep breath and prepared for his role.

The red-haired youth stepped forward and sat down next to Kai. He had a casual look in his eyes. It was as if he was tired from walking and stopped to rest for a while, but the reality was much different.

"Is something wrong?" he asked. A worried expression appeared on Kai's face, which he tried to hide. The red-haired youth had noticed it. What he didn't realize was that it was an act.

"Sir, we have a big problem!"

Although Kai said it softly, the boy had heard it and his ears perked up at the sentence and he began to listen more carefully.

"What is the problem?"

"Sir, someone wants to poison the whole city."

"What?!"

The red-haired youth could not contain himself. A few people around him looked at him, but quickly turned their heads away. The cape meant danger.

"Sir, someone must have poisoned the water channels of the entire city. As soon as I heard about it, I rushed here with all my might, but I must have missed it. The poison will take effect after a while. I don't know when they spread the poison. It could have spread throughout the city by now. "

Kai's words made a big impression on the man in front of him. The red-haired youth was so scared that he couldn't even think about what to do. On the one hand, he was afraid of the state of the city, but on the other hand, he was afraid that he might have been poisoned. He was so scared that he didn't realize that Kai was a stranger he had never met before.

Kai took the opportunity to approach the red-haired youth.

"Sir, maybe we can do something."

At Kai's words, the red-haired youth immediately turned to Kai. The gleam in his eyes was easy to see.

"Sir, since the people are being poisoned by the water, we can remove all the water from the toilet. If we act quickly, we can minimize the effect. All you have to do is make an announcement and tell the people to go to the toilets immediately."

Kai's sly words reached the redhead's ears. The redhead didn't listen to Kai anymore and got up and walked away. Kai understood what this meant and smiled broadly.

"The plan is successful."

Then there was an announcement in the town and people rushed to the toilets. Everyone was scared, but some were brave and didn't go to the toilet and drink the water. They thought it was a lie, and they considered the possibility that someone might poison them through the toilet. The reason they drank the water was that if someone poisoned them, how could they flush the poison down the toilet? They were suspicious and disobeyed the order.

But what they didn't realize was that the moment they entered the toilet, the poison was already in their bodies. Kai had delivered the poison to the toilets through all the airways. The only problem was that all the people had to enter a closed room. He made sure of that by informing the Legend. Now the whole city was covered with poison.

He did this instead of poisoning the water because he couldn't poison everyone at the same time through the water. If a few hundred people got sick, people would recognize the poison and countless enemies would survive.

Still, there were some clever people. For these people, Kai made his poison contagious. For the poison to be contagious, the seeds of the poison had to be in the air. This was provided by the people in the city who had ingested the poison themselves. Kai had already given himself an antidote. As soon as he was done, he would clear the air in the city.

There was not a single person in the city who was not affected by the poison. Kai returned to the house where he had left his belongings and took his red robe and cloak with him. As he walked, people passed him timidly. Kai walked on without a care in the world. Now he would finish this job.

Kai entered the headquarters building and made his way through the busy people with flawless steps. Finally, he approached the seat of the City Lord, but he didn't go in. Instead, he waited and slowly grabbed his sword.

"Here..... That's it..."

"Simple!"

As soon as Kai had the sword in his hand, the first scream broke out. Followed by another scream, and then another, and another, and another, and the City Lord burst out of his room. The crimson orb cloak was impressive, and an aura of peak red lightning radiated from his body.

The City Lord was a handsome man with auburn hair. But now his face was wrinkled and ugly from the screams ringing in his ears. He broke into a run and Kai followed. As they ran, people started to fall down the corridor they were running down. Kai was confused. It seemed that the City Lord was somehow immune to his poison.

As the City Lord advanced, the aura of his body fluctuated and the fear in his eyes became more pronounced. The city he led, the city he protected, was dying.

At that moment, the two of them went to the roof and began to watch the people falling from the center. The City Lord understood nothing. Everyone was dying except him and the titled behind him.

"First we learned from our envoy that there was poison in the water.

"Then everyone was poisoned and started falling. Someone somehow infiltrated our intelligence and made the whole city go to the toilets. He must have poisoned us through the air as well. What a clever plan! It would have taken a long time to poison us with water. To do it quickly, he used us. Damn it! "

The city lord gritted his teeth and clenched his fist. This city under his protection had been destroyed in a short time. Today, he had lost thousands of his friends from the World Tournament.

But the City Lord couldn't stop his eyes from widening at the thought. Kai had already reached for his sword, and the sword had begun to gather in his blade.

"If he planned everything... That means he's close!"

The City Lord turned his head and was about to attack the blond youth behind him when he saw the black sword, as liquid as a raindrop, and a single drop on it.

"The Raindrop Sutra..."

Kai spun on his heel and sent the City Lord's head flying from the roof of the Central Building with his sword.

After the City Lord died, people continued to die. In a matter of minutes, thousands of people were dead.

Kai continued to walk through the corpses with his sword. With each step, a piece of his emblem, painted with the Blood Eye flower, fell off. He had already left the city and was about to enter the forest when Red Lightning appeared, leaving a Ghost City in his wake.

At that moment, a pair of bloodshot eyes looked back at Kai with difficulty. It was the young man who had told Kai about the well that day. There was regret in his heart, but he didn't care anymore. Slowly, he got to his feet and left the city. His destination was the castle. When he saw where Kai had gone, he forced himself to go to the castle of the Red Sphere. There was only one sentence in his head.

'The Ghost of Skylands is here!'