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Chapter 5 - The Headless Man

Ronx seeing Alex injured, knew he had to act quickly. 

But before he could, the mansion transformed into what looked like someone's insides of their stomach. The roads, the other mansions, the sky, everything disappeared and replaced by layers of muscle, gastric juice, hydrochloric acid and whatever else is in a stomach.

"What the actual fuck is going on?!" Ronx yelled, terrified, disgusted and about to vomit.

"This must be the creature's realm" Alex replied calmly as if he had seen worse things. "Once they activate their realm, It is impossible to defeat them."

"Realm? Wha?" Ronx said with a confused face but he had no time to be asking questions. 

The headless man had also disappeared and thousands of arms rose from the ground, trying to grab them. 

"What?! What is happening?! I can't take this anymore" Ronx said about to faint.

Alex then cut off one of Ronx's arms, causing massive bleeding.

"Wha?" Ronx said, his voice barely noticeable. 

"Use your powers to cut those arms, I'll try to find a way to escape" Alex said calmly as if he had not cut off his fellow member's arms.

Ronx understood what he was saying so he clenched his teeth and fought against the pain. Using his blood manipulation powers, he made a sword out of blood and used it to cut off any arm that would dare to approach him.

Alex looked back and after seeing Ronx being able to manage, he focused on finding an escape.

First, he slashed the layers of muscle but nothing much happened, then he looked around and found an eyeball watching them from above. Alex split his sword in half by a simple hand gesture and made two daggers using his metal manipulation powers. 

Then by using those daggers, he stabbed the walls of the stomach and used it to climb towards the eyeball. However, Suddenly, the arms started move towards him instead of Ronx. They started to climb the layers of muscle using their powerful grip.

"A little help would be nice!" Alex yelled, slightly annoyed that he had to ask for help.

Ronx instantly rushed over to help, slashing the arms that were approaching Alex. However, Ronx himself was getting exhausted and even let his guard down, causing him to be covered by hundreds of arms who were tearing his muscles apart.

Alex wanted to help but if he did, they would most likely die so he continued climbing and ignored Ronx's screams and cries for help.

Eventually, he reached the eyeball and upon being close to it, he instantly stabbed it with one of his daggers, causing the eyeball to bleed massively, liters of blood dripped on to the floor, directly on top of Ronx, who noticed and made something close to a ladder, using it to climb to the top.

Alex then slowly ripped out the massive eyeball, which fell to the ground, revealing an opening. 

Through the opening, they were able to escape the realm and were teleported back to the mansion, in which they saw the headless man lying on the ground, probably defeated due to the eye being the weak spot.

"That was easier than I thought" Alex said casually even though he was extremely exhausted.

"Easier than I thought!? You don't have to act cool, you know?" Ronx said, who had one of his arms cut off and most of his muscles ripped apart. Though, he managed to stop the bleeding by making the blood solid. 

"High-tier monsters are much stronger, I feel like the creature was on the weaker side" Alex said casually. "Anyway, let's get healed up and report this to Mr. Crow."

"He might be surprised that we even did it, heck, I might even get a promotion, hehe" Alex said while giving a greedy smile.

With that, they took a carriage back and they returned to the same street. Upon reaching there, Alex teleported himself and Ronx to the base instantly.

"First, let's get healed up by Miss Elvia" Alex said, walking in a completely different direction than Mr. Crow's office. "Oh I forgot to tell you but remember to address anyone who is a high-ranking or powerful member by Mr. or Miss."

"Hm, okay" Ronx said without questioning anything but felt slightly disgusted at meeting Elvia again since he remembered the tongue licking thing, which he still wasn't sure why she did it.

"By the way, what rank or what position are you?" Ronx asked as they were walking. Thankfully, Ronx could walk, just barely though.

"Oh me? I am a grade 1" Alex replied with quite proudness.

"Grade 1? Is that a high rank?" Ronx asked while slightly tilting his head.

"Oh, it is a very high rank" Alex said while speaking quite loudly as if to make sure everyone was listening. "It is the highest grade a normal human could achieve."

"Huh..." Ronx said quietly as if slightly annoyed at his arrogance. "What about me?"

"You are a measly grade 3, which is the lowest grade" Alex said with a smirk. "Though, you have the potential to be special grade."

"Special grade?" Ronx asked.

"A special rank for those extremely powerful like Elvia" Alex replied, "By the way, no more questions for today."

"Tch. Fine" Ronx said, slightly angry.

With the conversation, they had reached a giant room, which was as large as two basketball courts. Many members of the organization were sparring against each other or just simply talking.

"This is the training room, Elvia usually sits here to see people fight and heal them after" Alex explained.

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