The other question now would be where the two teenagers are? Veylan and Riven went off; quickly they heard someone summing. Not much later they found the two teenagers in a little pond, not alone.

  At a little tree Lorken sat quietly, summing around. He was talking to himself between his summing. “Hmpf…already in the block of hell we had our fun together…but now you two sadly died…Hehehe…but at least I could have one last time fun with you…” As the two looked further they saw the two corpses, in the pond.

  Besides their shock, Veylan noticed something different. Lorken, the number eighty eight.

  Veylan new, it would be absolutely impossible to get Lorken′s badge. But there was a whole other problem, in what world could Riven get his badge. If his target isn’t a complete cripple, it would be very hard. Veylan whispers “Lets retreat, we don’t have any chance against this guy!” But Riven, he was holding back the whole time; even though he was almost at verge of death, he wanted to jump at Lorken and kill him; neither his condition nor the strength difference could make this reality.

  As they wanted to retreat, they heard a little “Why are you already going away? Am I not the target of one of you?” Out of all sudden a spear flew towards Lorken, he only moved a few centimeters to dodge it, observing the butterfly on his finger.

  Almost instantly another participant jumped out of the forest: “You MONSTER! I saw what you did to these kids! I am going to end you! HERE AND NOW!” The other participant sprinted at Lorken, hoping to end him. But Lorken. He just calmly dodged, ?Why ripping out little of the participant’s skin. He couldn’t believe what happened, the participant looked at his forearm, like something happened he didn’t even think was possible: “H-how on earth did he do this? Ripping it out? With his bare hand? So fast!” The participant had a little crucifix as a necklace; he just held it towards Lorken screaming: “A-a monster! YOU ARE A MONSTER; YOU HAVE THE DEVIL INSIDE YOU!” But this wasn’t true at all, in this world, neither in earth there is a god or a devil like in religions; the Alecti world on the other hand has something similar.

  Lorken wasn’t giving a damn fuck about those words, he was concentrated in something else. He still had blood in his hands, instead of throwing it away; he sniffed on it. Lorken′s eyes widened because of it, the participant also something happening in pants, right before he wanted to yell something again about the devil, something even more confusing happened. Lorken talked. Not to the participants, neither to Veylan nor Riven. Purely to himself. “Calm down, calm down…hehe hehe…no you can’t lose it now…” And similar phrases he said to himself over and over until he looked at the other participant.

  He sprinted at him. He lost control. It seems as talking to himself didn’t use that much. His face was…weird…he had such a big terrifying treacherous and…erected expression on his face.

  Slash.

  With another silent hit the participant was dead.

  Veylan, Riven or everyone else who saw this scene could describe how horrifying Lorken is, but in truth; no words could ever describe it.

  The only reason they looked at this scene is because of fear and this weird feeling of obeying, combining this with his aura makes it very reasonable.

  Right as Veylan turned his head around there was another familiar face, Veylan could name him many names: the genius, the emotionless guy, Talen; but also, the man who rescued them from the rot king snake. The whole time he stood there, watching the scene with them. “How couldn’t we feel his presence?” Riven asked Veylan completely confused. Talen hearing this quietly alongside said “Seems like you haven’t learned it…” after that he walked to Lorken. “Have you seen someone with the number four?” Lorken already saw that Veylan was the number one, but for whatsoever reason he said completely neutral: “Number four? Haven’t seen anyone with this number.” But Veylan called Talen a genius for a reason. Even though Lorken almost perfectly lied, Talen is just smarter.

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  Only a few seconds, this is the time Talen needed to deduce everything in his head, he exactly knew who number four was, but also why Lorken lied at him. Because Talen knows something: no one in the world is better at ageing wine without the wine than Lorken.

  But Lorken also quickly saw that Talen didn’t fall for his trap. Lorken wanted to grab Talen to hold him back from Veylan; but. Lorken couldn’t grab him, as much he tried to close his hands, he couldn’t. Lorken knew exactly what happened: “Y-you did it right? You send this participant…your plan was from the beginning to end…you wanted me to rip the skin of!” The two hearing this were purely confused, thinking Lorken might really lose it.

  They quickly ran away, but Talen was in perfect condition, they obviously weren’t.

  Talen chased them without ever stopping ever, without even looking tired “Is he a robot?” He was also spreading his aura, but it felt different than all the other auras. The aura of the rot snake king felt animalistic. The one from Lorken feels erected and blood lusted. But Talen′s felt like he was directly saying directly to them: “I do whatever it takes to get the badge.” Not loud, not laughing around crazily, just completely neutral. Exactly like it’s a fact.

  Once they managed to get little distance they decided to hide at a tree, a few minutes later Talen managed to reach them, as he got closer, he stopped running, his aura felt something: them.

  The two looked at each other having the same thought “This is the end.” That was what they thought. Right before Talen turned around Lorken dashed at him, kicking him away. “Hehe…you knew my weak point and used it; that’s not so nice.” Talen stood calmly up as if nothing had happened. “You don’t know what is infected and what not. What I wonder is: does it even has much of a use against me?” Lorken smiled playfully “Your right. Fighting against you it’s really going to be harder; this is my drawback.” Lorken shrugged his shoulders as if he didn’t care; in reality it made things really tougher against opponents like Talen.

  Talen started spreading all his aura to Lorken, this was exactly their chance to escape. But right before they escape, they did something weird. Lorken was activating his aura too, but different. It looks like Lorken buts his aura around his body, like a shield instead of spreading it around.

  Instead of attacking Lorken he did something weird, he kicked a tree, making its leaves fall. But Lorken. He unfortunately understood it when it was already too late, too many leaves already touched him and even worse they touched many of his body parts. Lorken knew that soon it would be hard to do anything, so he used it as his only attack. No rules said it was forbidden to use things from the block for the other challenges.

  Rotting powder!

  Talen tried to dodge it, sadly his arm got hit. He looked at it, even he looked surprised, almost afraid. But if there is one thing Talen always does: taking everything with him that he can. Talen just lets some of the healing potion over his arm. The injury almost instantly healed.

  In just those few moments Lorken′s muscles already became much weaker; with his last ounce of energy, he retreated: “Sorry but until the effect vanishes you must survive on your own…”

  Veylan and Riven aren′t as dumb to watch the whole fight, they are already running since the short fight started.

  They found a little cave; they planned to go deep and maybe rest for a little. But Talen deduced the same, he was absolutely sure and he was right.

  While they walked through the cave trying to find a little save spot Riven saw a little rock, he took it and threw it against the wall. Out of all sudden the ceiling begins to fall in itself, destroying their only way out they knew; nobody could easily find them now. On the other hand, they need to find a new way out of what is important to get other badges.

  About ten minutes later Talen finds the wall that was before Riven. He knows caves very well, looking around for a moment he knows: “This is mole drill cave…good…good.” A few minutes later he forced multiple mole drills with his aura to drill through the wall and in just another ten minutes there was a new entrance. “To be honest, those mole drillers are pretty cute; I feel almost bad forcing them. If I would be an animal, maybe I would like to be a mole drill; with a cute drill on my head…” He thought for a moment before moving on.