The World We Do Not Know - 109 Strike of An Old Serpen

“What are you saying, father?” Leviathan asks knitting his eyebrows. “We were never told this!” He exclaims.

Queen Uzume who is listening to the conversation of Hades and Leviathan suddenly lowers her head as she hears the name of Ares. She holds her hands tightly as if she is trying not to feel guilty.

Meanwhile, the house of Carlos and the Outlanders family collides with each other and it is Carlos that comes out on top.

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A couple of more matches get wrapped up with every branch winning one and losing one. Finally, it’s only Faust and gluttony remain with one win for each of them, the house that wins this match will be the winner of this round.

And considering that gluttony is second place in the first round if they win against Faust in this round, gluttony and Faust’s squad will be tied.

And the tiebreaker is the decision that the house which is in better rank before this purge is to be the winner. And everyone knows that gluttony always has a better ranking compared to Tsumugi’s house, which is always at the last place of the leaderboards.

“Let us welcome Faust from the house of Devils! And on the other side, the well known, the one that is well known for his Godspeed, from the house of Gluttony, let’s all welcome GARUDA!” The host announces, creating a lot of hype.

But the crowd responds with a buzz, everybody is whispering to each other appears to be confused with what they heard. Tsumugi runs up into the balcony of nobles.

“They cannot do this! He is a general class! This is not fair.” Tsumugi yells in desperation at the nobles that are sitting and viewing the unfair game without any objections.

“I agree with lady Tsumugi! Isn’t this a bit too far?” Fab adds his voice.

“Ahem!” The old minister clears his throat as he gets up from his seat, with a heavy sigh as to why he has to respond and reply to this.

“In front of my mighty Lord Hades! I don’t dare lie to anyone, as you all know, Garuda is still a captain class. He did not receive the general stars or have been declared officially. Hence he is still a captain class that my house possess.”

“If the Lord thinks that I have done anything unfair! I will gladly pay for it with my life.” The old serpent puts up a fantastic act in front of Hades by bowing down his head and speaking with a helpless humble old man’s voice. His words entered the ears of everyone like nectar, immediately making them pity the old man.

But all the nobles knew it is his cheap play by making a general class enter the purge. Garuda is next in line to become a one-star general. He will be officially declared a general in 20 days. But the old minister wants to use the fact that he is not officially declared, hence using this loophole to benefit himself.

But no noble wants to speak up, they dislike Queen Uzume and Tsumugi, Carlos couldn’t speak anything, if he does, people will think he is favouring his niece, meanwhile,Tsumugi’s mom looks towards Uzume with concern.

“My lord!” Uzume turns her face around hesitatingly towards Hades with her head lowered.

“Okay! You did nothing wrong! Have your seat and let the fight begin.” Before Uzume say anything, Hades quickly finishes the matter without having to listen to Uzume.

“I have been blessed by my lord.” The old minister bows down to Hades, but the corner of his mouth curves as an evil smile surfaces on his face. He goes on to settle himself in his chair without even looking at Tsumugi

“Faust! Forfeit the match! We won already, I don’t want you to risk your life, I cannot face Neith if something happened to you.* Tsumugi understands that nothing can be done now to change the matchup, so with regretful eyes, she asks Faust to forfeit the match.

“It’s okay Aunty! Everything will be okay! If something bad happens, I have an option to quit.” Faust assures Tsumugi with a smile as he pats on her shoulder.

“No Faust!” Tsumugi holds his hand at his wrist! “I’m making you forfeit the match.” She holds Faust tightly without letting him go.

“Aunty! Trust me” Faust lets go of her hand and walks forward.

“No Fau-” Tsumugi seems convinced but she realises that just trusting Faust won’t work and before she goes to grab again to stop him, she is stopped by Jonathan who appears in front of her.

“Lady Tsumugi! Please let him do it, he is doing this for you.” Jonathan says with conviction, each and every one of them wants to stop Faust from going head to head with a general class but all of them know that this has to be done for the sake of Tsumugi.

Both Faust and Garuda walks to the middle of the Arena. Garuda is six feet one-inch tall, muscular and slim with spiky hair and yellow eyes. He is wearing black shorts which are up to his thighs and a T-shirt which are enhancing the look of his muscular body even more with his thigh muscles, forming a V shape on his thighs.

“Looks like we shattered the dreams and hopes of your little house.” Garuda says with a smirk.

Both of them stood 10 feet away facing each other. Faust assured Tsumugi with a confident smile, but he has no idea as to how to deal with a general class.

“Your house will survive the purge, and you will remain a captain! But that woman and your house won’t last.”

“You all came up with a good plan to make you a captain and getting equipment from other houses. But everything goes into water after this fight! Your house will perish and you all of you will be merged into another house.” Faust found a way to bring back Tsumugi as the lead to their house and keep their house alive rather than merging into Carlos’. But that is only possible if his family comes out on top of the leaderboard. But Garuda mentions, that even after they survive the purge, the house without a noble leading it is bound to perish. Because Faust will lose to him in this fight.

Faust does not say a word back, he undoes his little ponytail at the back of his head, as his hair goes free, he takes out his purple sword from the portal.

People are still whispering about how unfair of a match this is to put a fourteen-year-old kid against a thirty-four-year-old.

“Begin the fight!” The referee announces and immediately, Garuda disappears. “Tsk!” Faust knew he made a blunder. He is slow compared to Garuda which now made left him in a vulnerable position. He doesn’t know where Garuda is, he moves his eyes all around but does not get a glimpse of him anywhere. The next second, a knee digs into the abdomen of Faust.

The impact is so hard, Faust felt a cramp around his lower ribs, his breathing has been stopped completely, the pain is so sharp as if a knife is stuck in between his lower ribs.

Faust fell on his knees dropping his sword, he held his ribs and stomach in pain, he is not able to take breaths as the ribs give him a sharp pain every time he wants to take a deep breath.

“It might have broken a rib or two!” Fab mutters in a low voice. All of them are dumbstruck! They have never seen Faust in this position, he always excelled in everything. And they cannot forfeit now, once the contestant enters the Arena, only he can quit or get knocked out.

Garuda is not done yet, he comes in front of Faust wanting to kick the face of Faust with his foot. If a person receives an attack in that close the gap, from a man that possess immense strength it will break the neck or leave one brain dead.

As he swings his leg, Faust flips to his left, grabbing the left leg of Garuda that is in the air, he keeps his legs under his arm and lands a strong hit with his left elbow onto the left knee of Garuda from inside.

Garuda receives a hit on his inner knee immediately dealing a critical damaging. Faust while still being on his knees, turns towards the right knee of Garuda wanting to break the right knee as well. But Garuda quickly retreats.

“He is quick to read the situation.” Hades says about Faust. He knew that Garuda is fast and that half of his strength is lying in his legs. Which is why he intended to break both knees of Garuda.

Faust gets up on his feet while holding the left side of his ribs with his left hand and his eyes glaring at Garuda as wounded wild beast looking for revenge.

“I thought you would be dead with that first blow, and to think that your eyes still have life left in them.” Garuda utters while struggling with his left knee.

Tsumugi, Fab and the audiences are surprised to see Faust landing a hit on a general class. It happened like a trade attack than a one-sided attack by Garuda.

*”Dammit! It hurts like hell, It broke a rib definitely. And he is fast!”* Faust suppresses his pain, making sure not make it visible in his face.

Faust stretches his right hand out in front of him as his palm is facing downside, his sword comes into his hand, he places the sword on the right side of his waist, holding it with his right hand.

Tsumugi is concerned with Faust, she is the first person among her family to witness what Faust can do in his fight with half-dead. Until now, Faust only held his sword on his left side with his left hand. But Garuda’s hit must’ve really hurt his ribs that he cannot hold the sword with his left hand anymore.