The World We Do Not Know - 114 The green-eyed prodigy

Garuda’s face turns pale in shock as he sees a decapitated leg twirling in the air before him. He senses a minor tingling in his right hip and before he could realise, he screams from the top of his lungs.

His right leg is amputated from his thigh. He quickly steps back, increasing the distance between him and Faust to avoid more fatal blows.

Every person in the crowd stands on their feet to witness what really happened. They see Garuda hopping on one leg, trying to get away from Faust in fear with blood dripping from his hips. They look at Faust and he did not even draw the sword out of his scabbard.

“I don’t know how he is doing this and I don’t care but, if this helps him win, I will support him from the core of my heart.” Witnessing the power of the new Faust, Jonathan yells out with happy tears flowing from his eyes.

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Faust is sitting in a squat position in a dark room without a single person or building in sight. He is hugging his knees and staring at the darkness without life in his eyes. He does not seem to be concerned with his surroundings or his well being.

“Faust! Knock him out and we will be safe and together as a family again!” In the darkness, Faust’s ears perk up as he listens to the words.

“I-Is it Jonathan? I cannot tell but, if only I can knock him out and win for real. He is stronger than me.” Faust mutters in the gloom, looking for the medium he heard the voice from.

Later, he scratches it off thinking that the voice he heard is only his inner voice.

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“Beat Garuda to a pulp and win right? Will that make you feel good?” A sudden creepy smile surfaces on the face of Faust that is standing in the arena, he turns towards Garuda who is busy using his Healing element to stop the blood loss from his thighs. “Leave it to me!” The medium inside Faust’ body says in a groan filled

Holding his sword with his right in front of him. With a gentle push on the handguard with his thumb, Faust unshackles the lock of the handguard that is holding the sword inside. And as the silver gleam of the lustrous blade is exposed he moves his hand down the scabbard from the handguard.

With a deep breath, Faust leaps forward slamming the sword upside down on the ground. As the scabbard hit the ground, the already drawn-out sword flung back into his hand in a flashy way and he starts charging towards Garuda in lightning speed.

*Clank*

In a blink, Faust is in front of Garuda landing a powerful strike onto his neck. Faust tries to decapitate Garuda’ head with a horizontal slash which is blocked by Garuda in a boxing style, Garuda tilts to the left and puts both of his hands up in front of his face, blocking the strike with the metal on his gloves.

To his surprise, the thick metal on his gloves did not break but revealed dents as the metal is almost squashed with brittles starting to form on the edges.

“You should not attack me, head-on kid! Did you forget who I am?” Garuda’s eyes turn purple and the purple stone on his hand is opened at four places as its combination lock is opened.

“So this is what you need to become a General?” Leviathan asks Hades looking at him from the corner of his eye.

“Yes! You need to know how to bring out the true potential of the elemental stones and you also need to be able to handle that immense amount of power.” Hades explains to his son who aspires to become a general in two years.

*”I will be there before you!”* Leviathan glares at Faust. Leviathan is the youngest captain in the house until Faust show up. He was hailed as a genius and true prodigy. He has the talent and resources to climb up the ladder easily. But Faust came out of nowhere and took his spotlight as the youngest captain.

At first, everyone scratched it off as a boy who got lucky because of the sacrifice made by his house leader. He was seen lower than a soldier class.

“That new captain did not have any spiritual power it seems! And he is from the lower city! A mere commoner he is”

“That youngest captain lost to Thorik’s house! The match ended in the first two minutes haha. And they made him a captain! Hah.”

But with time, everything changed about Faust.

“His physical abilities are on a whole different level!”

“I heard that he ran all twenty laps around that huge training ground!”

“No way! That is only possible for the elites. Are you telling me he is not a soldier class anymore?”

“Did you all see that weird power? I don’t know what he is using but his powers are so unique.”

“So it seems that he can teleport and it is due to his black stone. How is that even possible?”

“He is chosen by the black stone! Do you know what they say about them? They say that the black stone users are the emperors of hell.”

Leviathan felt as though all the attention he receives is snatched away by Faust. And he wants to snatch it back towards him by reaching the general class faster than Faust.

“HAVE A TASTE OF GENERAL’S POWER!” Garuda gestures his hand like he is pulling down a bolt of lightning from within the clouds onto Faust and jumps back with a rage-filled heart. He lifts his head to watch Faust burn to a crisp.

A gigantic thunderbolt coils around the black clouds like a dragon taking its momentum before raining down on its prey. After gathering thunder from all the clouds the thunderbolt came down onto Faust in a blink like a burning phoenix that wants to electrocute everything in its path.

“This is going to be my complete victory” Garuda mumbles in a low voice.