The World We Do Not Know - 171 New Enemy, Hercules

Sana’s eyes widen as she gets chills, she gets frightened by a sudden whisper in her ear.  She turns back and releases her ice element but a slash lands onto her body shield on her waist, completely breaking the shield along with Sana’s spirit.

“Sana! Eliminated!” A computer voice announces as Sana is teleported back. Faust goes onto cut the ice rock in half.

Awarnach and the others stop running, without being able to believe what they heard. All four of them are teleported back to the stage in the middle of the Colosseum.

While Awarnach is wondering and looking on either side to see if they had won or ran out of time. His eyes go to Sana who is sitting on the ground in despair, her hair covering all of her face.

“YESSSSSSSSSSS!” The crowd cheers and yells loudly for Faust and his squad, the whole Colosseum is celebrating Faust’s win.

Watching all that and their names on the big screen under the winners tag, Awarnach breaks down and weeps, the past months have been very hard on him as he tries to carry the whole burden by himself, thinking and worrying about his branch by himself.

He was not confident about winning the match even in the morning. His mind has gone through a number of strategies and plans that would make them win at least one match in this round.

He cried all of his burden out with this win.

“Save those tears for later, we still have matches to win today. And.. let’s win all of them.” Faust lets out a smile towards Awarnach.

“Ahhh Faustooo! Sorry yoo I thought you were good for nothing all these days. To think that you came up with these weapons and equipment in a month.” Awarnach holds Faust in his arms as he cries his heart out.

“What? You did not think it was good enough?” Faust questions in anger.

“Now now! Who cares Fausto! And you also wore a uniform today! You are different when it comes to real deal huh.” Cameron pulls and hugs him in her chest.

“Yes yes, me too Cameron! I did well too, give me a hug tooo.” Elton says as his face becomes ugly,  he dashes forward breathing flames from his nostrils. Cameron takes out her sniper rifle aiming at Elton; she laughs like a maniac while squeezing Faust in her chest with her other hand.

“Stop it guys! We still have more matches.” Faust gets out of Cameron’s hold and puts back his black cloak on.

“You got your cape back?” Elton asks surprisingly.

“Everything that is teleported to the match will be teleported back.” Faust explains it to Elton.

“Wow! You know everything now?”

“What do you think I did for one month? Sit in a room and cry?”

“Uhhh I saw you reading some books too. I thought of borrowing them from you, but they’re not adult books so I let you read them.”

“Ye ye.” They all leave the stage in between cheerings and blessings from the people sitting in the audience.

Faust and the others walk down the stage with pride-filled faces. They are finally acknowledged by the soldiers and their house.

“Are those your kids? They did so well in the very first match! That too against Carlos.” Tsumugi’s mom praises Faust and his squad for their win against the strongest branch of Carlos.

Among the cheering of the crowd and nobles, one of the soldiers is not able to believe his eyes, he is hating on Faist from the core, he is loathing the very existence of Faust.

“How can he do it? He is just a loser in the village. He is no more than a loser who lost to me.” Barkha, older brother of the bully ahito, among the soldiers, spews anger from his eyes.

“Hey look, it’s the Outlander’s family.” The audience stands on their feet pointing to another branch.

The Outlander’s, as the name suggests is a branch which possesses soldiers who are recruited from different islands. Faust is surprised to see Selena among these four.

She’s a noble and is sent with the Outlander’s, she seemed shy and averted looking towards the huge crowd cheering her family.

“Can you walk quickly?” The captain of her team urges her to be quick and walks fast. Their house goes inside first.

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Shortly, Outlanders came out as winners of the round with all four of their members alive and well. Selena did not do anything than baiting the opponents to attack her. She walks with her head lowered, trying not to stand out too much.

“Selena!!!!! You did great!” Faust gets up on his feet and shouts loudly cheering Selena.

Fact is that the captain of Selena’s squad is the one who took down all of the opponents. Selena did not do anything productive that adds to the victory, yet Faust is only praising her. The words reached the ears of her Captain Heracles. Even though he did not respond or react, went his way as if he did not care, he grew hatred towards Faust in his heart.

*”That punk! Just because he won one game, he got cocky.”* Heracles thinks as he walks back to their team tents to get ready for the next match.

“Faust, you shouldn’t do that! Congratulate all of them, you shouldn’t just congratulate one person that you know of. The others will feel bad.” Cameron, being considerate for Faust, tells him to greet everyone together which would keep a good reputation for Faust as a captain.

“Huh? But I don’t know the other guys, Selena is the only person I know.” Faust replies with a smile as if he is about to teach Cameron something new today.

“Still! You need to wish all of them, that is a nice way to be and that is someone with good manners,” Cameron explains and as soon as she is done, Faust moves close towards her to pinch her cheeks gently.

While Cameron is in confusion, “Haha! I just don’t want to put on a nice face or say sweet things to strangers to make them have a good opinion of me. First of all, I don’t know them, and when I do not talk or know someone, I wouldn’t bother with them. I only bother with people that I talk to and only when I confirm that they’re good people, I will be nice to them.”

“I want to be true to myself, when I don’t even know someone, I won’t be nice to them. They have to talk to me and be nice, only then I will treat them accordingly. I know I’m a little twisted, but don’t leave me heh!” Faust explains his complex thinking to Cameron.

It sounds cool at first but then it sounds like he is talking like a kid too at the same time.

“Well! Didn’t you do too well in your match? I was surprised.” Thorik comes to have a talk with Faust, which surprised many people in the audience as Thorik, the general visited to talk to someone.

“At first, I thought your spirit would be broken and you wouldn’t do very well, but who knows you can come back hard. I guess having you in the family is useful after all.” He talks about the game, where he first underestimated Faust because of him having no spiritual power.

“Yes! I have been reading and analysing the game, finding loopholes in the rules and watched the gameplay of most of the houses that are participating today.” Faust after the loss with Sana on the first day of training. Went back to study the game and rules.

He came up with strategies and methods to win. That is why he wanted the equipment. And for which he got into the house of Carlos.

The other half of the day, Faust’s squad faces Selena’s squad led by Heracles. Selena’s squad goes inside first to take their positions waiting for Faust and his squad.

Heracles and his squad are experts in close range combat. Heracles himself carries two small pistols that are lighter while moving. He can move really fast, doing acrobats and shooting at his enemies with his sharp aim.

But since they saw how Faust appears or jumps a distance in a blink of an eye, they position themselves in mid-range to be safe and the area that Faust and his squad would appear is all covered with wind and dust as a doing of Selena, wind element user. Gradually, the wind turned into a sand storm.

The strategies of the Heracles squad are simple. Firstly, Selena goes into the line of sight of the soldiers in a lane and runs upon seeing them, confusing and getting their focus shifted onto her, making the enemies think that she stumbled upon them by mistake and became a free kill. Meanwhile, a sand storm hits them hard making them blind and slowing them down.

This is when the others from Selena’s squad are at an inclined angle from the prey that fell inside their trap.

Then comes the lightning element sniper with a purple coloured sniper rifle.

A black colour cloud forms above the enemy squad, with thunders falling onto them immediately burning them to a crisp, breaking their shields and paralyzing them. That is the moment Heracles jumps in the sand storm with his acrobatic skills, he takes down all of the squad with his pistols.

Heracles, a master at this deceiving/luring trap, has hundreds of traps In his mind that he can choose if the opponent starts predicting his previously laid traps.

The real match has begun, Faust and the others teleported inside the match. but Faust is instantly inside the main building. While Awarnach and Elton go left of Faust, hiding behind a wall for cover from the sand storm, Cameron goes to the right building and starts trying to spot the enemies.

*Bzzzztt~~*

Above the sandstorm is a black cloud raging and rumbling as the purple lightning traverses the whole cloud as if it’s collecting the electricity from the cloud.

Shortly, all the lightning gathered at one spot, at the middle of the cloud fell onto the sand storm where Awarnach and Elton were taking cover. The lightning is like a roaring dragon descended from the heavens. The concrete walls and roads are ruptured with cracks and fissures, split opening the land, the arcs of lightning destroyed everything they touched.

The crowd goes silent, the person they are cheering till now is now in a pinch with four vs two. Everyone starts doubting the capabilities and powers of Faust and his squad.

Faust places his hands on the huge monitor that is arranged on a small table before him. “Faust!” Cameron utters, trying to stop the fear that is creeping up to her heart.

They did not expect to stumble across a lighting user this soon, especially, a lightning user with strong spiritual energy.

“Great! Now, two of them are eliminated.” Heracles with an evil grin rejoices watching the aftermath of the lightning strike.

*slick*

Heracles hears a shot from behind and suddenly jumps into a suddenly from the rood, he sees that his sniper is taken down from behind.

“No one crossed us from front and flanked from behind right? We were watching carefully, weren’t we?” Heracles asks his members in a panic. Lack of information on Faust and Cameron is making him confused. Who could possibly be behind him is what is making him panic.

“Obviously, there is no way we missed someone sneak from underneath us.” Fri, their assaulter replies.

“The remaining three went inside the buildings to take cover.” Cameron, who is behind Heracles and his squad, relates information to Faust.

“What the fuck are his abilities?” Heracles starts to think about what is going wrong. “Selena! Go become a bait and scout the area.” He sends Selena out in the open lanes while him and the Fei, takes cover in the buildings and moves along with Selena, waiting for Faust and Cameron to go behind Selena.

“Two treasures are plundered!” Computer voice announces again in five minutes.

“Fuck!” The announcement made Heracles lost all of his hopes, he is dead inside with the sudden announcement.

“They both are in our buildings, let’s go quickly to the main building to stop them.” Heracles immediately realises that Faust and Cameron are behind them in their buildings, he turns back and starts running towards the main building.

“Too easy.” A voice resonated within the darkroom in front of Heracles and his squad. They stopped in their traces. In the dark, they could see two green eyes glimmering brightly, devouring the light in the room.

Faust walks out of the room towards Heracles. Selena took steps back seeing Faust walking towards them with a smile on his face and his already drawn sword in his right hand.

“N-no way! How are you here so quickly? I don’t think the sniper girl alone can do anything. It is your foolish mistake to come to us.” Heracles begins laughing at Faust for his foolish decisions.

“Yes! It takes a while to break the rock in the middle building.” Faust adds as he agrees with what Heracles said. “Which is why all three of my squad are working on it, while I hold you both here.” Faust replies.

“All three? That is no-.”Heracles pauses to remember something important.

“Wait! Is it me or did the computer not announce the elimination of the first two guys?” The assaulter for Heracles asks everyone.

The laughing face of Heracles becomes pale, his eyes narrowing as he stares intensely at Faust.

Before the lightning fell onto Awarnach and Elton, they were both teleported to the two buildings of Hercules’s squad and Cameron is teleported behind Heracles to take down the lightning element user, so he wouldn’t give them much trouble.

After Awarnach and Elton took down both of the small treasure rocks, Faust appeared in front of Heracles to stall them until the treasure rock of the main building was plundered.

“You got me good, but you still made a mistake by coming before me.” Heracles with a poker face equips two white stones onto his body armour.

The white stone which enhances the physical attributes and fastens the moments of one person is already deadly by its immense strength and speed. But using two of them makes Heracles the strongest and fastest in his captain class.

“Fei, go to the main building, I will deal with him, Selena! Advance forward!” Heracles orders his subordinates.

Fei the assaulter immediately takes off towards the main building and Selena moves forward with her machine gun and Heracles moves while hiding behind Selena, using her as a shield and also to land surprise attacks.

Faust however, teleports in front of Fei, Selena starts shooting and Faust as he stands in front of Fei, stopping Fei in his tracks.

But to his surprise, Fei shows a smile, Faust looks towards Selena right away realising something is wrong, and all he can see is a cloud of dirt. All those bullets that Selena shot are not directed towards Faust but a wall, making it collapse, using it as a decoy. While Heracles takes off towards the main building with God speed.

Faust did not see anything of what happened while Selena was shooting. “Nice move.” After he realises what happened and where Heracles went off to, Selena and Fei tackles him head-on shooting with their rifles at Faust.