The World We Do Not Know - 177 Inhuman

Kira’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 Kira 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, Elton 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 Elton? 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 Kira 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 Kira 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 Kira in lightning speed.

*Clank*

In a blink, Faust is in front of Kira landing a powerful strike onto his neck. Faust tries to decapitate Kira’ head with a horizontal slash which is blocked by Kira in a boxing style, Kira 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?” Kira’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 Daniel 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.” Daniel 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!” Kira 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” Kira mumbles in a low voice.

*snap*

The care-free smiling face of Kira turns ghastly with him just staring at Faust with his mouth open. He does not hear any sound coming from his surroundings.

Being scared, he looks for his family leader, the old minister. But he too seems scared and cowers back in his seat. Not being able to figure out something, Kira scans throughout the arena and comes across the royal family, he notices that Leviathan is on his feet with a shocked expression on his face along with Elizabeth. Daniel did not stand up but he is one the edge of his seat with a serious face. Kira does not get anything. He keeps watching the expressions of the people around him.

He looks at Faust who is staring back towards him without an expression on his face, All the people start whispering to each other without knowing what happened. Everyone is as puzzled as Kira.

*”Is this what the prophets describe as astonished beyond astonishment? Form of a mortal fearing a divine being? And it did not happen with one person! It happened with every person in the Arena. Everyone felt as if they have skipped a frame in their lives.”* Daniel who watched everything that happened, describes the situation as a scrummage.

Everyone remembers seeing the gigantic thunderbolt just above Faust, feet away from hitting him and all of a sudden it disappears into nothing with a snap from Faust.

“Father! Tell me you saw it!” Leviathan asks Daniel in disbelief.

“I did!”

“I saw him erasing the Thunderbolt!” Daniel responds with a small unseen smile.

*”The humanoid that is made by combining the energy stones! There is no doubt about it!”* Daniel laughs in a low voice while talking to himself.

*”Did he reach that level already?”* On the other hand, Leviathan clenches his fists tight as his eyebrows meet each other.

Meanwhile, Faust disappears from his standing point. Kira is stunned and did not know how to defend himself if Faust approaches him an attack again. And as anticipated, Faust appears before Kira and this time Faust held the sword with both of his hands, he stretched his arms behind his head from the top. As though he is treating his sword like a sledgehammer launching an attack with all of his strength.

The fierce slash came down again onto Kira, except this time, there are tons of weights behind the slash and surprisingly, they fall onto Kira’ gloves again.

*”What is this? I did not see the attack but my hands blocked it? My body responded on pure instincts?”* Kira thinks, as he himself is surprised to be able to block the attack.

*Clank~*

Other thunderous sounds resonate in the whole arena, the steels are colliding over and over without surrendering to each other. Friction becomes visible to eyes in the form of fireworks coming out of the collision.

But with each strike from Faust’s sword onto the metal gloves of Kira. Brittle cracks start to appear as the metal is crumbling into particles, not being to able to withstand the barrage of sword attacks.

Faust is completely overwhelming Kira by pushing him back to his end of the Arena. Shortly, the brittle cracks open and drops of blood are seen sprinkling onto the face of Faust.

“DAMMIT!!! STOP IT BASTARD! ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME?” Kira cries in pain. His fingers are seen flying in the air between the two.

His metal gloves gave up and broke long ago and if Kira does not block Faust’ sword coming his way, Faust will surely land a fatal blow which will result in the instant death of Kira. So he has no choice but to keep his hands in between the sword and his body and Faust neatly chopped his fingers, his nails are plucked from his fingers and are neatly trimmed along with both of his thumbs.

The way Faust moved and attacked left everyone open-mouthed. It is an unexpected and surprising situation to witness a soldier inflicting deadly damage to a General.

“SHIT SHIT SHIT! How did you become powerful suddenly? Don’t you think that you can leave this arena alive! I-if you kill me here, your house will get disqualified and you will be kicked out for killing me. And if you win over me, the minister will forever haunt you to the ends of this world to kill you for sure.”

“You cannot defy a noble and live in this house! Just give up and I will make it look like you are a hair away from the win. People will think that you almost got me. What else do you want? You will be recognised as a captain who came close with a Genera.”

“Huh? Just give up this fight and you will live!” Kira stretches his bleeding hand towards Faust with a grin filled with new plans.

Faust sheaths his sword back into the black scabbard, letting out a sigh in relief. The corners of Kira’ lips stretch back to his jaws to a creepy smile, upon realizing that Faust is giving up on the fight.

“Huh?” Shortly, his smile is replaced with fear and confusion in his eyes as Faust opens the palm of his hand.

*THUB~*

In between the whole arena, as everyone is watching, Faust punches Kira on the side of his face. And with cracking sounds, burying his face into the ground and dislocating his jaw.

Faust is gritting his teeth hardly while clenching his jaws tight. His face is shaking in rage, he sits on top of Kira and keeps punching his face over n over. His punches keeping messing up his already dislocated jaw, his nose was broken and his face is cut at multiple places.

Faust’ knuckles are greasy with the blood, he kept punching the bloody face of Kira like a maniac who wants to kill him. He enjoys every punch that buried in the flesh and covers him in blood. Faust enjoys it immensely and does not stop anytime soon.

“Fucker! Trying to scare me? I don’t like it when people try to scare me, it makes me want to break their skull, gauge their eyes, take their brains out with my hand and fuck them up so badly that they will know the difference between a real demon and a wannabe.” Faust keeps raging without settling down after going so far, he cleans the bloody face of Kira with his shirt.

After looking at Kira’ unconscious face for a while, a small pocket knife is teleported into Faust’ hands. “IT MAKES ME FUCKING MAD IF SOMEONE JUST” Faust groans with his clenched teeth as he carefully places the pocket knife on the lips of Kira.

“Don’t you ever try to scare me!”

“Don’t you!”

Being enraged, Faust hastily pushes the knife into the mouth of Kira and with the sharp end on Kira’s inner cheeks.

“EVER!”

He cuts both the corners of his lips back to his jaws.

“EVER!”

Faust does not stop there, he brings the knife back to the middle of Kira’ mouth and with the sharp end of the knife on his tongue.

“EVER!”

He shreds Kira’ tongue over n over into fine chops of flesh as the blood spilt all over Faust’ face.

Faust smiles brightly as he is performing this act that left everyone in the arena speechless. Tsumugi widens her eyes and cries as she covers her mouth with one of her hands.

Instantly, A huge shadow appears before Faust. Faust immediately raises his head sensing a person in front of him but before that. Hand of that person is already inches away from Faust’s chest. The hand is not balled into a fist but the hand is folded and the thumb and middle fingers are joined.

*TIC~*

The person flicks Faust in his chest and in a blink, Faust is Blown away to a whooping Twenty feet and gets buried inside the walls of the arena.

*”So that is what he is capable of”* Faust closes his eyes.