Orbis Online
154. Escape VII

   "Oh, this is worse than I imagined...."

Ikshan was currently in a certain noble room inside the royal palace. He had just read a letter on a table containing Blackstar that had been given to the royal family a few days ago.

Now Blackstar had been deposited into the royal treasure room as a royal heirloom.

Ikshan sighed for a moment before putting back the letter. He then sent a message regarding Blackstar's situation to Reus.

   "Want to seize the heirlooms intended for the royal family? You fool, that's suicide!"

A blonde-haired cungkring man whose body was bound in chains in the corner of the room exclaimed at Ikshan.

Ikshan looked at the man. He played with a kusarigama chain that bound the man and stuffed the man's mouth with a chain before pulling him close to him.

   "You said taking back something that was taken from you was robbing you? It's so weird your logic."

The man was unable to make a sound, this time not because his mouth was gagged but was afraid of the gaze of Ikshan who could kill him whenever he wanted.

Ikshan strengthened the chain link on the gungkring man and once again looked at his eyes full of murderous lust, making the noble man pee so scared.

   "If you still want to live then answer my question. Where is the royal treasure room?"

Thanks to his training for two months under Randolf's supervision, Ikshan is now able to unleash a murderous lust to intimidate others. Because of this training, Ikshan also got the Aura-type skill, Bloodlust.

This skill serves to increase the appetite to kill and allow Ikshan to direct it to a certain target. Similar to Dragon Aura or Reus' Swordmaster Aura, it was just that this skill was devoted to intimidating and frightening opponents.

The noble man was so frightened that he could not speak even though Ikshan had already removed the chain from his mouth. Ikshan sighed before reducing his killing appetite so that the man could speak.

After his fear was reduced enough, the noble man exposed everything he knew. Starting from the location of the royal treasure room, how big the guard, how many soldiers there, until the contents of the room he knew.

   "Good, then sleep."

Ikshan exerting Bloodlust as strongly as possible managed to make the man lose consciousness.

   "In any story the treasure room is always underground."

Ikshan stretched his body for a moment before sending Reus a message about the location of the royal treasure room along with all the information he managed to get from the noble man.

As he was busy typing the message, his ears caught a loud cry accompanied by a slight panic from the passageway. All of those exclamations did not sound too obvious but there was one thing he understood.

   "What attention did he attract this time?"

Ikshan sighed as he scratched his head imagining how big Reus' action was now.

After the atmosphere of the hall became calmer then Ikshan left the room and went towards the royal treasure room located underground without causing much noise.

***

On a large road not far from the prison area, Reus continued swinging his sword relentlessly uprooting every single soldier's life that came to him. Initially the number of soldiers who came was only dozens, but all of that was only temporary.

As time went on the soldiers that Reus had to deal with continued to grow.

Thanks to the number of opponents who were quite dizzying on his head, Reus also deployed Dragon Aura and Swordmaster Aura almost nonstop. He also made use of Telekinesis in the face of so many warriors.

   "My energy expenditure is too great."

Reus continued swinging his sword slashing at the soldier while muttering. He also took the time to consume Energy Potion to recover his energy that was constantly thinning.

Reus relied more on long-range attacks like Energy Wave and Hollow Swords whenever the cooldown of both skills recovered. He had also used up all the magic within the Flame Shoot Skill Orb so the only skill he relied on the most right now was Telekinesis.

Telekinesis is one of the skills with the smallest energy consumption power as well as one of the few skills without cooldown that he has. Its strike range is also far at the same time powerful against many opponents at one time.

Many times Reus flew his opponents into the sky and let them be killed by gravity. Although in this way he did not gain experience, Reus could save his strength to face stronger opponents.

For example, as now.

   "Hey hey hey, against a little prisoner who just ran away you can't? Don't joke."

When all the opponents in front were successfully swept away, Reus's sight was shocked by a human figure two meters tall with a large body like a giant stone. The figure wore an iron armor that protected almost his entire body and on his shoulders rested a giant sword.

   "Oh, who are you, master giant man?"

   "Ah, me? My name is Brandon Lastcrow, a member of the Elite Knight who was sent here because of their incompetence."

Brandon glanced at the soldiers who were currently feeling annoyed at being underestimated by an Elite Knight.

   "Elite Knights? What level?"

   "Levelku's? I last measured it in the 250s if I don't remember it wrong."

   "Oh, maybe. Over a hundred levels from me."

Brandon's playful attitude immediately disappeared upon hearing Reus' statement. His face became so solemn looking at Reus.

   "Little hey, are you sure your level is 150s? Not wrong?"

   "Of course, why?"

Silence filled the space between the two for a while before Brandon's loud laughter filled the air. He laughed out loud for a while.

   "Ah sorry, I thought you were level around 200 and above so you could repel many of these soldiers, but I was mistaken. They were truly incompetent to face someone who was as level as their level even after encircling him."

Brandon's laughter drew hatred from his own side. Many soldiers there were eager to stab Brandon from behind but felt unable to do so.

As a Elite Knight of the 250s, Brandon felt amused towards the surrounding warriors considering the average level of Lavore Kingdom warriors around the 150s and below, the, while their opponents are only alone with more or less the same level.

Brandon stopped laughing after being satisfied, he then looked at Reus who was consuming Energy Potion like mineral water.

   "What are you doing? You really want to fight me, this Elite Knight of level 250?"

Brandon raised his chin as he let out a faint smile looking at Reus lowly. It never crossed once would there be someone of a much lower level daring to challenge him.

   "Elite Knights? Measuring your opponent's strength isn't flawed, how can you be called an Elite Knight?"

   "You!"

Brandon held up a giant weapon on his shoulder, smoothing the sword at Reus with an unhappy face.

   "You'll regret in hell for saying that."

   "Ah, I'm sorry, it looks like you're the one who will regret it in hell."

Not wanting to lose Reus also raised his sword to form horses while replying to Brandon's words more spicy, making the figure of the giant man more provoked.