The Legend of the Devil
Ch. 49 - Preliminary Round II: Team Cooperation II

Before being delivered to the headquarters of each of the Intermediate Swordsman Exam organizing committee provides a seal of information for each participant, namely, the information seal was shaped like a spell paper looped around their wrists and it was useful to see the number of team points directly, the spell showing the number 300 as the starting point of each team.

At other headquarters a team negotiated with each other but did not see harmony among the five participants, their leader was Jiazhen Yan and the young man was acting at will even from the very beginning of coming there he was sitting on a chair with both feet on the table.

The members of his group were Liu Cheng, Ma Hao, Ning Yun, and, Wu Fei and Cao Cao seemed to want to get out of the team but there was nothing they could do but obey a sneak who called himself king.

"You useless trash should not get in my way, just go home if you don't obey my orders!" While speaking normally even his two hands let out a red flame making the other participants shudder sinisterly in fear that the crazy young man's hand suddenly burned them.

"Guard-ready ..."

"The first one I am the King. Banned! Let alone ruling me because I am the rule itself! I'm the one who made the decision and you're following all my orders, okay?!" he said fiery, the four members assented while nodding.

"For the beginning we all remain in the headquarters, I cannot entrust this headquarters to the weak brutes like you and also cannot stay idle without collecting points."

"But how do we collect points with just at headquarters?"

Jiazhen Yan pulled a smile full of cunning while speaking in a disdainful voice.

"When the division of the headquarters was the other team did not know the location of their respective opponents, if they came here they would not know that I was here. I just light a fire and make smoke to lure them. That's why suckers like you are still useful. You guys stand guard outside so they think this team is weak. I'm waiting inside here to kill them while keeping the eggs."

The sentence sounded more like a demon who was crazy about incubating eggs, but his friend no one dared to say look at his enthusiasm Jiazhen Yan when explaining.

"I'll be out at the end of the day and looking for my good friend Xue Zhan, I'd love to break his teammate's head ...."

Jiazhen Yan's gaze turned very dark making the others start to fear, before long the sound of bells ringing.

"Do as I command!"

*

This was the first time for Xue Zhan to speak to Xiao Rong alone, even though Xiao Rong was younger than him in fact he had somewhat decent strength.

"Your kind of power is really the power of darkness? I've seen it once, but I don't think it's too dangerous."

"Emperor Li told me not to be too rash to use it. In missions or tests I can only spend twenty percent." Xiao Rong returned the jutek. It didn't seem so happy to have a conversation with Xue Zhan.

"The power that made you feared by many ... Just like me."

For a moment Xiao Rong's movements slowed down.

He also knew of Xue Zhan's identity as the only demon still alive to this very second even the news of him had spread to the farthest hemisphere of the continent.

"We are basically the same. Growing up in hatred makes our hearts full of darkness. You must hate humans so much, right?"

Xiao Rong's eyes at that moment made Xue Zhan not know what to answer, he felt a long-suffering hatred in the young man's body.

"I'm just upset with those who exiled me. But there's still a lot of good people among them, I think it's called balance."

"Key are all fake. They're just gonna use your powers, you're easily fooled by a cunning human like them?"

There was a muffled laugh from Xiao Rong's mouth. "I've trusted them so much and ended horribly. As a fellow exiled person I will warn you to get too close to them."

Upon hearing that Xue Zhan started to understand why when they first met Xiao Rong was completely unwilling to join his peers. It was not Xiao Rong's fault that thinking so, he had felt many painful treatments from others that eroded his trust in humans.

Xue Zhan had also been in the same situation, when he had lost everything and was on the verge of despair. His grandfather dies, his sister is engulfed in flames, all the facts about his past and the fact that he is a demon that all humans hate.

That made him feel sorry.

Xiao Rong was a very rare user of the dark power type, making him averted by many.

Xue Zhan recalled the moment Jiazhen Yan told her about how Xiao Rong's mother and father disappeared after the child was born. No one knew where the two of them were but it was clear from then on that everyone was afraid of him even at the strength he possessed.

They were still running in the forest watching the fight had begun and there were sounds of swords and guns.

Xiao Rong stopped when he found one prey that roamed alone in the middle of the forest and looked terrified, perhaps he was forced to look for points alone by his team. Want a trap or not Xiao Rong did not care and immediately grabbed the ferocious.

Without the slightest doubt in his heart Xiao Rong took the lives of others with a sharp dagger that tore the neck of the prey, he said, Xue Zhan froze on the spot with a look of disbelief that Xiao Rong did that without a second thought.

While Xiao Rong immediately turned his head towards Xue Zhan and let out a astonished question, "Why? You're not used to seeing blood?"

"No ... Merely," he said restrainedly, "I'm not used to seeing someone younger than me kill without a doubt when I myself have to think ten times to do so."

"You're bragging what? You also killed many while in my Empire."

Xiao Rong reminded him of the events when they intercepted a group of warriors named the Seven White Swords and Xiao Rong killed three of them.

"I lost my consciousness at that moment." It appeared that Xiao Rong shrugged as he patted Xue Zhan's shoulder, "Me and you are the same, we both have great killing instincts. We do it consciously or not. Like when we're breathing."

Xiao Rong stared with his dark black eyes that were like death passageways.

"You and I are the darkness that wants life to live."

"What do you mean?" asked Xue Zhan.

Xiao Rong passed by while waving his hand.

But Xue Zhan still disagreed with what the young man said. "The more dense a darkness, the brighter the light in it. I fight not to stay alive, I fight to win and save others."

"You're kidding. I've been looking for the light in me for a long time, ever since everyone hated me ... I guess you feel the same way, don't you? Scared, hated, dumped. We have no light and so on will be in darkness."

For some reason Xiao Rong suddenly said so but if that was the way he looked at the world it felt like Xue Zhan was eager to hit the young man's head to the point of forgetting his memories and saying that there was still light left.

Xiao Rong had been in the darkness for too long and there was not the slightest trace of humanness left in his eyes while killing another fellow human.

"If there is no light, you should be the light itself. Don't cry, you still have people around you who are going through the same thing."

Xiao Rong paused for a moment, his mouth opened but then he clenched it back until a laugh came from his mouth.

Xiao Rong looked up at the sky, he hated the bright sunlight.

" ... Can't you?"

Xue Zhan embraced him all of a sudden, Xiao Rong tried to break away from him out of sheer unease but upon seeing the warm smile on his face, Xiao Rong undoed it.

"Not to be afraid of the darkness, I will be by your side. Because we're friends. Friends who understand each other's suffering."

The pupils of those black eyes shrank, those words made his expression change for a moment before he again threw his face away. His eyes glimmered.

"You ... lousy friend."