BXBX NOVEL Chapter 58: Who Told You I Was Merciful?
"KYAAAAAAAAA HELP!!!!"
The vampire writhed in pain and tried to free herself, but everything she did was futile. She took out enough water from her inventory to fill dozens of buckets and poured it on herself, but the flames did not stop.
"HELP!!! PLEASE!!! I APOLOGISE!!!"
The female vampire suddenly screamed and fell to the ground, crawling towards James and begging for mercy.
James...he wasn't that merciful. Even the dumbest person in the world knew what happened when they forgave people who tried to hurt them, and in the tower, it was a daily occurrence. Betrayal was the foundation of the tower, and even when there was no betrayal, there would always be death.
The entire history of the tower was written in blood after its creation.
The son would kill the father, the mother would throw her child in the garbage, the father would not blink an eye as his family was killed, and the daughter would drain her family dry.
The tower had always loved to watch this and rewarded these events.
James was not such a merciful person.
"You know what, normally I would forgive you but not today. I am here to show that mercy and respect that comes from it needs to be earned. Your existence is not fair, you did look down on me and the first thing you did was aim for my throat."
As those words echoed through the arena, James' expression was visible on screens all around the 10th floor, dark enough to darken the four corners of the realm of the gods.
They could feel James' shadow growing deeper, they could see it.
James held Clarent tightly and then said "Oh no, neither you nor your group will be forgiven believe me." then he lifted Clarent and stabbed it into the back of the vampire woman who was trying to crawl on the ground.
Every single person who watched what happened was surprised, no one thought that he would attempt such an act.
Duel 4 was over.
"Next match, please." When James turned to the referee and uttered these words, the referee just swallowed and then shouted to start the next match.
In Olympus, different things were happening.
All eyes were on the Chaos-Borns and Nyx in particular, every single person in the hall staring at the mother of the night.
The peace and smile on Nyx's face was incomprehensible, and it didn't stop there. Even Erebus had that peace and smile on his face.
After only a few seconds, Nyx threw her hands up and stroked Erebus' cheeks, who was standing like a guard behind her seat, and the words that surprised everyone came out of her mouth:
"Erebus, my love...See, you were so worried, you thought he was so merciful and shy to finish things on his own, isn't it nice that he doesn't make the same mistakes we do?"
Erebus gently took Nyx's hands on her cheeks as Nyx finished speaking and said, "I agree with you as always, my love, I thought James was so pure that he would forgive his enemies. I was never so wrong." he said, kissing Nyx's hands gently.
With that, he walked over to Nyx and sat down, then turned to Moros and spoke:
"My dear son, make the preparations, it is obvious that he will win, I thought he was weak, but I was wrong, we will see him at the end of this month, decorate the whole of Mount Olympus for his arrival."
After these words, Moros bowed his head and then smiled again, much to everyone's surprise, and said, "I will carry out your orders immediately, dear father." and left the hall. With his departure, a few Olympians followed him and 5% of the hall was officially empty.
At that very moment, Hades' voice was heard:
"Do you think James can win, Master Erebus? After all, even creatures that reach as high as the 60th floor will be in the arena, and you know they won't take him lightly after what he just did."
After these words, neither Nyx nor Erebus answered the question:
"Don't think he's that weak, he's spent a lot of time in the library, the ability my grandfather gave him has already been reset, and he has a philosopher's stone. He has the opportunity to take down at least two powerful people."
Nemesis' voice echoed throughout the hall as if warning Hades to shut up.
"Hoho... Look at that love bird..."
Nemesis was angry as soon as she heard those words and turned round to be angry until she realised it was Artemis.
"Not you too Artemis, at least you watch my back!" she said with a little anger.
Nemesis had friends in Olympus, of course, and Artemis was one of them, of course, Artemis making fun of her was not going to make her angry.
"Come on Nemesis, you're falling in love for the first time, why am I here if we're not going to make fun of it?" Artemis said jokingly, then sat down next to Nemesis and pointed to the window they were watching.
"I'll let you do it this one time, but y'all watch your backs and I'LL PUSH YOUR EARS IF YOU DON'T!!!" said Nemesis as everyone burst out laughing and then everythink fell silent.
All eyes turned back to James, his struggle had just begun, and there were still 29 days to go.
"Umbra of Chaos gets their 25th consecutive win!"
Thousands of cheers erupted from the arena at the referee's shout and all eyes locked on James. Holding his knees in a bent position, James could see the sweat pouring down his face from exhaustion.
After only a few seconds of breathing in and out, he straightened up looked at the referee and said, "Next opponent please." There was no way he could stop now, he could feel it, he was so ready to break through his boundaries, that he couldn't leave it here.