Unsealing Emptiness

*Fuuu...*

Raven and Blaze released a sigh of relief when they confirmed that Ozul was really going to intervene.

“It was all your fault! It would be best if you hadn’t said that in the first place,” Raven put all the blame on Blaze.

“What? But didn’t you say the exact same-” Blaze was cut off in the middle when he looked at Raven cracking her fist joints.

“I meant that it is all my fault, and I should’ve known better.” Blaze suddenly changed his tone and smiled towards Raven, who nodded her head and just focused her attention back on Ozul.

Because of constantly training with Raven without using any spells, Blaze was aware of how scary Raven could sometimes be.

.....

“Tch! What devil’s spawn or the demon!? This woman is the real devil,” Blaze muttered under his breath.

“Hm? Did you say anything?” Raven asked with a smile on her face.

“Oh, it must be my stomach. I haven’t eaten for quite a while.” Blaze replied with an equally not-a-smile-smile.

“Oh, you better eat before our next spar okay?” said Raven, not caring about Blaze’s expression when she mentioned their spar.

“Y-yeah...” Blaze said with his smile faltering already as his eyes twitched.

Back to Ozul, he just calmly took long steps forward while the drake had already started bashing around whatever came in its way.

It hit many mercenaries, who were hurled to the sides like some baseball. All the while, the drake did not slow down since it knew that the mages were following him.

Although it had gained intelligence, the drake only wanted to kill as many people as it possibly could, derived by the primal instincts of survival.

*Grhrrrrchh*

Just then, the drake screeched again as it opened its mouth. Mana gathered around the drake’s mouth when everyone realized what this action meant.

The drake was going to shoot fire out of its mouth from this point-blank range at the group of mercenaries who could only watch in fear as the drake massacred them.

Some of them had even wet their pants! They wanted to run away, but there was nothing where they could run off to. They were in an unfamiliar jungle, and they also remembered that the consequences of leaving wouldn’t be any better than death.

However, in the face of death, some of the mercenaries in the back still tried to sneak off from the wall of jumbled bushes, trees, and tree vines only to realize that they would have to cut all the plants again on the way back.

And there was no time to cut their way through since the drake was just getting ready to throw his attack at them.

The rank 6 and above mages looked on in horror as the drake was about to shoot his spell. They were all aware that if they really let it proceed with the attack, the casualties would be numerous.

Moreover, there were critical chances that the attack might hit Clara as well!

The three rank 7 mages were still not in a considerable range to attack the drake without missing. Just when all of them had thought it was the end and there was no saving it, they saw someone casually walk in front of the beast.

Venessa also hurriedly conjured a water shield in front of them to brace for the impact of the attack.

“Hmm... You’re a piece of work, huh?” Ozul arrived in front of the drake, looking up at the visible mana gathering in its mouth.

Everyone was flabbergasted, looking at this scene. They did not understand what had gotten into this rich kid to dare and stand in front of the drake.

‘Did he have a deathwish or something?!’ Everyone thought in that split second.

“I hate shiny lights, you know.”

Again his voice resounded in the area since everyone had gotten quiet. Some mercenaries even started to think that the kid had lost his mind, and that was the reason for his yapping before the beast.

Even the drake looked down at Ozul, with its head held high as more mana gathered in his mouth.

Just when everyone had thought that the kid would be the first to die from the attack, they all looked mouth gaped at the scene before them.

Ozul did not even raise his hands before his hat suddenly turned into liquid before turning itself into a sharp but wide blade.

The people were not even given a chance to think about what was going on before the blade just blinked in its place.

*Swish*

After the blade blinked, a sudden wave of wind passed by. However, no one at the moment seemed to care about how such a wind could form in a forest as thick as this.

The only thing they cared about was seeing the head of the drake abruptly falling off from its body as if the beast was just a toy, and that piece of the head just fell off!

*Thud*

The head hit the ground with no grass before it rolled over and got stuck in a bush.

‘How can it... What the-‘ no one was able to make any heads or tails of the situation. But the one thing that they truly understood was that it definitely had something to do with the supposedly rich kid who got here only by relying on family background.

“Huh? Is that it? Didn’t it dodge their spells before? Why didn’t it dodge mine?” Ozul muttered, looking at the headless corpse in front of him.

However, the people who heard his mutterings looked at him with their faces contorted in anger.

“Shameless! He just wants to make us feel bad!”

“So what if he could kill it?! I could do the same!”

“Oh, you can? There is still one alive, why don’t you try?”

“Uh, that. Oh, it’s just that my neck is hurting right now, so I don’t feel like doing it.”

. . .

Several people began to murmur, though most of them still did not want to believe that Ozul was better than them.

Ozul did not mind their conversations and was about to crouch down to examine the drake’s dead body, but suddenly he heard the shout.

“The other one is still alive!!!”

He did not have to turn around to notice that this voice belonged to Raven.

Actually, Raven could already guess what was in his mind, so she knew that he had most probably forgotten about the other drake already. And it was just as she had assumed.

But Ozul did not have to approach the other drake after decapitating this one. Instead, it was that drake who witnessed the scene and stopped whatever it was doing.

It looked between the headless body of its partner and Ozul before it angrily growled.

“So you are her partner,” Ozul mumbled to himself when he felt the emotions of the drake with one of its horns broken.

Though he was unsure, Ozul concluded that both of these drakes were partners. And the one who he had just killed was probably the female.