Affinity:Chaos

Grey and his group didn't leave the area they stopped, they waited patiently, and just like Grey said, the Gnomes walked into them.

"More humans, hehehe." One of the Gnomes laughed evilly.

"Do you think the others ones are already dead?" Another asked while licking his lips.

"Damn! These guys look freakishly ugly!" Klaus exclaimed.

Of the group, Grey is the one who has had encounters with Gnomes. The others were aware of them, but they hadn't really seen them. Grey had seen them on multiple occasions, so he knew just how little they were.

"Not all of them look this way." Grey said.

His words calmed the infuriated Gnomes, but the next statement sent them hysterical.

"But these guys, they are ugly. Even the worst beasts don't look this bad." He added.

"Did your parents reject you guys after giving birth to you, or were they forced to accept you as their children?" Klaus asked while laughing his head off.

The Gnomes that came out were five, but they had the number advantage. Two of them were also in the Mid stages of the Elemental Venerable Plane, while the other three were in the Early stages. They couldn't sense Grey's cultivation stage, but they were able to sense Klaus' own. Although they were a bit apprehensive, they didn't feel any fears. They were Gnomes, the dominant species between the two. They've always had the advantage when it came to strength, adding their puppets to the picture, they were even more frightening.

Unfortunately for them, they encountered the most freakish entities among humans. Of course, there were also a few who were almost as strong as Grey and his friends in the same stage, but people like that were quite rare, especially for their age range.

"Hey, little kid, daddy is calling you, it's bedtime." Klaus continued messing with them.

And the group of five snapped when they heard Klaus' words. Each of them brought out their puppets, and just when they were about to attack, Grey grinned and said.

"Didn't daddy tell you not to play with dangerous toys?"

Before they could react, they were all frozen in fear, their connections had been forcefully cut from their puppets, making them momentarily incapable of doing anything in a short while. That was enough time for Grey and this group to kill them.

Internally, they were all screaming a particular name, "Grey Dawson".

This was the only person that could do something like this, they've heard of it, but they found it difficult to believe. Now, they've experienced it, unfortunately, they wouldn't be able to live to tell the tale.

Grey looked at them as they were killed. He didn't feel anything as he swiped their storage rings away.

"Come on, there is more upfront. We should wipe them out." His eyes glowed with a ferocious light.

He knew a war was coming soon, he had to do his best to take out as many geniuses as he possibly could. If the opportunity arises, he wants to kill a few Princes.

Grey and his group started a clear out of the secret realm, killing any Gnome that they encountered. It was a brutal activity, but not for Grey or his friends, rather, it was for the Gnomes.

In the space of twelve hours of entering the secret realm, they had killed over fifty Gnomes. One has to know that the number of Gnomes was superior to that of humans in the secret realm, so they naturally occupied more areas. Grey and his friends would encounter at least one Gnome within the space of a few kilometers. Anyone seen was killed without mercy.

Alice and Reynolds were the two who had gotten the most battles, they were the weakest, well, not Reynolds since with his Elemental Warrior he could battle with someone in the Eighth stage, even the Ninth stage. Alice could fight with someone in the Sixth stage, and barely hold her own against someone in the Seventh stage, that was if she used all of her strength, including her Seelie.

Reynolds was only using the Gnomes as a means to hone his skills. It got to a point that he told Grey to stop breaking the link between the Gnomes and their puppets so they would be able to get a good battle against them.

The battles last for a few minutes, but in the end, they are always victorious. Void and Klaus were starting to get bored since they hadn't encountered anyone that would pose a threat to Alice and Reynolds, and even if they did, so long as it's just one individual, Reynolds dealt with it.

Void was okay with not getting any action, Klaus was not okay with it. Seeing only Alice and Reynolds fight made him itch and raring to go. Unfortunately, there was nothing he could do. With no choice, he killed a Gnome that was in the Fifth stage with a single attack before the others could react. He pretended like he had nothing to do with it, but the broken ice sculpture of the Gnome was glaring evidence against him.

No one bothered with him.

"When can I join in on the fun, I'm bored." Klaus asked after Alice and Reynolds killed another group of Gnomes.

"We'll tell the next ones we meet to take us there." Grey looked around, and after trying to sense if there were any other Gnomes around, he was disappointed with the results.

"Hmm, looks like we've killed quite a lot of them."

….

While Grey and his group were thinking of how to get to the Gnomes.

In a large castle.

A large group of Gnomes were gathered, they looked a little worried. The reason for this was obvious, over fifty people seemed to be missing.

Normally, they wouldn't have noticed this early, but when a few people tried contacting their friends, they noticed that they were not responding. More people started to try to communicate with their friends, and while a few were able to reach out, a lot were not able to respond. It meant one thing, they were dead.