Affinity:Chaos

"What's going on?"

A voice came from behind the stunned group.

On hearing the voice, Reynolds heaved a sigh of relief and fell on his butt, tired from the fight.

They were still trying to comprehend what was happening to their attacks when Grey suddenly arrived. His voice brought them out of their shocked states. They turned around to look at the arriving Grey who still had the cloak on. The cloak was covering the upper side of his face, leaving only his mouth visible to the group.

The leader of the group who was still rattled, quickly composed himself when he saw him. He remembered he was the one they saw some minutes back.

"It's none of your business," One of the young ladies in the group said coldly.

Grey was just about to speak when he heard the leader scolding the young lady.

"Mind your manners Bell. Although it's not appropriate to tell you this, we're a special unit in the Qilin empire's forces, we were sent by the Crowned Prince to apprehend this young man," The leader explained.

Had Grey come a few minutes ago while they were still beating Reynolds up, he wouldn't have told him this. But after the weird scene of their attacks vanishing into thin air, it wouldn't be nice to add another issue to it. He might be wary of Grey's strength, but that didn't mean he was afraid of him.

"Oh, the Crowned Prince," Grey muttered while still approaching the group.

"If I may ask, what did he do?" He stopped a couple of meters away from the group before asking with a smile.

"This is something that involves the Crowned Prince, if you're sensible, you wouldn't ask any more questions and be on your way," The leader replied coldly.

"You see, I'm a very nosy and curious person. Whenever I see something, I really want to know what it is, especially something like this," Grey said with a shrug before taking a step forward.

Boom!

Just as his foot touched the ground, an attack landed a few inches from him, freezing the ground.

"That's a warning, take another step and it will be your last," The leader declared standing straight.

"Oh, an Inscriber," Grey exclaimed softly before taking another step.

"You see, I'm more of an Inscriber myself," He said before spreading out both arms.

Two red symbols lit up in the sky and small fireballs shot out of the symbols, heading straight for the group.

"What?!" The leader was dumbstruck when he saw the symbols mid-air.

Inscription has always been his unique weapon, yet even after training for years, he still isn't able to make more than one symbol. Seeing this stranger make two so casually caused a wave of jealousy to arouse in his heart.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The group separated to dodge Grey's attack.

"Now that's what you call a warning shot. Also, stop staring as if you've seen a ghost. You didn't think you were the only Inscriber, did you?" Grey asked with a mocking smile while walking forward.

Now he was only five meters away from the group who had regrouped after the attack died down.

"Hmph! Don't blame me for being ruthless," The leader snorted angrily before commanding, "You two, take care of him. We'll deal with this nosy guy."

He didn't forget about Reynolds. They had already worn him out, it would be a shame if he escaped after their hard work.

Two of the ladies turned to face Reynolds who was still sitting on the ground, leaving Grey to the leader, Johanne, and the last young man in the group.

"This isn't too good, I mean, I don't want people to say I bullied you. How about this, call those two to attack me as well," Grey jeered at the group.

'Hey bud, are you ready now?' He asked Void who was currently back at his previous lying position on top of a rock.

'No, opening so many space tunnels at the same time to block their attacks is exhausting,' Void replied tiredly.

When he helped Reynolds previously, he thought he was going to block at most two attacks, but who would've known that the moment Reynolds realized he was helping, he would stop defending. This forced him to open multiple space tunnels to block the attacks.

This was a very strenuous task for a Space Elementalist, and it requires a large amount of spiritual energy to maintain it. Had Grey not come at the time he did, then if the group attacked again, he wasn't sure he could block off all of them.

'Crap! How do you expect me to beat them?' Grey couldn't help but ask.

'I'll need a few minutes to rest.' Void replied blandly.

Grey cursed inside but maintained a straight face while staring at the group. With Void out, for now, he needed to draw the whole group to himself, he could tell Reynolds was even more tired so it would be hard for him to defend himself.

The leader of the group attacked straight away with the others. The two young ladies who were both Fire Elementalists attacked Reynolds at the same time as well.

"*Sigh* It's been a while I fought, time to see how much I've improved," Grey sighed before casually stretching both hands forward.

Boom!

What followed was an intense energy wave with Grey at the center, the energy wave kicked up wind and dust in the area. Just as the group's attacks were about to close in on him, he vanished from his spot with a lightning shadow taking his place for a fragment of a second before disappearing.

Bam!

A human figure was launched into the air, followed by an ear-piercing scream.

Bang!

The figure fell heavily on the ground in front of the group of three whose attacks just landed on the ground.

"Huh!" The leader exclaimed in confusion.

When the dust died down, he was shocked to see the body of one of the young ladies who was supposed to attack Reynolds.

He looked in Reynolds' direction and saw the other young lady was impaled by a lightning sword which was on Grey's hand.

Grey pulled out the sword and the lightning around it died down. This was one of the few good elemental weapons he got from Aetonth's cave.

He stretched his body while the young lady's corpse fell to the ground with a 'Thud'.

"How… how… did… he moved so fast?" Johanne asked in dread.

It hadn't even been up to thirty seconds since they attacked, yet two people from their group were already dead. They even died before their attacks got to the target.

What sort of terrifying monster had they encountered?

"*Sigh* I've gotten rusty after so long," Grey shook his head in disappointment.

The group looked at him in terror when they heard this comment.

Grey on the other hand was ecstatic inside, with the addition of the darkness element, his physical strength had soared. Now his speed is frightening once he boosts it with the wind and lightning element. He could even leave an after image, although it was only for a small time.

"Showoff," Reynolds said with a smile.