Legacy of the Betelgeuse

Kingstar swings his sword and runs toward Kalitzar and followed by hundreds of players behind him. Kalitzar swings his sword as well and leaps toward Kingstar so quickly that Kingstar is shocked with his speed. Kalitzar swings his sword at him and Kingstar manages to clash his sword with Kalitzar's but Kingstar's strength can't be compared to Kalitzar, Kalitzar pushes his sword toward Kingstar then Kingstar is thrown away to the ground. Everyone is shocked to see Kingstar falls to the ground in just a single hit, but that doesn't affect them, and keep running toward Kalitzar to avenge Kingstar.

Kingstar is shaking his head because he's shocked by the impact, he looks around and sees players are getting slaughtered by Kalitzar. Boschwell and everyone that he knows is trying so hard to hold the frontline, but he knows that they won't be able to do so on their own. He decides to message Ivonna and the others to help them because Kalitzar is the first priority rather than finding Aspen since without Kalitzar, Aspen can't do anything.

Queenstar is approaching Kingstar and they both look at Kalitzar with disbelief. Queenstar looks back and there are still so many players coming out from the portal, either they respawned and come back in, or new players who just got online. She thinks that everything is still under control but Kalitzar might be able to change the tide easily if they didn't take care of him first. Queenstar looks at Kingstar who's pissed because he can't do anything but wait until he recovers.

"He's too strong for us, we need to ask everyone's help."

Kingstar nods in agreement then looks at Queenstar.

"Don't worry, I already inform the other about Kalitzar's appearance. They will be here soon so let's take a breather for a moment until everyone is here."

Queenstar nods with understanding while staring at the players getting slaughtered by Kalitzar.

"But do you think we will be able to win against him? As you can see that he barely takes any damages from all those spells and attacks."

Kingstar is shaking his head because he's uncertain.

"I don't know, but Ivonna might be able to hold him off since we both can agree that she's the best tanker in the game. As long as she's able to handle him, the rest can focus on defeating the subjects. We have been waiting for this moment and there's no turning back or even thinking about retreating."

Queenstar is humming with understanding while Kingstar is looking around.

"Where the hell is he anyway? We need him the most since he might be able to kill this monster."

Queenstar looks around while shaking her head.

"Don't ask me, he always does things in his own way."

(In the underground.)

Avriel is laying on the ground while struggling for her life, I can tell that she's in pain by listening to her groans and grunts. All her underlings are holding her arms and legs while I'm holding her face to tell her to endure the pain. I thought the pill that I took from the table is the perfected pill without any side effects based on my [Understanding] skill, but why she's in pain like this? Her veins in her eyes are popping and I can see blood starting coming out from her eyes, she's glaring at me and I don't know what's she thinking right now, is she furious at me or confused and disbelief with my decision.

Avriel's whole body is starting to become red and the veins in her body are visible, I keep looking at her with my [Understanding] skill and I can see that her status is growing rapidly. Avriel suddenly screams so loudly and her underlings are unable to hold her off anymore, she grabs her daggers and slits one of her own underlings then disappears in an instant. All of her underlings are jumping back and trying to make a distance and starting to be cautious with the surroundings because she's starting to lose control of herself because of the pill. My body is covered with the blood of her underlings and it smells so bad down here.

I order them to leave us and make sure there are no more subjects down here, they all nod with understanding but then Avriel appears out of nowhere and cuts open one of her underlings on the neck, her underling is trying to scream but no voice is coming out from his mouth, only blood squirting from his mouth. The rest of her underlings immediately disappear in a blink of an eye because I tell them to leave.

Avriel is glaring at me and her blank and murderous expression is quite terrifying to look at. She's flipping her daggers while keep glaring at me while walking toward me so slowly. I gulp and slowly take a step back while lifting my hands above my shoulders.

"Avriel? What are you doing? It's me..."

Avriel is ignoring me and suddenly disappears, I have no idea where she is because her skill isn't the same as mine so she can stay hidden in the shadow for as long as she wants and she can appear anywhere she wants. I need to stop her here and now because everyone is waiting for me outside, and I can't waste my time here any longer. Suddenly my body moves on my own and I can see Avriel's dagger almost hit my neck, she falls to the ground but then disappears again. This is a bit annoying and I need to knock her out as soon as I got the chance.

"Avriel, come to your sense! It's me, Trevor!"

I can feel the wind from above and when I look up, I can see a dagger is about to hit my eyes, I tilt my head to the side but then my body spins on its own. I'm so confused but then I just realized that Avriel was trying to attack me when I dodge the dagger from above. I sigh and shake my head then I use [Dominion] and that alone is enough to make her stumble for a second. I take that chance and use [Moonsteps] to approach her, I appear behind her back and knee her back as hard as I can. I can hear her backbone is cracking and she screams in agony. I immediately grab her neck from behind to suffocate her, she tries to free herself but I grab her dagger with my left hand and throw it away.

"Don't resist..."

Avriel is trying to grab my face and using her claws to scratch my face but I press her down to the ground while keeping choking her. Avriel is coughing while groaning and grunting, I kind of feel bad for her but I have to. Avriel's is starting to get weak and she's trying to tap my arm, but then I can hear a faint word coming out from her mouth. I immediately remove my arms from her neck and stand up while slowly walking back. Avriel is coughing so badly and I can see her saliva coming out from her mouth, she looks at me with her red glowing eyes.

"What happened?"

I sigh with relief and approach her, I'm not sure how did she manage to gain control over her body while her appearance is still looking like that. I offer my hand and she grabs it so tightly and it kind of hurt. I explain everything to her, she now understands what she just consumed earlier, she looks at her arms and she realizes how her veins are popping like crazy but she's not surprised at all. She looks at me while squeezing her hands.

"I can feel my body is much stronger than ever... so this is what it feels like, but is this safe? Am I not getting some kind of drawback after consuming the pill?"

I shake my head.

"You will be fine, but it seems that your body can't handle any more damages. You need to rest now and your body is still processing the drug so you might feel a bit of pain and other things, but I hope you can keep your sanity high or you might kill your own underlings again."

Avriel's eyes are wide open and surprised to hear that she killed her own underlings. She turns around and sees the corpse of her underlings laying on the ground with their heads barely attached to their bodies. Avriel is covering her mouth while closing her eyes, she has no idea that she killed her underlings, then she asks about the others since she can't find the rest of them. I tell her that I order them to leave just to be safe, she nods with understanding and then sits down on the ground.

"I will stay here and rest..."

I nod with understanding and then look at the ceiling because the ceiling is shaking like crazy since a few minutes ago.

"Alright, come to the surface when you're ready because I need your help up there."

Avriel nods.

"Take care..."

I grab my scythe and slash the ceiling to go to the surface easily.

I climb up the ceiling and I just noticed that Kingstar, Ivonna, and the rest of the Ophiuchus and their commanders are staring at me with confusion. I swing my scythe and look at them while tilting my head.

"Sorry took so long, I had to defeat all the subjects in the underground."

Everyone is staring at me with their eyebrows raising.

"What did you say?! You killed all my subjects?!"

I look at the person who says that and turns out its Kalitzar, I smirk and raise my eyebrow.

"If I did, what are you going to do about it?"