FAZER LOGINAs Bigby finished, he spread his palm, and a red coffin promptly materialized over his hand.Caleb's eyes narrowed as he asked, "What's this?""A dimensional coffin!"Bigby chuckled. "It's no different from a dimensional ring, but it has more space than a dimensional ring, and you can keep plenty of corpses in it. You'll be saving soil, and most importantly, it can shrink so that you can carry it everywhere."As he finished, the footlong coffin shrunk to the size of a palm and kept hovering over Bigby's palm.Everyone including Caleb was speechless for a while, until Caleb took the dimensional coffin and exclaimed, "Bigby, you are a goddamn genius!"With the dimensional coffin, his secret would stay hidden.And once he took the red coffin, he started dumping all the corpses in it, when Tia called out, "Wait!"She seemed to notice something and ran up to one of the black-clad corpses, pulling out a short sword right then.She scowled when she saw it.Caleb froze when he saw th
As Bigby ran with his flab bouncing everywhere, he shouted after Caleb, "Boss! Why didn't you wait to find out who that was?!""Is that really necessary?" Caleb retorted, pursuing his lips. "Can we talk him out of killing us? No chance—he's just trying to brag that he lured us into danger, and I'm not about to afford him the pleasure! Moreover, if we stay here any longer, we'll be in a lot more danger!"Everyone's eyes lit up and stared at Caleb then, impressed.Caleb really couldn't care less about the people who wanted to hurt him, because it was just going to be the Larvics, the Jormonts, the Taran Sword Sect… or Harvit Monrak the executor!But what would he have to fear if they were all dead?He would kill them, whether they came in individually or in pairs!As they kept running, the air right in front of them started to twist and contort.Suddenly, a large group of black-clad men appeared, only their hawkish glare visible through a slit in their hoods.Tia, Bigby, and ever
Caleb promptly yelled, "Let's hide for now! There are too many of them!"He led the way as everyone broke into a run, while asking Bigby, "What's on your mind?"Though he was fat and round like a ball, Bigby was darting through the trees agilely as he explained, "Executor exams are decided randomly! Nobody should be aware of how or where we are tested, but the fact that we are being attacked as soon as we were teleported here? That could only mean one thing!"As Caleb and everyone else turned sharply toward Bigby, he continued somberly, "There's a mole! Someone wants the gargoyles to wipe out every single last human candidate, or perhaps they wanted only one of us dead. Either way, they had alerted the gargoyles ahead of time!""Fuck! Who was it?!" Fafnir snapped furiously. "If I find that fucker, I will crush their nuts first!""That's right! Let's kick their balls into pieces!" Oxley exclaimed, his gruff voice murderous too.That was when Caleb felt goosebumps and promptly with
As soon as the fifty candidates landed, they promptly scattered and joined their respective teams.After all, the gargoyles would notice them easily if they traveled together as one big group.Moreover, no one was about to volunteer as leader when each youth carried the potential they prided themselves with. It would obstruct team cohesion, unless they were working with teams they had formed beforehand.And as the leader of his own party, Caleb had grouped up in a party of eleven, which included himself, Tia, Bigby, Fafnir, Oxley, and the six apprentices of the Hundred Flowers Sect.He quickly picked a spot and hid within the treeline.It didn't take long since they had hidden when they spotted gargoyles.And there were dozens of them!They must have been posted there to guard the borders, each of them pygmy humanoids without scalp hair, but having a tuft of hair that looked like mustaches beneath their nose.Over their backs were a pair of wings that light could pass through c
Caleb hissed. "Coffin, you're such an old sleazebag!""The second round of the executor exams shall soon begin!"That was when Gigi's deep voice rang from the skies, her eyes booming like a thunderclap over every direction."For the second test, every candidate will be teleported to the Obsidian border—the border between humans and demihumans—to fight the gargoyles! Your task is to survive the next six hours. "Those who survive will be teleported back here and duel for ten places! Those who can't last, just break the plates you will soon be given. It has a teleportation ward that will send you back right away!"With those words, white plates materialized out of thin air, hovering before dropping on every candidate's outstretched palms.Still, everyone was trading glances and clamoring when they received their plates.The border? Fighting the gargoyles?!Caleb's heart skipped a beat too, as he wasn't familiar with other races and other regions!Beside him, Tia was stupefied as
Once they left the gates, they leaped up, flying toward the black palace floating up in the skies, glowing with a golden shine.They all ascended above it before starting their descent on the huge plaza up front.There were just fifty candidates still qualified for the executor exams.Vroom!!!That was when a gigantic screen was projected out of a ward up into the skies of Middleton City, and everyone including Caleb's figures were on display.The countless citizens in Middleton City down below all looked upward at the giant screen."Look! The second round of the executive exams is starting! I heard only ten will survive this round!""Only ten? Shit, the executors sure are strict!""The fifty candidates who qualified are each amazing on their own, but they are going to shortlist them down to just then!""Tut, tut. What did you expect? Every executor is a blade dedicating themselves in the service of the Emperor. No one gets to join it just because they like it.""I mean, they