Chaos Devourer System

Chapter 716: Insane

And that was people overrating themselves as kings over others. It was always something that left a bad taste on Zeras’s mouth.

The stupid hierarchy is always present no matter how little or big the occasion is, and it seemed even the God’s Tower event wasn’t an exception.

They believed they were heavenly prodigies that had the right to stand at the forefront of the gate while some people could only stand at the end. His question was simple.

“Why can’t everyone just stand in the same place? Does it make a difference? Why the stupid hierarchy?” And when they told him to stop and go back?

He should stop and go back, for them!?

They were all pieces of trash at the universe rank and more than centuries old. He is already at the Undying rank at the age of less than thirty! And yet every genius he met would always look down on him.

What Zeras failed to understand is how they even qualify as geniuses. Even he himself doesn’t go around carrying his shoulder like some king around.

So why would people even lesser than him in terms of strength and potential go around carrying shoulders around? It just stinks with him, and while he could have done what he was good at, which was simply ignoring their stupidity, Zeras found it hard to ignore this one.

He was going to kill a few of them to widen their blind eyes and strike fear into them.

“That’s it!” Finally, the crimson-haired young man, who had found the situation interesting, instantly shot forward with speed towards Zeras, a dagger appearing in his hands which he pierced forth with speed towards Zeras’s neck.

The dagger flared with a bright crimson energy light that showed he was also able to harness his mana even though the realm laws banned it. And in anger, Zeras also flashed forward with speed, as his right arm heaved to his back, his hands expanding to twice their size from the horrific veins that appeared on them.

“DIEEEEEEE!!!!” A bestial roar burst from Zeras’s mouth. Even though the young man’s dagger would no doubt reach his chest first, it was like Zeras couldn’t see that and slapped out with his full power instead.

**BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM**

The air shook crazily as Zeras’s palm compressed the space before him, slamming towards the golden door and stopping just a few inches before he could hit it.

**BOOOOOOOM**

The ear-piercing noise that echoed out was like an atomic bomb thrown on top of the earth, ringing out loud and clear before the shockwave dispersed. Zeras slowly rose up to his feet before he turned his bored eyes to the crimson young man who was heaving out in exhaustion.

“You dodged!? Coward!!!” Zeras mocked, yet felt faint anger. He had wanted a wound-for-wound exchange. He was ready for the young man to stab him with his dagger, but the young man too would have to take his full-powered palm attack, and Zeras could bet on his life what the result would be.

It would be a miracle if his bones weren’t turned to dust!

Crimson’s eyes flashed in shock and fear as he looked at Zeras, who slowly turned his body to him. In that mini-exchange, Crimson had also accepted his opponent’s challenge to accept a wound-for-wound, but in the last second, he had felt his own life flash before his eyes as a single thought appeared in his head.

Death! He wouldn’t survive the young man’s palm strike and would have died!

Dying when he was just a few minutes away from entering the God Tower and realizing his full potential! Was that a risk that was worth taking because of his ego, of the young man not being worthy of standing among them?

Absolutely none of the remaining geniuses would avenge his death. They’d even say he can now join them since he had killed him. The battle was just not something that he could fight for. It simply wasn’t worth it, and in the last second, he had skillfully stopped himself and chosen to back away instead.

And now he could feel everyone’s prickling gaze of mockery at him. His action had really been that of a coward. And that caused anger to flash in his head, but soon he saw the figure of the ordinary mortal behind him. He grabbed her with an evil smirk as he instantly appeared behind her, placing his dagger just an inch away from her throat.

Just a simple muscle flex and the girl’s head would be sent rolling away from her body. It was something everyone knew as an ordinary mortal was just too weak to handle even 0.0001% of an Otherworlder’s strength…

Zeras was starting to ridicule them too and there was no way to refute.

Crimson’s action had really been unbefitting of his position and that naturally splashed on them too.

“But do yo know what?” Zeras suddenly said as they all turned back to him, and watched a big grin appeared on his face.

“Go for it. Slice off her head…”

The word shook not only every Otherworlder present on the stairs but even Felicie herself felt her heart drop to the ground.

The young man who they thought had an aboriginal as a lover was actually voting for her to have her neck sliced before him.

“You… You’re bluffing.” The one who had the most fear was naturally Crimson.

He thought with Felicie now in his arms, he could force Zeras to do anything he wanted since he wouldn’t want the death of his own lover.

But now the person who he wanted to threaten with another’s life was telling him to go ahead.

There was already enough ridicule for what he had done, but now this was just too much, and he could only argue that Zeras was feigning uncaringness in order to lower his guard, something he wouldn’t easily fall for.

“Tell me,” Zeras said as he strengthened his hand forward and his katana appeared in his grasp, his hands reaching for its hilt.

**SHRRRRRRIIIIINGGG**

The sound of the katana being unsheathed rang out, and what followed was an extreme amount of murderous aura that shook the heart of everyone present on the steps.

It was like an ocean of killing intent was just released into the atmosphere, giving the faint illusion a blade was placed on their necks.

“Wouldn’t it be weird if I suddenly start slicing off the head of everyone on these stairs for no particular reason? It would sound a little evil and menacing, wouldn’t it?” Zeras asked with a serious expression that showed he wasn’t really joking at all and meant his words.

“But would it be weird to kill everyone here if my ‘lover’ was killed? It sounds more reasonable, doesn’t it?” Zeras asked them with a smile as they felt their hearts drop in their chests.

“The truth is I want to kill every one of the geniuses standing beside me right now, and a few idiots among those that are looking at me right now.

But it would be weird if I suddenly started killing all of you without any concrete reason. My heart can’t take it, and I might get haunted by it.

“But that would fade away if the person I promised something to was taken away from me. Then I would be more free, and my actions would be absolutely reasonable.

“So go ahead, you cowards. Make a single head fall, and I’ll make you watch as a few hundred more quickly follow…” Zeras said, pointing his sword right at Crimson, whose hands holding the dagger to Felocie’s head repeatedly shook from indecision.

There was something telling him Zeras was bluffing. Sure, he might be strong, but was he strong enough to handle the top ten heavenly geniuses all on his own? It was simply impossible.

But the undeniable fact was that he had almost died right now from a single attack from him.

Once he killed Felicie, then there was no doubt he would also be following her to the grave, and he wouldn’t be the only one.

He would be dragging a few innocent ones with him, and once the various families of the geniuses who got killed learned the reason why they were killed was because of him, then his clan was basically screwed and would be instantly wiped out as revenge.

In the end, the death that he had avoided was now back at him again, and this time with an even bigger blade to his neck.

Now he was at lost as to what to do. Should he really take the young man words, whose blade was currently pointed at him as a simple bluff that hid his fear, or should he really swallow his ‘non-existent’ pride and really let things go.

The decision was hard to make, and while it might be true that Zeras was only bluffing. Would Ray love to bet the life of his and his clan on it.

Zeras could almost kill him with a palm strike, now that he had unsheathed his weapon, his death was more than certain. Would it be worth the risk.

And with clenched teeth in anger, Crimson swallowed away his pride as he slowly removed the dagger from Felicie’s neck and stepped back.