Chapter 199: Tricked

"How did I do it? That was quite an easy trick.", said Greg and started to tell his story.

Back in the Earth Temple when he was 'ordered' by Carter to obtain the cube, Greg noticed that the statue was quite old. Even though the place looked extremely detailed and nonintact, the statue had several cracks around its surface. Especially at the arm part which held the cube up into the air.

When Greg noticed this fault of the statue, he instantly thought of a great plan.

First, he made sure to jump onto the statue's palm with a strength that was not too obvious but would help him break the arm off, helping him to continue with his goal.

In the beginning, he wasn't quite sure if he could pull it off, but to his surprise, only a small touch was needed to make the stone statue to collapse, which was surprisingly great.

When the statue's arm fell, Greg made sure to fall in a way to create a smokescreen, disguising himself away from Carter's sight. And when that happened, the real deal came.

First, he made sure to obtain the key with his Fourth Flow. When the key melted into his body, just like the fire key, Greg activated his power and created a stone key, with a similar appearance that the original key had.

In the beginning, he was very afraid that the place will attack him, and maybe he would be able to survive thanks to the demon mask, he would be still get busted.

But to his surprise, that didn't happen. Carter said that no one should be able to use earth powers inside the temple, yet the moment he used his to form the key, nothing happened.

Greg thought it was because he obtained the key, so he was under protection, but he was not sure if that was truly the case.

However, because of that nothing happened, Greg was able to form the key and put it into the cube. But when that happened, Greg noticed a problem.

The key had no presence at all like the original one. It was like a piece of stone, lying in the middle of the cube. So, because of that, Greg created another one, but this time he made sure to fill it up with a few energy crystals that he obtained from the maze.

Maybe it was a waste, but it was worth it. His second attempt made the key to obtain a small presence, which could help him disguise the fact that he swapped the keys.

Until Carter was not a professional energy crystal observer, he shouldn't be able to tell that inside the key were not energy crystals, but the presence was simply a part of the key.

After he did that, he made sure to attach the key to the cube's interior, but in a way that was extremely hard to notice.

Until Carter didn't break and open up the cube himself and examine the inside of it, he will believe that the key was floating in the middle of the cube, just like the original one.

And just as he thought and wanted, even though Carter was God rank, he still fell quite easily for his trick. The moment he gave him the cube he just glanced at the key if it was in or not, instead of inspecting it precisely if he didn't get tricked by a 17 years old teenager.

However, even if Carter would have started to inspect it, he wouldn't have the time to do so, because the instant Greg took the original earth key away, the temple started to collapse, so they needed to escape.

"And that is how I was able to obtain it. Maybe I had a bit of luck here and there, but in the end, I was still able to get it.", said Greg as he looked at the gently floating key above his palm.

When the three experts heard this they looked at each other and looked speechless. They would have never imagined that Greg would pull a trick like this because he wasn't trying his luck against someone unknown, but a person from the Voodoo Family! If something would have gone bad, Greg would have definitely died, there was no question about that.

After thinking for a while, Eliana glanced at Greg and was about to touch the key above his palm, but before she could have, Greg pulled his hand away.

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Greg seeing that Eliana looked annoyed, smiled and put his hand out, letting Eliana touching it, but made sure to warn her.

"If you want to die you can touch it. I won't stop you."

When Elian heard this, she froze up instantly and pulled her fingers away which were just about to touch the key. Looking at Greg she looked confused and asked, "What do you mean if I want to die?"

Greg looking at Eliana and the two men behind her, sighed and explained, "Maybe you don't know, but each key has special powers to the point that not even God rank fighters are able to resist."

"And how are you able to tell that? Maybe you are able to hold it because of the Blessing, but you shouldn't be able to tell its power. Or was there anyone who you saw try to obtain it, but failed?", asked Zane calmly behind Greg.

"Yes.", said Greg and unsummoned the key and summoned the other one which he obtained from the Fire Temple.

When he did this, the three experts looked flabbergasted and didn't know how to react.

"You already have another key?", asked Eliana with shock as she watched the key above Greg's palm, which was made out of pure flames.

"Yes. I obtained it in a Dimensional Zone.", said Greg and started to tell the whole story to the three slowly.

After 10 minutes of talking, Greg smiled and said, "And because of this, I would not recommend you to touch any of the keys. They could easily kill you, but it's only a warning. If you want to touch it, I won't stop you."

Hearing this, Eliana frowned and said, "We believe in you, so we won't. However, why didn't you tell us you already have one key?"

Greg hearing this shrugged and said, "You have never asked it."

When Eliana heard this she wanted to say something, but no matter what she tried to think of, she wasn't able to. As a result, she just sighed and said, "I see. Well, then it seems we only need to find 4 more and we will be able to enter that place. However..."

"However?", asked Greg with confusion, not understanding why did Eliana look so worried.

Even Zane and Cloud looked troubled, making to feel that something was not quite right here and he wanted to know what.

Eliana looked at Greg and after a small while, she started to explain.

"Not long ago, I obtained news that the Clanwing Family found a huge ruin, with a massive temple in its middle. Yet what is strange, that whoever goes close to that place, starts to become slower and die because of old age."

When Greg heard this his eyes widened, but not because of the fact that people died because of old age, but because of the family that found the ruins.

"Clanwing... That is Jonathan's and Laura's family.", mumbled Greg quietly and remembered back the moment he fought against Jonathan. His power was extremely strong to the point that if he didn't have the demon mask, he would have definitely lost.

Jonathan was a guy who was lucky enough to obtain a white Soul Stone, which was able to control time itself. He could clearly remember the moment he used his power to torture Emma before his very eyes, which he couldn't forget until this moment no matter what.

Naturally, Greg knew that the cause behind the deaths by old age should be because the temple was associated with the time element, but that didn't mean he couldn't enter the place.

Because for some reason his light element had a small portion of time in it, Greg felt that he should be able to enter the temple without any problem.

However, still, what he was the most anxious about was Jonathan. He didn't meet him since months ago, so he was 100% sure that he became extremely powerful.

Eliana seeing Greg thinking looked at him and asked, "But this still is not our biggest problem here, but the fact that the temple is in the territory of the Clanwing Family."

When Greg heard this he looked confused and asked, "Why is that even a problem?"

The moment he asked this question, the three experts' faces froze up and looked at Greg like a concrete idiot.

"What?", asked Greg and looked even more confused, not understanding why the three looked at him in a way as they did.

Cloud behind Eliana seeing that Greg was uninformed he sighed and asked, "You truly don't know what happened with the Clanwing Family a few months ago?"