The people were confused about what those thick flame paths were for, but they soon got an answer as Arkhen stepped his foot in a single path in front of him and… disappeared.
*Zoooooom!*
A zig-zag flame wall lit up, burning tens of people who were on the path as Arkhen attacked with the flame whips that he conjured from pure fire energy!
[1889 reality motes gained]
"Get away from those fire paths!"
Arkhen's stats were already over 2k, while his EP just increased by 5% and fire damage by 10% by traveling on that fire path like a blazing bolt.
"Attack him!"
Everyone saw that Arkhen stood with his eyes closed and started attacking him.
But Arkhen was just feeling the power in him as he opened his eyes and grinned as his eyes literally spewed out wisps of flames.
Seeing incoming barrages of attacks from all kinds of offensive skills, Arkhen waved his hand as he consumed 500,000 primal energy and created a wave of flame that devoured every single attack!
"What!"
"What the fuck happened?!"
*Swoosh!*
Arkhen stepped on another start of flame path nearby and this time, he created a net of flame in a hundred meters area around him.
*Zoooom!!*
Everyone caught in the fire net was burned to crisps as he finished traveling through that non-linear fire path in just a second!
[3228 reality motes gained]
Once again, his EP increased by 5%, and Fire damage increased by 10%.
The people watching him from the Academy and various screens felt chill crawling in their spines as they saw such brutality.
On the other hand, the people inside drowned in despair after the second move of Arkhen. None of them tried to attack as everyone backed off and started running.
They attacked the force field blocking them from getting out, but Arkhen quickly traveled the rest of the seven paths in the next seven seconds while expanding his fire net!
In just seven seconds, all seven hundred-something people died!
In total, he gained 71,278 reality motes!
Best
'This is it!' Arkhen laughed internally as he saw the reality motes increasing.
After killing everyone, he dispersed his force field and floated in the center.
'Velshi, clean every trace of battle around here.'
[1893 reality motes consumed]
All battle traces and energy aura disappeared from the atmosphere. Only the pill aura remained.
Seeing this magical scene, the people watching were stunned.
The ashes, ships, and all things that Arkhen burned into ashes disappeared!
"What happened?" Yosin muttered in confusion.
"It's his usual magical power," Sasha said. "I have seen him do such a thing multiple times. He can instantly clean room, leftover wasted ingredients, smokes, and such things."
"But why did he do that? Is he waiting for more people? Waiting for that hidden force?"
Arkhen was indeed waiting for more people to come.
He was bubbling with overflowing power and felt he could defeat anyone!
After five minutes, Arkhen opened his eyes as he sensed some ominous aura.
The sky was slowly turning dark and chaotic as he saw a single flying ship at the front. That flying ship was gigantic, two hundred meters long.
Its entire body and all components were black with white and red carving patterns and designs.
Behind that single big ship, there were a bunch of colorful ships with all kinds of different flags on them.
They were ships from various forces.
Arkhen soon saw ten people coming out of that first big black ship as they floated fifty meters away from him.
All ten of them had worn black robes, with each having a different color design on their robes.
"So you are members of Myriad Mayhem?" Arkhen asked with a carefree smile.
Those ten people uncovered their hoods and revealed their faces.
All of them were humans, except for complicated black symbols on their foreheads.
Three were beautiful women, one having short hair, the other two having long hair.
Three were men, looking in their early twenties, mid thirties, and an old man, respectively.
The other four looked like humans too, but there was two meters tall and had a muscular body. All four were bald men, looking exactly the same as if they were clones.
"We were here for the pills, but it seems that our radar caught something interesting," said a woman with a busty body and long red hair.
"What did your radar catch?" Arkhen asked curiously.
"A target that we either need to capture if we can or kill if we can't capture."
"Interesting," Arkhen smiled as he snapped his finger, "then let's start the game."
Right after Arkhen snapped his finger, a giant meteorite materialized high in the sky before it started descending rapidly.
Seeing the power in the meteor, the haughty expressions of those ten people turned severe.
"That attack…" a young man looking in his twenties observed the meteorite as his eyes flashed with a dreamy blue hue along with numbers.
"You are slow," said a girl with a grin looking in her twenties with dimples and light green short hair. "The offensive power of that skill is 7490 OP with a large impact zone and aftereffect radius."
"Impact in next two seconds. Guys, we'll have to superimpose our defense. None of us can single-handedly block that. Let me and Nishian handle it."
Arkhen was surprised by their talks and soon saw two of them bursting out of their power as two colorful prism shields conjured before the symbols on their foreheads lit up.
Both shields combined and merged into a single prism shield before the Infernal Star hit it.
*BOOOM!*
A loud explosion occurred, sending intensely heating shockwaves everywhere to several kilometers around!
However, Arkhen saw that their prism shield didn't break!
It was cracked all over, but it didn't break and successfully defended against the Skill!
"That's impressive," Arkhen said with a surprised expression.
"Hahaha, we are the chosen ones. A frog living in well like you won't understand our power."
"Is that so?" Arkhen said with a smile as he waved his hand, "How about you block the same attack one more time?"
Saying that Arkhen executed Infernal Star-Fall again.
But this time, he also used Overlord Shrine of the Skill, Melferious Shrine Tree: Jiragen!
The Skill's attack power was boosted by 250%!
Those ten people looked into the sky as they saw another Infernal Star.
"26,240! What the fuck?"
"Use Hexer Aegis skill at full power!" Shouted the middle-aged man as the symbol on his forehead shined.
The other nine people also became dead serious as the symbols on their forehead shined before a dark silver pearl conjured from all of them and combined in the sky before expanding big enough.
The oval pearl became like a bowl as it prepared to receive the incoming Infernal Star Fall.
In the next second, the impact occurred as a loud explosion covered the sky in burning orange and red flames!
Overbearing heat spread everywhere, literally setting plants on fire just from the shockwave heat!
Those ten people trembled as they channeled the power into the shield and managed to resist the attack!
Their pearl-bowl-like shield was cracked and burning, but it managed to withstand the Infernal Star's explosion!