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In the mist-shrouded forest, the calls of various creatures seemed particularly noisy.
Drip-drop...
A crisp sound of a raindrop.
Illumi felt a coolness on his face; fine rainwater dripped onto his face, bringing a chill.
"The rain is getting heavier."
Letting the rainwater run down his cheeks, King Bradley suddenly stopped and turned to look back, frowning.
"Someone's coming."
Illumi also turned to look back. In his line of sight, a figure completely enveloped in jealousy and malice was running towards them.
At the same time, there was also a bit of excitement entwined with that figure.
"Help... help..."
Illumi and Bradley watched Tonpa's figure emerge from the depths of the dark forest, looking utterly disheveled.
"Great, saved."
Tonpa ran to them, plopped down on the damp grass, panting heavily, with an expression of being relieved to be saved.
"Something's coming."
But Bradley still looked in the direction Tonpa had appeared from. Accompanied by a "rustling" sound, a purple-red giant python rushed out of the fog and appeared before the two of them.
"Arutonga Purple Scaled Python, hehehe, now you guys are finished."
Tonpa looked at the giant python, his eyes full of malicious pleasure as he looked at Illumi. A newcomer full of potential was about to be destroyed in his hands.
As for himself, he possessed special arsenopyrite that could repel snakes. After personally witnessing them being swallowed by the giant python, he could withdraw.
Hiss~
The giant python was very fast. In an instant, it reached Illumi, opening its mouth wide enough to swallow an adult, and lunged at him.
Swish!
The moment the giant python was about to touch Illumi, Illumi's body swished to the left. At the same time, he raised his hand and chopped like a blade, a white light slicing across the python's body.
The giant python's body brushed past Illumi, its surface scales scraping the grass with a soft "hissing" sound.
Bang!
Accompanied by a loud crash, it slammed into a large tree.
A line of blood appeared on the side of the python's body where it hit the tree. With a "splat," it sprayed out a large amount of foul-smelling blood. Various animal remains, already melted by stomach acid, flowed out from its abdomen.
"Uh..."
Tonpa watched the scene before him, cold sweat pouring down his forehead.
The scales of the Arutonga Purple Scaled Python were so hard that they couldn't be cut by knives or pierced by spears. This little brat had killed the purple scaled python so easily. He turned his head, a forced smile that was uglier than crying squeezed onto his stiff face.
"Ahahaha... You guys are so strong."
"It's a good thing I ran into you. If it were someone else..."
Plop.
A white light flashed.
Tonpa's complimentary words came to an abrupt halt. A perfectly intact head slid from his neck.
Bang!
The head that fell to the ground blinked, looked at the headless body before it, and its mouth opened.
Splat~
The headless body reacted at this moment, as if a sewage pipe had exploded, spraying out a large amount of fresh blood.
In the depths of this damp wetland forest, a brief rain of blood fell. A moment later, the headless body fell to the ground with a thump.
Drip-drop...
A drop of fresh blood dripped from his fingertip. Illumi looked at the headless body on the ground, his eyes cold, and silently turned and walked away.
"Aren't you going to call him out?"
King Bradley looked at Illumi's retreating figure and asked. At the same time, he hooked his left hand into the giant python's mouth and began to drag it.
"Jealous of others' talents, taking pleasure in framing and deceiving others."
"Although his strength is weak, he's indeed good material for envy."
"However, he's not enough to be a vessel for envy yet."
Illumi walked ahead. King Bradley dragged the giant python's seven-meter-long corpse towards the deeper parts of the forest.
Tonpa was a person who took pleasure in destroying others' dreams. What he pursued was that moment when others went from ambition to hope, and then to despair. That unprecedented thrill of destroying something precious to others.
Taking pleasure in harming others, a shallow soul.
......
Ten or twenty minutes later, Illumi and King Bradley dragged the python's corpse to an open area in the forest.
However, in this open area, lay six corpses, all with blood holes, large or small, without exception. Their mouths were wide open, their eyeballs bulging, and their limbs twisted, a miserable sight in death.
And beside their bodies, lay several corpses of huge wild beasts.
"Gentlemen over there."
A magnetic, low male voice sounded.
Illumi and Bradley looked towards the source of the sound. A tall figure slowly walked out of the white mist. Although he was dressed in a very perverted manner, his demeanor was like that of a nobleman from a certain country.
"Please do not touch my prey."
The perverted man scanned the two of them up and down with an intensely aggressive gaze.
"Are you going to make a move?"
A small amount of Nen surged onto Illumi's arm, covering his hand blade.
"Although I'm very interested in you, but..."
The perverted man flicked his left side's long hair and stuck out his tongue to lick his fingertips.
"You don't seem like people who are easy to deal with."
His words fell, and his gaze swept across the giant python's corpse behind Bradley, then he said.
"It seems you are still one prey short. Well then, I shall grant you one."
"This is my special introductory gift, you see."
The perverted man's tone was gentle, and he gently winked at Illumi.
"Little brother."
Immediately, he slowly disappeared into the white mist, vanishing from sight. But Illumi could still clearly see a purple emotion, entwined with loneliness, surrounding him.
Illumi stepped forward, grabbed the tail of a giant salamander, and walked back the way they came with Bradley.
"Ah~"
Walking in the forest, Illumi and Bradley occasionally heard the screams of other applicants. They might have been killed by wild beasts, or they might have died at the hands of others.
At the entrance of the castle where the examiners were, Sims and Sinclair sat on the steps at the entrance, smoking cigarettes.
"The seedling you favored has arrived."
Sinclair grinned. Sims narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance. Two figures, one large and one small, gradually became clearer, dragging an even larger wild beast corpse behind them.
"Then, I'll leave the rest to you."
Sims got up and returned to the castle. He was the examiner for the first phase and could not interfere with the contents of other examiners' tests.
Bang bang...
A giant python and a giant salamander were placed in the courtyard, flattening a large patch of grass.
"Hmm, giant salamander and purple scaled python, not bad."
Sinclair smacked his lips, his face leisurely, evaluating.
A moment later, Pariston and the black-haired beauty both returned with their respective prey.
Plop... Plop...
Subtle sounds of grass being trampled came from the mist.
"Examiner Sir, there's no need to wait any longer."
The perverted man arrived in the courtyard, dragging a string of massive prey behind him, his arms crossed.
"No one else is coming back."
Sinclair's eyelid twitched. He looked at the various prey behind him; the wounds on the prey were all different.
Looking at the perverted man, his eyebrow raised, and he scratched his head, annoyed.
"Suddenly, there are only five people left. This is difficult now."
"How about, I just directly notify the Chairman and pass all of you."
"You won't need to take the subsequent tests."