The Epic Tale of Chaos vs Order

Chapter 276 : Detecting a Wave King

A woman was making her way across the gray fog toward Shura and the nine Blood Champions around her. She was just a Middle Wave Champion, but the fog did not affect her.

She knew that alone would not be enough to go over the nine Late Wave Champions around Shura and land a killing blow on the young woman. However, she led a group with another four Late Wave Champions, and they only needed an opening to reach Shura and kill her.

ʼIf it werenʼt for that brat, everything would have been much easier.ʼ

The woman could not help but think with rage as she stared at Cain, the origin of the red force field that led the group across the Howling Forest. She and the rest of her group had to stay away from the Ego Wave since they knew none of them would manage to hide from it.

After two days of tracking Shura and the Blood Champions, the woman and her group finally got their chance when a horde of Wave Beasts attacked.

”WACK!”

Dozens of Wave Champion Beasts that resembled large ravens lunged toward Shura and the Blood Champions. They were not strong but emitted a screeching sound that should hinder the sight and visions of anyone that heard it.

However, to the womanʼs shock, Shura and the Blood Champions fought back against the horde, showing no sign of sensory impairment.

ʼHow!?ʼ

Shock appeared on the womanʼs face when she saw how Shura and the Blood Champions fought back. Her mental defenses were superb, thanks to her cultivation technique, but even she would have difficulty facing those crows.

It took a moment, but her eyes narrowed when she noticed how Shura and the Blood Champions did not look at the Wave Champion Beasts before unleashing their attacks.

ʼSomeone is guiding their moves!ʼ

Awe filled the womanʼs heart as she looked to Cain since no one else could be responsible for that. As she stared at the young man, she felt something was wrong.

ʼAlex, Jeremia, Candice, Lambert. Report your status.ʼ

Radio silence was essential during an assassination since you never knew what kind of device your enemy could have, but the woman contacted her group through the A.I. Chip regardless.

No answer appeared, and her instincts screamed danger, telling her to run. Sadly, she only managed to turn around when a blood hand grabbed her neck, shattering her trachea.

Absolute terror assaulted the assassin when she saw Cainʼs merciless red eyes and noticed how the young man prepared to send an index finger straight into her right eye.

There was no way she could overcome Cainʼs physical might since she was an Essence Wave Cultivator, but despite the immense pain of having her trachea broken, she clenched her teeth as her eyes glowed.

Cainʼs eyes were cold, and nothing was on his mind even after the woman displayed her willpower, but something happened as he saw that glow.

A force attempted to affect his mind. It was similar to hypnosis, with the other party taking control of your senses, but this one did not focus on a clash of wills. Had that been the case, it would have been futile since his willpower matched that of a Middle Wave King.

The assassinʼs technique focused on sending her Essence Wave into his brain, allowing her to control what he saw.

Unfortunately for the woman, her attack failed since even if she did not have to overcome Cainʼs willpower, she still had to break his mental defenses, which were too high for her.

Blood leaked from the womanʼs eyes due to the backlash of her technique, but she did not suffer for long as Cainʼs index finger pierced into her brain, killing her the next second.

Cainʼs eyes showed a meaningful light as he took the womanʼs space ring before separating her head from the rest of her body and storing both pieces. He silently returned with the group, taking the place of his Sonic Clone.

The woman and her group were not the first assassins that Cain had taken care of, but it was the first time he saw someone use such an interesting technique.

ʼIt is similar to the technique that Rodric used on me when I clashed with Uriel during the ceremony for cadets. Both methods had a similar effect to hypnosis, but they used Essence Wave to affect the brain, circumventing the need to overcome the targetʼs willpower.ʼ

Although hypnosis was much better when it came to helping people, it required much less energy, allowing you to affect hundreds of people at a time and even plant ideas or make them puppets; it required you to put the target in a state of suggestions. Rodric and the assassinʼs technique did not have that demand, making it better when it came to fighting truly powerful enemies.

Shura, Surin, and the other Blood Champions managed to kill all the Wave Champions Beasts shortly after Cain returned. The group turned toward the young man, and there was a positive light in their eyes. The Purity of Mind was supposed to be the most challenging part of the Four Trials of Purity, but thanks to Cainʼs help, they faced no real problem at all.

Cain noticed their eyes but only signaled the group to move on. There was a resting point not far from their location, and he wanted to inspect the space ring of the last assassin.

Two hours, half a dozen death assassins, and a massacred Wave Champion Beasts horde later, they finally reached a small lake inside the core of the forest.

No gray fog could be found around this lake, allowing Shura and the Blood Champions to rest since they no longer had to suppress the illusion and howling voices affecting their minds.

Cain spread his Ego Wave across the lake, making sure there were no assassins in a radius of two thousand meters before adopting a meditative position and looking into the assassinʼs space ring.

A smile appeared on his face when he found a starry gem. It should contain the technique the woman used on him.

Since there was no danger, Cain took a deep breath and sent part of his Ego Wave into the starry gem. As expected, he was transported into an illusion.

There was no grandeur in this illusion, only two people standing in front of each other. One resembled a lord, while the other was a mere commoner.

The man with the noblemanʼs attire focused on the commoner while his eyes released an electromagnetic force that reached the targetʼs body, traveling all the way into the brain.

”¡AHHHHHH!”

A scream of horror emerged from the commoner as the nobleman made him see all kinds of atrocities, and he felt like his skin was being peeled away.

Cainʼs eyes regained focus the next second, and he could not help but frown before sighing.

ʼIllusion Kingdom.ʼ

That was the name of the technique, but not only was it required the use of Essence Wave, but it also demanded the mastery of either the Law of Illusions or at least the Law of Electromagnetics.

Cain really wanted to train the technique, but there was nothing he could do about it. Even if he found a way to use Astral Wave to replace the need for Essence Wave, he had zero mastery over the Laws.

Although it would have been helpful, Cain did not waste his time with the starry gem after learning that he could not practice Illusion Kingdom and stored it. He considered selling the technique, but he shook his head since that could carry all sorts of problems.

Great powers might turn a blind eye to some of their people dying, but they would never allow anyone to have their Saint Techniques.

Ultimately, Cain decided to leave it inside his space ring until he found some use for it.

After six hours, the group rested enough and continued their journey across the Howling Forest.

Cain kept steering the group through the gray fog using his Ego Wave, warning them about the hordes and guiding their moves. The Wave Champion Beasts were not a problem, but the number of assassins he found was getting bothersome.

Some came alone, and some worked in groups. The latter was more challenging since Cain had to kill the entire group before their comrade would notice that something was wrong.

Luckily for him, the gray fog affected their senses, or else there was no way Cain could have taken care of them so fast.

Cain had just killed a Peak Wave Champion and focused on closing a wound on his chest when his eyes widened, and his entire body grew tense.

The reason for that was that the Absolute Life Form System just sent an alarming message to him.

[The Scan Force Field has detected a life form at the Wave King Rank]

ʼ¡A Wave King!ʼ

Even if Cain did not consider Wave Kings as unsurpassable mountains anymore, they were still life forms capable of leveling entire cities!