Nobilis of War

Aaron cried out in surprise, which alerted Finley and the others to Darren's presence. They turned around and rose some weapons.

After all, Darren was in disguise now, so he was a stranger to them.

"Stay away from Aaron!" Finley yelled, pointing a blade at Darren's chest.

"Ha-ha. I don't think I need to." Darren smiled.

Barnes thought Darren was provoking them, so he swung his stick vigorously. Darren didn't flinch even when the stick got super close to hitting him.

"Do you want to be beaten into a heap of meat by me?" Barnes growled, revealing his sharp teeth that gleamed in the low light.

"Barnes, you are still so impulsive. Look carefully. Who am I?" Darren asked. Now that they were in the test space, there was no need to hide his identity.

With a slight spin, Darren transformed back into his original look. His clean, purple robe and handsome appearance stunned the others.

"Darren... Ha-ha. It's Darren!" Aaron cheered, jumping up and down.

"What the hell! Darren? It's you! I thought you were a stranger. That's why I panicked when a stranger keep talking to us."

"You bastard!" Barnes and Finley dashed towards Darren. They scooped him up and squeezed him in the middle of a big group hug.

"It's been ten years. What happened to you?" Darren asked them once they had released him and calmed down.

"Well, it's a long story. In short, it's been hard for the past ten years. How about you?" Minor flashbacks occurred from the day that Darren had been expelled and they remembered that they were so worried about him.

"I'm okay. Don't worry about me. Let's get past the test first."

"Okay. But we'll talk about it after the test."

Trying to stay focused, they continued to move forward.

After a lot of walking that caused tired feet, the long and dark path came to an end. In front of them was a large pool boiling over with dark red blood.

"I think this is the first obstacle," Darren said, reaching out his arms to stop the others in front of the blood pool.

pool, thick blood mist rose up and condensed into skeletons which

Barnes offered. He started to fly over the blood pool.

ten feet from shore, a

felt shackled by it, and then a murderous intent rushed along his

"Howl!"

straight into the wave of blood. However,

Whoosh!

sword intents and sliced off the

back and finally landed back

That was a close one!" Barnes said as he wiped the sweat off of his forehead.

me have a try." Now that Darren had cut off the blood wave using the blade and sword intents, he

be careful. It's still very dangerous," Finley

I have the

then straight to the center of the

Clatter...

him, waves of blood surged into the sky and transformed into large bloody palms. The palms slapped together like they were

dodged the palms, Darren could feel that the power of the blood wave this time was much stronger than when it had

the blood wave had increased to a higher level because

broke through Darren's sword and

blood waves rushed to Darren's meridians and

the killing intent of the blood waves pushing into his body and trying to destroy his meridians and

Darren collected his thoughts and remained calm. He had another trick up his sleeve. Once he released the black god's power, he would be able to dispel the killing intent that had rushed into

try to assimilate them first." Instead of immediately dispelling the killing intent, he thought of another way to deal

to the Starry Tower. He had absorbed the sword intent in a lake. And the killing intent in the blood pool was the same. It didn't seem to belong to anyone, just like the sword intent in the lake

pool, Darren activated the Assimilation Skill and wrapped up the killing intent that had rushed

by the assimilating power and the remains went straight into

entered Darren's elixir field, it circled the Blade and Sword God Characters and attached

smiled and

what would happen when he allowed the killing intent to attach to the God Characters, but he knew that if he consumed

okay?" Finley asked after he noticed how long Darren

said to them through spiritual

and they stood and waited patiently for him to