Affinity:Chaos

"Is there no way out?" The man asked when he saw the duo staring at him.

"I have no idea." Grey replied.

He turned to the son of the Dawson Family Head who shrugged.

"Alright. There doesn't seem to be anything of value here." He said.

'Didn't he move out with a group, why is he here alone?' The man thought to himself.

He didn't think too much about it and walked further into the place, searching for a way to leave the place. Since Grey wasn't alone, he didn't have any plans of confronting him.

He originally wanted to confront Grey for the accusation, but he was scared they would team up against him, so he gave up on the idea for now.

'I wonder why he's here alone.' Grey thought to himself while looking at the son of the Dawson Family Head.

From how they moved from the start, he felt the son of the Dawson Family Head would continue with his group. Seeing him here alone alerted him, of course, he wasn't afraid of him, but he wanted to be on the safer side. With the man appearing as well, it might be a little dangerous for him.

While the man was searching for a way to leave the place, five more people appeared there. They were all people who they met in the golden robed man's place.

They looked around, and when they didn't find a way to leave or a treasure, they turned to the people that were present. Even the son of the Dawson Family Head was searching for a way to leave the place, Grey was the only one who didn't seem to care. He was playing with Cori there, unbothered by the number of people that was increasing.

Before long, their numbers increased to ten. When it did, something unexpected happened.

The people who had been searching for a way to leave were stunned when they appeared on a platform. There were ten platforms, and each of them stood on one platform. Cori didn't get a platform and she was still on the side, neither did Void and the bunny leader.

Grey and a few others found it odd that Cori wasn't assigned a platform. Even if Void and the bunny leader were ignored, Grey felt Cori would at least be involved.

'Luckily she wasn't assigned a platform.' He thought internally.

Although he found it odd, he was happy by the fact that she wasn't made to fight anything. It was unknown what they would be fighting, if it was something that could kill her, he would not forgive himself.

Some figures appeared before them on the platform, along with it came a voice.

"Win and pass, fail and stay."

The people present showed a somewhat panic striken expression. Only a few sigh as Grey, the man he accused, and the son of the Dawson Family Head didn't show any reactions.

What they were fighting was on the same stage as them and they were all people who were confident in being able to kill someone on the same stage as them.

"How come there is such a thing?" One of the other seven people asked.

No one had an answer for him, this was also the first time each of these people entered this place. Even the golden robed man who had been here before didn't get to this place.

Grey didn't ask any questions as he attacked the figure in front of him.

The figure was in the Seventh stage of the Elemental Venerable Plane. It wasn't as powerful as Grey in any way and could be beaten by those close to the Eighth stage.

Grey destroyed it with a single attack. The second he completed the battle, Cori appeared beside him and they were teleported away from the place.

The eyes of those present changed slightly. Seeing how Grey was able to easily defeat his opponent, the others felt some encouragement and they all attacked. Only after attacking did they know that it wasn't as easy as it looked. Only three people were able to quickly dispatch of their opponents and were sent out, the rest weren't able to do so even after ten attacks.

The son of the Dawson Family Head defeated his opponent after three attacks, he was the fastest. After him, there was an Old man who was able to quickly defeat his opponent with only four attacks. The man Grey accused succeded after eight attacks.

The others found out it wasn't as easy as Grey made it seem like. They quickly recalled that Grey had a very powerful attack power. With that, it would be very easy for him to one-shot anyone without the strength of an Eighth stage Elemental Venerable.

….

On another location.

Grey was taken out of the place and appeared in a room.

Void's eyes lit up the second they appeared, the reason for that was that there was something glowing in front of them, not just that it was shiny, but it was also a powerful treasure. He didn't know what it was, but he was certain that it was no ordinary item.

Just as he was about to head over for it, Grey stopped him.

"Why in such a hurry? Calm down, we'll take it." He said.

Void looked at him and didn't try to take the shiny item from where it was hanging.

The bunny leader looked at the room and was dumbstruck with the drawings on the wall.

Grey also placed his focus on these drawings. The longer he stared at it, the more he felt like they were moving.

On one of the drawings, there was a man who stood in the air, facing a large group of warriors. There wasn't any sign of fear on his face as he faced off against multiple opponents, rather, he was nonchalant. With a wave of his hand, more than half of the warriors were wiped out. The ones left submitted in fear of being annihilated.

The man was magnanimous and let them leave after they gave up.

"Such a marvel." Grey muttered.