Affinity:Chaos

'Oh, that's got to be painful.' Void thought on hearing the scream of the young man with the mark.

He was initially stunned when he saw Klaus spreading apart the legs of the young man, but on seeing the attack, and how quickly it knocked him out, he couldn't help but feel that the attack was simple and very effective.

'I'll keep note of this, if the opportunity presents itself, I don't mind using it in the future.' He thought to himself.

Grey and Reynolds on the other hand were unknowingly sweating, they couldn't help but get goosebumps when they heard the shout of pain from the young man. They shivered and their hands uncontrollably went over to their crotch region, covering it.

Even Alice who was recovering opened her eyes to take a peek at the situation. Previously when the twins died, although they screamed, it was totally different from the shout of the young man. If one wanted to compare them, it was like the difference in sounds made by a cat when purring, and a lion when roaring, the difference was just too vast.

Klaus currently had a satisfied smile on his face as he stared at the presently white-eyed young man who had drool coming out of his opened mouth.

The young man wasn't dead, but from the pain he felt before he fainted, he wished he were.

"Hey buds, what are you doing over there? Come on, let's wake him up." Klaus called out to Grey and Reynolds while waving at them.

There was almost a one hundred meters distance between them, he could swear they were within fifty meters before he delivered the kick.

'How did they move so fast? And what's with their hands?' He couldn't help but ask himself.

Grey and Reynolds looked at each other before finally deciding to walk over to Klaus' location.

"Wait, why do you want to wake him up? Just end him and be done with it." Reynolds said when they got within a few meters from Klaus and the young man.

"So I can kick him again." Klaus said laughing evilly.

"Shit!" Grey and Reynolds exclaimed simultaneously and instantly turned tails and ran back to where they were coming from.

"Do it yourself!" Grey's voice was heard from the distance.

"Tsk, what's so scary about this?" Klaus muttered to himself before creating water which he splashed on the face of the young man.

Splash!

The young man jolted up and his previously white eyes regained their usual visage. But just after he woke up, he almost fainted from the pain that ran from his crotch region straight to his brain.

"Ah!" He screamed again, this time, even louder and longer than the first time.

With both hands in his crotch region, he rolled on the floor in pain.

Klaus didn't bother to waste any more time, he quickly removed the young man's hands from the target, made sure to spread the legs apart once again, only this time, the young man was lying flat on his back.

With everything set Klaus did his usual run-up, and dashed towards the young man, kicking the center of the legs which were spread open.

Crack!

"Ah!"

For the second time within five minutes, the young man went through the same pain all over again, but he surprisingly didn't pass out this time. But if one looks closer, one would realize he isn't far from it.

"That should do it." Klaus said while dusting his hands.

The reason he kicked him again was that when he kicked him the first time, he only heard one crack, which meant the other nut was still fine. Yes, he wanted to kill the young man, but making him go through the pain first felt better, especially this type of pain.

While the young man was wheezing on the ground from the pain, Klaus nonchalantly waved his hand and over twenty ice shards appeared mid-air.

He pointed at the young man, and the ice shards all shot straight at him. The young man had his eyes wide open as the shards pierced into his body. Because of the numbers, the young man didn't have time to plead before he died instantly after three of the shards pierced through his heart, and four pierced into his head.

'This is what you get for attempting to do 'that' to our friend.' Klaus thought as he walked over to Grey and Reynolds.

"All done?" Grey asked as he noticed Klaus walking towards them.

Klaus nodded.

"Okay, we need to get out of here then." Grey said.

Since the group is complete once again, it was time for them to exit the trial land, after all, they had stayed in here for so long already, and the rewards had been unimaginable.

"So guys, do you think it will be wise to check our elemental grades again? Just to be sure it increased." Alice asked as she walked closer to them.

Although they trusted the Great Earth Essence Liquid, without seeing it, they wouldn't be too sure. There was also Klaus who's elemental grade was purple, and Grey who was a Dual Elementalist with purple and pink grades.

"No, there's no need. Doing that would only put our lives at risk." Grey immediately rejected the idea.

There was no way he would agree to this, the others could check theirs, but not him. When he was admitted into the Lunar Academy, he had only two elements, with Lightning being purple grade, and Earth being ping grade. Now, he had five elements, with one even being cyan grade, a grade he had never heard of.

What would happen when people find out that of his five elements, one was cyan, two were blue, and the other two were purple? He didn't even dare to imagine.

"It wouldn't be much of a hassle, my dad wouldn't have a problem with lending us the Academy's testing stone, he'll agree if we tell him the reason, also, there wouldn't be anyone there." Klaus interjected.

Of course, he wanted to see what his previous purple grade turned out to be, he felt he was lucky enough, so he should be able to get a double increase. Although he didn't say it, being in the presence of such amazing friends, he always wished he could be in the same elemental grade as them, his only consolation was that Grey also had a purple grade. And even though he was a Dual Elementalist, his second element was a pink grade.

But now, things are a little different since Grey was lucky enough to inherit the legacy of the expert which gave him a third element, as well as the rare blue flames. So now, he really wanted to see his grade, and with his father being the principal, they could even do the test in his office, there's no way anyone would be able to find out.

On hearing Klaus' statement, the others all nodded. Grey wanted to refute, but he couldn't since he knew what Klaus was saying was right.

"Fine, we'll go with what you said." He couldn't help but agree.

'I'll find an excuse when the time comes, I can't carelessly allow anyone to know about this. I'll talk to Teacher.' Grey thought.

Keeping this secret was getting increasingly harder since a slight mistake and he'll be found out, obtaining new elements wouldn't be the most important thing people would want to know, but it's the secret to improving his elemental grades. That is even more important than acquiring more elements, although more elements increase the strength of an Elementalist, with a better grade, a Single Elementalist could easily kill a Dual or even a Multi Elementalist.

With the group agreeing on what to do after leaving the trial land, they started their journey to the exit of it.

"Did you guys hear about the pants thief?" Alice suddenly asked, looking at the boys suspiciously, Klaus in particular.

She felt if anyone among the boys could do such a thing, then it's definitely him. Given Klaus' personality, she felt he could do almost anything without fear, Grey was the one she found least suspicious.

"Yeah, I heard he walked around stealing pants from guys." Grey said with a small smile.

"Then after turning into a two-man team, they also stole from ladies as well." He added while looking at Klaus and Reynolds from the side of his eye.

"If I find them, I'll break their legs, such evil people." Alice said angrily.

Gulp!

Klaus and Reynolds swallowed simultaneously, and for some reason, they felt the journey to the exit wouldn't be as fun as they thought.

"Hey bud, why don't we dish them and head somewhere else?" Klaus leaned closer to Reynolds and whispered in his ear.

"Yeah, I'm having the same thoughts." Reynolds nodded his head repeatedly.

They could tell that Alice was already suspicious of them, if she were to find out, then they'd be dead. Even if they could beat her, they wouldn't dare to, or else they'll just quicken their deaths.

Initially, they thought now that they were either as strong as she was or in Grey and Reynolds' case, stronger, they felt she wouldn't be able to bully them anymore. But on seeing the current situation, they knew they were wrong, even if they became the emperor and were a Plane ahead of her, she'll always be able to bully them since they wouldn't dare to fight back.

And if any of them dares to fight back, then the others will gang up against that person. Given Grey's freakishness, they knew he would definitely always be ahead of them now that he had gotten the advantage, who would dare to fight back when Alice had him behind her?