Save Myself from Desperation by Cara Agnes

Stophiar and the others had already deployed their own formation and were killing off a large number of

demons. They were confident that they'd be able to out-speed anyone, so their main goal was to travel to a

location in the city where they wouldn't be interfered with.

They formed a huge formation of light. All they needed to do was pump their Light Force into it and it would burn

most low High Class demons to ash. As for the middle and high ones that entered, they would find themselves

greatly weakened and they would be directly killed by Stophiar.

They couldn't move very fast due to the formation, but they didn't need to with so many demons swarming them

in the first place. Stophiar himself had already jumped from around nine million to over 12 million in just a small

while.

He felt that no one else could match this pace and that their stamina was performing well, so they wouldn't have

to worry about lasting until the end. Once all of this was finished, only then would he think about dealing with

Leonel. There were more important things than his own ego right now.

However, he would have never expected that when he looked at the point totals rather than finding that he had

closed the gap and surpassed Aina, to find that he had actually been thrown so much further behind.

At first Stophiar thought it was a fluke. If the Endless Twilight Pavilion just happened to have a large one tuse

item they used right at the beginning to expand the gap, then that was still acceptable. He was confident in his

ability to catch up.

But just after a few more seconds, he realized that he couldn't have been more wrong. The increase was steady,

predictable, and coming in a strong, unrelenting stream. Although there were ssmall jumps, they happened

again and again, making it clear that this was definitely not a one tuse item.

Stophiar realized immediately that this wasn't working. If they didn't first obstruct the Endless Twilight Pavilion

and only worry about meeting the 10% mark later, they would definitely suffer.

"Dammit!"

Stophiar's hair flared out, several rays of light coming out from him as he crushed the demons in the

surroundings.

"Return, now!"

Stophiar suddenly regretted having gone so far out to hide their methods from others. By the tthey made it,

Aina and the Endless Twilight Pavilion would probably have already crossed the 2 or 3% mark. The gap would

only widen from there.

RS ay

Stophiar frowned and made a tough decision.

"Manifest!"

His roar thundered, his Star slowly manifesting itself. He only brought out one, but the difference was that minor

Runes could be seen dancing within.

Stophiar stomped his feet. His two juniors looked toward one another, but their trust in Stophiar was deep.

Without hesitation they followed suit and followed in hot pursuit.

They were supposed to save their Stars for the final stretch, but if this were already like this, there wasn't any

tto mind anything else. They had seen the leaderboard too and they knew why their senior had acted like

this. They could only go all out to make it back. There was no point in conserving their strength because if they

had energy left in the end they couldn't use, then it truly wouldn't be worth it.

It took several minuts for them to return, and by then, Aina was already approaching 30 million. What they saw,

though, shook them.

Blood whirled about Aina like a bloody rose. It was somehow both beautiful and fearsome, the rose becoming an

inescapable grinder.

However, while the rose alone was definitely powerful enough to make them shudder, it should have been an

attack that could easily be grinded down. With his insights, Stophiar could tell that while it was beautiful, it had

no structure or core principle. This meant that there was no technique powering it and was rather no less

complex than a simple, ordinary punch.

And yet, this simple Blood Force attack was tearing through High Class demons as though they were nothing...

and that was when they saw the arrows.

Stophiar's eyes widened. He hadn't thought of Leonel the whole way here, simply assuming that everything was

related to the Endless Twilight.

After shock, Stophiar's expression darkened and his gaze sharpened. The moment Leonel fell, Aina's killing speed

would plummet.

His trajectory changed. With a strong step, he beclike a speed bullet.

Uvile and Silyn hesitated. They should probably step in now. But Aina had said that they didn't need any help.

While she had been protecting Leonel, it had still left them with quite sdissatisfaction.

Plus, wouldn't the Pavilion Head kill them in a fit of rage if they stopped what could be Leonel's death? They

valued their own lives far more than that and they knew how irrational the Pavilion Head could be when she was

enraged.

Aina frowned, thinking of retreating to get closer to Leonel and intercept them. But she only received a shake of

the head and the rain of Leonel's arrows only seemed to becgreater.

Leonel's eyes were still focused on Aina as though he hadn't sensed Stophiar's charge at all.

But he knew everything he needed to.

Stophiar was definitely exceptionally powerful. It seemed that he was already in Tier 7 of the Sixth Dimension

and would more than crush the usual Sector Ranked disciples of the Void Palace. He definitely deserved his place

as the head disciple of a Human Class power.

Stophiar seemed to know this about himself as well as he confidently charged forward.

He closed the distance, leaping when he was just ten meters from the base of the sky rise Leonel stood upon.

He shot up like a streaking star, dancing lights of white gold following his wake.

Unfortunately...

He actually dared to use Light Force in Leonel's presence.

Stophiar's head appeared, shooting past the ledge of the building and ready to shred Leonel to pieces.

But at that moment, Leonel's hand had appeared above his Star. For sreason, an overwhelming amount of

fear gripped him in that instant.

"Didn't | tell you to piss off?"

Leonel's hand squeezed.

Under the astonished gazes of those watching, the Star of a Human Class genius shattered like glass and his

aura plummeted out of the Sixth Star.