Chaos Cycle: The Eye of Genesis

The sun was in the mid-sky and was not glaring enough through the chaos wall, but far better than the nights. The seven freshmen with sunken eyes stood in each one's designated places, waiting for the moles to arrive. Dealing with moles in the day turned out to be much easier than night when they had to rest all their hope in mana sense that had not even reached the required level yet. For most of them, that was true.

None spoke, only exchanged glances among them and waited for the damn moles to appear. The first one appeared in the middle assaulting where the four stood quite closely. But the mole did not get what it wanted, but a sweep of a sword. Lara swung her long sword in a half arc and almost sliced the moles entirely. Though her aim was a little off, the result was just the same.

Darkish purple blood sprayed in the air as the lifeless corpse of the mole fell to the ground.

"They are here," Shin added with a grin on his face. The land beside him undulated in a couple of places, and two moles popped out of it. He swung his sword at the one that he had the advantage of on his right while the left one lunged at him with its bare claws.

Shin twisted his body sideways and dodged it. The mole had escaped after the failed attempt, but he picked up another undulation in his back, which was wide open.

Other moles popped up digging the earth and when it was about to deal a blow to his back, a wave of fire consumed it as it flew away in a half-dead state.

Ileana looked at Shin with a thin grin. She arched one of her brows and got back to her job instantly. What changed the most after the last day was the two-caster improved by quite a lot. They were not clumsy like the other time and did not need all-time protection against close quarters. At least, it was true against moles.

If it was a hyena in place of the moles, the fire would not have succeeded in consuming it entirely and would still have strength for the last attack or more, but that's another story.

Elior or Leroy did not work their best and this time not enough, either. They just protected their sides from more moles to appear that would be impossible for the few to deal with. The five others needed to have their advancement, so they need to do the most work from now.

Throughout the course in the dungeon, Elior only advanced once and reached level 25. Chaos fiends less than your level give fewer karma points than before and his body was already saturated from their karma. He needed something other—at least in the same order to get more karma.

Abruptly, he felt a bigger undulation under his foot.

"A big one is coming," Hasan could not finish his phrase from the tree when the land under Elior's foot collapsed and a one and half meter large mole appeared with its fat body.

Elior had already moved away before the mole could do anything to him. It looked at him once and pulled its body underground again. It was moving towards him again.

"Brother," Shin shouted with shining eyes. "Let me deal with it. I only need one more level to reach 20."

"Again," Ileana complained. "It had not been an hour, and you left the formation again. Can you even deal with it?"

Elior looked at Shin's bright eyes and left the big one in his care. Shin should not have much problem finishing the first-order mole alone.

While another bigger one appeared where the trio of Ileana, Peter, and Lara were. Elior did not move to help them either and saw Leroy hesitating. The gentleman guessed his reason and did not help them. The trio did not ask for help either, and the two moved to solve the little ones that would create problems for them.

Lara appeared before Ileana and Peter and blocked the evolved mole. She got it where she wanted and then she rushed away from the spot when a whirlwind appeared and cut the big mole in a couple of places. That was not the end. An arrow shot from a nearby tree and pierced the moles in its right eye when a scarlet flame weaved at it.

The arrow and fire were not enough to kill it—after all, it was a first-order chaos fiend and was far more capable than its counterparts. That was when Lara appeared again. She pulled her sword and snarled. The sword pierced from the back of its head and found its way out through its blistered head with purple blood.

Finished. The four of them together had dealt with a first-order monster and that too within a few seconds. It was all planned before, but they still could not help but feel pride—after all, they were still a few steps away from reaching the first order.

Meanwhile, Shin flew off in the air and it appeared to have been his plan. After a couple of exchanges with the huge mole, it was about to attack his leg again when Shin twisted his legs above its head in a way that the mole's attack tossed his body in the air.

The boy with the funky hair still had the grin on his lips as a little gale formed in his sword. He jerked the sword when the mole was about to make another attack into its bloody mouth. His entire body weight dropped into it and Shin got the extra elevation he wanted. The sword pierced the monster's mouth and reached its thought as it tried to squeak, jerking its huge body here and there.

"Good boy, good boy, don't struggle anymore," Shin said and filthy blood sprayed over his body. The mole rested its struggle and died, giving its karma to Shin. "Don't worry, I will use your power to finish them all. Now sleep in peace. In the afterlife, you all will be together."

Shin rose and found everyone else was looking at him, some with a twisted expression while some were smiling.

"Did you see me?" Shin said with a bright smile.

"Nicely done," Elior said smilingly. "And congratulations."

"Right, I need to choose a class now," Shin said and started to read the options before him. "I see nothing as good as your 'Berserker'."

"Choose something that is close to your style," Elior advised. "Something that would be advantageous to your Air and Water element affinity."

"Hmm." Shin continued to read, narrowing his eyes. "Most of them were in the apprentice class. I guess this is it. I chose WaveRunner Apprentice."

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