Chapter 751 Changing The Fight


    The Light Faction members had made it to just under the arena. It was harder for them to navigate through the ce than they thought. Due to a lot of the fighting, many of the structures had been destroyed underneath.


    Rubble had to be removed to even make their way to the main room. When finally making it, they could see the artifact in the middle.


    Ricar walked over and ced both of his hands by the side of the artifact.


    "I''m going to have to try and do some small tests to get the hang of this thing. I haven''t really used it before," Ricar exined.


    While Hannah was looking around, she could see a bunch of rubble that would lead up to the surface. She quickly climbed up it and took a peek through the cracks and could see the arena from where she was.


    Surprisingly, through the crack, she had a pretty good view of what was happening. For one, when turning her head, she could see the man known as Murkel, the Red Hybrid, with parts of his skin crystallized and other parts red.


    Then, when she turned to look at what she expected to be a student, it was almost as if apletely different person was standing there.


    "Who, who''s he? I don''t remember seeing him… but he''s wearing the same strange zer as the person from before. Wait, they kind of look the same but different?" Hannah exined to the others.


    "What happened in the short time we were down here?"


    Beatrix was looking around in the dark hollow room for another pile of rocks that she could climb up to head to the surface. When touching one of the walls, she saw the edge of it light up, and now appearing in front of her were two screens.


    These looked exactly like therge disys that showed the fighting to the rest of the public of what was urring in the tournament. As for the angle of the two screens, they were appearing from somewhere in the stands.


    "Ah, these show the disy from those other artifacts. Now that there are no users controlling them, they must have just fallen," Beatrix said.


    "I see, and the disys inside must be how the team down here was also able to change thendscape of the arena. They needed to know what was going on out there as well," Ricarmented. "But Hannah is right. That student doesn''t appear to be the same person as he was before."


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    Everyone in the crowd was looking at Raze, they could see the drastic changes that had urred. It was twice now, once when he had ck hair changing to white, and now his white hair changing to long red.


    Some who didn''t understand what was happening were wondering if this was his true appearance or not.


    "The chalice, what did it do?" Alba said to herself. "I thought it was meant to summon someone from the Divine Realm, not be used like this… and why do I have this strange feeling, as if I''m somewhat familiar with what I can see in front of me?"


    It wasn''t a familiar feeling in a good way either. She was reminded of the shivers she got at one point when she had tried to help Raze, when he was fighting against the mages.


    When she came close, an invisible force pushed her away. But none of it made sense, the chalice was meant to summon a Divine being, back then Raze had used no such thing, and why did she feel something simr right now. N?v(el)B\\jnn


    "What do you mean, Safa? I don''t understand, is that Raze down there?" Simyon asked.


    "It''s hard to exin," Safa replied. "There''s always been this thing, this thing that has been following Raze around, following him all the time. Sometimes, the feeling is stronger, sometimes weaker, but right now, when I look at Raze, I can see that thing now is no longer around him, and instead, it feels like it is him."


    Simyon was incredibly worried, for more reasons than one, and in particr, if something had taken over Raze, then would the real Razee back at some point.


    ——


    On the ground, Raze was looking at his own body, staring at his long nails, at his skin. He swung his hand through the air, dragging the wind with it.


    When Murkel saw this on the ground and stood up, he too had a familiar feeling.


    "I know that feeling, I know that look before, I experienced it, we experienced it before," Murkel said. "You, just what are you, who am I speaking to now that has taken over his body?"


    Murkel remembered the sight well. When the Hybrid took control of his own body, its actions then were the same actions as he was seeing now, and with the appearance change, it was quite obvious what had urred.


    "Even in this state, I am limited by what I can do," Raze finally spoke. "It''s been a long time since I stepped into the world of Pagna. It smells a lot different, there''s no iron in the air, the smell of rotting stench has mostly disappeared."


    "I didn''t think I would evere back here, but I had no choice."


    Murkel believed he had it figured out. Remembering the energy from the chalice reaching high up in the sky, and thening down and the change of appearance in the foreign body, with everything the person was saying, he was pretty sure this person was from the Divine Realm, and that was why the student was so confident when facing him.


    "What faction are you from, what n are you from?" Murkel asked. "Maybe there is something that the both of us can do together. After all, I will be the leader of Pagna soon."


    Raze, no, the blooded woman, looked at her own hand.


    "I''m not used to it looking like this." It was then that her skin was turning a darker red than even that of Murkel''s body. It was only her hand, but it was soaking it until the very tips of her fingers.


    "What n I''m from, what faction… none of these things existed when I was here, and you made a mistake. This body is not to be harmed, and since you are a threat to this body, I''m going to have to kill you now."