Lord of the Karmic Fate

Walking through the labyrinth and turning either left or right every five or eight seconds, Luna pulled Raven behind her with firm and quick steps.

"Hey, Lulu, slow down a bit. We are pretty far from them already." Raven talked calmly, but when he saw how his little sister didn't seem to hear his words he sighed and planted his legs firmly on the ground.

"Ah? H-Hey! How did you do it?" Luna's eyes widened when her body was yanked back, seeing that no matter how much strength she used she failed to propel Raven to move.

"Is that even a question? Let alone my Dexterity which is 4 points below yours, all of my Traits are way above yours, including my Strength. There is no way you can force me to move if I don't want to." Raven explained, even showing Luna his current Avatar Status.

Luna narrowed her eyes at Raven before taking a deep breath and sighing.

Raven just smiled and patted Luna's hand that held his, and gently held it. He would be a fool not to understand his little sister's current thoughts and why she acted the way she had at the moment.

After all, no woman would be pleased to get looked at by several men with hungry and evident lustful gazes in a place where the mortal shackles no longer limited the human nature.

"Just forget about them. Apparently, this maze is pretty huge and full of paths. It is very unlikely that we will cross paths with them if they did not follow us." Raven smiled as he took Luna's hand into his and added, "Moreover, don't forget that your big brother within these Realm Games is akin to a god! Unless those four didn't find a better Realm Domain than ours or completed a bunch of Realm Games, I doubt they have a single Trait that is higher than ours!"

Luna seemed to ponder about that for a few seconds before she sighed, "You are right, but that does not mean should underestimate them. While Traits can decide who is strong and who is weak, one's Artifact is also a deciding factor."

"Also..." as Luna reached this point her lovely face sunk into a deep frown and mumbled, "For some reason, I feel like they will try to do something. They were just way too calm."

After all, although Raven and Luna were confident within these Realm Games, it was because they had strength, Traits that were above average thanks to the massive amount of Avatar Flasks they have collected from the shards.

Therefore, they also knew that while an individual could reach Rank 1, it was very unlikely that except for one Trait they could have pushed two or more above 10 points!

No, it was better to say that those with more than one Trait above 10 points were extremely few as Raven and Lune personally experienced how hard it was to obtain Avatar Flasks that could increase more than 4 points at once!

"Just relax. Not to mention our strength, we also have the backing of the Realm Association. You know they can't do anything, not here nor outside." Raven smiles softly, making Luna's scarcely tense nerves relax.

After that, the two finally began to run in order to find the exit as according to the rules they only had 30 minutes. However, when they began to run they were stupefied to see how their speed was inhumanly fast!

In the real world, an average person was able to run at 10-13 km/h while an average athlete almost reached 25 km/h! Yet, at this moment while Raven was holding back as he didn't want to leave Luna behind, he was still running at almost 40 km/h!

That was literally faster than an average vehicle speed in the past world when technology was not advancing as fast as in today's world!

"We have been running for 10 minutes in the same direction but we have yet to reach this labyrinth's perimeter. The only thing that changed is the number of spiderwebs on the walls and nothing else." Luna exclaimed out loud with a scarce frown.

Raven raised his head to see the thick spiderwebs stuck on the sides of the massively tall walls above his head before halting his step, which naturally made Luna to stop and turn around questioningly.

"We only have less than 20 minutes left. I think we should split up. At least that way we will have a bigger chance to find the exit." Raven said as he took out a small item from his pocket and asked, "Do you still have this?"

Glancing at the small red orb in Raven's hand Luna nodded and took out a small item with the exact same appearance.

The orbs were acquired by Raven from a shard, from which a total of four of these have appeared. According to their description, it was an Uncommon item that could be used to communicate with others in exchange for Mystique.

It also had a special skill for a greater amount of mystique that allowed the owners of the orbs to find each other; it was a rather useful item, to say the least.

Of course, as they had two, the other two were in Thomas' and Old Dan's possession, each keeping one with themselves.

"Let's use these if we have found something, okay?"

"Sure." Luna nodded gently to which Raven nodded too and without further ado quickly ran away.

Luna, however, remained where she was and kept her gaze on the spot where Raven stood a moment ago. Or at least she did that for a few seconds before her pretty face suddenly turned scarily dark and her violet eyes got filled with nothing but ice coldness and indifference.

Her previous innocent, mature, and somewhat cute look at this very moment changed completely and now she was an ice-cold individual with an aura that told others not to approach her much less anger her, or else they will easily find themselves face to face with death!

"Now then..." after waiting for a second or two, Luna looked in a specific direction and an eerily cold smile formed on her pretty face before her body blurred and vanished from her spot!

Meanwhile, somewhere else within the maze, the group of guys ran fast with their feet glowing with a gentle golden color.

"Sigh... Bro, Bill. I know I have said this already, but your shit is still uber-cool!" the guy who had a shiny black dagger attached to his waist exclaimed out loud, watching how on his shoe a small gold wing akin to a bird's flapped, causing his Speed to increase dramatically.

"Envious? About this? Except for increasing my and my comrades' Speed, it is useless." the guy called Bill shook his head and stated, "On the other hand, yours is not. Yours is what uber-cool, Cade, not mine."

"Nah... You praise my Artifact too much. Like, ask T. He will definitely agree with me, right T?" Bill looked at the guy with the plant in hand to which even Cade shifted his gaze at him, curiously waiting to hear his opinion about the matter.

T glanced at the two on his side for a brief moment and wished to answer when suddenly the plant in his hand trembled slightly and halted his steps.

"Boss, it seems we have caught up with them," T stated as he raised his head, but except for an empty passage in front of them that about 5 meters later separated into two directions, he saw no one.

The leader of the group frowned at this sight too, but it was not even a second before his eyes glowed up like stars, and watched how the beautiful lady in a silver fur coat approached them with calm steps.

"It seems they have split up to find the exit faster. Haha! This is better than we thought! We don't even have to kill that brat!" Cade stepped closer to his boss as he chuckled with a nasty grin, even licking his lips in the process.

The leader of the four just curved his lips upward seeing Luna alone and gestured to the three behind him to do what they discussed.

"Hey, sup gorgeous? It seems you have got lost, huh? Where is your boyfriend?" walking beside Luna and putting an arm around her shoulder without any care while Cade and T walked behind her with their boss standing in the front, Bill used his other hand to grab Luna's chin and turn her face toward his.

"Damn, you are even more tempting from this close than I have believed. That brat has definitely hit the jackpot!" Bill stated with a hint of annoyance and envy, but soon smiled naughtily and leaned forward to go for the kiss.

However, just as his lips could have touched Luna's, Luna quickly raised her hand and placed her palm right before her and Bill's mouth.

Bill and his friends looked puzzled before the latter began to chuckle, finding it amusing that even knowing the obvious Luna was struggling and trying to put up a fight.

"Your breath stink." ignoring the mockery, Luna pushed her palm firmly against Bills' face and with a rather cold tone said, "Just die already."

"Hm?" Bill raised a brow but it was not even a second as his eyes widened with terror.

Swish!

Squelch!

"?!?"

Cade, T, and their leader watched with horror as all of a sudden the back of their friend's head split wide open, and a long sharp shaft burst out through his skull, covered in blood and brain matter!

"H-Hey... What the fuck was that?" Cade took a step backward and subconsciously grabbed his dagger, but seeing as the girl in front of him didn't reply not even after their friend's now lifeless body fell on the ground, his eyes turned cold, and yelled, "HEY! BITCH! I'M TALKING TO YOU!"

Watching as Cade raised his weapon and was ready to swing it at her, Luna sneered coldly and like a ghost appeared behind the guy.

Cade's eyes widened upon seeing Luna's sudden dissapareance, but even before he had the chance to spin around, a sharp pain pierced his heart, and under his dread-filled gaze watched as something long and sharp burst out of his chest, covered in blood and split organs!

"B-Bone...?" Cade mumbled with disbelief just a second before blood gushed into and out of his mouth and all of his senses got shut down.