Odyssey of the Blind God

"That's worth a try!" Nial mumbled to himself but his voice traveled through the entire Colosseum.

The calmness in Nial's voice made everybody feel stunned and even the Originals, who had been making fun of Nial, instinctively turned silent.

Something in Nial's voice bothered them.

Was it the calmness, the groundless confidence, or the killing intent that accompanied Nial's voice no matter how silently he spoke? Nobody could really tell how they felt but their thought about having wasted their precious time coming over to the Colosseum had disintegrated into nothingness.

The tension in the whole Colosseum had reached to an unprecedented level and the atmosphere got even less bearable as Nial activated all the runic constellations on his Broken runic armaments, the Darkness Eruption Glove.

The Broken runic Darkness Eruption Glove had been created with his Heart of Darkness and the purest Essence of Darkness for emergency situations when traveling around.

Nial might not be traveling right now but he was pretty sure that he could simply replicate the Broken runic armament as long as he got his hands on a bunch of materials.

Thus, there was no need for him to be worried about destroying the Broken runic armament Nial had created with various ways to use it.

After inserting a tremendous amount of mana inside the Darkness Eruption Glove, the dark onyx that had been etched on top of a specific runic constellation began to glow in a gloomy dark light that began to shroud Nial's hand and entire lower arm.

The runic constellation, [Soundwave], [Eruption], [Darkness], [Mana Flood], and [Intermediate Mana Storage] had been fully unleashed.

With a tremendous amount of mana stored inside the [Intermediate Mana Storage] that could also store mana in other objects, all the runic constellations he had engraved and activated were overlapping with one another.

Their effects were overclocked manyfold as the stored mana was unleashed. Altogether, Nial had unleashed more mana than an ordinary Deux-ranked Original could store in their body, he controlled it easily while inserting more mana from within his Heart of Darkness and Mana core inside.

Nial was not trying to test out the strength of his body after a few refinements but his intention was to defeat the fully geared Heligav Assassin in a single attack.

With the use of enough mana, one could overclock the effect of runic constellations and unleash the power that was manyfold higher than the use of the runic constellation unleashed under normal circumstances.

The use of the 'Overclock' effect was something that would inevitably harm the runic constellation and destroy the entire runic armament in the process.

However, Nial didn't care the slightest about the destruction of the Darkness Eruption Glove. It had been created to become a one-time consumable item, to begin with.

Thus, when all the runic constellations that were tightly intertwined with one another began to unleash their effect, tremendous power was released in an instant.

As they were tightly intertwined with one another, the runic constellations created a combined effect, which was exactly what Nial had intended to do.

Rather than creating a single runic armament with multiple different effects, Nial's biggest focus was to use several rather simple runic constellations to create terrifying attacks by combining the power of seemingly simple constellations.

The Darkness Eruption Glove was supposed to be pierced through the ground and create a terrifying earthquake to distract opponents, topple them out of balance or kill them immediately if possible.

But it was Nial's misfortune that the arena's ground of the colosseum had been constructed by a material that was so tough and hard that his meager strength was inadequate to help him do that.

Yet, instead of being focused on that, Nial disregarded his own safety, only to seal off all his senses for the next few seconds a moment before his right fist smashed into the ground.

The moment his fist touched the ground, all the power accumulated in the Darkness Eruption Glove was unleashed. A Soundwave that was solely created out of tremendous amounts of Darkness shot through over the ground. It erupted, split up, and turned into a humongous flood that swallowed everything in the eternal darkness out of which it had been created.

The whole arena that spanned more than two kilometers in length and width was swallowed by the darkness that had been released explosively from Nial's right hand.

His right hand looked extremely bad and misshapen, almost as if it had been broken over and over again but Nial barely paid any attention to this as he used his left hand to fix his broken hand.

Nial's expression didn't change in the slightest as he fixed his hand and he accessed his spatial ring just a moment later to retrieve a potion from his spatial ring.

It was a potion made by the Elves, a potion that would accelerate the healing process of the body.

"If you drink the potion, you will lose the battle and the bet," The Referee's warning resounded through the darkness-flooded arena all of a sudden, which was followed by Nial clicking his tongue.

"So you're saying that this idiot can use more than ten runic armaments to fight me, and I cannot even drink a single potion?" Nial asked, his voice laced with anger as he added, "Sounds like a lot of bullshit."

"Another annoying comment and I will disqualify you from this battle! I was lenient before because this is your first battle in the Colosseum and you are not aware of the rules. You would have lost without my warning, remember that!" The Referee spoke in a stern voice and though he used softer words, his intent was quite obvious; 'Shut up on your own, or I will make you do so!'

However, Nial couldn't care less about the Referee's comment and he cleared his throat and cross-checked to make sure that he understood everything properly,

"So as long as I defeat him, I can drink the potion?"

The question was stupid and the Referee sighed deeply after hearing the stubbornness in the young human's voice.

"Yes," He said and it was just a moment later that Nial stored the potion back in his spatial ring as he disappeared from his spot.

The flood of darkness slowly dispersed but that was not important to Nial. He had visualized every single detail about the surrounding area when he had unleashed the darkness flood.

Thus, Nial could easily decipher the outlines of Jivam, the invisible Heligav, who was smashed against the walls of the Colosseum's arena.

Even if someone was invisible and it seemed like they had disappeared, their corporeal bodies would still be present. It was not as if the Heligav's existence had been wiped out just because his body turned invisible.

This was enough reason for Nial to use the Darkness Eruption Gloves to figure out where Jivam was.

Now that he found the young Heligav, who was squeezed against the walls of the arena, Nial began to smile.

"Found you, shithead!" He declared and retrieved a huge morning star from his spatial ring as he emerged in front of the invisible Heligav Assassin.

He ignored the pain in his right hand as he used his full force to smash the morningstar down on the invisible opponent that began to scream out loudly.

While Jivam was still incapable of moving through the flood of darkness, Nial felt like he was home when being around darkness. He could command any kind of darkness however he wanted, which made it easier for him to attack the fully armed Heligav.

First, Nial crushed both arms of the Heligav and all the bracelets he was wearing, in the process.

His Ter-2 runic daggers clattered to the ground, and Nial thought about stealing them for a moment. However, after giving it another thought, he figured that his own runic armaments were of much higher quality.

He didn't have to pick up the trash of others because he could make his own treasures.

That was why he didn't think of hesitating as he continued to trash the Heligav by smashing the Tier-2 runic Morningstar with several overlapping [Armor-breaking], [Armor-piercing], and [Penetration] runic constellations engraved on it.

The runic constellations were combined and their effectiveness could be seen very clearly once the darkness in the surrounding had dispersed. What was revealed was a bloody mass that was covered by crumbled, broken, and dented runic armors while a small human with a height of less than two meters kept striking the morningstar down onto his opponents.

"Referee, please tell me when to stop, otherwise, I will consider his death your responsibility!" Nial's eerily calm voice resounded through the whole Colosseum, preventing anyone from speaking out their doubts as the eyes of many widened when they saw the appearance of the once fully-geared Heligav Assassin.

For the last two minutes, they had only heard pained screams and something smashing down on bones, metal, and naked flesh, and now they saw who had caused the injuries, and what exactly happened.

"Is that the strength of runic armaments?" Khain couldn't help but ask as he continued to look at the cruel battlefield. As Valxian blood and death were not something he was afraid of.

Yet, upon watching what Nial did after he looked so foolish when he came out of his two-month-long seclusion was enough for Khain and many other Valxians to feel their hair standing up on its end.

"His runic armaments are powerful…extremely powerful…but that's not everything," The Dojo Master said as he calmly observed the final seconds of the battle between Nial and the Heligav Assassin before he added, "But it looks like we got our hands on a monster…a real monster that hates the Heligav from the bottom of his heart!"

"Stop the battle!"