'What can I do? Those people left no trace to follow…' The att.i.tude of villagers and lack of new trials was depressing. 

Another day night, Aron was observing a village from tree inside of the forest. There was only silence around the village.

Suddenly, he spotted to figures moving around the village. Aron activated his heat vision and found their destination. It was nothing other than house of Jeremy, they entered through window.

'Let's watch! I want to know where they are taking him.' It was great opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. 

'They are fast.' Speed of those two was around half of his speed, and they weren't ordinary humans. 

They were moving fast towards the copper mines, still they didn't go to main entrance. Aron slowly followed them without sound, few hundred of meters away was another entrance.

'They went inside… there are two guards…' Aron decided to kill his way inside. 

'Serenity!' The perfect weapon for sneak attacks from long distance.

Swis.h.!.+ Swis.h.!.+ Swis.h.!.+ Swis.h.!.+ He shot the four arrows into unprotected guards, and they couldn't even react in time. 

Those two were wearing odd looking robes with snake engraved on back. 

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[Paul]

[Profession: Acolyte]

[Traits: Poison Junkie, Patient…]

[Skills: Serpent Breathing Technique(Incomplete), Snake Bite(Fist Technique), Moderate Staff Mastery]

'Interesting… Their extraordinary strength and speed comes from this technique… It's incomplete…I wonder if there is one with complete version.' Another way to strengthen body was great thing. 

[Serpent Breathing Technique(Incomplete)]

[Desc: Technique allowing user to cultivate his body. The muscles and bones become very flexible. Incomplete version allows user to get to first body limit and further improvement needs full version of technique.]

[Plundered: Serpent Breathing Technique (Incomplete), Snake fist,…]

After getting rid of bodies and dressing into clothes of one of corpses, he entered the mines. It was pretty dark inside, net of tunnels was great and luckily for him. There were some torches on right path, so he started to follow them.

There was another acolyte on his path, Aron inspected him with appraisal.

[Jayson]

[Profession: Senior Acolyte]

'His strength and speed is nearing 70% percent of mine…' The white-haired boy was hiding his face inside the hood. The person looked at him and said.

"Why did you leave your watch?" He wasn't aware of his ident.i.ty, still if he gets closer or force Aron to talk. His ident.i.ty will be revealed and battle will start, luckily someone shouted.

"Jayson! Come here and prepare this f.u.c.ker for ritual!" Jayson couldn't ignore this voice and rushed further into mines.

'I need to follow him. I think he will lead me to victims.' Jayson was fast, still in tunnels like this echolocation could locate people easily. 

Jayson entered big open s.p.a.ce, there were tied people with odd looking symbols on their bodies. 

Aron spotted Anna in those people, and all of them were unconscious and didn't react on anything. Jayson was talking with someone in robes in different color. 

[Ronald]

[Senior Acolyte]

'This person is strongest out of them. He is at body limits…' This made him stronger than Aron without berserk. Their battle might be little intense one, boy needed to be cautious.

Jayson was drawing symbols on Jeremy's body, meanwhile Ronald left. Aron decided to strike Jayson, at this moment. 

'I need to wait until he finishes! Let's take Anna away into s.p.a.ce.' The senior acolyte finished his job and said.

"Finally! I prefer touching woman's body… It's finally done… Once ritual is done… We will leave this s.h.i.+thole. Hmmm. Maybe, I should take one of the village girls for a ride…" Jayson thoughts wandering about next days, while Aron was slowly approaching him from behind.

Stab! Aron used one of the daggers from storage. Jayson was backstabbed and fell on a floor with disbelief on his face. 

[Skill Backstab generated.]

[Profession Rogue unlocked and activated.]

'Wow. New combat profession. That's great!' It will give him new techniques and unlock entire profession tree. 

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! HERETIC!" His happiness didn't take long, Ronald came back with fury over his face.

"HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU STAY ON WAY OF THE SERPENT!" He was holding bizarre staff in shape of serpent and screaming. 

"ACOLYTES TO ME!" His voice penetrated entire mines, few seconds later few other acolytes appeared with weapons in their hands.

"KILL THAT b.a.s.t.a.r.d! AVENGE OUR COMRADES! FOR THE WILL OF THE SERPENT!" Aron didn't have time to think about way to kill those b.a.s.t.a.r.ds. Those people were trained and their bodies were improved by breathing exercise.

"DIE! HERETIC!" There were seven of them, and he rushed into a nearby tunnel to gain advantage of terrain. Getting surround and fighting next to kidnaped people wasn't smart move.

Acolytes wielded many different weapons, only Ronald had Serpent's staff. It was weapon reserved only for higher ranking members. 

'I cannot use berserk again. I need to use my speed to kill them before they get me.' His idea was simple, standing in narrow tunnel with glaive. It was perfect place for spear to s.h.i.+ne, and those people didn't see in the dark. He summoned his glaive Transiency and waited to strike. Those people had seen him with an only dagger, so they didn't care much and rushed with great speed.

"DIE!" One of them was faster than others, he wanted to earn glory with his mace. 

Aron thrusted his glaive forward into person body, he aimed at the stomach. Wounds that wouldn't heal combined with surprise attack and his great power will do great damage.

Glaive penetrated person's body and man lost his entire will to fight, Aron withdrew his glaive and rushed at remaining six. His skill with glaive was low, still there was simple way to inflict wounds on enemies. It was madly thrusting his glaive at them, he was faster and stronger than them by large margin. 

There was no way to block his weapon, and they could only try to dodge. Aron didn't need to inflict them fatal wound, even insignificant cut was turned into life threatening wound with his runic weapon.

Unaware people started lose their strength due blood loss, even small cuts were bleeding continuously. 

STAB! Aron got another one with the strong stab through a chest, fast withdrawal and another attack. 

The one versus seven turned into five people struggling to defend themselves.