Kai Lane: Beginning

The sounds of battle rang out as a blonde-haired girl sat in the abandoned mountain. Though she was covered in dirt and dust, an incredible determination shone in her eyes. She sat in meditation, traces of the Red Lightning visible in her eyes.

She was an heir student at the Red Lightning Academy. She was also a Seer who cultivated a sense of wonder. Although she didn't see it exactly, she knew something like this was going to happen.

"Kai.... You should know better than anyone that a cultivator isn't just good at war."

At that moment, Emma's body was literally covered in red lightning, and cracks began to appear around the area where she stood.

"The Art of Red Lightning, Red Lightning Transformation..."

Emma completely transformed into tiny red sparks and disappeared between the cracks.

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BOOOOOOMMM....!!!

"REINA!"

Someone shouted. No one could tell who it was, but everyone saw it. Reina had used the Ultimate Technique of the Lords, the Shield Lord's ultimate technique, to protect everyone. You couldn't see Reina anywhere as the walls fell.

At that moment, dust from the fallen walls covered everything. No one could see anything, and everyone was on high alert. The blue lasers Reina had collided with were visible, but the shields threw them back with a lush green light. The shields had not fallen because Reina was still alive, and her unwavering will strengthened them.

For a king or lord, it didn't matter how strong you were. Ultimate Techniques were never strengthened accordingly. They were always strengthened by emotion. If you become a king or a lord, you must know that you are strongest when your emotions are most expressed.

"Did you miss me?!?"

At that moment, a creature flew out of the dust in the sky. It had six arms, and it seemed to have more fingers than usual. It had six eyes and gave off a nasty odor. Its aura was no better. It was a monster that blocked the sun. At that moment, the faces of a few people turned pale, and they fell into a deep fear at what they saw.

"C-C-C-Cannibal King!"

With Fatty's shout, the fearful gazes worsened. Each of them was overcome with fear. The worst off were those who faced the Cannibal King that day.

The Legendary Leader's hand, which was holding the shotgun, was shaking. He almost dropped it and clenched his other hand. When the Cannibal King appeared in the sky, anger and fear filled him.

Almost everyone from his academy had been killed by this man.

They were the group targeted by the Hunters on the day they arrived in Atlantia. The Cannibal King's group killed everyone. He took a bite out of each of them.

He was too scared to remember how he survived.

"You....!" he said through gritted teeth. His veins were visible, but someone was even more scared than he was at that moment.

Alain was trembling. The will to live flickered in his eyes. Without thinking, he turned around and started running. Everyone was focused on the Cannibal King, so no one paid attention to Alain. Only one person saw him at that moment.

"Alain!"

Isaac looked at the fleeing Legendary Leader, then turned into a beam of light and chased after him.

The two of them disappeared into the nearby forest.

Suddenly, a man from the crowd holding a dark blue sword gritted his teeth and glared at the Cannibal King with hatred.

"So you are him!"

Boyd shouted, then leaped into the sky with all his might. His incredible strength and anger lifted him to another level. The others looked at him in amazement. He didn't seem afraid at all.

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"Don't overestimate yourself!"

Being a Half-Step was not easy, and even now, with all his anger, Boyd was trapped at the peak of the Purple Lightning. Still, he didn't hesitate as his clothes rose with the destructive aura emanating from his body, and his sword cut through the heavens toward the Cannibal King.

The first stripe on his arm began to glow.

"First Dimension Cross!"

At that same moment, the Cannibal King smiled, and his six arms activated simultaneously. His eyes flashed as he looked at the bright stripe on Boyd's arm.

"Gotcha!"

Although there was no gap between the sword and the Cannibal King, there was a difference in power. That's why Boyd felt a sense of danger the moment the six arms activated. He did not hesitate. With a bloodshot expression, he advanced his sword.

Most people who die don't matter to him, but he had seen Zaheer die. He had seen Alan die. He saw Sarah crying hysterically and his friends looking at Alan's body, trying to hide their grief. It was hard not to cry. It was hard not to be angry.

No one should feel this way.

Boyd knew he had to stop it.

"Idiot! How can you not see the difference between us?!"

The Cannibal King spoke sarcastically, licking his lips and looking at Boyd's arm as if it were a tasty meal. The arm covered in stripes caught his attention.

"I will eat your arm!"

The sword and the six arms moved closer together. At that very moment, however, the Cannibal King's confident expression wavered.

Long, jet-black hair fluttered in front of his eyes, and Purple Lightning appeared. Then, he saw the young man whose gaze resembled that of a Buddha statue. He raised his sword to the sky, and his eyebrows slowly wrinkled. But the lightning bolts rising into the sky were not the most frightening thing. It was his sword stance that frightened the Cannibal King.

Alvar had literally stepped into the sky!

It was as if he had stepped into the sky and was flying. The Cannibal King trembled in surprise at this. This stance must have exerted a pressure that could tear his body apart. As the purple lightning from the sword descended on Alvar's face, his Buddha-like appearance merged with it. Looking at Alvar, the Cannibal King couldn't think of a way to stop the two swords. His eyes were fixed on the young man's face.

"Who are you!?"

Alvar's jaw dropped in that moment.

"Someone whose childhood friend you killed..."

The First Dimensional Slash collided with the Cannibal King's hand, and the light from the collision reflected in Alvar's and the Cannibal King's eyes.

"... And the Buddha King of the Future!"

GÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜMMMM....!!!!

It took a long time to tell this story, but very little time had passed since the attack on the city. The dust from the destroyed walls was still in the air, scattered by the impact.

The first thing that appeared was Reina, who was vomiting blood. His chin was covered in blood, and he was on the ground. The laser was still in full force, and Reina seemed to become one with his shield. His face was pale, but his eyes showed a great desire to fight.

In that moment, Boyd and Alvar landed back on the ground. Alvar looked normal, but Boyd's skin was pale. An arm had fallen from the sky with them.

Alvar still had an ugly expression on his face, and Boyd frowned as he took a deep breath.

At that moment, the dust cleared completely, revealing the backs of the walls. Most of the developers thought they would never see what they had just seen, that they would never overcome the fear they felt, and that their lives would end there.

Hundreds of thousands of armed people stood before them, next to huge laser machines. Jack and Quentin looked up at the men in the sky, gripping their weapons. The Cannibal King had been saved. As they descended from the sky to the ground, the man with azure hair and dragon scales was recognized by many: Second Leader Ryuga.

"Everything... Is over here, now?"

With that voice, the pressure on the Developmentalists became unbearable. Having lost hope, the Developmentalists turned into insects waiting to die.

The silence that followed was frightening for everyone. The only sound was Reina's moans as he stood alone against dozens of lasers. It didn't look like he could last long either.

When they saw the end coming, some turned to their loved ones, taking one last apologetic look. They had given up.

"IT'S NOT OVER!!!"

The voice echoed like a roar from the heavens, reaching Ryuga.

"You—"

Before he could open his mouth, the blond-haired young man slid like a star and brought his sword down on Ryuga's scaly body.

Kai's gaze swirled in the air and turned into a wave that made everyone tremble.

But Kai's gaze was fixed on only two people.

"Jack! Kevin! Why are you still standing there? Why aren't you holding your heads high?! Are you forgetting our promise?! Are you giving up the character that comes from your heart?!"

Kai's words could go no further, and he and Ryuga disappeared into the forest in the opposite direction from Alain.

His words had reached the hearts they needed to reach, and they weren't limited to Jack and Kevin.

It was these two who made the first move, though. Their auras marked the heavens, and they stood before the entire army of Hunters. Any outsider would have thought they were fighting this battle alone.

Both of their auras reached the heavens. All the Developmentalists stood behind them, looking at them in amazement. They all had the same question in mind:

'Why?'

Was it worth putting themselves at such risk just because Kai said so?

"A few months ago, we might not have remembered, but after our encounter with the Immortal Dragon, our memories returned."

Kevin's calm words made most of them pause. The four leaders standing in front of the hunters were listening, too.

"When we first met the hunters..."

"When we first realized Kai's powers..."

"The first time we came close to death..."

"When we first came to that strange tree, we made a promise and carved our names into it."

At that moment, even the Cannibal King, who was hovering in the air like a bat, gave them his undivided attention.

The sparkle in Kevin and Jack's eyes turned to lightning.

"We will always support each other!"

"And we.... We will definitely survive!"