Mantle of the Gods [LitRPG / Slow Burn / FTB Harem]

I'd been expecting Trent to show up.

But this wasn't Trent.

My heart started racing as the blonde-haired, blue-eyed, silver man stepped onto the glass.

"You're...!" The leader narrowed his eyes and smiled. "I'm going to get a big promotion for this."

Whisper Err, the number three most wanted man alive just shook his head. "You should just leave."

The leader started laughing as the rest of the Authority showed up.

"Number Three is Tier Five! Tier Fours take the woman! The rest clear the civilians and detain those four!" He motioned at me.

I'd failed Rix and Astrid. At least they were alive, though. I looked down in the pit, but all I saw was two Grim and not my teammates. The Officers looked very confused. I couldn't help but grin. Maybe the two of them would make it out okay. Though, knowing Rix, she'd probably use the lower-level ones to start leveling herself up until she could fight on Whisper's level. Which reminded me. Rix still wanted to kill Whisper for how he'd stopped us from escaping when we'd been kidnapped. Though she knew that he'd saved us and the Black Team back in Wurn, and I hadn't gotten a chance to talk to her about that, so I didn't know if her feelings about him had changed. Mine were still very complicated, but I was glad he appeared to be on our side at the moment.

Whisper pulled out a black sword as three Grim moved to surround him. The Officers that were trying to push back the crowd only served to draw in even more attention. Every eye in the room wanted to be on the fight that was about to start.

"I'm going to say this once!" Whisper began rotating slowly. "Anyone who tries to stop me, or these five from leaving will wish they'd never been born!"

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The Grim started laughing.

"It's four on one!" The leader was laughing the hardest. "And you think that you're going to beat us?!?"

"I didn't say anything about beating." Whisper stabbed the glass with his sword. Black spiderwebs that were covered in red light crisscrossed their way all over the glass. Before the leader could react, Whisper snapped.

The glass shattered so finely that it basically vanished.

It was only about a fifteen-foot drop, which wasn't too bad, but no one was able to land solidly on their feet.

And Whisper was gone.

The black sword blossomed out of the leader's chest. As Whisper pulled it out, he threw a white sword at Gesai. I'd wondered why she hadn't drawn a weapon, but considering she grabbed the sword, I assumed that the CB's item function was a lot easier to suppress than our skills.

There was a part of me that was afraid that Whisper had just thrown her a Tier Five weapon and she was going to get hurt again, but the look on her face was like someone had just given her a shot of adrenaline.

"Restraints!" Whisper stabbed another one and pulled five restraints off of him. He threw them towards us.

I caught one and wondered who he was wanting me to restrain since he was killing them. But I noticed that they were still moving. His sword was doing something when he stabbed them to put them in a ton of pain. But it wasn't killing them.

Spikes shot out of the ground and crisscrossed two Grim that were advancing on us and pinned them to the wall.

"NOW!" Whisper stabbed another one, leaving only one more Tier Five to stand against him.

"I've got this one. Oz, Fray! Get those two!" I hurried over to the leader and slipped the restraints on him. The genius of the team was that it was woven down from tier five materials all the way down to Tier Zero. So it would hold a Tier Five but could be used by a Mundane.

We finished restraining the other Grim, including the ones that Gesai took down. None of the others seemed eager to jump down into the pit with us, but the door was locked, which meant that we were trapped.

I looked at Gesai. "What are we going to do?"

"We…" Whisper looked at his CB, "Are going to wait…" He held up a finger. "For that…"

Nothing happened.

"For…?" I didn't get to finish my question.

The entire roof of the whole underground fighting ring exploded.