Kingsman Return novel Chapter 5

Inside the box was a bracelet.

The kind that was big and bulky and could cover up your whole wrist. It was a big round creamy white bracelet that had a few jewels that looked like diamonds encrusted in it. The jewels sparkled like stars as they twinkled on and off.

The entire bracelet shone with a soft glow as compared to the previous blinding brilliance it gave off and there was a metallic luster on it. Overall it was very beautiful.

As soon as Arran saw it, his blood started flowing quickly and his heart was beating franticly as if he had just taken a hundred-mile jog. Arran felt like he always did whenever he had just finished an intense workout with his dad.

Arran was frozen for what seemed like a very long time which in reality was a very short few seconds but in that time, he saw a lot of things that baffled and confused him.

He saw scenes of raging battles filled with blood and slaughter, of wars being fought over and over again. Scenes of various mythical creatures like dragons whose roars could shake the world and phoenixes soaring across the skies.

There were also scenes of the birth and destruction of stars and the birth of countless innumerable races as well as the spark that lit the fires of civilization for those races.

All these images flashed rapidly across his mind and Arran was feeling very overwhelmed, finding it hard to pull away from them.

It was not until he heard a very loud voice that contained laughter and mockery entered his ears that the images were broken.

The voice had a very strong and compelling power that shocked Arran's mind down to the very core of his being. If it were not for Arran's powerful spirit that allowed him to pull away from his stunned state, he would have been directly turned into an idiot.

"Hmm."

"Hahaha, I'm surprised that an ant from the lower realms would have a strong enough spirit to avoid being be turned stupid by the sound of my mere voice."

"Well I guess it is to be expected from the person who could find this supreme treasure and still be able to resist its spiritual influence," the stranger said.

Following these words, the space around Arran started distorting and a tear in space could be seen breaking out and out of this tear in space some distance away from Arran, a figure that was completely covered in thick dark shadows stepped out.

As soon as the figure appeared, the space in the surrounding ten kilometers was completely covered in total darkness.

It was like an apocalyptic scene where a total blackout had suddenly occurred with the only speck of light coming from the bracelet in Arran's hand. This darkness spread panic into the citizens in these ten kilometers who were awaiting the coming of the new year.

Everywhere the shadows passed, the people that came in contact with it collapsed and there were signs of mutations occurring in some of them that led to feral carnage as people ran mad and engaged in frenzied slaughter.

Outside the dome of shadows, those that were witness to this could not help but panic as no one could understand what it was that was going on inside.

Arran was completely stunned by what he was seeing but strangely enough, he was not scared. He who was very confident in his experience and knowledge in the world, if someone were to ask him to list some of the most confusing and perplexing things that he had experienced, then this would definitely be at the top of the list.

Seeing Arran's reaction, the shadowy figure was puzzled and said.

"Mortal, you don't seem very frightened."

"Is it that my presence is not terrifying enough or are the lower realms just filled ignorant ants that do not know how to fear a superior being when they are in front of one and kneel."

Saying so a powerful force spread out and with the figure at the center, everything in the surrounding few hundred meters from him had a compelling pressure that pressed Arran into the floor.

Arran was pressed so tightly against the floor that he was finding it impossible to move his body but even so, in this situation, he still managed to raise his head…though with painful effort, to look at the figure, trying to pierce through the veil of shadows and see the creature within.

Arran's mind was filled with doubts and there were a lot of confusions and questions clouding his mind at this moment.

Arran had never expected that opening the box that his parents left behind for him would lead to such an earth-shaking phenomenon and would in turn attract such a terrifying entity.

Yes, Arran was very aware of what a terrifying entity was before him at this moment because any being that can force a person to the ground like this without so much as touching them, had to be very terrifying and powerful.

No amount of his valued experience could prepare him for anything like this.

But even so, Arran did not panic not because he was fearless in the face of danger but because he knew that there was no use in doing so. Certainly, someone as powerful as this entity could kill him as easily as it is would to kill a bug.

Arran could only wait calmly to see what it was that could draw its attention and what it would do.

Kasack was very irritated.

Seeing as the ant before himself was still looking at him with those calm eyes that looked as if nothing could ever faze them, he had the urge to pluck them out before erasing his very existence. So without further ado, he said,

"Mortal, I commend your courage for being able to keep calm before the presence of this great one but unfortunately I do not have the time to appreciate you and would have to take what it is that I am here for. Now be on your way."