Kyros had expected Fate to be cruel. He knew that the Dark Lizard would order his minions to make ample preparations. If they were stuck in the small room, the piling numbers of dead lizards might even clog the path and make it even more difficult for the lizards to move forward.

It would even be possible for the group to survive and even kill all the lizards. The Dark lizards were larger and couldn't fit in this small path so massacring the entire pack was possible with Kyros's abilities.

And so, Kyros waited for the Lizards to switch tactics. By making some of the lizards retreat and have them start pulling or killing the corpse wall, Kyros could move into the once tight path.

The moment Kyros ran, the knights suddenly began to move forward and dove deeper into the heart of the battle. The lizards were startled at the sudden offense of the group and began to fight back.

The Shadow Ghouls and the Familiars began to appear and distract the lizards who were busy trying to remove the corpse wall. Kyros ran into the middle of the fight and continuously channeled the energy in the Vermillion Earth Sword.

With his speed and the distraction that the knights, the two young vampires, and the shadow ghouls made, Kyros passed through the ranks of the fighting lizards swiftly.

Kyros's focus was powerful and the training he had that allowed him to see despite the fast speed he was making allowed him zip by the lizards, who would only howl a few seconds later.

But as the knights had rushed and attacked, the many lizards were unaware and distracted that as they turned around, Kyros was already zipping through their blind spot.

As he moved past the narrow path, he could see the large Dark Lizard that could speak Serpentari language issuing commands. It was clinging to the cave's ceiling, and several smaller dark lizards were also clinging to next to the large dark lizard.

Kyros hurled the Vermillion Earth Sword towards it.

The sword flew with great speed, but the large Dark Lizard noticed it and suddenly swayed its body to evade.

BOOM!

The integrity of the ceiling collapsed as the sword released a powerful tremor similar to Kyros's Earth Cross.

The ceiling began to fall, and even the large Dark Lizard and several others nearby also began to fall from the collapsing ceiling.

Taking advantage of the loud distraction and the fall of the lizard's leader, Kyros continued to dash ahead and evaded through the lizards, who were now being hammered by the stones and dark lizards falling on them. He quickly retrieved the Vermillion Earth Sword into his Inventory and ran further down the lizard-infested region.

But instead of taking advantage of the silence, Kyros drew his sword.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

Kyros slashed and stabbed as he kept moving through the lizards.

The angry roars of the lizard echoed out, and many of them chased Kyros.

As some of the lizards were moving forward, the sudden angry pursuit of the lizards caused even more chaos in the path.

He threw the Vermillion Sword Blade, which stabbed on the head of one of the lizards and caused the lizard to squeal in pain. Kyros withdrew the sword back to his Inventory and stabbed the Blood Blade on the opened wound so it could begin to absorb the blood.

And right there, in the middle of several Lizards, Kyros did not run forward but began to hold his ground and fight. Kyros began to reveal his true fighting skills.

He had fought several battles and faced hordes of armies, and stood his ground. This was the biggest reason why he was confident in surviving. It wasn't because of the Cloak of Darkness, but his skill. His dexterity was vastly stronger than those of his peer and compared to the hordes of shadow ghouls that could stack up several layers to each other, the large frames of these lizards in a tight spot was easy for Kyros.

In that location where several lizards began to lunge, bite and sweep their tails, Kyros found excitement. He had always been limiting his fighting skills when in front of his Uncle and team. The truth was, Kryos would be able to overpower his Uncle. While he had shown bits and pieces of his Inventory exploitation skill, he had not revealed it with the actual speed and skill that Kyros truly possessed.

The Vermillion Earth Sword, the Sword of Ten Thousand Grudges, and the Temple Torch suddenly appeared on Kyros's hands. It was then he began to fight.

As Kyros stood his ground, the lizards began to rush at him to crush him.

But Kyros took advantage of his small frame and would duck, slide, and dodge and even move near another lizard, making the lizards hit themselves with their claw and tail sweeps.

Kyros would throw the torch on the air as he dove downwards and would surface back up and swipe it on the place where it landed. Kyros was moving slowly but was making sure that the sight of the lizards was on Kyros.

The Blood Blade would then stab the lizards on the same spot where the Vermillion Earth Sword had stabbed. As the sword was easily retrieved and stored in the Inventory, Kyros was able to do this with shocking speed. Kyros was very precise that he remained at the last possible distance to instantly retrieve the Blood Blade, which was stabbed on another lizard.

The blood blade grew bigger and bigger, but Kyros would suddenly bite down it and devour the blood gathering.

Slowly, Kyros was recovering the mana expenditure of his attacks as he fought his way down.

The howls of the Dark Lizard could be heard as it began to order the dark lizards to chase after Kyros.

But Kyros kept moving and slipping through various lizards and kept employing his abilities while the crowded lizard could even attack properly.

The three weapons would juggle around Kyros as he hacked and slashed his way through with the torch flying up and down.

As Kyros moved forward, he employed unique fighting styles using the Inventory. Kyros stepped on one of the lunging lizards, jumped to the sky, and made a downward slash on the lizard behind it, forcing the lizard to block it with its large arms. But Kyros would send the sword back to the Inventory so that no contact would happen and used his movement to ran further deep into the next lizard and summon the Vermillion Earth Sword to stab and would immediately use the Blood Blade to be buried deep into the hole where the Vermillion Earth Sword was.

But Kyros moved. He didn't even kill any of the lizards but was efficient in attacking and kept making slow progress in his movements.

The Dark Lizards began to fire its attacks once in a while, but the attacks would miss as Kyros would take advantage of the cramped space.

"The plans working!" Kyros smiled. The lizards were drawn to his wild and aggressive movements. The commotion he created was drawing the lizards and dark lizards to attack him.

"Now, where is that stupid Dark Lizard?" Kyros couldn't see the large figure.

"Where are you, Poop Eater?" Kyros taunted once more as he shouted in the language that the golem used.

A loud hissing noise echoed around the dark tunnel, and Kyros could understand it.

"A human... knows First Word? But you speak strange words..." The Dark Lizard hissed.

"Soldiers... Kill...others first! Ignore boy!" The dark lizard finally gave his orders and ignored the strange phrases that Kyros was saying.

Kyros's expression turned angry as he heard it. His taunt failed to draw the Dark Lizard mad. He planned to lessen a load of Aron and the knights by drawing the attention of the Lizards. He provoked the Dark Lizard leading the swarm to keep it from commanding the lizards. He stayed a certain distance and kept bringing up the torch to wound and attack as many as he can to create traffic further.

But now, the Dark Lizard had given the orders to ignore him!

"Coward! Poop eater!" Kyros kept calling the Dark Lizard names, but the notification for his taunt skill didn't appear. Kyros even tried to speak Serpentari, but there was no response.

"It's your pronunciation! It's not working because you're not saying the words correctly!" Calaminus explained.

"The throat of the golem and the lizard isn't something that you have! You may not say these words correctly!"

Kyros realized that his taunt earlier only worked at the lizard because there were golems were there.

Even though some were fighting Kyros, the flow of the lizards was now more organized as they headed towards Aron's place.

The other Dark Lizards formed a perimeter by positioning themselves in the ceiling and at the walls. All of them were carefully watching Kyros.

Kyros knew that these Lizards were hindering him from returning to his Uncle.

With the orders to ignore him, Kyros decided to hide the torch in his Inventory and used the sudden change of light to make him move and evade the lizards. Kyros opened his other eye, which he kept closed during the entire fight to see. And with great haste, Kyos rushed for the Golem city.

"My plans are working so far. I hope my actions have deceived Fate! Let's see if he can catch up with my flexible schemes!" Kyros began to run so fast and zipped past the lizards, caught off guard with the sudden change in light.

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