Orun took his very first step out of the dungeon and stood still at the entrance, admiring the view before him. He raised his head up, wanting to for the first time in a long time, see the rays of the sun washing on him.
His expectations of the sun brushing on his skin was betrayed when he saw a sky dyed in bloodied red, lingering with ominous feeling in the atmosphere.
"is it night-time?..., is that why there is no sun. A moonless night it seems".
Orun questioned, stretching out his hands to feel the outside breeze cuddling up to him.
He had lived in the darkness for far too long that he had forgotten how a night sky without a moon would look like. Thus confusing the crimson artificially made sky to a moonless sky.
"haa...., how refreshing".
He said as he continues to slowly bask himself in the gracious breeze temporarily bloating his body.
"the world outside...."
He folded his arms back to his sides and paused his lips, trying to think of descriptive phrase to match the tone of what he was feeling.
ƥαṇdαηθνε| When he was done basking himself in thrill, he came down the two stair tailored to the Dungeon entrance. Squinting his eyes to the far off distance ahead of him, he sees a bunch of humans at the front, all putting on the same attire with a little of them left out.
"humans?..."
Orun said as he was easily able to identify them by their physical description. The humans could not see him from the distance separating them, but he could see them due to his vision being enhanced beyond average lifeforms.
"are they here for me?..., no, I shouldn't jump to any conclusions on that".
"there is a possibility that they are here for something else. They haven't met me before, it would be ridiculous of me to think they are all here because of me, especially with the insane amount of numbers they have with them".
Orun had no idea the humans were actually coming for him, nor is he aware of the fact that ever since he had woken up, he has unknowingly being letting out his Aura, making it go rampage and affecting all things near him.
Dana and Nadea were unaffected because of the mental buff casted by Caren, Caren however could not escape from it after she was exposed to not only his Aura, but also to his bloodlust.
Throughout his time in the Dungeon, he had never once learned to control his Aura because he never needed to.
In the Dungeon, an Aura is a sign of respect and dignity, much like a charismatic king. Monsters with weaker Aura feel intimidated by monsters with stronger Aura, they literally run at the sight of monsters with stronger Aura.
Orun's Aura is what had kept him from meeting with monsters weaker than himself and only meeting with monsters with the same wavelength as his or monsters with higher Aura wavelength than his.
After his ascension into an half spiritual entity, Oracle had attained an ego, helping Orun to keep his Aura in control. But with Oracle not present during his Awakening, the bottled up Aura let itself out violently.
When he awakened, the first thing his body did was to spread out his Aura, an act of warning for monsters to show their opponents that they mean business.
The Aura his body let out, is what made the Dungeon's mood heavy and tense, and also what cladded Edevin's sky in crimson red.
Currently, he is still radiating the Aura off of his body, traumatizing all those around him with absolute fear and dominance.
"five of them are heading this way, what should I do?".
It was at this moment that Ricus and the four adventurers moved away from the remaining troops to go into the Dungeon as scouts.
"i really don't want to shed any more blood if i can prevent it..., but how do I go about not doing that?".
Orun thought of ways he could prevent more bloodshed than there already is. He is a monster and not a killing machine. If there were ways with which he could prevent the spilling of blood with no harm done to him, he certainly will.
His first rule of survival isn't to kill, but to survive. Killing is only a tool essential for the sake of his survival. It is not a necessity in which he cannot survive without killing.
Orun knew he had gotten far stronger, and that the humans before him do not measure up to his current self. If he were to compare himself with the weakest human (D rank) among the crowd of humans laid ahead of him, he would pick the time he was still in his Goblin Cub form. Meaning, they pose as much threat as he does when he had just been born.
"It seems humans are far weaker than monsters. Fully grown humans comparable only to a goblin that had just been born?....."
Orun found it questionable at how possible it was. The human he chose as an example to his Goblin Cub self, is a human with thick muscles and abs, yet only as strong as a goblin Cub.
"the strongest human there is on the same threat level as when I was an adult Goblin. Guess not all of them are weak".
Orun's threat estimation is calculated using the amount of energy he felt off of the humans his gaze falls upon, and making a comparison to his former forms.
"all in all, they pose to me no threat, nor are they capable enough to hinder my survival. I see no reason to kill them".
He arrived at the conclusion of the humans not being harmful to him, and so decided to let them go.
"letting them go is what I plan on doing, but I doubt they have the same intention as I do. Being a monster, they must want to attack me on sight, I have to find ways to prevent that so I can get out of here without dying the floor red".
As someone who had mostly taken to killing as the first form of solution, he found it hard to think of ways he could get out while avoiding any death, hard, but not impossible.
The solution he thought of, is doing what he did to Caren. He noticed that when he got angry and closer to Caren, she stumbled on the floor without even being touched.
He planned on doing the same to the humans here. Showing his disgust and hate towards them, enough to let them collapse and immobile so he can pass through without being harmed.
Orun did as he planned, with his expression gone from being docile to being emotionless. Not knowing that what he was spreading to the humans was his killing intent and not just hate.
Being exposed to killing intent and toxic amount of his Aura, adventurers under D rank fell and died right on the spot. The ones under C rank fell and went into an instant coma with no hope of them waking up. The B ranks were stripped of their strength and they also helplessly fell flat on the ground. The adventurers beside Ricus were no different as even them fell to the ground.
The only ones still standing are Ricus and Jack, but even they are not in complete form. They were paralyzed right on the spot, with their consciousness wallowing in fear and self built illusion.
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