He didn't use his armored form since it would make him slow. He didn't use his metal claws either so as not to draw links to his villain identity. All he used was the good old-fashioned bone blades for arms trick. He used it to great effect too.
He cleaved everyone in his way as he chased after anyone trying to throw a wrench in his plans. Not even the woman screaming for everyone to stop fighting was spared.
He had had enough of stupid and troublesome people like Alina. Unlike Alina, this lady didn't have the speed to escape from him despite being far away from him and seeing him coming
His eyes glinted in anticipation of what was to come. She saw his eyes and his appearance. It scared her. It scared her so much that she froze and screamed.
She didn't even try to escape. She just stood there, closed her eyes, and shrieked while willing him away as if she were in a bad dream. He thought she was a fool until his ears began to ring and his eyes began to swoon. He stumbled and almost fell because of her scream battering his mind.
Her scream was not like Fainter's. It wasn't loud at all. It didn't hurt his ears or cause people to explode. It didn't cause any physical harm, and scrapping his ears didn't work. It didn't work at all because he could still hear her scream even though he didn't have functional ears.
The major issue was the migraine he was feeling. It was as if something was stabbing him deep in his skull. It was a knife twisting and churning his brain into soup in his skull.
He felt like running away from her. His primal instincts told him that he would stop feeling pain if he moved away from the source of the sound. But he didn't run away from her. To do so is to let her continue living.
He failed to kill Alina last time, but this time he is determined not to repeat that mistake. He bore the pain and continued to approach her.
It helped that the pain didn't increase with proximity to her. So regardless of the distance between them, he would feel the same amount of pain as long as he could hear her scream.
He eventually reached her and cut off her head. She didn't see it coming since her eyes were closed in fear. Her body disappeared in a flash of light after her death. Her scream also ended to the relief of everyone.
He wasn't the only one who suffered that psychic scream. Everyone had been attacked by her, and with the same intensity too. But they behaved differently to it.
Some had tried to escape the arena. They chose to escape from the source of the pain, but there was an invisible barrier at the edge of the track. They slammed into this barrier and were knocked out cold.
Many others shrunk onto themselves in vain hope that the scream would end on its own. It was only after her scream ended that they could move again.
She was gone now, but no one was in the mood to fight each other anymore. Everyone inched away from each other. They watched each other warily for a while. Then they all took off towards the finish line.
Kelvin was very angry. "I have been foiled again."
He had a decision to make quickly. On one side were the ones who had fainted after colliding with the barrier. They would make for easy picking as they can't defend themselves.
On the other side are those running towards the finish line. He has to catch up to them and overtake them, or he will lose the game.
The choice was clear. He didn't have much of a choice anyway. So he cursed and chased after them. He killed anyone he came within reach of as compensation for what he was losing out on.
Not that he wouldn't have killed them, even if he had the option to kill the ones that had fainted too. He would have killed them anyway, as there is no such thing as too much kill count. But this way he killed them with anger and malice.
His actions were noticed by the people he was chasing. This frightened them and made them run faster. They ran faster than they ever could. It was as if their lives depended on it. This made it more difficult for him to catch up to them.
One man roared in anger and stopped running. He actually turned to fight Kelvin.
He roared in anger at Kelvin, "You fiend. Stop doing this. Don't you know that you are killing people? This is not a game. This is a matter of life and death."
Kelvin was taken slightly aback by the man's reaction. It was because the man was at the head of the pack. He was right at the front because he was the fastest. He was so fast that the distance between him and the second place was more than a hundred meters.
So it was quite a surprise to see someone so far ahead rush back in anger just to fight him. Kelvin couldn't believe his eyes.
"Come on. No one is that stupid."
He is the boggyman that everyone is running from, but the one person who is not in any danger and can escape from him is the only one turning back to fight him. It was astonishing to behold.
But despite his surprise, he prepared himself to do battle. He didn't stop killing as he ran forward. This seemed to anger the man even more. He actually produced steam from his nose.
Not only that, his eyes reddened, and a red sheen appeared on his skin. Even his hair began to glow red.
The changes were not purely cosmetic. The man actually became faster. He gained momentum, which he used to tackle Kelvin.