When the Initiates heard Lady Arrowstrife's words, they became terrified.
Yet, while their emotions had been in sync for a short moment, they started to differ very quickly.
Some of them remained terrified and fled.
Some of them grew angry.
Some of them became serious.
"Don't flee!" one of them shouted as he pulled out a gigantic sword. "This is our second chance! He's in the same Realm as us! It's 500 against one!"
Yet, before he could even finish his words, a bit over 200 of them either fled into the distance or took to the sky.
These were not unrivaled geniuses.
Yes, in their Tertiary Worlds, they had been at the peak for a while, but which Transcendent hadn't been at the peak for the ten seconds before their forced Ascension?
One had to remember that not all Tertiary Worlds had been as crippled as the one Kyle had been in.
For many worlds, new Transcendents were born every decade.
The people standing in front of Kyle were good enough to become Transcendents, but they were not good enough to get through the Initiate bootcamp.
When they had lost, their ego and Momentum had taken a huge hit.
They lacked confidence in themselves.
The person who had shouted was one of the most powerful ones.
One had to remember that every Initiate got someone of equal power as an enemy twice.
This meant that number one in the group wasn't fighting number one-hundred but number two.
Then, the new number one would receive the new number two as an enemy.
The person who had shouted had once been the second number two, which meant he had won his initial fight and then lost in the second one while fighting the strongest in the group.
He was not weak.
Yet, while he still had confidence in his power, almost half of the group had no confidence, which was why they tried to flee.
However, another 200 Transcendents went to the guy to form a defensive group.
The remaining 100 didn't know what they should do.
The man with the humongous sword summoned his Ether.
It was the Ether of a Complex Law.
BANG!
Under the shocked eyes of everybody, the man turned into bloody chunks as a hammer moved through him.
Kyle's attack had been so fast that nobody had even managed to react.
Yes, the man had had a Complex Law, but it was a Mixed-Element Complex Law made of two Yang-Elements.
Even more, he had condensed it after he had already become a Transcendent, which meant it was not inherently supported by his Core Spark. It was essentially a Level 1.5 Complex Law.
Kyle had an inherent Level Two Complex Law, which was pushed to a Level 2.5 Complex Law by his Core Spark.
His top speed was two times higher than the man's top speed, and his acceleration was over 20 times faster due to his Body Fragments.
The man had been the only one who had seen Kyle's attack coming, but his body simply hadn't been fast enough.
His sword had moved just a couple of centimeters before the hammer hit him.
As soon as the surrounding people noticed what had happened, they split again.
Half of them launched attacks at Kyle, while the other half joined the fleeing people.
At that moment, Kyle activated his Momentum.
The fleeing people slowed down, and the attacking people became chaotic.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Kyle killed the three most troublesome enemies first.
All of them had condensed Complex Laws.
As far as he could tell, based on his instincts and the power of their Momentum, the others didn't have Complex Laws.
The group became more chaotic yet again, and fewer than 20 people remained who tried to resist Kyle.
After avoiding some attacks, Kyle launched a couple of attacks of his own and dealt with the 20 people.
The remainder were the fleeing ones.
Some of them tried to leave the planet, but as soon as they reached a certain height, some kind of force pushed them back.
Naturally, that was Lady Arrowstrife's doing.
When Kyle had dealt with the last people who tried to resist him, he couldn't see any other Transcendent anymore.
After all, they had all scattered and fled, and his Energy Sense could only travel so far.
'We're playing hide and seek!' Kyle thought with a smile.
"Travel there," Lady Arrowstrife transmitted, guiding Kyle's perception in a certain direction.
"I don't get to play hide and seek?" Kyle asked with a hurt and disappointed voice.
"We're not here to have fun," she answered with an even tone. "This is your job."
Kyle sighed. "Fine."
Next, Kyle took to the sky and flew in that direction.
Since he was much faster than every other Transcendent on the planet, he easily caught up to his target.
It was a woman with blue hair who was fleeing in terror.
'You know,' Kyle thought as his hammer turned her body into bloody mist, 'This is probably how the Mortals acted when they condensed their True Sin Aura.'
'Oh, look at me! I'm bringing these people to justice by letting them experience what they have caused other people! I'm so noble! I'm the arbiter of justice!' Kyle thought sarcastically.
He chuckled as he went to and killed his next target.
'As if I'm not doing this for myself.'
'Honestly, I don't give a shit if they killed a bunch of Mortals. I probably killed more.'
His hammer turned a Transcendent into a bloody puddle.
'A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do to survive.'
Another Transcendent turned into a stain.
'If it's morally wrong to kill you guys, why are you made of Karmic Luck?'
Another glob of flesh and guts.
'Dude, the Cult wants me to kill you guys, and even the world gives me Karmic Luck for killing you.'
More red paste.
'This is a war between two sides, and literally both sides want you dead.'
More Transcendents got some rough carressing from the hammer.
'Dude! Did you see that? That guy turned into a spiraling fountain! How does that even happen?'
The mallet menace struck again.
'Was that just a one-time thing? The other two didn't turn into fountains, even though I hit them the same way.'
Suddenly, all the remaining Transcendents appeared in one spot in front of Kyle.
"Your True Sin Aura is about to vanish, and you will enter the Main Dimension," Lady Arrowstrife transmitted. "Quickly kill all of them."
'Mom said I can't play anymore,' Kyle thought with a roll of his eyes.
He mowed through the remaining Transcendents as quickly as he could, which took fewer than ten seconds.
When they were all dead, Kyle looked at the world around him.
Everything was distorting.
Green lights appeared around Kyle.
The black Aura around him was fading.
He threw one last glance at Lady Arrowstrife.
"Good luck," she transmitted.
Kyle put his hammer over his shoulder, gave her a thumbs-up, and winked.
"Leave it to me!"
Then, Lady Arrowstrife vanished, together with Kyle's True Sin Aura.
'Onboarding is over! Time to start my first shift!'
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