[Demonic Fear] was one of Godrick’s signature abilities, a skill designed not just to intimidate, but to completely overwhelm his opponents ntally, forcing fear into their minds to the point where they couldn’t even function properly.
Even those with slightly higher [Combat Power] than him could be affected if their will wasn’t strong enough.
And once caught in its effect, it beca incredibly difficult to even use skills properly, as hesitation and fear took over.
It was one of the main reasons why Godrick was so dangerous. Even now, the effect was imdiate.
Alicar and Oasis both reacted slightly, their bodies stiffening for just a mont as the pressure hit them, though they managed to resist it without too much trouble.
Violet, on the other hand, didn’t react at all, her expression remaining completely unchanged as if the ability didn’t even exist.
Godrick, however, wasn’t paying attention to them.
His eyes were locked on Leon, fully expecting him to collapse under the pressure, to fall to his knees, unable to resist.
But that didn’t happen. Not even close.
Unshaken!
Leon stood there, completely unaffected, his gaze steady as he looked directly into Godrick’s eyes without the slightest hint of fear.
His title’s passive activated instantly and erased any influence the skill might have had on him.
"You..." Godrick’s expression shifted slightly, surprise flashing across his face for a brief mont before it turned into sothing darker, "...so you can resist that."
Instead of calming down, that only made him angrier.
The fact that Leon didn’t react the way he expected only fueled his frustration, and without hesitation, he raised his arm again, preparing to strike with far more force than before.
The previous attack had been nothing compared to what he was actually capable of.
But just as he was about to bring it down—
"Don’t."
Violet spoke.
It was the first ti she had said anything since Leon arrived, her voice calm and cold, yet carrying a weight that instantly changed the atmosphere around them.
Her aura rose slightly, just enough to make her presence known, and even that small increase in power was enough to make Leon feel a faint tremor run through his body.
The sheer difference in strength between them beca even more apparent.
’She really is the strongest here,’ Leon thought, his eyes narrowing slightly as he remained still.
Violet was from [Ember], one of the three eternal-level worlds Leon knew about, a place that stood at the very top in terms of power and influence.1
Even in the [God-Rank] assessnt, that difference was still clear.
Godrick, despite his arrogance, knew that. Everyone did.
He hesitated for a mont, his fist still raised, before slowly lowering it, letting out a frustrated breath as he stepped back.
"You’re lucky the dragon is speaking for you," he muttered, turning away slightly, "If we were alone, I would have crushed you without hesitation."
"You’ve got serious anger issues," Leon replied calmly, not raising his voice or showing any reaction to the threat, "This isn’t a competition, I just want to find a way out of here."
That statent imdiately drew reactions.
Oasis blinked in surprise, glancing toward Alicar as if to confirm what she had just heard.
"Didn’t you already explain that to him?" she asked.
"I did," Alicar sighed, rubbing the back of his head slightly, "But he seems pretty determined to believe there’s a way out."
"That’s kind of cute," Oasis said with a small smile, "He probably hasn’t seen what’s waiting further ahead yet, once he does, he’ll understand."
"Foolish," Godrick added with a scoff, crossing his arms as he looked at Leon again, "He’s the weakest among us, and he seriously thinks he can do sothing none of us have managed to accomplish?"
"Who knows," Alicar replied with a light smile, "The more people survive here, the better our chances beco over ti, especially if we keep getting stronger."
"Yeah, sure," Godrick muttered, clearly unconvinced, "And considering how long it took for soone new to show up, I wouldn’t get my hopes up."
anwhile, Leon remained silent, his mind already racing as he processed everything he had just heard.
If even these people, individuals far stronger than him, hadn’t been able to complete the assessnt, then that ant one of two things.
Either the way out was extrely difficult to find.
Or they had already found it, but sothing was preventing them from actually reaching it.
Neither option was reassuring.
And as Leon stood there, surrounded by people who had been trapped in this place for an unknown amount of ti, one thing beca painfully clear.
This [God-Rank] assessnt wasn’t going to give him a single mont of rest.
At that mont, Alicar decided that it was ti to actually explain the situation properly, likely realizing that leaving Leon in the dark would only cause more problems later on.
Leon didn’t interrupt him this ti.
He simply listened, his expression calm but focused, knowing that whatever Alicar was about to say would determine how he approached everything moving forward.
And the explanation was straightforward.
Violet had been the first to arrive in this place, a long ti ago, far longer than Leon could even imagine, followed by Godrick, then Oasis, and finally Alicar himself, each one appearing at different tis but ultimately ending up in the sa situation.
"Wait," Leon raised an eyebrow slightly, "you’re the last one who ca here? That doesn’t feel right."
"I’m not," Alicar replied imdiately, his expression shifting as if he was recalling sothing unpleasant, "two others arrived after Godrick, and then two more after ."
"Oh."
Leon didn’t need anyone to explain what that ant.
The conclusion was obvious: they had died.
Not in the sense of disappearing completely, but in the sense of failing the assessnt, which ant that whatever had killed them here had been enough to push them past the point where they could continue.
Out of the nine people who had arrived in this place, including Leon himself, four were already gone.
Still, what mattered more was what ca next.
According to Alicar, the only way to escape this place was by reaching a specific location, sothing that none of them had been able to accomplish so far despite all the ti they had spent here.
At the very center of the [Forsaken City], there was a place known as the [Forsaken Castle].
That was where the gate leading out of this assessnt existed.
But reaching it was another matter entirely.
"We can’t even get close to it," Alicar admitted, letting out a quiet sigh as he glanced in the direction of the castle, "the area around it is filled with monsters that are on a completely different level, especially the [Forsaken Minotaur] and several others that guard the entrance."
Even after all these years, even after growing stronger over ti, they still couldn’t get past those defenses.
Leon’s gaze instinctively shifted toward Violet at that mont, sensing that she had more to say, and he wasn’t wrong.
"She’s the only one who ever made it inside," Alicar added, nodding slightly in her direction.
Violet didn’t react imdiately. She remained silent for a mont before finally speaking.
"I avoided most of the monsters," she said, her eyes fixed sowhere in the distance as if she was reliving the mory, "and I managed to reach the final chamber."
Leon’s attention sharpened instantly.
If she had made it that far, then she had seen what was waiting at the end.
"The [Forsaken King] is there," Violet continued, her tone steady but firm, "and we cannot defeat him, not even if all of us fight together."
It’s also the sa world which [WyvernKing] ca from, the sa guy Leon fought the projection of in the [Myriad Arena].
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