The area that Faust is standing is covered with full of dust from the strong winds and sand. Selena and Fei pauses firing to let the smoke clear to have a look at Faust. They are sure that they had pinned down Faust as they are sure that he cannot use the s.h.i.+eld tool.

As the smoke starts to clear, they can see a thin blue wall of defence s.h.i.+eld in between them and Faust which looks like the s.h.i.+eld made by the holo tool. Faust is able to use spiritual power now? He did not just put up a s.h.i.+eld but a powerful one to stop the bullets of two rifles?

Selena and Fei are as surprised as everyone in the audience and n.o.bles. As all of the smoke is cleared, they can see a wounded right leg which was shot and shredded left shoulder armour which is destroyed by the bullets.

"C-Captain?  Why the h.e.l.l are you here?" Fei asks in a subtle voice. Selena watches in a shock.

The whole crowd in the audience jumps out in excitement while shouting loudly. No one can believe their freaking minds.

Hercules is in front of Faust protecting Faust with his s.h.i.+eld. *"I remember I was at the door of the main building! But why am I here?"* Hercules is fretting as he is standing his ground against the rain of bullets from his squad.

Hercules clearly remembers that he is almost close to eliminating one of Faust's squad members by ambus.h.i.+ng from behind them but was directly summoned in front of Faust as a s.h.i.+eld. A couple of bullets from Fei and Selena hit him before he could put up a s.h.i.+eld.

*sleeek* Faust landed a slash onto Hercules from behind him, slicing through his body s.h.i.+eld. 

"Hercules! Eliminated." 

Faust looks at Selena and Fei, He looks normal and like a cool hero on the first look with a smile on his face. But as he slowly starts walking towards them both, his smile appeared to be a creepy one with his eyes wide opened. He looks as though he is not in his right mind, as a villain.

Selena and Fei are left in shock by the intimidating appearance of Faust. *"So this is what a Captain cla.s.s is like."* Fei gives up on shooting at Faust, at this point, Faust pretty much look like an immortal to him.

He goes in to quickly shatter the body s.h.i.+eld of Fei to eliminate him. Selena, witnessing the elimination of her member. Realizes that she is in danger, her pure animal instincts came into play as she raises and points her gun towards Faust.

He disappeared, Faust disappeared from in front of her and appeared close to Selena. He looks into the eyes of Selena who is in shock. Faust, gently with his fingers, move her gun aside.

"End me!" Realizing she couldn't do much, Selena says out of her pride. "All three buildings are plundered and Faust and his squad are the winners." Computer voice announces to the entire Arena. Selena is spared or is it a coincidence?

Cheerings have touched the sky and whistles added with claps have resonated as the four of Faust's squad are returned back. Tsumugi teared up looking at her four soldiers rewriting the history of her house. 

"Ayeeee, I'm now with the youngest captain in the house with mysterious powers. Faust! can I have a word with you?" The host of the purge approaches Faust with a mic asking how he is able to jump long distances in a blink of an eye.

"It's the teleportation of course!" Faust replies without hesitation that made all of the people in the arena go silent.

"H-how?" The host asks, not being able to believe what he heard.

"Haha, I'm just kidding guys! The real reason is my black stone." Faust lifts his cloak up to expose the black stone on his armlet.

"The black stone." 

"But the previous black stone user did not do anything of this sort."

"What is his case." 

The people start voicing their own opinions, anything new and mysterious is always seen as something foreign and scary.

"But we get it-But! What is the power that the stone gives you? Teleportation? Jumping time or is it time freezing? Or black hole portals? What is really in the black stone? The element!" The host asks on behalf of the n.o.bles which made everyone curious to know the answer. All of them hold their nerves curiously wanting to know the secret.

"Well I wonder the same, what could it be? Hehe. it is just that this stone, I don't know how it makes it possible, but it makes it possible." Faust cleverly dodges the question.

They all head to their camp to get ready for the next match. Faust doesn't talk or respond to anyone during their walk from the stage to their camp.

"What happened to Master Faust? He seems to be in a foul mood." Charles, the butler asks Awarnach as they all start equipping their weapons with new elemental stones and getting their equipment check by an engineer.

Faust goes to the back of the Arena, breathing heavily, he holds his chest as if his heart is getting crushed. He goes to a female restroom, locks the whole restroom from inside. Goes in front of a huge mirror, takes off his contact lens from his left eye.

As he removes the black contact lens, the original.eye of his eye that is exposed is also black in colour with the white part of his eye being black and his eyeball in green.

"Ugh! Control it! Why am I crossing the lines?" Faust struggles to subdue his crazy side that is raging with blood l.u.s.t. He grits his teeth tightly in rage while looking at himself in the mirror.

-

After a few mins, he walks out of the restroom with both of his eyes looking normal. Meanwhile, a female contender stumbles as Faust is coming out of the female restroom. 

She instantly stops in her tracks, her eyes widen as she gets stunned by what she saw. "Did you see it?" Faust asks in a low voice, glaring at the female contender.

"Well nevermind." Faust rolls his eyes and starts walking out of the corridor. The female keeps looking at Faust, without knowing what to do. Before Faust turn at the end of the corridor, he turns around to the Female, he arranges strands of his hair by putting them behind his ear in a feminine way and performs a hair flip before going on his way. He did it to make the female think of him as a changed gender. He doesn't want to deal with any sort of problem so he KO'd the female with his act.

The female contender just stands being disgusted. The next two matches of Faust's squad went by in the same manner as the first two, without losing any of the four members.

Faust did not have to move an inch from the main building, he kept giving commands to Awarnach, Elton and Cameron and with his ability, the squad killed all four members of the enemy team's.

The first day ended with Tsumugi's family, against all odds, came on top of every other team. Every match they had, they completely killed all four of their enemy teams other than Selena. She is the only one that was left alone.

"I-i can't believe we actually won!" Elton says as he lay down on the couch with swollen arms and wrists.

One needs sheer strength to use a chain whip to change its direction and to release it quickly. Elton gave his all and ended up with red swollen wrists and shoulder joints.

The right shoulder of Cameron has been scared and swollen due to her continuous snipe attempts. The recoil of the sniper rifle is bad that the gun hits back inside her right shoulder as she shoots.

Awarnach is in a position where he cannot use his two hands for a week. Carrying that monstrous rotatory barrel machine gun around and shooting at everything and everyone. The spiritual power of all three is drained and their bodies hurt physically. Their temperature has been increased and their eyes burn every time they blink.

"You all! I cannot forget this day ever! Recruiting you guys is the best thing happened to this branch. I'm really proud of you all." Tsumugi who thought if they can win at least one match in the first round, they would have a chance to win matches in the second round, which is a 1v1 and their family would barely survive with points to keep them safe in the house.

But now, they are standing on top of the leader boardings against all odds.

"You all did great! Let's go to my favourite place, eat noodles and celebrate!" Faust exaggerates to everyone about his master plan to completely heal everyone.

Even when Faust announced in a cheerful way, none of the squad responded. They want to sleep and take rest, that's all they care about.

"We can order food from the shop." Tsumugi advices Faust to order the food than forcing others to join him.

"Hm! I did not think about this." Faust leaves to his room saying that.

-

After a short while, as soon as the doorbell rings, Faust runs to get the door. He doesn't allow anyone else near the door, he himself personally goes to open the door.

"Uncle Mitsuru!" Faust laughs loudly upon seeing the owner of the shop, himself came to deliver the food they ordered.

The restaurants in the lower land, deliver food to the powerhouses when asked to. That is the one thing no lower land restaurant could deny when ordered by a powerhouse.

"Sorry for calling you all the way up here uncle!"

"Ohhh! Faust! I would gladly come anywhere if you call me! And omo look at you! You are a captain already!" Mitsuru hugs Faust while immersed in happiness. They both keep talking to each other a lot about the wellbeing of everyone in the lower land.

"How are s.h.i.+zuku and MKun!" Faust asks of the twin kids of Mitsuru who are twelve years old now.

"They both keep asking about you! They miss you a lot! You completely stopped coming to my shop, back in the day you and Cai-"

"Ahhhhh! Uncle Mitsuru, why don't you get in first, please arrange the food and did you try that recipe I told you about?" Before Mitsuru can say the name of Selena, Faust cuts in with different topic and takes Mitsuru to a kitchen.

"Recipe?" Mitsuru asks in confusion, but all Faust cares about now is to distract Mitsuru from the topic.

Mitsuru has brought five bowls of steaming ramen noodles with a thick broth, firm and thin soft noodles with a decent amount of chilli paste on top. He brought tempura of different veggies to accompany with noodles.

The batter of the tempura being crispy on the outside and moist on the inside. However, the shrimp tempura stood as the main attraction for everyone. Served with soya sauce and hot mustard, ginger mayo and creamy cheese lastly.

"Wow! The noodles are full of flavour from the broth."

"Mine are chewy, just like I had asked."

"The fried eggplant with shoyu is the best."

"You must have had the best chef's in your restaurant, please introduce them to us next time."

After eating the food brought to them, Awarnach and the others gets lost in the taste of the food and Tsumugi goes as far as to asking Mitsuru to introduce her to his chef's.

Faust rubs his nose listening to his squad praising his favourite chef. "Haha but it is uncle Mitsuru, he himself cooks and manages the hotel while taking care of his twin kids as a single father." Faust tells to his family members about Mitsuru.

"Being a single father, raising kids and managing the business is a big thing! I'm impressed you are able to do it with ease." Tsumugi with Awarnach, Elton and Cameron praises Mitsuru more for his endurance to deal with everything.

"Of course! Uncle Mitsuru used to run an organization and  r-"

"Ahhh, Faust! I brought that favourite dessert of yours." Mitsuru cuts Faust boasting about him.

The long night is spent with food, stories and celebrations. They all forgot about their ranks, worries, about another round of purge waiting for them tomorrow. They spent the time like a real family and fell asleep together in the main hall.

-

The next day, everyone got ready and is waiting for Faust, the final member to arrive in the main hall. Awarnach, Elton and Cameron got bandages on their wounds. Finally, Faust comes prepared and leads the way with his squad, Tsumugi and Charles.

"Are you ready to win!" Awarnach asks him confidently, his voice is different from yesterday. He is full of confidence that Faust is going to win today.

Everyone heads towards the Arena. There is nothing strange or flashy in the Arena today. It is plain and normal without any piece of metal or concrete inside. It is all covered with sand.

All the n.o.bles partic.i.p.ating in the purge sits in the balcony with their respective squads that partic.i.p.ated in the first round. There are a total of twelve n.o.bles sitting in the balcony with four members of their squad standing behind them.

Above the balcony are three thrones placed in a triangle. The lower two occupied by Uzume and Leviathan and the upper and bigger throne that belongs to Hades the house captain has been left empty.

The audience seats are filled by soldiers and families of the soldiers. "We are here today to celebrate the second day of the purge." The host with a blue blazer on blue pants and white s.h.i.+rt. Welcomes the audience and n.o.bles in his style.

"Today is going to be a display of martial arts! Each branch will pick two of their best martial artists and one will be sent to represent their branch." As the host is explaining the rules of the round that is going to take place today. The clear sky turns cloudy in a brief moment.

"This aura!" The n.o.bles stand up from their seats and so does Uzume and Leviathan. The black clouds in the sky starts to glow with purple lightning. The clouds start to twirl around in a circle in the middle as the heaven's opening the gates to earth.

"Tsk showing off again!" Leviathan is vacillating between jealousy and admiration. He admires his dad but is jealous of the enormous spiritual power that he possesses.

The next second a purple lightning falls onto the throne. The audience kneel on one of their knees with their right hand resting on their chest.

The n.o.bles stand tall by saluting the king with their hands on their hearts and the squads that are partic.i.p.ating in the purge is kneeling down on one knee.

The system of power is clearly shown in this one moment. Every soldier and person other than the n.o.bles, get down on one of their knees and lowers their heads to salute and the n.o.bles and royal families, salutes just by bowing their heads. 

A man can be seen standing at the place where the lightning was. .h.i.t. He is wearing a long black coat with large white b.u.t.tons which is up to his thighs. With black and red pants and white shoes. He is wearing a black and red cape, which is black on the outside and red on the inside. 

He got fifteen ribbons on the left side of his coat and 10 medals on the right. With a white band worn across from his waist to the top of his shoulder and an aiguillette that goes on to the right side of his s.h.i.+rt.

The cape on his right shoulder is folded back a little, attaining the look of cross cape, which exposes the four stars on his shoulder strap which defines him as the only four star general in the house.

"You may rise!" Hades announces to the entire arena, in a mic given to him, the crowd in the audience immediately, gets up on their feet and welcome him with cheerings and throwing flower petals into the air in a delicate way.

"My King, we are blessed to have your presence between us." The host welcomes Hades on behalf of the management team.

"It's a martial art round! Of course I would be here!" Hades replies to the host and suddenly makes eye contact  Faust who is standing in the balcony behind Tsumugi's mother.