he couldn''t give up now, if he did what would his dead nsmen think of him?


    As one of the few remaining members of the ter n,he had the responsibility ced on him to survive and grow stronger to get revenge for all of them.


    "hahaha!"


    As Curtis began tough a storm started to form overhead


    "Let the heavens be my witness!


    I, Curtis ter, hereby swear that I shall have my revenge on the Kinsman n for all the atrocities theymitted against my n!


    If I break my words, then let me be destroyed by heavenly thunder!"


    "Boom!"


    As soon as Curtis finished speaking, a thick lightning bolt struck the ground, blinding the scene in a golden wave of lightning.


    This was the symbol of his covenant with the heavens!


    Curtis had made a vow and he would either achieve it or die trying!


    Elder Mahan watched in both and awe and worry


    he was awed by Curtis''s conviction to get his revenge by all means, but at the same time, he still felt worried for Curtis.


    Words alone couldn''t begin to describe the terror he felt looking into Winton''s eyes, back then, he was truly helpless!


    he had no doubt in his mind that all it ould take was a simple move of Winton for all of them to be crushed out of existence


    Against such a horrifying monster like Winton,Elder Mahan found it hard to believe Curtis could reach those levels, especially in the short time that Curtis wanted to do it.


    but at the end of the day, who was he to judge the full extent of Curtis''s potential? Only time could tell whether Curtis could achieve his goals or not...


    ....


    back at the battle arena,


    After Elder Mahan and Curtis disappeared, The ter n disciples and elders were left stunned


    "haha! Finished, the ter n is finished!" Suddenly one ter n disciplepletely broke down I''m despair


    Chaos soon erupted as all the ter n members began to panic rapidly began fleeing the arena


    But then again, who could me them?


    The strongest fighters they had fled and basically left them all for dead!


    Even if they wanted to stick it out and fight to the death, there was barely anything that could be done.


    Fighting now would not be brave, instead, it would only be throwing your life away!


    In this fight, they werepletely outmatched in top-endbat power.


    At least if you managed to escape you could live to possibly fight another day. but if you died here,it would be for nothing, your name won''t even be remembered much less glorified for dying inbat!


    The ter n members left in a panic,so naturally some Kinsman n members tried to step in to catch some escapees, but this always resulted in fiercebat between both parties.


    The ter n disciples knew that if they were caught here they were as good as dead and so they would consistently fight with everyst bit of strength they had to secure an escape path from the arena!


    Seeing the brutal fighting methods of these desperate ter nsmen, Grand patriarch Jarred suddenly spoke.


    "Leave them alone.let them run!"


    As soon as he spoke, all Kinsman n members suddenly stopped fighting and began letting the ter n members slowly escape,showing the amount of respect that this manmanded from within the n.


    But Jarred didn''t seem to stop as he continued speaking


    "There Is no need to stress yourself to catch them all.


    they''re like trapped rats in a cage, no matter how hard they run and struggle, they still won''t be able to escape in the end.


    As he spoke, the cruel smirk unique to Dante''s family graduallyappeared on his face,just going to show that some things really do run in the family


    "Han!"


    "Yes Grand Patriarch!"


    Han quickly responded to the calls grand patriarch, almost teleporting behind him in the way he appeared so quickly.


    But Jarred didn''t seem to even notice this as he continued speaking as he looked at the fleeing ter nsmen


    "Han.


    I want you to take the n guards and lock up the city gates.No ter n member can be allowed to escape, do you hear me?"


    "Yes Grand Patriarch!"


    soon after speaking to Grand Patriarch Jarred, Han quickly gathered a group of elders and flew out of the arena.


    But it wasn''t just the ter n members that were flustered by the new developments of the kinsman n.


    After seeing theTerrifying moves the Kinsman n were starting to make, some members of the Pierce n began to worry as well.


    Since the Pierce n survived in between the cracks of the kinsman n and the ter n, they needed both ns to be of simr strength and constantly fight to survive and develop their own strength.


    But now since one of the ns had be extremely powerful it seems like the Pierce n would be in need of a new n if they wanted to survive the new changes in brightsteel city.


    Patriarch Randall quickly took his Pierce n members and quickly left the scene. They needed to be prepared for the changes happening in brightsteel city


    Seeing that Elder Han had started to act out his instructions,Jarred gave a nod of approval and slowly floated down towards Dante.


    Dante watched on as this so-called Grand Patriarch approached him.


    As Dante was inspecting Jarred, Jarred himself was doing the exact same whilst continuing to approach him in the process.


    eventually, Jarred stopped only a foot away from Dante and stared him down.


    But in front of Jarred''s piercing gaze, Dante didn''t back down at all and instead stared straight back into Jarred''s eyes not being intimidated in the slightest


    for a time there was only silence as each person stared at the other whilst the tension between the two quickly rose.


    but soon the tension was quickly broken by the sound ofughter