These Familiars Are Strange

There was a tense silence that lingered in the air, but then I realized something.

"Right, I haven't allowed you to speak yet." I said to them before giving a nod towards them.

The moment that I gave this nod, Brother Shi's group felt that they had regained control of their bodies.

It wasn't full control, but they were at least able to control their heads and importantly their mouths again. That meant that they were finally able to speak.

"Let us go right now if you know what's good for you." Brother Shi said as soon as he was able to speak.

The others didn't say anything as they let Brother Shi represent them, but it was clear by the look on their faces that they were thinking the same thing as him. It was clear that none of them believed that I would actually do anything to them.

It seemed that they were young masters that just hadn't seen the reality of the world.

Then again…since they were young masters, they had most likely been protected since they were born and hadn't needed to experience the reality of the world.

At the same time, since they were in this competition, they had to be talented people. People that had this kind of talent would naturally rise up above all of their peers, so they never would have been put in this kind of situation.

It was just too bad for them that they met me today.

"Pa!"

A look of shock appeared on Brother Shi's face after this slapping sound rang out.

There was also a trace of red that appeared on his face since he was the one that had been slapped.

Even if he had the stone golem armour around himself, there was a part of the armour where his face was revealed since he wouldn't be able to see if it was blocked. That meant that it was perfect for me to slap him right in the face through it.

After a long moment of silence, a look of rage replaced the stunned look that had been on his face as he roared, "How dare you hit me!"

"Pa!"

All that followed was another slap to the face.

It really was interesting since he should have already expected such a thing to happen if he were to act like this, but it didn't seem like he actually expected it. It seemed like he thought that he still would get his way even though he was being restrained like this.

These people…really didn't have any survival instinct at all.

"You! You did it again!"

"Pa!"@@novelbin@@

"How dare you…"

"Pa!"

"I…"

"Pa!"

"Oh my bad, you were actually trying to say something that time. Go on, what did you want to say?"

"I won't let you go…" Though Brother Shi said this, it didn't have the same vigor that he had previously.

And of course…

"Pa!"

It was a cycle of shouting and then getting slapped until his face was swollen and his ego was shattered.

"Please stop hitting me. What do you want?" Brother Shi's voice seemed much more restrained compared to before.

It seemed that the beating had taught him something in the end.

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"Well, tell me everything that you know about this place. We're both competitors, so naturally I want all the information that you have." I said in a casual tone that almost seemed like I was teasing him.

The expressions on the faces of Brother Shi and the others turned ugly when they heard this.

This definitely wasn't a question that they wanted to answer since it would hurt their chances of getting a good position in this competition.

When I saw this look on their faces, I didn't hesitate to pull out the bone sword that I placed at the neck of Brother Shi before saying, "Then we can always talk after your shave. I'm sure you won't mind if you're missing a few things by the end of it."

A chill ran down Brother Shi's back when he heard this.

This was the first time that he had actually come this close to death.

Even if he had been in dangerous situations, it wasn't as if he had ever been in a situation where he actually would have lost his life.

Every situation that he had been in was one where he would have been protected by his family if things went wrong.

So when he felt this kind of threat to his life for the first time…

There was this strange yellow liquid that came out of the bottom of the stone golem.

I looked down and couldn't help knitting my brows when I saw this before taking a step back.

Brother Shi didn't react to this right away, but when he did…his face turned completely red and he didn't know what to say.

With a cough, I said, "Just tell me what you know already."

Brother Shi's face was still red, but he eventually started talking.

It was a bit rambly since he was embarrassed and still a bit scared, but he gave up all the information that he knew.

There was some information that was useful, but most of it wasn't that useful.

"So there are a total of five Elite Monsters in this dungeon? Are you sure of that?"

Brother Shi slowly gave a nod as he said, "I received that information from one of my senior brothers who explored this dungeon in the past."

I looked at him with narrowed eyes that had a trace of doubt, but eventually I reached forward to grab something.

"What are you doing?"

I didn't respond as I dug through his stone golem armour until I was annoyed by it and said, "Tell your stone golem to release itself."

"Release." Brother Shi said almost in a trance before saying, "How did you do that?"

I ignored him as I pulled out a small round thing.

Seeing me take this from him, Brother Shi said, "What are you…"

Looking at it, I shattered that small round thing before he finished talking.

As soon as I shattered it, there was a light that appeared around Brother Shi's group and they disappeared.