Nameless King

Erza picked up the white coin, and space trembled. The floor beneath Erza suddenly collapsed, and she fell into impenetrable darkness. Erza tried to grab onto something, but only dark energy was around her.

"Erza!" Wain ran up to the abyss and watched her disappear into the darkness.

Whooooooosh.

A door appeared next to Wain, and a black coin headed toward it, and the door opened.

'Have we been separated? Damn, I don't like this.' Wain shook his head and headed for the door.

...

Behind the door was a spacious room with a glass floor. A dark spirit hovered in the center of the room, and when he saw Wain, he smiled.

"Hello." The Spirit waved his hand.

"Who are you?" Wain became alert and prepared for battle, he could feel the threat emanating from the Spirit.

"Oh, you don't have to be so serious. I won't fight you. I'm only part of this ordeal."

"Then why are you here?"

"Just look down." The Spirit pointed a finger.

"Erza?"

Down below was Erza, with a vast maze around her. She was imprisoned in the room she was trying to get out of, but her blows were ineffective.

"You chose the black coin, which means your role is to lead her to the exit. Once you say, the trial will begin, and she will hear your voice, but you have one more option."

"What are you talking about?"

"Betray her and kill her. It will be very easy for you to do that with a labyrinth."

Wain frowned; he didn't like such a nasty suggestion.

"Don't even think I'd stoop to something like that." Wain said coldly.

"Are you sure? I've been watching you closely since you walked in here, and there's a serious, unresolved conflict between you. She is an Inerian and wants to make you hers, even a fool would understand that, obviously you are against it, but it is hard for you to resist since you are weaker. In that case, wouldn't it be logical to get rid of her?"

"Have you been following us? Something I don't believe it since you would have realized I wouldn't have done something like that."

"Yes, you didn't kill her even though you had the chance, but I'm not a naive fool, and I understand that you didn't do it just out of nobility and honesty. I'm sure you didn't kill her because you were worried that you couldn't pass the trial without her, and you were right."

The Spirit snapped his fingers, and a stone sword appeared beside him and a passageway behind which an altar could be seen.

"Get rid of her, and you will pass the test immediately. What's more, I'll even give you a small gift." The Spirit smiled, and ten gray coins appeared in his hand, it was Void Coins.

"A hundred thousand Void Souls?"

"Yes, isn't that a bad deal?"

"What's your gain?"

Wain was sure that the Spirit offering something so evil surely wanted something from this deal.

"This girl is very strong. I would even say abnormally strong. You don't truly understand all her power. When she grabbed you by the neck initially, she could have easily broken your arms and legs, you wouldn't have died, and she would have gotten what she wanted. She spared you, that's the only reason you could fight back. Those barriers have a hard time holding up against her blows." Spirit said, looking at Erza.

"I'll absorb it and get a huge amount of energy. You will pass the test and get the money, accept it."

Wain looked at the Spirit with a thoughtful face, "I want to ask you something. What would happen if I took the white coin?"

"That's obvious. You'd be down, and she'd be here. I'm lucky, since she certainly wouldn't have agreed to kill you."

"Okay, I hear you. You may have actually been following us, but you're pretty damn stupid." Wain smirked.

"What?" The Spirit frowned.

'Let's go!' A voice rang out in Wain's head.

"Because it looks like you missed the part where I beat Erza!" Wain exclaimed, and a dark mask with white eyes appeared on half of his face.

"You bastard!" The Spirit became angry and attacked Wain, realizing that the negotiations were over. His hands turned into clawed paws and swung them crosswise.

Wain smirked and created two phantom hands with a flick of his finger that grabbed Spirit and began to consume him, just like Erza's orb slowly.

"What? What are you doing?!"

"Ahahahaha, looks like you tried to trick me after all. If you were watching us, you would know that your darkness is incapable of harming me. You're certainly not stronger than Erza, which means you don't stand a chance!"

"Wait! Stay! We can still make a deal! If you let me live, I'll show you how to get to the altar! Don't kill me!" The Spirit pleaded. There was a grimace of horror and fear on his face, he didn't expect the situation to take such a turn suddenly.

"I don't negotiate with pathetic trash like you." Wain said coldly and clenched his palm in a fist. Phantom hands collapsed together and crushed the Spirit, ripping it into curls of darkness.

The coins, the stone sword, and the portal to the altar turned to ash and disappeared.

"They were illusions... I see, my gut was not wrong. It seems it was a test within a test." Wain muttered and removed his dark mask.

'Suddenly Black Sun Aristocrat got such a strong ability, and I was intuitively able to use it... How strange, but it's good. Forms can become stronger not only during evolution but also in unique situations.' Wain pondered and looked down.

Erza was still trying to get out of the room, but she was already tired. Her fists were covered in blood, and she was breathing heavily. She was furious that she was caged like a slave.

Wain was ready to begin the challenge, and he looked at the maze, which was huge, a trap with many threats and rewards.