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Chapter 228: What Was That?
Chapter 228: What Was That?
Chapter 228: What Was That?
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The blood dripped down a mountain. It was a strange mountain of dangled arms, twisted legs and crushed skulls.
It was actually a mountain of corpses. It was a haunting sight to behold.
It was located in the center of an innocent-looking village. It was an empty and dead village now. The houses still looked intact, the streets clean, and the air pure, but all the villagers were dead, piled high in the center of the village.
On top of the corpse mountain, a person was sitting crosslegged, his legs long and thin, his skin pale, and his eyes closed with a small smile on his face.
"Hmm~" Akuji hummed a song. "You lied to me~"
There was someone kneeling below the mountain. A tear-ridden old man was staring up at the person on top of the mountain, his heart heavy with regret and sorrow.
If he had only spoken the truth.
If he had just betrayed their ruler.
If only he wasn't as loyal as he was, his family and the people he was supposed to protect would still be alive.
"I am sorry!" The old man tearfully shouted. "What else do you want from me?! You killed everyone!"
"I want your wholehearted apology," Akuji said. "Say it with passion. I want to see that you truly regret your actions."
"I do, I already do!" The old man shouted. "I am very, very, very sorry!"
"Mmh, I can't tell if you really mean it." Akuji clicked his tongue.
'This lunatic. Can't he see that I am heartbroken? Can't he see that I lost everything?! Does he even have emotions?!'
Akuji slid down the corpse mountain and slowly walked to the sorrowful old man. The old man looked down at the soil that was wet with blood.
"Say it again." Akuji prayed with his hands. "With passion. With anger. With hatred. With regret. With sorrow. Anything!"
"I am sorry!" The old man screamed. "I was stupid. I was foolish. I was ignorant. I regret everything!"
"What're you sorry about?"
"I lied about the fact we are loyal to the king." The old man said. "I lied about joining Nightshade faction for the war. I didn't think far. I am sorry!"
"Hmm." Akuji's lips crunched together in a thin line. "I don't know. You said that you're sorry, but you were looking at me when you said that. Shouldn't you be sorry at the dead for not protecting them?"
The old man's eyes widened.
'A trap!'
Akuji cut his head off with his bare hands, and the blood sprayed everywhere, painting the walls in a grotesque display of violence.
"Yawn!" Akuji let out a very loud yawn and walked past the headless corpse. "Well, this village is now ours. It's such a remote place that it wouldn't probably be even used for the war, but oh well."
Thump!
On top of a nearby building with a pitched roof, someone emerged from a black smoke cloud. It was a person with devilish eyes, a forked tongue, and long fingers with black nails.
"Akuji, trouble has arisen!"
"What is it now?" Akuji asked. "Your little Shadow League has encountered some trouble?" "Tch..." Snakeman clicked his tongue in annoyance. "A small group of basement dwellers. None of my main guys. However, they got eradicated in the Godswood."
"Oh, by who?" Akuji asked with a raised eyebrow, already suspecting the answer.
"Children of the Fair," Snakeman said. "The Brothers and the Sisters have made their move." "Of course they would; Godswood is a strong place to hold." Akuji said. "I doubt they'll be able to get control of Godswood in just a day. Ambrose wants me to go there to assist?" "Godswood has been abandoned." Snakeman said. "Burned, turned to ash."
"Oh, interesting move." Akuji said. "Godswood has those God Beasts that make venturing there dangerous. What happened to them?"
"Slayed, like every other Chaosbeing there." Snakeman said. "Mikael of the Imperial Order took care of them."
"Wooh..." Akuji grinned. "That's one dangerous guy. What now?"
"It looks like the Brothers and the Sisters are heading over to the Imperium City." Snakeman said. "Like everyone else is. The first battle will happen there."
Rumble!
The sky rumbled with thunder as dark clouds gathered overhead.
'It's about to rain?' Akuji frowned. 'That's spring for ya~'
He took an umbrella from his inventory, opened it up, and covered himself under it.
It didn't take even a second for rains to start pattering down.
With water rushing down, the blood on the streets was quickly washed away.
"What're you planning to do now?" Snakeman asked as he jumped from roof to roof, following Akuji, who was clearly heading out of the village.
"Imperium City, where else?" Akuji asked with a laugh. "That's where the party will happen!"
"You're the Third Hand of Ambrose-he would appreciate your presence." Snakeman said. "What's with the glazing?" Akuji asked. "What do you want? Speak your mind out!"
"If you find any of the Sisters and Brothers, alone perhaps, kill one of them for me, will you?"
"I don't work for you. Why would I do that?" Akuji asked.
"I'll give you Blackheart's black heart in return." Snakeman said with a slight grin.
He knew it was a very attractive object.
"And I wonder how you got hand to one of them." Akuji chuckled. "Fine. Does it matter if it is only Tenth Brother or Sister? I don't think I can kill the First Brother and Sister, they're always
together like two peas in a pod."
"That's fine. Any of them is fine." Snakeman said.
"Alright, I'll do my best~"
In that, an enormous slithering shadow made the surroundings dark, like someone had turned
off the lights.
When they looked to the sky, they saw something incredibly large and heavenly slithering above the dark clouds. It seemingly came out of nowhere!
"What the hell is that?"
The dark clouds under the enormous shadow's mouth disappeared as a pillar of hellish fire
and smoke shot out, consuming the entire village in flames.
"Argh!" Akuji fell through the ground as the flames crashed down on him.
Snakeman vanished into his shadows.
The flames swept across the land and made the nearby farm fields turn to ash.
The shadow above the dark clouds left quickly. It slithered across the sky and had already disappeared beyond the horizon, with the dark clouds following it.
The sky turned clean, the rain stopped, and the sun returned.
Through the burned, ash-filled ground, Akuji punched through with a rageful shout that
echoed through the burned wasteland.
"What the hell was that?!"
Snakeman appeared close to him. His face was cold with sweat, and he looked as frightened as
Akuji.
"What the heavenly fuck was that?" Akuji asked. "Snakeman, did you see what it was?"
"No!" Snakeman shook his head. "I can usually see through the shadows, but that thing... I
couldn't see it as if I was not allowed to do so!"
"Not allowed?" Akuji frowned. "A being that can change the laws of the world?"
"God?" Snakeman asked in shock.
"I don't know." Akuji narrowed his eyes. "Usually Gods are only able to change the laws of the world. If you couldn't see it even with your shadow powers, it means the being changed a law of sight around it. Thus, no one could see it unless it wanted to be seen."
"That's ridiculous!" Snakeman cried out.
"What way did it go?" Akuji asked, as he couldn't see it because he was buried in the ground.
"To the west." Snakeman said heavily. "In the direction of the Imperium City." "What the hell is going on?" Akuji clicked his tongue. "Will there even be Imperium City left after all this? What's happening there that even attracts beings as godly as that?"