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Chapter 1254
Chapter 1254
A power exploded out from me. The foxkin wanted to run, but the pressure was too great. Many of them were already ill, so when they felt it, they couldn’t help but collapse to their knees. Miki’s parents were at the center of that. They curled up to each other like defenseless lambs ready to be slaughtered. At least, they wouldn’t make this difficult for me.
As for the Wolfkin Pack, they had drawn their swords, but ultimately they hesitated when they realized my true power. This was all just for show though. The real attack was accessing the dungeon store, which caused all my blessings to glow across my body, giving me a dark and powerful appearance. I accessed meteor, which I planned to use to wipe this town from existence. It was unlikely any of these people had health insurance, and even if they did, I didn’t care at the moment.
“Master…” A voice spoke up as I selected Meteor. “Deek.”
Alysia used my name, causing me to hesitate for just a second.
“You’re not going to try to stop me, are you?” I asked.
“You have every right to kill them,” Alysia spoke quietly. “It’s just… Lady Death…”
“What about her?”
“She didn’t.”
I froze for a second. “Wh-what?”
“Miki is not herself. She has been changed by what happened to her. She’s been killing village after village indiscriminately. She didn’t hesitate to murder everyone in that lab. Yet, when it came to this village, they are the only thing she left alive. All she did was make them like here. I just want you to ask yourself, is this what Miki wants?”
My hand shook slightly. No matter how awful these people were, they were her family. She cared about them in a way I didn’t understand. Perhaps it was, in the same way, I didn’t care no matter what evil things Miki, Elaya, or Astria had done. I loved them anyway. If I did this, Miki would never complain. She’d never defy me. However, there would be a piece of her that would die with it.
The glowing light faded, and I lowered my sword back down. Miki had saved this town once again, and they would never understand it.
“I won’t kill you all today,” I spoke out loud amongst the infinite quietness. “Miki was far too good for all of you. In the end, she will be the one who decides your fates.”
“Wh-what does that mean?” It was the mayor who seemed to recover enough to speak.
“If you think of running, I have already marked you all. I can find you anywhere in the world. Once I have recovered Miki, she will be the one who decides your fates. If she wishes you dead, then I will kill you without a second thought.”
“M-Miki is lost…” Her mother said, still gasping for breath. “That thing isn’t my daughter.”
“Then pray the daughter I bring back is one who can forgive you. I never will. Her fate decides your fate. If for any reason I can’t save her, then you won’t live long past that.”
“Deek…” the wolfkin leader looked over at me awkwardly.
In the end there, they had wanted to stop me. Being disgusted by foxkin was one thing, but massacring a village was quite another. Their sense of honor wouldn’t allow such a thing. I vaguely wondered when I had stopped caring about such things. I could pick a specific moment, but at some point, I had realized I wasn’t the same kind-hearted boy I had once been.
“I’ll be leaving,” I announced, glancing at the wolfkin pack. “Sorry, but I’ll be taking things into my own hands from this point on. Thank your lord for his assistance. I will remember it.”
I lowered my knees, and then jumped, using several bonuses of enhanced strength I had set up while reconfiguring my dungeon skills. I exploded into the air, creating a small crater where I had been. I was about fifty feet into the air and above the treeline when I created a step and then shoved off it, this time at an angle heading in the direction of the rabbitkin city and Miki. The air cracked as I exploded off into the distance at a ridiculous rate. I had done something like this once while fighting Astria, but this time I was using it purely for speed.
I was just hoping, using my powerful legs to leap great distances. To the people down below who wouldn’t understand that, I looked like I rose into the air and then flew away.
The wolfkin pack who had been traveling with me for nearly a week were sweating. They were merely rank A adventurers as a group but had been acting mostly arrogantly. The kind and friendly cook that had traveled with them quietly had suddenly turned into a powerful demon king. At least, that was the appearance.
“D-did you know he could do that?” One of the wolfkin muttered in disbelief.
The leader could only shake his head with wide eyes. Although, he knew he’d never forget meeting this man, and when sharing stories with his grandchildren about his time as an adventurer, his best one might be about that time he had traveled alongside the legendary hero, Lord Deek Deekson.