A waste of mana they said, for me they are a waste of breath, but since that Lord of theirs want to have a nice meal, i believe that i just have the right menu for him to try .
Hurryup , youknow that patient isn't one of the lord's qualities , with that said the messenger or the sorcerer that was delivering the massage went back to the other side of the gate after hurrying the comrades of his to stabilize the gate before commencing to send the tributes .
The moment he passed through the gate, i finally unleashed some of the raging anger in my chest by first activating my Aura Of Strong skill and cast my Stun skill on all of the guys present .
And only then did i begin to come out of the effects of my Stealth and Camouflage skills , unhurried yet steadily without wasting much time still .
I first went to check on the chained up kids and young teens but they were still had dull eyes as if they wasn't even aware of the me who was standing directly in front of them .
Charmed, the only explanation to what could have probably led them to become like this , they were charmed by those sorcerers, but if they were already charmed to become like this , why would have they even need to lay a finger on them .
And not just lay a finger some of the kids in front of me had some nasty scars and burns not to mention the bruises under their eyes and all over their bodies .
No logical explanation could my brain possibly find for such cruelty, but an irrational guess would be that they did because they believed they can .
Fun, that was all what all of this sound to them, they had fun in using these children and kids as a kettle just because they have the bigger fist over them , so then i too believe that i have every right to do the same thing to them .
I was so in wrath, that i wanted nothing more than to end their miserable lives right here and now, but something in my mind and even heart was telling me that it wasn't enough for them to just die peacefully like that .
As i saw the dull looks on the faces of all those chained up kids, i finally decided on what to do was all of them, they deserve to be treated the same way they treated these young kids and in the same way they wanted to use these kids too .
All the calculations to achieve this happened almost instantly in my mind , it was as if i suddenly becoming a genius in plotting of some sort .
But is there a way to fix these guys dull like state , i looked at the sorcerers now stoned like stances and was able to see a hateful expression on all of their faces , which was quite enough to let me understand that they won't help me even if i tried to strike a deal with one of them .
And even if it was related to his survivability of staying alive and even if somehow one of them agreed to this proposition of mine, i would still let him end like all of his other friends, there is no saving for those guys , their fates have been already doomed the moment that i witnessed such a horrible and horrending scene taking place .
But that bring me back to the same question as before, how exactly am i going to release them from that state that they are in .
That might actually work, i hurriedly used the Healing Magic skill in try of healing all of them up and what made me sure if it working as intended was the description of the skill and weirdly enough i was able to actually recall the description of the skill quite accurately , it enable a 100% healing, a fully healing to me or whoever i designed to use the skill on, so i believed it to actually work .
A brilliant flash of green light suddenly appeared and engulfed the whole area those chained guys were in, then the next second the dull expression on the faces of those guys instantly melted down together was all of their injuries too and what replaced them was shaking bodies and sobering voices of the kids as they looked at me and my glowing hands while cowering in fear that i might be one of those bad guys .
I didn't blame them for their reaction, but i let them process what was going on their own, the younger ones were easily persuaded by the kind smile that i was now showing on the surface luckily it was still quite even here in another world some of them began to come over and held my hands and armor .
As for the older ones they looked at me with apperant doubts in their eyes, some were just curiously staring at me but most of them were stealing doubtful glances at me and the reason why i found their reaction to be quite normal was remembering that in this world you are considered an adult just as you got assigned a job or eligible to get one at 12 years of age .
They continued to size me up and down as if trying to be assure of my motives or what was my next move going to be for a few more seconds , then they began to collapse suddenly one after the other giving me quite the startle in how fast was this process going but more worried about what might had caused such a sudden to happen and what could it exactly mean .
So i hurriedly tried to use Healing Magic again instantly without missing a beat but none of them woke up which scared me more than before, i began to check their pulses and found it be slightly weaker compared to mine but it was there, so that gave me a bit of hope .
I looked around in try of finding something useful here for me to use and found a big piece of cloth hanging from a nearby window so i hurriedly went and grabbed it then shot another Stun with my Curse skill at the culprits then went to gather the bodies together in the big piece of cloth that i had found after checking that there was no one missing and no more kids were in that storehouse, i then went swiftly towards the inn .
With my current strength i took a 3 seconds to reach the inn as i was getting closer too the door i actually began hearing a crashing sounds that had me wondering what was left in the inn to be broken, i entered inside and the bar counter was now like a of broken pieces of wood trying to come together but that was now currently impossible .
I called for Regard and from behind the destroyed counter a human finger suddenly appeared as if giving me a clear note of someone existing there, i looked more closely and saw that it was actually an almost dying and disheveled Regard laying in a pond of his own blood .
I activated my Healing Magic skill on him and it healed him instantly but he wasn't happy about this, since without even wasting a second he came to me and angrily yelled at me for doing this even before i ask about what was going with him just now .
From the words that i was able to piece together from his ranting , i figured that he was angry because that after i had went off in the way that i did , Liliana didn't actually find the dagger to her liking so she beat him up pretty badly and when she stopped beating him up he figured that she had already vented all of her accumulated frustration and that he should be safe and healed himself and he was wrong , like very wrong .
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The moment he healed himself she came and beat him up once more, it happened 6 times that he just began to give up on healing himself and took his beating like a real man would, but then i appeared and thrashed all of those efforts of his .
I wasn't in the mood to pay attention to pay attention to all of this since my mind was currently here but was more focusing on the situation at that Teleportation gate, so i only told him to take care of those guys and briefly told him about how i got to meet them and then directly left heading back to the Teleportation gate leaving a quite dumbstruck Regard with his mouth shaped in an OOOs like shape out of bewilderment .
I will probably have to apologize for this later, but it was no problem since it was later , now to the meantime, i came back and looked around to see if someone was following me and then when i was there that i'm good .
I began to implement the plan that i had in mind for those wastes of air, human scums .
Fist i get the chains that i have forcefully unlocked before and wrapped all of them in it and start leading them towards the Teleportation gate in front of me, the guards too since i had a quite clear plan on my mind, one that allow me to fully show them the taste of their own medicine .
The moment i forcefully pulled the last guard through the gate, it actually closed, some of the sorcerers took notice of such a thing happening and was about to alarm the others when my Aura Of Strong and my Curse skill both took effect and completely engulfed the camp of theirs .
Silencing all of them up in a blink of an eye, luckily the camp of theirs was a bit distance away from the army of monsters, i then swept all of the space storage equipment that they have on and went through all of them with apperant ease.
Luckily i found a few wardrobes for the guards to put on like the rest of the sorcerers then i cuffed the other sorcerers as well as i put my own costume as well and began walking towards the army of monsters in front of us, already having a wild guess on where was that master of their might be ? .
Weirdly enough as i was beginning to get closer to the army of monsters, i was able to take notice that some strong auras were actually pressing against me on my way to the camp of monsters .
From their auras i was able to conclude that in this camp there was at least 5 to 6 S Ranked monsters , i was getting a few hostile glances from the surrounding monsters but that was all no one acted on that hostility of their .
As i reached the palanquin and sensed the aura of the monster it more clearly, i stood at the door and said : it's the food you ordered sir in the most neutral tone that i could use at the moment .
The answer to my words was the curtains unfolding enough to allow the tributes to enter , i then began to strip them out of their clothes and push them inside without giving the horrified expressions on their faces much mind .
One by one entered inside and everyone of them wasn't even able to issue a scream before being devoured completely by the thing inside the tent, a few seconds later a burping sound came from the inside of the tent in front of me and my enraged heart and my busy mind all came to become at ease and some could judge my actions to be cruel but i believe that they need to be treated in the same way as how they wanted to treat those kids , an eye for an eye looked quite compelling to me .
but then his sudden question caught me off guard .
A gruff and a grave sort of voice came from inside of the tent asking :
What were the results of the monsters that were unleashed inside the capital city ? .
I took a moment to organize my thoughts before saying that it was going fine and that the monsters were wrecking havoc on the capital without much of an effort .
The sound from inside the tent shut down then said :
Who are you ? .
I was stunned for a moment at the question he asked unsure of what to answer him with and it was that silence and incapability of answering that question of his that actually led me to be found out .
The answer to my silent was a weird gray tentacle coming directly my way piercing through the tent, but luckily i was able to parry it with quite ease by jumping backwards completely avoiding its pursuit .
I then began to hear a few footsteps coming from the tent before the same gruff voice from before saying :
Normally the answer to this question , is i'm your faithful servant sir so again who exactly are you and what did you feed me just now ? .
I still saw no sign of him coming out from that tent of his but the sudden action he took just now brought the attention of all the high ranking monsters towards this area , they began to surround the area and some even created a huge amount of barriers instantly in try of stopping me from escaping .
I paid them no mind since i had already achieved what i wanted to by coming here , so now i'm quite free to go berserk as well on those guys without any remorse , i'm going to release some of the accumulated frustration that i had accumulated as well .
I replied to the thing in a taunting voice saying :
A human, and why do you ask about the food didn't you find your so-called faithful servants taste to your liking .
Then i removed the costume and the mask that i was wearing and i was able to tell that he was enraged after what i said, since i felt the air around me suddenly shifting with the monsters that were initially trying to surround me began to actually take a few steps back as if they already anticipated what was going to happen next now that their master was provoked .
Suddenly a few tentacles appeared from the tent, they were numerous and their target was to engulf me in them but that that was quite difficult to achieve, i punched forward with full force and the shockwave created from my punch repelled and shattered those tentacles that were coming my way while also destroying the tent where the person whose those tentacles belonged to was , giving me a full view of what exactly what was i currently going up against .
A humanoid form that was taller than 3 meters with a gray complexion and skin tone, bones were sticking out of his whole body in front and from his back he looked more of a mummy than an actual living thing , the eyes of his was hollowed but a red color was apperant inside of them that give all of those who looks in his eyes the impression of looking inside the abyss .
His facial features were horrending and there was nothing remarkable feature about it other than the absence of a chin and the huge unhinged mouth that took almost three quarters of his face and even reached to his neck, he wore nothing and their was nothing to cover since the lower parts of his was nowhere close to have any resemblance to human , the lower parts of his was that of a snake lower parts and tail having a dark shimmering scales covering his lower body completely .
Something that i was also able to notice was that the space was currently twitching around the said creature as if both sides were repelling each other .
The thing looked a bit bewildered at me for a few seconds, seeing how i dealt with his attack with ease and came out of it unharmed must gave him a bit of a shock or something like that, but he then just sighed and didn't spare me much of a glance as he slithered to one of the high ranking monsters and told him to start the attack .
I wasn't able to see how the low ranking Adventurers were currently fairing but i was certain that they would be massacred if they were to be forced to deal with the higher ranking monsters currently , so i took action immediately and moved instantly and appeared of the monster that was about to declare the starting of the attack and greeted him with a punch but then the most incredulous scene happen .
The monster that i was targeting suddenly swopped place with the leader of this monsters raid and took my punch instead of the other guy .
The moment my hand made contact with his skin i was able to directly make a hole in his chest and send him flying but the next moment i felt something was wrong since the said creature suddenly disappeared from my sight and i was able to feel something suddenly appeared behind me .
~ Clang~ .
Whatever attack he tried to made just now, it didn't succeed, i was going to counter but my counter attack didn't hit anything, but this didn't concern me as much as wanting to find out how was he able to appear behind me just now when my punch just now should have sent him flying back to wherever he had come from, heck how did he even appeared their in the first place .
You have quite the tough body, mind you all the opponent i have met were finishing by me in one move, you are the first one to be able to survive, you must be very proud of your strength, if you choose to appear willingly like that in an enemy's territory, or maybe you are just having a death wish and in need for it to be fulfilled , either way i believe you will be quite the delicy .
He said and licked his mouth which creeped me out and again wanted to find the one monster who will declare the start of attack , but i then was able to hear another horn that was being blown, but this time the sound was much louder than the previous time and was instantly aware that i was still a bit too late to stop the army marching now .
I felt a disturbance in the space behind me and become instantly alert another strike came at me out of nowhere, but this time he attacked me with his snake like lower part, but the moment i throw a punch at the incoming tail a different monster appeared in front of me and ate the punch that i just released and a sudden tail strike came towards my chest in a sharp way as if trying to pierce through my heart with this attack .
It was unexpected attack yes but with Hunter's Instinct even sneaky attacks like this one was easy to counter, i jumped above the ground with ease and held the back of the snake like part that was attacking me and i smashed it sideway to the ground but that wrong feeling kicked in once again and i saw that what i just smashed into the ground was another monster that suddenly appeared in my hand .
~clang~
What is going on with that body of yours ? .
I can ask you the same thing about how are you hustling your way out of each attack that i have been throwing at you .
That's easy to explain, i'm just swapping places with my minions the moment you are attacking me, your turn .
That could really explain the weird feeling that i kept on feeling while fighting this creature in front of me , i then said :
Well, since your are quite honest, i have no reason to hide it from you , the reason you aren't able to land any damage is because , i saw that he was quite looking forward to me continue to talk about that secret of mine .
So i continued to say truthfully :
IT'S NOTHING ACTUALLY, I'M JUST MUCH STRONGER THAN YOU .
~ Boooooom ~ .