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Chapter 13 - 13. The Lonely Lion

As soon as Icaris got a on move towards the city, he was quickly ambushed by two men in white long coats, The Executioners.

"It is indeed a pleasure to be assigned to execute one of the Legendaries. Its nice to meet you, I am the Vice Captain of the 3rd Squad of Executioners, Euntae Lee and this gentleman right here is my first mate, Vasc–"

Euntae was quickly attacked by Icaris as he couldn't be bothered by who they were and he had no time to waste.

Euntae and Vasco dogded his attacks and the both perfectly landed on thier feets.

"Now Now gentleman, no need to rush."

Euntae said standing behind Icaris and catching him off guard.

A shocked Icaris quickly detonated the area again as if to escape through the smoke but was hit by a high a very sharp and invisible air blade that cut right through him and he started to bleed.

Icaris landed on his feet, bleeding through his right peck and breathing heavily, he waited, as the smoke cleared, he saw both the executioners standing infront of him, one grinning while the other with a little frown on thier faces.

Icaris clenched his right fist and started to growl in extreme anger, he closed the distance and attemoted to hit the two with magma powered punches but the two dodged swiftly, again, but then Iacris instantly got on the back of Vasco, created a plasma like fire in hand and shoved it right into him, Euntae seeing this attcked him from beneath, got ahold of Icaris's feet and slammed him down to the ground. He then shifted the terrain itself and gave him back to back blows of mountains with highly increased density.

Suddnely a huge thrust of magma tore the Earth apart and came with it—a rampaging beast with nothing but bloodlust in his eyes, picked Euntae up from his coat. The heat of his anger scorched away his clothes but with little hope of survival Euntae turned the Earth he stood on, into refined glass blades and attcked him from beneath again.

Euntae chuckled a little upon making unpredictable attack but was dumbfounded as Icaris's body turned into fire itself and healed it. Euntae couldn't believe his eyes of what he just had witnessed. His grinning face had now shifed to one with complete despair.

Suddenly from behind Vasco hit him with the same sharp and invisble air blade, this one so powerful that it could even cut the barriers of space itself. Icaris noticed it come towards him but did not dodge it. For if he had dodged that attack, or used his flames of regeneration, the refined blade would have torn Euntae, the dear prey of Icaris apart.

This blade put a toll on Icaris, his strength weakened, losing his grip on Euntae letting him free, as he coughed blood and was dropped to his knees. Euntae standing infront of him, breathing heavily, shocked to be given mercy by the enemy he was told to execute. His widely opened round eyes, again couldn't grasp the situation.

The still looking Vasco, unsheathed his sword as he came infront of Icaris and was about to rip his head off then suddenly he sensed something, he sensed somwthing so intense that it made him cower in fear, he stepped back with a large amount of sweat on his pale face. His dropped his sword and fell on the ground. While Icaris got up, healing himself a little with his flames.

"Y–y–yo–you are a Monsterrr. Y–you were. You were planning tuh–to k–k–k–killl meee"

Stuttered an extremely scared Vasco upon witnessing the intent of a rampage boiled Icaris.

Icaris gave a sharp look to the two executioners, both in disbelief, one upon being saved by an enemy and the other, in fear. Then Icaris took off towards the city, where Captain Stincer had gone off to, for Icaris's family.

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As a bruised from battle Icaris reached the city, he sensed an uproar. He got scared, he ran, he ran as fast he could for his home; His wife who had never stopped believing in him, who he loved and his beloved little son, who he had met for the first time. For Icaris loved and cherished the two more than anything in the world. He was scared, he breathed heavily as he ran with his jaw quivering and brows joined togethers. He reached his home, he finally saw what he had been so desperate for. His immensely fast beating heart relieved a little, hoping to see his wife and son, he opened the door to his house and saw.

The expressions on Icaris's face that were relieved upon seeing his door without anything unusual, were quickly changed into huge despair. His jaw widely open and eyes completely rejecting what he was seeing. His heart ached very hard. His already heavy breathing now started to carry some weight of cry. Icaris just froze there. The one who was said to move the planet couldn't move his own weight upon seeing a dead woman and a dead child in front of him. For his weight now was perhaps even heavier than the weight of the planet.

Icaris cleared his throat and got a clean look at the dead people. It was not the two he first thought were, but were close friends of them. Icaris was relieved that it was not Chloria and Arkas lying there dead but it was confusing, even to him that he just could be relieved after seeing a dead body infront of him. Icaris was perhaps even more saddened to learn that some people lost thier lives for his cause. That thought was too much to handle for Icaris as tears started to come out of his eyes.

He was relieved that it was not his family that he saw lying dead in his house but at the same time felt extreme disgust from himself that he started to punch himslef for the death of the two people he had never before. Yet to worsen the situation, a crowd started to gather outside of the house and upon recognizing the two and a Red List criminal. The crowd of people just casually blamed the suffering Icaris for the death of the two without even having a need to interrogate.

Then suddenly an uproar started amoung the people to catch Icaris on the case. The people started to come inside the house for that cause and put chains on Icaris with different attributes.

A lost Icaris was dragged outisde the house but before the support squad could arrive, he had to flee, that he did all so easily by burning the chains and and jumpimg off the ground. He then climbed to the roof of some random house not so far from his house and lay down there to clear his head.

Too much was happeneing inside Icaris's mind at once that he felt powerless. He closed his eyes and burned the emotions of despair and fear rising from within him and then opened his eyes. Yet even after burning away his emotions, he still felt hollow, so empty that he started to laugh. He luaghed and laughed so loud that tears came out of his eyes. He got up, struggling to stand and went ahead towards the place he and Chloria had agreed to meet upon.

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Tips:

The Legendaries is a group of People who conspired to overthrow the World Goverment. Icaris and other major characters were part of that.

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