"Please forgive me, my lord. I'll beg you, Please have mercy my lord."
A skinny man named Sam is on his knees crying and begging for his life in front of a man named Taron Vesh, he is a gang lord of Black Hollow. He is sitting on a single sofa. He is a brutal, scarred man with gold rings and a serpent tattoo on his left shoulder. Taron controls half of Veylor kingdom. Because many nobles support him from background.
Taron lean forward and smiled. "Have mercy on you." Taron stands up and starts circling Sam. "Sam, you know when I introduced you to him. We made a deal that you will work for me." Taron stopped behind Sam and grabbed his head with his left hand. "And now because you become father of a daughter, you want to quit." Taron became angry and his voice got tense."You really forget who I really am."
"Please….."
Taron crushed Sam's head in an instant. Sam's body fell on the ground. Sam's body blood start flowing on ground and touch Taron boot's
"Ahhhh, these bastards can't even serve properly." Then Taron put his foot on Sam's chest and started rubbing his boot to clean.
A man, who was standing behind Taron in the dark, said. "My lord, our eighty five gang members and thirteen civilians are dead. And those corpses are different than usual."
"You mean a Blood art practitioner appeared. Did he made contract with him"
"No my lord, I already asked him and he denied any involvement in this matter."
Taron leaned backward and closed his eyes. "Go find that bastard."
"Yes my lord."
And suddenly he vanished in thin air.
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People of Veylor now have a new issue to discuss this morning. A warning is already circulated by a king that 'a psycho killer is moving around freely. So, all civilians don't approach dark alleys alone and if possible don't go outside at night.' Imperial soldiers announced this warning throughout the kingdom.
Arin is standing there in the crowd hearing this warning. Then he lowered his head and started walking.
He murmurs "Those fools, don't they know I am doing it for society not for myself. By the way, is she really living in this church?"
Arin is standing in front of a church. It's just a normal church. Many people are going in and out from that church. This church has very good architectural designs on the walls.
Arin entered the church. Arin saw many benches and a statue there. There is a massive chandelier on the roof, and there are many candles burning on it. This statue somehow looks different. It's massive and looks similar to the collector, many candles are burning in front of this statue.
Arin got shocked when he saw the Collector's statue. There he realised that he is not dealing with some entity but with a God himself.
Then Arin moved forward and there he saw Lyra praying in front of the statue. He sneaks behind her and takes his mouth near Lyra's right ear. "Hey, how are you doing?"
Lyra got scared and leaned left. She placed her hand on her right ear. "Mr. You scared me."
"I am now Mr. for you." Arin makes a disappointed face.
"Do I know you?" She tilted her head with confusion.
"What do you mean, do I know? You are the one who feeds me. When I was hungry and now you are asking, do I know you?" Arin turns back and starts walking towards the exit and murmurs. "Here I got excited for nothing." Wipe his tears.(But nothing is there.)
Lyra grabs his hand from behind. "Arin right, I didn't forget you. You just changed too much." She blushed and her voice got lower. "Now you are tall, handsome, with ripped muscle and—"
"And" Arin turns back and leans towards her.
Suddenly the church priest approaches them from behind Lyra. "So, you are Arin that Lyra always talk about."
"Father please." Lyra interrupts the priest.
Priest laughs then he closes towards Arin and moves his for shake, Arin also moves his hand and shakes his hand with Priest. Priest is a tall, middle aged man wearing black cloak with a pendal; that pendal consists a little statue of the Collector.
"Hello child, myself Kael and I am the head priest of this church. You can visit the whole church with Lyra. She will show you the way." Then Kael turns and goes away inside a room.
"Then shall we go." Lyra said.
"Sure." Arin moves forward and stands beside Lyra.
Both Lyra and Arin move forward inside the church. Then Arin asks Lyra about the statue of Collector.
"He is our God, who gave us powers to help others."
They enter the corridor of the church. There is a beautiful garden in the middle. Many types of flowers are blooming in that garden and many nuns are there irrigating plants in the sides of the garden.
"Did you see him in person?" Arin asked while looking at the garden of the church.
Lyra laughed very hard. "Are you serious Arin? He is God, how can anyone see him in person." Lyra's eyes filled with hope. "Because of him I am finally able to help other non-awaken people. Who is always treated as garbage."
"Hmm, then can I ask you something?"
"Yes."
"Then what's your opinion on this person, who is killing criminals and murderers?" Arin got serious but showed a smile on his face.
Lyra looked upward and put one right hand finger on her face. "I don't have any opinion of him. Because he certainly had his own circumstances. And we don't have any right to judge anyone."
Arin is about to say something but a nun comes running towards both of them. From across the garden.
"Miss Lyra, a non-awaken patient has come and his condition looks very serious."
Lyra put her hand on her mouth. "What happened to him?"
"His right hand got cut, when he was fighting an awakened robber in the alley. Father said to call you because you are the only person who didn't use her power today." That nun said.
"Arin, sorry I have to go."
"It's ok, let me come with you. So if possible I can help."
After that those three run towards the chamber, where that person is laying.
Then they reached in front of that chamber and the nun opened the chamber door. there a person is laying down on bed in the middle of the chamber. The whole chamber is dark and candles on the walls illuminate the chamber dimly and a bright window is shining on the exact opposite side of the gate. That person right is bound by bandages, still blood is flowing down. Lyra ran towards that man. Arin is still standing there, he wants to save him. So first he activated his skill 'Viewer' to see his life span. There he saw 20 years above that man's head. So he got relaxed and realised that Lyra will save him. Arin turned back to go outside from church but he stopped because he saw something unusual.
Then he turns only his head and looks towards where Lyra is using her healing power on that person's hand. A green aura covers that person's hand and starts reappearing. Every tissue and nerves with bones start reappearing and bandages start loosing up as his hand heals.
Arin standing there in shock, he wants to say something but his mouth can't take out a word. He saw Lyra's lifespan, before she is going to heal that person it was 55 years, but when she started healing that person hand it start dropping down.
[55….50….45….40….35…30….25…20…15…10…5…1]
That person's hand is now fully healed. He isn't feeling any pain and unusual feelings now. So, he left after thanking Lyra. But Arin, he is still standing there in shock then—
He runs towards Lyra and holds her both shoulders. "What have you done? Do you even understand what will happen to you?"
"I simply healed him. What's wrong with that?" Lyra tilted her head in confusion.
"You…" Arin is about to say something.
But a nun interrupts their conversation.
"Miss Lyra, Father is calling for you. He wants you in God's chamber. Hurry up, it's not wise to make him wait."
So, Lyra takes her leave from that chamber by saying 'sorry' to Arin. Arin still wants to know the answers to his questions.
After that Arin left the church, he went to a city garden. This garden is really massive and quite clean. There are many trees and different types of flowers but they are now hidden in their buds because it's already evening. There Arin is sitting on a bench.
"(So, these powers prize a person's life span. I used these powers too much, am i going to die now or how much life i still have.) Arin leaned back and looked towards the sky and smiled with hopelessness. "Hey mom, finally. I lost."
[Congratulations debter, you are close to unlocking the whole system window.]
[Absorb 20 more years]
Arin sees this message and a smile comes on his face. "How I forgot that this system can't let me meet my mother."
Arin stood up from the bench and walked towards the exit of the garden. When he crossed the exit gate. He saw that person who he met today in the church.
"Let's see, how this whole system window looks like."
To be continued…