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Scared Torturer

"Argh!"

A groan rang out in a bloodied cave.

Snip!

"...Ah!"

Orion bit his lips hard to prevent any sound from escaping from him.

It was now two weeks since Orion got a mental change and the torturer was not having fun anymore.

He just wanted to finish his job and run away from the freak before him.

Orion no longer begged or endured. The more the days went by, the more he got used to the pain.

But that wasn't the creepiest thing.

Sometimes Orion would laugh or cry out of nowhere while murmuring strange words and names.

So the man couldn't even sleep peacefully.

Yes, he didn't have a choice but to sleep in the same cave for the time of his job. It was an order from his boss.

He accepted because of the huge amount of money offered, but now he was regretting it.

Imagine being woken up by a laugh and sobs in the night ?

He didn't cry anymore when he tortured him, so why the hell was he crying in the night ?!

As for his laugh, it was even worse.

He tortured several hundreds of people in the last twenty years of his life and no one had ever laughed, especially when the said person was confined for nearly three months.

He was also murmuring things like killing his brothers or Alfred or whoever it was, while smiling.

Which was even more weird, as the torturer knew that he didn't have a brother here...

The heroes of Solaria were summoned alone without their families after all.

The only exceptions were Jordan and Vincent, as they were brothers.

At some point, he stopped thinking and just did his job properly.

Otherwise, he would be the one becoming crazy.

Taking a healing elixir from his space ring, he frowned.

His boss gave him more than a hundred of elixir two months ago for healing Orion after each t*****e.

The elixir was a really powerful one, as it could even regrow fingers, there was no doubt that even one elixir was extremely expensive.

The torturer knew already that his boss was very rich, so he didn't care, but the elixir could only be used twice a day. More than that and it could endanger Orion's life.

Unfortunately, today he noticed that only four remained, which was strange for him. His boss was always meticulous in that domain.

"Sigh...I will call the boss later."

Pop!

Muttering that, he uncorked the vial and shoved it in Orion's mouth.

Gulp_

Orion's injuries healed fast though blood was still covering his body.

"Three left now, huh...Hm ?"

Suddenly, the burly man stopped speaking and looked at Orion. More specifically, his left hand.

A dark green light was shrouding his left hand.

"What the hell...?"

The man approached Orion carefully.

Gulp_

Swallowing his saliva, the man looked at Orion's left hand and froze.

A strange dark green tattoo was there .

He never saw in his life anything like the tattoo on Orion's left hand. A circle and eight branches ? He didn't know what it was, but it was like a wheel with eight rays.

He had goosebumps all over his body just by looking at the tattoo shining in an ominous dark green color.

That morning, before he cut off Orion's hands, there was nothing on his left hand, but now, after his hands grew back, the tatoo suddenly appeared.

"I have enough of this s**t!"

With trembling hands, he took out the device his boss gave him to send him a signal in case of urgency.

Tapping on the device, he stealthily kept an eye on Orion.

'Dammit!'

Beep!

A sound echoed and the man smiled in relief.

Now that he sent the signal, his boss would come in less than an hour.

'As soon as he comes I will get the hell out of this place'

Turning toward Orion's motionless figure, he was feeling dread for some reason.

'f**k! It has been going well for two months!'

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!

A regular loud sound echoed from the device.

"Wh-what is happening ?'

He had never heard of anything like that from his boss.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

He tapped the device a few times to stop the sound but to no avail.

BEEP!

'Wha...!"

Boom!

An explosion rang out and golden flames emerged from the device.

"AHAAHAHAHA!"

The torturer screamed in pain as the flames burned him, which shocked him.

He had a fire ability, so if the fire was harming him then there was only one reason. The person who placed this trap had an extremely strong fire affinity.

Thud!

Crash!

"AHHHHH!"

He crashed on the ground, then rolled around.

Crackling_!

The golden flames quickly spread around until reaching Orion.

"Aaargh!"

Orion groaned as the flames burned his feet.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

He couldn't even move from his chair because of the chains.

"Move!"

Clang!

"MOVE!"

Blood started to flow out from his restrained hands but he didn't care.

Suddenly his left hand shone.

Whooooosh!

Dark green wind started swirling around his hand.

"AH!"

Crack!

Smash!

The chains cracked and exploded into scraps of metal.

"Ah...ah...ah..."

Orion slowly stood up with a ragged breathing.

He walked toward his torturer who was burning and screaming.

"AHHHHH HELP!"

Orio stopped his steps and glanced at one of the men he hated the most right now.

Two months and two weeks of daily t*****e.

The golden fire couldn't even approach Orion, as the dark green wind was covering him by swirling around him protectively.

Stooping down, Orion lifted the man by the neck.

"ARGAHAH He-help!"

SWOOSH!

Orion's black eyes turned a beautiful hue of dark green and dark green wind swirled around him at an astounding speed.

He raised his free left hand and...

Spurt!

He pierced the burning man's chest with it.