The Mark

Chapter 47

Chapter 47

If Lucifer’s hand was still there when his ability stopped working, he was going to be gravely injured. Only a few people knew about this limitation since he never let it become known. He always made sure that people only knew his strong side.

Only because of this limitation, he had lost in the battle against Xander Blake. In this battle, he was already doing good. He was keeping up, but that was only for as long as Xander was playing around.

When he saw Xander getting serious, he had immediately surrendered only because he didn’t want his limitation to be exposed.

Xander was the leader of Delta Squad, who was also known as the Flame Wizard. He was a strong and powerful warlock who rarely got serious in battle, but his flames were said to be capable of burning everything when he did.

Flourance knew that Xander would burn the whole field, and his flames were able to burn for hours without dying. So his temporary Spatial Displacement ability was useless. With surrender, he saved the limitation of his body from being exposed.

The only person who had managed to guess about this limitation was Xander, but he didn’t expose it.

The same thing was happening here. If Lucifer didn’t take out his hand, Flourance was going to be gravely injured.

Not taking the risk and feeling the urgency of time, Flourance decided to take action.

He brought his right hand out of Spatial Displacement and punched towards Lucifer’s chest to throw him back.

- : Wrath Of Gods

- : Wrath Of Gods

- : Wrath Of Gods

"I got you now," Lucifer muttered as he caught the fist of Flourance before it could land on his chest.

"Looks like I was right. You can’t always stay like that. As you said, using the brain can sometimes be better," he continued as he gazed at Flourance expressionlessly.

As Lucifer talked, he gazed at the pained look on Flourance’s face, who was on the verge of screaming.

Flourance was feeling the brunt of Lucifer’s ability of Decay. As Lucifer caught his hand, which was out of the Spatial Displacement, the Decaying Powers of his started taking effect, which affected the entire body of Flourance. Even the portion of the body which was in a different space was affected.

His cells started dying as his body grew old. Inflammation started inside his body as his blood started evaporating. His skin started drying and breaking down.

With this much distraction and breaking down of his body, the Spatial Displacement of his was also broken as his entire body returned to the real space.

"Aaaah! Free me now!!!" Flourance cried in pain as he struggled to free his hand, but his strength was nothing compared to Lucifer.

It was as if his hand was caught by a mighty god. Since he was in the air, he couldn’t even use the ground to propel himself backward to free himself.

Gret and Oayne were horrified as well at the sight of Flourance, who was starting to look like a skeleton. His scream never stopped. At least not until his body turned to ash which sprinkled over the ground.

As the human weight was removed from the parachute, it flew away with the wind.

The other two Variants watched their Vice-Captain die. Sweat covered their faces since there were only the two of them left. After the death of Flourance, there was no one to attract Lucifer’s attention except the two people.

There was still some time before they could land on the ground and be able to fight or run. Until then, they were at the mercy of Lucifer. The two of them looked down at the ground as they sweated more.

"If he attacks now, one of us will die. Only one will survive since we’re close to the ground," Gret pointed out as he took a deep breath.

Oayne understood the graveness of the situation. His heart was beating like a drum as he saw death in front of him.

He still kept his courage as he said, "Whoever survives must run deep into the forest and hide. We can’t fight him. The sacrifices of us shouldn’t be in vain."

Gret gazed at his friend, who was the only person still alive with him. He released a mouthful of breath.

His eyebrows lowered as he said hopelessly, "I am closer to him, so he will attack me most certainly. That’s good as well. You have a daughter and a wife. I, on the other hand, am a bachelor with no one to care for me. No one will miss me anyway. After you land, please run and don’t look back. Survive at all cost."

After you escape, go back to the base and tell Varant what happened. Captain Xander is strong, but we are dealing with a monster here. We need to use all our strength to crush him, or we might suffer the events like today. Make sure you survive and tell everything!" he continued.

"W-what are you saying? Of course, you will Su-" Oayne was talking back when he stopped as he saw Lucifer turn around.

Lucifer was looking back at them. His face was as emotionless as ever. He could also see that there wasn’t much time to attack since they were soon going to land. If he attacked one of them now, the other one was going to survive and run away since he would be on the ground.

He had been attacking one person at a time until now since he wasn’t confident if he could attack two people at the same time with precision.

He decided to do it even at the risk of missing as he raised both his arms towards the two Variants.

"What the heck! He is going to attack us both?!" the two of them shouted at the same time, stunned. They both understood what Lucifer was trying to do.

"Can he even do that?"

"He hadn’t done that since the battle started, at least not successfully killing two at the same time. Is he trying something new? We’ll be dead if he can do this!"

None of the two Variants could believe if Lucifer could do this. They were all confident that he couldn’t; otherwise, he would have done this already.

Lucifer had fought against Flourance in Erygas. He had fought multiple enemies here as well. Why didn’t he attack simultaneously if he was capable of such great aim?

"Why would he be trying if he wasn’t capable of doing it? It looks like I wouldn’t be able to return and tell master Varant or Captain Xander. We’ll both be dead here," Oayne muttered as he gazed at the sky. He closed his eyes softly as if he had already given up.

"My wife and my daughter... I hope the APF can catch this guy and exterminate him, so the humans don’t face the wrath of this monster," he lamented as he prayed to the gods that he believed in.

The sky thundered right at that moment as if the gods were responding to him, telling him that they are watching everything.

A satisfied smile spread across Oayne’s lips as he heard the raging thunder of nature.

"Urgh!"

He spat out a mouthful of blood as the black Lightning bolt of Lucifer hit him.

His eyes opened wide in pain as he lost control of his body.

He looked to his side and saw a big hole in the chest of Gret. His clothes were covered in blood as well. His lips were bleeding as a single tear left the corner of his eye and slid downwards. His eyes lost their shine, but they still remained open even when he died.

Oayne watched his last companion die as well, but he knew that he wouldn’t survive for long either. His body was already damaged beyond repair.

He gazed at Lucifer as he said his last words, "You think you are the god. Live in that illusion for as long as you can. One day you will suffer the wrath of the true gods...."

His eyes closed as he lost the last bit of his life.

- : Decision For Future

- : Decision For Future

- : Decision For Future

Xander Blake was the Leader of the Delta Squad of APF. There was not a single person in the APF who didn’t know who Xander was.

He was an S-Rank Warlock. Even though he only led the Delta Squad, which was the weakest squad of the three APF Squads, there was no one who doubted his abilities. He was a respectful Warlock who was famously known even outside the APF.

Many influential people knew about him. As he was a member of the Delta Squad, he often dealt with Variant related problems of the general public, unlike the Higher Squads that placed most of their efforts on the Variant Uprising organization.

Because of this, Xander was known even by the general public. His reputation was very favorable in public.

Even though he wasn’t on the list of the top ten strongest Warlocks in the country, he was still known to be a frightening Warlock. His flames were known to burn everything to cinders. It was also said to be hot enough to meld metals.

Despite being this strong, Xander was unable to save most of his squad members. Not because he wasn’t strong enough but simply because he didn’t even know.

According to him, his squad had already caught Lucifer, who was in an inescapable cage. He didn’t realize that Lucifer had already escaped and killed half his squad.

Flourance didn’t get enough time even to inform Xander. He wanted to catch Lucifer himself after Lucifer had escaped, or at least try to catch himself first before telling Xander about his failure since he was confident in his abilities to catch Lucifer.

Unfortunately, he didn’t have any idea about what was waiting for him. When Lucifer came face to face with him, he didn’t even get the time to land on the ground safely, let alone the time to inform Xander.

Thus, the crashed helicopter’s remains burned on the ground while bodies with big holes in them laid on the ground, unmoving. The bodies were spread throughout.

Open Parachutes were still attached to most of the bodies; however, the wind wasn’t as intense as it had previously been; thus, the bodies weren’t being dragged all around. Some of the bodies were even hanging from the trees as they had fallen on them.

The green grass on the ground was covered in dark red blood that wasn’t only in the places where the bodies were lying. Instead, it was sprinkled even far away somehow.

Lucifer was still floating in the air as he looked down at the ground expressionlessly.

Even though one helicopter was broken entirely as it blew up, the other one was still intact. It was standing on the ground. Its rotor blades were still moving, albeit extremely slowly.

Caen stepped out of the helicopter with a bright grin on his face as he slowly clapped. "Bravo! That was a good show."