Beatitudes

Episode 63.

While Adam looked on with a calm and undisturbed gaze at the intruding newcomers, Harry on the other hand couldn’t maintain such calmness as he was the first to speak up from their side,

“Hey you, What the hell! Are you blind or something?”

From their seemingly private conversation that they took no effort to disallow them from hearing, Harry after being confused for a while could finally make out what they were saying…

Apparently these arrogant newcomers intended to right in their face, take the corpses of the four green skinned lions they had taken down and then leave with it like it was nobody’s business.

Although they had no use to take the corpses of these beasts due to Adam ’s earlier words, what was currently going on was beyond absurd and insanely annoying to hear them discuss something like that when those who had obviously killed the beasts stood right in front of them.

The man in light blue fighter gear swept a lazy glance at Harry, acting like he was only just seeing the group as he opened his mouth to speak,

“The four of you standing there, I guess I should address the fact that we’ll be taking the issue of these beasts off your hands now, thank you very much for putting efforts into taking care of them, there’s no more need for that now…”

Harry hearing those words couldn’t help blind rage from bubbling up within him, he was about to speak again when the man in light blue spoke up again, this time he was addressing those behind him as he casually pointed at random choices with a nonchalant look on his face.

“You three, take care of the tainted beasts corpses, be careful with it. Even though it’s a low quality material, it’s still part of the quota nonetheless…”

Then he turned to his other side without waiting for the chosen three’s response as he pointed to another four with his chin and pointed his finger to direction where Harry and the other three stood,

“…You four, take care of these people. They don’t seem to want to cooperate and are intent on causing a ruckus, that’s not what I want to see so be quick about it…”

Like a mighty king, he dished out orders with a wave of his hand and proclaimed the death of the four to his front.

All through his orders, not a single ripple of expression could be seen on his face as he said everything, because he never even considered the group of four before him. On reaching here at first, he had naturally taken in all of his surroundings along with everything within it, he had seen the four people and had thoroughly examined their strength. What he discerned from his examination wasn’t much to take home about, and his deduction was also further strengthened by the scene before him… to take down four tier one green skinned lions, they had to use all their strength and even forcefully turn up a spot of earth, this was a low level accomplishment in his eyes backed up with a meagre level of strength.

And one thing he knew that had always proven true was that might proves right, without strength you would only be bullied, not to mention the fact that his side had every one of them at the second tier while he was in the third tier and he could sense energy fluctuations of only the first tier from the group, the number advantage alone he had on his side was enough to beat up the other side thoroughly without them even putting up a fight. So what was there to be polite about when they could just take what they wanted by force. Speaking of what he wanted…

The man in light blue fighter gear had his eyes blaze with a fervent heat as he gazed upon and examined a particular figure in the midst of the group of weaklings. She was the only female in the group, so she was already easily picked out from the group, but that was far from being the reason for her obvious presence.

Beautiful silky purple hair and amethyst purple eyes, a prideful and indifferent disposition that made her seem like one with a strong heritage, beautifully carved facial features from her shapely brows to her phoenix like eyes to her heart shaped like pink lips and as if that wasn’t enough to draw numerous and constant dazed glances her way, her beautiful hourglass like figure was all it took to take the breath out of countless people.

She was a gorgeous beauty all right, but sadly one covered in dust and grime as she wallowed in the gathering of men around her that was anything but remarkable.

The other people on his side had obviously also noticed this breathtaking sight in front of them, but they knew better than to jump out of line and act on the spur of a moment with their squad leader standing right in front of them. so all they could do was swallow down their intentions and almost overflowing saliva as they waited for their able squad leader to make the first move.

And being one that knew to never disappoint the expectations, they watched their squad leader thoroughly ogle the female specimen before he finally opened his mouth to speak after a while,

“While the rest of them don’t have much use, this beauty here is a remedy for sore eyes so don’t bother touching her…”

The squad leader addressed those had given orders before he spoke again with his voice directed at the remedy for sore eyes that was an indifferent looking Hiya with a chilling gleam in her eyes, he took no note of the chill in her eyes as he spoke with what he thought was a gentlemanly disposition,

“My dear beauty, would you care to spend some time with me so we can get to know each other better…”

He paused in between his words as he swept a glance at the unremarkable male figures by her side, seeing that the one that seemed to be the strongest among them only being a tier two class holder almost made him burst into laughter there and then before he suppressed the laughter and continued,

“I assure you that if you go with me, these sorry figures by your side will be the last ones to ever even get close to you, I’ll make you a queen… my own queen…”

In his beauty drunk state, he spoke in an unrestrained manner and seemed to have forgotten the baseless words that sounded ridiculous from the mouth of an unremarkable tier three squad leader.

When Isaac heard what the arrogant squad leader had just said, he couldn’t help an odd feeling that was a mix of anger and something else rise up within him as he thought,

‘Who are you calling a sorry figure?!’

He was about to step forward and say something when a calm and lazy voice cut through all conversations and imposed itself in the minds of those who heard it, thereby bringing an odd and abrupt silence to the place where they stood,

“Alright, that’s enough drama for a chapter now…”

The squad leader in blue gear was just contemplating how a beauty like the one in front of him could possibly have ended up together with these nobodies beside her while he completely ignored Harry ’s indignant shouting when he heard the voice speaking out and immediately an odd silence to the place, he furrowed his brows in irritation as he looked around to find out who used such a commanding tone while he stood here, he was actually also affected as he couldn’t speak up to ask who.

He was just about to force himself to speak when the voice sounded again,

“I’ll give you all a few seconds to get out of our sight as quickly as you can, whether you grasp the chance is up to you…”

The squad leader was finally able to place the voice to its owner as he scrunched his brows even further, it wasn’t one of his people that spoke, no, it was a black haired, dark eyed male standing alongside his soon to be woman.

He glared at the four he had given instructions to previously as he spoke with a low voice,

“Didn’t I ask you four to take care of these trash, what are you still standing in place for…”

His question with a low rumble to it snapped the four he spoke to out of their reverie as they shook their heads slightly and moved towards their assigned targets, no fear or apprehension in their eyes as their bodies erupted with ripples of icy light and energy.

On seeing this, the ‘trash’ in question grew slightly tense and angered as they watched the four approach, but oddly somehow, none of them sought to make a move as they stood in place with a growing sense of pity for these group of people, though they felt the higher strength and pressure the group imposed on them, they knew, through the bits and pieces of display from a certain dark haired male beside them that none of these things could amount to barely anything before him.

Isaac was just beginning to shake his head with a sigh while Harry looked on with slight gloating in his eyes when the expected happened,

“*Sigh*… It always never works; they just don’t listen do they…”

Adam sighed faintly as he mumbled softly to himself, although it was a faintly said statement, it was loud enough to be heard clearly by everyone present.

The squad leader in blue was just about to erupt in anger when the ground shook for the tiniest fraction of a second, it wasn’t exactly something he could feel due to how quick it was but he definitely felt what came next when about a dozen thorn-shaped rays of solid dark light erupted from right beneath the group of a dozen people, the rays of dark light gleamed with an eerie light under the moons as it pierced straight into the bodies of all twelve people present on the other side, including those who had moved to ‘take care’ of the corpses of the green skinned lions.

The rays of dark light were so unbelievably quick that none of those pierced through had felt a single ounce of pain until they suddenly began to rise up from the ground, at which they immediately looked down in surprise immediately after which their faces immediately froze in horror and then twisted severely in pain…

ARGHH!!!

A disturbing scream that showed the torrential amount of pain they felt coursing through their whole body escaped automatically from their mouths before they knew it as none was spared from the horrific torture.

Even the squad leader clothed in blue fighting gear was no different as he probably felt thrice the amount of pain judging from the fact that he had three solid like dark rays piercing through his body alone. A cry of pain that was hardly human left his lips as veins quickly emerged in his eyes.

This was a kind of pain he would never wish for anyone, whether friend or foe. But alas, he probably would have to be released from the pain before he had any thoughts of that at all. Right now all he could see in his line of sight was a blurry view of the night sky as a sheen of white slowly creeped over his sight, he was rapidly losing all forms of his senses so he was unable to hear the apology that Adam gave to them as his voice held hints of pity.

“I apologize for any inconvenience caused…”

Following the end of his sarcastic words a split second later, the scene before everyone’s widened eyes changed as the dark rays piercing through the many bodies rose even further from the ground where it erupted from, it rose to a fairly distant height in the sky after which the dark rays abruptly converged to one another, all the immediately rays coming together at an intersecting distance from all the dark rays. Following their abrupt converging, the twitching people all suspended from it also collided with a thundering sound as the sound of cracking bones and splitting flesh erupted consequently after it.

But the horrific sight and sounds were immediately covered up as a swathe of dark lightless energy erupted from the convergence of the dark rays and enveloped the collided bodies in the next second. In the end, what looked like a ball of darkness appeared in midair for a short while before it started to shrink in on itself, growing smaller and smaller at a hair numbing pace until finally the ball of light had actually shrunk to smallest size of an invisible dust particle before finally disappearing completely.

At this moment, the group consisting of twelve hale and healthy fighters had disappeared from the face of the earth in a most mind numbing and bizarre manner possible…