[please coment and give me power stones!]
[Ars refugee camp 3 months earlier]
Wii Taa, the king of the north who for most of his life had served the Notos Greyrat faction with complete loyalty was now without purpose.
For 9 months now, the Mana disaster had hit the capital, turning it into a completely desolate and infertile area.
Wii Taa had remained in constant anxiety during all this time since having been teleported to the conflict zone there was no one who could give him information about what was happening.
He however did not give up, he killed, hunted and murdered anyone who crossed his path while gathering information about what had happened.
He quickly discovered that he was in the southern part of the conflict zone and it took him about three months to cross it completely before reaching Asura.
There was no one who could stop him, the mercenaries, the armies and even the monsters, nothing could stop his path towards Asura.
But on the way he heard rumors
"Did you hear what happened in Ars?!"
"Yes! It's terrible! They say a blinding light covered the entire city and it disappeared without a trace!"
"And what happened to the people?"
"It is not known for sure, but I heard that the number of slaves has increased in those days and the vast majority claim to be inhabitants of Ars"
In the face of these conversations, Wii Taa could only click his tongue while his mind focused on his disciple and his family.
"Young Paul...I hope you're okay," Wii Taa sometimes muttered after being lost in thought for too long.
That same day the Zephyrus had rebelled against them and killed Lord Amarant but Lord Paul was able to successfully finish off the traitors.
Wii Taa already knew what this meant, he wasn't stupid.
Darius Silva Ganius had betrayed them, but "fortunately Lord Paul was still alive and he would inherit the Notos house" That was what Wii Taa told himself to avoid falling into despair.
So, after 7 months of traveling he was finally able to return to Ars and what he saw was totally devastating.
"So the rumors are true..."
In front of him stretched a dry and barren plain and on it there were hundreds of tents for sleeping and all of these surrounded a simple building.
Faced with this devastating sight, Wii Taa could only clench his fists helplessly and continue moving forward.
And during those months of travel he had been constantly searching for information about Lord Paul, Lord Philemon and Lady Valentina without success.
This fact frustrated him unprecedentedly and he even thought that none of them had survived but he quickly shook his head removing that idea from his mind.
But what he found in the remains of the capital was even more shocking to him.
Lady Valentina and Lord Paul had died in the accident and Lord Philemon was in the king's custody.
Wii Taa immediately tried to rescue young Philemon but unfortunately he encountered the impenetrable barrier which was Reída Reia the Water God.
Wii Taa was never stupid, he might be short but not weak, but he still knew that against her he wouldn't have any chance so he decided to resort to words with Darius.
But unfortunately the words failed to convince the obese minister at all and the king spent his time locked in his chambers immersed in a sea of paperwork to give it importance.
Soon Wii Taa found himself completely cornered, his only priority was to keep Lord Philemon safe now that neither Lord Paul nor Lady Valentina were alive.
But the final blow came with the king's announcement.
"From now on, the Greyrat factions will no longer have power over Asura and the King and only the King will have total control over the Kingdom's territories!!"
The announcement was totally shocking and became even more suspicious when it was learned that none of the members of the four Greyrat factions had survived.
"This smells like a conspiracy to me," Wii Taa muttered to himself, and boy was he right.
With this fact, Wii Taa's anger grew even more but the wall called Reída prevented him from having his revenge.
The Notos family had taken him in since he was a young North Intermediate and he had paid that help with total loyalty.
But now that that family was gone he found himself without purpose.
And when Wii Taa was about to give up, Darius changed his mind from one day to the next.
"I propose you a deal Wii Taa, take Lord Philemon to Millis or wherever you want and never come back, if you promise me that I will hand him over to you immediately" Darius announced in a hoarse voice.
Wii Taa was in total shock at this.
Will he give me Lord Philemon?!...
"...I accept" Wii Taa declared without hesitation and Darius nodded with a sinister smile.
And so, the next day Lord Philemon was handed over to Wii Taa.
Philemon was about to turn four and fortunately he was in good health.
"Sir, where are my parents?..." The boy asked uncertainly and Wii Taa could only frown sadly and at the same time he made a decision.
"Calm down little one...I will protect you from all evil" Wii Taa said and carried the little boy in his arms.
The boy seemed unsure but after a moment he held on tightly to Wii Taa and never let go.
WII Taa looked behind him and he could see Darius smiling Sinically in his office window.
Wii Taa's blood boiled but he knew he couldn't do anything against him, not yet.
So he simply retreated from the capital towards Millis.
Wii Taa was a Hobit after all and now that Philemon had lost his noble status there was nowhere else for them to be.
...
[Paul Pov]
"raaaah!!!" I let out a guttural scream and lunged at Reída without a second thought.
I didn't have my sword with me so I can only use magic.
I used wind magic to propel myself, the wood cracked beneath my feet and I closed the distance between us in less than a second.
A fireball...I conjured a fireball in my hand in less than a second and threw it at Reída.
The ball was heading straight for her face but she made a movement with her sword which she couldn't see and...the spell disappeared, but she expected this.
She used Flow, canceling the mana flow.
But that doesn't mean I'd stop there, my momentum was at its maximum and when my fist was just inches from Reída's face...
(shuuund!!)
A metallic sound echoed in my ears and my vision went dark, About three seconds passed and when my vision returned I was stuck on a wall without understanding what had happened.
"Darius! Get out of here!" Reída shouted sternly but the son of a bitch continued writhing on the ground.
"yeagh!...i-I can't!..." The man spoke as if it were a guttural scream and Reída clicked her tongue clearly frustrated.
"Where's your sword, kid? You must be stupid trying to fight me without one," Reida said, raising her sword to face level.
I didn't answer him, pain invaded my whole body, I was short of breath and my ears were bleeding.
"Nngh!!"
But I didn't stop there, I wouldn't stop until Darius was dead!!
"hmmmp!!!" I quickly extended my arm and caught Reída using gravity magic.
"aaagh!!" She screamed trying to get out of my grip.
And when I was about to crush it, a sword came flying towards my head, I dodged it instinctively and a man came out from the hole in the wall with his sword in hand.
"Paul Greyrat! Surrender now or face the consequences!!" The man shouted, but I threw a stone bullet at him, piercing his eyebrows and his body fell like a rag doll to the floor.
"That was stupid..." I muttered as I stared at Reída.
She was ten centimeters shorter than me and she was desperately trying to free herself from my grasp but she couldn't.
"Tell me...why are you helping this scum?" I muttered as I lifted her into the air and apply pressure to her stomach.
"yeaaagh!!!...haaa...haaa...hehe, he was...he was kind to me when I was young" Reída murmured with a smile despite the blood in her mouth.
I just raised an eyebrow and looked at Darius who was still lying on the floor and breathing heavily.
"Just because he was nice?! Are you aware of all the shit he did?!" I shouted indignantly and effortlessly crushed his right arm until it turned into mush
"uuurk!!" She moaned in pain but bit her tongue to keep from screaming.
Her golden sword fell to the ground with a thud as I looked at her.
"Hehe...you wouldn't understand kid...besides, this is a very strange magic, I've never seen anything like this!" Reída said with a smile but her mouth was full of blood and she was bleeding from her arm.
But when I got ready to kill her...
"Fireball!!!" Darius suddenly shouted and a medium range fireball shot out of his hand directly towards me.
I just sighed in disdain and used disturbance magic to undo the spell.
As expected the spell was dispelled but a dagger shot out at full speed towards me.
"!!!"
I barely realized it in time but the dagger reached my chest before my barrier aura closed.
"aaagh!!!" I screamed in pain and lost concentration on my spell.
Reída fell to the ground with a thud but unlike Darius she got up with superhuman speed and took her sword in her left hand.
"No!!!" I screamed and quickly pulled the dagger from my chest and tried to cast magic at Reída again but her sword moved at a speed my eyes couldn't follow.
(krakaboom!!)
The walls behind me broke from the pressure of the attack and I was thrown to the outskirts of the building.
My barrier aura stood no chance against the attack and I lost my concentration on the spell.
"ughh..." I groaned in pain as I lay on the ground, adrenaline flooded my body and I slowly got up
Look at my arms, my legs and my head.
Everything was in its place, no limbs were amputated, but when I looked at my chest...
"!!!"
"Shit!!" I moaned in pain and blood pooled in my mouth.
A deep cut extended from the left side of my belly, passed through my entire chest and ended at my right shoulder.
My stomach was split in two and my organs began to spill out of my body...
I panicked completely and lay down again.
Using both hands I could feel my intestines literally coming out of my body and a huge pool of blood came out of my body.
Holy shit...this looks awful...
Putting everything in its place or so I hoped I used Saint level magic at full power and my stomach closed without leaving any scars.
"haa...haa...haa..." But I still couldn't breathe
(fuuush!!)
Using wind magic I opened my lungs and gave a great blow.
Her attack must have pulverized my lungs...
But why didn't she kill me?...ha, surely she's weak too.
"uurgh..." Using saint level magic again until I could breathe again I slowly got up from the ground
But still, even after being healed I still felt weak, had chills all over my body and my skin turned pale.
"aaagh..I lost too much blood..." I muttered to myself but despite all that...
My mind felt calmer, that blow had brought me back to reality.
I could have killed Reída from the moment I caught her, but my anger was stronger and I wanted to make her suffer...shit!!
I won't make that mistake again.
...
"haaa...haaa..." My steps were slow and my breathing was shallow, I touched my stomach and I could feel that my organs were in turmoil, I felt bad.
When I entered the building again I began to gather the mana in my hands, I could hear that outside the other guards were coming towards us but I didn't care.
I cast a barrier aura around me, I knew it wouldn't do any good but I put it on anyway.
Walk, walk and walk until you get to where Darius was.
He was trying to get up and Reida was squeezing his destroyed arm with a rope to cut off circulation and prevent bleeding.
Maybe it was her sixth sense as a swordsman or I don't know, but she realized that i was there and quickly took her sword and attacked.
But I was already ready for this.
"Haaa!!" With gravity magic at my maximum power I was able to stop Reída's advance but her attack was so powerful that it only slowed down to the point of appearing in slow motion.
I couldn't do anything to stop it so I just jumped behind her while looking at her.
I looked at Darius next to me who had finally gotten up but With a stone bullet to his knee the guy fell to the ground again with a thud.
"aaagh...damn brat, I really think for a second that I killed you" Reída muttered and I could see how she tried to squirm without success.
"...you reap what you sow, now the Water God style will never have another Reidar" i declared.
"you!!...Yeaaagh!!" Before Reída could even respond, I crushed her body and turned her into human mush.
"Haaa!!!" Darius screamed and I could feel the terror in his eyes.
The guards had surrounded the building and were entering but again with gravity magic I crushed their bodies one by one.
The king was supposed to be here, yet I didn't care as with maximum gravity magic I collapsed the 30 meter tall building while dragging Darius out.
Obviously the same with gravity magic because of how heavy this bastard was.
More soldiers came out and they were all crushed by my barrier magic, the villagers ran terrified in all directions abandoning what little they had.
I felt bad for them, after all they will lose again the little they have left...
"Darius...look at the mess around us, you know all this could have been avoided, right?" I muttered as I dropped the guy on the ground.
"aaagh!! P-please! Don't kill me, I beg you!!" The man cried at my feet. It was a pathetic sight, totally different from the conceited man from less than half an hour ago.
"I gave you many opportunities Darius, you used them all...but!, maybe I'll let you live if you answer my questions!!!" I shouted while looking at all the people around me
Fortunately, the villagers had stopped shouting and running and the few soldiers that remained now did not dare to approach.
"O-okay! I promise I'll tell you whatever you want!" The man begged through tears as he crawled on the ground.
"Okay, first question!!" I said in a fake excited tone, making sure everyone around could hear. "Tell me who ordered my family to be killed on my 10th birthday?" I said as I stared at him.
"I-it was that bastard Dante!!" Darius screamed in despair and I just narrowed my eyes.
"Don't be a liar! That day that guy Aubert was there too! He was your bodyguard before!" I shouted and threw another stone bullet at his remaining knee.
Darius writhed in pain on the ground and I just stared at him in silence.
"haa...haa...it was...it was me, I supported him" Darius said and I smiled.
"Well done Darius! Did you see how easy that was?!" I announced with a smile and I could see the confused faces of the population.
"Okay, next question!" I announced, and Darius's face He writhed in fear and pain. "Who ordered the Greyrats to be killed?!" I asked, holding him tightly by the hair.
"What? I thought the Greyrats hadn't survived!"
"Would Lord Darius really be capable of such an atrocity?
"That boy looks like Lord Paul..."
Ignoring the murmurs of the villagers I looked directly at Darius, he was writhing pathetically as he looked at the soldiers around him who didn't dare to advance.
"Well?! Who ordered it?!" I shouted loudly.
"I-it was me too..." He muttered and the news fell like a bucket of water on the people around us.
"and for what reason?" I asked while holding him firmly.
"..." The man remained silent, now he was hesitating whether to speak or not but I held him more firmly and created a stone bullet in my hand and stuck it to his skull.
"haa...haaa!..." Darius shuddered in fear at the contact with the bullet and he finally deigned to speak.
"I-I suggested it to the king! Since the capital was destroyed, we lost all our funds and so did the nobles!!! So we decided that power would only fall to the king!" Darius spoke loudly on the verge of tears.
"So why do you manage everything? Isn't that supposed to be the king's job?!" I asked, and Darius fell silent again.
He kept looking around in despair but no one took a single step to save him.
"i-it was by proxy..." He muttered and I smiled even harder.
"Very well Darius! Now the last and most important question..." I murmured, my grip on his neck tightened as I used gravity magic and the stone bullet began to spin penetrating his neck slowly and painfully.
"aaagh!! W-what do you want! I'll tell you, I promise!! " He screamed with fear.
"Good! That's how I like it!" I shouted and the stone bullet stopped spinning and Darius let out a sigh of relief.
"Whose idea was it to kill my mother...and why did they kill her?" I asked angrily, my blood boiling in my veins and my fists clenched so tightly that they began to bleed.
Darius's eyes widened and doubt appeared on his face again.
"H-he warned me not to tell you anything...he'll kill me!!" Darius shouted in despair.
"Him? Who is he? The king? You know that if you don't tell me you'll still die, right? If you do, I can kill the one who threatened you to avenge my mother," I murmured coldly.
"You don't understand! He's not someone you can reach, he's more powerful than any being you've ever seen!" Darius shouted in despair.
"Tell me!!!, or I'll kill you right here!!" I screamed and the stone bullet began to spin again, slowly penetrating his skin.
"yeaaagh!!...haa.. Hitogami..." Darius muttered almost without strength.
I was in total shock at those words, even my concentration on my spells was completely lost.
Hitogami...
"A-are you sure of what you're saying?...the God who visits you in your dreams?...that Hitogami?!" I asked in total shock.
Darius's eyes widened as he writhed on the ground.
"a-ah!! Y-you know about him too?! S-then you must know why I did it!! " Darius screamed in despair and I just gritted my teeth in anger.
Without saying a single word I raised my hand and squeezed Darius with gravity magic until he turned into human mush.
He didn't even have time to react before he died and I just stood there processing the words he just said to me.
Hitogami...that bastard, that bastard caused my mother's death!!!
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In the world of emptiness a formless entity could only sigh in resignation.
"Haa...it was nice while it lasted, guess I have to kill you now Paul Notos Greyrat" the faceless man muttered and a huge sadistic smile formed on his face.