A man came in running hurriedly as the man the continued to explain himself.Looking at the man, Lau paid no hind to him and pointed the man kneeling.
" Continue..." Lau's voice sounded.
Looking at how he had been ignored, the man was forced to shut his mouth and wait for the other party to finish.
" I doubted the part of another explosion so I changed through the whole process and found gun powder at the gate making me believe we had an intruder. I quickly ran and notified the supervisor about it immediately. That's all sir." the man said as he bowed his head.
When the man had finished explaining himself,another person came in running hurriedly but found his brother kneeling down. With a confused expression, he could only watch so as not to make a mistake and make the young leader angry.
" Okay. Lock him up with his brothers until he is found innocent." Lau ordered.
" Thank you young leader for showing mercy. "the man bowed down thankfully before he was carried away.
Lau then turned to the two bandits that had just entered the hall.
" What had made you two fellows run here so quickly? "Lau questioned indifferently. His mood had been slightly disturbed by the former's comment.
" Well... young leader... "the young man was quenched in fear.Looking at the other person, he looked at him with a pleading expression.
" Can you quickly speak up before I lose my patience?" sounded Lau in his feminine sharp voice.The voice sounded fine and harmless but caused many to feel cold sweat in their backs.
" The two leaders and many of our brothers have been tied hostage by a young teenage boy." the man cried as his head was buried in the ground.Tension grew in the hall as a great pressure was released in the hall making it hard for the weak ones to breathe and finally fainted.
" I'm going to skin that bustard." one of the leaders shouted.
"I'm going to show him that the Blood Drinkers faction is not a place for kids to play from."
" We the Beast Brothers faction shall not stand ceremony."
" Let's fight to the death."
" We shall die with leader."
" We shall die as brothers."
Heroic shouts rang throughout the hall as the two factions joined hands to fight the common enemy.
" Stop there."a voice sounded throughout the hall.Len who rarely spoke finally made a move as he looked at the lousy leaders furiously.
" So you are going to fight to the death.What is the situation that you are going to fight?Who is your opponent?Have you thought about it or are you running out there like sheep ready for the wolf to slain peacefully and effortlessly.How do you lead your brothers?By leading them to death without preparation?What do you teach them as leaders? Aren't you ashamed of yourselves?Your brothers are being held hostage but here you are running to find to the death?Fight to the death with what?With who? Answer me."an angry roar sounded throughout the hall making it hush with no sound or whisper.
Listening to the small lecture, the leaders felt ashamed of themselves. They had no answer to the questions they had been asked.All they could do was lower their heads in shame and guilt.
" Since you have no answers, can you please sit down and formulate a plan. Stop it with your guilty expressions and think of a way to head out of this situation. " having said that Len matched out of the hall.
" Where are you going cousin? "Lau asked.
" To meet the intruder." Len answered without turning back and headed out with his saber.
Looking at the leaders, Lau smiled slightly and followed out.
" We shall be relying on you.Best of luck."
" Young leaders." the leaders cried out bitterly as the saw the departing backs of the two young men.
Outside the hall in the training grounds, a group of about three hundred bandits was tied onto metallic training poles with spikes on the them and beside was a young man seated as he ate a bowl of beef noodles with Immortal wine. Each of the bandits was tied in air with a rope pulling him as it prevented them from falling onto the metallic pole with spikes.If the ropes was cut or anything happened to it,it meant instant death to a bandit. A few moments later, two young men walked into the training grounds.Upon seeing the situation, their hearts ultimately skipped a beat.
" You rather came late.If you had come earlier,you would have saved about two hundred bandits.Too bad, I think they are now meeting the Netherland king." Hedrick said with a sigh and then continued eating his meal.
" Who are you and why are you doing this to us." asked Len.
" You are really astonishing. Your first question was about what my aim is and my identity.i expected something like 'Where is my father?' and followed by that would be ' If dare lay a finger on my father,I promise to make you wish you were not born.' But it was quite the other way."
Listening to the statement, Lau's heart skipped a beat once again. If Len had not spoken, that was exactly what he was going to say.Hedrick then turned his head towards Lau and with(the bewitching smile) 'The Laugh of the devil' said.
"Am I right, little Lau?"
Looking at the smile(The devil's laugh)cold sweat appeared on Lau's forehead and back. It was as though he had no secrets to hide from the young man before him.
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" Okay, no need to be scared. I'll explain everything once those old men come up with l pool
mething interesting. I'll play with them till I'm satisfied." Hedrick said with a smile.
The expressions of the two young men completely changed. A feeling grew within them that they were in a game and this game was completely under control.It was though they were just chess pieces that couldn't change anything however much they did.
" Junior Sister Rita, why are you here?" a young man dressed in brown robes looked at the young girl besides him as he interlocked his hands behind his back.
" Nothing much. I just want to see how that jerk is beaten to death." a cold look could be seen on Rita's face and she gripped the sword in her hands tight. Looking at his junior Sister, the young man smiled bitterly as he shook his head and continued watching from a distance.
A few moments later, about thirty men came into the court yard and surrounded the whole area as the stood into small groups of five and they stood in formations.Looking at their prey, they held onto their weapons and waited for instructions as they had discussed.
" You have been surrounded.Release our brothers and we shall leave your corpse in tact." said one of the leaders coldly.
Having finished his meal, Hedrick then stood up and held his bow as arrows were placed on the table in a well arranged number.Listening to the comment, Hedrick slightly smiled at turned towards the one who had spoken. He slowly reached for one of the arrows on the table and pointed at him and then slowly towards the rest.
" You really surprise me again and again.I thought the first person you would seek to rescue would be your leaders but I guess I was quite wrong.Dear leaders, your brothers seem to have forgotten about you and care less about your little lives." the statement made the leaders flare up in anger but didn't dare to move.
" You...! What did you do to Brother Beast." one of them asked angrily as he pointed at Hedrick with his finger trembling.
" No need to panic.Let's play a game. It will naturally be an easy one. The rule is just one that we all have to follow including me."
" Stop with the nosense. Release our brothers if not you will regret why you were born."another shouted.
" The rule is I say and you do. If you go against it a person dies."
" You seem to be the bravest. Since you were the first person to speak after you arrived. I'll give you the honor to play first." He said as he looked towards the man with a smile. The smile gave them a feeling that something was off.
" If you do it well. You'll not only save a life but also get a reward." said Hedrick.
" Grab the bow and arrow besides you and make sure you shoot dear young leader Len's thigh."
" Dream on. I'll never do it."
" Your choice you have ten seconds to accomplish your task."
When the ten seconds elapsed, Hedrick put the arrow on his bow and shoot at the rope making one of the bandits to fall onto the metallic pole with spikes. The bandit's body was pierced through from the back to the front as flowed from all over the body. The face was completely disfigured as spikes had come out of the mouth,eyes, nose , mouth , skull etc. The body scene made people look at Hedrick in fear.He seemed like a devil that had come from hell just to kill for fun. Looking at their brother's, the leader had the urge to attack but immediately stopped when Hedrick suddenly warned them with a smile.
" Oh! I almost forgot. Upon arriving at the grounds, you all activated a mechanism. For every step you take, one of your brother dies. Don't say I didn't warn you." He shrugged his shoulders with a innocent expression.
Most leaders spat out a mouthful of blood from anger when they heard the warning. Different thoughts rang in the minds of the leaders. Len and Lau immediately lost hope.
' This was more than just the devil. I'm sure if the devil was placed on the same standing with this person and competed on who can do more evil.This young man would surely win effortlessly if not even kill the devil. Did we just meet the devil in a young man's form?What did we do to anger the devil to this state?'
All those and more were the thoughts of everyone around.
"This jerk is really the Devil's Son.Thankfully he chased me away before it was too late." Rita said with fear and she no longer felt hatred from before.The scene and scheming before her was enough to show she was lucky to have stayed away from such a devil. Who knew the young boy was more dangerous than those demons and beasts.
' I would rather stay in the jungle than with him.You don't believe me,bring them before me and I'll show you.' Rita thought as she suddenly quivered when thinking about what the devil's son could do if they stayed together. Those scenes of the devil's son tying her up and them skinning her alive and then cutting out her tongue as he ate the meat fresh with blood.The scene of him saying how tasty it was cutting her flesh piece by piece.
Not wanting to imagine anymore,Rita quickly snapped out as goose pimples covered all over her body.
" Senior brother, I'll get going." said Rita.
" Why? what's the rush. You watch a little more.I think it's about to get interesting."
" No!no!no! no need. I remember I have something to do." said Rita as she quickly activated the portal and walked away.
' Do what! Watch a little more! No need.i would rather watch the devil killing than that son of the devil in action.Just enjoy yourself, no need for me.'those were Rita's thoughts as she moved away.
Looking at how his junior's walked away, the young man slightly smiled as he turned to continue watching. On turning,he found a pair of eyes looking in his direction and slowly the Devil's smile slowly formed causing the young man's heart to skip a beat.