บท 37: Ending the suffering
'Is everyone dead?' Liam wondered the longer he was surrounded by the all too familiar, studious, and quiet atmosphere of the library.
It was a little bit ominous since there were a few corpses everywhere but Liam couldn't see any monsters on the first floor. The only corpses were of humans as well.
'Were the monster corpses stored away, or devoured by something bigger?'
There weren't many clues about the disappearance of the monsters that had charged inside the library or the hundreds of students and other people who were said to be inside the library at any time of the day.
"Even if some rof them managed to run out of the library, there should be more corpses, or living people preferably," Liam mumbled mostly to himself but Olivia and the others agreed.
"Maybe there are some on the second floor or the roofto–..." Kian began but stopped abruptly when screams of terror resounded from above them all of a sudden.
"ARGHhhhhhhh…help meee!!!" The shrill cry of a woman bounced off the walls of the library, sending a shiver down everyone's spine. Their heads turned upward as if it was possible to look through the ceiling and see what was going on the second floor.
As Liam and the others looked upward, he saw something from the corner of his eye. Turning his head to his left, he saw something falling to the ground outside the library. A loud scream was followed by a sickening thud as the body collapsed on the ground. That answered most of his questions almost instantaneously.
"Looks like they're on the rooftop, with some monsters," He said, averting his gaze from the writhing body of a middle-aged woman and three Meheks that were feasting on her flesh. She was still moving and alive but the injuries were already too great to do something. The Meheks claws were already deep inside the flesh of the woman.
Somehow, the flesh of the woman looked a little bit weird, almost as if the Meheks had used their weight to pull the woman's flesh from her bones.
Liam could only guess that the Meheks attacked the woman and that they used their weight to push her down the rooftop of the library. He didn't really know the truth nor he had any intention of figuring it out since it would do him little good.
"Shouldn't we help her?" Rex asked uneasily, readying his spear to help the writhing woman when Liam moved over to the large hole in the glass window before his hand moved rapidly, sending four black glowing needles into the head of the woman and the three Meheks.
He had used his full force to attack the three Meheks and the woman but he couldn't be sure if that would be enough to kill them. After all, he had yet to test the lethality of the poison within the Black Tarthear Needles.
From his little knowledge of poison, the Black Tarthear Needles had a lethal ingredient that paralyzed its opponents and corroded their bodies. The more Arcane Power used the higher the potency of the needles' poison would become until it would reach a degree where even the wielder might face difficulties if the Black Tarthear Needles would come in contact with his skin.
Of course, there were limits to how much the poison of the Black Tarthear Needle could be enhanced but that shouldn't be an issue for now.
He rushed to the staircase of the library's first floor after throwing the needles at his designated targets, leaving behind the students who stared at the monsters and the writhing woman for a few more seconds.
"Did he just kill her?" A sudden voice of a terrified student asked, his voice trembling in fright as he saw that the woman had stopped moving altogether. His body stiffened while the Meheks continued to eat her flesh for a second or two until they collapsed as well.
"She was already dead, basically. He saved her from unnecessary suffering," Olivia corrected him before she followed Liam as well. The other students began to tremble, swallowed their saliva, or suppressed the emotions that erupted all of a sudden at the sight of the woman who had just been eaten alive by vicious monsters. They could not look away from the grotesque sight of her mangled, half-eaten body and it took them a few seconds before they followed Liam.
The library had two floors with the upper level featuring a balcony. The shelves on the second floor were filled with more detailed, specialized texts and rare books. As for the rooftop of the library, it had been converted into a café, offering peaceful space and some respite after some long and lonely hours of studying.
After Liam began to run, he found himself quickly reaching the second floor where he found a few Meheks feeding on dead bodies. The corpses belonged to both their brethren, and humans which caused him to frown deeply.
'Didn't know that they were cannibalists…you learn something new every single day…' He thought just before he received a notification.
[+1.5 Arcanium]
It was obvious that the notification was because of the woman whom he had killed at the end. He received the full contribution for her kill, which was rather weird but before he could mull over it further three more notifications appeared in front of him.
[+0.15 Arcanium]
[+0.15 Arcanium]
[+0.15 Arcanium]
The moment he knew how much he could gain from killing the Meheks, both of his hands reached out to the Casket of Trickery. He retrieved a few Black Tarthear Needles and threw them at the ordinary Meheks that were feeding on the bodies of their brethren and humans alike.
The gains he made from every thrown needle were more than the costs of the needle. Thus, it was only logical that he killed the monsters that were in his way, not only for himself but also to make sure that the rest of the students could retreat once the trouble on the rooftop was taken care of.
However, that was easier said than done because it took Liam only a few seconds to throw more than twenty Black Tarthear Needles and to get to the rooftop where an interesting sight was unveiled to him.
"Oh shit…"
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