Chương 12: Arthur's past. - part2

As he looked in the direction of the truck, Arthur continued to cry, but his vision was completely clear, as if he was focusing to see what was in front of him and there were no tears in his eyes. As he was forced to stare at the truck, suddenly there came the sound he had been waiting for.

- Blast! Bruum! - The sound of the explosion of the truck and the drones was extremely loud, and caused people nearby to be thrown away, while pushing the cars a little. But even before the sound of people falling and a few cars overturning ceased, a loud grunt overlapped these sounds.

- Kyyyyeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr!!! - This sound didn't sound human, but it didn't sound animal either. However, regardless of how it sounded, everyone who heard it received considerable damage. Arthur and Sophie were lucky that the windows were closed, thanks to which they were only a little dizzy and had their windows cracked, but this was still infinitely better than the situation of the people who were outside their vehicles or with their windows open. Everyone who heard this sound directly had their eardrums burst as they screamed in pain and went deaf for the day; only people with a little more strength managed to protect their eardrums by wrapping them in their energy of soul. Arthur was moved again, after the car he was in had its windows cracked he instantly appeared in the sky, right above the car he was in, and his vision was locked on a specific scene.

Arthur's gaze was fixed on a tall man approaching his mother, who was clutching her abdomen where a small piece of metal from the truck door was embedded. This man appeared quite ordinary, except for his long green hair. When Arthur was younger, he had only noticed the man's hair as unusual due to the distance and the cracked windows. But now, despite the distance, his eyesight strangely allowed him to see everything perfectly. He observed something even more peculiar about the man. It wasn't just something peculiar about him, but rather something peculiar that had started to happen to him. Only an image remained that perfectly fit the description of the word "grotesque". The man's extremely flabby, white skin with reddish-black vein marks clung to his body, barely covering the human skeleton. His eyeballs had taken on an amber color with some red lines in place of the veins, and where the iris should have been, something like a slit appeared. Blood dripped from the slit, resembling a lizard's eye, until it split the irises of both eyes in two. After the blood stopped dripping, it became clear that the slits had no function other than to split the irises. Two completely black irises appeared in both slits before the man faced Beatrice.

- Human, where is this place? I must have possessed someone near the war on the Amazon border.

Beatriz pulled out the plate lodged in her abdomen and began to force spiritual energy throughout her body, especially into her wound and into her eyes. Beatriz wanted to look back and check that her children were all right, but she couldn't allow herself to look away from the demon in front of her, after all, she was sure that if she did that she would die and so would her children.

- Are you deaf? Don't you understand the language I'm speaking? I'm sure this is the right continent at least, wasn't the language here unified? - While Beatrice was anxious about the situation, the demon rambled on alone, looking at Beatrice.

- Reinforcements on highway 108, km 5! A probable nobleman! - Beatrice shouted to the nearest drone while looking at the demon who had possessed the man. - Isn't it better to run? These surveillance drones are already transmitting images in real time, so there must already be a few squadrons on the way. - Beatriz knew that what she was doing now could get a lot of people killed, and she would probably suffer some punishment; even though she was a retired officer, the act of "helping" the retreat or influencing the chaos that the demon could cause by running could not be ruled out regardless of her circumstances, in her situation the right thing to do would be to try to buy time for reinforcements, but that didn't even cross her mind, just thinking about her children a few meters away from her made her ignore any rules and morals that she would have followed before. Looking at the demon with serious eyes and hiding her fear as best she could, she forced a smile and pointed at the drone before speaking.

- See that drone over there? It's been transmitting for a while, and it's heard our whole conversation... You should know that as I said you're a nobleman, in no time a whole squadron will be here!

- Hmm... It seems you're not deaf... So, could you please answer me? I can't be late; I've been forced to come help in the war and it would be problematic to disobey that madman.

- Didn't you hear? Soon you'll be surrounded, so you'd better get away while you can! - Beatrice, who was working hard to improve her wound, thought as she loockeed at the demon. 'I can't start a fight here, even if I manage to beat this bastard, in the confusion my children...' Beatrice knew she couldn't fight where they were, she had to wait for help, besides, she may have said he was a nobleman to rush reinforcements, but if he really was a nobleman she wouldn't be able to fight even if she wanted to, thanks to that every second she was being stared at by this monster seemed like an eternity, while she waited she heard a laugh coming from the demon.

- Puhu! Fuhuhu! Ahaha! Really? I must run away. Ahaha! I don't think I've ever heard that before! Ahaha... Coff! Coff! Uhuhu... - The demon continued to laugh for several seconds until he calmed down, but he kept a slight smile on his face before turning to face the woman in front of him. - Didn't you say on the call that I was a nobleman? Congratulations, you got it right! - Still smiling, the demon looked at Beatrice, who had a horrified look on her face, and added. - Did you know that? Among nobles there are classifications, just like the ones humans copied and used for a while. So please don't categorize me as a simple noble; I understand... That's not entirely your fault since I haven't introduced myself yet, well, nice to meet you, my name is Cocabiel, Marquis Cocabiel.

Beatriz became desperate, and immediately jumped backwards ignoring her injuries to create more space between them.

- Impossible! It wouldn't make sense, what would a marquis be doing here? - Beatrice screamed as she forced infinite soul energy into every cell of her body, completely ignoring the level her current body could withstand and going beyond anything she could do without a few more decades of uninterrupted

practice. 'I'm going to die now, but it's better to die from forcing a fusion than for my children to die. And if he's not a marquis and I stop the fusion quickly, I can still live normally if I don't fight for a few years...' Beatrice pondered as her wound closed at a ridiculous speed; Beatrice, who had forced a complete fusion between her body and soul, was watching the demon as she calculated her chances. However, despite not taking her eyes off the demon for a moment, she lost sight of it, or rather, the demon simply disappeared.

Beatrice began to look around in complete despair, searching for the demon, but she couldn't find it. Meanwhile, Arthur, who was forced to watch this scene, clearly saw that the demon was standing in front of a woman several meters from where his mother was, so he asked the same question he had asked his mother.

- Human, where is this place? - The demon stared at the woman without any perceptible feeling, which made the woman even more nervous.

- Er... Uh... We're in Clypeus territory, in district d5. - The woman replied as she stared at the demon with a look of terror on her face.

- Hu? Really? That's to the southwest, right? I'm supposed to be near the Amazon regions... human, how long does it take from here to the border regions?

- Zing! Zim! Zap! - As soon as Cocabiel asked, an arrow made of energy hit his shoulder. The arrow was only half a meter long, but it was clear how dangerous the arrow made of electricity was. Cocabiel just looked at his shoulder calmly and then a white flame appeared and as it covered the arrow, it was incinerated into nothingness. Cocabiel turned his eyes to the human he had asked and with just two fingertips, holding her as if he was disgusted to touch her directly, he grabbed her shirt and stood her up.

- Ah!" the woman cried out in surprise, and quickly took a few steps back. But she was soon forced to stop, because she and the demon were inside a place surrounded by white flames, where only the ground could be distinguished; apart from the ground and the demon in front of her, the woman could only see white.

- Sigh! - 'Do they really think attacking the flames is any good? Although... Is it really one of Loki's abilities? It would be a bit dangerous if it were stronger... Should I kill it?... No, I don't want any trouble with that crazy woman.

"This is already the second chapter where the last paragraph has disappeared when viewed on cell phones. To avoid this, I've decided to duplicate this message at the end of each chapter, hoping it will resolve the issue. If you're reading this, I apologize if it's intrusive, but it's a better solution than leaving the chapter incomplete."