Chapter 22: Broken Strings (End)
"Do you know what is this stone? Mira?" He asked.
"...."
Seeing that stone her own two eyes grew big as if it is going popped out.
"....."
This brought silence!
Never she would expect V'Ren to have this stone.
'So I can't teleport!' She thought in the midst of crisis.
"Mira... Mira... Now answer me. Stay or I will kill that trash of yours." V'Ren said egoistically.
"You? Hahhaa... Why do I need to stay here?" She said without a hint of fear.
"Ow?"
"So you haven't known your situation yet. Let me help you, Mira."
With that, a man out of nowhere popped out!
A man in simple clothes and black hair.
Jess! That's Jess!
Mira recognized the face and everything. It's because she is Jess wives.
"No! Despicable! Why are even doing this!???"
"Bastard!"
Mira almost knelt her knees down seeing her husband pressured, his throat is waiting to be killed.
(Author: What a poor Jess. He doesn't even know what was happening!)
With what she saw. She couldn't stand it anymore.
She lowered her guard then said.
"You? Please let them go away! You want me right?? So let them go! I'm going to give you everything but don't take my husband and son lives. I beg you please....please....." She begs for mercy and her cry almost soak her gown.
"Hahhahahahaa!" Since you said it for your self then I won't!"
He stopped and continued...
"I won't let him live!"
"Ah! No!!!!" Mira shouted but no to avail.
Jess was cut in two and almost bleed like a river flows.
...
Little Ner was still in a shocking state.
He can't do anything just like in his situation with Purple.
"How can trash like me will change my Fate if I was like this?" He asked himself.
"Mother is protecting me....and her power was stopped by some unknown force."
"I can't save her even I!"
His thoughts flooded with different memories.
Seeing the unknown guy talked about her mother's past and they made him shocked!
And after that, this man called V'Ren her mother's childhood friend speak.
"Do you know what is this stone? Mira?" He asked.
"...."
He also felt a familiarity feeling with that stone but it's not the stone he saw in the Sea State of Nothingness.
"Bright silver!"
"That is the only treasure of the family Aeronaut!"
He understands what this stone effects.
As long as you are in the inside the territory which places with this stone then it can stop someone from fleeing away!
As if they can see you which or wherever you may.
Like a mark of an eye is being printed in your body.
"The Colossal Eye, one of the most important items he wanted."
Its effects were miraculous as if it can stop someone from escaping using plat energies and thus can see you everywhere!
It's perfect for assassination!
It can disturb the flow of Plat Energies!
His mother and V'Ren talked. It was a little different. Her mother is begging!!
"Father!"
He also jolted back, he can't just speak out those words.
He ought to but no to avail!
Until her mother gave up. He sees his mother cried, kneeled and beg for mercy.
"No mom! I don't want to see you in that man!"
At least he can say this out. Little Ner was crying and also begging for his mother to yield but she was forced to do so...
"Ah!! No!!" Her mother shouted.
"Father.....sob... Sob.."
He cried.
His father was squeezed to death.
Blood flows from his orifices.
And yes.. it was lifeless.
"...."
"You're next trash!" V'Ren spouted.
"Ah!.." He felt his body going numb.
'This can't be! But how?? Can I escape?" He thoughtlessly pondered in slow motion.
"No!!!!!" Her mother shouted and rush off from his side.
"Ow, so my wife? Why do you even care for this trash? Do you even know how life is this merciful? I even let you have everything but you let it go like nothing?? Today and this minute... Your everything will begone!" V'Ren did not wait anymore and let his power go wild.
Mira bounced off...
"This power isn't on the level I know! His words seem to be true! If I did not get my stone back we can still live here happily and I can see my son bright future... See my son married. And Jess recovered... I... I... What mess did I do? Do I even have the reason to get everything back? It was because of that beast."
"That beast started everything!"
She muttered as if this minute her life is at its end.
Since she can't do anything she put a handful of her power into 1 point and let that power goes wild.
"Mom....." He blacks out due to the force of these two Cultivators.
Her son falls to his knees.
"Ahahhahahha!" V'Ren laughed too hard.
"Now... Cry all you want Mira. In just mere seconds he will out if his breath!"
She rushed off at his son. Seeing him unconscious.
"Son... I know I'm not a good mother! I can't protect you and your father! Your mother is useless.. ahahhaha...sob.. sob.. " She cried like no end.
Her eyes are red and her tears.... that watery tears isn't just tears but blood!
"Son? Do you hear me? I am going to live away from you. Just live on.." She muttered out while hugging her son.
"Then I have to save my son... " She mumbled and,
"Jess... I will follow you!"
Then a sudden change happened!
She rushed her power to the limit and even sacrificing her own life essence.
"The reason to call Power, Sacrifice!" She yelled out.
The weather changed suddenly as if a tribulation would come.
The sky darkened, the wind grows stronger, the plat energies go wild.
"A sacrifice!"
When V'Ren saw this he was shocked.
Only those person who is willing to give her everything would sacrifice even it means her life.
'I can't stay here! Or else this tribulation will also kill me.' He thought as he fled away from the scene.
He's too powerful but how come he can't stop this?
It's because it's against the law. After Mira made the sacrifice in a second a barrier will form and will destroy everything except the vessel.
That vessel was of course little Ner.
...
Far from the site where the tribulation is happening. Nobles from the seat discovered what was happening.
"Mom? What is happening there?" A silver-haired girl asked.
"Don't ask your mother Mae." Her father replied.
"Minerva I will tell this to her or not?" Drak asked his wife Minerva.
"Hmmm... She's still a child Drak." Minerva said with concern.
"But... That's!" He wants to say this out but stopped by his wife.
"Dad... Mom..." Mirae stumbles into them.
"It's okay Mae, you're father is just concern about you. Please don't worry and everything will be fine." Minerva consoled her daughter and deeply looked at her husband.
'Mira please be safe!~" He prayed that nothing will happen to her.
....
All of the citizens of Arc Empire seems to be in a panic.
Of course, kids would be scared just by hearing those thunderous sounds and bolts just as thick as a baby's hand.
Residents clamoured around.
Some soldiers kept them away and started to maintain the fray.
In the palace...
"My king! We discovered that it was all because of Mare, your 12th daughter."
The attendant reported all about the thieving and so on but he did not spout everything including V'Ren misdeeds.
"My daughter... What did you do? Did you ever want to end your life this way? I know why are you scared. I know I don't have the power, I'm just an old man. I was sick and old. Your father is useless!!" The king let out sorrowful look.
"We held our life and existence, no one can take it away. but... Once heaven will take it, then it will." The king felt a heartbreak.
"Just don't interfere attendant. You can't do even about it. The strong eat the weak! The world follows the Venerable. We only live in this cruel world of cultivation. We can only follow the rules of the Venerable! We can't oppose heaven unless you become one of the existence!" The king advised the attendant.
"I will take that into mind, my King!" The attendant said and walked away.
The king looked at the sky and closed the windows because of the bad weather. Everyone is safe but in the centre Isle of tribulation a woman with lifeless eyes can be seen rapidly fading in lights.
"I... ... !" He let a cold voice yet unhappy.
In his hands, the body of a woman shouldered at him but fading in lights.
"What happened? Why did I re-experience this twice? Do I??"
He let out a depressed smile.
"Sob..sob.. can't.... change...even... my... own... life... this existence of mine is no use of....." Blackout. And fainted.
The sky falls off. And the bright gleamed as if they want to smile.
Then...
A boy floats his body up above 3 meters in the ground. Hair seems started to glow to bright green, eyes seem to spark with deep green with flickering with a sliver of black and green rays.
That kid was Gner Arc!
Back when his timeline he doesn't even know what happened! That time and this time this happened twice without even knowing!
"Kill!
"Kill!
"Kill!
"Kill!
"Kill!
"Yes! Kill them all!"
An evil thought eroded his mind and consciousness.
As if another being no a devil is controlling his body.
This lifeless eyes of him tell everything!
The looks and that eyes! A familiar scent of a devil!
What a devil he was!
The devil is back! Slaughterer!
To be continued…..
Satou, D.