The next day, Sen found himself on top of the roof of the Zacharias family.
Under the cover of night, Sen entered the mansion. He got to admit, from what he heard so far, Elaila was a very simple woman who didn't like extravagancy. Yet, the inside of this mansion everything he expected from a noble house. The floor was marbled like a chessboard with white and black tiles, the walls were clean with intricate carvings while paintings filled the entire corridor with beautiful vases between each two. Each and every one of the paintings had a different person with red hair, striking a pose that exuded power and authority.
"Nooo!!"
A cry sounded in the deepest part of the castle. Normally, no one could hear it in Sen's position, but Sen had his enhancement art on and since it now runs on fused energy, it became even stronger.
Taking different turns and twists, Sen finally arrived at a dark corner of the castle. There was a door, guarded by two silver armored men. And from the thermal vision, it does not take a genius to understand what was happening.
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Lander was emptying his frustration in the gut of the elf pressed under his body. The young elf's body was filled with bruises, whip marks, and bite marks. She cried and cried again until he finally managed to break her down and now she was silent. No, she was dead. But would that satisfy him?
"Tssk" Lander clicked his teeth, "this one didn't last long either…get me another" he lifted his fat, naked body and ordered the butler beside him.
The old butler wasn't affected in the least by the cruelty of his master. In fact, many times, he had been given some slaves to enjoy himself. One time even an elf…before the elf was sent to the slaughterhouse.
"Nooo!" the butler opened the door inside the room and dragged another, this time, shockingly, it was a young boy. That's right, lord Lander Zacharias was very much known across the entire Lavin city to have this sort of fetish. If one looked around his mansion courtyard, they'll find many young dead boys and girls of all races. Yet, would anyone dare to go up against him? Elaila Zacharias's brother?
"Great!!" Lander looked at the stonefolk boy with lust. This was one of his favorite races to play with. Stonefolk rivaled even elves in beauty, and also had stone arms and shoulder which added to their charm and exoticism.
"pweaaase….wet me goooo" the young stonefolk boy wailed and struggled from the grip of the butler holding him by the hair, voice muffled with cries.
"Shut up!" Lander raised his hand to deliver a square slap towards the boy's face. But before that would happen, the door burst open and flew inside the room…so was Lander. His fat body flew like a kite and hit the room's wall.
Sen deliberately did not use a lot of strength. Only enough to send him flying without injuring him.
"Which bastard is tired of living…" Lander cursed and angrily rebuked. His fat eyelids and cheek pressed on his eyes and he had to spend some effort before he managed to see clearly and what he saw made him gulp.
The scariest creature he had ever seen was standing in the middle of his room…holding his butler's head…severed head.
"Y…yyuu…wahtt aaarr you?" incoherently spoke the frightened Lander.
Sen, however, did not answer him, he was in no rush. He felt something earlier and he wanted to confirm his doubts. Walking to the door from where the butler brought the young boy out from. He was prepared to be shocked but nothing would have prepared him for the cruelty he saw inside.
The room was vast, like a palace hall. On both sides, there was a wall-long metal cage. Within, chained people of all races. Humans, stonefolk, elves, drows, and possibly others. Almost half of them were children, probably not even reaching twelve years old. But now, their eyes were dim as if they had given up hope forever while those who did not, were crying their eyes out. The other half had both men and women and the two groups were stripped out of their clothes. Chains locked their feet and arms in place while bleeding whip marks decorated their bodies. In all count, there were more than a hundred and fifty bodies inside this hell room.
Sen sucked in a cold breath before closing the door room again.
"You…what are you going to do? I'm Lander…a lord of house Zacharias…if you d-d-dd-dare touch me, your entire family will be bur---"he didn't finish speaking when Sen's fist met his face. He did not use body enhancement art, but his natural Fanalis strength. He wanted to thoroughly enjoy the feeling.
Back on earth, people said that violence will never bring you satisfaction… well, that was utterly wrong for Sen because he enjoyed every single time his fist broke Lander's face.
"Bwweej shdobbbp!!" Lander screams turned more incoherent as Sen mangled his mouth. Blood, phlegm, spit, and other facial matter covered Sen's fist but he continued pounding on the head of flesh.
"Haa!"
Sen stopped his assault after a while and took a deep breath. He did not breathe since he started beating this scum and only now did he remember the young boy still in the room. He thought of something and fished out a dagger from his inventory, throwing it at the boy.
Unexpectedly, the boy was not afraid of Sen, despite his appearance but what was more unexpected is that the boy managed to hold the dagger.
When he saw this creature throw him a dagger before stepping aside and giving him a full view of Lander's body, the boy suddenly understood what the other party meant. He quickly picked up the dagger, walked towards Lander, and stabbed him right in the heart.
One time, two times….with each stab, the boy cried silently without making a sound, at least not sound other could hear, but Sen could hear him clearly.
"This is for mum, this is for daddy, this is for Lima, and this is for Ampat, this one for Tsui…." The boy stabbed each time in honor of his friends and family. And there sure were a lot of them because, by the time he was done, Lander's body was completely and utterly unrecognizable and grotesque.
The boy panted heavily, his body was cover with blood as he handed the dagger back to Sen.
Sen though for a moment, before shaking his head, "you keep it...if you want to leave, just leave through the back door at the end of the hall, there are no guards there…but if you want, you can wait for me here. I'll come back for those people inside anyway" Sen Spoke. But before disappearing from the boy's eyes, he looked at Lander's mutilated body and used Hell Domain.
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"My lady, what should we do now?" butler Jonas asked lady Elaila.
"That thing is not found yet, the capital is pressuring us, and the king noticed that elder Mello hasn't been back in some time now and no news of him is found" Elaila ground her teeth together.
Ever since Cassil came back, nothing went her way. First, Princess Jenna died, and the thing that killed her killed Prince Roland's personal court mage who was strong enough to rival even her, then prince Roland actually lost that precious thing that was supposed to be given to elder Mello. The prince even dumped the search for it on her head as he fearfully scrambled back to the capital.
Mello then personally arrived but disappeared like the wind one day with no notice. She wanted to search for him but then, she received news that the DuBois were having their auction that's held every five years, here in her city. She was no idiot, even Mello came to search for that creature, so these people were probably the same.
And the worst thing of all, the perpetrator of everything was right here in her city and she has no idea where.
All this gave her a headache. Jonas noticed and quickly brought her a pill and a glass of water.
Jonas waited for her to digest the pill "my lady, the matter with elder Mello is not your fault, he is a grown man and possibly the strongest here in our country; the king knows that. I think that with a bit of diplomacy and time, we can avoid repercussions. As for that creature, if it was able to kill Ebara, the necromancer, with such ease then I don't think we should really antagonize it. Especially if even Mello fell under his hands"
"You mean for me to let it go?" she glared at Jonas who shrunk his neck but still spoke up.
"No my lady, I'm saying why don't we try and bring it over to our side. If we do find it, why not just offer it some benefits in exchange for it joining the hidden guards…"
"What sort of benefits?" Elaila began to be persuaded. She narrowed her eyes at the proposal.
"How about the Sistema?" Jonas spoke.
"The Sistema?!... Jonas! Are you getting too old and demented?" the red-haired woman glared coldly at her butler.
"My lady, please hear me out"
Elaila knew Jonas would not propose something like this for no reason so he nodded to let him speak.
"That thing said that he wanted to burn this city to the ground. From his attitude, we can safely assume that he stood up for the non-humans? Even more so since his companions are a drow and an elf, if we can offer him the Sistema and tell him that he can use it to find that place and create his own kingdom, he will definitely be indebted to you my lady."
"So you want me to let that thing with powers maybe even stronger than Mello's create a country, build an army, only to use them against me in the future?…"
"No my lady" Jonas shook his head, "as you said, that thing's power is not something we can contest with, he can probably kill the hidden guards with ease. He won't ever get to create that country as he'll need the third Sistema, which not even your ancestors managed to find. But if you can use it to exchange it with favor, I'm sure that he can probably help you eliminate the royal family"
Elaila squinted her eyes, true that was her ambition, the royal family of this generation is stupid and without any ambition, they just stay in their palaces enjoying their riches and lusting after their slaves. But she wondered how Jonas knew her own ambitions….well, he was with her for years and would naturally understand her better than anyone.
That aside, the proposition was really good. Neither she nor her many ancestors managed to ever find that rumored place made by the goblins. Aside from bringing disaster each time they tried to find it, the Sistema served to be nothing but an object in her hand. That was proved from Cassil's last adventure.
And using it in exchange for a favor from someone as strong as that thing, it may be really worth it.
After pondering over it for a little more while, Elaila made the Sistema appear in her hand from nowhere as she looked at it in contemplation. "But even if I agree to this, how will we even find him," she asked.
Jonas smiled from ear to ear with an unusual grin on his face - something he never did before and spoke in a voice not his own, "you don't have to my lady. I'm already here"