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Chapter 9 - Chapter 9

Glenn was going bananas right now over that amber cube and Roach was beginning to get concerned.

'It was just a cube, right?'

Roach thought, having regretted giving him that cube.

"Damn!" shouted Glenn without warning in frustration.

Roach was startled by his sudden shouting he didn't know why Glenn was reacting that way.

All he's been doing was looking at that cube for the past fifteen minutes and giggling, it was getting pretty creepy.

Roach watched Glenn grow upset as he turned the cube around and looked at it from all angles only growing angrier as he did.

"Damn, damn, damn it! What is up with this key just how ancient is it? I can't even understand these archaic inscriptions!" Glenn shouted in anger.

Roach was thoroughly confused at this point so he couldn't help but blurt out.

"What the fuck is going on?!"

Glenn then shot Roach a look of utter disdain like his presence made him want to puke.

"Why are you still here go away I'm trying to figure out how to activate this ancient inheritance key!" Cried out Glenn a look of pure rage on his face.

Glenn then went back to studying the cube.

"Hmm? From the inscriptions, I'd say it's at least 50,000 years old which would mean it's from the Barbarous age." Glenn said curiously.

Roach seriously wasn't expecting his reaction it was like he was an entirely different person.

Also, what was this Barbarous age and inscriptions he's talking about?

'Tsk! Guess he was a piece of shit after all. I knew that kind old man persona was an act! Wait a minute how is he talking normally all of a sudden, wasn't he injured and coughing up blood just a few seconds ago?'

Roach was confused and pissed off by Glenn's new attitude and the fact that he was ignoring him so he swore at Glenn, threw a rock at him, and gave him the finger which seemed to grab his attention.

"Listen you little brat, this cube you found is very precious. Think about it, this cube was precious enough for two D-ranked monsters to kill each other over it and do you know why? This is an inheritance key, left behind by an expert long ago, filled with treasures and special techniques for a future successor to find and I'm gonna be that successor!" Glenn said a look of hatred and resentment on his wrinkled face.

Glenn's story was a tragic one, born the first son of a small but proud merchant family Glenn was raised like the blessed son of a royal family.

This meant he was an entitled and arrogant bastard who abused the money and influence of his family to do whatever he pleased without any consequences for his heinous actions.

That included drugs, murder, and women whether they wanted it or not too.

Glenn was scum among scum a real piece of human trash. However, that didn't mean he was a useless bastard in fact he was a highly gifted individual, and that made things worse.

Glenn was an exceptionally talented alchemist far better than any of his peers but his horrendous personality and highly illegal hobbies made him a very despised man.

What was that saying? "What goes around comes around," yeah that's what happened to him.

Someone more powerful than him dug up his illegal activities and presented them to the public which destroyed his image and badly damaged his family's reputation.

Thus resulting in his banishment to the slums and his family cutting off all ties to him.

Glenn never repented for his actions though, in his twisted eyes, he did nothing wrong it was everyone else's fault they betrayed him out of jealousy.

Glenn then proceeded to sell drugs for Broadrick with the intention to buy back his citizenship one day, but that day would never come.

Glenn found out after trying that the city guards had been bribed by his own family.

The guards refused to let him enter the city even after he gave them the money to buy back his citizenship.

He ended up having all his valuables stolen and was nearly beaten to death after he complained about it.

This meant Glenn was forever doomed to rot in the terrible slums surrounded by filthy peasants for the rest of his life all while wishing he could get back at the people who ruined his life.

"This cube can change all that I'm going to retrieve all the riches left behind by the expert who created this cube then destroy that wretched city and all the people in it that did this to me!" Glenn shouted his expression only growing crazier and crazier.

Glenn then started writing bizarre symbols all over its amber exterior.

Roach watched as the red viscous fluid inside it began churning producing a palpable heat that radiated off its surface.

"Yes, I've almost got it!" Glenn cheered in satisfaction.

At that moment the cube started to glow a bright red hue spread throughout the crater followed by an overwhelming heat wave that stun Roach's skin and burned his eyes.

'What the fuck is happening! I'm still confused but one thing is for sure I'm not letting that bastard have his way!'

Roach took out his shiv and mustering all the strength in his legs, he jumped at Glenn who was too busy writing one last symbol to take notice of him.

"Almost just one more... it's done!" Glenn shouted out in glee.

The cube shined even brighter as the last rune was imprinted as did Glenn's joyous smile.

The air began to bellow as a fierce whirlwind was expelled from the now vibrating cube.

If you were to look closely at the cube you could even see it begin to shift around opening a small crack that expelled even more heat and light.

Glenn knew it was going to open soon and when it did he would finally be able to have his revenge.

"Hahahahahaha!!!" Glenn cackled like a madman believing he had achieved total victory.

Unfortunately for him, his little moment of triumph was cut short by Roach jamming a shiv into the side of his neck.

"Wha...da fuck?!" Glenn choked out, blood filling his esophagus.

Glenn wasted no time in lashing out and grabbing Roach by the throat from behind his back!

With Roach in his iron grip, he began viscously strangling him.

A visible look of revulsion in his reddened eyes.

Roach was shocked by this, how could a man with third-degree burns all over his torso and a shiv in his neck still have so much strength left in him to fight back?

"Fucking little...I was a D-ranked...fuck it who cares I'm gonna kill you anyway!" Glenn spat out, blood shooting out of his mouth.

'The hell you are!'

Roach wasn't going to die that easily, he pulled out another shiv he had tucked away in his pants, and this time he stabbed it into his eye making sure it got deep into his skull.

"AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!"

Glenn cried out his grip loosening enough for Roach to break free and snatch the cube away from him.

"NO, GIVE IT BACK!!!" Glenn roared like a beast.

Somehow he was still alive with a six-inch shiv in his eye socket and was furiously trying to grab Roach who was crawling away from him as fast as his little arms could take him.

"YOU'RE SO DEAD!!!" Glenn roared blood now gushing from his mouth like a fountain.

But just as he was about to catch Roach a blinding flash of crimson followed by a series of loud cracking sounds emanated from the cube.

Before Glenn's terrified eyes, the cube shattered its pieces scattering through the air and surrounding Roach who was caught off guard by an expanding wave of boiling red liquid that swallowed him whole.

The liquid formed a dark red bubble that encased Roach and began to shrink until it was then covered by the floating pieces which formed a rough amber cube once more.

Just like that Roach was gone only the cube remained in his place. It all happened in the blink of an eye.

Glenn couldn't believe what had happened. He was so close to turning his fate around but now his opportunity had slipped through his fingers.

"Damnit no! Only one person at a time can enter the cube!" Glenn cried tears now welling up in his one good eye.

Glenn knew from studying the cube's inscriptions that only one person can enter the cube at any given time and they couldn't leave until they either died or found the exit which could take hours if not days to locate.

Glenn didn't have days he barely had five minutes left.

His injuries were too severe and now with a shiv in his neck and eye socket, he was going to die even faster.

"Fucking brat...should've killed you...a...long...time...ago!" Glenn said slowly the light fading from his eye, the darkness closing in on him.

He collapsed to the ground his blood forming a large scarlet pool from the many wounds on his body.

'I was...so close...to making everyone pay!'

Those were Glenn's last thoughts before breathing his last breath. He died the way he had lived for so very long.

Cursing the entire world.