Nothing could be more painful than getting hit in the nuts. Invictus took advantage of Jorp when he let his guard down because he knew that Invictus was exhausted and bleeding but he really isn't.
"Ow! M-My fucking... entire civilization."
Jorp weakly collapsed on the ground while holding his crotch. He could not move. His body was stiff from the excruciating pain.
"My, my... Now you've seen my face. I can't let you live anymore. I was planning on using you, but I guess you will have to go."
"No! No!"
Jorp's head was shaken by a kick. An instant knocked out after getting hit in his jaw took out Jorp.
"Just lie there for now while I bring your coward of comrades back."
As he started towards the door, Invictus put his mask back on, whistling under bloody moonlight in Haven City, whereas darkness prevails in the uproarious night.
One by one, Invictus began to hunt Jorp's accomplices, from the depths of hell to every nook of the city. Once committed, Invictus will not stop.
His sheer focus and will to achieve the things he wants are unfathomably tremendous.
"Oh, lord! How... did you find me here?!"
"Just a few pennies."
"Ahhh! No! Don't lay your fucking hands on me!"
Jorp's five accomplices were all slaughtered, ripped to shreds, beheaded, skinned alive, made to eat his own balls, and suffered from huge blood loss with his body looking like a bee hive.
All five accomplices were sent back to the house and that was where they met their end in the hands of the most sadistic torturer Estaria gave birth to.
"Always onward towards better things. Semper ad Meliora. Semper Invictus."
Each mutilated corpse laid on the floor in front of the unconscious Jorp, who is sitting on a chair with his hands and feet tied.
Jorp regained consciousness twice when Invictus was away to bring back his friends but the man always found him whenever and wherever he ran away.
A series of slapping aroused Jorp. He was still dizzy from getting hit thrice in his jaw. And he won't deny but he feels like it was dislocated after the second kick.
"I'm totally grossed out by what I've done. That just means what I did is beyond brutal if, even I felt sick at this sight."
Invictus just wanted Jorp to see what was reduced of his accomplices, cowards that turned their backs on comrades, friends, allies, and people they should be fighting side by side. Invictus wants Jorp to understand the importance of choosing the right and trustworthy people, friends that will not betray him.
Jorp's vision was unclear at first. His vision was fuzzy but he definitely noticed the five mutilated corpses. He immediately rubbed his eyes to take a good look after Invictus loosened his rope.
"Ah, ahhhhhhh!!!"
His scream reverberated throughout the whole city. It was the loudest scream ever heard in Haven City.
"Bleugh!"
Seeing the gruesome sight was like a punch in Jorp's stomach. He hasn't eaten but he surely vomited what food residue was left in his stomach.
"I--I can't... This is—"
Being in Haven City for several years, Jorp witnessed countless deaths, brutal, peaceful, and gruesome ones. But not as inhumane as what Invictus did.
"You have their innards spread out? And what— what is that in Tom's mouth?"
"Oh, so this is Tom? Well, Tom had to eat his own dick before he died. Look here, it's inside his stomach."
Disgustingly, Invictus pointed out the chewed parts of Tom's manhood, and it caused Jorp to throw up once again.
"Cowards, pricks like these guys, deserve the most gruesome and painful death, don't you think so too, Jorp?"
Invictus caressed Jorp's back as the vulnerable guy threw up air. The lack of food was the result of not having any to puke.
"It is a horrible sight, I know. I ain't gonna lie, I almost threw up earlier just by staring for about ten seconds in their corpses."
"What do you want?" Exclaimed Jorp, his mouth covered in his discharge.
"Hmm... Revenge is all I want if we're gonna specify my utmost desire. If we generalize it, I guess it is the destruction of Estaria. Surely, you must have heard of what happened to my kid and wife, yeah? I have lived enough as a hero. I'm way past that bullshit. I'll be the antagonist this time."
The burning of Uria and Austria, Invictus' wife and daughter, at the stake, spread across the kingdom like wildfire. Many have sympathized with the unfortunate death of Austria but not with the death of Uria. Every
Estarian said that Uria had it coming, that she deserved every punishment there is she can get.
And, of course, people who know Uria and Invictus were in doubt about Uria being the leader of the witches, which brought fear to Estaria's people, keeping their house's doors locked at night, in the hope of a peaceful nightlong.
"You're out of your mind!" Blurted out Jorp. "How will you do it?!"
Jorp and Invictus somehow share the same goals, and it was not a coincidence. Ever since the two of them were born in Estaria, experiencing the cruelty of people, and the harshness of their environment, made them construct a goal in their mind. That is the downfall of Estaria from the very top down to its roots.
"Good question, Jorp. How exactly will I do it? If I'm by myself, it will take me forever to finish the job. So, I am looking for people that I can control to help me with my goals. Those that will not disobey my orders because they are absolute."
Invictus is certain that achieving his goals alone is highly likely to happen.
"However, I can't let "those" scums, bastards, evils, plagues, live longer in peace. And I am not saying this out of emotion, out of anger, because it is absolutely possible. I'll make sure it happens. And you'll be a witness to all of it."
The burning desire and determination to trample everyone's lives, are reflected in Invictus' eyes. Jorp was there to see the beginning of the fall, and he will be there to see the rise of a new beginning.
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