"Sir, what are your thoughts on this strange phenomenon?" A reporter asked as he extended mic towards Mark who wore a black trench coat.
The whole trading center was surrounded by dome shaped distorted space, the scene was like trading center was covered by dome shaped mirror and someone shattered the mirror.
There were many reporters who were asking similar question to him. He moved forward and said, "We don't know, this is first time we are encountering such a strange thing. You have to move away from here as soon as possible." after saying this he directly neared the sealed area, the reporters wanted to ask more questions but the officers around him then blocked them.
The whole trading center was sealed in space, so the crime bureau sealed the area near the distortion. Some people were investigating the space distortion, Mark moved towards them and said, "Have you got any information what this distortion means?".
Mary who was Mark's assistant was also there, she had a report file on her hand, after giving it to Mark she said, "Sir, we don't what happened, but we discovered something strange about this distorted space."
Mark frowned and asked, "What strange discovery?"
Mary didn't say anything she just neared the sealed space and threw a white stone of size of her fist towards the space. The next moment the stone entered passed through the distortion, Mark was looking forward to it, but the stone didn't fall on the other side. Mary then took out a dagger from her waist and then tried to pierce the barrier, but nothing happened, the dagger was blocked.
She then looked towards Mark, he was obviously confused by this observation, Mary then gestured Mark to follow her, Mark then silently followed her to backside of the trading center. There Mark noticed a deformed stone, he frowned seeing the stone. Mary pointed towards the stone and said, "Sir, this is the same stone I threw from the frontside, but now it is here and in deformed state."
"So, you are saying..."Mark didn't complete his sentence, Mary just nodded and said, "Sir, the space around the trading center has become unstable, if a dead thing is passed through the barrier, it can pass it but gets thrown from other side." Mark then started thinking something, after some time he asked Mary, "Then if a person passes through the barrier?"
Mary said to him, "A living matter is unable to passes through the barrier, we have already tried it."
Mark said, "Bullet gets thrown out of the barrier, and we can't pass through it. Then what about the dagger, tit should be able to pass through the barrier?"
Mary shook her head, "Things made of monster's carcasses are also unable to pierce the barrier."
Mark then looked towards the trading center and said, "So, who could have done this. I haven't even heard of such abilities nor there is such ability user in our database."
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Inside trading center,
"Sir, officers from crime bureau have arrived outside and have surrounded us. What shall we do now?" a man said, he was not able to see the spatial distortion from inside.
The leader said, "You don't need to worry about that we have already taken hostages, they will be our key to freedom."
As he was saying this Kayasth entered the building through the roof, he opened the door, a person who was wearing mask on his face and holding a gun on his hand was silently standing at the stairs.
'He was probably guarding the rooftop.' thought Kayasth. The man noticed Kayasth but was shocked to see a person who liked like Ghost rider like his face was burning.
Currently Kayasth had the burning blue mask on his face which he previously used which destroying Amber mansion of White city. Just as the masked person was about to point the gun towards Kayasth, he saw Kayasth lifting his hand, his palm faced upwards all his fingers curled into a fist, he slowly pointed his index finger towards the man, then suddenly the man started burning. He was surrounded by blue flames, not even a second have passed the man turned into ashes even the gun he was holding was melted under the high temperature.
The hallway suddenly turned silent. Kayasth carefully examined the surroundings, he is powerful and can kill everyone in the building, but he has to take care of the civilians he can't let them get hurt because of him.
After he examined the hallway, he didn't notice anyone presence. He started to move along the hallway, he wanted to kill all those thieves who were ordered by Amber family to steal things from Moon trading center.
He then descended the stairs to get to lower floors. As he came to fifth floor, he saw nothing but shattered glass, this is the place where most costly and powerful weapons of trading center were stored, 'They have stolen all those weapons and monster cores.'
As he was about to move towards stairs, he noticed some presence 'They much have come to check the area', two masked men armed with guns entered the room, Kayasth was hiding behind one of the tables there, they were talking to each other and laughing, they didn't notice anything necessary and were about to leave the room, just as their back faced him Kayasth came behind them stealthily, he tapped their shoulder. As they looked backward to see who was playing with them.
Kayasth grabbed their necks with each hand and started tightened his grip, both of the men were shocked by Kayasth's sudden appearance but before they could alert anyone, their neck were grabbed like pipes, no voice came out of their mouth.
He then little by little started adding more strength on their necks, after some time their body couldn't hold any longer, their neck snapped he then threw their corpses, before their corpses could touch the ground the body turned to ashes.
Kayasth didn't have sympathy before he strangled them to death, they were killers who killed anyone for money so Kayasth strangled them, otherwise he would have burned them the moment he saw them.
After that he moved towards fourth floor which was swept cleaned, all the herbs there were already taken by those thieves, Kayasth thought that someone would be guarding the fourth floor and will come to check on soon, but after waiting for some time no one came.
He then moved towards the third floor, 'I think this is the only place which is not completely empty.'
There were some weapons which were left, but seeing the quality of the weapons he knew the reason they were left here, 'All weapons made of monster carcasses were taken by them leaving only normal metal weapons.'
In third floor also he found no one, then he moved towards second floor in this floor medical pills and elixir were sold. As he stealthily entered second floor, he saw some masked thieves talking among them. There were some corpses in the room, they are probably who tried to act brave in front of them, they were either shot or killed by weapons. As he listened what those people are saying he knew what they were talking about.
'So, they want to escape from here using people as hostages,' as he was listening to their plan of escape, one person suddenly frowned and said, "Where are those who went to check for leftover items."
"Four of you go and check if there is something wrong or they are just fooling around." as he said this, he pointed at four others.
As Kayasth was thinking what he should do next, 'Should I Kill them in one swoop, 'Should I torture them using flames, that will create a lot of commotion and I don't want that, but if I kill them instantly... well, whatever.' As he said this, he saw those four people leaving, he followed them.
Before they could even reach third floor, Kayasth came behind the last person and covered his mouth with his hand and then tilted the man's chin upwards, the man died even without knowing who came behind and killed him. Then he looked at those remaining three, he directly burned them.
After that he stripped the man he killed and wore the man's cloth, he looked at the lying body and snapped his fingers and the body started burning.
He then wore a black mask on his face and secretly came back to place from where he was listening to their conservation previously. The man who was revising the plan have left the floor after telling them, around 7-8 men were guarding the floor.
A man was standing at the entrance leading to second floor from the first floor, he was attentively watching over all others, suddenly he heard a muffled voice then he looked for the source but didn't find anything. He frowned and thought 'I am sure I heard a voice.' but then he again checked the surroundings, and just as he thought nothing was out, he noticed 'I think there were more...'
Just as he was about to alert everyone a hand tightly grabbed his mouth with one hand, then to his horror some masked people turned to ashes before anyone can notice anything, and just a moment passed, and the remaining men were also burned to ashes. Then he was the only one left there, Kayasth slowly turned the man's face towards him the man not able to say anything, Kayasth looked him in his eyes there was a grin on his face, he said slowly, "Pay for your sins."
As he said this the man's eyes started burning slowly, then from his fingertips and foot fire started spreading towards the center of his body.
Mmmmmmhhhhhmmmmmmm
Only his muffled voice spreading on the whole area. Some moments later, they also stopped, only a charred black corpse was left on Kayasth's hand, he then clenched his grip, the charred body slowly disintegrated into ashes.
Kayasth then came at the entrance and said,
"Now only last floor needs to be cleaned."