The party had started with the Villain leader and his children by his side, although a few of them were absent at the moment.
Mr Megan was dressed in a tuxedo suit and even though he was old, he look so young and handsome in the suit.
The party was held in a large hall located beside the Megan's main house. All of those who were present in the party were strictly only members of the Villain Faction. That includes those from the 12 planets owned by the Faction.
In front of the hall was a podium where several seatings were placed for the leaders and other important officials to sit during the party. As you all know, it will be advisable not to stay amidst the crowd because of security reasons. Who knows what might happen if one of the leaders were killed. Danger could be lurking at every corner.
People were dancing and rocking as the DJ remixed different songs for them. Everyone seemed to be in a happy and joyous mood, all except the Villain leader.
He glared at the crowd with an expressionless face, and although his children could see his expression, they chose to ignore him since it wasn't the first time he would act like this. His expression was always the same, filled with no emotion or empathy.
Xanny who seemed to have just arrived in the hall, moved closer to greet him. "It's so nice to see you father. Happy Birthday." She said, kissing him on the hand.
"Where is your brother, Xash? I don't think I've seen him for a long time." He said without batting an eye to look at her face.
Xanny couldn't believe what she heard. She always think he was an emotionless man who didn't care about any of his children except his Faction and planets, but for the first time in history, he asked of one of them.
She didn't know how to act, she must tell Xash about this at once. It was something they had never experienced in their life. For the leader to show concern for one of his children? It was really a rare thing.
Xanny only realised that Xash wasn't beside her a few minutes ago. She would have went back for him but she was already in the hall.
"H-he… He's in the restroom. Give me a moment Father, I'll bring him here right now." She stuttered as she said this.
"No, he's not in the restroom." The Faction Leader said. "You know my ability makes me aware of everything going on around me. I can see your brother and Jim at the dock right now. Tell them to come here immediately."
Xanny was speechless, so their father had an ability. And it was an impressive one to begin with. To be able to see what was happening far away. Just what kind of ability was that? She had always thought he had none since he spent all his life building guns and weapons made of Alien bodies and also nuclear bombs that could kill tens of thousands of people at once. Before the discovery of abilities, he was undefeated and even after the discovery of abilities, he still stayed undefeated.
Although different factions like the Ace factions had tried attacking their planets, they always fail, since they couldn't breach the borders.
The only attack they managed to make was the one at Planet X, but they still end up being defeated by Xash.
"I heard your Planet was attacked, I would like to hear the full story once you're back." The Faction Leader added and Xanny who couldn't wait to tell Xash about the sudden change in their father's attitude immediately left the hall.
'…'
'…'
At the ship dock occupied by hundreds of spaceships, two humans could be seen fighting as Jim had Xash pinned to the wall with a force he couldn't seem to repel. It was so strong that Xash find it difficult to move any part of his body. Not even his eyelids.
[ Target: Jim. Ability: Blood Control (User is able to make his opponents do his bidding by controlling the blood in their body) Level of ability: 30 ]
"What is a loser like you doing here, huh?" He had a bottle of champagne in his hands with a small amount of alcohol left in it. He drank the remaining of the alcohol and proceeding on pressing the bottom of the bottle on Xash's chest.
The two of them were at breath's length and Xash didn't fail to realise the aura of hatred that was oozing from Jim's eyes.
"You had the balls to come here despite not having any ability." Jim said, smashing the bottle on the ground. He had the neck of the bottle in his hands as he intend to stab Xash with its sharp ends.
"Didn't I tell you to stay away from father as far as you can? Since you disobeyed such a simple order, you'll have to face the consequences."
[ New Quest, defeat the one who plans to kill you ]
[ Quest Reward: 2x instant level up ]
Xash tried attacking with his fire balls but with the state he was, nothing seemed to be working. He couldn't turn invisible or levitate since his body was following someone's else order. Not even his healing ability was working.
He would have stripped him of his ability if only he could touch him, but presently, he couldn't move any part of his body, not to talk of touching him.
'How did you expect me to defeat him when I'm trapped like this!' He shouted in his mind with frustration.
Xash thought of everything he could do to save himself but nothing seems to come to his mind.
He could only watch as Jim brought the broken bottle neck closer to his chest. It was obvious he really wanted to kill him.
"I can kill you now without anyone knowing." Jim said with an evil grin plastered on his face.
He pushed the broken neck of the bottle into his chest and Xash could only reply with a grunt.
[ -50 HP ]
[ HP: 950/1000 ]
'Crap!'
As the broken bottle pierce into his chest, Xash was convinced that he was really going to die.
'Does that mean someone else is going to kill me before I could kill the protagonist? No! That's not possible.'
Xash recalled the time when the attacking medium of the Ace spaceship shot at him back at his sister's planet but the bullet had divert from his head to his arm. And also when the co-pilot almost shot him but had missed. Although he found it strange, he could only think it has something to do with the novel or the seer.
Mumbling within his breath, he started praying silently, hoping that someone would hear him out.
'Please, for the last time, help me out. I don't know if you are the seer or something else but please, whoever you are, save me, I can't die now. I'm the MC of this story and I'm sure my readers won't want me dead!'
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