The deeper he entered, the dirtier and stinkier it became. Even with his full-body control, Kael couldn't bear the overwhelming stench slapping his face.
*Whip...whip...*
Suddenly, he heard the sound of a whip and moved towards it. Kael widened his eyes when he saw the scene after reaching the area: dead bodies scattered all over the ground, whip marks covering their bodies. Kael furrowed his brows and turned to look at the skinny brother and sister who were weeping while holding their mother's corpse.
A guard, covering his face with a gas mask, laughed maniacally and whipped at the kids. Kael moved at lightning speed and caught the whip. The guard's maniacal smile immediately darkened, and he tried to pull it back, but he didn't have enough strength to wrest it from Kael's hand.
"I may be used to this apocalyptic world, but I will never get used to the innocent suffering. Not everyone deserves to suffer and die," Kael said through gritted teeth. He pulled the whip, causing the guard to stumble towards him, and then summoned a sword, cutting off the guard's neck cleanly.
Kael shook his hand, and the blood on the sword fell at the feet of the dead mother. The kids stopped crying and stared at Kael blankly. He moved closer to them, and they started shaking violently. Kael released a pitiful sigh, and tears welled up in his eyes. "God is like that. He has never been fair and never will be. Here, have a drink."
He produced two glasses of milk and extended his hands to the kids. They looked at each other and gulped down their saliva before reaching out their shaky hands to take the glasses, but they didn't even have the energy to hold them. There wasn't anything left in their bodies except skin and bones.
Kael closed his eyes for a moment and moved his hands, holding the glasses close to their mouths.
The kids started drinking the milk without taking a single breath. They drank the milk in one gulp. Kael wanted to take them with him, but he was in enemy territory, and it wasn't good to take them with him, so he said goodbye before moving further into the mine to search for Sareena's family members.
The kids looked at their mother and remembered her words: "There will come a day when God will take pity on us and send a savior to protect your lives. Follow that savior till you die."
"Savior," the little girl murmured while holding her mother's corpse, tears sliding down her skinny face.
Her elder brother nodded his head. "Savior." He slowly stood up and gently pulled his younger sister to her feet. Both of them looked at their mother for the last time and followed Kael with their shaky legs.
Since there was a distance between them, Kael didn't notice the kids following him. A young lady passed through the wall, looked at his back and at the kids who were slowly following him, her lips curling up as tears welled up in her eyes. The tear drops that fell from her eyes disappeared into the air before they touched the ground.
Kael heard loud voices and the sound of whipping, so he moved in the direction the sounds were coming from.
In the area where the loud voices and whipping sounds were coming from...
"Hehe, I heard that this low-life bastard's wife was fucked to death by our boss."
"Yeah, I also heard that she cried this low-life bastard's name till her last breath."
"Our boss is just lucky to fuck a beauty like her. I think there isn't any lady as sexy and hot as her in New Dawn Colony."
"Damn, she always covered her body and face. I never got the chance to see her hot looks."
Two guards had a conversation with each other, sadistic smiles on their faces.
A young man holding a pickaxe, hitting the boulders, tightened his grip on the handle while tears slowly dripped down his face. He would have committed suicide if not for the elders and babies who didn't even know how to walk properly.
Kael, who reached that area, heard everything and turned to look at Sareena, who was shaking violently, with a confused look on his face. "Sareena, what's happening here? Is that guy and the babies behind him your family?"
Sareena took a deep breath to calm down and moved her hand to touch his forehead with her finger.
Suddenly, he felt dizzy, and one scene after another flashed through his eyes.
Sareena was actually from one of the prominent families, which had declined in the New Dawn Colony due to underhanded means by other prominent families. After their family declined, they became targets for bullying by every prominent family.
But she never thought her family's decline would bring her demise and endless pain to her family members.
The Miller family's young master developed an interest in her when her family was still one of the prominent families. At that time, she decisively declined his proposals and used her family's influence to keep him at bay. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't do anything to her since her family was also one of the prominent families at that time. So, he played a big role in her family's decline, and finally, he got the chance to lay his fangs on her.
He kidnapped the whole family and started rumors saying they left the New Dawn Colony due to family decline. No one took the disappearance of Sareena and her family members seriously and forgot about them in a few days.
He forced himself on her day and night, devastated her in every possible way, and took his revenge slowly and vengefully. He sent her family members to work in one of his mines and subjected her to a living hell in the basement of his guest house.
From the day she was kidnapped, she never saw sunlight. She was bleeding all over her body, with severe injuries to her private parts. She slowly lost consciousness and died a very painful death.
Kael was moved to tears seeing the suffering she endured every day until her death. He felt his throat dry, tears sliding down his cheeks.