An aura that was enough to make everyone suffocate landed on the individuals in the city....
Exclamations of fear and shock rung out in the city...
Erindor quickly retracted his SSS rank aura... His purpose was not to cause panic after all... Soon the exclamations of fear and panic died down..
However something else happened ...
Shadows swirled from the ground, twisting and turning... They turned into ethereally dark masses, migrating upwards towards a lone figure in the sky under who's feet lighting and flames flickered...
Under the gazes of the crowd, the shadows formed a large shadowy pole in the air..
The large shadowy pole shot dark shadowy rope like tendrils that wrapped themselves completely around the figure of the individual held by the figure with lightning and fire flickering under his feet...
The tendrils pulled the blonde haired individual who had been bound the shadowy rope like tendrils towards the pole and bound him to the pole....
The smooth black haired individual with lightning and flames flickering beneath his feet slowly descended from the sky in tandem with the individual now bound to the shadowy pole with the tendrils ....
Erindor finally landed on a street in the middle of the city , all gazes landing on him... Media outlets had already congregated around the site of the dramatic occurrence...
The individual bound to the shadowy pole with the shadowy tendrils wrapped all around him was quickly recognized by the crowd " it's him... Vincent Michealson ,the one who betrayed humanity..."...
" As expected of Viper, his methods are ruthless and vicious... What does he plan doing with the traitor of humanity..."..
Various conversations broke out amongst the individuals who had congregated around Erindor ..
Erindor used shadow manipulation again to form various shadowy weapons that could deal damage to the body of an S ranked awakened..
He did this under the gazes of all the onlookers...
"I honestly don't care much about anyone but myself and I don't empathise with anyone's losses but ... This bastard cannot have a quick death can he?... Anyone who lost a loved one during the assaults of the demonic beasts today and by other means in the past is free to come and vent their frustrations on this guy here..since he represents the demonic beasts now, its only logical thay hurting him is akin to hurting a demonic beast. I have the perfect weapons tailored for dealing damage to him.."...
Boooom....
Erindor's words spread like wildfire..
In the span of a few seconds, various awakened had gathered around Erindor in the area...
The first person to appear take the weapon from Erindor was a 13 year old boy who had tears and snort all over his nose and mouth...
The boy had an expression of pure anger on his face...
Erindor sighed upon seeing the boy,his gaze softening.. " Who did you lose"...
The boy responded, his voice full of melancholy and anger " My mother , my father and all my siblings were all awakened who fought at the front lines and died today... This mister betrayed humanity, knowing the harm those monsters have caused us all ... For that, he has to know the pain my family and I have felt because of his allies "..
Erindor nodded in approval... -"This boy reminds me of myself a lot...And I'm sure there are more kids like him out there... I should talk to the vice principal so that they develop a sponsorship scheme for the orphaned "
Erindor was tempted to take the boy under his tutelage, and raise him.. However if he did that, didn't that mean that he'd be tempted to do that for all the kids who lost their parents due to various reasons?..Erindor was just seventeen, ...he was in no way prepared to be some parent ... He therefore had to leave matters into the hands of the orphanage... However he would personally oversea that the orphanage gives these children the best treatments possible ..
Erindor handed over a thick , light weighted shadow knife to the boy..
The boy did not hesitate. He stared Vincent in the eye, who had an expressionless look on his face as though he had given up completely on life...
Then ... The boy plunged the weapon in the right eye of Vincent causing blood and white fluids to drape on the ground .... The boy did not even flinch... He was expressionless .. as though he was taking a walk in the park...
Schhh... Schhh
A horrific scream rung through the environs...
Everyone was shocked at the boy's display of cruelty.... Even those watching the events unfold from the comfort of their homes were shocked at this boy's display of cruelty..
Even Erindor slightly raised his eyes to look at the boy well...
-" This .... such cruelty and decisiveness at this age?...He already has the mindset that will help one to survive in this word.... I've changed my mind... I will make an exception and try to raise him myself... But the other kids in the queue will move to the orphanage..."
After that, the boy turned " thank you sir ... Although this is not enough to vent my revenge fully ... I'm grateful for the opportunity .."..
The boy was just about to hand the weapon to snother person in the line when Erindor stopped him and asked him " What's your name...?"
The boy was slightly stunned that Erindor would be interested in a nobody like him, however he replied " Name's Hugo... Hugo Jackson...sir"..
Erindor squatted slightly and ruffled Hugo's red hair, then whispered into the boy's ear " Would like to start living with me from today ?"...
The boy's eyes beamed with surprise, then he nodded....
He handed the weapon over to the next person and stood behind Erindor....
Various questions rung in the minds of the people concerning why Erindor had whispered into he boy's ear .. However they all had no other choice but to keep their thoughts to themselves ....
The next person in the queue was an old woman with a slightly hunged back ...
She took a shadowy hammer from Erindor then cursed at Vincent who's eyes were now a mess...
" You were my grand son's mentor, he went to the global interschool tournament so he could see you... However he died ... He died because of you..."...
The woman launched the hammer towards Vincent's mouth, causing it to cave in as blood sprawled on the ground..
The next person ..
" My girlfriend..."
".... died because of you..."...
" Fuck you ..."...
"Asshole..."...
"Murderer... "..
" A disgrace to humanity. ...".
" ... To choose a couple of monsters over your own race..."..
Similar words followed by various assaults met Vincent, who now looked like a bloody pulp..
He looked extremely maimed....
An A ranked healer who was amongst the gathered individuals volunteered to heal him in order to prevent him from dying...
Then the torture begun again ....soon, this cycle went on for about six hours till everyone had tormented Vincent .....
.... Vincent started to weep... The torment had been too much for him...
Even for him, this pain was so much for him to bear ..
"... Please.... Please... Just kill me..." He sobbed....
Erindor sighed... a sadistic grin evident on his face... "YOU WANT TO DIE?... Hehe..."
" Please just kill him...".. A familiar voice rung in the environs , followed by a familiar face...
" Duke Michealson... even you have someone you care about don't you"... Erindor sneered, then shot Duke Michealson a chilly look....
Duke knew he was no match for Erindor, in fact the distance between them was like heaven and earth..
However Vincent was still his father...There was only so much he could tolerate... Watching his father tormented and maimed, and healed and maimed all over again , was too much to bear...
He lost his rationality and rushed into the city , appeared before Erindor, the large number of people rendering judgement to Vincent, and the media outlets...
" I will do anything... Just kill him please... I know I wronged you in the past but... Is this anyway to seek revenge .. was what you did to me not enough... Also I know my father has betrayed humanity , but isn't this a bit too much...".
" Stop it.. you spoiled brat... Do you know the consequences of your actions... Do you want us to be dragged down along with your father when we know nothing of his betrayal to humanity.... " The voice of a woman rung in the environs... She had blue hair and black eyes... There were dark circles under her eyes, she had a tired expression on her face.... She seemed to have cried a lot...It was obvious she had been under a lot of stress and emotional upheavals ...
This was Angela Michealson.. the wife of Vincent..
A large slap landed on the face of Duke, causing him to tumble away into a nearby car....
He fell down and rolled on the ground, with blood oozing out of his lips...
The person who has slapped Duke, was this woman, her mother...Angela Michealson..
She ignored her son, appeared before Erindor and knelt down before him " Sir, I apologize for my stupid son's incompetence ... He's just a brat that was spoilt by his filth of a father into what he is now.. You should know that the rest of the Michealson family, has no idea about his rebellion against humanity... please, do not destroy the Michealson family because I married a filthy two faced bastard.....
Please sir... Have mercy... " The woman's voice was shaky as she knelt before Erindor.... She hugged his feet with tears pouring out of her eyes ....completing ignoring the mangled state of the man she made a wrong judgement about and married... When he cheated on her with different girls she forgave him and did not sulky his name .. when he insulted her parents, she had forgiven him.... In fact.... Even when he abused her physically, she forgave him... But to betray humanity... That was too much... He had crossed the line too much... She knew she should have ended things with him a long time ago...but she hesitated, and now,he actually went around to betray humanity ...and because of that... her children,and herself, were about to be dragged down to hell with him...
Erindor looked at all the people who stared at the scene... They all had the same expressions on their faces... They didnt believe this woman at all.. It was obvious they thought she had colluded with her husband, but now that he had been caught , she wanted to stab him in the back because she wanted to survive ..
" Liar ..." " Bitch"... " Die...".... " To hell with you"...
" Off with her head..."...(Y"all know where off with her head comes from). This and many other cursory remarks landed on the woman..
As for the woman, Erindor knew she was telling the truth... His high intelligence was enough to let him detect even from just her facial expressions and the look in her eyes that she was telling the truth....