Chapter 60 - Do You Know How It Feels? (2/2)

”Recover. We leave today.” He stated. However, he looked upwards and after some thought, he changed his mind. ”We'll recover today and leave tomorrow. There's something I have to do.”

The others in the cave felt the pristine essence fluctuation from the drops and couldn't help but salivate. Some of the prisoners even desired to steal from them. However, they soon realized that the two didn't have cuffs restricting them, and thus retreat. After all, it would be the same as courting death.

Whenever they approached, Tao would give them a look filled with murderous intentions. They backed off immediately, some even thinking of snitching their circumstances to the overseer in hopes of reducing their sentences.

As they recovered, Yan Zaizen was surprised at Tao's cultivation base. It truly was profound; He was a half-step Origin Core Realm Cultivator! This cultivation was by no means low, and it could be considered rather high. For him to be sentenced to the Deep Mines, despite his cultivation, it left much to be answered.

Time slowly passed.

Soon, the quota was received and shipped off. Tao and Yan Zaizen obviously didn't meet their quota for the day. Several hours later, the overseer who's watched over them the past two years descended with a malevolent chuckle. The other miners felt a cold chill travel through their spines. The one who terrorized their every dream was currently coming. The only solace they could obtain was that they had met their quota and thus would not be killed today.

As for the other two? A few even had expressions of schadenfreude, mostly they were the newbies who held some hope for their futures, unable to see the reality of their own bleak situation.

”Two this time? Haha, good. I feel like playing a game today.” The overseer laughed, his eyes glinting with anticipation. For years, there have been many individuals who've been toyed to death by him. In his eyes, these people were nothing more than tools for the kingdom's wealth and his amusement.

Yan Zaizen stayed silent, as did Tao. Their eyes simply trained on the overseer, both with a relatively calm look, but the emotion concealed within each of their eyes were very different. The overseer only had a cultivation base at the initial-Qi Unification Realm and wasn't a threat even if Yan Zaizen didn't recover his soul cultivation. However, he couldn't take action due to the fallout that would obviously ensue.

”How about this, I'll let you two fight. The one who kills the other, I'll spare them today.” The overseer proposed.

”Silence.” Yan Zaizen spoke. As he did, a silver-blue light flashed and entered the overseer's body in a blink. No one in the vicinity, not even the overseer, could react to the sheer speed of this light. However, the overseer's expression was filled with mocking and a little anger, he tried to laugh but as he did, he found out that no voice was emitted.

He immediately discovered the oddity; he was unable to speak. He tried screaming, shouting, and even attempting to make a myriad of different sounds with his throat but nothing came out. 'What did he do to me?!' He looked towards Yan Zaizen with intense fear, but also killing intent. When one is in a life or death situation, their fear could produce two effects: fight or flight. Each person would react differently, and this overseer had the heart of a ruthless man, typically unless the situation was too far gone from his control, he would choose to fight.

Currently, Yan Zaizen had his features concealed with only his amber eyes revealed through the black cloth. Those eyes were filled with an eerie calm. He spoke one more word, ”Halt.” Unlike before, there was no flash of silver-blue light but the overseer's squirming body. His original intention of charging towards Yan Zaizen and slaying him was immediately put to a pause as his body froze in an awkward position in mid-air.

Step.

Step.

Step.

Yan Zaizen took three steps, ascending into mid-air, while his body was supported by faint silver-blue light. In those three steps, he arrived next to the overseer with no less than a meter of distance between them. At this point, the overseer's eyes were starting to be filled with an essence of true fear.

”Do. You. Know. How. It. Feels. To. Die?” Yan Zaizen words were spoken slowly, each and every word was accompanied by that meter of distance lessening by a few inches until he was directly facing the overseer, looking straight into his eyes.

A cold grin suffused on his lips, ”You will.”

Yan Zaizen touched the man's glabella, a flash of silver-blue light surged into his soul ravaging his everything it could without immediately killing this man. One could say the damage to the soul was the harshest pain one could suffer. It was like being ripped apart from the inside. The overseer squirmed, shaking violently, his eyes bulging from his head, and his eyes started to lose its color.

”The pain of the soul is terrifying. I know, but what's worse is being ripped apart from an infinite number of directions in total darkness while you wait for death.” He calmly said, cocking his head sideways to look at the twitching form of the overseer. ”Speak.” He commanded.

”Ahhhrhrhrsyfhsfuwrg!! Pl...pl-please!” The overseer tried speaking but was having obvious difficulties. Yan Zaizen cocked his head to the other side, his eyes calm. Seeing this, the overseer realized the situation was not one in which he could control, and his first instincts of preservation kicked in.

”Beg.”

”Pl-please! Spa-spar-spare me!! I'll...I'll do anything!!! I'll tell you everything I know, how to escape, and more! PLEASE!” Nearing the end, his voice became more clear and stronger, reverberating throughout the area.

”I wonder, is that what they said? Is that what they hoped you'd do for them? I wonder, what did you do to them when they did?” His questions sent a shiver through all the miners, especially the older ones. ”Oh, I know.” He lifted his hand and placed it on the overseer's chest, ”You let them know how it felt to die.” A light push of the man's body propelled him very slowly backward, but space started to contort as if his body landed on a soft marshmallow, the layers of space folded around him, and then a popping sound occurred.

He vanished.

”Chaotic Space, someone like you, you'll enjoy the experience.”

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