335 Struggle for Survival of the Enemies, The Rain of Lightning and the Burst of Flames (1/2)

Day 54 – 11:35 AM – Industrial Area, South District, Bay City Settlement, Parañaque City, Metro Manila

Miasma, common people might not have known of it but it was the thing that most spiritual beings, elementals and psychics feared of. A lot of beings even in Auraboros feared such thing. It would not be wrong to say that it was the bane of Auraboros. Who would have thought that a human that could control such baneful power. Even a human that casually touched such energy could lose his mentality and those that were exposed to high concentrations of it would cause their bodies to rot painfully.

”How could someone like that exist? I did not agree to this mission to encounter such being.”

Dopp murmured with all those thoughts in his mind. He was currently running as fast as he could. Since he was created, it was the first time he experienced a setback like this where he had to do all he could in order to survive.

Fear? He did not know of it. Not until now. Devon had been done in in the blink of an eye and the sylph they captured was taken back without them being able to resist. It was questionable why their enemy left them alive but it looked like he did not have any notion to let them go.

”My greed got the better of me but why is that guy going against us in the first place?”

He questioned but of course there was no answer.

Dopp finally arrived at the warehouse and took a peek. To his relief, the ritual was still on going. Screams of all the sacrifices echoed eerily wailing in pain as their bodies started to dry up as if all the fluids in their bodies were being sucked up.

”Sir!”

A robe person hurriedly approached Dopp.

”How will the ritual take?”

”It's already in the middle stages, Sir. It will finish shortly.”

”Good!” Dopp said but his complexion did not improve at all. ”Continue the ritual without fail. I have to do something.”

”Yes sir!”

Dopp then hurriedly left. He was now heading towards the aircraft parked near the warehouse. He was not trying to escape using it. It was pointless to try that. Instead, he was going to contact someone really quick. If it went well, there might be a chance to survive this.

***

At the sky, Mark sat on Chaflar's back holding Aephelia carefully. The face and figure was totally different from the one in the memories he got from Freed but her expression while sleeping was surely the same.

Mark was glad that Aephelia was just unconscious and no further harm was inflicted to her. If she did have more things done to her, his switch might have flipped immediately.

He caressed Aephelia's head with his finger letting her sleep some more. This girl barely rests at all. It was her habit since she became Freed's personal maid.

Mark looked at the sky. The clouds swirling above had already covered the whole Industrial Area inside and outside. He looked down. The several meters high wall of miasma surrounded the whole place preventing all his enemies from escaping.

”Now, shall we begin the experiment? Show me how long can all of you last. I wonder.”

Mark smiled while his eyes were glowing eerily. That expression was surely something that would not show at someone who was looking at the creatures below as equal. Right now, all of them were just pests that needed to be exterminated… Both for relief and for fun…

Beside him, a sword was shaking fiercely. Not because of excitement but because of fear. Although Flam was just a sword, it could perfectly grasp its surroundings by detecting the energy around it. Right now however, it could not feel anything but the overwhelming animosity that the person that captured it was emanating. Flam was sword that gained sentience due to blood that washed its blade for decades. Countless lives were taken away by its blade. The negative emotions from that blood caused its birth. Still, all the negative emotions that gave birth to it could not be compared to the negative emotions it could fell right now.

Mark raised his right hand facing the sky. Three crystals manifested in front of his palm and glowed brightly like stars in the cloudy sky.

CRACKLE!

Branching light traveled from cloud to cloud with a rumbling sound.

It repeated several times alarming everyone inside and outside the settlement. The display of lights in the cloudy sky was both fascinating and frightening. They all raised their heads to see the light show in the sky.

Finally, the lightning was not content of travelling just from a cloud to another.

CRACKLE! BAM!

The first strike had finally fallen onto the ground.

A single shadow person disintegrated leaving his burned robe on the ground. This alarmed all those that were around that shadow person but before they could flee, remaining electricity in the air scattered as if being guided into their bodies. As they felt their bodies paralyze, they could only look at the sky one last time. Along with the flashing lights from the sky falling unto them, their pitiful lives flashed by their eyes.

CRACKLE! BAM! BAM!

Lightning rained inside the industrial area. One by one, the enemies that could not use their abilities died. They pain they suffered might be short but it should be the most painful thing they felt in their lives before they left this world.

They said that lightning could only hit a person once in his life. It was a thing that could happen by chance. If the person survived, that would likely be the first and last time they could get hit by a lightning.

Not this time however. Those that managed to survive the first lightning strike on their bodies were hit a second time. Survive once more and another one would come falling. Even if they survived the third strike, the fourth would still come.

There was no doubt that the only purpose of this rain of lightning was to eradicate them all.

Like black ants disturbed from their lines, the enemies scattered fleeing for their lives. As the attacks were lightning strikes, they thought of finding shelter.

However, as if ridiculing their lives, the lightning bent and turned in unlikely angles before hitting the ground just to enter the places they hid. Without places to run, the lightning hit their bodies. There was no escape. That was what the lightning wanted to tell them.

A smarter werewolf transformed. He managed to withstand the first and second strike with his strengthened body. As the third strike came, he knew that he would not be able to withstand it anymore. By chance, he grabbed a metal pole and threw it towards the lightning in attempt to either block or redirect it away.