548 Last Ditch Effort, The Elders Suffering and Death (1/2)
Day 129 - 6:22 PM - Newton Lake, Veteran's Memorial Park, Oaklyn, Camden County, New Jersey, United States of America
”Hmm...” Mark turned his head to the side. ”Some are still alive, but only you three are the only ones still conscious.”
”I presume... It's their turn now.”
Mark smiled as he calmly walked towards the unconscious members of the group, led by the white-haired man.
”STOP!” The white-haired man shouted. ”Why are you doing all this?! That woman only got hurt! She's not even dead!”
Hearing those words, Mark paused on his steps.
”Then, I'll ask you...” Mark faced the man, tilting his head in confusion. ”Why not?”
The elder, the white-haired man, and the red-haired Witch stared at Mark with wide eyes. Regular people, no, even most creatures would not be able to see it. Around Mark, his killing intent was already forming a thick, suffocating aura.
”We are just sitting there peacefully. Until all of you came uninvited.”
”Mei'er... She shouldn't have been hurt in the first place. That is if none of you came here. Or at least, you all went on your ways after I told you all to go leave.”
”Now, tell me...”
”Why not?”
Feeling Mark's killing intent, the white-haired man and the red-haired Witch concluded that any negotiation could not happen.
Mark was keen on killing them.
There, with resignation in their eyes, the two nodded at each other.
Seeing that gesture and noticing their resignation, Mark realized that these two still had a card left to use despite their already exhausted magical energy reserves. He had no notion of letting them escape.
With a wave of Mark's hand, he sent a large cloud of Miasma to cover the two and their subordinates.
Unfortunately, Mark was already late.
The two clapped their hands together, and their bodies shined brightly. It was the same for their subordinates. In an instant, their bodies turned into beams of lights that fired off towards the sky.
Mark hurriedly controlled the lightning to block the beams of light.
However, the beams of light were too fast. Although Mark managed to hit three, which immediately turned into either ash or corpse, the rest managed to escape through the clouds and fly away.
”Tch.”
Mark clicked his tongue. He was too careless to let them escape.
However, if those two were too hesitant to use this escape technique until the last moment, the repercussions of this technique might have been too harsh.
Mark looked at the direction the beams of light flew.
”I'll see you again in the future. That time, I won't let any of you escape again.”
That was right. There was no need to mull over the escape of that group. With the hatred between Mark and Auraboros, the chances of not seeing them again were too low.
Mark turned to the elder.
”You're the last one now. What do you say for yourself?”
The elder glared at Mark.
”An evil creature like you will receive your retribution in the future.”
Mark stared at the elder, frozen in shock.
Then...
”Pfft!!! Hahahahahaha!” Mark burst out in laughter. ”Shameless! Too shameless! Hahahaha!”
”Can you repeat that? Do you hear yourself? Really?”
Mark's voice, filled with overwhelming ridicule, made the elder's face red with both fury and unacceptable embarrassment.
”I won't deny it. I might be evil.” Mark took a deep breath. ”A least, I don't make the first move. I rather avoid conflict if I could. I don't hurt innocent people, I don't steal without a legitimate reason, and I always return good intentions. But entitled people like you appear like mushrooms, thinking that you should be respected. Trying to steal what is not yours, treating others like ants, and thinking as if you are above everything else.”
”Get off your high horse, you maggot! I don't care what you do to others. But mess with me, or my people... prepare to get the worst treatment from me.”
”Do you really think that your sect is any good? The way you talk sounds like you came from some sort of a righteous sect, right?”
”Looking at you and these trashed though,” Mark stepped on the corpse of one of the disciples with the elder, causing it to burst open. ”I believe that sect of yours is filled with garbage pretending to be humans.”
”Y-you!!!”
The elder could not talk properly anymore. The elder's face was as red as a fried octopus because of the ridicule that Mark was giving him and his sect.
To a cultivator, although not all, most of them see their sects as their home.
Many of them would lay their lives than letting their sects be ridiculed.
It was even if the ridicule they were receiving was more of the truth than lies.
”Well, I guess... that's your last words.”
Mark smiled.
There, Mark's eyes brightly glowed as it could.
”GAAAAAHHHHH!!!”
The elder was already prepared to be killed. In fact, the elder already blocked his meridians so that even if he received physical torture, he would not feel any pain until he died. However, he never expected to be killed in this way.
”Since you have a high mental fortitude, let's see how much you can handle.”
Mark's voice echoed as blood started to flow out of the elder's eyes and ears.
”GAH!! STOP!!! STOP!!!”
The elder wailed, holding his head with both his hands. He felt like his brain was about to burst. However, as the pain was not physical, he would continue to suffer until his consciousness could not handle it anymore.
”BANG! BANG!”
The elder started to give up. He began banging his head on the concrete. Blood trickled on his forehead as he got wounded. But as a cultivator with quite a high cultivation and specialized in close combat, his body was sturdier than others.
Even if he used his head to dig his own grave on the concrete pavement he was kneeling at, he would still be too far from dying.
Finally, the elder gave up.
BOOM!
His body burst into an explosion of flesh and blood.
As it was unexpected, Mark's body was drenched in blood since he stood quite close to the elder.
The glow in Mark's eyes vanished as he stared at the pile of meat that the elder turned into.
”Did he detonate himself?” Mark murmured. ”Shouldn't there be some sort of energy build-up and a large explosion like how it is portrayed in novels?”
Mark was confused. In the least, he already vented off most of his anger.
But then...
Mark froze, as the blood that drenched his body glowed.
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