177 Spy? (1/2)

However, before he could turn around and run away, he saw a glimpse of something black moving towards him with a speed that he could not follow.

*Eeuk!*

Air escaped Garth's lungs when a pitch-black rod pierced his stomach, pinning him to the ground in the process.

”Urghh! Wh- haa... What are you!?” Garth asked as he groaned in pain. A trail of blood escaped from his mouth. The rod was as wide as a person's fist, so all of his internal organs were totally messed up.

”Certainly not someone you could handle...” Ozul muttered as he slowly made his way over to him.

”So, how did you know where I was?” Ozul asked, looking down at him.

. . .

[A.N.: Lil torture ahead, skip if you are not in the mood to read something like that.]

Garth stared daggers at him but did not say a word. Ozul at once understood that he wouldn't talk so easily.

He separated the Ball of Purity and created thin needles with it. Under Garth's terror-stricken expressions, the needles pierced each of his limbs.

A few moments later, his whole body was drenched in his own blood. However, he had no intention to open his mouth. Something like this was not enough.

”Ughh! Kill me, you bastard! Either way, remember this; you would not be able to get out of this!” Garth endured the pain.

Ozul never liked to deal with fanatics because of their irrational ideals that they would rather die than renounce their beliefs.

'It will get bloody... whatever...' Ozul did not like to make a mess out of things. However, if this person would rather die than to give in, he could only make it worse than death for him.

”Very well...” Ozul muttered before he made it so tens of hooks suddenly came out from the needles.

This again caused Garth to groan in pain, but it was only the start when he mercilessly pulled out the needles, brutally smashing the flesh into pieces!

Although Garth was a Rank-8 Mage, he could not endure something like this. He almost went unconscious, but Ozul hadn't stopped yet.

The needles again turned smooth and pierced Garth's stomach this time. Ozul avoided damaging the major organs since.

This time, Garth did not even have the energy to move because of the pain. Again, Ozul created hooks and slowly took out each needle to increase his suffering.

'If he does not relent after this... I will have to take him back to those people...' Ozul decided to perform one last thing Oliver had taught him before he took Garth to Raymond.

Since they were already in a partnership, he would naturally use their services to the best of his ability.

Garth laid there, breathing heavily. If he weren't a Rank-8 Mage, he would have already been dead because of the pain. His own abilities had become the cause of his sufferings now.

With his command, the Ball of Purity held Garth on the ground from his limbs with cuffs. Ozul made a single needle press against the front of the forefinger's nail.

”Will you say it or not?” Ozul asked coldly.

Garth did not reply to him and only looked at the needle threatening to pierce his nail with almost dead eyes.

”AHh!!!” His scream rang out in the forest, but there was no one to hear except for Ozul.

The needle had pierced his nail, all the way to the first joint of his finger! It sent a jolt of pain to his whole body, making tears fall out of his eyes unconsciously.

Without giving Garth a chance to recover, Ozul pressed a needle against his other finger. At once, Garth's body jolted.

[A/N:;-; I await some(most) of you people's curses.]

. . .

”STOP! Stop! Stop it! I will tell you everything! Jus- Stop it!” Garth began to shout his lungs out.

”Oh?” Ozul hadn't expected that Oliver's last trick would actually work. Anyway, he wasn't complaining. Getting Garth back to the Order of Dusk would only be a bother now that he had come all the way here.

”Yes! Ask... me anything! I will... tell you!” Garth said while gasping for breath. Even after covering his wounds with the little Mana he had left, it only lessened the pain.

”How did you know my location?” Ozul asked.

”That...” Garth hesitated, but Ozul only had to push the needle a little further as he began to tell everything.

Meanwhile, Ozul remembered that the formation had not attacked him all this while. It turned out that Garth had the controller for its deactivation and activation. Before, he couldn't turn it off in time, causing his companion's death.