Chapter 1017 Tears Of A Man (2/2)

She placed her hand on Varian's shoulder, causing him to flinch and almost lash out but his fist stopped an inch away from her neck

Varian stared at her face and froze The red h escaped the man's lips

"I'm sorry I just…"

Sia stopped his lips with her own and pulled back With a smile, she said "On behalf of all the survivors of Neptune, thank you for saving and avenging theuilt "No, I shouldn't be thanked If I woke up earlier—"

"It's not that you didn't want to, but you couldn't" Sarah walked to him and stared at him with a weak smile "Please, don't beat yourself up Me and Sarah tried to so hard but ere about to give up But you saved them Thank you If not for you, they"

Sarah choked and tears spilled out of her eyes, falling like rain She buried her head on Varian's shoulder and sobbed Varian patted her back and sighed, his eyes growing red<sub>ReadNovelFullco No matter how many times he told himself that an Emperor should be ready to face these with an iron heart, he couldn't stop the grief welling up in his heart after actually witnessing the horror

It was the sad, tragic and filled with so rief that even tears of blood couldn't erase that sense of loss

Even though he witnessed the carnage only for a few minutes before he stopped it all, it iine what Sarah and Sia were feeling after all they've gone through in those three hours

The tears of thosein his ears The cacophony of their screams as they ran for their lives and the pained yells as the abyssals killed the brutally The voice of the helpless played in his head again and again

The cities were littered with corpses Entire schools were burnt, the charred corpses of the young children still in their classes The parks were smashed and the broken bodies of the elderly that came for a s districts filled with the severed torsos of young men and women

Even…

Varian pressed his eyes shut and tried to not iine haunted him

It was a hospital destroyed by abyssals They slaughtered everyone inside And in one of the wards was a pregnant lady

Her throat was slit but she died trying to protect the baby in her stomach But her as split open and the baby…not even born…

"Arghh!"

Before he knew it, Varian was hugging Sarah and Sia as a muffled sob escaped his lips Tears rolled down his cheeks as pain, grief and anger boiled in his heart Out of everything he had seen, it hit hie…that baby…

Varian's body shuddered and he closed his eyes as he let his eain, he'd be the cold-blooded warfor victory

But for now, for this brief period, Varian allowed himself to cry

And as he did, he proret this"