447 Lar (1/2)
”I think that I should stop playing.”
Alter Yale smiled and looked to Lor and the bandits lying on the ground. They had already returned to their human forms after Alter Yale tortured them for some time.
Although it had been just a short time since Alter Yale started, he manipulated their perception of time to make them suffer for some millions of years.
Seeing the pain and frustration on their faces, Alter Yale felt satisfied. It had been too much of a pain to enjoy their reactions in their ant forms, so he chose to return them to their original bodies.
”Don't worry, your suffering already ended. Now I will erase your existence from the flow of time. I can't do it with a whole universe, but for a weakling like you, destroying your past, present, and future is just a bit tiring. Don't try to complain because although your method was incomplete, your universe did it to my great grandfather.”
Lor wanted to use her sharp tongue to reply, but she found herself unable to do it.
She was fading, her body, her soul, her mind, and her own existence. Even the memories about her in other people started to blurry until the memories disappeared completely.
The things she did were done by someone, but that someone didn't have any identity, and no one could have any impression of that person. All the things she did weren't even attributed to the same individual but to random and anonymous people.
She disappeared forever.
The bandits trembled in fear after their anonymous leader disappeared. They knew that they had a leader and that it had just disappeared, but they didn't remember anything else about that leader.
The only person who could remember perfectly someone whose existence had been erased was the one who erased that existence.
”Yale! I am Blackor from the Roanmad Clan. Although I became a bandit, we are still family. Please spare me!”
Blackor never had a good impression of Yale, but he didn't have any major grudge with him either, so he hoped that his life could be spared.
”Blackor? Roanmad Clan? I am sorry I forgot about useless things like you. Anyway, you sentenced your fate when you decided to walk this path.”
There were two main things that led Alter Yale to desperation and became the start of twist of character, and one of them was the fate that his world suffered in the hands of Lor and the bandits.
Thus, all the bandits were in Alter Yale's list of people that should be erased.
Even, Yale wouldn't spare someone who offended him just because he was from the Roanmad Clan, let alone Alter Yale who had worse personality.
After some minutes, all the bandits were erased, and Yale started to walk towards Lar.
”I am sorry Lar. I wasn't able to come before.”
Alter Yale had been stopping the dissipation of Lar's soul since the first moment, so Lar didn't fear him.
”It is my fault for being overconfident. At least I managed to see you before dying.”
Lar knew that she didn't have any hope to reincarnate in her state, so she at least was happy to have seen Yale, although it was a different version of him, at the end.
”I see that you don't fear me even after hearing so much of my feats. I guess that I always neglected you too much despite how you always gave everything to me. I am sorry.”
In his past, Lar died while he was looking for the Battle God and never managed to apologize to her.
He always felt that it was his fault what happened to those in his world because he left them behind.
However, he also knew that he had needed to leave, so he had been doomed to have regret for his actions despite his choice.
”Don't apologize to me... I always knew that you treated me coldly to protect me. This isn't your fault.”
Lar was very weak at that moment, but she managed to extend her hand to touch Alter Yale's face.
”If I were at my peak, I could have healed you, but with my current abilities stopping your dissipation is already my limit, you won't survive more than a day without my protection.”
Lar's injuries on her soul were far too severe. Even the one who inflicted those injuries to her underestimated how severe they were.