Chapter 86 - 86. Blood Trail (1/2)
Mack pondered for a few seconds why the rune circuit was not working, and quickly came with a plausible answer.
”Right, I'm on Earth. The Essence here is lower.”
Said Mack, already drawing a new circuit that not used the essence from the environment but from an essence crystal.
Finishing the drawing, Mack took an essence crystal from his backpack and put over the rune circuit and pressed his thumb.
For Mack, the good thing about essence crystals is that they could be used multiple times if the essence used was low, because he had only a few of them remaining.
The runespell activated, and Mack saw a small line of blood trembling intensely in the circuit.
It was the direction he had to follow, and by the frequency it was trembling, Mack knew it was close..
Mack deactivated the runespell, put the essence crystal in his backpack, and walked in the direction the rune circuit told.
Mack kept walking but saw nothing odd until he came right in front of the town hall building. A three floors building made all with glass panes and very modern for a small city.
Mack entered the building and instantly saw to where the rune circuit was pointing him to.
Hundreds of corpses pilling up one above the other.
Childrens, a lot of them, all dead and rotting.
The putrid smell assaulted Mack's nose, making him wanting to puke his own guts out, but Mack walked forward.
Because a few steps from him, he saw a what looked to be the mayor of the city, on the floor.
Mack approached and looked at the mayor's right hand, and beneath it read a few lines of dried blood
# smith #
Mack read the blood trail and knew what it mean, the residents probably were all called to the town hall and brutally executed, and the mayor tried to point to the culprit if by chance someone came to investigate, but they would not. Mack knew that not a single soul would step on this island, otherwise they would have chosen a less flashy way of killing them.
It was not the first time that Mack saw this same name.
”John Smith”
It was the one that killed his father.
Mack knew for sure that he had more people behind him. But he was the one that kept appearing every time that Mack showed his face somewhere.
The worst part was that they killed everyone involved with Mack.
No matter what Mack did, whatever he went, a pile of bodies was left behind. The blame? all on Mack's shoulders.
That was one of the reasons why Mack avoided people until now.
Except for Kirakira.
This was always his turf.
But not anymore.
[What are you going to do, kid?]
Asked his ancestor, freaking Mack out of his rage stupor he was in.
”What do you think? Kill them all”
Said Mack, already jumping to the sky, crossing several floors of the building in a blink of an eye.
The glass panes of the building he was in broke all at the same time, as if a bomb had exploded in the building.
But Mack didn't have a scratch on him.
Reaching almost a hundred meters above the building, Mack activated his domain.
Essence quickly created a 'transparent wall' behind Mack and he flexed his legs again, jumping horizontally to the clear sky ahead.
His destination? The capital of Kirakira.
Mack could levitate all the way there using his air control, but was too slow for him.
Jumping using his domain runespell was more effective and was also the first way that Mack learned how to 'fly'.
Behind him, followed his ancestor, like a ghost that no one could see. His speed was not lower than Mack, but differently from Mack, his flight didn't make any noise or disturbance.
'kids, always full of drama'
Thought Harlack, but then remembering what he read from Mack's mind, he too thought he would do the same in his place.
It was the killer of his father.
'Lets hope this way the kid will find closure, otherwise, things will take too much time.'
Thought Harlack, remembering they had to be quick or they would lose the window.
'...And the next window will be only in almost two hundred years... The kid will be an old man by then....'
Two hours later, Mack finally reached the other city, but he controlled his speed to not freak out the entire city when coming close to it
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