61 A Beautiful Deception (2/2)

”Damn! It seems Lord Luna wants this woman. In that case, I can only give up on her. Sigh, I wanted to take her out on dates too.” The squad captain thought.

Just then, Luna grabbed the woman's shirt, and ripped it off.

”L-lord Luna! You can't! You said that's against the rules! Punishable by death!” The squad captain who was already depressed after losing his potential future wife, was infuriated.

How could Lord Luna do this?! He's always been so respectful towards women! He never even took in multiple women and only ever had Lady Sura in his eyes. So why would he strip another woman right in front of not only her, but everybody else?

As if that wasn't infuriating enough, he saw Luna's hands go towards the woman's waist area, feeling it slowly with his fingertips.

”Your rate of healing truly is astounding.” Luna said.

”Eh?”

”Rate of healing?”

”What does Lord Luna mean when he said that?”

Everyone was quite confused. Sura, Apple, Hana, Mabini, Elder Aran, and some of the higher ranking officials already caught on to the reasoning behind Luna's actions. This was also an indicator that he did indeed promote onlythe most capable people.

”Only level 30. You're much weaker in the day.” Luna added. The woman's eyes widened, as she tried to struggle free. Unfortunately for her, Luna's arm didn't even budge.

She started banging on his chest as she begged the squad captain from earlier. ”Please! Help me! He's going to defile my body! Please! I'll be your woman, just save me from this man!” Her pitiful expression could make almost anybody want to save her.

”This.. Lord Luna, please, she's an innocent woman!” The squad captain begged for her. He wanted to save her, but what the hell can he do against Luna? Going against him was a death wish.

Luna looked at the squad captain as he then held her waist with both hands, raised her up for all to see, as she struggled and kept banging on his arms.

Frowning, he said. ”What a beautiful deception.”

CRUNCH!

One could hear bones breaking.

As soon as he applied force, she split her in half. As her upper body was falling, he grabbed her by the mouth before she could recover from her shock and scream and crushed it as well.

Her upper body wriggled as her form changed, wings sprouted out, only to start burning. Her lower body was started to walk away as it started burning as well.

”This...” The squad captain from earlier and the other soldiers started vomiting. Not just from the gore, but the fact that the woman they were all so enamored with was actually one of the grotesque Manananggals they were fighting last night.

Pointing towards the squad captain's head, Luna said ”Next time, think with this head and not with the small head down there.” Luna reprimanded him. The squad leader, along with the other soldiers were quite ashamed. They actually got boners from the woman being stripped earlier as a natural reaction to seeing her perfect, naked body. Only for it to instantly disappear the moment they saw her squirming as a winged monster with a sharp, bloodsucking tongue.

If one was to think about it, what would a beautiful woman be doing alone out here? Especially with the Manananggal invasion last night. Not all of them were at the walls, some of them spread out as well. Whoever was still alive in this town before, died last night, for sure.

”Surround the Municipality!” After the live demonstration, everyone was even more wary. They definitely would not fall for such trickery again.

Unbeknownst to most, the reason Luna killed so many despite not getting EXP, was so he could tell where they were coming from. Even when you killed the upper half, as long as the lower half was still alive, they would regenerate at astonishing speeds as long as they weren't exposed to the sun.

Luna noticed that despite how many he killed, he would notice the amount he would kill would equal the amount of reinforcements coming from one direction. Sending Emergency Food to fly above the clouds, he scouted and eventually found out where they were coming from.