"The fuck i hear Matthew, You let some cunt just walk in. He might be an associate of those damn criminals, even worse he could be asshole civilian with hero complex.
And you know what would be even more shameful, if he actually fucking came out victorious.
I mean what the fuck are you doing?" Matthew looked at the man who seemed most disturbed by this turn of events, And it irked him.
" Sir home minister, We had no means to capture someone who was midair on such short notice and we could not kill him either.
if he really turned out to be a civilian, It's best if he dies by his own stupidity rather by a government bullet." Home minister listened, clenching in teeth in annoyance at.matthews not betting arrogant eyes.
Home minister was a fat man with huge belly jumping out front, chubby face that didn't suit with dark beard he had. And of ourse his average face with red eyes and human length pointy ears, typical vampire.
He was a Red rank. In the surrounding of dozens of blue rank and hundreds of green and yellow rank cultivators, he might as well act like a mundane human.
But he was a politician, powerful despite being the weakest here.
" And as to the anductees who you're so worried about, We have nothing on them. All victims seem to have chosen randomly and half hazardly. And we have no info on what's going in there." Matthew didn't show it, he was holding back on because he was talking to home minister otherwise he was hardly this careful with his words, though he still had mood for sarcasm.
" You don't know who goes in, Who goes out, Who are these mother fuckers and what do they want, You have nothing. Is that what should i say it on fucking National television that their own HM has nothing and can't protect shit. Listen you motherfucking bitch, I want your stealth team to head in this instant and there will be no argument over this." Matthew's eyes widened hearing his order,
" Sir this is not wise, we don't know-"
"Exactly, We don't know shit. Now do as I say and get on with it." HM grinded his teeth as he barked again.
" Sir rethink this, Civilians could get hurt."
" I don't care, I don't care if some of them dies but I gotta save whoever I can. And don't you fucking understand, I said no more fucking arguments." Shouting so he left, Matthew had all the intention to snap his neck right now but he held back.
" REX?"
" Yes sir."
" Prepare for stealth squads to move in."
" But sir-"
" No fucking buts, I got a politician sitting on head forcing me to take crude action so he can appear on TV and claim for hyperactive task force actions." Matthew stumped his foot, " Even if our guys get wiped out and victims dies."
" Yes sir."
Beep
Rex switched on the transciever,
" Team Alfa, Move in from north. Team beta and gama will back you up, Make sure to keep me informed."
' Roger that.'
Matthew snatched receiver off him,
" This is commissioner Matthew speaking."
' Yes Sir.'
" I just have one thing to say." Matthew hesitated, for a moment and then,
" Kill them all." His voice filled with hatred.
' Copy that.'
Beep
********
" Guest has arrived." A tall monster of an vampire man stood up," Welcome young Master eren." his voice awfully cheery as he welcomed eren.
Every masked man who gave way to the eren remained unaffected by his words, unmoving.
But eren was petrified, afterall masked man knew him. This made it seem as if, he was waiting for him.
Eren looked around, To the littered dried up mummified dead bodies. All having similar pattern of blood loss and looking at monstrous giant leader, anyone could tell he was the one who seemed capable of such action.
In addition, here laid many monster corpses as well. And an unusually small numbers of area among the littered corprses looked clean, as if those were explosion marking only there were no splattered blood and ash.
Eren drew his attention back to the giant vampire, sword firmly clutched as he not for second let his guard down.
" Who are you?"
" Oh me, I'm nothing but a tool. Strong tool as I posses blue rank cultivation. But tool nonetheless." Giant didn't seem perturbed by his own analogy, Neither anyone found it strangeness in it.
on the other end, eren didn't knew what to make of his own position and what of his enemies.
He was definitely outmatched, severely so as he confirmed his words to be true. Giant didn't conceal his cultivation and neither did the others.
Eren was a yellow rank cultivator with element that he had no knowledge of. Eren's chances of winning against someone who was a mage( those who can cast spell) in yellow rank would be doubtfull, as eren can act as only a warrior( Someone who can only use mana to augment oneself and not cast any spell) and cannot show his full extent of his power.
Not to mention, his enemy was not just yellow rank but a blue rank cultivator, eren had learned that even ten yellow rank were no match for one green rank and even 20 of green ranks were no match for single blue rank,
' So how am I supposed to get this done?' Eren asked him ironically, laughing at his own stupidity but didn't express out any of those troubled thoughts.
" We've come here to relay the message from highest authority of red veil to you young master eren." Giant wore golden ring in his right index finger, Ruby gem in it lit as he commanded and brought out a large box.
Seeing the rectangle long shape, it seemed to case for a sword. Giant didn't waste time on fancy wooden box, afterall it neatly hid whatever laid inside. His eyes didn't change as he opened it, observing inside.
And after a short pause he closed it, uninterested in item inside and threw the box to eren.
Wooden box slid right to Eren's feet, but he was in no hurry to open it.
" Don't be too suspicious young master, That is a gift from our master. Believe me when I say this, that I would've delivered it on my knees but my current position doesn't allow me to act on such principled manner." Giant bowed in apologetic smile,
" Nonetheless, It is a gift."
Eren made no move which gave giant an incentive to proceed further.
" Young master Eren....Sigh... Many powerful people are awaiting your ascension and many of such are discontent with your progress so far. Hense this farse."
Eren doubted his words, but so far giant spoke in sincere manner with bringing of educated and reasonable individual.
His action forced eren to think in areas he so desperately wanted to avoid,
' does he knows I'm immortal?, Not just him but many, He said. ' Eren thought.
Giants words implicated as if eren was sort of pawn that upper echelons were watching or rather watching out for.
Eren too realised that, but this made his self feel even more restrained.
" Farse?, You mean all this kidnappings and killings?" Eren asked, already knowing that giant despite his noble choice of words, was capable of cold actions. Littered bodies surrournding them was proof ot it.
" Yes, What a waste. But shouldn't you be worried about something else other than dead. Your girlfriends." He smiled, he didn't seem to be smug about kidnapping" I gotta say young master, two woman at your age is beyond impressive. I'm jealous."
' He doesn't know about alena, Evelyn and Elizabeth. That means they were spying but only failed to do so in presense of strong individuals like Evelyn and Elizabeth.'
Eren was worried, not for a second he forgot about Amelia, Cecilia, lucas and nolan. He couldn't feel even slighest relief even when Evelyn and Elizabeth were on their way to save twin sisters. There were just so many uncertainty in the situation and he knew nothing.
" They're here along with other two of your friends, Alive atleast for now." Giant stepped down of the podium with no hurried steps.
' I'm not sure if he's lying but again I knew i had to take my chance.' Ofcourse eren knew that while Amelia and Cecelia's actual location was somewhere else, according to the phonecall atleast, but eren didn't trust that information just like words of this guy.
He didn't trust the caller's words but he was in no position to avoid it, so Evelyn and Elizabeth took the stance in his stead.
First possibility would be that they would find twin sister, which would be best option so far.
Second possibility, They don't find twin sisters but strong enemies. Which would immediately make one thing apparent that information was misguiding and it was given to separate eren from Evelyn and Elizabeth.
And eren had played right into their plan, Coming here alone without support of Elizabeth and Evelyn.
Ofcourse he still didn't knew wether his friends and girlfriends were here or with evelyn and Elizabeth or simply somewhere he didn't knew.
" You think too much you know that." giant shook his head, " There is fine sword inside that box, Something you'll realise is very Important. But we'll begin in five seconds regardless of your choice." He raised his flat palm above, and to his command every masked soldier unsheathed their swords, raising them in unison.
" To be fair, They're only warrior class of green rank. I'm sure you'll have difficult time but as the saying goes, ' fall seven time, stand up eight.'" Saying so his hand swished through the air in vertical slash, just a gesture.
Gesture that changed the stillness of silence into chaos, As if all except giant suddenly was incased in madness, directed at only one target, eren.
And situation bring this dire made eren realise, That even warrior but all the same cultivator exerted individual authority over mana to their surroundings. This authority not only restricted weaker opponent from using mana with usual efficiently but also oppressed physical capability, rendering it greatly reduced.
The more authority would be in opposition, more restricted the weaker opponent would feel, and as of right now, eren facing around unfair numbers of outmatching opponents, felt dread beyond any reasoning.
He told his heart to settle down, his mind to concentrate but it was never that they listened unless you were seasoned battle expert.
He looked at incoming barrage of near hundred men with sharp swords in their hands, he was afraid.
' I'm immortal.' who he tried convincing?, But his thoughts had no realistic motivation, before long enemies were onto him, slashing on his material body.
Eren clenched his grip even tighter as he responded with his own crude fighting style.
First sword that he noticed was ready to cut his neck clean which he defended himself with his own sword in doing so he neglected many sword paths that were ready to cut him apart.
Eren realised that despite being restricted by this oppressive surrounning, He could fight, not at his 100 percent though.
He also realised that he could only do so because his opponents were holding back and it discouraged and enraged him even more.
But his anger had no physical allignment to respond, swords were ready to cleave and it did, swiftly so.
Eren felt great pain, something he was very much in touch with. It was also this pain that made him realise what he had said earlier,
' I'm immortal.' Pain pushed all the unnecessary thoughts to a corner and what remained was just clarity of this situation.
' I can kill them but they can't kill me.' It was so obvious from the start but only now that he truly undersood it's meaning.
He had no time or will to worry for how much of his self was cut, he only had one clear answer to act on.
Eren frantically swung his sword to random target, his intent crystal clear.
Killing.
******
" Why didn't you stop him?" Jasmine scurried here and there, unable to sit down. Anxious and angry.
Marco watched her wife walking hurridly from one end to another, chewing her nails in panic. And he waited enough before he finally broke his silence.
" You knew this would happen, He was a stranger."
" But he's not anymore?" His words enraged her even further, " He might not see it but we've always cared for him as a son." Jasmine tried, sounding angry but apparent shakyness of it said otherwise.
" Son?, Even if he was our son, we cannot dictate how he should live or die." Marco was harsh with his words, He spoke what an obvious psychologist would say and that was painful, for jasmine.
" He's 14, A kid."
He was rational even with emotion, as if the fact that eren was young and foolish didn't even register in his mind.
Jasmime saw no change in his expression,
" It's as if you don't feel slighest bit of affection." Jamine gritted her teeth, holding back the tears.
" No it's not-"
" What did they teach you at physiology collage?, to be inhuman?, To become heartless?" Her voice broke just like her heart.
" Listen to me."
" You just had to play the doctor.."
Jasmine didn't care for any explanation he would have, she was about to reserve herself in bedroom, away from marco for a change but before she could something happened. Bright light blinked, notifying the arrival of Elizabeth or Evelyn.
Jasmine's eyes instantly searched for eren but foolish thought died with next second realisation, she knew what this light meant, Elizabeth or Evelyn.
Evelyn was standing on the mattress once the light dissipated, and she held a unconscious figure in arms. Jasmine saw rough vison of horns and was instantly surprised, she had no time to assess when another episode of flash blinked in the room.
This time Elizabeth stood beside Evelyn with another figure in her arms, similarity of horns were there as well.
Jasmine looked at them, Meanwhile Evelyn and Elizabeth looked at each other's arms and individual lying in those arms.
" You too?"
" Yeah..I don't know how should I face eren." Said Elizabeth as she didn't find eren in the room.
Her words instantly alerted both of them of eren's absence, putting their thoughts in action.
Both woman looked at jasmine and Marco but then they didn't needed much answer from them to begin with, they could put things together and they did.
Elizabeth was already rushing to set the coordinates to where she expected him to be, once she put down unconscious body on the couch. Evelyn didn't waste time either as she stood close to elizabeth, her nod implicated her choice, in response Elizabeth nodded without looking and tapped the button that soon activated the magical device to teleport them.
And with blink of light, they both vanished.
******
Eren was lying on floor, dozens of sword nailing him down and dozens of masked man stomping their feet on his bloody body.
Eren barely lifted himself up through pain, only for dozens of even more kicks to ground him second later.
Momentarily restrained situation allowed him to feel pain much more cleanly, every sword that passed through his body only to be pulled out and then shoved in again. It hurt, physically. But more so, his psyche had taken a huge impact. He knew he was weak, but as if being an immortal had eluded him with some level of arrogance and now, even that shallow pride had shattered under the real might.
His eyes lacked luster all the life, but here it looked especially void. His confidence was shattering, clarity was vanishing and he was breaking.
" Okay okay, You made it all clear how mighty you warriors are." Giant humoured the situation, even with sarcasm as he chuckled.
" But This is so unfair to young master Eren." Faked up sympathy was annoying but eren hardly paid his words a thought, ofcourse untill giant forced him into.
" He needs just a bit of motivation, let me show you numbskulls how that works." Giant wanted to speak immediately but instead he ended up breaking a fit of laughter, as if on the moment joke was making him unable to hold himself back. With much difficulty he held his cheeks in places and finally spoke, " Your brother, he was pitiful unde my feet."
Eren's spontaneously lifted his head up, staring wide at the giant who had no intention of saying any further, his simple yet cocky smile could attest to that.
Eren struggled, gritted his teeth as once lustreless eyes regained fragment of rage that had buried deep within.
His hand were nailed just as well as rest of his bodies, his mana was nearly emptied after regeneration and his body ached even though it did not show much sign of exhaustion. But eren pushed through, Sharp sword cut him clean as he lifted his body up those swords. Blood trailed down on already bloody sword, yet eren showed no hesitation.
Eren's head lifted few inches but then one of the masked man stomped his head to ground. This masked man laughed in joy as he heard the cracking of the skull. It filled him with superiority, superiority that gnawed at his insticts to stomp once more and he obeyed.
Eren lost his vision to darkness, pain spiked but failed to entertain his thoughts. Darkness numbed them, most of his thoughts. Only few images of his brother, bloodied and blind, came to his traumatised psyche, filling him with pain that wasn't physical. And with pain came rage, wrecking havoc in his turmoiled heart.
While his thoughts were linear, they kept repeating in circles, very much different from his heart that was just everywhere.
' Brother.'
He called out, but he had no mouth to speak. He had forgotten to notice that his head was just splattered bone and brain under the feet of masked man.
' Brother.' He called out again, Yet nobody answered.
His headless body punched the floor violently, almost ignoring the pain that had sting him as he moved along the piercing nailing swords.
Those feeling pride in standing atop this body felt dread, Dread of dead.
Their insticts screamed to fight or flight, and as any regular soldier they pushed their sword further, almost sawing, and kicked him again.
Eren came to his senses as darkness vanished with arrival of light at the end of dark tunnel that opened in dusty floor before him, his lost vision returned but sense of the situation was gone, there was neither panic not anger.
The masked men kicked his head again, in fear, as he failed to control his strength and shattered his skull once more.
Eren was rendered blind again.
' Brother.' He called out, Every time darkness appeared like a veil, his subconscious self instinctively called out for a light of guidance.
But nobody was there, no light, he was all alone.
Untill something answered in silent darkness, Eren didn't hear anything, didn't see anything and didn't feel anything but he was sure that something had happened. As if to prove his instict, darkness trembled.
He was still blind, even faint and exhausted mana sense didn't help him but something happened, he found himself able to move again, his body had space and opportunity to regenerate again.
Eren lifted his headless body up the floor by strength that was returning very rapidly, bloody neck once again regained his handsome face on top with crowning horns.
Eren opened his dark eyes and looked around, masked enemies were running back, away from him. Eren could feel that something had changed, so he glanced his way around, trying to find the reason for their frightened behaviour.
' What happened?' His question was answered by something unknown, Unseen. Feeling of touch on the face reminded eren that there was something invisible to his open eyes. But rather than just face, it was everywhere, almost like mana but not mana, something entirely different.
Yet his visual senses failed to perceive it, he could only feel it.
' Is this my element?' He wasn't sure, elemental magic originated from mana he had stored in mana core but that mana was long gone.
Eren realised that while his soul regenerated body from nothing, it used innate mana as primary source and once that mana ran out, Which had been ran out a long ago, body used crude mana of world to rebuild the flesh and blood, as accumulating mana though cultivation would take time, and soul, as an defence mechanism avoided such prolonged task for immediate survival.
But this also stretched his soul further, eren could feel that. The pain that was beginning to form in his seemingly perfectly healthy body.
But putting aside his thoughts at the moment, eren focused more on the surrounding, to gain insight on this feeling, to learn and utilise this power he couldn't see or understand.
" I will kill everyone who will not move by the end of this sentence." Giant shouted with casual tone of warning, And to heed his command, every masked man ran with intent to slice through eren's immortal flesh once again.
Neither they were afraid of giant nor of his threat, as if they had long been waiting to meet the death. But they still attacked eren as he commanded, making something of their life rather than dying without fighting.
Eren hurridly picked up the sword that was nearest and met enemies attacks, and instantly felt the raw and blunt of green rank cultivators strength once again. His hands numbed, legs lost momentum and body jolted back but he was familiar with this now, he had been fighting all this time with same apparent unfair weakness.
He couldn't even put distance to balance himself as they were too strong and fast in their actions, following with even more consecutive and succesive strikes.
Eren avoided their slashes, for a moment as he rolled on bloodied floor to dodge and run. That pool of blood was of his own, afterall all the corpses were dried up and only vital flesh were his own cleaved body parts. Because he was outmatched, from individual strength to combined power of numbers.
Eren avoided with best of his ability, most part of his mind occupied with the thoughts to avoid being chopped and while a very small portion agonizing over the what giant had said about his brother. It chipped away at his peace more than this fight ever did, and distracted eren was bound to be cut.
Eren once again felt his balance lost, not just cause of strong impact of their swords but because one of those men had succeeded in cutting one of his legs clean.
Eren lost the speed and momentum, rendering him an idol object for his enemies to cut down, which they did, uncaring for manners, they cut him down in dozens of pieces.
Eren was once again met with eternal darkness, his physical senses were gone and now he could only feel faint mana sense but there was something else as well.
' That power came to me when I was not looking.' And now eren was once again unable to see, eren waited as if that power would once again follow him.
But it didn't, eren felt that his body was being formed very rapidly like always and his enemies chopped before he could form one singular existence.
He was once again left in the state he was just a moment ago, pinned down with no strength and means resist.
He had faint mana sense which had no apparent benefit as of moment and unknown dark power that didn't respond.
' Brother.' momentary distraction cut down to last bit of his conscious connection with mana, his mana sense dropped and now only darkness remained.
His subconscious will regenerated his body, his head and his eyes. Eyes that opened almost instantly. But eren only saw darkness, eternal darkness.
He was confused, and it followed with fear of consequences of his successive death.
' Is this really coming to end?' He was afraid, pathetic with his resolve as he feared failure once more.
' I'm a failure brother.' His eyes teared, ' I couldn't protect you and I can't even avenge you.' all the resolve and dedication he thought he had, it was all gone, here he was just another idiot who thought himself to be something, only to realise he wasn't that something, infact he was nothing.
Eren felt pathetic,
' I'm pathetic.'
Light came to his eyes once again, he looked up with seemingly lost look. To the giant who stared down at him with disapproved, disappointed eyes.
Eren looked at him, but a moment and his eyes went dark again. It flipped again to light and then to dark for multiple times until they finally adjusted to something new.
Eren could still see giant vampire and rest of the masked men who hadn't even joined the fight standing below him. But now the world had deemed, as if very thin and almost invisible black smoke was covering the world.
Eren suspected this was finally death, dim and lightless.
And then a voice came,
" BROTHERRR..."