Chapter 143: Revenge
"What are we going to do now, Chief? The Second Chief has already escaped, and many of our comrades followed him. The Third Chief was killed, and only us remain!"
"This matter is no longer between us and the Storm Kingdom. There is someone else pulling the strings from above. The Storm Kingdom alone doesn’t have the ability to gather all this power at once." The Chief shook his head and said angrily, "They came with the intention of killing everyone, and our only chance of survival is to escape as well. But we have to wait for the right time before using the old tunnel."
The Chief said in a frustrated tone, unaware that someone had been listening to this entire conversation!
Imris gradually approached the people in the room by merging with the darkness, and he was able to see all of their faces!
Imris knew every single one of them. He had seen them at many noble banquets, and some of them were even related to his family by blood and marriage!
But among all of them, when Imris saw one particular person’s face, his eyes widened to their fullest extent, and he felt as if something important inside him had been shattered!
"Damn that cursed tree! If it weren’t for it, none of this would have happened, and we wouldn’t have lost—" one of the men shouted angrily, but before he could finish his words, they stopped in his throat, and a circular line made of blood appeared around his neck. Moments later, his head fell from his shoulders!
Upon seeing this, everyone immediately became terrified and rose from their seats in fear, but their movements suddenly stopped, and blood lines appeared around their necks. Moments later, their heads fell as well, except for one person among them who remained unharmed.
"Why?" Imris’s angry voice echoed through the room, questioning the only person still standing inside.
"Who!" The Chief turned around in panic and fear, feeling as if he were lying on thousands of needles at this moment!
"Why did you do all this?!" Imris gradually emerged from the darkness and looked at the Chief with empty eyes that seemed like the bottom of the Abyss.
"Im... Imris!" The Chief stammered, and his body trembled upon seeing Imris. He gradually retreated until his back collided with the wall behind him!
"Were you the one leading the traitors?" Imris asked in a calm voice.
"Let me explain—" The Chief waved his hand and wanted to justify everything, but before he could finish his words, he found a dagger embedded in his abdomen. There was no bleeding, but there was an excruciating pain!
"You... you!" The Chief looked toward Imris with eyes widened in pain and tried to pull the dagger out of his abdomen, but he could not withstand Imris’s strength.
"Why, Grandfather! Why did you do this!" Imris removed the hood from the Chief Dathan’s head, revealing the old man’s blue hair and clear face!
"We had no choice. Originally, we wanted to overthrow the old ruling system, and we cooperated with the Falcon Race to do so, and we succeeded. We wanted to become a true power. A power everyone would fear, not a power that relied only on peace and love, enduring insults under the pretext of not wanting to shed blood." Chief Dathan said mockingly with a tired smile and continued.
"Many Elves have left their homeland throughout our long history for this very reason, and many of them succeeded in establishing kingdoms that everyone had to take seriously. The most prominent of them was the Elf War Kingdom. But after King Rios came, I saw that his pursuit aligned with mine. I wanted to stop. I wanted to support him, but I couldn’t." Chief Dathan shook his head, mocking his own fate.
"Why?" Imris asked angrily and stabbed his grandfather’s abdomen again.
Oooom!
Chief Dathan’s eyes widened involuntarily, and he felt the pain double.
"Hehehehe!" Chief Dathan shook his head and laughed in an exhausted voice, then said in an old and ancient voice, "They threatened me! The Falcon King threatened me that if I did not continue cooperating with him, he would expose everything I had done, and you know very well what would have happened to me, to you, and to your mother if he did that."
Baam!
Imris did not answer him. Instead, he stabbed him with the dagger first, then asked again, "Then were you involved in my father’s death?"
Upon hearing this question, Chief Dathan fell silent and looked toward the ground, feeling immense shame.
Baam!
Oooom!
Imris stabbed his grandfather’s abdomen again, gritted his teeth, and asked another question. "Do you know how my mother is now, or were you planning to escape and leave her behind?"
Upon hearing his daughter’s name, Chief Dathan’s eyes widened, and he hurriedly looked toward Imris.
"Ya... Yasmin! What happened to Yasmin!"
Baam!
Oooom!
Imris stabbed him with the dagger again, and the dagger left no trace of blood behind and caused no bleeding.
"My mother has become like a corpse now, teetering between life and death. I don’t know whether she will survive or not." Imris said in an angry voice filled with resentment and hatred. "You were the cause of my father’s death, and now you are the cause of my mother’s suffering or even her death. On top of that, you wanted to run away like a coward and leave us behind. All of this because of your foolish dreams!"
Baam!
Baam!
Baam!
With every sentence Imris said, he stabbed his grandfather again and again with the dagger, and this time, there was heavy bleeding!
Baaaah!
Chief Dathan vomited a large mouthful of blood and said with extreme difficulty, "I swear I was forced, I didn’t do this of my own will."
"It’s true that I’m still only ten years old, but I know very well the difference between right and wrong, and when to continue and when to stop." Imris looked toward the ground and said in a voice filled with disappointment, then raised his head and looked at his grandfather with extreme disgust.
"But unfortunately, even after all the years you’ve lived, you never learned something this simple."
"Imris, listen..." Chief Dathan tried to soften Imris’s heart again, but before he could finish his words, Imris swung his dagger and severed his head from his shoulders!
Imris left his grandfather’s head lying on the ground and walked slowly toward the outside. When he finally reached the street, he raised his head and looked toward the blue moon, then said in a calm, whispering voice, "What a noisy night in the midst of a quiet night’s darkness!"
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"Second Chief, where are we going? The city is sealed from every direction!" Several people ran stealthily through the alleys of the City of Light, following the Chief of the Dark Clan!
"Follow me. There is an old tunnel nearby, and I know where it is." The Chief of the Dark Clan led them, running at times and hiding from any nearby danger at others.
On the surface, he was leading them toward survival, but inside...
You stupid fools, protect my back until we reach the entrance of the tunnel. Then you must remove the stones blocking it and keep watch until I escape first. After that, your survival from death is up to you to decide!
The Chief of the Dark Clan and his followers moved at an increasingly fast pace, but suddenly...
A thirty-meter-tall Giant suddenly appeared behind them and chased after them at an increasing speed until it finally caught up to them!
"Korak will destroy you!"
"Scatter!" The Chief of the Dark Clan shouted in panic, and he was the first person among them to flee!
The others scattered through several turns, but the Giant paid them no attention and followed the Chief of the Dark Clan specifically!
"You son of a bitch, they’re all slower than me, so why the hell did you follow me specifically!" The Chief of the Dark Clan shouted hysterically and ran at his maximum speed!
The Giant reached the Chief of the Dark Clan from behind and swung his stone hammer with all his strength!
"Die beneath the might of Korak’s hammer!"
Booooom!
The hammer struck the body of the Chief of the Dark Clan and sent him flying through several houses, destroying them!
When the Giant saw this, he turned his attention toward other targets and began running after one of them!
Some time later, at the place where the body of the Chief of the Dark Clan had stopped, a fourteen-year-old boy was digging rapidly through the rubble until his fingers bled!
Beneath the rubble, he finally found his target... the nearly crushed body of the Chief of the Dark Clan!
Cough! Cough! Cough!
After splashing water onto the Chief of the Dark Clan’s face, he finally woke up and looked at the person in front of him.
"Lars, is that you?"
The Chief of the Dark Clan opened his eyes with difficulty and found that the one who had awakened him was his son, the same son he used to beat with a whip.
But the boy was now smiling a strange and ugly smile upon seeing that his father was still alive!
The Chief of the Dark Clan paid no attention to his son’s strange smile and quickly urged him, "Lars, hurry and get me out of here. I know a place we can escape through!"
Faced with his father’s urgency, Lars remained standing in place without moving, that ugly smile still on his face!
"Listen, Lars. I know I’ve been very harsh on you many times, but I promise you that I’ll change from now on. I promise I’ll be a better person for you, but right now, we have to survive first!" The Chief of the Dark Clan spoke gently, trying to soften his son Lars’s heart and urge him to hurry to safety, but he received an even worse reaction!
Lars grabbed a large stone from the side, lifted it with difficulty, and stood before the Chief of the Dark Clan again.
When the Chief of the Dark Clan saw this, his eyes widened, veins appeared on his bloodied forehead, and he shouted at Lars, "What are you planning to do, you son of—!"
"Hypocrite!"
Lars did not wait for his father to finish his words. He spoke in a hateful voice, released the stone he was struggling to carry, and threw it at the head of his father, the Chief of the Dark Clan!
Katchaaa!
Lars heard the muffled sound of a skull exploding, and behind him, he heard the footsteps of a Giant!
Baam! Baam!
Lars turned around and found a twenty-five-meter-tall Giant standing behind him, and he saw it raising its giant foot to stomp him!
Facing that giant foot, Lars did not try to escape. Instead, he spread his arms, closed his eyes, and smiled from ear to ear in the face of his inevitable death!
Baaaaaam!