Chapter 95. Catastrophe
The twin moons bathed all beneath. It was not that humid this evening.
Several people were in the vicinity going about their businesses.
Aiden saw the group of three approaching him.
He checked the back of their hands.
"They are not from the Organisations of the four crime Lords. This means they are from a minor gang" Aiden thought.
Blobs of his blood appeared before him. The blobs of blood transformed into a crimson bladed chain. Aiden held the chain in one hand.
He swung the chain.
The crimson bladed chain arced through the air with swift dexterity. It was fast, lethal and precise.
Swishhh..
The crimson bladed chain met the neck of one person. It cleaved through the neck, met vertebrae and sliced through it. The fellow felt extreme pain. Then, his vision cartwheeled.
By the time his head fell on the ground, his eyes were already lifeless. A dull thud resounded as his headless body fell on the ground in a pool of his blood.
The other two were so terrified that they didn’t know what to do.
"Sir...we are sorry for.." They wanted to beg him.
But Aiden was not one to say no to free blood essence.
The chain arced through the air again and sliced through neck.
Head rolled.
Blood splurged.
A dull thud.
Only one person remained.
Those in the vicinity were shocked. Not because someone had killed someone. This was a normal occurrence.
But, the people who had just been killed belonged to the Arson gang.
Those guys were crazy people.
Their leader was a legendary rank 1 warrior.
Although those the crimson eyed guy with the crimson chains had killed were advanced rank 1 warriors, the gang had 200 people. One of the people who had died was the distant cousin of Arson. So, he would definitely come for revenge.
Aiden heard the murmurs.
"Interesting. It seems I can get blood essence and get an apartment at the same time. The gang leader must be living in a not too shabby place" He thought.
He absorbed the blood essence of the two dead people. He put the corpses in his storage bag.
His crimson bladed chains returned into him after turning into blobs of blood.
His crimson eyes resumed their normal black color.
He walked towards the terrified Arson gang member.
"Is he sparing me after finding out from the murmurs here that I’m a member of the Arson Gang?" The fellow said.
"Lead me to your base," Aiden said.
"Yes.. yes sir.." The guy stammered. Aiden walked behind him as he trailed nervously ahead of Aiden.
"This guy is crazy!"
"He’s actually telling him to lead him to the base of the Arson gang?"
"Can he take on all the Arson gang members?"
"Forget about that! Arson is a legendary rank 1 warrior! He will crush this guy!"
"I don’t think so. Although we can’t tell how strong this guy is, I think there’s more to him than meets the eye. He doesn’t look like a strong person. In fact, one cannot even detect worldly energy undulations from him. So, one will assume he’s one of those newbie warriors. But now that I see him fight, I think he has one of those rumored aura masking artifacts!"
"An aura masking artifact? Isn’t that something that only rank 3 warriors and above can buy?"
"What’s so surprising about it? He probably stole it from some rank 3 warrior before he came to the city. After all, aren’t we all criminals?"
"That’s true"
"I’m out of here though. I don’t want to mess with this guy"
"Yeah, me too"
"Yeah, let’s go..someone who could steal an aura masking artifact from a rank 3 warrior is trouble"
Aiden sighed.
"This is bad. If they leave, they will spread rumors that I have an aura masking artifact. That will cause trouble for me. Even rank 2 warriors may come to look for me. I need to kill these people else they will spread troublesome rumors" Aiden thought.
Blobs of blood appeared before Aiden and transformed into crimson bladed chains again.
The crimson bladed chains shot towards the disappearing rank 1 warriors.
The blades sliced through someone’s body diagonally. Blood splurged across the place as the person screamed.
The upper half of the body slid off the lower half and fell on the ground.
The others turned.
Since the bastard wanted to kill them, then there was no need to exercise reservations.
Someone manifested earth arrows and shot them towards Aiden.
Another waved their hand. An ice staff came down on Aiden.
Someone screamed. Sound waves shook the air as a sonic boom rushed towards Aiden.
The attacks shook the air and caused the grounds to quake.
Even buildings shook.
Aiden’s blood turned into crimson armor and graced his figure.
Then, with chains in hand, he moved.
It was a dance of death. The attacks of his opponents crushed into him at the same time.
He did not evade them. He didn’t need to.
His physical strength, coupled with the crimson armor made him as impenetrable as a tank. Coupled with the fact that he had natural regeneration in case he were to be injured, no rank 1 warrior could injure him.
He only focused on attacking.
The chain cleaved through the air. Each time it met flesh, screams emerged. Sounds of flesh being sliced reverberated across the place. Blood rained. Arms, legs, heads and body parts flew across the place. Dull thuds resounded.
Anytime someone fell, Aiden absorbed their blood essence. He became faster, sharper, stronger.
His battlefield instincts grew.
The fellow from the Arson Guild was so shocked that he could not move.
"This guy is a catastrophe" He was so afraid that he could not move.
Aiden had turned into a crimson streak of light.
When he watched Aiden, it was as if the crimson bladed chains were an extension of him.
And each time he moved, the chains moved, twisted, and arced across the place, claiming lives.
Aiden leaped into the air.
He spun.
A ball of lightning met the crimson bladed chain mid air.
The chain cleaved through the ball of lightning. The ball of lightning turned into fragments and disappeared.
The chain did not stop.
It continued its descent. It twisted at an unnatural angle, then sliced through the body of the person behind the ice attack. The person screamed and fell.
Aiden landed. He spun on his feet. The chains spun as he spun. He was like a fan.
Wherever the crimson fan appeared, screams emerged and thuds resounded. Silence followed and rivers of blood flowed after.
Soon, the attacks ceased.
The remaining people were terrified.
"Run!"
"This dude is a monster!"
But Aiden didn’t stop.
"Arrrghhhh"
Heads rolled.
The place was silent.
Aiden ceased.
The crimson armored warrior with crimson chains, was the only one left standing.
Surrounding him were corpses. The scent of blood lingered in the air as blood flowed ceaselessly.
Several people who were passing through the area were too terrified that they hid behind buildings.
As for Aiden , he had already absorbed the blood essence of everyone.
He put all the corpses in his storage bag.
With his crimson chains in hand, still in his crimson armor, which looked no different from a battlesuit,he looked at the fellow from the Arson gang.
"Kindly lead the way to your base"
The fellow was too terrified, too shocked to process what he had just witnessed. He felt existential fear when he looked at the man before him.
He nodded as the crimson bladed warrior followed him.
The Arson gang member knew one thing. The Arson gang would be erased from Burning Sands City today, and there’s no way the man would spare him, the one leading him to them.
But what choice did he have?