1-Destruction

Destruction......all that could be seen for miles around was devastation.The houses were in ruins and the vegetation was scorched by a magical flame.Everywhere there were moans of pain and shouts of triumph.

This was no more than the Thunder family compound, but there was little of it left.

Thousands of mana users had attacked this land and were advancing, leaving no one behind.

It was a one-sided massacre, a genocide.

In the midst of this destruction was a man dressed in white, his white clothes stained with blood, he had medium length white hair and mesmerizing yellow eyes, his features perfectly proportioned.

This man was Damien Thunder, the crown prince of the Thunder family and the genius of the century. He had reached the middle of the third level at the age of 28. In addition, his core was a world core, far superior to normal cores.

In his right hand he held a snow-white katana, 150 centimeters long from tip to tip, with a scabbard hanging from his waist and gold engravings.

Damien was running towards the main center with an alarmed expression. His family was in the main center and they were now unprotected.

"The crown prince is here!!! stop him" Five men dressed in red appeared in front of Damien and blocked his path.

"Hellfire family," he muttered, looking at the attire on the men before him.

The Hellfires were one of the most powerful families in the Avalon empire, but Damien didn't stop.

Blue lightning bolts gathered around his feet and he appeared in front of the other five in one step, then swung his katana horizontally.

Lightning gathered around his katana and as he swung, the lightning was released and formed a crescent moon.

Before the men in front of him realized what was happening, the crescent-shaped lightning mana reached them and cut them in half at the waist.

The men from the Hellfire family died in the blink of an eye, and Damien didn't even look back as he continued to run towards the main center.

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He killed all the people in his path without hesitation.

As he neared the main center, he heard a huge explosion, so big that it knocked Damien off balance.

"Damn it!"The explosion came from the main center, Damien's target.

"I must hurry!!!" growled Damien and activated the mana in his core.

Arcs of lightning formed around his body, increasing Damien's speed to unimaginable levels.

Damien could feel his mana rapidly diminishing as he ran, but he didn't stop and kept running, his speed so great that people from enemy families couldn't notice him.

In just five minutes he reached the main center. At least, what was left of the main center.

The main center was completely destroyed.

"Amy!!!" he shouted as he kept running.

There was nothing around her but burnt corpses.

It took her ten minutes to finally find the person she was looking for.

Amy, Damien's sister, was lying on the ground, blood coming from her eye sockets, dried blood and dried tears on her face, showing how helpless she was.

Amy's snow-white hair was stained with blood.

Across from Amy stood a man. This man was the cause of all this destruction.

The head of the Hellfire family, Logan Hellfire.

Logan held a glass vial in his hand and inside the vial were a pair of eyes that emitted a golden glow and looked mesmerizing.

Seeing this scene, Damien's rage overflowed inside him. He gritted his teeth so hard that they made grinding noises.

He took a step, appeared behind Logan, and swung his katana. The arcs of electricity around his body gathered around his katana, amplifying his attack.

Just as his katana was about to touch Logan, Logan spoke.

"Stop!"

With that word, Damien, the mana in the air, and even the arcs of electricity around the katana froze.

Damien tried to move, but his efforts were futile. No matter what he did, nothing moved. It was as if time had stopped.

*Concept power* Damien thought angrily.

Logan turned around to look at Damien with a relieved expression.Logan's hair was red and his face was full of wrinkles.

"Damien Thunder........ the genius of the century," Logan muttered.

"Maybe fifty years from now you could beat me and stop this destruction," he added, and put the glass bottle in his pocket.

Hearing Logan's words, Amy realized her brother was here. She slowly lifted her head and looked up at Damien with empty eye sockets.

"Brother...." she whispered forcefully.

"I can't see anything," she added.

These words stabbed Damien's heart like a knife.

Damien gritted his teeth and tried to move, unable to move an inch even though the veins in his body were visible from the exertion.

Seeing this scene, a look of pity appeared on Logan's face.

"Blame fate and the gods for all this..." he said and opened his palm.

A spear appeared in the air and fell into Logan's hand. Then he looked at Damien and began to speak.

"Both your sisters will live. I promise you that. But you will die, Damien, you're dangerous. It's the least I can do for your father's sake," Logan said, and then he thrust the spear forward.

The spear went straight through Damien's heart and shattered the mana core, and with it the shackles holding Damien disappeared.

Damien coughed up blood and grabbed the spear lodged in his chest. He could feel the mana and blood leaving his body.

He turned his head towards his sister and looked at her helpless form.

"I'm sorry I couldn't protect you," he whispered.

Hearing those words, Amy understood what was happening, even if she couldn't see it.

"No!!! Damien!!!" she screamed, but her words didn't reach Damien's ears.

Damien saw her eyes darken and she looked at Logan.

"No matter what....I will destroy you and your family....and then I will destroy the empire that is silent about this massacre." his voice was hoarse and blood poured from his mouth with every word.

After saying these words, he closed his eyes.

"I will wait for this," Logan muttered, and then he thrust the shaft of the spear he was holding into the ground, causing Damien to hang in mid-air.

"PRINCE DAMIEN IS DEAD!!! THE WAR IS OVER!!!" Logan shouted, his voice echoing throughout the compound.

A man appeared behind Logan, he had red hair just like Logan, and he was holding a baby.The man looked to be around Damien's age.

"What are we gonna do with the girls, Dad?" he asked.

"Take them back to our settlement and do them no harm. They deserve to live." Logan was looking at Damien's body as he said these words.

"What about the mana cores? Should we seal them?" the man asked.

"No," Logan replied and walked away.

"Xavier, my debt to you is paid."