Sadly not all of the victims followed Theoric up, and he wasn't going to force anyone to continue on if they don't wish. Staying meant they choose death, much to the dissatisfaction of Faustus who complained about leaving them.

Theoric- "Enough, you need to respect their decision, could you live after going through that hell?"

Faustus argued- "Maybe not, but do you think they're in their right minds, some of them weren't even responsive, did they really make a choice?"

Theoric- "I'm not going to argue with you about this, maybe given enough time some would choose differently or get better, but I'm not going to take the time to find out, what you fail to realize is that while life is important, it's also not that important."

Faustus confused by his last words asked- "What are you even talking about, life is important but not? Maybe you really are a demon after all."

Theoric ignored the demon comment- "What I mean is, life is certainly important in the sense that everyone should be treated with respect and dignity, but it's not important in the sense that... well, how do I put this... Everything has a value, the less there is of something the more valuable it is, the more there is of something the less valuable it is."

Faustus took a while to understand before he gapped at the man- "You have a terrible outlook on life, I can't believe you think that."

Theoric smirked- "I think it's weirder that a vast majority of races apply it to everything else but their own people's lives."

Faustus didn't have a comeback as he decided to concentrate on the task at hand.

While escorting the victims out and past the barrier thanks to Theoric, he was surprised to again find no resistance.

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Theoric asked- "Where is everyone? Why haven't they come out to fight?"

Faustus- "I don't know, I haven't been here that long and this was the first time I visited the mansion since agreeing to the deal, I stayed at an inn to not impose more than necessary on the evil, dirty, rat bastard."

Theoric- "What exactly did he want your help with?"

Faustus wryly smiled- "I was supposed to find out right when you intruded."

..............

Back to when Caelus was getting ready.

"Oh and chain them up, I'll be back for them later after this mess is taken care of, I'll need something to vent on after all this." he offhandedly said licking his lips.

Right as he was about to exit passing his loyal butler for many years, he felt a sharp pain in his back as he fell to his knees trying to catch his breath, his arms trying to reach the cause.

Shocked he looked back to see the same loyal butler holding a bloody dagger,- "Why?" was all he could think of to ask.

The butler scowled as he hit him down and started kicking him repeatedly- "Why? Are you kidding me, all the crap you make me go through, cleaning up all your filthy messes." he gave one last good kick before continuing,- "I also happened to have been paid well by those nobles who know your character and don't wish to see you return, you shouldn't have stuck your toe back into their pond."

Caelus still confused as he coughed blood trying to grasp what little air he could in his rapidly filling lungs, struggled to say- "I always treated you good."

And it was the truth, the butler was treated better than most, but that was mostly due to fear of all the information he has about his shady evil dealings.

The butler sneered- "To be honest the pay was secondary, the real reason is you have more than once stolen a girl I had my eyes on, I was fine the first couple times, but repeated abuse was unacceptable, you just couldn't control yourself, you had this coming, especially when your tastes grew into the more despicable side... Now please die." He said plunging the dagger into his throat so he didn't have to hear his voice ever again.

Soon loud footsteps could be heard as a worried head of security came rushing inside for further orders about the intruder.

Seeing the corpse of his employer didn't set off any alarms as he calmly looked to the butler,- "I see you decided to act ahead of schedule but that's fine, now we don't have to fight the intruder."

Butler- "Yes gather the men, we no longer have a reason to stay, I'll meet you out back at the guest house, there's a secret tunnel already set up for our escape, we'll let the intruder take the blame for his death."

Head of security- "What about Lar?"

Butler- "He was supposed to take the blame in the original plan, but with the intruder we can just kill him as well and let both deaths fall to them, take care of it."

............

As Theoric and Faustus explored the empty house they stumbled upon the body of Lar and shortly thereafter Caelus.

Faustus angrily hit the body of the dead man in frustration,- "No, this isn't fair, how could he die so easily."

Theoric also felt the lackluster by the ordeal as he didn't get to finish off Lar.

They searched the entire compound without finding anyone else, Theoric even made sure to check to see if his barrier was broken even though he should be able to tell.

Theoric frowning could only give up the search,- "No one else is here, so what will you do now?"

A frustrated Faustus replied- "I'll collect my sister's body and head back home to bury her."

Theoric said his goodbyes as he waited for him to leave before he created an energy roof to slam down and destroy everything.

The destruction revealed the hidden tunnel he missed in his search as the telltale signs of its collapse extended a good distance away from the zone due to the shaking of his power slam.

Theoric- "Damn, can't believe there's a hidden tunnel, need to remember to make sure to create barriers below next time, I wonder if they even noticed the barriers I set up or if they just went for the tunnel-like sneaky assassins."