-A Few Hours Later-
It was already evening time, the sun was going to hide from this part of the world to rise on the other side. The orange and red hues were visible, if someone saw this view, only one word would come to their mind 'Beautiful'.
-Reinard's POV-
Liz had already gone to sleep a few hours ago, her mind having been exhausted from recalling all the memories. I gave her a last look as she slept.
I got out of the bedroom to find Vorgrim making dinner for us all in the kitchen. He was cooking meat, with a few side dishes.
"Vorgrim, take care of her while I'm gone. I have some things to deal with." I told him and he gave me a nod and a reassuring look. Although I knew no one could hurt my girl, but still there was this feeling in my heart, like something would happen if I left her alone for too long.
"I will, and I am sorry about those things I said to you yesterday. I didn't know about your relationship, so I thought I had a chance. But seeing her like that, I give up. Please take care of her and don't make her cry again like that. I know this might sound odd, coming from someone who didn't even know her for even a few days, maybe it's because of this soul pact or maybe something else." I heard as Vorgrim gave a long speech and I knew he only meant well for Lizandra, so I just gave him a nod and vanished from the kitchen.
-Somewhere in New York-
"Did it work?" asked Leo to his secretary.
"Yes Boss, Miss Scarlet's guild was surrounded by the media and I have also prepared new photos" answered Erick.
"Good, release those photos tomorrow morning. I'll also be visiting her Guild. The show needs to be good. I want her reputation to soar for a while and hit rock bottom. Make sure that she doesn't leave this city...." As Leo was about to speak more, a figure entered his senses, it was not someone he knew. Despite the sudden appearance, he looked at the figure of a golden haired man.
"Who might you be?"
"You could've lived your life peacefully but you had to poke your nose in my business, Mr. Leo" the golden haired man spoke as he moved forward from where he was standing and went straight towards Erick.
He took the photos from Erick's hand and the next moment, Erick's arms fell to the floor, with blood gushing out of the armless man's wounds and the next thing Erick's brain registered was blackness.
-Leo's POV-
I looked on as the man killed my secretary, his arms were cut off and his head was crushed with the man's bare hands.
"Why are you doing this?" I asked the man, who looked at me and didn't say a word. He just stood there looking at me. I have had my time with these kinds of people, thinking they're strong and whatever, killing openly and the government won't even do anything to them.
"I am here to thank you and also to make your life miserable from now on, Mr Leo. From now on your life will take a huge turn. I know I can end this here and now but you made me realize something very important to me so for that I won't be just killing you, I'll be taking everything from you bit by bit. Mr. Leo the Guild Master of Holy Paladins." And just like that the man vanished from his room.
"Psycho, who does he think he is, making my life miserable, me, the leader of Holy Paladins, just bullshit" I laughed as he vanished from my office.
-Reinard's POV-
After vanishing from Leo's office, I took out my phone to make a call.
"Hey, I need you to do something for me. Be sure to be discreet about your identity but make sure he suffers a fate much worse than death."
-Liz's POV-
The sun had already set itself and the moonlight was shining bright in the sky. I was looking at the moon from the balcony of my penthouse. Reinard had gone to do something, I was sure that it was related to Leo. I'm not sure how we are gonna move on from the past, but we were making some progress at least. Vorgrim was out in the living room watching T.V.
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I suddenly felt a presence behind me, and I looked back to find Reinard, standing there with a bouquet of roses in his hands. I took it from him and smelled them, they were fresh, like they had been recently picked up.
We didn't say anything, deciding to remain silent while gazing at the moonlight. This would be the beginning of our new start and I was not going to let anything happen to Reinard and the family we'll create.
-The Next Day-
-Liz's POV-
I was on my way to the office with Vorgrim when something unexpected happened. A dungeon portal opened right in front of my fucking car !!. Usually dungeons only opened in places where mana density was high, unlike the cities with low mana density.
It would've not been that much of a problem if it was a normal dungeon but, once we were inside the dungeon, the whole scenario changed. It was not your usual small or even a 100 floor dungeon that I used to destroy half of L.A. The world inside this dungeon was like a huge realm, a world of its own. Because I had been constantly spreading my mana sense all around Earth, the moment I entered this realm, I got all the information on it, like the places, the people, the monsters. The only problem was that the portal which we entered from had already closed and there was no way back until and unless I used the teleportation spell I had set up on Earth. I had been studying the world teleportation spell from the moment I came back to Earth and I had only deciphered eighty percent of it. The rest was a bit difficult to comprehend but it shouldn't take less than a few months to decipher it.
Sensing that I was gone from Earth, Reinard immediately teleported beside me. He must've been panicking because I could see the relief in his eyes when he saw me.
"What the hell happened? Why are you inside a dungeon?" Reinard asked while walking towards me.
"We were heading towards the Guild when a portal opened in the middle of the road. Now here we are and the portal is gone now" I told him as he hugged me.
"I see...then let's get out of here"
"Hmm, we should but I think that there is something here that we may find helpful in the near future because this type of dungeon has never been opened as far as I have read from the records on Earth."
"Sure, we've still got that teleportation spell on Earth, so we can go back anytime." Reinard says.
-Somewhere in the dungeon-
"My lord, we have spotted a few of those outsiders in our realm. What should we do with them."
"Stop them from entering the city. I'll get my army ready, to fight them and kill them if needed."
"Yes my lord."
-Liz's POV-
The three of us had been walking through the forest for a few minutes until we spotted a town. It had a 10 meter wall built around it with lots of guards along the wall.
We all moved towards the wall but, just before we could reach the wall a figure jumped from the wall and landed right in front of us.
"Stop right there! Outsiders ! One more step and your heads will fly !" a burly looking man said while pointing his giant axe at us.
The three of us stood there while looking at the burly man. 'Should we try to talk it out or just go back' Vorgrim asked me through the mental communication spell. 'Just wait a few minutes, there's a whole army coming here.' I replied through the connection.
"We are not here to threaten your city, we just want to explore a bit." Reinard says while taking a step forward and just as soon as he takes the step. The burly man swings his axe right towards Reinard and only dust could be seen because the force behind it was a lot more than what normal adventurers could do.
"I told you to stay back. Now if both of you don't want to die, go back to wherever you came from and don't get near our town again." The burly man says while looking at me and Vorgrim while completely ignoring the possibility of someone surviving his attack.
"You know, for a man of your size, you sure pack a lot more of a punch but this is not gonna work on me." a voice comes out of the dust filled area and Reinard could be seen dusting off the dirt from his clothes.
"What the- " his question is cut short as Reinard just grabs his face and crushes it with so much force that it pops like a watermelon being crushed, with blood coming out of it instead of juice.
"Honey, please don't go around popping people's heads like that. Their disgusting blood will spill on you." I reprimand Reinard while using a cleaning spell to clean him.
"Sorry, next time I'll stay back and crush them." Reinard says while looking like a child who had been scolded by his mom but I just hugged him and said "That will be a lot better."
The moment I release Reinard from my hug, a large army of humans and beast-kin could be spotted along the wall and a human standing in front of that army while looking at the scene beneath him, of his dead subordinate's body. He then looks back at his army, gives them some commands and heads towards us while floating in the air.
"What is it that you people want from my town" he stays in the air, looking down at us like we are some random ants that are just a bit more resistant than the regular ants. The man's appearance is that of an old looking guy with a gray beard, a scar across his eye and his aura makes him look like an old sword but still sharp even at this age.
"We are just passing through and want to explore the town as well as the realm that you people call it." I tell him while stepping forward and floating up right in front of him.
"Then you should just leave because this realm is already dead, you all are just outsiders who think of our realm as a dungeon that is meant to conquer. I have known your kind for a long time and there are people who at first want to explore and then come back with their full force to conquer us." He says while looking at me, like this is just another tedious work for him.
"Fine we'll leave but you'll have to tell me all about this dungeon"
"That is not something you can demand in your current predicament. I have an army and you are just three people."
"What army?" I ask him innocently, tilting my head sideways while looking at him in the eyes.
"Can't you see the army? Are you blind or what?" He says while pointing and looking back at his army, which is already gone.
"What happened? What trick did you use on me!!!" He says while agitatedly looking around to find his missing people.
"They are already dead. Just answer my questions and we'll leave." I say to him but he just ignores me and runs off in search of his people on the wall and I follow him.
What he sees is just a bloody mess, with guts, blood and flesh spread on the wall with Reinard and Vorgrim standing at the core of the scene, the voice had already been cut off and the old looking man did not have time to understand what was happening until he saw his army lying on the ground in the form of flesh, guts and blood.
"No no no.....nooooo you bastards!!!!!" He screams while launching all sorts of spells at Reinard and Vorgrim, who just ignore it and come back to my side. We look on as the old man starts crying on the wall while looking at the scene around him solemnly.
This wouldn't have happened if he had just given us the information we needed. Sometimes only extreme pain, either psychology or physically can make a man spill all of the secrets. This show was just a speck of what Reinard and Vorgrim could do if the old man did not speak.
"So you want to talk?" I fly down towards him and land in a clean area.
"I'll.....ta...lk." he says while crying and holding the head of a woman close to his chest. 'Hmm...it might be his daughter or lover' I think to myself and take my eyes off the head of the woman and look at the old man.
"Good. Let's change the scene first" I clap my hands and the scene of misery changes to normal with the old man's army just sleeping on the wall.
The old man is shocked to see that his people were still alive and were just sleeping. "What the hell did you do?" I don't reply to his question and just teleport all of us to a mountain top near the town.
"Tell me, how did your realm became a dungeon."