The MassacreAt night.

  In Bruce's house, in the guest room, Aldric was sitting in a chair, watching the moon out the window. Alice was lying on the bed, breathing steadily.

  Aldric stood up from his chair and walked out of the room, after going down the stairs, in the dark room Aldric's eyes faced a huge dark figure with glowing orange eyes, silence... Aldric knew Bruce was in the room, but he didn't talk to him but kept walking until he walked out the door.

  Bruce's eyes followed Aldric's movements, he thought he had bad intentions towards him and his daughter so he wanted to know if this boy had bad intentions after all this favor from him, in his right hand he was holding a heavy sword that was two meters in size, but when he saw Aldric's eyes he felt afraid, he didn't know why he was afraid of a little boy who had entered the Sea of ??Nothingness two days ago.

  After leaving the house, Aldric stared at Bruce's house for a while, then jumped towards the roof of a nearby house, looked down and saw a pce with several lights on, started running and jumping towards that area.

  Near the city walls were two groups of people facing each other. In front of the two groups stood two men, one with a tiger emblem on his face and the other with a wolf emblem on his face. On a nearby pilr, Aldric stood straight with his hands behind his back and looked at the two gangs.

  “Tonight, we will kill the Wolf Gang, and take their money, wives and homes. Do you agree with me, you scum?” The Tiger Gang leader spoke with a red face and pulsating veins, the Tiger Gang members answered excitedly.

  “You are dreaming. Do you think we will lose? Look, he thinks we will lose,” the Wolf Gang leader and his followers ughed and looked at the Tiger Gang in mockery.

  Aldric didn't want to listen to any more of their nonsense, he jumped and somersaulted in the air, nding on the face of a man close to the leader of the Tiger Gang, when Aldric's boots nded on the face of the man his face was smashed, He fell to the ground and parts of his head were scattered.

  The eyes of both gangs turned towards Aldric, standing over the corpse. The leader of the Tiger Gang reacted, “Kill him, he’s the wolf Gang’s assistant…” Suddenly, his voice stopped. Aldric’s hand had pierced his heart. The pce was deaf, and then the Wolf Gang attacked Aldric.

  Aldric avoided the arrows and swords, he looked back and saw a huge man with a strong build with a very concentrated grey aura with some brown streaks, Aldric's eyes lit up slightly, he spped the man's stomach with his knee and then hit him with a strong sp before he fell.

  Aldric came over the man and slowly dug his fingers into his back, the man screamed in pain and his eyes were red, Aldric grabbed his spine and slowly pulled it out, the man's painful screams rang out leaving the two gangs in fear looking at this horrific scene, Aldric's hand holding the spine appeared connected to his head with two eyes and the brain could be seen inside the skull.

  Aldric swung the spine in his hand and pieces of flesh and brain scattered over the crowd, some even falling into the mouths of some.

  Some of them vomited, and some wiped their bodies in panic. They looked in fear at Aldric, but they found he had disappeared. In the back, the leader of the Wolf Gang and some of the other members tried to scape, their faces were filled with joy thinking they survived, but they found Aldric standing in front of them with a spine in his hand swinging.

  Aldric jumped towards them, starting with the leader, killing them one by one, either crushing their heads or the skull piercing their bodies. Then the massacre began. Whenever one of them tried to escape, he was crushed. Gradually, the number decreased: 200-150-100-50-10-5-3-2-1.

  Aldric stood in the middle of the sea of ??corpses expressionless, his clothes were clean and not stained with blood, in his hand was the spine and skull red from blood, “The Emperor’s rule,” he whispered lightly, and gray auras appeared from the bodies of 200 men and then like a small storm it surrounded Aldric.

  After a few seconds, Aldric was standing with a powerful aura around his body. He looked at his body. The brown color was much more concentrated than before. I had reached the peak of the second rank. If I wanted to reach the same level as Bruce, I think I would need to meditate for a month. If I used the Emperor’s Rule skill, I would need about 2,000 people at the peak of the gray color.

  I guess I should focus on people with brown auras and above; he thought as he walked towards the house; he jumped to the guest room window and entered without the slightest sound; he got into the bed and hugged Alice from behind. His face was facing Alice's head. He pushed the hair away from her neck and took a deep breath, then closed his eyes and fell asleep.

  Alice opened her silver eyes and felt something hugging her, she understood it was Aldric, her face turned red, she wanted to get away, but she couldn't, after trying everything she could do she gave up and tried to sleep but unfortunately, she couldn't do that either.

  Aldric was watching Alice's actions when he saw she couldn't sleep. He smiled a little, then closed his eyes and went to sleep.

  The sun shone on the snow, and people came out of their homes. Suddenly, they heard the screams of several people on one of the city walls. The guards rushed towards them and when they saw what it was, they all vomited without exception.

  The whole city panicked, and the guards prepared to fight but nothing happened, Aldric woke up to the noise and looked out the window, people were talking, and some women and children were crying, Aldric looked at all this but didn't care and went downstairs.

  Cara greeted him wearing an apron, "Good morning, Aldric..." She pced the food on the table with a smile.

  “Good morning, Cara, why is the city noisy today...” He waved his hand with a smile as he looked outside curiously.

  “There was a gang war st night and about 200 people died…” she replied with sadness in her voice.

  “Damn, 200 people. All these people died in one night.” Aldric’s face looked sad and surprised. He heard footsteps and looked back. Alice had just come down, and she looked tired.

  Cara looked at Alice's face. "Didn't you sleep well st night?" She came to Alice's side and helped her sit up, then gave her a gss of water.

  “Yes, I had a nightmare st night...” she replied in a zy voice, then looked at Aldric.

  Aldric was sitting at the table looking at Alice, Aldric saw Alice's eyes and leaned down to her ear "You have to get used to it, because this is one of your duties..." He returned to his chair and then patted Alice's head.

  Alice's face flushed, and she lowered her head, then nodded towards Aldric.

  "Good morning?" Bruce entered with a smile as he looked at Cara then looked at Aldric and their eyes met, Bruce suspected Aldric was the one who killed those two gangs, but he did not find any smell of blood or anything suspicions, but it is possible that Aldric is behind this.

  Aldric looked at Bruce's scrutinizing eyes and ignored them. He knew Bruce suspected him, but he didn't care. Last night, he had used AAether to block out the smell of blood. As for increasing strength, after the experiment he had done st night, he knew that if he wanted to, he could lower his aura by two levels. But if the difference in strength was too great, he could see it. But Bruce's strength was close to his own, so it was easy to deceive him.

  Bruce sat at the table. They started eating breakfast. Boss looked at Aldric. "Are you going now?" Deep in his heart, he wanted Aldric to quickly get away from him and his daughter.

  “Yes, I will go this morning,” he replied, looking at Bruce. After finishing breakfast, Aldric stood up and opened the door. The moment he opened the door, a giant stone exploded in front of him.

  Aldric was surprised and quickly went out the door. And was surprised that the northern wall had been destroyed. Outside the wall, a group of skeletons were standing in an organized manner, and in the middle of the skeletons, a tall skeleton was standing and casting his gaze towards the city.

  Aldric used the Emperor's eyes and saw that all the skeletons had a brown aura, and the tall skeleton had a faint green aura. Aldric looked to his left at one point. Bruce was beside him with dangerous eyes.

  “What level of strength is that skeleton?” Aldric asked with an indifferent expression.

  Bruce gnced at Aldric's face. "He's as strong as me, a rank 3 rookie..." He quickly returned home, put on his armor, and took his heavy sword in his right hand with his armor behind his back.

  “Oh,” Aldric was silent for a while, then walked over to Alice, took her hand, and came to the carriage. “Get the carriage ready quickly…” ordered, then looked back at the skeletons.

  Bruce came to Aldric's side with a tangled face. He knew he couldn't escape because the eyes of that skeleton were on him. He looked at his daughter sadly, unfortunately he had to sacrifice today. He came to Cara and hugged her tightly.

  Cara felt the weight of the situation and tears streamed down her eyes. She hugged her father tightly, and the situation continued like that until Bruce left her.

  Bruce took Cara and came to Aldric's side, "Please can you take my daughter with you," Bruce knew Aldric was not a good person but at least he wanted his daughter to survive, he took a deep breath and entered the workshop after leaving the workshop he had a sheathed sword in his hand and a letter, "Please take her with you to the capital, I have a brother there who will take care of her," and this sword is your reward for this service.

  Aldric didn't answer, but took the sword from Bruce. It was a one-handed sword embroidered with red lines. This sword suited him now. If he had it yesterday, he would have killed them quickly.

  Bruce saw Aldric was impressed with the sword. "This sword was a gift from a friend of mine, but unfortunately it doesn't fit me and also this sword can conduct Aether," he expined as he prepared his shield.

  “Oh,” Aldric nodded in satisfaction and put the sword back into its sheath. He looked at Bruce. “I promise I will get your daughter to the capital safely,” he promised, his eyes looking serious.

  “I trust you,” Bruce said with a sad smile on his face as he looked at Cara, “I’m sorry, my daughter, for not fulfilling my responsibility to stay with you and protect you. Farewell.” He turned his back and hot tears fell from his eyes as he jumped into the air and nded in front of the skeletons.

  Cara, with red eyes, wanted to go to her father and die with him, but Aldric knocked her out, then took her to the carriage.

  Bruce stood in front of a crowd of skeletons, he took a deep breath and fire enveloped his body, Armor and giant sword, he bent down a little and jumped towards the skeletons, every move he made killed several skeletons until finally he and the big skeleton were left, the skeleton took out a bone axe and jumped towards Bruce and they started fighting.

  At this time, Aldric and the two girls escaped in the carriage with a horse driver they found on the road.

  Inside the carriage, Cara was sleeping on a chair, and on the opposite side, Alice was sitting. Aldric entered the carriage and sat next to Alice, and silence filled the pce.

  Alice looked at Aldric. "Sir, will Bruce be okay,..." she asked with a little sadness in her eyes.

  "No one knows..." Aldric replied as he watched from the window. He turned to look at her, then y down on the chair and put his head in her p. After finding a comfortable position, he looked at Alice's red face. "I'm going to sleep for a while. Don't move." And he closed his eyes.

  Alice looked at Aldric's face in confusion but did not speak and remained still, so as not to wake him up.

  In the city of Grilin the walls were destroyed, and corpses were everywhere, in the middle of the city the leader of the skeletons was sitting on a throne of bones and on top of his axe was Bruce's head with horrific and sad eyes pced on it.

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