C37: Soul Destroyer

Owl bitterly got up to his feet, still, his body trembling. The power of that magic blast was immense. Just what was it?

Few women who were in the room when Owl crashed in, rushed out of the room, screaming.

Clouds of dust covered the whole floor, making it slightly hard for Owl to see. Waving his hand, he blew away the clouds.

And as the mist cleared away, a slight growling sound was heard. "Grrrr!!"

Two red eyes glowed in the cloud of dust, as a dark mist emitted from the source. 'My God... You still didn't die?' Owl asked, sighing.

"RWAAR!" The hound jumped onto Owl, pushing him to the ground.

"RWAR! Rwarr!!" Owl could barely keep the hound from biting his head off. With the help of both his hands, he pushed away from the wolf's enormous head, avoiding its jaws as he did so.

"Fuck you!" With a kick, he sent it flying. Soon as his hands were free, the knives came to his grasp once more.

Instantly, he got back to his feet. Dash! The hound dashed towards him, upon seeing him standing. But this time, Owl's guard was up.

Dashing to the left, he avoided the hound's wild dive.

The hound crashed through the wall of the building and fell outside into the open streets.

"My God... How many times should I kill you —"

Boom! Owl went flying to the side and crashed into the wall. He could only hear a bang and a push in his shoulder. And the next moment, he was lying down with his back against the wall, struggling to breathe even.

"Cough!" Owl coughed out some blood, and the blurry image in front of him formed into a single piece.

A tall man, wearing a crow's mask. It was one of the Midnight. This man was fully masked, but Owl felt something bad inside of him.

A thing that shouldn't be happening for a normal person. An inhuman touch of vengeance. His sense of touch had disappeared completely.

Owl smirked upon seeing this. He couldn't help but ask the man, one thing.

"Haha..." he laughed, laying back on the wall. "How can you lose such a thing? How can you bet on your damn sense of touch on the dog? Are you being manipulated? Or are you just being an overly loyal cunt?"

The warrior from the Midnight looked like he was pissed. He took off his hood, along with his mask and it turns out...

"A woman?" Owl stared at her, dumbfounded.

Such a beauty, standing before him. It was sad that she was the villain.

A blond woman, two grey eyes, fair skin, tall, and a finely shaped body which Owl couldn't notice because of the cloak.

Suddenly, she dropped the cloak, revealing the shiny golden armor inside her.

"Hmmm..." Owl winced upon seeing this. 'Damn, this beauty... I have to kill her?'

Suddenly, the woman spoke.

"Touch... Inability to feel or taste... How hard can that be? My son and my husband both died 200 years ago... Now, you tell me, who did that?"

She leaned closer to him and smiled.

"I lost both of them, a long time ago, to the Woodland Foxes who fought against the royals, wiping out all of those royal bloodlines... And pushing us down to the streets."

Now that she had mentioned it, Owl could see the cross on her neck. A Golden Cross, blonde hair... He chuckled.

"Goddamn... The family we threw down to the streets... The Dalahads," he said with a smirk on his face. "Auntie Dalahad... Luke grew faster than we both thought he could."

Upon hearing this, the woman's heartbeat raised. It felt as if a knife has gone through her heart.

"Wha — what did you say!? He — he's alive!? What did you do to him you monsters!"

The woman screamed at Owl, tears running down her eyes like rivers. But, Owl wasn't the one to argue, he took away the only child of the mother.

[Mana: 144/200]

[HP: 120/200]

Owl smirked upon seeing this. Still, he didn't have enough mana to activate his ace skill. And he unlocked the right skill at the right time.

He just had to absorb everything from one of those hounds... 'Upper Grade,' as the system called it.

He lifted his head, putting his gaze upon the mother. He had reasons.. plus he needed a push to get back to the hound which was down in the street. He couldn't possibly fight in such a small room, only die.

"You..." he said, looking at Lady Dalahad, narrowing his eyes.

"You had a plan, to rise from the royal ranks to get closer to the king. And to do that... Riches. What you needed the most were riches, isn't it? Fields and properties, barns and farms... now now, ninety people already lost those riches by then. But that wasn't enough... You had to grow. That's ninety families already, each, father and mother with their little children, unmarried girls... Everyone. You were targeting thousands of villagers and their properties. And in 40 years when your kid can grow into the heir of Dalahad, he'll be able to be a high-ranked royal member and look down on those fucking families you stole from!"

Lady Dalahad closed her eyes, and changed her mind in an instant, pushing back all those families and their feelings, and only giving her family a place.

"You live in a goddamn country with no fucking war because the lower humans accept their role... And the higher ones accept theirs."

That was her answer. Owl looked down after hearing this, gritting his teeth with anger.

'Mom... Dad... You accepted these... That's why you didn't live long enough to see this son bringing hell on those motherfuckers who wiped out my whole family... Just because we were shapeshifters from a birthright.'

Owl looked straight into the woman's eyes and smirked.

"You know what, I loved slaughtering your husband, dragging him through fucking streets, making him eat the fucking sand —"

Crash! Owl fell into the street, crashing through the wall from the impact of the kick delivered by Lady Dalahad.

Owl's view went blurry again, and his health, decreasing down to [100]

"That's it —"

"RWAAR!??" The hound who was waiting for him on the street jumped onto Owl, but before it could taste out of him, he stung the beast from the side of its head.

[Mana: 150/200]

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[Mana: 170/200]

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[Mana: 190/200]

He could feel the pressure running through his arm, getting sucked into his body. The dark magic made his veins grow dark, and he started to emit a dark mist just like the hound.

However, the mana that had been absorbed, had a side effect.

[Health: 80/200]

His health was decreasing.

The hound disappeared into ashes and before Owl could stand up, a spear flew towards him.

Instantly, he rolled away, barely escaping the spear.

Phew... He hurried back to his feet, not giving her any more time to throw spears at his head.

However, things just got easier.

"My touch... My family. And my sight, you took it all away."

Yes... The woman was dumb enough to bet her eyes on the shadow hound.

Owl shook his head, laughing.

"You don't want to hug your son, look at him again... Or I take that back." His judgment changed as he instantly stumbled upon the idea.

"I took your son and your husband from your life, threw your house to the streets, putting your maid to take care of Luke... Until eventually, he started hating the royal family."

'Wha —' upon hearing this, her anger blazed. "What fucking right do you have to talk about Luke! And you killed him! You fools! You killed him!"

Lady Dalahad couldn't keep her hands from killing Owl. She had enough mana, and she could sense Owl's inhuman presence wherever he is.

"Shapeshifter... You're going to pay."

Owl smirked and pulled down his left sleeve, showing off his beautiful tattoos carved around his arm. A tattoo that represented the dying souls of men, being sucked from human bodies.

"Well... I'm sorry. But I have to put you to sleep either way... I Just — Can't kill... My friend's —"

Boom! The skies lit up with a bright flash, and both Owl's and Lady Dalahad's eyes darted to the scene.

"No! Elijah!" Owl blurted, seeing the huge blazing figure battling Elijah in mid-air.

Upon hearing this, Lady Dalahad just came closer to her revenge. She knew what that scream was... A scream of a lover.

The same way she screamed when that Fox dragged her husband through the dust, making him eat the sand in front of all of those low-class bastards.

Looking back at Owl, she smiled and summoned a spear to her hands.

"This is my revenge." She whispered.

Owl's heartbeat stopped. And SWOOSH! The spear flew into the air, darting towards Elijah at max speed.

'No...' he breathed. And the next moment, his thoughts started to swirl.

Closing his eyes, he raised his left hand, his nerves pumping with anger. 'I'm sorry... Luke. But I'm gonna do something that I should've done 200 years ago.'

The tattoos in his left arm lit up with a golden shine, as he breathed in all the air around him.

'Soul Destroyer... Activate.'

[Mana: 189/200]

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[Mana: 09/200]

[Soul Destroyer Activated!]

'...I'm gonna fuck up your dear mom!'