Torture?

"If I'm not mistaken, you are Regilav Gaul, right?" Dilan asked in utter calmness.

He stared at the familiar middle-aged man, who was currently looking at the tiny black heart shaped object that lay unmoving in his hands.

"You must have retrieved the heart from the Drakins, isn't it?" Dilan added as a second question while the devilish smile on his face widened as the screams of terror and death from outside reached them.

All the Ascenders were getting slaughtered one after another and that was something the leader of the settlement started to realize as he recalled the identity of the man in front of him.

"You…you are the man we killed with the Meteor shower domain…the leader of the Undying Group…How…How is that possible?" Regilav asked, his eyes widened in stupor as he was trying to make sense of the situation.