Chapter 27 - Intense Suffering (II)

Chapter 27 - Constant Intense Suffering (II)

"That's interesting." The Sky Bridges Lord said with an inexplicable look appearing in his face.

He then said further with a certain glow of light appearing in his hollow-shaped eyes, "Let me go speak to the woman. Maybe he could be her son."

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"Woman, I am back. But I am not here to hurt you. I just want a straight and honest answer from you." The Sky Bridges Lord said with an amiable smile in his face, which only hid the pleasure-seeking wickedness and savage brutality of his heart.

While the woman that the Sky Bridges Lord referred to as woman and was actually Lenna, and looked so tattered with the pieces of clothing on her totally stained with blood, looked at the man with excessive fright in her eyes and nodded her head in obedience and reverence.

"Good!" The Sky Bridges Lord said.

He then said further to see her reaction, "I hear your son is looking for you."

Bang!

Like an explosion suddenly went off in her heart, Lenna whose eyes had dimmed due to the intense lamentable suffering that she suffered in the hands of the Sky Bridges Lord and his minions, instantly brightened up again, with her body visibly trembling in both joy and happiness.

Just the words that the Sky Bridges Lord had mentioned to see her reaction, had instantly brought back life and energy to her painfully sore, constantly aching and severely weak body that was previously at the verge of an irreversible annihilatory total crash, meaning death.

"Hmm. I see." The Sky Bridges Lord said with an indescribable expression appearing in his face, as he had obtained the information that he wanted through Lenna's reaction.

He then asked with a malicious tone in his voice, "This son of yours, where does he stay? Where can I obtain him like the object he is? Actually, I would like to turn him to my mindless puppet guard that would serve me till his mortal body rots and is completely eaten up by worms?"

Once he asked that with a really harsh light emitting from his eyes, Lenna looked at him and immediately fell flat to the ground within her cage to prostate fully before him with a strongly begging expression appearing in her beautiful youthful face that had turned haggard.

"Please, don't do that to my lovely innocent son. I can be your mindless puppet guard if you want. Although I may look delicate because I am a female, I can still effortlessly beat up many of your men. Please, make me your personal puppet guard and leave my son out of this. He doesn't deserve to partake in the painful wails and agony that I am suffering. He is still young and knows nothing." Lenna said with a persuasive imploring tone in her voice.

"Haha!" The Sky Bridges Lord grinned.

"I don't need you, you worthless rusted object. You are totally worthless, useless and valueless to me, in case you don't know, which I believe you know now. But your son, he possesses lots of qualities. It's him I want and will definitely get my hands on to make into my personal battle puppet. Hahaha!" The Sky Bridges Lord said with a malevolent expression in his face before cackling evilly.

He then said further with an intensely marveled expression surfacing in his face, "In case you don't know, he beat up more than a hundred men at the garage, simply because he was looking for you. For your sake, he turned the whole garage upside down."

"He even instantly killed one that tried to defy the order that he gave them. Imagine a non-user of Astra Mystralis beating up common casters of Astra Mystralis. Isn't that a terrible shame to all we casters, eh? So, it's your son I want. I like the wondrous qualities that he displayed."

"Now, where can I find him? Give me directions to your home to capture him like the ant he is and bring him here."

"Perhaps you guys can unite for a bit before I sell you off to the people that paid for you to become their underground gold-mining and pleasure slave, and your son turned into my tirelessly warring mortal puppet. Hahaha!"

"Please, leave my son out of this. I beg you. He knows nothing. Don't do anything of deleterious harm to him, I implore you." Lenna who was thoroughly surprised by what she heard and couldn't help but have a thin ray of happiness, gratefulness and cheerfulness penetrate through her thickly darkened and overly cold, forlorn heart, said while still fully prostrating before the Sky Bridges Lord who simply cackled with an indignant expression slowly manifesting in his face.

"Last time that I am going to ask you, or my dark magic-powered treasure bell is going to descend upon your weak figure one more time to chime loudly for a hundred times. Do you want that? Do you want to die? So, tell me what I need to know." Sky Bridges Lord said furiously and impatiently.

"You can kill me now, for I won't say a thing to you. You cruel evil bastard!!!" Lenna screamed at him at her highest, before spitting in his face without wariness.

While the Sky Bridges Lord who began to fume in excessive anger that the cape he wore, furiously fluttered at his back and produced raging gusts of wind; a physical tempestuous manifestation of his exceeding wrathful state, slightly raised his right hand in the air and caused a violently seething, purple-black fog that emitted shrilling cacophonous noises to instantly surface in Lenna's cell and strike her with a deadly amount of wall-splintering force.

"I could actually get what I want from you and then kill you off. At most, I will refund your frigging buyers and gift them two younger gold-mining and pleasure-serving slaves!" Sky Bridges Lord said evilly to Lenna who continually spat out mouthfuls of blood with serious wounds covering her whole body, such that it would be really difficult for anyone that could recognize at a distance to easily identify her now.

Then with only an aim of his left hand at Lenna, Lenna's cage immediately swung open by itself, while Lenna was immediately pulled outward towards the Sky Bridges Lord by an unseen telekinetic force that fully enveloped her body and rapidly lifted her out in an horizontal position.

Now grabbing her by the head with his left hand, he tried to forcefully go through her memory to understand everything about her son.

But to his exceeding shock, he found out that he couldn't.

"How is this possible? Who sealed your memory? So, you are actually really valuable? Ugh! Woman, why didn't you tell me that you hold a lot of secrets in this fragile thing you call your head? Anyway, it's all good! I shall make you spit out everything that you know that have been sealed off within your head one after the other." Sky Bridges Lord who used his telekinetic power to hold Lenna in the air while trying to go through her memory, said and suddenly ceased the flow of his invisibly suspending telekinetic power.

Thud!

Immediately he did so, Lenna who floated in the air under the influence of his vast, magically-manifested telekinetic power, immediately crashed to the ground with a heavy thud and broke many of the weakened and dislocated bones of her body, which then caused her more pain and a serious, mind-snapping anguish that if it wasn't because she wanted to see Maxmillan once more, she would wish for death to end all these.

The Sky Bridges Lord made a slight gesture with his hand and produced a force that caused Lenna to be instantly hurled back into her cage by a force that immediately enveloped her entire figure and shoved her back in.

He then looked at Lenna who wailed in agony and pain and only shook his head in scorn, anger and repulsive disgust, since he fully understood that Lenna was ready to die than say anything about her son, or about anything else that she kept as invaluable secrets in her head which he felt would definitely be a treasure vault of supremely paramount secrets — As it was his very first time in three hundred years that he would come across somebody like Lenna that couldn't be memory-accessed by an Astra Spellcraft Lord, and which could in fact, severely harm him if he tried to force his way in.

Besides, whoever put the memory-access magical block could come for him for trying to tamper with the restrictive barrier that was placed on her memory. And since they could do that, by placing a memory seal that he couldn't open or bypass, it simply meant that they were much more powerful than him. So, it was best to tread carefully, or be neutralized if they appeared before him to restore the broken seal.

"I think I know what to do about your son. I will simply lure him down here. Then I will make you choose between killing him and telling me the secrets that you have up there in your head! Hahaha. Evil genius, aren't I? Hehehe!" The Sky Bridges Lord said and delightfully left Lenna's morose presence. While Lenna immediately broke down into sad and sorrowful tears.

She began to weep because of her son who was currently looking for her, would be totally unaware of the diabolical machinations that had been plotted against him and would be easily lured down here to face the unending agonizing torture that she suffered every minute of the day in the hands of Sky Bridges Lord and his barbaric, tyrannous henchmen.