Chapter 104: Demon-2
" W- Who are you? What h- have you done to him? " While shouting, he stood up and took out a knife, his hands and legs were both shaking.
Without saying anything, Lucian began to walk towards the 2nd man his gaze alone made him leak in his pants, the dread he was feeling was to the point that he even forgot to run from there.
" D- Don't come close to me aaaaaah dieeeee " All of a sudden, he threw the knife towards Lucian with all his strength.
Just as the knife came in contact with the flames, it began to move so slowly that to Lucian it seemed as if it had almost frozen in the air.
Raising his hand he took a hold of the knife and jerked his hand as the knife flew back towards the 2nd man who just stood there frozen, the knife hit its target perfectly as it tore through his skin and went deep into his throat.
" Khhokk COUGH COUGH Ughhhhh oooooo " he was unable to breathe, as blood flowed down his body uncontrollably and a wave of pain took over his mind and body.
In the next moment, the black figure had appeared right in front of him but all he could do was watch, the sword disappeared from Lucian's hand then he suddenly clutched the man's neck from behind.
" Uhhh... Stoooo- COUGH Uuuaaaaa "
The 2nd man's entire body was shaking, and since he had just come in contact with the flames so for him the time had slowed down, he was going to feel everything even more and for much longer.
While tightly clutching his neck, Lucian turned the man's body to the other side so that he was facing the wall now.
Then Lucian smashed his head against the wall with enough force to knock all of his teeth out in one hit.
*BANG* *BANG* *BANG*
He smashed the face of the 2nd guy against the wall several times, his nose had broken and cracks had appeared all over his skull, both of his eyes seemed to have been hurt quite badly too.
But Lucian was not yet done, he raised the 2nd man's body and placed his head against the wall then using some force he dragged his head against the rough surface of the wall, he was writing something on the wall using the head like a chalk.
" Uuuuuuuuwaaaa aaaaaaaaaaa "
The man released loud screams as he felt the unbearable pain, not only his face was being dragged against the rough wall but because of the friction he even felt the heat.
And all of this, he was feeling in slow motion, so he was suffering several times more than he would have normally.
Without stopping Lucian continued to drag his head against the wall, writing his message with big letters.
By the time he was almost done the screams of the man had become silent, he had already died as almost all of the top part of his head had disappeared even his brain was destroyed since it was scratched against the wall.
Lucian stopped only after he had written his entire message, after which he threw the body away, both of the men were dead.
He was planning to give them a painful death but even Lucian had not thought of being this brutal with them, it all came out naturally from inside, as if a corner of his mind was controlling his action.
' Time to visit the next place. ' Lucian thought as he disappeared into the darkness.
For the entirety of the night, as long as it remained dark he travelled over to different parts, moving over the top of buildings which was much faster than even travelling by a vehicle.
Lucian's speed was fast enough that the cameras wouldn't be able to capture him properly, and the flames almost made him disappear in the darkness of the night.
In just a single night, Lucian had killed more than twenty criminals most of which were about to commit crimes, and a couple of them were people who had committed crimes in the past and were just hiding in the society.
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Somewhere around 4 in the morning, Lucian returned to his home, he chose a path where there were no cameras so that he wouldn't be tracked, after he had finished building up the Echo he would no longer have to worry about any cameras.
After Lucian arrived inside his home, first he took a bath and stood under the shower for a while with his eyes closed.
The scenes from earlier were coming to his mind, along with the dreadful expressions of all those who had died.
" I'm sure in the morning, the country is going to be in an uproar. I never knew that killing had such a... thrill to it, especially killing the ones who fear nothing, it was quite satisfying to see the expressions of all those people. "
Lucian spoke as he opened his eyes and looked at his reflection in the mirror.
[ Is that so? Well, it's fine since those people don't really deserve to live. ]
" Anyway, do you think people will give me a cool name? What do you think they will call me? Punisher- no wait that's already taken, then Protector maybe? Or maybe something devilish? " Lucian mumbled then he turned the shower off and began to wipe his body.
After he wore the clothes, he lay back on the bed, but because of all the excitement that he was still feeling he couldn't fall asleep, so he decided to work on creating Echo.
" Zero, get ready and don't make any mistakes. " Lucian spoke as he stood up and looked at the bracelet on his wrist.
[ Yes sir. ]
Then the bracelet turned into a book that fell onto Lucian's legs, he held the book and in his mind, he began to think about the code, the speed of his mind now was so fast that Zero was having trouble keeping up with it.
Lucian continued to think as his thoughts moved faster and faster, text kept appearing over Zero's pages she had to do her best to not lag behind.
Because of the improvement in his mind, Lucian could now think of several solutions to a single problem in an instant, so this time Echo was going to be even better than the one he had created on the other earth.
With their high efficiency, the result of their work was much faster than Lucian had expected within just a few hours they had completed the work that Lucian would have needed more than two days to complete before.
In the middle Lucian would pause to scan the pages then he would again continue to work, only when it was around seven and he heard the sound of footsteps from outside his room Lucian finally decided to stop.
Zero returned to her bracelet form, then he turned his computer off and walked up to the door, even from inside he could sense Tess's presence on the other side of the door.
She raised her hand to knock on the door but then she stopped, she was probably here to check if Lucian was still at home or not.
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