"Where is your Ghost now bitch!?"
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
Jane asked angrily and started punching Gaya violently like a crazy animal. Howard stepped back from Jane and Gaya thinking what's going to happen to Jane.
"Miss..." While JAne was punching Gaya, the old man noticed the girl on the chair isn't moving as she's supposed to. He frowned and tried to stop Jane.
"What?" Jane turned her cold eyes at the old man and before the old man could say anything, she looked at Howard," You! Remove the sack, I want to see the look on her face while I break every single bone in her body" Yet even after hearing Jane's order, Howards stood still in the corner shivering to go towards Gaya.
"Didn't you hear what I said?!" Instead of walking forward towards Gaya, Howard stepped back further into the dark corner of the room.
Everyone including the old man was stunned to see Howard cover in fear like this. The suspicion in the old man's heart got bigger as he himself went to remove the sack from the girl's head.
Boom!
However, the moment he touched the sack covering her head, a blast of force sent everyone in the room flying. One by one they hit the wall and the force of their collision made the old room tremble.
The force blast also put down all the torches except one which didn't burn as bright as before but let out a small shimmer of light. While they were struggling to stand up, Howard saw the chair with the girl floating in mid-air.
"Oh my god…." like a scared little kid, Howard curled onto the corner in fear.
"Hahahahaha" Suddenly a burst of evil laughter filled the room and the very next moment, the small shimmer of light coming from the torch disappeared making the room pitch black.
"What's happening?"
"Leave...leave me...alone..."
"Don't….kill...me"
"NOOOOOO!"
The old man himself began to feel afraid and heard some of his colleagues scream. He was a devotee of the Peace God, he tried to fight the fear with the mantra he learned from the temple. Slowly while chanting the mantra in his heart, he looked through the darkness to see a pair of red eyes staring at him.
"AHHHH!" right at that moment, he felt like his soul itself getting pierced by those red eyes and screamed in terror. The old man lost all his will to fight the fear and gave up to the fear, just like his colleagues.
The very next moment, he noticed a puff of green glistening smoke traveling towards him, and in that glistening, he saw a figure standing in the darkness.
"Ghhhnnnsnn" Staring at the skinless face, he failed to respond to the puff of green smoke and inhaled it.
Covering in the corner of the room, Howard heard a muffled groaning. For the next couple of minutes, he could hear groans like this and the sound of blood splattering.
He wanted to escape the darkroom but he couldn't even move an inch as his legs refused to move in overwhelming fear.
Puff!
Suddenly something lit one of the torches.
"AHHHHHH!" He heard a scream of a girl yet the voice didn't belong to the girl he brought but it was Jane's.
The golden-orange light radiating from the torch revealed the blood-stained walls and pools of blood on the ground. Jane was not a weak-hearted girl but the fear toxin she just inhaled made her lose all her courage and strength. Coupled with the terrifying figure standing in front of her and the dead bodies around her, she screamed as loud as she could in fear.
She tried to take her gaze away from the figure staring at her and saw the cold dead eyes of her bodyguards. Their eyes and mouths were still open and one could see the fear in their eyes they felt before leaving this world. They were butchered like cattle even before they could defend themselves.
After collecting herbs from the sky garden, Michael enhanced the effectiveness of the fear toxin by using some of those rare herbs. Because of the linked space ring, Michael was able to give the Fear toxin to Gaya.
Gaya never expected the fear toxin to be this effective as it scared these Core Formation cultivators to the point where they just lost their minds.
Except for the old man, none could fight the fear toxin and she simply butchered them to end their misery.
She slowly walked towards Jane without uttering a word. Jane was still screaming but she made sure that no matter how loud she screams, no one would hear her cry.
When she tortured Howard by pulling a couple of his teeth out, he confessed all about how he met the old man and what he was hired to do.
It was Michael who told her to go meet the old man as a hostage. Both Gaya and Michael had an idea that Jane might be behind the recent quarrels and bandit problem near the Sunrise sect. They also knew that if Jane was indeed behind this, she would make sure that the Baron doesn't know about anything because he strictly ordered her to stay out of Ghost's way.
Just like they planned, the old man used a secret tunnel to transport Howard and Jane into the underground prisons without alerting the Baron.
Instead of go looking for Jane, they made sure Jane herself came to them.
For the outside world, Howard and his group were killed by Gaya because they tried to extort more coins and harass the sect. No one would know what was his real motive or who hired as the old man did everything related to the Sunrise sect very discreetly according to Jane's order.
Pulch!
Without even turning her back, Gaya kicked one of the swords on the ground and sent it straight through Howard's head. After killing Howard, she had erased all the evidence that could trace back to her and Michael.
Now the only thing that remained her to do was kill Jane and end this feud. But before killing Jane, she wanted Jane to be sane, or at least less affected by the Fear Toxin. Therefore, she stopped radiating the Fear toxin from her suit of armor.
"A stupid bitch like you shouldn't have tried to mess with us" The voice modulator the system placed in her suit of armor transformed her voice to sound freaky and inhuman.
Gaya grabbed Jane by her neck and lifted her up, "who...what..." Jane tried to speak but Gaya tightened the grab around Jane's throat.
"No, the time for you to speak is over. The moment you tried to mess with my human, you sealed your fate"
Crack!
The very next moment, Gaya snapped Jane's hand into two like a stick.
"AHHHHHHHHH!"
"Hahahaha"
Jane screamed in agony but Gaya laughed looking at her pain. She knew that Jane would have done the same if she was weak and helpless. Thinking about how she beat her violently just a few moments ago, Gaya had no regret of torturing Jane.
"If you want to blame someone, blame the God who put the brain in your ass and shit in your head"
"Ce...li...na" Despite the pain and fear, Jane let out the name of her cousin,
"Don't worry, that bitch is on our list" there was a sudden terror emerged in Jane's eyes which showed the love and bond between her and Celina because even in a situation like this, Jane worried and cared for Celina.
Deep down in her heart, she hoped that Celina would come out of nowhere and save her from this girl. She wanted Celina to be her white knight in armor but she did know that even if she appeared at the prison magically, she couldn't save her from Gaya who was a Core Formation level 8 warrior.
At this stage, even Michael would have a hard time defeating Gaya without getting the help of the System. She was a true genius who traveled many places and trained herself through many life and death battles, not a prodigy who would only fight in a tournament.
Crack!
She broke Jane's other arm as Jane started to lose her consciousness due to the pain and the blood loss.
"Human?" suddenly Gaya heard Michael's voice in her ears and nodded. She then took out the earpiece from her ear and placed it near Jane's ear, "Playtime's over bitch!" the very next moment after Jane heard these words, everything around her became dark.
Gaya retrieved the dagger from Jane's head and threw her body aside. With a wave of her hand, a bright beam of light appeared out of her space ring and disappeared along with all the dead bodies. Michael ordered her to place the bodies somewhere public. He wanted the name 'Lucifer' to be something like Voldermort, a name to be afraid of. People like Jane and cultivators should shudder in fear at the mere mention of Lucifer.
First, he wanted to clean and get rid of all the righteous hypocrites and criminals like rapists, mass innocent murders like the Blood and bones sect from this world. How could he let scum like these be in his world?
He was not planning to rule a world that is infested with criminals and such. To do that, he had to spread fear and cleanse this world, starting from Bredia.
By killing Jane and showing their bodies to the public, he had taken a big step in the path of becoming the Dark Lord that the Guardians are so afraid of.