Vengeance of the Returner

Chapter 107: Question

The fluffy white clouds slowly paved their path to let the moonlight reach the dark abyss of the Sump. Among the garbages were bones and piles of the corpse and there were even dead bodies of monsters merged inside.

"Awoo! Awoo! wrrr!"

A few dump dogs howled in unison while digging through the garbage.

Dump dogs are fat and look similar to a pig yet, possess features to that of dogs and explicitly to that of hyenas. They eat dead bodies. The City's government turned a blind eye on those since it was on the border of the city and an isolated part.

There were even a few vultures eating dead meat. 

From the depth and underneath of dead bodies and garbages came a voice.

"Alive..."

{I did my best in protecting you. Make sure to keep your word. I've used my life energy. Sacrifice thousands so...}

Another voice ended abruptly.

All of a sudden the dogs and the vultures turned their attention towards the center of the yard and particularly to the place where they heard the voice from.

They all sped towards it and began to dig through the severed body parts.

As soon as a dog tried to bite a hand that stretched out of the big lump. It was caught by the hand.

"Awoo! AWoo!"

It howled in despair as the hand squeezed its throat until it was thoroughly crushed and bled. Soon, a silhouette of a man pushed off the bodies and climbed up from the depth of bodies smelling foul and tattered standing atop of the mountain of garbage under the glimmering moonlight like a devil that just made his way through hell.

The man was so weak that he had to move slowly from the wretched place while the dogs and vultures continuously approached him.

Before he could know he was surrounded by several beasts.

He clenched his fist and began to rip the heads off the vultures that disturbed him and desperately dragged his legs to move. Every time a beast approached he killed them. After an hour of a despairing and painful walk, he successfully made it to the locked entrance gate of the yard.

[You have gained a new achievement - Assiduous Soul]

[As Compensation of the achievement Doom prediction vision rank has risen]

[Now you can see the future up to 4 seconds]

"Hah, I have to climb all the way up..."

He ignored the message with a sigh and looked at the gate that stretched towards the sky and began climbing after rotating a few torn cloth pieces around his body and face.

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Felishia who left the Transgressors clan house agitatedly turned towards the direction of the Dracton and threw glances at Nix's life scale that slowly began to reappear on her hand.

It seems she was riding somewhere with the Mutino sailing in the sky yet, she decided to turn back and landed the Mutino in the training ground and walked to the transgressor's clan house.

No matter what it was midnight so, only Gunther was awake guarding the clan house.

"Gunther, can you come with m..."

Before she could finish her speech a tall man with black and white hair wrapped in bandages appeared at the entrance of the gate. His eyes were so cold and devoid of emotions that stared at her.

Inexplicable emotions welled up inside Felishia as she immediately embraced him disregarding his foul state and the unpleasant odor.

"Nix! Why did you choose to do that? Why did the covenant of liaison fail?"

" "

He just stood there without saying anything until she withdrew from him and walked inside the building and went straight to the kitchen, took food on his plate, and started eating it sitting on the floor without asking anything.

"What the actual fuck?"

Gunther mumbled as Nix unraveled his bandage. He found his neck wholly healed up and there was not even a trace of the wound.

Gunther couldn't believe his eyes as he squinted it a few times and continuously stared at him with a dumbfounded expression.

"Boss?" He asked.

"Shut the fuck up and I'll talk about things in the morning."

Nix said in a cold tone and laid down to take a nap.

The following morning he found Cinzia tightly hugging him and staring at him with teary eyes in her room. It seems they carried him there last night.

" "

Nix just stared at her few seconds and caressed her hair.

"I won't ask you how you are alive... I am just glad. I am just fucking happy that you are alive!... So can we just abandon all this revenge and just live in a corner of this world?"

She asked with pleading eyes.

"I cannot."

He said coldly and rose from his place.

"Gather our members immediately and I have an announcement."

He said and went to the hall shirtless and sat in the center waiting for everyone to arrive.

After a few minutes, everyone arrived wearing an excited expression. How can they not?  Their clan lord pulled off a crazy move, died, and then resurrected again as though nothing happened.

Reegan came rushing towards Nix and hugged him.

"Buddy! Fucking dammit! I am really glad..."

'This many people follow me and care about me?'

Nix thought, It was at that moment he realized that he was not the same lone guy he was all his life.

"Yeah man, me too..."

He embraced him and drifted his attention back to his clan members.

"I am officially dead and I want it to stay like that. If I find anyone revealing it.... just remember I'll kill you. It shouldn't leak even to our allied clan."

He said coldly and scanned his clan members as he was unable to find Tarok. He turned towards Cinzia.

"Where is Tarok?"

"In the basement," Cinzia said in a low tone.

"Let him come."

"But..."

"Do as I say."

As he ordered Dae Seok and Gunther went down and released Tarok. As soon as they opened it Tarok rushed out of the door in rampage punching both Seok and Gunther and ascended to the hall.

Tarok's pupils dilated as he found Nix standing there clutching his chain with a cold stare. 

"My liege!"

Immediately Tarok bowed down.

"Stand up. Why did you cause such commotion?"

"Tarok wanted to be the chieftain! Forgive Tarok! Awrr!"

He then drifted his attention towards Camila who stared at him with a warm smile on her face and Helina who was wearing a scared reaction then towards Daisy who gave him a seductive smile.

"I see everybody is well and good. I am really glad you all stayed in the clan! In two days we will be leaving Dracton."

He said indifferently and walked out of the clan house to the training ground wearing a cloth mask on his face and a bandana on his head.

'Astaroth will not be waking up any time soon... I need to train and become stronger regardless of any reason... I died... I fucking Died... It was nothingness... I can't understand what it was... Is that what death is? I feel like I was erased from everything.' 

He questioned himself while swinging his sword.

'I cannot rely on the chains of resentment and the moment of death is inexplicable... I need to utterly destroy every fucking damned thing that walks through my path...The Archangel of Ranrak, Rebecca, Ferok khan, Razik, Zerast, Bloodhounds, Raes henil, Akaysh, and that administrator mother fucker. I will destroy them all."'

He gritted his teeth and swung his sword once more. Swiftly he changed the sword back to its chain form and simultaneously began to practice switching it during his every swing until afternoon.

He took a meal and continued to practice until noon. He took a snack and continued until night and went to his clan house for dinner.

"Oh! You are back? Can I examine you, Mr.Nix? We need to do it to make sure if you need any treatment or not."

Yumeko asked with a smile.

"Sure."

"Can we go to my room?"

"Yeah? Sure..."

He said and followed her.

As he went in he was able to smell a sweet fragrance in the room just like how she smells and there were a few flowers and herbs inside her room. Probably the materials she needed to brew the healing potion and there were few books on her bookshelf and a big box in a corner that could contain an adult dead body. 

"Mr. Nix, can you remove your shirt?"

He just nodded his head and removed it. Yumeko hesitantly approached him and began to observe his neck and pressed it a few times.

"Is there any pain Here?"

"No"

"Here?"

"No"

She stopped and looked at him with a disturbed look on her face.

"Can I ask you questions... Is it alright? I don't mean to offend you it's just that..."

"Yeah, sure." He said indifferently, staring at Yumeko's eyes.

"How did you feel when you died? And how did you get resurrected? If you don't want to it's fine."

1. A SOUL OF STRONG PERSEVERANCE