Calamity Upon This World

(Trigger warning: this chapter is a bit dark.)

"Good, now it's time for you to pay for your sins."

Mela felt her soul leaving her body as she heard those words.

Right now, her body was almost paralysed; all the mana in the room was forcing her to kneel.

It was almost like Mana had become sentient and was following the boy's will.

But it was actually a lot more complicated than that because William was currently focusing on all the mana particles near Mela and making them extremely dense, which was forcing her to kneel.

This little antic of his took a lot of his mental power, but it definitely did its job of making him look stronger than he actually was and also making it seem like Mana was following his commands.

And due to the dense nature of the mana around Mela as well as her weakened state, she wasn't able to use mana.

The potion William had fed her made all her sensory organs extremely hyperactive at the cost of her mana.

William had bought this potion a while back, but he never expected to use it like this. At least he was able to use it to set an example.

And as for what he had planned next, he had thought a bit about what would be the most humiliating way to kill the woman in front of her to achieve his goals.

And in the end, he decided that the worst way would most certainly be the same way Laughing Coffin had killed that son of the Marquess all those years ago.

That video back then was so revolting that it was practically impossible to forget for anyone who watched it, due to which there were still a few books about this incident that William happened to read a few years ago back in his household library.

"Leave me, you bastard; you don't know who you're messing with!!! " Mela shouted, hoping to scare away the boy responsible for her current miserable position.

Truthfully, she was scared right now; she couldn't feel her mana, and she was surrounded by powerhouses all capable of ending her life.

If she was just going to die, she would have accepted it, but she didn't want to be humiliated like this on a live stream that thousands, if not millions, of people are watching.

Mela had been an orphan ever since her birth.

She didn't have much back then; she didn't even know who her parents were.

She was used by the adults around her.

Until one day she couldn't take it anymore, and she picked up a knife for the first time in her life.

She was just 12 back then, but when she plunged her knife into the throat of the repulsive old man, she saw his crimson liquid escape outside and his insides, which were supposed to remain inside him, come outside.

It was an extremely gory and disgusting sight, but to her, it was the first time she was able to see the look of fear on the faces of those disgusting men as they saw her kill one of their friends.

The faces, which used to be filled with disgust and lust towards her, now displayed a new emotion, and it was beautiful.

After that, she killed all of those disgusting men one by one and as slowly and painfully as possible.

The screams of terror they let out back then were like music to her ears.

It was back then that she came to learn about the beauty hidden in the genuine screams of terror humans let out when their lives were in danger.

After that, she just killed and killed. It became even easier to kill once she awakened at the age of 16. She wasn't that talented in mana; however, she was lucky enough to have awakened to Tier II, which was much better than what most people had and allowed her to become a well-respected figure in the underworld.

It was a few years ago that she was approached by a suspicious man and invited to join the group called Laughing Coffin.

Mela had always hated children as they reminded her of her own dark past, and this hatred was only increased when it involved rich and talented kids, two things she never had.

So without hesitation, she took the offer, and now, after a few years here, she was on her first mission.

However, she never expected to be caught in a situation like this; she didn't want to die, especially not at the hands of a rich and talented kid.

But unfortunately, it didn't seem like she had much of a say in the matter.

"Nah, I know exactly who I'm messing with, which is why I'm doing it." William retorted to Mela's bluff with a sneer.

Once he retorted, his shadow grew as around five wolf-like monsters made up of shadows stepped out.

And what followed next shocked everyone as the wolves made their way towards Mela, and once they were close enough, one of them took a bite out of her left foot.

"Ahahahahahaaha!!!! " Mela screamed in agony as her previously pretty face was nowhere to be found, now covered in snot and tears.

With her mana already exhausted due to the potion, her body still being pressed down by the dense mana around her, and the potion enhancing her sensory organs.

The little bite of that wolf had made her experience a wave of pain the likes of which she had never experienced throughout her already brutal life.

And this was just the start of her hell.

That she was going to experience tonight before she was allowed to die.

That was right. The first ever activity that made Laughing Coffin so feared back then was feeding a young, barely 10-year-old kid to a pack of hungry wolf-like monsters while they gave a speech which was accompanied by the bone-chilling cries of an innocent child.

So according to William, the best way to send a message would be to repeat the tragedy from a hundred years ago, except this time the victim won't be an innocent kid.

And with that began the event that would mark the first page on the history pages of the legend of William Verhein, or, as many would soon come to call him, the great calamity.

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