Hero of Darkness-Novel

Chapter 184: The Round Table

Zeus now stood atop a tall watchtower with a black bow in his hands.

In front of him was a heavily guarded castle-like estate made full of stones and metallic fencing. It didn't feel like he was here to hunt a rich business tycoon, but a general in his fortress.

After the visit to Danaerys, the foxkin, his next target was the brown Lionkin named Tywin Lanshaire.

He managed to finish off one of the conspirators and now 6 more remained.

Although he could easily wreak havoc in this estate and kill everyone in this place with his Legion. But to condemn everyone to the fate of death just because of one person wasn't a wise decision.

There were plenty of innocents who lived in this estate since this was a mansion of a normal businessman who wasn't even a master rank fighter. This wasn't a clan of fighters but normal citizens who lived normal lives.

Just because of one bad fish, the entire pond shouldn't be declared dirty.

"3 more hours.. Still, 6 people left. I need to hurry." spoke Zeus and merged inside a shadow using the Shadow Walk skill.

Swoosh! Swish!

After him, nearly hundred of assassins followed behind and the mage subordinates who already surrounded this estate cast isolation and silence barriers on various entry points to let their comrades successfully enter the place without alerting anyone.

The hidden traps & detection formations were already taken care of so the intruders had no problem entering the place.

10 minutes later, a giant body of a 4 meter tall Lionkin, who had his mouth and limbs tied up was thrown on a ground full of yellow grass outside of the estate.

Zeus successfully kidnapped one of the main culprits and got him to a desolate tree line.

He pulled out the gag on Tywin's mouth.

"Who are you?! Why have you kidnapped me?" asked Tywin as he struggled to get out of the binds.

"Don't be surprised. You should've seen it coming even before you conspired to hire killers against the Bloodborne company." spoke Zeus in his calm tone.

"The.. The.. Bloodborne company.. Whoever hired you.. I'll pay you double. Just let me.."

But before he could propose a deal properly, an arrow pierced his right thigh.

"Arrhggg! You bastard!"

Shoot!

Another arrow shot and punctured his other thigh.

"Motherfucker!!" shouted Tywin.

"Hey, Language!" reprimanded Captain Am.. Zeus.

"I'm short on time.. Tell me why did you lot go this far?" asked Zeus as he released some of his domineering pressure.

"You think I'll tell you, bastard!" refuted the Lionkin.

"Oh.. I think you will." said Zeus and took a glimmering blue orb that sized as big as a watermelon.

Suddenly, the orb glowed and three projections were created above it on different screens.

This was exactly like those surveillance artifacts Kahn bought and had in all of his shops and offices.

In all three of these screens, were three young Lionkins sleeping soundly in bed. One was a little girl while the other 2 were boys in the range of 7 to 8 years old; but not far from them, were 2 assassins holding daggers in their hands in each rooms.

"Let me be frank.. I'm going to kill you for sure. But if you tell me exactly what I want.. I promise that I'll let them live. You have my word." said Zeus in a grim yet chivalrous tone.

"No! Please.. I'll tell you everything! This isn't simple like you think. Even I was against the idea of hiring that organization.

My children.. They don't have a mother. If you kill me.. They'll become orphans." pleaded Tywin as soon as he saw the threat on the lives of his children.

"And so did the employees of my company. They too had children, they too had wives. Some of the killers even killed the entire family including children & newborn babies.

You should've thought about it before you even got mixed into these affairs. Or I guess you didn't think that one day.. Someone you saw as weak and defenseless would have a leash on your own fate, am I right?" asked Zeus.

There were no Saints on the battlefield.

Even the people Kahn killed had families and children. And he owned up that fact.

Being good or evil was your own choice despite the world & environment around you. Some made decisions to survive while some made their choices based on their morality.

Kahn knew that he was no saint at this point. His hands were already covered in blood, he wouldn't put a halo of doing it because someone posed a threat to his life or he had to do it in order to survive.

The biggest kindness he could offer was not to kill the innocent bystanders at best. Or outright kill someone just because they looked at him the wrong way.

But if someone belonged to the enemy side.. Showing mercy would have its consequences.

He already saw what happened when he spared their lives because he didn't want to involve innocent people. His own people lost lives because of his error in judgment.

And he was the one solely responsible for it.

But now.. The dead won't come back and all he could do was at least punish the people behind their deaths.

At this moment, Tywin was having a mental breakdown and cried as he pleaded Zeus to spare his life.

Just because he was well off in his life, he didn't mind the weak getting killed, but karma found its way back in the form of Zeus.

When the morning sun finally arose.. Inside a wide meeting hall, a white Snakekin who was tied to the chair placed around the round table where the meeting with Kahn happened two weeks ago, woke up from his slumber.

Houdini Warsmeich finally opened his eyes as he?regained his consciousness after being knocked out by someone during his sleep.

Gasp!

He gasped as soon as he saw the scene in front of him..

On the round table, in front of 6 chairs belonging the some of the members of the council.. Were six heads that belonged to his fellow conspirators.

"Aaaa!!!" screamed the snakekin.

Houdini shuddered in fear, completely out of his wits and with nothing but disbelief in his eyes.

Right in front of him, was a letter and there were plenty of words written on it.

But the words written at the end were what frightened him the most.

The words were an open declaration and there were terms stated in the letter. And the final words being..

"Do as I say or you're next!"