Chapter 10

I'm two months into my three. I have roughly 60 mil. I stared at my phone watching a live feed of my brother. I no longer have time to visit. I placed the glowing rectangle back in my pocket with the screen dying and turning black.

He was walking down the street ,my target. He looked behind him as he walked briskly. There were two people with him.

I pulled the badges over my nose and pulled the hood over my eyes. They were dead now. I didn't have the same passion or glint. Killing was nothing to me now. It was scary. I grabbed my knife and jumped over a couple buildings, finding myself in front of the escort. Two of them passed and I jumped down my fist slamming into my first man, knocked out. I summoned a rope fastening his legs to a roof and then returned to the shadows. The last bodyguard was in front of me and I grabbed his neck and mouth watching as the fight drained from him, his legs grew weak. Then I grabbed my knife, the cold drifting from the blade. I walked towards the last one. He looked over his shoulder into my eyes. He started to sweat and walked quicker. The street was illuminated by a single flickering lamp dipping the alley way in and out of darkness.

He ran his body clumsily lumbering through the narrow flickering street. Sweat poured from his face as he started to run.

He tripped his face slamming into the stone.

It was over. I stepped towards him, my footsteps sounding out like bells. I stood above him and plunged my knife into his body, freezing his blood and killing him. Then opening the zipper on my cloak I sucked the man inside.

I took the card from my pocket and stared at the address.

"Not long now brother."

I dumped the body at the address and picked up my next card, the white paper reflecting in my hollow eyes. I haven't got long. I need to kill. Need to go faster, to kill more, murder more. I need to!

"Sam, you need to rest." Shaun was standing behind me his hand on my shoulder

"Yeah Sammy you're going slightly insane, when was the last time you slept?"

"I DON'T NEED SLEEP I NEED MONEY! I'LL SLEEP WHEN HE'S AWAKE AND WALKING!" I shrugged my body, knocking their asteral fingers from my shoulder. I walked to the edge of the building I was standing on and stepped off the edge, my body falling head first towards the floor. I kicked off the windows and jumped onto the nearest roof making my way to the next location. Blood was the only thing on my mind. My next target was her. The old librarian at my guild, a powerful mage who spent her days locked away in a library. Now she was apparently in a fortress sucking magic from the fields to fuel experiments and bringing ruin to the towns behind her. If I know her, and I think I do. She doesn't mean to. She just gets carried away sometimes. But despite that I have to kill heer. Right? I mean she would kill me in the pursuit of knowledge.This is just another example of her obliviosness she doesn't care about human life. All she cares about is knowledge so it's fine for mke to kill her right?

I dashed over the top[ of the wall, my feet digging into the concrete as I ran jumping up into the air. I swung my hands out, flipping my body round until I was staring down at the fields below. I fell into the ground, landing on my legs. I sucked in a huge breath and as the impact crushed my feet I pushed out. My legs kicking off the ground I started to run at my top speed each step exploding into the ground. Finally I reached a mountain that sat on the horizon, standing tall at the west I charged up to the stone summit. My feet placed at the point, stepping onto the cold platform. I rubbed my hands together. My cheeks were cold and my breath came out in clouds of smoke. I opened my eyes to the wasteland before me. There was a huge stone fortress that stood above the land, pipes tunneled into the ground expanding and contracting into the grey and broken ground. The farmlands were decimated. Grey and black crept over the area. Forests reduced to burnt and dried kindling. The farms and houses in ruin, dried and cracked paddies and dug up mud crossed the land in patches. Houses crumbled and cracked, deserted and destroyed. The devastation was immense, horrible and angeringh. I gripped my knife and walked down the hill.

creeping towards the fortress. I moved swiftly, sneaking into the black stone building. I climbed up the walls searching for a window. But there were none. It was impenetrable. There was one door and no windows. I looked around desperately. Then it caught my eye. It was a small chimney. It was made of steel and a grate covered the hole. Smoke and soot spilled out of the hollow cylinder towering into the sky. I gripped the grate with my hands burning from the heat. I moved it as quickly as I could, the steel searing into my palms leaving bright red marks on my fingers. I quickly drew my knife and summoned the cold freezing the burns. Then turning my attention to the now open hole. The one crack in this wall I pulled up my mask and fell down into the black and grey abyss my skin burning and my lungs felt like I'd swallowed charcoal. My throat burned every time I took a breath my face rushed with the soot until my entire body was coated in a thin black layer. I stopped myself before I hit the fire. pounding my hands and legs against the sides of the chimney screeching to a halt as the skin was scratched off my damaged hands. I managed to swing out of the opening and stepped onto the floor. I was in a room, books towered to the ceilings covering every inch. Potions lined the walls and scrolls were strewn across the floor. I walked dusting the soot from my jacket and mask whipping the black to uncover that sinister smile. The glaring, beaming smirk. I let my dagger hang by the side of my leg as I crouched down moving through the dimly lit hall. Then I found her. She was standing over a cauldron. Half a dozen books floating around her. The room was glowing with a magical light that irradiated from the cauldron illuminating every corner of the room. I drifted slowly behind her. My breathing was heavy pulling the mask to my mouth as I crept to her back with my knife ready.

"Ah yes! The last piece of knowledge I need. Death!"

I hesitated for a moment, plunging the dagger into her half heartedly. The cold instinctively crept out covering and freezing her body. She dropped down a smile etched across her lips. I swallowed her into my coat and left the building. An uneasiness running through my body.

It was that easy?

I thought she would've put up more of a fight.

Did she really discover everything?

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