Annoyance

Sitting on a rooftop, Saber gazed with cold eyes toward the empty streets down below. The streets that once had thousands of humans walking about them were now barren since there weren't any humans to walk on them.

Suddenly, and shockingly, Saber's middle-aged face began changing as his body size decreased and mysteriously enough, so did his clothes. Shortly after, one can see a little kid who seemed to have some close resemblance to Saber's future self, just with an extremely cute 12-year-old face.

As Saber's figure changed into that of a child, he jumped from rooftop to rooftop as he eventually reached this city's walls. Jumping over it, he landed on the top of one of the many trees behind the city walls. In his front was an expansive forest.

He then gazed back at the city's walls and mumbled.

"You will always hold a special place in my heart. You who have shown me the joys of slaughter. I will always remember you while carrying out mass murder." He said while streams of tears fell from his cheeks.

"No, I must stay firm. My will shall not falter as I will split the heavens!!" He shouted exaggeratedly while thinking. 'Is this how those humans say it?' He thought with a cold and demonic smirk etched onto his face.

Thereafter, his face shifted to a more serious outlook while he processed the contents on the map from the corner of his eye.

'With them knowing that I am intelligent and also know much about their continent, they will think that I will go in the opposite direction since the current direction will eventually lead to the capital of this kingdom where there are way more powerful humans.

But, haven't I gained quite a lot of Kill points, who said I can't become a lot more strong while traveling to the capital of this kingdom? Plus, even before reaching the capital, my strength will increase.

By the time I reach the capital, my strength will increase way more than they could ever imagine...' He thought while disappearing from his position and appearing much deeper into the forest and in an open field where he then sat down in a lotus position.

He then ordered Leviathan who was somewhat in control of his system to show him his current amount of Kill points. Without waiting for even a second, a screen filled with numbers appeared in Saber's view.

[1,943,209]

'Hmm, it seems that quite a few pesky civilians got away.' Saber thought though, he cared little. Saber then prepared his mind and body for his next actions as he was about to order his system to use all of his points to awaken as much percentage of his bloodline as it can.

Boom!

Yet, before he could, a loud explosion took place in his vicinity. This not only startled him but also greatly angered him. One must know he was about to undergo an important event in increasing his strength. He wasn't aware of what will happen when awakening his bloodline in a way different from simply increasing his strength.

But, before he could have begun this sequence of important events, he was rudely interrupted by a few beings who couldn't keep their prey in check. With these thoughts in mind, Saber shot his eyes open as they were containing immense wrath and he then shifted his gaze toward his far right.

A few tens of meters away from his location, one could see the figure of a woman running with what seemed to be an infant in her embrace. Behind her, six figures cladded in black clothing chased while they sometimes sent attacks toward the woman.

Thankfully, she was able to parry the attacks with her sword even while holding the child. Saber, who was watching this scene, felt an intense amount of anger as he gazed at this. The wrath he felt from watching the scene of a pitiful woman and kid being attacked by figures cladded in black was unreal even for him.

With this in mind, Saber disappeared from his position. The female escaping from her pursuers clothed in black had short, neck-length black hair and a slim but tall figure. She had an ivory skin tone, but such a color was ruined by the dried dirt and bruises across her body.

It was obvious that she has been running for an extended period because of her ragged breaths. It was a fact that Saber knew and he was even angrier by such a thing.

He couldn't believe that these bastards had the ruthlessness to chase such a beautiful female for such a long time. Soon after, an attack that exited the hand of one of the black-clothed figures blasted toward the female.

The energy beam radiated a lot more power than all the previous ones. The expression of the black-haired female froze when sensing the attack as she realized that she had no chance of defending against it.

But, just as the attack was about to land on her body, a dark line separated the attack into two pieces. This action caused the energy beam to narrowly miss the female. Her face was instantly filled with multiple emotions, but the dominant one was obviously that of shock.

"Who?!"

One of the black-clothed figures shouted as all six of them appeared in the expansive field. Their faces were covered by white masks with no features and their eyes which were the only thing able to be seen contained confusion.

Right after one of the masked figures asked who was the cause of the previous black line, the childish figure of Saber's kid form appeared in everyone's view. This greatly shocked all, since they did not expect that a kid would somehow find himself wondering in this location.

Before anyone could react, the female immediately rushed toward Saber as she appeared in front of him. With a reassuring smile on her face, she then bent over and handed the kid in her embrace to Saber while she said.

"Little kid, why don't you escape from this place. Big sister here will hold off these people." She said in a sweet tone. Her previous exhausted expression disappeared as her eyes which had previously lost their luster seemed to have been reignited with determination.

It seems as if the kid that was now in Saber's hands had hindered her ability. Now that she was free, it seemed that she had some ability to fight against the six figures.

"Who are they?" Saber on the other hand cared little about any of the previous events and instead asked the question bugging his mind. It was a question about the origins of the people who dared to fight and attempt to kill a beautiful lady such as the one in front of him.

"Brat, you should listen to that bitch and escape... if you want to live that is. Of course, we of the Demonic Cult are not known to let kids escape death!!" The same black-clothed man who had previously asked who was the cause of the black line arrogantly said to Saber with an evil-sounding voice.

Hearing such words, Saber smiled as he couldn't believe the members of the so-called 'Demonic Cult' were so forgetful.

Wasn't this bastard just scared of the black line that tore apart his energy beam?

Saber placed the baby in his arms on the ground as a sword appeared in his right palm.