A White Raven (2)

Charon moves forward and put his hand in front of Ethan's face. Teeth chattering sounds resounded in his ear but he didn't care as he was more focused on suppressing his screams.

"These insects will dig through your skin and stick to bone. It will slowly ~ slowly just like scratching a wall with nail. It will eat your bones…Ohh, don't worry I have plenty of them. It will take less time than you think."

Charon crouched down and sits on his foot. Charon was putting his hand closer to Ethan's feet when he suddenly stops. He stands up and put his finger on his head.

"I think it's too early for this one…I need to bring something that can bring you back to life first….What should I do?"

He turned his head and stare toward table.

"Let's wait for this one…It's a fact that when one's a person lose one of their senses, their other sense sharpen."

He turns his head toward Ethan. His face carries a terrifying smirk as he looked at Ethan. He again moves toward table and bring the grass shears with him.

Ethan just stay hang up by his hands. He didn't move or looked above. He just looked down with his long hair covering his face. His hair...no his whole body was bloodied with red color.

Charon moves toward his left side and trap his ear between grass shears.

"Hey, Hey, count for me."

Charon kicked his bloodied body with foot.

"I said count for me!"

He was kicking his body more and more as there was no response from him. Ethan didn't do anything and stay hanged up, unresponsive, uncaring and unmoving by anything.

"Ignoring me, aren't we? It's fine you will flap like a bird just in an instant."

Charon straightened his back as he was going to do something properly this time. He use his both hand and bring them together.

Scythe.

Charon cut off his ear but something was clearly wrong. He should be screaming, begging, trembling but there was no response from him at all!

Charon went closer and looked at his face. His lips were moving constantly muttering some incomprehensible words. He went closer and finally some words fell in his ear.

"I must not scream…I must not scream…I must not scream…I must not scream...I must not scream…I must not scream…I must not scream."

Charon pulls himself back. He looked at Ethan with blank face for some time. His body starts trembling and the corner of mouth stretched toward his ears.

"Hee…Hee…Hee…Haaa…Haaa…Haaa."

His chuckles turned into laughter as they resounded inside the room. He starts spinning on his feet.

"Finally.., Finally, He broke…Haaa…Now…my son can finally rest in peace…finally…Haaa."

He stops spinning just on the edge of light circle. He straightened his arm and water start condensing around his arm. It didn't take long for it takes shape of chain-saw.

"Hee…Hee…Heee."

He laughed eerily and moves closer toward Ethan. His eyes look bloodshot and his smile was stretched to his cheeks. Charon wants nothing more than to tear him to pieces!

He brings the water chainsaw and put it toward his chest. He can finally kill this shit! He had been waited for so long all for this moment! His son can finally rest in peace!

He still remembered how his son was one of the most talented mage in his family. If he had grown up, he would walk on same ground with top prodigies of Human Domain! He would have become youngest S-Rank in history! He would have become strongest water mage in Human Domain! He would have brought his family at the top of hierarchy in Human Domain!

But this trash stole it from him! He stole his son's future! He stole his dream! He stole his son's life!!

He can forgive anyone but not him…not him. He must die. Die with most humiliation… most… painful… most… begrudgingly… most…

"DIE."

He thrust his hand toward chest. Water chainsaw was roaring as water rotates around his hand in chainsaw manner.

"Not so fast."

A soft, small and seductive voice resounded in his ear. He turns around and attack toward his back but there was nothing in his back.

"Who is there? Who is it?"

He looks around and screams in madness. He was just so close to kill him…who is it…who was the one who disturb is revenge?

He will destroy him…kill everyone related to them…

"I am standing in front of you."

A voice came from his front. A brown haired lady was standing in few meters away from Ethan. She has brown hair neatly tied up above with big forest green eyes. Her face was small with cherry lips that one can't take his eyes off. Even Charon can't help but be daze just by looking in her eyes for a moment.

She was looking at him with mocking smile. Charon seeing her smile flew into rage and charge toward her.

"DIE BITCH!"

He charges toward her with his hand chainsaw. He notices that she was only B- Rank while he was B+ Rank. She is too weak to be considered her match. He can easily kill a trash like her with a flick of his hand.

She just smiled and didn't do anything. Charon ran toward her and smirks. Charon thinks that she was too terrified that she was frozen stiff!

"DIEEE…"

He slashed her diagonally but there was no resistance! He just passes through her and feels forward rolling down to edge of light circle. He turns around but there was no one standing in her place.

"Illusion?"

He finally figures out what is going on. That bitch is using illusion to play with his mind! He was too agitated right now. He needs to calm down for now. He still hasn't killed that son of the bitch! He will first kill this bitch and then him. Both of them can accompany each other in hell.

"Hee…Hee…Hee…Rest assured both of you can accompany each other in hell…Heee…Heee."

"How pitiful. You would have given me hard time if you were in right mind but…"

Brown haired lady voice resonated in the room but she was nowhere to be seen. Charon look around but she was not found anywhere in the room. Suddenly, Space starts folding from all the direction. Charon was taken back! He doesn't understand what is going on!

He tried to muster up his magic but he was unable to do it! He can't muster up his mana! He can't bring his magic out! How he was supposed to fight her?!

Ethan's bloodied figure also got covered by space folding but Charon long stop caring about him. Right now, all he cared about is to get out of this room alive!

"Fight me head on...if you dare to."

His shaky voice resounded in the room but no one gave him any response. He punched the space around him but space keeps folding slowly on his direction.

His expression turned into despair as he saw no way out of it. There are illusion mage in Human Domain but none of them can make one unable to use their magic or anything like this. Forget about Arts, He never heard about any Celestial Arts that can do this!

It didn't take long for folding space to reach him. Space starts folding around his legs but it didn't hurt him, still scared of unknown, he fell on his butt and crawl backward but folding space has already reach him from all around.

His legs…hands…abdomen…shoulder…all his body got folded together with the space. His vision covered by darkness.

A bright light flashed his vision. His eyes flapped, adjusting to light in front of him. His back feel warm and wet. He tries to breath but a sharp pain travel through his neck.

His neck hurts, he still turn and found ground parallel to his vision. A red liquid was spreading opposite to him. His eyes widen and he looks around when a soft and euphonious voice reaches his ear.

"You shouldn't move too much…Ohh, you are already dead so it doesn't matter."

He was lying in the pool of his own blood! He was lying in center of the room at the same place when he heard her first time. The light on the wall was lighting up his soon-to-be-corpse body. There was also large and complex 3D-magic diagram, also called rune, covering the whole room. Its brilliance was lighting up the whole room, using the Charon as its center.

The brown haired lady walks forward and crossed his body. She moves toward the bloodied figure hanged up by chain.

"You probably will never figure out but it was my domain. If you were not so much engrossed in torturing this boy then you might have sense the rune in this room but…That's why I said I would have hard time if I had to fight you in your right mind."

She has used her domain to trap him and runes above the ground strengthened her magic tremendously. She had already slit his throat when he was thrusting his hand toward the boy but he was trapped in her domain so he never figured out he died until she cancelled her domain.

She took calm and stable steps toward Ethan. Her heels sound echoes inside the whole room. She stops in front of him and looked at him. His hairs were covering his face so she can't see his face but she can tell he is awake.

Snap.

She snapped her finger and chains around his arms broke and he fell on his knees. He raised his head and looked at her. His hairs were still covering his eyes so she was unable to make his face but she didn't need to as she already know him.

She withdrawn a potion from her storage and thrust it toward his neck. His body starts healing visibly in front of him. It was an advance healing portion! It is cost around tens of millions and this lady was treating it as nothing, using it on other.

Her face clenched in disgust when she noticed his back with blood-sucking worms. She swipes her hand and all worm detached themselves from his back and start crawling. Dozens of nails materialize above them and nail them down. It struggle and trembled but stopped after some times, dying on the spot.

She also notices some blades and stuff around his body and removes them all. A rune lit up using Ethan as a center and his whole body got clean of all the blood.

It didn't take long for Ethan to become clean. His hairs were still covering his face as his head was down.

Clink. Clink. Clink.

Multiple chains materialize around her and start wrapping around him. Chains pulled his limbs and pin him to ground.

Ethan's eyes widen as he look like he awoke up from a nightmare. Ethan looked at her and opens his mouth to say something but a foot hit his abdomen. Her heels were almost digging on his stomach.

"Take a mana oath right now."

Her voice was calm and filled with authority. Her expression was neutral with no emotion at its surface.

Ethan gritted his teeth to deal with his abdomen pain. He just got healed only to get hit again.

"What the hell do you mean?!"

"Take a mana oath and swear to me that you will do whatever I ask you to do."

"Huh?!"

Ethan was taken aback by her demand. Is she one of those women who enjoy company of younger boys? Ethan looked at her again. Men will spend all their treasure to spend a night with her! Is he really getting that chance for almost free?!

Aggh.

Her heel dug deeper as it almost pierced his skin. Her face turned cold and her eyes were filled with contempt.

"You should stop dreaming if you cherish your life."

Ethan was surprised by her response. Can she read his mind?

"Yes, I can read your mind and if you cherish your life, you should do what I ask you to do."