New Gate Alliance Strikes

Author's Thought: This is a lengthy chapter. I truly worked till my back hurt for this one, so make sure to read it fully! (^_^)

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When Alvin reached the hall of the villa, he saw a man wearing a black coat sitting on the sofa in a relaxed manner. There were also five people wearing similar suits standing behind the man like statues.

Maids of the villa could be seen lying here and there, motionless on the floor, as though they were sleeping.

Elena was also lying on the floor, unconscious in front of them.

Alvin's heart sank upon seeing this. He forcefully calmed the restlessness in his mind and asked the man on the sofa coldly, "What do you want?"

The man looked at Alvin and gave him a harmless smile. "You are quite composed for a 7-year-old. Well, I expect nothing less from Cyrus's seedling. Since you asked, I will state my need. I want you, more specifically your divine bone. What do you think about it?"

Alvin's brows knitted upon hearing this. "New Gate?"

The man looked at Alvin in surprise. "It looks like your mother had already told you how she lost her divine bone. Well, whatever."

" Actually, I don't have any intention of touching you because of your status as Cyrus's son, but your growth is truly abnormal, and that too with precise mastery of different spells at such a young age. Even if I am reluctant and wary of your background, I can't help myself from reaching out my hand towards you."

"I would have already come after you long ago, but touching you inside the NyxBorn Palace is impossible. After all, unlike other kingdoms of Celestia, most of the previous emperors of Nyxvaris are still present in the NyxBorn Palace in the name of royal protectors," the man said with a helpless smile on his face.

Alvin looked at the man coldly. "Leave my mom. You can do whatever you want with me."

"Hahaha... You have some serious misconceptions about the whole situation, little boy. Your mother, the maids, and the soldiers outside are all dead. I have already destroyed their souls. What's left in front of you is only their bodies, which are just empty shells," the black-suited man stood up with a laugh.

Just as Alvin heard this, he lost the last bit of calmness in his hart. Activating a space spell with all his might he tried to rush towards the man in black coat, disregarding the power difference between them.

Bang...

But before he could move a little bit, one of the men in black suits standing behind the man who spoke just now appeared in front of Alvin and smashed him to the ground effortlessly.

He then simply picked up Alvin, whose several bones were broken in the collision just now, from the ground by the collar of his shirt.

"Idiot, don't hurt him. After all, it is not easy to get our hands on a child having dual taboo elements like him, who has such a monstrous talent with both these elements," the black-suited man reprimanded the man who was holding Alvin with an angry look on his face, as he started walking out of the villa.

The six of his subordinates also followed him out. As they were walking, the fallen bodies of maids and soldiers could be seen everywhere.

Alvin could barely open his eyes due to intense pain and dizziness. As he was held by his collar by the man who slammed him to the ground earlier, he couldn't even muster enough strength to scream due to the intense pain he was feeling all over his body.

When they reached outside the house, one of the men waved his hand, and from his storage ring, a half-burned body of a kid similar in height and size to Alvin floated outside and flew inside the mansion.

"Flame Calamity: Flames of Destruction."

Another one from the group chanted a spell, and the entire mansion was engulfed in raging fire that seemed to appear out of nowhere and engulfed the entire villa in an instant.

"Let's go." After that, the leader of the group signaled to his subordinates, and they flew up towards a large spaceship stationed above the villa.

Alvin looked at the burning mansion with his half-closed eyes. He felt as though his soul was also being burned at that instant. His mother was killed before his eyes, and he couldn't do anything to the people who were responsible for it. He truly felt helplessness for the first time in his life.

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Some time after the black-clothed men left, space in front of the villa fluctuated, and Cyrus walked out of a crack that was formed.

As soon as he appeared, an intense dark purple aura burst forth from his body, engulfing the whole villa under his darkness magic.

The raging flames, which appeared to be never-exhausting, disappeared completely when they came in touch with the power of darkness.

Looking at the half-burned villa in front of him, Cyrus's shoulders trembled both out of uncontrolled fury and deep fear of losing something precious to him.

Suddenly, space started to fluctuate, and more people started to appear around the villa. The pressure emanated by their mere existence made the residents of the capital city of Nyxvaris tremble in fear.

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Inside the spaceship,

After he was brought to the huge spaceship of New Gate alliance, Alvin was locked up in an empty room, which only had white marble-like walls on the four sides and a simple bed and a toilet at one side.

Though Alvin's injuries were healed by a light element cultivator from the New Gate alliance, and he appeared to be not injured at all from outside, the real pain inflicted was in his heart which nearly made him mad each day.

Of course, no one cared about his feelings, after all who will ask the opinion of a pig before slaughtering it for a feast.

On the 15th day of arriving here, Alvin was escorted to a room filled with several capsules filled with an unknown liquid and with each holding a naked human figure submerged inside it.

Even in his previous world, Alvin only saw such human experiment labs in high-end sci-fi movies, as for what its purpose is he didn't ask, as he already knew that no one would answer even if he asked.

But what made Alvin furrow his brows was that each and every one of the humanoid figures inside the capsules looked exactly like the man in black who talked to Alvin back then.

After some time, the group passed the area where the capsules were set and reached a room that appeared to be an operation theater, with a large bed and two surgical robots that looked like spiders with 8 mechanical hands.

Each of their hands held different surgical equipment; Alvin could recognize them, as he had seen similar equipment in the hands of doctors in his previous world.

"Hey, kiddo, how have you been these days? Ah, I truly missed you, you know?" Just as Alvin was sizing up the room, from the door, a gentle voice that Alvin hated to the bone was heard.

Turning around, he saw the black-coated man from before entering the room, along with two other people wearing surgical masks in the attire of surgeons.

Alvin's forcefully suppressed fury and hatred exploded at the sight of this man's face. He activated all the space element essence in his body and teleported right in front of the man with a sword he took out from his storage ring.

For a moment, even the person who escorted Alvin here didn't expect him to suddenly attack out of nowhere.

But as Alvin swung his sword down, it seemed as though time had stopped all of a sudden, freezing him midair like a video whose pause button was pressed. Although he could think, for some reason he couldn't even breathe in that state.

"Kids these days truly don't know how to respect their elders. Disobedient kids should be punished, so that they can be well-behaved in the future. Even though I don't want to do this, this punishment is necessary for you," the black-suited man said with a sigh as though he was reluctant to punish Alvin.

He then turned to the other person in the surgeon attire beside him and said, "Don't use numbing agents during the operation, let him experience the pain. This way he won't behave so arrogantly in the future."

The two doctors nodded and the person who brought Alvin to this room picked up Alvin, who was frozen in midair, and laid him on the bed on his stomach.

Throughout the entire process, Alvin was like a block of wood with no movement at all. Even though he could think, it seemed as though he didn't have any command over his own body.

"Well, your mom was also in your position when she was of your age, the only difference is that she was well-behaved and so I gave her a numbing agent preventing her from experiencing the pain," the sound of the man in black rang in Alvin's ears once again.

"Oh, look at me, I didn't even loosen the restriction on your body, how can we chat like this?" With that, the man waved his hand and Alvin felt that he could speak now, though his other body parts were still motionless, like a piece of wood.

Looking at the black-clothed man smiling in front of him, Alvin gritted his teeth, "Remember to kill me after your torture is over, else I promise you, I will become the worst nightmare of your life."

The black-clothed man laughed, "Hahaha... oh my dear, you really are considerate towards me. Since you asked, I will definitely fulfill your wish."

Just as Alvin was about to speak back, he felt a sharp pain in his back. As he tried to move his body, he found that he couldn't even move a muscle no matter what he tried; the only sensation he could perceive was pain, extreme pain...

"Aaagrh...."

He screamed in agony. At that moment, except for the sensation of pain, he couldn't even think of anything else in his head.

The man in the black coat watched indifferently as Alvin's back was cut open by the two spider-like surgical robots with a gentle smile on his face.

After about 15 minutes later, a purple and silver vein-like structure, which appeared to be pulsing with space and darkness elemental essence, was carefully extracted from Alvin's spine by one of the spider robots.

The surgeon who was monitoring the operation nodded to the other surgeon in the room.

Upon receiving the signal from his companion, the second surgeon took out a white medical box from his storage ring and opened it before the spider robot holding Alvin's divine bone.

The spider robot, upon detecting the white box in front of it, placed the dense cluster of roots inside the box in a slow and precise manner.

This root-like structure was the so-called divine bone, present in the spine of every awakened individual of Celestia. 

After the box containing the divine bone was secured , the surgeon handed the box to the black-coated man who accepted the box with an excited grin on his face.

The other surgeon, who was previously monitoring the working of the surgical robot, walked forward and cast a light element spell on Alvin, healing the hideous wound on his back as though it was not even present there a moment before.

The black-clothed man, after placing the box in his storage ring, walked up to Alvin, who was glaring at him with bloodshot eyes.

"I truly don't want to do this, but your background is a bit troublesome to handle. Even though I am not afraid of some trouble, that will be a hassle," after saying this, the black-clothed man placed his hand on Alvin's head.

The next second, it seemed as though Alvin's body trembled for a moment, before his eyes went blank and he stopped breathing.

"I have already destroyed his soul, just throw him outside. Even if someone heals him he won't remember anything that happened here," the black-clothed man said to the man who escorted Alvin to this room, who nodded back in affirmation.