What is mercy?

Commander Periyan and his men gathered the map to plan, everyone was pondering who to target first.

The Grey zone was under the control of three prime factions. Three villages were spared due to them bending their knees and praying to the Demon who had taken the City. But that was not it, those villagers also pledged to consume human flesh and do demonic acts for strengthening the land's impurity.

Those three factions were Rozwack, Mekran and Zuriti. Rozwack was the name of their leader, the name granted by the Demon itself which gave the former village chief an incredible amount of power and this village focused on supplying the Demon with fresh pure virgins. Mekran, similar to Rozwack with their village chief given that name for strength, this village hunts and captures humans sent by the Duke. Zuriti was a bit different because three individuals held the name Zuriti, they were practically the Army of the Demon. Practicing dark arts to turn themselves into powerful and horrifying monsters as they are preparing to conquer the rest of the land under the Demon's name.

Many of the Bloodhounds suggested attacking Zuriti because of the reason that Zuriti was the greatest threat compared to the three but some wanted Rozwack because they captured women from the Bloodhounds group many years ago and were used by their chief.

"Zuriti will never work with the other two but Rozwack could team up with Mekran so we should remove Rozwack and then get Mekran. Zuriti won't move without the orders from the Demon as well." Commander Periyan assumed because Estefan would handle the Demon which would cut off the Demon from the three factions and also Rozwack had the least manpower.

The Bloodhounds moved down South, they all moved quickly. 500 strong, all of them with the intention to do a blood bath on humans who have betrayed their humanity for appealing to a creature from hell. So their decision was to send the said humans to hell because they pray to hell, might as well live there.

They began to hear thunderous sounds coming from the area where the village of Rozwack was present. When they arrived, all they saw was bloodbath. The ground was covered in blood, the Commander's every step made sounds of sloshing, splashing, and footsteps in the water but it wasn't water but blood.

They saw bits of limps, organs, a human head and many more in the pool of blood, "What in the world?" Commander Periyan was disturbed to see such a sight. It is what they wanted to do but they never expected to see brutality in such levels.

They moved forward to see the body of Rozwack struggling and shaking while his abdomen was ripped open and intestine dangling outside, penis and testicles ripped out as blood from dripping down from the crotch, two hands were missing as well as if they were ripped out.

Rozwack was being held by his neck, it was Estefan. He was holding Rozwack and when he saw Periyan and the Bloodhounds, Estefan squeezed his grip on the neck. Crushing it in the process which separates the neck from the body.

"What are you doing here?" The Commander asked, "Not much... They attacked and I retaliated." That was Estefan's answer while he was covered with blood, it was like he took a dip in a pool of blood. "No mercy!" Some of the Bloodhounds whispered seeing the grotesque sight "What is Mercy?" Their whispering made Estefan ask that question.

He was never shown mercy so he never truly knew the words so why should be shown it to his enemies and walked past the Bloodhounds.

Three Hours before the arrival of the Bloodhounds. Estefan emerged from his cave, he wasn't welcomed by the Bloodhounds but by Rozwack's men who were aiming to kill Estefan.

But Estefan crushed some of them with pure pressure alone. Only 1 survived and that person was empowered by demonic strength although not enough to harm Estefan because the person attacked Estefan with a powerful punch striking Estefan's chest but no reaction from him.

Estefan sighed before swatting the Demonic human to the hill, the creature hit the hill sending a shockwave which cracked it open. "Who sent you?" Estefan yelled while he walked, his voice was so powerful that it shattered the ear drums of the Demonic human. "Ro... Roz... Rozwack.. from.. from south." The moment the final word was uttered from his mouth, Estefan released a punch which was so hot that it melted the Demonic human into the hill before the entire thing simply disappeared in pure destruction.

The ruble fell onto the crushed assailants from earlier which hid their presence there hence why Bloodhounds didn't see them. The ones killed by Bloodhounds were those who hid from Estefan out of fear and because he moved to South those guys preferred to stay there and ambush Estefan when he returns because they thought Estefan would be weakened when he returns but instead they got killed by the Bloodhounds.

Estefan made his way to the south, when he arrived there was none to guard the place so he just walked in.

Some guards who saw him inside, well they were busy fondling some female slaves. But when they saw him, they charged just to flicked to non-existent by him. He didn't even bother to use even a percentage of his strength.

As Estefan entered the main building at the centre, he was shocked because he saw more than a hundred women all of them stark naked and their age seemed so random from children to old women.

On the second floor, he could hear screams of women. Estefan climbed up because the women on the first floor were too intoxicated to do anything. When he reached the second floor he saw Rozwack who was feasting on the head of a woman while penetrating her vagina through his penis. The woman was practically dead yet it didn't stop Rozwack.

Estefan stood there and when Rozwack saw Estefan all he could see was a monster, a red eyed monster standing in front of him.

Before Rozwack could react, Estefan slapped him down to the first floor. The impact was destructive enough to blow up the entire floor and kill many women in the process. Rozwack screamed "GET HIM!" Suddenly the intoxicated women began to charge towards him.

Estefan simply grabbed the corpse of the woman who Rozwack was eating and then began to slap the charging enemies with the corpse; it was very effective because he managed to swat them away with the corpse. This made Rozwack stunned because what he saw was definitely not an act of heroism but something far worse.

Realising there was no hope, Rozwack tried to run. Estefan simply threw the corpse or what was left of it on Rozwack.

"Please... Mercy.." Rozwack begged as he saw Estefan walk towards him. This was just a delaying tactic because the moment Estefan exited the building, two of Rozwack's men tried to strike Estefan with swords but the blade melted before they could reach. The soldiers looked at their blade after they swinged it just to realise they are fucked "Fuck." Their last word before Estefan grabbed their heads just to smash it on eachother which shattered them.

Most of the Rozwack guards charged, "Are they under some kind of mind control?" Seeing their devotion and self sacrifice made him wonder but he would rip their arms apart just to push it down through their abdomen "Oh well, it doesn't matter anyways." Estefan muttered while massacring them.

Rozwack's pupil reflected the bloodbath ensuing in front of him. Men getting their bodies ripped apart, no mercy was shown. It was so brutal that he himself felt the fear of death something he thought he'll never get aside from meeting his master the Demon.

And to his surprise, a human barely at the age of twenty was not only annihilating everything and everyone but also teaching him the meaning of fear, life and death through murder.

Realising he must fight or else he'll be killed, Rozwack roared and rushed towards Estefan. Each of his steps he took while running made the sloshing and splashing due to the blood which can alert anyone that someone is approaching them.

Estefan didn't do much, he would simply penetrate Rozwack's abdomen and grabbed the intestines just to pull it out and then he punched the crotch in downward slope angle where he perfectly removed or basically ripped out both testicles and penis from Rozwack's body as a punishment for what he did to those women.

Estefan didn't do it as a form of revenge but rather a way to tell Rozwack he'll feel the pain for his crimes since the land was Estefan's because he will reclaim it from his father and step family anyways.

The pain Estefan felt, he just wanted to share to everyone he viewed as his enemies. Estefan then grabbed Rozwack by his neck before squeezing it in front of the Bloodhounds.

Currently in the present time, Commander Periyan followed Estefan "What shall we do, my Lord?" Periyan asked for orders because after all he and his men pledge their allegiance to Estefan, "Prove to me that you are all useful by removing the ones at the centre near the walls. I'll go to the City and wipe out all of them who guard the Demon." Estefan uttered those words which the Bloodhounds considered to be an absolute order before he walked out.

Commander Periyan understood what Estefan meant because Estefan didn't know about the different factions.

The reason Estefan attacked Rozwack was because he sent men to Estefan to kill him but ended up making Estefan wipe them out in the process. Estefan only attacked because he got the information that people who considered him as enemies were in the south and his aim was to wipe out his enemies.

Mekran village existed somewhere inside the forest at the center, they did hide their village to ensure none would attack their base. They were weak but proficient hunters which made it hard to hunt them because they had set up various traps inside the forest.

Estefan told them to go for the faction near the wall and that only meant Mekran. To hunt Mekran it would need a team effort unlike what Estefan did, since he would try to attack them by himself but Mekran being hunters would rather run and exhaust Estefan than attack him all out.

Exhausting a predator is the best option to hunt it because without any energy how can it fight properly against them.

But the Commander was worried because Estefan will have to face Zuriti who lives at the entrance of the roadway to Rammstein. They had three leaders and were obsessed with demons to the point where they tried to turn themselves into demons.

A fanatic group empowered by a Demon, they also forcefully recruited many into their large army. It is unclear whether they have committed some experiments on those humans but rumours suggest that they have done it in a rather violent manner.

The Commander saw Estefan move toward the west where Rammstein was, "Shouldn't we send some of ours to back him up?" One of the Bloodhounds asked the Commander. "He is like his Grandfather, Lord Simon always wanted to do things by himself and he always has won doing it like that as well." Commander Periyan exclaimed, he was proud to see his former lord in the form of the lord's grandson.

The Commander then faced his men and women "Prepare, we shall attack Mekran. Those hunters have hunted humans and delivered them to the demon. They have betrayed humanity by feeding humans to a demon. They deserve nothing but death and we shall deliver that death to them." He announced those words to the Bloodhounds, they were all ready for it since they know how brutal the years under total domination of the three factions of the Grey Zone.

"NO MERCY!" Commander Ordered the Bloodhounds before they all departed to hunt down the enemies for their master.