Chapter 278: 043 – Extremely Fatal
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Light flickered of the dagger as is it soared through the air.
Putchi.
The sound of the dagger splitting flesh echoed, as fresh blood splattered.
"Still not going to speak?" Colten asked with a vicious smirk, and as he spoke several more daggers went hurtling through the air all burying themselves in Lirian's body.
Most of the squad members weren't participating in this, and tried to avert their eyes, but the sound was far to ear catching.
As they looked back they could see Lirian dangling from the chains, with dozens of daggers jutting out from his body, making him resemble some steel tipped porcupine.
His entire body was drenched in blood as he dangled from his feet.
"Jejejeje," Lirian cackled weakly, "I'll remember this," he said softly as another dagger planted itself in his gut.
"Haa," Colten barked, "You think that you're in any position to threaten me," he said with a mad light in his eyes.
He was growing sick and tired of this.
Everyday he'd think up new methods to get some info out of Lirian but all he got was ridiculing laughter from Lirian and that same threat everyday, 'I'll remember this.'
"Pull the chains!" he ordered gnashing his teeth in anger.
The soldiers looked at Lirian with vicious smirks as they climbed onto the cart and started to unwrap the chains from the bars.
KLINK. CLANK.
The chains rattled loudly as they smacked against the steel bars of the cage, the cage was very large and it was strong enough to hold a peek adapt.
They had brought it to capture the orcs and to torture some answers out of them, but so far all they got was Lirian the madman from Willcolly and he had proven to be useless so far.
The soldiers finally got the chains free and started to pull.
Lirian took a calming breath as he felt his body being pulled in four directions, he was hanging upside down so his feet were pulled apart into a split against the roof of the cage, until it felt like his legs were going to pop out of his pelvis.
The tension on his legs suddenly came to a halt and they started to pull the chains attached to his arms, Lirian felt the bones in his arms violently trembling under the pressure.
Then they stopped and repeated the process on his legs, every 30 seconds they rotated between stretching his hands and legs.
Only after a full hour had passed did they finally stop, but throughout the entire time they didn't hear a single scream.
The best they got was an ear grating laugh from Lirian, almost as if he was mocking their attempts.
"Tell us what you know about Willcolly, and the forest fire," Colten demanded, "Unless you want more of this," Colten said raising his hand to signal the soldiers holding onto the chains.
Lirian had given them answers, only they were all ridiculous answers, it was infuriatingly obvious to them that he was teasing them.
Lirian was insistent on his story about killing everyone in Willcolly and turning their bodies into white light.
When Colten asked him about the forest fire's that they spent a week investigating, he had an answer for them as well, one even more ridiculous, 'This god picked-up all the flames in Willcolly and tossed them into the winds, the winds carried them to the forest and created a great fire.'
On top of Lirian's madness, he seemed to have a god complex about himself, and could turn any topic into something about him.
One of the evenings when they were camping, some of the soldiers spoke about the caravan attacks, and Lirian interjected claiming that all of it was his doing.
That he was the one who slaughtered them and robbed them of all their coin before torching everything.
It was apparent to them that Lirian was going out of his way to mock their attempts at the investigation.
"Your mamma's spankings hurt me more than this," Lirian mocked with a mouthful of blood.
Colten smiled coldly and issued a signal to the men holding the chains, the squad members who were looking from afar all averted their eyes and some of them even put their hands over their ears.
The four pulling the chains wrapped it firmly around their hands and jumped of the cart with all their strength.
For a second Lirian felt weightless, when the pressure suddenly tore through his entire body, pulling it firmly in four directions.
The tension tore through his body and made his shoulder shoot straight out of their sockets completely dislocating them, he could feel his muscles tearing under the pressure.
If not for the tempering he forced his mother to do his body, Lirian was fairly certain that he would have lost an arm, but that was nothing compared to what happened to his legs.
The chains were wrapped all around his shins and ankles, when his legs were pulled several sickening crunches were heard clearly, even by those who blocked their ears.
The first thing to snap was his ankles, and the bone in his left leg snapped, it was a clean break which made it all the louder.
"Urgh," Lirian let out a slight grunt of pain for the first time, but before the soldiers could gloat he laughed weakly, "Jejeje, I told you that your mamma spanks harder," he said in a weak whisper as the soldiers released the chains, causing Lirian to fall flat on the bottom of the cage.
The soldiers were looking at Lirian in horror, they couldn't believe that he could still laugh despite his broken body, by now they felt certain that he knew nothing, he was just some lunatic who lacked the ability to feel any pain.
It was the only explanation they could come up with.
Reyna watched Lirian with a half-distracted look.
Reyna felt like she had made a mistake in her judgement, the man before her was completely mad, he could make anything about himself, and he had a god complex about himself to boot.
It was once she realised this that Reyna allowed Colten to start torturing Lirian for answers, but weeks of it had proven futile.
Lirian had been on the verge of death several time's already, but he never said a word, which left Reyna with only one thought, that her instincts were wrong.
She blamed it on that freaky ghost town, that entire place had gotten under her skin, and filled her head with strange thoughts.
Her journey had been fruitless, and she was bringing home a useless prisoner.
She watched as Colten gritted his teeth and climbed into the cage; he was so angry that none of his methods were working that he started to beat Lirian who already looked to be on the verge of death.
They spent a week scouring the burned forest, but they learned nothing, they only confirmed that it was not a natural fire.
Then they spent another two weeks visiting some of the other nearby villages only to find nothing at all.
Lirian was their only lead but he was proving to be completely useless, seeing that Colten could kill him at any moment, Reyna hastily went to stop him.
Colten glared at Reyna coldly when she grabbed his arm to stop him from twisting one of the daggers that were buried in Lirian's gut, but he wisely didn't argue.
"I'm giving you one last chance," she said to Lirian, "Say something useful or I'll have you killed right now,"
Lirian smiled lightly with blood coating his teeth, "You look like a toad," he chuckled.
Reyna's eyes hardened, she knew that there were all kinds of insults slung around about her family looking like toads she even met a pompous ass from house Hauton who asked her if one of her ancestors fucked a toad.
It was a bit of a soft spot for House Kurt, "Kill him!" she ordered Colten taking a step back, there was really no value in bringing him back.
Lirian waited calmly as Colten crouched down in front of him with a gloating smile.
Lirian smiled inwardly and released the restraints on his charm directing it completely on Colten for just a second, before hurriedly shutting it off.
Colten suddenly stopped glaring at Lirian, and looked at him as if he was seeing him for the first time, and brought his hands under Lirian chin to carefully examine his face.
'Please work,' Lirian silently prayed, the reason that Lirian was no longer trying to spook Reyna and convince her he was special was because when he was put in the cage, the system gave him a sudden alert.
[Threat detected on your fate string, Level: Extremely Fatal]
[Cost 50 000 fate particles to perform a complete scan]
Lirian naturally did the scan, after all he had just given himself to them without giving them a fight, then the system gave him a sudden alert about an extremely fatal reading.
It was naturally not anything good for Lirian.
When he performed the scan, the system gave him a mission.
[…]
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Light flickered of the dagger as is it soared through the air.
Putchi.
The sound of the dagger splitting flesh echoed, as fresh blood splattered.
"Still not going to speak?" Colten asked with a vicious smirk, and as he spoke several more daggers went hurtling through the air all burying themselves in Lirian's body.
Most of the squad members weren't participating in this, and tried to avert their eyes, but the sound was far to ear catching.
As they looked back they could see Lirian dangling from the chains, with dozens of daggers jutting out from his body, making him resemble some steel tipped porcupine.
His entire body was drenched in blood as he dangled from his feet.
"Jejejeje," Lirian cackled weakly, "I'll remember this," he said softly as another dagger planted itself in his gut.
"Haa," Colten barked, "You think that you're in any position to threaten me," he said with a mad light in his eyes.
He was growing sick and tired of this.
Everyday he'd think up new methods to get some info out of Lirian but all he got was ridiculing laughter from Lirian and that same threat everyday, 'I'll remember this.'
"Pull the chains!" he ordered gnashing his teeth in anger.
The soldiers looked at Lirian with vicious smirks as they climbed onto the cart and started to unwrap the chains from the bars.
KLINK. CLANK.
The chains rattled loudly as they smacked against the steel bars of the cage, the cage was very large and it was strong enough to hold a peek adapt.
They had brought it to capture the orcs and to torture some answers out of them, but so far all they got was Lirian the madman from Willcolly and he had proven to be useless so far.
The soldiers finally got the chains free and started to pull.
Lirian took a calming breath as he felt his body being pulled in four directions, he was hanging upside down so his feet were pulled apart into a split against the roof of the cage, until it felt like his legs were going to pop out of his pelvis.
The tension on his legs suddenly came to a halt and they started to pull the chains attached to his arms, Lirian felt the bones in his arms violently trembling under the pressure.
Then they stopped and repeated the process on his legs, every 30 seconds they rotated between stretching his hands and legs.
Only after a full hour had passed did they finally stop, but throughout the entire time they didn't hear a single scream.
The best they got was an ear grating laugh from Lirian, almost as if he was mocking their attempts.
"Tell us what you know about Willcolly, and the forest fire," Colten demanded, "Unless you want more of this," Colten said raising his hand to signal the soldiers holding onto the chains.
Lirian had given them answers, only they were all ridiculous answers, it was infuriatingly obvious to them that he was teasing them.
Lirian was insistent on his story about killing everyone in Willcolly and turning their bodies into white light.
When Colten asked him about the forest fire's that they spent a week investigating, he had an answer for them as well, one even more ridiculous, 'This god picked-up all the flames in Willcolly and tossed them into the winds, the winds carried them to the forest and created a great fire.'
On top of Lirian's madness, he seemed to have a god complex about himself, and could turn any topic into something about him.
One of the evenings when they were camping, some of the soldiers spoke about the caravan attacks, and Lirian interjected claiming that all of it was his doing.
That he was the one who slaughtered them and robbed them of all their coin before torching everything.
It was apparent to them that Lirian was going out of his way to mock their attempts at the investigation.
"Your mamma's spankings hurt me more than this," Lirian mocked with a mouthful of blood.
Colten smiled coldly and issued a signal to the men holding the chains, the squad members who were looking from afar all averted their eyes and some of them even put their hands over their ears.
The four pulling the chains wrapped it firmly around their hands and jumped of the cart with all their strength.
For a second Lirian felt weightless, when the pressure suddenly tore through his entire body, pulling it firmly in four directions.
The tension tore through his body and made his shoulder shoot straight out of their sockets completely dislocating them, he could feel his muscles tearing under the pressure.
If not for the tempering he forced his mother to do his body, Lirian was fairly certain that he would have lost an arm, but that was nothing compared to what happened to his legs.
The chains were wrapped all around his shins and ankles, when his legs were pulled several sickening crunches were heard clearly, even by those who blocked their ears.
The first thing to snap was his ankles, and the bone in his left leg snapped, it was a clean break which made it all the louder.
"Urgh," Lirian let out a slight grunt of pain for the first time, but before the soldiers could gloat he laughed weakly, "Jejeje, I told you that your mamma spanks harder," he said in a weak whisper as the soldiers released the chains, causing Lirian to fall flat on the bottom of the cage.
The soldiers were looking at Lirian in horror, they couldn't believe that he could still laugh despite his broken body, by now they felt certain that he knew nothing, he was just some lunatic who lacked the ability to feel any pain.
It was the only explanation they could come up with.
Reyna watched Lirian with a half-distracted look.
Reyna felt like she had made a mistake in her judgement, the man before her was completely mad, he could make anything about himself, and he had a god complex about himself to boot.
It was once she realised this that Reyna allowed Colten to start torturing Lirian for answers, but weeks of it had proven futile.
Lirian had been on the verge of death several time's already, but he never said a word, which left Reyna with only one thought, that her instincts were wrong.
She blamed it on that freaky ghost town, that entire place had gotten under her skin, and filled her head with strange thoughts.
Her journey had been fruitless, and she was bringing home a useless prisoner.
She watched as Colten gritted his teeth and climbed into the cage; he was so angry that none of his methods were working that he started to beat Lirian who already looked to be on the verge of death.
They spent a week scouring the burned forest, but they learned nothing, they only confirmed that it was not a natural fire.
Then they spent another two weeks visiting some of the other nearby villages only to find nothing at all.
Lirian was their only lead but he was proving to be completely useless, seeing that Colten could kill him at any moment, Reyna hastily went to stop him.
Colten glared at Reyna coldly when she grabbed his arm to stop him from twisting one of the daggers that were buried in Lirian's gut, but he wisely didn't argue.
"I'm giving you one last chance," she said to Lirian, "Say something useful or I'll have you killed right now,"
Lirian smiled lightly with blood coating his teeth, "You look like a toad," he chuckled.
Reyna's eyes hardened, she knew that there were all kinds of insults slung around about her family looking like toads she even met a pompous ass from house Hauton who asked her if one of her ancestors fucked a toad.
It was a bit of a soft spot for House Kurt, "Kill him!" she ordered Colten taking a step back, there was really no value in bringing him back.
Lirian waited calmly as Colten crouched down in front of him with a gloating smile.
Lirian smiled inwardly and released the restraints on his charm directing it completely on Colten for just a second, before hurriedly shutting it off.
Colten suddenly stopped glaring at Lirian, and looked at him as if he was seeing him for the first time, and brought his hands under Lirian chin to carefully examine his face.
'Please work,' Lirian silently prayed, the reason that Lirian was no longer trying to spook Reyna and convince her he was special was because when he was put in the cage, the system gave him a sudden alert.
[Threat detected on your fate string, Level: Extremely Fatal]
[Cost 50 000 fate particles to perform a complete scan]
Lirian naturally did the scan, after all he had just given himself to them without giving them a fight, then the system gave him a sudden alert about an extremely fatal reading.
It was naturally not anything good for Lirian.
When he performed the scan, the system gave him a mission.
[…]
Light flickered of the dagger as is it soared through the air.Putchi.The sound of the dagger splitting flesh echoed, as fresh blood splattered."Still not going to speak?" Colten asked with a vicious smirk, and as he spoke several more daggers went hurtling through the air all burying themselves in Lirian's body.Most of the squad members weren't participating in this, and tried to avert their eyes, but the sound was far to ear catching.As they looked back they could see Lirian dangling from the chains, with dozens of daggers jutting out from his body, making him resemble some steel tipped porcupine.His entire body was drenched in blood as he dangled from his feet."Jejejeje," Lirian cackled weakly, "I'll remember this," he said softly as another dagger planted itself in his gut."Haa," Colten barked, "You think that you're in any position to threaten me," he said with a mad light in his eyes.He was growing sick and tired of this.Everyday he'd think up new methods to get some info out of Lirian but all he got was ridiculing laughter from Lirian and that same threat everyday, 'I'll remember this.'"Pull the chains!" he ordered gnashing his teeth in anger.The soldiers looked at Lirian with vicious smirks as they climbed onto the cart and started to unwrap the chains from the bars.KLINK. CLANK.The chains rattled loudly as they smacked against the steel bars of the cage, the cage was very large and it was strong enough to hold a peek adapt.They had brought it to capture the orcs and to torture some answers out of them, but so far all they got was Lirian the madman from Willcolly and he had proven to be useless so far.The soldiers finally got the chains free and started to pull.Lirian took a calming breath as he felt his body being pulled in four directions, he was hanging upside down so his feet were pulled apart into a split against the roof of the cage, until it felt like his legs were going to pop out of his pelvis.The tension on his legs suddenly came to a halt and they started to pull the chains attached to his arms, Lirian felt the bones in his arms violently trembling under the pressure.Then they stopped and repeated the process on his legs, every 30 seconds they rotated between stretching his hands and legs.Only after a full hour had passed did they finally stop, but throughout the entire time they didn't hear a single scream.The best they got was an ear grating laugh from Lirian, almost as if he was mocking their attempts."Tell us what you know about Willcolly, and the forest fire," Colten demanded, "Unless you want more of this," Colten said raising his hand to signal the soldiers holding onto the chains.Lirian had given them answers, only they were all ridiculous answers, it was infuriatingly obvious to them that he was teasing them.Lirian was insistent on his story about killing everyone in Willcolly and turning their bodies into white light.When Colten asked him about the forest fire's that they spent a week investigating, he had an answer for them as well, one even more ridiculous, 'This god picked-up all the flames in Willcolly and tossed them into the winds, the winds carried them to the forest and created a great fire.'On top of Lirian's madness, he seemed to have a god complex about himself, and could turn any topic into something about him.One of the evenings when they were camping, some of the soldiers spoke about the caravan attacks, and Lirian interjected claiming that all of it was his doing.That he was the one who slaughtered them and robbed them of all their coin before torching everything.It was apparent to them that Lirian was going out of his way to mock their attempts at the investigation."Your mamma's spankings hurt me more than this," Lirian mocked with a mouthful of blood.Colten smiled coldly and issued a signal to the men holding the chains, the squad members who were looking from afar all averted their eyes and some of them even put their hands over their ears.The four pulling the chains wrapped it firmly around their hands and jumped of the cart with all their strength.For a second Lirian felt weightless, when the pressure suddenly tore through his entire body, pulling it firmly in four directions.The tension tore through his body and made his shoulder shoot straight out of their sockets completely dislocating them, he could feel his muscles tearing under the pressure.If not for the tempering he forced his mother to do his body, Lirian was fairly certain that he would have lost an arm, but that was nothing compared to what happened to his legs.The chains were wrapped all around his shins and ankles, when his legs were pulled several sickening crunches were heard clearly, even by those who blocked their ears.The first thing to snap was his ankles, and the bone in his left leg snapped, it was a clean break which made it all the louder."Urgh," Lirian let out a slight grunt of pain for the first time, but before the soldiers could gloat he laughed weakly, "Jejeje, I told you that your mamma spanks harder," he said in a weak whisper as the soldiers released the chains, causing Lirian to fall flat on the bottom of the cage.The soldiers were looking at Lirian in horror, they couldn't believe that he could still laugh despite his broken body, by now they felt certain that he knew nothing, he was just some lunatic who lacked the ability to feel any pain.It was the only explanation they could come up with.Reyna watched Lirian with a half-distracted look.Reyna felt like she had made a mistake in her judgement, the man before her was completely mad, he could make anything about himself, and he had a god complex about himself to boot.It was once she realised this that Reyna allowed Colten to start torturing Lirian for answers, but weeks of it had proven futile.Lirian had been on the verge of death several time's already, but he never said a word, which left Reyna with only one thought, that her instincts were wrong.She blamed it on that freaky ghost town, that entire place had gotten under her skin, and filled her head with strange thoughts.Her journey had been fruitless, and she was bringing home a useless prisoner.She watched as Colten gritted his teeth and climbed into the cage; he was so angry that none of his methods were working that he started to beat Lirian who already looked to be on the verge of death.They spent a week scouring the burned forest, but they learned nothing, they only confirmed that it was not a natural fire.Then they spent another two weeks visiting some of the other nearby villages only to find nothing at all.Lirian was their only lead but he was proving to be completely useless, seeing that Colten could kill him at any moment, Reyna hastily went to stop him.Colten glared at Reyna coldly when she grabbed his arm to stop him from twisting one of the daggers that were buried in Lirian's gut, but he wisely didn't argue."I'm giving you one last chance," she said to Lirian, "Say something useful or I'll have you killed right now,"Lirian smiled lightly with blood coating his teeth, "You look like a toad," he chuckled.Reyna's eyes hardened, she knew that there were all kinds of insults slung around about her family looking like toads she even met a pompous ass from house Hauton who asked her if one of her ancestors fucked a toad.It was a bit of a soft spot for House Kurt, "Kill him!" she ordered Colten taking a step back, there was really no value in bringing him back.Lirian waited calmly as Colten crouched down in front of him with a gloating smile.Lirian smiled inwardly and released the restraints on his charm directing it completely on Colten for just a second, before hurriedly shutting it off.Colten suddenly stopped glaring at Lirian, and looked at him as if he was seeing him for the first time, and brought his hands under Lirian chin to carefully examine his face.'Please work,' Lirian silently prayed, the reason that Lirian was no longer trying to spook Reyna and convince her he was special was because when he was put in the cage, the system gave him a sudden alert.Threat detected on your fate string, Level: Extremely FatalCost 50 000 fate particles to perform a complete scanLirian naturally did the scan, after all he had just given himself to them without giving them a fight, then the system gave him a sudden alert about an extremely fatal reading.It was naturally not anything good for Lirian.When he performed the scan, the system gave him a mission.
