Chapter 136: Sheeps

"Looks like we did get to capture a lot," Nexus muttered. There were more races of the sea inside the chamber compared to the ones in the plaza.

Nexus extended his soul sense and smiled. "This makes things easier." 

All of the powerful fighters were deployed and stationed near the boulevard, and only a few Commanders were stationed here. With his soul sense, Nexus could see dozens and dozens of troops in formation a few meters away from the sea, preparing for an assault that they are not even sure would come.

The shouts became louder as a few nagas and kappas made their way to the stage, escorted by a few humans employed by the Strongwald.

None of the races of the sea tried to fight back. They were all weakened before coming here to make sure nothing awry happens. All they could do was glare, their eyes showed their anger.

"Kill them! they destroyed my home!" A citizen with blond hair yelled. He then threw a stone towards one of the nagas.

"They don't deserve to live! Exterminate their kind!" A woman's cracking voice sounded. She had tears in her eyes as she looked at the stage.

Nexus sighed. "People without power will always be the sheep."

Most of the people who have no connections would just follow the crowd. Sometimes, even pointing their swords toward the wrong enemy. While the real mastermind sits at the back, having a glass of wine, watching the scenes unfold.

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Close to the boulevard. At the same time Nexus was on top of a building near the plaza.

"It is surprising that you're here." Senator Bong scoffed as he saw a round man land close to him.

Vid looked at the Senator as his feet touched the earth. "I am part of the family after all. It is only normal for me to be present at these events. Also, I have already finished my experiments for this week."

Senator Bong looked at the sea close by and changed the topic. "Will those creatures really attack? The sun had already set, and there seemed to be no movements whatsoever."

Pald Strongwald scoffed. "So what if the sun had already set? If there is no sun, can't they still attack? Do you think the moon will burn them?"

The Senator glared at the bald man who stood beside the Vice President.

"Ahem," Merts Strongwald cleared his throat. 

"We are not sure, but we still need to be prepared. Right now they have two choices. One is to strike hard. Bring a lot of their troops and try to rescue the ones captured. This will result in multiple deaths, both on their side and on our side. The second choice that they have, is to abandon the ones captured and stay in their city."

Pald Strongwald tilted his head. "Why would they abandon the ones here?"

Merts sighed as he looked up to the darkening sky. "They might think that it is not worth it."

Merts continued. "If they come here, members of their race will die, they are not even perfectly sure that they could succeed in their rescue mission."

"Dumbass." Senator Bong scoffed as he glanced at Pald.

"That means we should send more troops here. If those creatures break this line of defense, they'll be able to gain momentum. Also, we don't know how many they will bring." Vid spoke before Pald could even say anything to Bong.

The round man slowly walked to the side of Merts. "The plaza is safe, we have a mob of angry people there. Those creatures won't be able to escape. They have also been weakened, remember?"

Merts thought for a while. Sending more people here would be a safer choice, as that would mean more firepower in case the races of the sea send their big guns. However, that would leave the plaza with fewer troops. 

Right now there are only a very few people who are stationed there, if he tries to remove a couple more and something happens, it is going to be disastrous.

Vid tapped Merts shoulder. "We can't let the nagas and those other creatures get past us. The people know that we, the Strongwald family, are the ones guarding this area right now. If those creatures charge right through us and destroy the town like last time, the image that we tried to regain, is going to crumble once more."

"Sigh," Merts nodded. As he raised his hand and tapped his watch.

"Good choice." Vid smiled. He removed his hand from the Vice President's shoulder and turned to the sea. He closed his eyes as he felt the fresh strong breeze. 

'I hope this whole fiasco will be over soon.' Vid badly wanted to go back to his lab and experiment more on the bottles filled with different emotions.

'I can't believe the man behind Asura is only a teenager.' Vid opened his eyes. He raised his head and looked up at the darkening sky. 

Vid thought of the vermilion-haired teenager, and how he would be brought to a bigger stage by him. A place grander than Estra.

"I definitely saw her." A voice interrupted Vid's thoughts. Without even looking, he knew who spoke.

"It was her, I swear. Why won't you all believe me?" Senator Bong asked his comrades.

During the attack, he told them that he saw Emily. Although it was quite dark, he was close to a hundred percent sure that he saw her.

The four of them had gone silent so he brought it up

Pald scoffed. "You're bringing this up again? You fancy her, we get it. It may sound cute to you when you mention that you randomly saw her in a place where there are dozens of predators, but in all honesty, you just sound plain crazy."

The Senator's eyes were filled with anger as he looked at Pald.

But before he could say anything, Vid spoke. "Pald is right. As much I don't want to take any sides whenever you have these childlike quarrels, you do sound like a child, Bong. It is fine to fantasize about women, but, you have to set some limitations."

However, this isn't what Vid thought. He knew that the woman named Emily was close to Marcus, which gives a high chance of her being actually there on the field. The reason, he doesn't really know, but he does have some guesses.

Bong didn't let it go. "I am not fantasizing anything. She stood under a bright sphere that shone like a moon, looking like a blessed maiden." 

The other three leaders of the Strongwald family sighed.

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"People of Estra, these are the ones that destroyed your homes, murdered your family, killed your friends, and destroyed the city." The man who wore a white uniform stood at the center of the stage as he looked at the civilians below.

He had just finished sending more men to the boulevard, thinning the number of guards here in the plaza even more.

The man in uniform continued. "Thankfully at that time, the Strongwald family decided to help. They spearheaded the operation and sent their forces to take the city back, with a little help from the other big families. A round of applause to the Strongwald family."

The crowd roared as they clapped their hands.

"Long live the Strongwald family!" A random person in the middle of the crowd shouted.

It was then followed by another one until every person in the plaza chanted the same sentence.

"Long live the Strongwald family!"

Nexus, who was standing on top of a building, sneered. "Sheeps, damn sheeps."

He turned his head to the boulevard. "I should really thank Vid the next time I see him, never knew that bouncy man could be helpful this early."

He was never on board with bringing a mortal with them, a pure mortal. Now, it changed, just a bit though.

Vid just made his job a lot easier, he would be able to grab three and head straight to the Destrucstone without any problems.

Nexus readied himself. He scoffed as he saw the ranks of the ones executing the weakened races of the sea. 

Nexus jumped down from the building. He softly landed on the ground and went to the crowd. All he had to do now was wait for the right time to make his move.

The man in uniform cleared his throat close to the floating circular device close to his mouth.

He waited for the crows to quiet down before he spoke. "I know that you all didn't come here to listen to me talk. You came here for this!"

As he finished his sentence, he glanced at the people standing beside the kneeling nagas, kappas, and siyokoy. The man in uniform nodded at them.

The executioners readied their weapons. Some had swords, others had axes, all of which were extremely sharp. 

"Ready!" The man in uniform shouted.

Nexus, who already had his white mask on, hurried his steps as he tried to make it to the front. As he arrived closer, he shoved the people in front of him as he dashed forward.

"Kill!"