Chapter 248 247. Return.

I arrived at Violet's parents' "Shadow Guild" quickly, no, instantly; it had previously ranked second in the world guild ranking, but thanks to me, it was now just a guild that was similar to a factory, but this one produced thralls.

'Right, I recently noticed the news about Vinny Glover becoming a demon and killing his own father, Norvin Glover, and though I was the one who made Vinny conclude that Norvin was the client that I, White Swan, spoke of, it wasn't that satisfying as I wasn't there to watch it.' I muttered in my mind to distract myself from my earlier outburst, which I didn't know where or on whom I should take it out on.

'Katline's the only one left now, but by the looks of it, it seems like she would despair as much as she would despair at her parents' deaths, just from my rejection.' I mumbled inwardly; even though I was the one who thought of it, somehow it felt too true.

I walked in without caring much about the looks of disbeliefs on the faces of the guild members, would any vampires let a human walk into their guild, that too without permission? Of course not; there will be one or two fools who will come at me.

"Like this." I mumbled and swatted away the mosquito that pounced at me.

SPLATTER!

"...." 'I didn't really put that much strength into it though (?)' Though even I was surprised, I didn't show it on the outside and acted as if it wasn't anything new, since it really wasn't.

I suddenly halted when I remembered that the AR I had taken out was still in my hand, dripping down water. I manipulated aether and dried off all the water in it, pointed at the receptionist, and fired with max power, while number 10 was displayed on the display screen, and used fire-attributed bullets.

DRURURURU

BOOM (2x)

Two ear deafening 'BOOM's' resounded throughout the entire building, altering everybody in it at the same time, since nobody is foolish enough to sit still and simply do nothing while their guild was being attacked by an unknown man, all the goons, I mean, guild members rushed to the ground floor before rushing at me.

"This is cool." I mumbled with my gaze fixated on the AR; I had only fired four bullets and the entire reception had turned into dust, so I couldn't wait to test out what results it would have against human-looking mosquitoes.

DRURURURURURU

….

*

After few minutes.

"That was fun." I mumbled while looking at the almost destroyed ground floor. I would like to make the entire building collapse, but since Violet was still here and I wanted to know what had happened, I held back quite a bit.

Blood had splattered everywhere on many boulder-sized, half-exploded walls. I had killed exactly 54 thralls, and had fired two magazines containing 30 bullets each. But I could still feel a ton of undead magic power signs above, and one life sign in a corner, which I knew was Violet.

'There aren't any presences near her.' I noticed and began to walk towards the stairs, determined not to stop until I had reached the guild master's room.

"Uckh!!!?" I groaned in pain at the "return" of a very familiar pain.

'My head is hurting again.' I muttered in my mind and began to think, "Why?" But at that thought, it began to hurt even more. I didn't understand why it returned and why now, I had almost forgotten about this mind-splitting headache.

"Uckh!!!"

'the f**k?' I was surprised at the levels, the pain was escalating; it was just unbelievable, not once from the day I have been going through sh*t like instant power ups had I experienced this much pain. Except for the time when manipulating aether, it always felt like I had almost become immune to pain, what in the f**k was happening right now?!

"! Arrrrrrggggghhhh!!!" I screamed in anguish, making all the undead mana signatures flinch.

'!!, My cigars!' I abruptly remembered the stockpile of cigars I had in my subspace. I instantly grabbed one, placed it in my mouth, and lit it by manipulating the fire attributed mana in the surroundings, using aether.

PUFF

"Haaa...." I took a deep breath and puffed once; though it was still stinging, it was bearable. It would have been very dangerous if the same phenomenon of abrupt calming down took place in a "normal" human, but since even Eunomia doesn't know what I am, I guess it is fine for me.

"What was that?" I mumbled with a deep frown and began to move forward with trembling hands.

PUFF

*

A handsome white-haired man elf, walked up the stairs, while his entire body was covered in blood, he was smoking a cigar that was held in his left hand and an AR in his right, the strange thing that Violet's parents, father, Hugo Tyler, and mother, Sonia Tyler, noticed was that the bullets the man fired were moving as if they had their own will, every bullet that he fired moved and pierced the hearts of every thrall that was in front of him.

They just couldn't believe that their forces could be destroyed so easily, with seemingly no actual effort.

"E-Eshwar." Sonia Tyler recognised the man and mumbled from the side.

"The former Switch academy's professor?" Hugo Tyler asked with a deep frown, because he couldn't quite grasp the predicament they were in, it wasn't long until they found the connection.

"Violet!" Hugo mumbled under his breath and gritted his teeth strongly.

"Correct." Suddenly, they heard a voice from behind; they shuddered, jolted from their seats, and glanced back, only to find Eshwar standing behind their seats.

"Y-yu-you!" Hugo mumbled as his face turned more paler than it already was. He couldn't understand a thing that was going on right now, how did the man in front of him appear out of thin air? Did he teleport? But that shouldn't be possible, as even the association only knows it in theory, in confusion, he glanced back at the screen where Eshwar was previously seen, but now he wasn't there.

PUFF

"Are you dumb? Why would I be there, when I am already here?" Eshwar said it as if he knew what Hugo was thinking, with a shocked expression on his face.

"How...." Hugo yelled loudly, but his voice instantly stopped, and his world turned upside down. Then his own headless body came into his sight, and he watched Eshwar walk towards it and pierce Hugo's right shoulder, where his heart was. Though Hugo was hanging on a final thread of consciousness and couldn't hear anything, he saw his wife sit on the desk and open her legs for the man in front of her with a lustrous expression on her face, and Eshwar walked towards her with a smirk. That was the last scene that entered the sight of Hugo's rolling head.

*

SPLURT

"I'm sorry, but I'm not really in the mood today." Eshwar's voice entered Sonia's ear; she had asked him to make love to her before he killed her, and of course, he didn't really answer to her plea, but since he walked towards her and grabbed her thighs, she thought he agreed to it. He then sensually placed his hand on her abdomen; though it was just a simple touch, she felt a strange pleasurable shiver cruise through her body, and when her expectation soared through the peaks, he pierced her abdomen and destroyed her heart.

And while she was falling back, she saw a small smile on his face.

'Pity....' She thought and her consciousness slipped.

*

PUFF

I zoomed forward and instantly appeared in front of Violet's room, which was a floor below. The mana veins were now a lot easier to control; maybe it was because I began to control them while moving at high speeds, but I was now a lot more comfortable manipulating aether in and out of my body.

KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK

"Violet. It is me, Esh..."

BAM

"ESHWAR!!" Violet opened the door she stood against as soon as I began to mumbled out my name, and she jumped out of the room and hugged me. I noticed that her face, shoulders, thighs, and calves were all bruised, and her white rag-like clothes had a lot of blood stains on them; her sight was just too pitiful—exactly as I wanted it to be.

[You did a great job, Samantha ~] I said to Samantha telepathically and cut off the connection instantly.

"Tha-thank y-you for coming, hic, I, I, I thought I, w-w-wa-was gu-gu-going to d-d...." Violet said while trembling and sobbing.

'She contacted me?' I guessed because it felt like she had been expecting me to arrive.

"Shhh... It is alright now." I said, gently stroking her back, and noticed how she flinched at even the slightest touch.

'Damn, just how much did they abuse her....' I was slightly surprised.

[I think your thralls enjoyed abusing her a bit too much~] I said to Samantha telepathically again, but this time she replied almost instantly.

[Why does it sound like you don't hate it~] She said in a cheeky tone, but....

[.... true, but I do slightly hate it, so I killed all of your thralls.] I replied.

[Even my baby girls?] She asked in shocked tone.

[Yup, bye, I'll contact you later.] I said and cut off the telepathic link.

[You son of a....] Was what I heard right before the link was cut off.

"Here, take the healing potion; I'll explain other things later." I handed her a healing potion and knocked her out as soon as she drank it. I contacted Katline, and after a few minutes, she arrived. I handed over Violet to her and asked her to handle the matters here.

*

A few hours later, it was already night, and the moon shone brightly.

PUFF

I sat atop the Shadow Guild's guild building, smoking my fourth cigar because the pain showed no signs of stopping, while staring down at the media and other people rushing towards the building's entrance.

PUFF

"Here you are."

"!!!, Cough! Cough, cough!" I chocked on the smoke as soon as I heard a extremely familiar, and a voice I very much longed for, sound behind me.