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"Sotis the hardest choices in life are the ones that seem the easiest on the surface."
- Lisa Kleypas, (Sugar Daddy)
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"That isn't fair. Rewards shouldn't be given based on choices but on achievents. Instead o making choose between the three, why not just give a task and reward according to my performance? If I excel at the task, give all the rewards and if I fail, don't give anything. How about it? You are not going to lose anything..."
"Nope. Nada. Non. Nein. Nahi. You may fool anybody else with that challenge but not little boy. You either take my offer and make a choice or you can just walk out of this room and fight the horde of undead outside on your own. I am sure that you will survive even without my help but the question is, will you be able to save the others as well? Even with your bag of tricks and unnatural body, I still highly doubt so." The kid god S'aru giggled like it had just caught cheating red-handed.
"... So in a way, this is my test, isn't it? You are going to judge by what I choose?" I asked, raising one of my brows at the floating baldheaded teen god.
"Not everything is a test you know. Sotis, it's just a god giving you a choice among two free gifts to choose from." S'aru sighed as he looked like he wanted to be anywhere but here.
"Shit... Wait, will you give the true answer to any question I ask you? Even if I ask you stuff like how to beco the strongest being on Earth in one week?"
"What do you think genius? Of course, I won't. Even I am nowhere close to the strongest beings. I an I am definitely in the top 100 but surely not in the top 50. So how the hell can I help you? God, kids these days. Give them an inch and they will ask for the palace. No, I will only answer your question if I myself know the answer to it." The kid god grumbled childishly.
'Ohhh. *Ugh* Then I guess his knowledge isn't exactly going to be useful for since I doubt you can tell anything truly important that I either don't know or can't figure out myself. Also, I am damn sure I can make myself immortal through multiple thods without his help. Even the version of Extremis that I have been working on can give a sort of physical immortality along with eternal youth. So the weird suspiciously green liquid is also out. That just leaves... those." I said as my eyes landed on the pair of burning swords which looked like they could burn with just a single touch.
"Good choice little Bruce. As people say offense is the best defense. And believe , knowledge is so overrated anyway. A couple of swords might go a long way in cutting off so wise and knowledgeable heads if they were to ever go against you." S'aru gave his version of 'wise' advice as he began to float towards , both the goblet and the twin swords disappearing from his hands.
"Now ti to pass on to you the real inheritance of the All-caste, oh and you should clench your teeth because as people nowadays say it, this is going to hurt like a bitch." He smiled innocently while grabbing my hands which imdiately made feel like my hands were being burnt to a crisp through slow roasting while millions of needles were piercing through the burnt flesh.
"Oh goddamn, I should have chosen the question," I yelled, feeling true mind-breaking pain for the first ti ever since I ca into this world without any sort of nerve suppressant.
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"Number 198, did you secure our exit? We need to get out of here ASAP. There are too many undead here. We are sward. A retreat is the only option." I yelled through the Handheld Transceiver while battling the hordes of zombies that had suddenly attacked us out of nowhere.
"No chance Dark, all of you guys got dibs on our little niece and sister. But I was the only one who called dibs on her. I knew that the Demon's Head would definitely send one of his daughters here. He did promise us after all to give us a prize if we were successful in completely taking over the All-caste. We are free to do anything and kill anyone except the dark-haired blue-eyed boy, he said as much as I rember." She laughed viciously like a witch, under the demon-like white skull mask on her face.
"Wait... what... did... you... say?" I muttered now in a trance, barely hearing what they just uttered from their rotten mouths. It didn't make sense. Why would father ally with them? I can understand him trying to make us stronger by making us suffer but why would he ally with them and tell them that they could kill us... kill but still spare Bruce, soone he barely t a year ago. Why would he prefer him over his own daughter?
"Oh, it seems you still don't have any clue about the deal that your father made with us. All this that we have achieved in the last few weeks is because of your dear father. A few weeks ago, he contacted us out of nowhere and gave us a thod to make the... darkness in us stronger.
He even gave us the exact location of the Chamber of All so that we could achieve our full potential and gain the ultimate power with the Water from the Immortal lake of absolute evil. All for the small price of completely eliminating the All-caste and giving him everything else we find here while leaving the boy alive. Truly a finger-licking good deal." The male Untitled this ti sneered as he made a disgusting licking sound from his mouth.
'So, my father was the one who started all this? He began this entire farce to what... get rid of his enemies in the most efficient way while getting a worthy successor out of it?' I thought as redness affected my vision and tears began to drop from my face, tears made of red blood all the while I heard a constant ringing sound in my ears making want to rip everything up.
"Are you crying? Hahahahaha. Wow, that is funny, little girl. But don't worry, once we stitch up your dead body as our perfect doll, you won't be crying anymore. You will forever be happy." The woman said as the crimson fire began to light up in her left palm.
"... You know what?... Fuck my father, fuck his League, fuck his empire, and... FUCK YOU." I uttered in unrestrained anger as I took three of my special arrows out of my quiver and shot at the sibling duo.
The two Untitled were standing close to each other at this mont. So the three arrows were targeted at both of them. The male one dodged the first and second arrows while the female one caught the third one effortlessly with her fingers.
"Arrows? We are old but co on. Even we know that there are better weapons out there." The woman chucked in glee as she twirled the arrow in her fingers trying to tease .
"Look again," I said as they both noticed a small part section of the arrowheads releasing a minute trace of fresh smoke.
"Huh? *Boom*" An explosion rattled the entire cave as pieces of their rotten flesh and bandages along with the remains of their cloaks scattered like tattered trash, painting a grueso picture on the cave walls.
"As I said Fuck you," I sniggered as I picked up a few of my previously shot arrows and prepared to go into another section of the cave. Most of the undead had already left this region of the cave after the two Untitled ca here. They would be returning soon now that their masters are dead.
"That was smart. Risky but smart. I like you. I think I am going to make quite a special little undead doll out of you." The sa female voice from before echoed as their flesh from all around began to turn into shadows and rge together forming the twisted figures of the two Untitled again like they had never died.
I quickly tried to draw more arrows, this ti supplying chi to them to make them stronger than ordinary arrows but so of the tattered pieces of bandage around began to tie up, making unable to load my bow.
"Don't bother little Ghoul. Even if you were able to attack us again, you still wouldn't be able to kill us. Our immortality isn't exactly for show you know?" The male Untitled broke out in a bloodcurdling sneer as his eyes searched for desperation on my face while mocking .
But there wasn't any. I didn't show a single bit of fear in front of these monsters. I felt nothing while looking at their corpse-like bodies, no fear, no panic, just utter disgust... although I also felt a little sad at not being able to experience my life to the fullest before my death.
'Maybe I should have gotten a boyfriend or sothing, a boyfriend who doesn't want a kid at all. I am sure that would piss off my father. Yeah, that would be funny.' A smirk ca to my face as I saw a crimson sphere of fla being tossed towards by the female Untitled.
'Maybe next ti in a better life.' I closed my eyes as I activated the remote-controlled exploding device hidden in my quiver through a secret regulator on my bracelet, a last resort for the top-level League mbers when all hope is lost in a battle.
However, I didn't do it for the league. I did it in the hopes that my sacrifice might help the rest of the All-caste mbers to survive... and maybe even buy Bruce so ti, if he still hasn't escaped yet. Maybe my sacrifice might save him... As Ra's Al Ghul used to say, a life for a life.
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