“Where is Champion Michael?” I asked the man in front of . He was missing an arm, but the fight had left him like the worm he was.
“I don’t know! I swear.” I doubted that. While I couldn’t sense lies from people, I could tell he wasn’t being honest.
“Really now. What about Clarissa? Where is she hiding? How do you get your orders?” I asked. My left hand gripped him by the shoulder while my right hand moved towards his eye socket.
“I don’t know! I don’t- AHHHH!” He scread as I plucked an eye out. I tossed it away onto the ground and wiped the few drops of blood and fluid on his clothing.
“You are the highest ranking person around here. I am just going up the chain of command, tell !” I demanded.
“I only know the location in the wilderness. A drop spot at a buried cart, to the East,” he said.
“Now was that so hard.” I brought the man over to the store so he could purchase a regeneration. A beam attack ca out, targeting from behind. I waved my free hand to disperse it, but another ca from the front. The man I held captive was blown apart with my barrier protecting .
I tossed the useless fried corpse to the side. I had no considered shielding my captive. If he was to die, then he could die. I pulled out two needles and imbued them with energy. There were two force explosions on opposite sides of the plaza. The life signs winking out. Worms, all of them worms.
The strategy these people were employing was quite clever. In fact, it was honestly impressive. I was being kept at a certain distance at all tis. No one could harm , or hurt . But I was only one woman.
Killing off my own soldiers as punishnt for their failure to protect my son was sothing I wouldn’t regret. But the fact that I had to do everything on my own was exhausting. Inhaling the weak energy in the air, I revitalized myself, but I could already sense the burden I was putting on my body. I purchased a restoration which helped push things till later, but it was only a temporary asure.
I would not show weakness. I could rest when I had found my son, or I was dead. Nothing would stop until that point. I left the city and continued my way towards the East. Any group I found, I interrogated for any clue and if they had seen Champion Michael.
He was running about, but there was no word on his current whereabouts. This Clarissa, who had arranged all of this was quickly rising up on my list of people to kill. There were just drop points and exchanges. With interdiaries and tis and locations switching around.
I prided myself on being clever, but this level of complexity was giving a headache. It was not sothing I could use my Kung-Fu on. That was why I had people to do these things for . Unfortunately, they had all been killed off. They were all useless, the fact they were so weak and unable to manage things in my absence.
Grabbing a woman this ti after killing her friends, I started the process again. “Where is Champion Michael?” I asked.
“I don’t know! He went West to the Dragon Empire!” The woman struggled and scread while futilely trying to break my grip.
I twitched my hand and snapped her neck, tossing the worm to the side. Useless, utterly useless. I kept moving East. I would keep checking the cities. No matter what people had to get food and supplies. That ant eventually Michael would show up, unless dead drops were prepared for him.
How annoying. I clenched my fists in anger, as I raced across the landscape. The next group I just killed, not even bothering to question to vent my frustration. It was a nightmare trying to track him down with how this was all set up.
The strong people were hiding, the weak people were like worms. They were everywhere. For every ten I killed there were eleven more. Moving supplies, crystals, about in a great web. I was no fly, but I still felt caught in the invisible strands slowly being weaved around .
It was probably my imagination. The only thing that mattered in the end was power and being the strongest. As long as I was the strongest, I would win, it was that simple. It was inevitable. The problem was getting that victory. If Michael and Clarissa were hiding, then digging them out from wherever they were wouldn’t be simple.
I had followed so people at a distance, observing, hoping to follow the trail of crystals, but they had just been routed for more supplies and people exchanging positions so they could get restorations and switch out.
If there were any crystals being moved to a central location, it wasn’t happening nearby unfortunately. I would have to keep watching and trying to find if any were being siphoned off. While I was no master detective, it didn’t take a genius to realize that following the point crystals would eventually lead to the ring leaders.
They would need to get powerups to have any hopes of facing . I would just track the crystal flow and then kill them once I found their base of operations. It would take a lot of ti, but I was confident, that I would be able to manage sothing so simple.
No matter how great the spider may weave their web, that didn’t change the fact that there was a spider. If this Clarissa was killed, then everything would most likely fall apart and make things a lot harder for Michael. It was clear she was the real brains running everything based on the questioning I had completed.
While I did not believe the first few people who had scread out her na, enough had that it was obvious that she was managing the resistance against . When I found her, I would let her suffer a bit before torturing her for the cri of going against .
I would never accept a dog that bit . Even my Inquisitor had only asked to challenge in a spar, since she refused to bow to anyone weak. I easily put her in her place. I could respect that kind of attitude. A lost dog learning to obey. But this, this web of intrigue was disgusting.
There was no purpose except to annoy an delay . Perhaps they imagined they could put up a fight if they delayed long enough. That was foolish. I was not a child that could be easily distracted. I was the Divine Empress.
Another group, perfect. I raced over killing all but one instantly. I grabbed the man up by the neck. “Where is Michael?” I asked.
“What-“ I ripped off an arm for his insolence.
“You do not ask questions. Now. Let’s try this again. Where is Michael?”
“I don’t know.”
“Clarissa?” I asked.
“I have never t either of them, I have two kids-“ His head separated from his body. Another worm and utterly useless.
“I hope you are watching Avatar. Since I am coming for you as well,” I glanced up at the disturbance of energy in the sky. It quickly disappeared. Still East. Well that was a good as a direction as any other. Watching only revealed her location, allowing to find her more quickly. It was only a matter of ti before my enemies fell into my hands.
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