A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 203: Where's the expert you came with?

"I give you bastards three minutes to produce the beast, and come kneel before me to have your souls cleaned for the sinful act that you have committed" Jared's uncle, Liam, said in a fierce tone.

Then there was graveyard silence, and an exceedingly great fear and terror could be perceived in the atmosphere.

If one listened well, one would hear the erratic and wild heartbeats of all the people assembled here.

However, many minutes after Jared's uncle said that, no one actually stepped forward.

After waiting till three minutes was over, Liam spoke "Since no one stepped forward to confess and atone for their sins, then that means you are all innocent."

Then he continued "But if all of you are innocent, then that basically means all of you are guilty"

Everyone that were gathered here had their eyes abruptly glow in dread and horror.

Then the higher-ups quickly fell on their knees and began to beg Liam.

"Ghostblade Lord, we don't know anything about the disappearance of the elemental beast. We never even knew that you had such a beast. Besides, we wouldn't dare do such a thing to you. Our hearts are full of dread and veneration towards you and our Master." One of the higher-ups fearfully said. Also, a sense of total reverence could be perceived in his tone.

Then the low-rank members also went on their knees and began to plead with the Ghostblade Lord, claiming that they were also innocent of the terrible allegations made against them.

They mentioned that they were tiny and weak as an ant before them, and that they wouldn't ever dare to pull such a feat that would result in their complete obliteration. Also, that they were committed to serving them, and making the organization grow to a stage where it fearsomeness would terrorize every being, and it fame would dazzle myriad creatures.

Ghostblade Lord simply furrowed his brows.

Now that they were all begging and claiming that they didn't know anything about the disappearance of the elemental beast, who exactly did this? He didn't know how to carry on with his death punishment.

He would definitely want to slay whoever did that, but he couldn't just bring himself to kill all his men because just one of them refused to confess. Besides, since he had a high cultivation stage, he had studied their expressions, heartbeat patterns and body temperatures using his powerful scanning sense and reached a conclusion that they didn't truly know anything.

Then Jared stood to his feet, after getting a hold on himself.

He looked at his uncle and said "Earlier, one of my men came to report to me that the guard standing at the loot storage room had been murdered, and that the treasures we spent more than ten millennia gathering since you started the organization have all gone missing. The room has been totally emptied"

"What?!!!" Liam shouted in shock.

Then his gaze began to radiate extreme chilliness and slaughtering intent.

"But how did all these happened without us knowing?!!" He questioned in an exceedingly angry tone.

"Uncle Liam, it's something that I can't comprehend too." Jared said. Then he continued "I am beginning to have a feeling that someone broke into our organization and stole the beast, the looted treasures and resources"

His uncle nodded agreeably.

"You might be right, Jared. And if that's true, then the bastard must be amongst our men" He said.

Then he turned his head to look ferociously at the people that have assembled around him.

- Azure Beastsman Palace -

"That young and old bad guy are going to instantly eliminate you when they discover that you are the one that caused them great losses." Olivia said with a smile.

"Definitely" Alex said. Then he continued "However, with what i have done, the two bosses would start suspecting their men, and even kill many of them, if not all of them"

"Hmm. What an evil genius" Olivia spoke. Then she asked "What if that doesn't happen?"

"Well, it would be up to me kill all of them. None of them can be allowed to live. Even after they beg for mercy. They would all be obliterated" Alex said.

"Okay" Olivia said.

- Few minutes later -

After waiting for several minutes and seeing that no killing was going to really take place, Alex spoke to the palace-spirit "Palace-spirit, it's time I roll out to finish my job myself."

"Hmm. Just be careful" An ancient voice rang out from everywhere.

"Palace-spirit, wait" Olivia said hurriedly. Then she looked at Alex and said in a worried tone "Alex, let me come out with you. You need my help. You absolutely can't do this on your own."

"What? No way! I can definitely handle them on my own. I will start small with the small fries and go big with the big fries." Alex said with a confident grin. Then he stated further, staring affectionately at Olivia in the eyes "What if when you are dueling with one of your adversaries, then one of the big fries suddenly comes for you, and then successfully abducts you, forcing you to become their prisoner or captive? I would be simply coerced to listen to their every demands, dance to every tune that they would play. It's something that I wouldn't want to happen. So it's best to avoid it. Therefore, you should remain in the palace. It's for your sake. I don't want anything bad to happen you, or I wouldn't ever forgive myself. However, you could watch me kill the bastards and hail me from here. I will hear your cheering praises"

Olivia smiled radiantly and blissfully.

Alex was simply overly concerned and ever-caring.

But she liked him that way.

However, it wasn't that Alex was overly caring. He just simply felt that he had the right abilities and weapons to finish what he wanted to start. So he didn't want to be distracted or have anything come in his way.

"Since you don't want me to fight, I can only watch then. Let me see my hero look dazzling in the battlefield. Butchering fiends like he is butchering cattles" She said.

"Alex, what would you do about the Big Fries? Don't tell me that you would face them head-on" The palace-spirit asked.

"Well, not really. I plan to use some apocalyptic divine powers on them" Alex said with a smile.

"Then just use it on them already. Do it and get it over with" The palace-spirit said.

"No! That would be cheating. Besides, that's how a coward would fight, and I am no coward. I want to have a great and fulfilling battle. With their bloods splashing on me as I behead them and slash them into two, I would pave the way to my supremacy over every experts

"I see. You plan to kill many men to your satisfaction" The palace-spirit said.

"Exactly" Alex replied.

"Hmm." The palace-spirit muttered. Then it spoke "Alright. It's time to send you out to go do your ruthless killing"

Immediately it finished talking, space warped around Alex, and he vanished from the hall they were in, appearing outside the organization.

The instant space warped, Jared's uncle, Liam, furrowed his brows. He could actually perceive the spatial fluctuations that occurred because of Alex's appearance.

Not waiting to explain anything to anyone, he shot out of the building towards the place that he detected the fluctuations from.

On arriving there, he saw Alex.

"Who are you? And how did you appear here?" Jared's uncle, Liam, asked in a bewildered tone.

"Well, I happened to teleport here" Alex replied.

"Teleport?" Liam asked. Then he looked at Alex's body from head to toe and back to his head.

"You don't seem like someone that should have access to a teleportation array." Liam said.

"Why not? Because of the way that I am dressed? Haha! You know nothing, mister whatever your name is" Alex said with a smile.

Liam's gaze coldened and began to radiate wicked intents. 

As Liam stared intently at Alex, Jared and the members of his organization; the high-rank and low-rank members, appeared behind him.

Then they became shocked to see the uncle of their master talking to a kid.

Who the hell is this kid?

Where did this kid from?

Why is he looking fearlessly at our Master's uncle? Can't he notice the stifling aura of ominousness emanating from him?

....

All sort of questions rocked the minds of the cultivators behind him.

Jared floated to his uncle's side and asked "Uncle, who is this brat you are talking to?"

"I don't know him too. But it was because of him that I rushed out of the hall" Liam responded.

"Huh! Why?" Jared asked in a perplexed tone.

"When we were in the hall, I noticed a distortion in space here. That was what caught my attention, making me to rush out so I could know what that was" Liam replied.

Jared's eyes then narrowed.

He looked at Alex and gazed back at his uncle

"So it was this boy that made you rush out?" He asked, looking at his uncle unbelievably.

"Yes. Besides, I now have a feeling that he could be the one responsible for the disappearance of your beast and looted treasures." Liam replied. Then he spoke further "But he might have some powerful experts around him, since he could teleport here using a teleportation array"

"Teleportation array?" Jared muttered questioningly.

Then he looked at Alex and queried "Kid, what's your mission here? Why did you teleport to this place of all places? Isn't someone like you too young to be seen in this kind of region?"

"No. I am not too young. Anyways, I teleported here because of the next phase of my plan" Alex replied with a somewhat devilish smile.

"Next phase of your plan?" Jared asked in a surprised tone.

"Yes." Alex replied

"What's it?" Jared asked.

"To destroy your organization" Alex responded boldly.

Everyone's eyes widened in great shock from what Alex said.

Jared became speechless for sometime before he asked "The next phase of your plan is to destroy my organization? Then that means it was you that took my beast and stole the accumulated looted treasures that we acquired from our raids?"

"Exactly. That was the first phase of my plan which has been smoothly accomplished. Now, I have moved on to the second phase of my plan which is to annihilate you fiends and bring all the buildings here to the ground as rubbles" Alex replied with a brilliant, fearless smile.

Hahaha!

Jared cackled in an unbridled manner.

Then he asked in a harsh tone "Who did you come with that gave you such a confidence?"

As soon as he said this, his eyes narrowed as he thought of something. Same with his uncle's eyes as he also began to ponder about something.

Their brows furrowed earlier because they suddenly remembered about the expert that they said they wanted to meet, the one who they felt killed all their men back at Nailah's village and took the villagers to a place that they wouldn't be discovered.

"So after keeping the little girl away from us, the expert who did so is here to obliterate us and demolish the buildings? Haha! I would love to see he or she try." Liam said. Then with a sinister light emitting from his eyes, and a thick, dense aura of slaughter and devilishness erupting from his body, he said loudly and wrathfully "Where's the expert that you came with? Tell him or her to show himself!"