Chapter 346: I guess

The spear struck with the force of a missile. An explosion ripped through the air after it hit, massive and extremely destructive. The entire building was affected, and many of the apartments were blown to shreds.

As the smoke and flames cleared up, the man saw a dome made of shadows covering Aren and his group, and the spear was lodged into it, but it did not penetrate deep enough.

The man flicked his finger, and the spear came flying out, spinning in the air, and then he caught it.

Aren undid his shadow dome and looked at the man in the air. He realized something. This fellow did not care for human life because that attack had managed to harm a ton of innocent people who were in that building.

"Aiden, Athena, Zero, check the building for anyone that’s hurt. Help how you can. I’ll deal with him," Aren said, and before they could even utter a word, he shot into the air.

The man looked at Aren coming in hot, and a smile formed on his face. He spun the spear around and went for a slash. Aren pulled back fast and dodged the attack before extending shadow tendrils that wrapped around the man and pulled him in.

Aren attacked with a punch when the man was in range, slamming into his face with enough force to shatter concrete.

The man was hurled back by the force. He flipped through the air a few times before managing to stop himself. He looked up and saw Aren flying with some twisted shadow wings.

"Tell me, are you part of the people that took my family?" Aren asked.

"And why would I answer that? I guess you could already assume that I am," the man said.

Aren’s eyes twitched when he heard the man say "I guess" again. He pulled out Ancient Devourer. The moment his hand wrapped around it, the sword responded in a way that it had never before.

There was no blood fed to it, yet he felt the blade come alive in his hands for some reason, like it was resonating with him.

Aren didn’t think about it much. He blasted forward fast with a large swing that went for the head of the man. The man pulled back in the air and blocked with his spear. Their collision caused the air to shake.

"Haha, let’s see how much Shadow can dance before I hit him," the man taunted before attacking again, thrusting his spear at full speed. Aren blocked the attack, but the moment the spear touched his blade, an explosion happened.

Aren was thrown back. He slammed into the ground hard and skidded until he came to a stop. He looked up fast, and the spear was already coming for him. Very quickly, he moved. His shadow tendrils pulled him fast, helping him get out of the way before the explosion happened.

He landed on the ground and looked up. Then he summoned Fang. Fang appeared and unleashed an attack from there immediately while Aren moved through the flank. He was not here to try and fight with honor; he simply wanted to get to his family as fast as he humanly could.

The man called back his spear just in time to block the attack from Fang. He was thrown back a few meters in the air but was not harmed. He immediately tried to find Aren, but Fang attacked again with a blast that was larger than the last one.

Reacting to that, he hurled his spear fast. It collided with the blast and created a massive explosion in the middle.

At that moment, Aren came in fast from the side, his Wolf Guard on his hand as he unleashed a clean claw strike that slammed into the exposed side of the man. Blood gushed out as the suit was ripped up. The man plummeted to the ground. He hit the floor hard and skidded until he came to a stop.

Aren did not stop there. He hurled Ancient Devourer right at him with all the strength that he had.

The man looked up. He reacted as fast as his body could allow and moved out of the way. The blade hit the ground with an explosive force that blasted debris in all directions, hurling him through the air.

He hit the ground and rolled, but mid-roll, he called for his spear. The spear spun through the air and returned to him, but before it could get to his hand, Fang intercepted, grabbing the spear in his mouth and using the momentum to spin and hurl the spear in another direction.

The man was stunned. He tried to call the spear again, but a shadow tendril wrapped around his arm and pulled it down. More tendrils shot out and wrapped around him, forcing all his movements to stop.

Aren walked up to him as he was lying there on the ground. He looked at him, and through the mask, his eyes shone.

"Tell me where my family is, or I will slowly pull your fingers off one after the other," he threatened.

The man looked at Aren and hesitated for a moment, and in that moment of hesitation, Aren used a tendril to rip out a finger.

"Arghhhhhhhh!"

The scream that followed was guttural. The man could not believe the pain that he was feeling or the fact that Aren had really done it.

"You work with them, so tell me where they are if you wish to keep your life. I’ll not ask again," Aren said.

"Fine, fine," the man said in heavy breaths. "I guess I can’t kill you as I thought," he continued. He took two heavy breaths and then looked like he was going to speak, but then, at the very last moment, a smile formed on his face, and Aren felt something spawn inside his shadow sense and move at a crazy speed.

STAB!

Blood gushed out like a fountain.