Heaven Destroyer

"Don't think so much," Ayaan said when he saw the pale faces of the two. "You are going to die, anyway. So die in peace, it will be good for your soul."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" shouted the Vice Captain. "Take your sorcery off my soldiers!"

"Don't you know we are the subordinates of the Empire?" threatened the Captain. "Just surrender yourself if you want to live in this world."

Ayaan looked at the two idiots and shook his head. "You still don't realise in what kind of situation you are, do you?" Ayaan sighed. "You talk like this world belongs to you and your Emperor doesn't own the August Empire but this complete world. Anyway, even if he owned the entire world, so what?"

The Captain and the Vice Captain looked at Ayaan as if looking at someone crazy maniac, suffering from paranoia. They didn't know where his confidence came from and what kind of technique he used to tie his soldiers. However, he felt relieved when nothing happened to him and the Vice Captain. That means there was a limitation to this strange technique and couldn't deal with powerful cultivators. Thinking about this, his confidence once more appeared.

"Humph! You talk big, kid," sneered the Captain. "However, if you don't want to surrender, then I can only use the hard handed methods." 

This time he didn't dare to be careless. He took out his long spear and readied himself to fight. "Come, I will let you taste my wrath, boy!" He shouted as he pointed the spear in Ayaan's direction.

"Come my ass, do you think I have so much time to play with you?" Ayaan said disdainfully. "You still didn't realise the situation you are in, did you? How the hell a moron like you became a Captain? You're not even worthy to be a gatekeeper."

Hearing Ayaan, the Captain became stunned. He didn't even hear his insult and checked his surroundings, but he still couldn't find anything that looked suspicious. The horses stood silently while their owners still frozen on them. The dried leaves scattered all about, like the leaves of the autumn. 

The cold gusts of wind passed by them, making the hair stand on their ends. While the trees danced in the gales. The clouds had covered the suns, as the winter time had almost arrived. Now and then, the suns would come out to see the mortal world they ruled.

The yellow grass on the ground looked harmless while the dust had no life. He couldn't see any danger, suspicious, or harmful thing, powerful enough to threaten him. Not under him. Not at the side. And nor anywhere else.

"Are you playing with me?!" shouted the Captain, looking at Ayaan indignantly.

"What do you think?" Ayaan chuckled disdainfully. 

"Fuck you!" he screamed in humiliation and shame and tightened his grip on his spear, ready to slaughter Ayaan in a single strike. However, just when he was about to launch an attack, something happened. Something horrifying. Something heart trembling. And something that would cause nightmares in the sleep. The scene that made the Captain and the Vice Captain's bodies trembled in terror, as their eyes almost bulged out of their sockets. 

The chilly wind became colder, freezing their pumping blood inside their bodies. The scene no human could do, the scene only demons could perform. The bloody scene that made them clench their hearts, the painful and begging and horrifying looks of their companions made them almost faint as their heads buzzed as if a blow had hit them. 

They saw the skin of the soldiers peeled off their bodies, leaving red underneath mixed with the green pumping veins. Their faces turned hideous as the lips and nose disappeared, and skin fell off their face, alongside the ears. They tried to cry, scream, and shout in pain but to no avail. Some kind of power had tapped their mouths, tied their tongues. Their hair slowly fell off their heads, revealing bald tops, yet not bald. The skin of the head had also vanished, leaving only the bony head.

The eyes of the soldiers turned into water, melting into nothing, dripping on the ground, and vanished as if they were never present in the blank sockets on these hideous looking soldier's skulls. The teeth that had all kinds of variety, yellow, black, and some of them had white, also fell one by one as the men frothed on their horses. At the end the soldiers became nothing but the lump of big meat, covered in blood as the skeleton revealed and revealed the organs of those people inside their bodies.

"That's enough!" suddenly a shout echoed and all the people on the horses that were begging to die fell on the ground, dead, soulless, relieved.

Ayaan turned towards Isobel who was covered in sweat and looked little pale and said in a serious tone, "why did you use such a vicious skill?"

The lady looked at Ayaan, feeling wronged. "I could use this technique because their sins were many, and resentment covered them from all sides. They deserved to die in such a way."

"She is speaking the truth," Leafwhisk said. "If she had tried this technique on someone with a righteous heart, her ending would be really horrifying. She could kill them like this because sins covered them from head to toe." Surprisingly this time Leafwhisk supported Isobel. 

She smiled at Isobel and said, "Don't worry, you did the right thing," pausing for a second. "Why didn't you kill the Vice Captain? Although you aren't powerful enough to kill the Captain, you can still kill the Vice Captain."

Feeling embarrassed Isobel replied. "Actually, this technique is quite strong. I thought I won't be able to use it until I go to the higher world. However, last time, you," she looked at Leafwhisk, "used the cloning technique and said that you can use it because the laws of this world are shallow. 

"So I thought maybe I could also use some powerful skills from my cultivation technique. That's why I tried to use this technique, but I didn't know how powerful the technique was so I didn't attack the Captain and Vice Captain."