33 Risen#re - Chapter 360

Lirian placed a hand on his chest and took an exaggerated breath, his mouth opened aghast.

“I did no such thing,” Lirian complained at the unjust accusation.

“Come now, I think that we all know that I was the most helpful and honest captive to have ever lived, not once did I ever lie to you,” Lirian said in a matter of fact tone.

Lirian touched his hair again and it returned to its natural colour, “From the beginning I told you that all of it was me, the caravan robberies, the empty village, the forest fire, it was just you idiots that refused to believe me,” Lirian laughed at them for their stupidity.

The group gritted their teeth in anger but they couldn’t retort.

“So, for what are the lot of you being punished? Don’t tell me that it’s because of me?” Lirian asked innocently which only got the lot of them even more angry.

Lirian understood it the moment he counted the number of them who were in the room, and the system quickly identified each individual, they were the people who brought him from Willcolly to the city and sold him as a slave.

Lirian raised his hand and started to use his telekinesis on the chains, the squad members heard the chains suddenly start to rattle, then they felt a pressure starting to build up on their bodies.

The chains started to pull on their limbs, and as they tried to scream they found that they were incapable of breathing.

The chains pulled their bodies in four directions, and as they tried to scream, they found themselves being suffocated.

Their bones started to clink and creak under the immense pressure, and their faces went purple from suffocation, and when they thought that they were about to die, the pain suddenly vanished, and they felt air rush back into their lungs.

They gasped for air as if they had just emerged from the depts of the ocean, they sighed with relief as air tickled their lungs once more and the pain stopped, but just then the pain returned, and the suffocating sensation returned in full.

Their relief turned into anguish as the cycle repeated itself over and over again, they looked at Lirian and found that he was filled with joy at their pain, and they knew exactly why.

They had done the same to him, only they had been a lot more extreme, in the end Colten snapped both his ankles and his legs mercilessly.

They still vividly remembered that sickening crunch, a human body was never supposed to make such a sound.

One by one they started to faint from the extreme pain and lack of oxygen, some of them outright died under the asphyxiation and pain.

“It’s such a pity that I don’t have a lot of time to play with you right now,” Lirian sighed in lament, Currently the only one still conscious was Colten, “But don’t worry I’ll return tomorrow, and the day after that and the after that, you gave me a month of torture and I’ll be sure to repay you in kind,” Lirian said and put Colten through another round of torture.

Colten’s eyes looked life less as everything slowly started to turn black, the last thing he saw was Lirian’s smiling face.

Lirian walked away with a satisfied smile, but that was when he realised that he didn’t get an answer, he didn’t know exactly why they were in such a state, ‘Should I go over there and smack him awake?’ Lirian briefly considered.

But after giving it a little a thought, Lirian shook his head, he had a lot to do before the night came to its end and time wasn’t waiting for him.

Lirian continued through the dungeon until he came to a series of doors, Lirian pushed one door open and found that it was actually a cell, but it was a nice cell, with a soft bed and a proper bathroom with running water and all the facilities a person needs to live in relative comfort.

‘She must be in one of these,’ Lirian figured and soon found a locked door.

Lirian walked up to the door and pressed a hand against it, he immediately used telekinetic force on the door and the mechanisms inside started to turn.

With a loud click the door unlock and Lirian pushed the door open.

Lirian spotted Lady Liberia’s daughter immediately, she was a novice in the middle stages from what Lirian could see, and she wasn’t as young as Lirian believed she was a grown woman already, not the helpless little girl Lirian imagined.

That said she was currently sitting on her bed, with a book in her lap and slowly reading under the light of luminous stones, but as soon as the doors opened she climbed up and sat on the edge of the bed and looked up at Lirian.

She seemed like she was going to ask something but when she looked at Lirian under the light of the luminous stones she stopped and changed her question, “Who are you, you’re not a guard,” she said sitting up straight with her hands folded in her lap.

She didn’t sound afraid, but then she didn’t sound happy either, it was more like she found a strange change and she wanted to know why.

“Good you have eyes and you can see,” Lirian applauded sarcastically at her keen observation, “You can think of me as your knight in shining armour if it puts your mind at ease,” Lirian added in a snarky tone.

“I don’t believe in such nonsense,” she said her tone wasn’t overbearing but it wasn’t cordial either, she was simply saying what she believed.

Lirian chuckled he was only saying those words in jest.

“Why have you come here?” she asked with her head held high.

“Did I not say it already,” Lirian chuckled, “I’m your knight in shinning armour, what do knights in shining armour do?” Lirian asked with a smile.

“They kill people, and people call them valiant and glorious for there deeds,” she replied giving Lirian an unexpected surprise.

Lirian smiled, “I like that answer, its so much better than saving princesses,” Lirian said and took a seat next to her on the bed.

“It’s not a better answer, it’s the truth,” she replied and to Lirian’s surprise as he pulled himself closer to her she showed no fear or even an increase in heart rate, there was just a sense of emotionless to her.

“Are you not afraid of what I’m about to do to you?” Lirian asked and caught her hands with a swift movement.

Lirian noticed a slight change in her heart rate and breathing but nothing else even her voice sounded the same as she replied.

“If you wanted to kill me I’d be dead already, and if you wanted to rape me I doubt you’d have bothered to speak to me first, I can only guess that this has something to do with my house or my mother,” when she mentioned her mother her voice grew a little emotional but other than that there was nothing else.

Lirian sighed and let go of her hands, “You’re such a bore,” Lirian complained, “It seems like your time spent in this cell has allowed you to think about a lot,” Lirian sighed.

“There isn’t much else to do,” she said plainly, “Also if you have come to rescue me from this place, then you’ve wasted your time, I can’t leave,” she said, from Lirian’s talk about a knight in silver armour she was able to infer what his purpose was in coming here.