Chapter 308 - Disowned (1)

Arnold was still standing on the cliff, admiring the carnage his summons were causing. The forest was ablaze, the mansion had been utterly destroyed, the ground was littered with mangled corpses and blood. Screams from the humans slowly began to die out. It wasn't because he told his troops to retreat, but because there were many people left to kill now. It was hell... No, even worse than hell. 

This wasn't how Arnold wanted his day to end, but it was the only way to calm him down. The more death and destruction his summons caused, the calmer he got. He didn't know why he felt like that, but as usual, system-sama was there to answer his doubts. 

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Destroyer meter filled up to: 89.86%

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'Still not enough huh...' Arnold thought. 

If this amount of destruction wasn't enough for his destroyer class to evolve, then Arnold didn't know what else could. He even went as far as ordering his summons to kill innocents... Something he had been refraining to do until now. 

''No. They weren't innocent. None of them was." Arnold mumbled, before shifting his gaze at the night sky.

The rain had finally given up on consoling Arnold and stopped their heavenly barrage as if they detested Arnold's existence now. However, the dark clouds were still looming over him, still hoping Arnold would control his bloodl.u.s.t.

Just then Alice called him, "Arnold, they're safe. Both Nina and the child are stable now. She had lost a lot of blood but thankfully the healers were able to stop the bleeding in time."

"That's good... Thank you. I'll be there soon." Arnold let out a sigh of relief.

"Alright. I'll be here till then."

Arnold then connected himself to the rest of the automatons, "Everyone gather the destroyed automatons and fall back. We got what we came here for."

His voice boomed throughout the forest. And his summons, like the obedient pets they were, left a lucky few alive and retreated from the place. 

Few minutes passed and then he heard a giggling voice. He turned around to see Andrex walking on all fours like a dog. Next to him was the man who had surrendered Andrex to him. He too had been restrained with the help of chains like Andrex. Behind the two were thousands of his summons. It had been a complete one-sided massacre where Arnold only lost about a dozen automatons. It was an overwhelming victory for him yet Arnold wasn't satisfied. 

"What happened to him?" Arnold asked Dio who was standing next to Andrex. 

"We don't know sir Deathless..." Dio immediately went on his knees in front of Arnold. His eyes pointed at Arnold's feet, "When we entered his chambers, he was laughing and crying like an eccentric fool. I'm afraid... Your display of strength might've been a bit too much for his feeble mind to take in."

"The leader of the elite guards, sir."

Arnold didn't reply and walked up to Andrex. As soon as Andrex saw him, he ran and try to hide behind Dio. Andrex was shivering while his eyes failed to stop producing an endless stream of tears. 

"Pfft- HAHAHAHAHA!" All of a sudden Arnold started laughing hysterically, "I didn't know the bastard was so afraid of me. Hahahaha! He lost his mind because I came to return the favour?"

"Y-Yes my Lord..." Dio mumbled but as soon as he did, Arnold pushed him aside, grabbed Andrex by his collar and dragged him to the edge of the cliff they were standing on. The next moment, Andrex was dangling from the cliff, upside down. 

Andrex started crying hysterically. Even in his lunatic state, he was well afraid of dying. Andrex kept struggling to get freed but he couldn't do anything apart from drenching himself in his piss. 

"You're pathetic..." Arnold shook his head and slammed Andrex on the ground like a ragdoll, "It almost makes me doubt if you're the same man who tried to get my family killed... You should have lots of guys to go against me and yet... *sigh*"

"My Lord... You should kill that bastard for enraging you!" Dio tried to fan the flames of hatred within Arnold so that he would be able to get his revenge on Andrex for what he did to his sister. Little did he knew, he should've kept his mouth shut. 

"And why would I do that?" Arnold looked at Dio, who immediately bowed his head once again, "Are you trying to tell me what to do?"

"I-I didn't mean to question you, my L-Lord..." Arnold's overflowing killing intent almost made him pass out, he couldn't think straight at all, "But that bastard deserves to die-"

"Grock, lock his bastard up in the bas.e.m.e.nt." Arnold pointed at Andrex before opening a portal to his domain. "The rest of you, get inside as well. We're done for the day."

Just then, Arnold heard footsteps behind him. He instinctively turned around, his guns still in his hands. He was ready to fire when he realised Nathan was standing behind him along with a hundred family members as well syndicate members. None of them was looking at him though, their eyes were fixated on the burning forest below. Their feet rooted to the ground in horror as their eyes fell on the bloodstained ground. 

Nathan was the first to collect his thoughts and he was enraged. Arnold had annihilated one of the most important families and for what? Because they attacked the family? He was at the Syndicate HQ along with other leaders discussing about the action they needed to take against Andrex when his assistant came rushing in to inform them about what Arnold had done. Nathan grabbed all of the people that were available and rushed there as soon as he could but they were too late. 

"Do you even realise what have you done?" Nathan yelled at Arnold, but Arnold didn't respond to him. Instead, he yelled at Grock and his summons to enter the portal. 

Seeing Arnold had completely ignored him, Nathan grabbed Arnold's shoulder and the next moment, Nathan found himself on the ground. 

"I hate it when someone grabs my shoulder."