Chaos Devourer System

Chapter 407: Meeting With The Old Man

“At least, be gentle…” Zeras roared out as he gently landed back on his feet. If not for his quick reflex he would have his head kissing the cold dark wall instead.

“Pretty crazy and prideful bastards, aren’t they?” The voice came out to Zeras from behind him and Zeras immediately replied instantly.

“Tch, they are truly damn bastards…”

“And they make you feel like putting a knife through their neck, don’t they?”

“You’re spot on. I feel like carrying a blade and giving them tribal marks…” Zeras roared out in agreement but his face dropped down when he finally came to his senses and turned behind him.

And there was his conversate.

“A scrawny looking old man, with bushy beards and hair. His eyes were completely blood red, and from them, Zeras could sense an unbelievable amount of killing intent and a thirst for revenge that couldn’t be concealed.

“Who are you” Zeras asked suspiciously.

“Human, just like you, kid. That is the only identity we possess nowadays,” The man replied unmoving from his position, and slowly Zeras left the bars alone before walking towards him.

“Arriving just an inch from him, Zeras crouched to the ground as he looked at the man’s red eyes scrutinizing, and the strange motion of both of them looking into their eyes went on until the Zera’s broke off eye contact before moving to the opposite side of the cell…”

“I sense a very crazy will of revenge in your eyes, but, it’s also empty. You’ve given up your hope of revenge. All that is left without that, is just a beast trying knowing well it can’t kill his master but at least tries to bite off his toes…” Zeras said out loud but the man’s eyes remained blank.

“How were you captured, it’s been years since another human has been brought to this cage…” The man asked in his scruffy and ear-piercing voice.

“You can say, I’m a lucky one. I wasn’t on Earth when the supposed calamity happened and on a far-away planet accomplishing an important assignment. Then I finished my assignment and came back here, only to be faced by ten aliens and dragged here…”

“Lost and hopeful…” The man replied as Zeras finished narrating his tale.

“Lost? I might agree. I truly don’t understand how much is going on, but hopeful, what does that mean?”

“It means you’re hopeful. Hopeful that, your mum or your dad, or your brother, or anyone sufficiently close enough is alive. That occupies all your senses making you hopeful of the future…”

“A sufficiently closed one, huh? The people I’m hopeful of. It’ll be good if they didn’t die. I’ll be glad if that happens. Only a single person I know must not die. A beautiful girl with white hair like mine. Yeah, she’s the only one…” Zeras replied as his thoughts drifted to that small girl who loved calling him dad.

Zeras adopted Aria. She was a consequence of Celestria’s family’s brutality. Having both her parents killed in front of her eyes and getting badly mutilated and left to die in her pool of blood. Zeras had found her when she was at death’s door.

It wasn’t an overly uncommon situation. Hundreds of such happen every day in the nooks and crannies of the beautiful Celestria Valley. What he had been amazed by was watching how the young girl’s dark hair turned white right before his eyes. He didn’t know why her hair suddenly went through such intense change.

And that was what saved Aria’s life that day, she piqued his curiosity. When she woke up, she couldn’t remember her mum and dad anymore. And she just wouldn’t stop calling him dad after she laid eyes on him. In the end, Zeras decided to adopt her, to the organization.

It was the only thing Zeras could say he right now truly missed a lot and would feel genuine pain if he lost. As for his friends, it would be ok if they were alive…”

“Hmmm, you sound like an unremorseful one…” The man replied with narrowed eyes.

“That may be true too…” Zeras replied curtly as silence enveloped the place.

“What about you, how did you get yourself here…” Zeras asked curiously.

“Ever since I have come here, I have been counting the time. The man said as he moved his back away from the wall and Zeras finally saw the dug-up lines formed from dried blood on the wall.

“It’s been almost two years now, that I have been captured that night…”

“I was an ordinary EIA personnel. It’s been almost a week since the Alien have descended on Earth. And we all believed the Nine World Leaders and The EIA got the aliens under control. It was said over the news that they were friendly. Besides, the aliens never descended onto Earth, so it was easy for the masses to ignore the ginormous death ships that hovered above our head…”

“Did they ever mention their reason for coming?” Zeras asked with expectant eyes.

“No. The EIA and the World leaders never released that information to the world. It was a ‘top-class secret’, they say…” The man replied mockingly.

“But definitely some type of deal seemed to have been stroke between them and the Aliens. Until one day, the bombs rained down on Earth like rain and immediately war unfolded instantaneously. I lost everything; I watched my world go up in flames. My only son and my wife…” The man said and the sound of gnawing teeth and nails digging into flesh echoed out to his ears.

But he didn’t respond nor did he look at that.

“I had carried my gun and joined in the war, only to realize, this ain’t no war! This is a one-sided killing. The Giarans never came here to agree on some stupid negotiations, they came here prepared to wage war and conquer.

It was too late for me when Earth realized the beast behind those four eyes…”