Chapter 183: Grief and Rage.
"There has to be something, please!" The woman in the front seat clasped her hands and shook them before Ikaris, but Ikaris gestured to Sol.
"If you want mercy, ask that not of myself, but of my husband and master, we all fall under his umbrella, we all fall in servitude at his feet." She explained, but when the woman's eyes fell on Sol she found a soulless stare being thrown back at her.
"His... feet?" The chairman's daughter stared at Sol's golden eyes and then looked at Ikaris again.
"What are you people?" The chairman asked, but a moment later his head was in his lap and Sol was holding on to a small dagger with a half of the blade covered in blood.
"The time for you talking has come to an end, so let me say my final piece." Sol kicked the seat of the chairman's daughter, and she was smashed against the dashboard becoming an unrecognisable pulp while he stared into the camera that was looking back at him.
"You had your chance, you had many chances to stop and treat her better but you treated her like a lab experiment and did as you all pleased, even when you knew and had confirmed multiple times that she's human that she's the same as you, you treated her like an animal and worse; you made a hero serve your selfish agendas and commit mass genocide, so now I'm going to forget that you're all human just as you ignored her, I'm going to treat you all as I please just as you did to her, I'm going to wash the earth clean of the filth that is the Atlas organisation the same way you sent her out to murder for you, mark my words and say your prayers, I am coming for you all." He reached for the cam and smashed it with in his palm.
"Sol..." Ikaris held his arm timidly, and he nodded and rested his hand on her head with a knowing smile.
"I'm not going to ask you to do this, I would never, it's not morally correct it's a personal vendetta, if you killed these people it would change your nature entirely." Sol ran his hand through her hair, pushing the door open and letting her out.
"Go back to Usami, watch over her and her family with Arla and Sara, Dina and I will take care of the rest." He ordered her, and without protest or refute she left, a few seconds later Dina came crashing out of the air and landing next to him while he exited the car.
"Are you ready?" He asked and with a wave of her hands she shed her modern attire and armoured herself with her usual mage getup while he remained in his casual wear.
"Let's make them pay." Dina's left eye ticked with an agumented information board Via the system, which showed her who was where and the closest ones to them.
"Be mindful of your surroundings, don't let it spill over." Sol nodded and pointed over his shoulder. "I'm going west, and then north, you can take the south and east."
"Okay." Dina spun and took off into the air like a rocket leaving a torrent of dust and a crater where she stood, he could tell from her willingness to get even that she was angry; more than that she was hurt at what Usami had gone through, more than even he was at the moment.
"Are you sure you want to do this on the same planet you will be calling home?" System appeared at Sol's side when he slowly ascended through the dust and stared chasing the sun across the horizon.
"It's exactly because I'm living here that I think it has to be done, and I'm not stopping here either, these organisations that are government funded have power, they are a pain to deal with and they take their power out on the innocent...
they make people suffer just as much as the demons did, I'm putting an end to them so my kids dont have to live in a world like this, and I'm not just gonna stop there either, earth can be a good home, but changes have to be made."
"Do you intend on ruling, master?" She asked again and he shook his head.
"Never, I want a quiet life with my family outside of the public eye as much as possible, but in order to do that I need to be in the spotlight one last time." Sol stopped over a vast deserted landscape opened his hand causing the ground to tremble and start rising. "I'm doing this now so I don't get bothered by them later on."
[Mid-tier earth manipulation: Sinkhole]
The ground that had risen suddenly caved in revealing a facility beneath the first hundred metres rapidly falling as all the supporting terrain beneath it disappeared, far beneath that the entire facility plunged into a lake of lava and fire and then the earth that had been removed and displaced rapidly reformed above it trapping it to slowly sink killing everyone inside without a chance of escape.
Contrasting Sol Dina was brash and not even trying to be discreet as she found a facility inside of a mountain range and cast [origin explosion\\s] on it evaporating everything from sight, and then as soon as she was sure they were all dead she took off again.
"Retaliate damnit, we can't just allow these aliens to do as they please!" One man sat in an oval office with his country's flag paraded next to him by the windows. "Is it impossible to use nukes against them?" He looked at three men who sat before him.
"Mr president, sir, they are too fast to be intercepted by any kind of unconventional weapon, they are travelling across continents in a matter of seconds, even if we lock on they would be long gone before any of those missiles detonated, and with the current state of the world even launching a single one would kickstart a global war and cause mass panic and hysterical entropy!" His advisor warned against a rash decision.
"That damned girl, she lied about not remembering because they sure as hell do, and she sided with them the moment they appeared!"
"I hate to be the voice on your shoulder right now, but I disagreed with the way she was being handled since the very first day she arrived, we all speculated on the possibility of the others who disappeared coming back eventually, with how powerful she was we should have treated her more carefully, I warned-"
"She's not some god to be revered, none of them are, they're nothing but murderous monsters!" The president slammed his hand on his desk and stood abruptly.
"You heard him, he's not going to stop until every last one of us is dead, hiding from a monster that can crush an entire underground base is pointless we don't even know how they got our information- there's no evidence of a breach, and we don't have the time to find who sold us out, we need to find his weakness and fast, otherwise..."
"Another three Atlas bases have already gone silent, the satellites can't find a single sign of life or even a trace of the bases sir!" A woman was seated in the corner around a single monitor. "We are getting countless distress calls from all across the globe, other presidents and ministers are already trying to contact you-"
"We need to secure our own home before we even think of helping anyone else, this is a global fucking disaster!" The president turned and pointed to his advisors. "Get out, and don't come back without a solution."
"Sir we are on limited time we should-"
"I said get out!" The president snapped. "We should have diverted the money from that huge wall into more powerful weapons after all." He furrowed his brows and pursed his lips. "Damnit." He cursed again.
"Stacey pack that shit up and come with me."
"Sir?"
"We need to get in contact with the other leaders and discuss using those bombs, these assholes are gonna destroy the world if we don't do something about them."
"Yes sir."
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France, London, Ukraine, Spain, Russia... Dina zipped across Europe on a rampage tearing the facilities apart violently and leaving nothing but craters as she did.
"Dina, the employees are starting to abandon their posts and run off into the populated cities and towns-" System emerged from her peripheral after she had laid waste to her fifth Atlas facility.
"Have you already spread your influence across earth?" Dina looked at her seriously.
"The planet is very small, I did that as soon as we arrived."
"Then, find them and pinpoint their exact locations, down to the inch."
"Done." System nodded and then watched Dina take off again, staring at her concerned.
"Master vestic, I am concerned Dina might be losing herself." Her other self spoke to Sol and he stopped and looked at her.
"She seems fine from my end, what are you on about?" He asked.
"Her aggression is reaching levels similar to yours when you fought the demon-god, Sitri, on Arkadia, if she continues she might lose control and cause a cataclysm." She warned him and he lowered his gaze at the facility beneath him burning and then clasped his fist causing everything to compress to the size of a ball of energy which he grabbed and crushed with his bare hand.
"Dina." Sol called to her, and she paused just before entering an apartment complex where one of the employees were hiding.
"Master, did something happen?" She asked.
"Ten years is a long time, even if it was just a few months for us, at least visit your parents; let them see you and know that you're alive and healthy."
"I made a stop there on my way to the east, master." Dina answered and he felt her emotions spike several times and then fall and repeat the irregular pattern.
"Dina, is everything okay?" Sol asked when he felt her anger rise and continue rising.
"They're gone." She answered. "The house is a crater, and there's a memorial by the streets, that thing Atlas made rampaged through my neighbourhood and killed my mom and dad, my grandma, my entire family is...!" She stopped talking and tore the wall in front of her apart with her bare hands, finding a man holding on to a woman wearing the Atlas employee's uniform with a little boy between them.
"These bastards are responsible for the death of my family, I won't forgive them, I'll kill them all!"