She found herself standing in the Colonel’s bedroom a minute later, clenching her grip on her dagger. “Dred, wake him up,” she said through gritted teeth, her face dark.

Nodding his head, Dred grabbed the Colonel’s throat and raised him into the air. He woke up with a loud gasp, visibly startled and confused at the turn of events.

“Who k- are you?” he managed to ask before Dred pushed him on the wall. He flailed his legs and tried to kick Dred, but his meager strength didn’t help him one bit. Vines grew out of Audrey’s palms and coiled around his arms and legs, tying him to the wall.

“You like beating up children, don’t you? It must be really fun,” Elena said with a cold smile on her face, pulling her finger at the edge of her dagger.

“W-What do you want?” the Colonel asked, realizing that something was terribly wrong. “Where are my guards? What about my defensive system?”

Elena pulled out a head from her Storage Ring and grabbed its chin. Opening the dead guard’s mouth, she imitated a male voice, “M-My lord, I’m sorry but I was murdered in cold blood. You are the next, so please don’t scream when they eviscerate you!”

“You are crazy!” the Colonel shouted in the empty house.

Stopping in front of the Colonel, Elena pulled the edge of her dagger down the side of his face, cutting him. “Argh! You bitch-” he was about to spit, but Elena’s dagger was quicker to penetrate his stomach. Showing a smile, she pulled it towards his left side. She felt as her dagger sliced through his organs, bones, muscles, nerves as if they were butter.

Dred stuffed a ball of vines into the Colonel’s mouth before Elena started, drowning his screams. “Oh? What do we have here?” Elena asked as she jumped back to evade the contents of his guts and his spraying blood that spilled out.

“Ugh, it smells,” Audrey commented. Elena was cruel enough to set him free and let him fall into his own soil. He looked down screaming, and grabbed his guts and tried to push them back to their place.

“Haha, that won’t help you moron,” Elena ridiculed him and kicked him in the face. The sole of her boot broke the front of his skull. Its splinters penetrated his brain before Elena’s foot crushed it completely. Pulling back her leg, she shook it and cleaned it with Water Magic. Turning around, she left his body there, the wall and the ground covered in soil and blood.

“Rot in hell, you pig,” she muttered as she left the building in a flash.

They spent the night checking the people on the list, but they weren’t as lucky as with the first two. Most of the commanders were obviously out on the fronts, commanding the armies. They managed to kill only one-fourth of the list by the time morning came. They also found many pieces of evidence in the empty houses. Elena remembered each and every one of them, who had dirty secrets in their basements…

Unfortunately for her, everyone on the list had bad things to hide, just like how she asked the King. “Hector did a good job,” Elena muttered as the wind blew against her face.

“I’ll fly quicker, hold on,” Dred said with a calm voice.

“It wasn’t Hector but his servants, I think,” Audrey commented just to spend time.

“Let’s meditate instead.”

“You will leave me behind this way,” Dred said with a chuckle, not meaning it. They spent the rest of the travel in silence.

A few hours later, they reached a battleground. Dred was flying high up in the clear, blue sky. Not even the tall mountains could hide the rising sun. The weather was nice, though the ground completely destroyed the beautiful scenery. There were big craters, holes, upturned trees, large puddles, and long ditches, hiding many soldiers.

“We have arrived,” Dred notified them and descended towards the canopy of the forest, escaping the soldiers’ eyesights. Finding a clearing, he landed on the ground.

“Let’s move on foot from this point,” he said, checking his surroundings.

“You do that,” Audrey and Elena said at the same time, barely holding back their laughter.

“I could shake you off of my back too…”

“Please don’t,” Audrey pleaded with a nice voice. Dred just shook his head as a reply, staying silent. His paw sunk into the soft, light brown colored ground under them with each step he took.

“This is a rather strange terrain,” Elena said as she jumped off of Dred’s back and checked the texture of the ground. It was similar to mud but it didn’t contain water. It was just a bit sticky and slimy. Controlling her Mana, she poured it into her boots and felt the ground turn hard under her feet. “It’s working perfectly, I could -hmph- fight with my full strength in this,” her eyes glimmered as she jumped back and forth and made a few punching movements to test her boots.

“I’m glad to see that it was worth the money, but come back up and let’s go instead,” Audrey commented, crossing her arms in front of her chest.

“Aye, aye. I’m going. Can’t wait to see Jake again?” Elena waved her hand as she jumped back up.

“Well, I got used to his presence and it feels a bit strange that he isn’t here,” she admitted, brushing her red hair to the side.

“I can’t deny that,” Elena chuckled.

Dred reached the edge of the forest a few seconds later. Lying down on the ground behind a bush, he observed the bustling humans. There were many tents, simple stone buildings, jeeps, and other military vehicles.

“Is that a catapult?” Audrey questioned her eyes upon seeing a catapult. It didn’t click in her mind since these people were supposed to have modern technology.

“It must be more complex than what your planet had in the old times. This must be their camp. Let’s catch a guy,” Elena replied as she stood up and ran towards the camp. The forest and the camp were separated by a long boulder, which ran between the foot of the mountains. Since the forest was on the side of the mountain, they had good sight on the camp, which was between the mountains.

The long boulder had a thirty meters tall and twenty meters wide gap in it. Feeling a few presences there, she sneaked up on the soldier. Peeing? Then enjoy this because it will be the last, she thought as she got around the boulder and rested her back on it.

Grabbing her own breasts, she said with a smile on her face, licking her lips, “Hello guys, do you want to play?”

All of them turned around startled. “Who are you?!” one of them shouted, but his voice died down in the next second. “Woah, such a beauty. I didn’t have the chance to touch the captured women yet… but you could satisfy me.”

“Hah? Are you an idiot? She will serve me instead.”

“What? But you had your way with a woman just yesterday,” the same guy stomped on the ground angrily.

“Who cares? I’m above you in position. Hehe, who would have thought that taking a piss would have such a pleasurable result as this one!” the tall guy whistled as he walked towards Elena, shamelessly leaving his male organ in the shining sun.

Hiding her disgust, Elena mused, “Now, now, I’ll play with all of you if you want. Come with me. I don’t think that I could handle more men~”

“Hahaha, that’s the way, girl!” the tall guy slapped his chest, feeling excited. Elena swayed her hips as she walked towards the forest. You are lucky because I don’t want to touch you filth, I’d have dragged you away otherwise, she thought as her eyes twitched. I should be better in hiding my annoyance. Haah- another thing to train and try to control…

Finding the situation strange, two of the seven stopped in their tracks, “Isn’t this strange? A woman appears out of nowhere without either of us noticing it and she wants to pleasure us in a forest,” the guy with red hair asked.

“Who are you, woman?” his friend, a blondie asked.

Sighing loudly, Elena slumped her shoulders, “Why have I even bothered with this if you aren’t brainless cockheads? Just come after me,” she tried to play it off as if she didn’t have any evil plans. Shrugging her shoulders, she walked towards the forest.

“Don’t go,” the blonde guy raised his hand as he saw three of the guys following her.

“What? What could she do? I’m curious of what she wants to show us,” one of them replied.

“Well, I too am a bit curious, but it could be dangerous,” the redhead commented, placing his hand on his gun.

“Come on, we have guns while she is unarmed,” the tall guy said as he went after Elena, ridiculing the others, “Haha, you are just pussies. I’m gonna hog her all to myself.” Seeing that he didn’t plan to back off, the blondie and the redhead nodded their heads and followed after Elena, their hands on their guns.

After walking for thirty seconds, she stopped and turned around. “Well, you really fucked up since you still came. Curiosity killed the cat, is it? Is that how the saying goes, Audrey?” she asked, tilting her head to the side. Long and thick vines sprung out of the ground and tied all seven of them to a tree. As Elena snapped her fingers, a Wind Barrier appeared around them, hiding their voices.

“Alright, now nobody will hear or see you. Can I have a few questions? I might be nice to you if you reply,” she asked, showing her white teeth.

“Let go of me, bitch!” The tall guy shouted. Dred appeared in front of him and punched him in the stomach. As he stepped back, the tall guy threw up the contents of his stomach. His spit hung down from the sides of his lips.

“Please don’t talk if you are just going to waste our time. The next one will penetrate your stomach,” Dred said whilst cracking his fingers.

“W-What the hell are you?” the same guy asked with gritted teeth, seeing his ‘strange’ looks.

Ignoring his question, Elena swung her arm and summoned a Wind Blade. It cut a tree into two halves. Sitting down on its trunk, she crossed her left leg over the other and continued, “To start off things, you are here to give me information, while I’m here to destroy this empire. I killed most of the generals and commanders in the capital city last night. Just to clarify things, nobody on this planet could stop me. Your meager weapons won’t work on me either,” she said, waving her hand.

Dred pulled out the tall guy’s handgun and pointed it at Elena. Pulling the trigger, a light blue light shone and shot towards Elena. It went through her shady form and blew up the ground behind her. She turned back into her normal form and smiled at the soldiers. Intimidation is done~ she thought, seeing their faces.

“No matter how big of an explosion you make, it will hurt neither me nor my friends. Your Empire is doomed, so if you want to stay alive, then try to answer my questions. Firstly, where is the Emperor since I couldn’t find him in his castle? Secondly, one of you should tell me more about the Empire. How was it created, by who, for what purpose, what is its goal? Lastly, where can I find your General or anything that could tell me the location of every military leader,” she said, crossing her arms in front of her chest.

Their reply was complete silence. “Ah, why are you making it harder for yourself? I don’t think that this Empire is worth it for you,” she chuckled as she stood up and walked towards the tall guy, her bloodlust filling the area. The simple humans didn’t understand what was happening. All they felt was terrible fear and their trembling bodies. As Elena got closer and closer, the tall guy started sweating more and more.

“You wanted my body so much, right? A horny little puppy you are, aren’t you? Answer my questions,” she chuckled, pressing the tip of her dagger against his crotch.

“Hiii, fine, fine! I’ll talk, but please don’t do it! Alright?” he shouted with a despaired face.

“Haha, you are such a good boy,” she replied, pulling back her dagger. “Before you say anything, swear to me that you aren’t going to lie or you shall lose your life,” she added, trying to make sure that he wouldn’t lie. Nodding his head, he took an oath.

“I’m just a simple soldier, so I don’t know much about the Emperor’s location. You should ask somebody with a higher rank than me. This Empire was founded by the current emperor, who was a noble originally but rebelled against his King. After overthrowing him, he became the next King and started focusing on manufacturing weapons.”

“His hobby was to capture beautiful women and make them into his sex slaves. He has been doing it on a larger scale after becoming the Emperor. The Empire was created since our Emperor wanted to be in control. He is very scary and doesn’t accept mistakes. He declared that he wanted to reach world domination and become the sole Emperor of this planet.”

“Many of us laughed at his goals when he declared it, but as you can see, we are doing great.”

“And why is that?” Audrey asked, tilting her head to the side.

“It’s because when we attacked the first Kingdom, it turned out that the Emperor had spies in it, who captured many women and children before leaving. Later on, we sent pictures of their naked, unhurt bodies, stating that if they fight, they will be killed. It was our easiest victory ever… But most of the soldiers of that fallen Kingdom still obeyed the Emperor’s words since their family members were captured.”

“Some of them are still a part of our forces, though most of them were killed by now. Now the Emperor is training children into obedient soldiers, like these two,” he clicked his tongue, looking at the redhead and blond haired guy. They barely looked older than eighteen years old yet they seemed to have the right mindset for a soldier. As Elena’s eyes met theirs, she too felt somewhat surprised since they didn’t turn away, even under the pressure of her bloodlust.

“Interesting,” she mused. Appearing in front of the redhead, she grabbed his face and used her full strength to tear off his head. His muscles tore and his spine came out in one piece from his body. Throwing his head to the side, she stopped in front of the blondie. “Speak. Spill the beans about your dear Emperor,” she said.

Raising his head, he closed his eyes and stayed silent. Grabbing his left arm, she tore it off in one go and used Fire Magic to burn it into ashes.

“AAARGH!” he screamed out in pain, but his voice died down in a few seconds. His blood turned solid and his bleeding stopped.

“Oh? These guys are lab rats, it seems,” she thought aloud, her hand on her chin.

“W-What the hell?” the tall guy stuttered, being surprised upon seeing her monstrous strength.

“You see how clever you are for talking? I’d have done worse things to you if you didn’t. Now, what about my last question?”

“Uhm, the Emperor doesn’t share the location of either of our Generals with common soldiers. In fact, every unit knows nothing more than the location of our own commander. You will find a pathway in the smallest stone building, leading underground. Just follow it to find the commander!”

Tilting her head to the side, Elena asked, “How are women handled in this Empire?” Seeing the look in his eyes, she just waved her hand, “Don’t answer instead… What about the guys? Is everyone a rapist?” she frowned.

“Ugh, well, not everyone but- but we grew up in this! Once you do it, it won’t matter the next time. It’s not our fault, we were raised this way, but I swear that I’ll try to change, alright?” he asked, sweating profusely as he felt Elena’s and Audrey’s rising bloodlust.

“Fine, I believe you,” Elena replied as she turned around and walked towards the camp. The vines loosened around the captives bodies. The blonde haired guy pulled out his gun, but before he could do anything, Dred appeared behind him and crushed his head with his hand. His shadow spread out and devoured everyone, leaving not even a speck of blood.

Stopping beside Elena, he patted her shoulder, “Are you alright?”

“Yeah, it’s just that I feel a bit sad when I think about what women had to go through in this Empire.” A shudder ran through her back as she muttered, “I definitely won’t experience it. Dirty guys should be burned in fire!” she humphed as she walked away.

“Eh? Do you want to burn me too?” Dred asked with a surprised face, raising his brows.

“Yes! Hahaha, of course not. It’s not a bad thing if it isn’t forced and in some people’s cases… maybe she would enjoy if Jake was a bit forceful,” she leaned closer to Dred and whispered, looking at Audrey, who was examining a strange flower.

“Hm, your words might be true,” Dred nodded his head.

“What are you guys on about? What’s this whispering?” Audrey caught their voice. Furrowing her brows, she put her hands on her hips, “Suspicious…”

“Haha, you are cute. Aah~ ignorance is bliss,” Elena laughed at her as she grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the camp. “Let’s have a blood bath, shall we?”

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