Note to the reader: *.......* means he's saying that in his head.

Sorry I didn't post anything until now. I spent my free time reading the Overlord novel.

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Chapter 4

I reached the house of my first target with my invisibility still on. It was a nice house with two floors. A stone fence surrounded it with an iron gate as the only entrance. There was a small shed behind it that I realized was actually a slave house. I knew that an alpha slave must live there. I hopped over the wall and walked across the lawn towards a window. I placed my hands on it.

Heat Wave Activated

My hands started to glow red and the the window quickly melted. She had a security system, but I used my suit to blocked the signal of all transmissions. The entire window had melted away so I slipped in. The room was dark so I activated night vision and realized I was in a living room.

I glided quietly out of the room and up the stairs where my suit detected two heat signatures. I assumed it was the memory manipulator and his wife. I entered their room and stood by his wife then extended my hand out and a small ball materialized in it. I dropped it into the wife's ear which didn't seem to wake her up, but she did reflexively scratch.

This was something I could only use on someone asleep and I called it the puppet pill. I then placed a small knife next to her. I waited a few minutes then went over to the memory omega and picked him up by his throat. A look of shock and confusion appeared on his face and he tried to scream, but I didn't want that to happen so I squeezed. He understood the threat so I loosened my grip and he fell back onto his bed. After a minute of gasping for air he looked up at me.

Memory Omega:"So shadows come to kill me."

Cyrus:"I have a question for you."

I pulled out the list of all people involved in the attack seven years ago and handed it over to him.

Cyrus:"Do you know any of these people."

The list had full names, aliases and a picture. He used one hand to hold the list and the other massaged his throat which must still be hurting.

Memory Omega:"I don't know them."

He tried to had the list back to me, but I didn't take it.

Cyrus:"If you lie both you and your wife will die."

I had looked into their history before coming here. They were a duo that married shortly after returning from a battlefield, but all information on what their missions were had been erased. It was the same for all three of the memory manipulators since it was a very useful ability that could basically erase some mistakes. I would need another chance to use the supremes computer in order to get access to those files.

They had no kids and one alpha slave that they used as a maid. The wife had the typical fire abilities so I didn't think they were who I was looking for, but I had to be sure.

Memory Omega:"I'm not lying...I promise."

Cyrus:"Are you sure."

I pointed behind the man and he turned his head to look. What he saw was his wife standing beside their bed holding a knife to her own throat. He immediately turned his head back to me with a look of fear.

Memory Omega:"Please don't! I told you I don't know them!"

Cyrus:"I don't believe you."

The man looked back at his wife then at the list.

Memory Omega:"I-I think I've heard of this one."

He pointed to one of the men on the list.

Cyrus:"Do you have a connection to an attack on an alpha research lab seven years ago and is that how you know this man?"

I figured if he knew anything then he would have told me now so I didn't think he was who I was after.

Memory Omega:"I don't know about an attack, b-but my wife and I did an extermination mission with him during our tour of duty."

Cyrus:"When was that?"

Memory Omega:"Eight years ago!"

Cyrus:"What were you exterminating."

He hesitated for a moment, but then opened his mouth to tell me with his eyes cast down.

Memory Omega:"A group of rebel.....alphas."

He knew that I was believed to be working with the rebels so it made him think twice before confessing. I no longer needed to question him since it was obvious he wasn't the guy I was looking for.

Cyrus:"I'm done with my business so I'll leave now."

Memory Omega:"Wait! What about my wife!"

Cyrus:"She's fine."

He turned to look at her and saw that she was looking around the room with a confused look on her face.

Memory Omega:"Dear!"

The man ran over to his wife and embraced her with a look of joy on his face, but it soon contorted into pain. He looked down and saw the knife his wife was holding was jabbed into his side.

Memory Omega:"Why?!"

He fell to his knees and the knife slid out while still his wife's hand. She didn't seem to understand what just happened and looked at her hand holding the knife. She dropped it then covered her mouth with her hands as tears streamed down her face. I ran my hand straight through her chest and tour out her heart then threw it to the side.

Memory Omega:"Y-you bastard."

I turned to the man who was now lying on his back with his hand over the stab wound. My foot crushed his skull into paste then I extended tentacles out to absorbs some of his blood. This suit could learn new things if given samples of omega DNA. That's how I obtained all of it's current abilities including invisibility, heat wave, frost and the others I had.

It could only perfectly mimic a few number of abilities one of which was invisibility, but I always seem to get something. I got heat wave from a normal fire users blood which just like frost need direct contact so I couldn't through ice or fire balls.

I made sure to leave a mess since I wanted fear of shadow to grow in the hearts of all omegas. I was their harbinger of death. I left quietly and returned home. One memory omega per night since I wanted to give the omegas time to spread the world of my latest target. I went to sleep with a sense of accomplishment welling up inside me because of my work.

The next day I met up with Mia like usual and she said to me with anger in her voice..

Mia:"Shadow killed again last night."

Cyrus:"Why do you know that?"

Mia:"Some men came to talk to grandfather this morning and I kind of listened in."

Cyrus:"You know it's illegal to listen in on the supremes meetings."

Mia:"I had to! I could just tell it had something to do with shadow!"

Cyrus:"He's not your problem."

Mia:"Of course he is! He kills omegas just like us! Don't you feel like bringing him to justice!"

Cyrus:"He will pay for his sins, but we will not be involved. Your still in school so let the professionals handle it."

Her voice got lower and she lost the vigor she previously had.

Mia:"I just......... want to stop the killing."

Cyrus:"Your a good girl, but it would only trouble your grandfather if you tried to get involved."

She was now barely audible.

Mia:"I know."

I placed my hand on her head and patted it.

Cyrus:"We have our own job to do remember."

Mia looked up at me and showed me a weak smile.

Mia:"Your right. Grandfather gave us something important to do so I don't have the time to go after shadow."

Cyrus:"We have to prove to the supreme that we're strong."

I smiled at her and she seemed to cheer up. She ran ahead of me then stopped and turned around.

Mia:"Lets do our best!"

Cyrus:"Yeah."Back to Main Page