《Rise of the nefarious devil》6- The two children
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After they left , Carl followed behind them while making sure to hid himself by using his spiritual energy in a manner that hid himself from the surrounding , which made him able to hide through anyone's senses in this world - though that had a massive drawback as he could only use it for 20 minutes before his spiritual energy gets exhausted , since the energy that cultivates the soul in this world is nearly non-existent , as very thin threads could be seen being sent to his soul , and it would take at least 3 days to recover it back..
He only used it once he got close enough to them though as he knew about the cost of it , he then , with an excited grin , as he grabbed the knife ( that he brought with him from the orphanage) and started making his way forward to the both of them , while his race's instincts, along with his crazy sadism , started kicking in , making him subconsciously lick his lips..
( Gruesome scenes start )
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He then slit down both their vocal cords before they could utter any word , as they both were beyond terrified, they even peed their pants...
Carl seemed to turn into an entirely different person as he had a sadistic grin on his face , while continuously licking his lips and looking at the blood that came out of their throats, which led him to subconsciously lick the blood on the knife..
He then made a small array with both his blood and theirs' , and 1/3 of his spiritual energy - that would make anyone that enters see nothing out of the ordinary..
He looked at their hands and started munching on the boy's left arm , slowly but surely eating it while seemingly enjoying the taste that the flesh gave , along with drinking the blood that was contained in it..
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The boy , felt like death would be a better fate for him , so he bites his tongue on an attempt to suicide..
Carl seemed to know of his intentions , and cut his tongue directly to enjoy how his prey was suffering..
The girl in the meantime fainted when she saw how Carl was eating her brother - As she thought he was a beast since cultivators didn't exist in this world , much less fiend cultivators..
Carl then slowly moved from his arm , to munching his other one , then to his legs , until there was nothing but chest and head..
He sighed as he saw how the boy already died when he moved to his right arm - as the cut through his threat managed to kill him slowly...
He then continued munching on the rest of his body , even bones, as he moved to his heart and slowly penetrated it with a nail of his - as the talent resided in there , he slowly digested the blood in there while turning the talent of the boy to his..
He then ate his brain , and finished everything with a lick of his lips, while licking around everywhere if there was even a single drop of blood..
Afterwards, he knocked the girl up to regain her consciousness , but she too seemed to be dead by the throat cut , so he just sighed and munched at her body the same way he did at the body.. Until he finally ate her brain , and then moved to her talent to absorb it..
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( Gruesome scenes end )
' Oh that was great ! What a delicious meal that was, I haven't eaten in a very long time , *Sigh* it's making me want to eat even more but I should hold my self back...
Now for the robes.. Let's leave them there so that whoever's their backing would show up and know their death place..'
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After that , he left the street , that had two robes laying in there without even a single drop on them..
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Meanwhile , in the garden , two people could be seen standing next to each other while talking with a frown in their face :" Could it be that something happened to the both of them ..? " The woman asked the guy who has as in front of her..
She didn't get to finish her words , as she was interrupted by the guy who shouted at her :" Impossible! No one would dare to offend them , much less kill them! After all , they're the children of the Vieth family! We're as strong as the royal family itself ! You know that we're hidden families , along with the royal family agrees upon no assassinations on both of our sides! So there's no way it's them!"
The woman then frowned as she understood the hidden meaning behind his words:" You mean other noble families or hidden families , in order to ignite a war between the two of us? But why would they do that? They all know we never showed any interest in anything, as our children only focus on cultivating to the minor Knight and then become illiterates , then why?" She was puzzled greatly as they really didn't have any goal to surpass royal family or any other families..
" I don't know , but let's look before we get any conclusions." Said the man before going around searching frantically everywhere , looking for both his children..
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They then arrived at the street where Carl 'killed' both of them , only to see both of their children's clothes laying around in the street, so with a frown they move in only to find no trace of them at all in the street..
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Carl was oblivious to the damage he'd done to one of the hidden families in his first day , but he was still puzzled as he saw that his talent increased greatly only after absorbing two children's worth , but he didn't think too much , as he proceeded to start cooking his dinner casually ...
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