Chapter 29

“Neither? you bastard then what are you smiling at?!” Jonathan flew into a rage, how dare this trash act like this in front of him, the prince.

Zepp grasped the personality type of this prince in front of him, he was a spoilt brat who was used to getting anything he wanted.

“I’m actually laughing at how stupid you are” Zepp quipped, his smile plastered across his face.

Hearing this Jonathan got even angrier, “Stupid?! how fucking dare you, I’ll rape this girl in front of you and show you the meaning of stupid!” he yelled, pointing towards Fen, , a disgusting look in his eye.

At this point, Zepp’s mocking smile disappeared and he just sat, blankly staring.

Seeing the smile vanish from Zepp’s face the prince laughed mockingly, “Hahaha! I knew it, this little girl is important to you! Watch me break her mind and body in front of you!” he continued issuing an order with his hand, Ajax nodded and brought the little girl to the side of the prince.

“Kettle, clear the restaurant and threaten everyone who witnessed this, say you’ll exterminate their clan if they don’t comply” Jonathan turned around and spoke to Kettle, who watched all this excitedly, he loved watching the prince ruin peoples lives, it was fun.

“Yes!” Kettle agreed, instantly setting off to clear people in the restaurant, even the waiters and serving staff, this didn’t even take 5 minutes, every single one of the people in the room who witnessed this would never dare utter a word, kettle made sure of it.

“Hehe, good now we’re alone” Jonathan giggled disgustingly, grabbing Fen by her dress and pulling her in front of him, a lewd look in his eye.

Seeing Fen get treated like that, even the calm Zepp finally got annoyed, his face contorting into a look of disgust, he finally made his mind up, he would make sure all these people were but lifeless corpses before they left.

Zepp stood up from the table, startling everyone apart from Fen, the girls looked at Zepp worryingly, they didn’t want to cause him trouble.

The prince, seeing this was furious, “Who the fuck do you think you are, you are just a piece of trash, a disgusting piece of dog shit, a fucking bug, you dare stand in the presence of me, the second crown prince of the capital of the human kingdom Rosen!?” he hissed.

“Ya, sit back down or I’ll rip that head off your fucking body and rape your corpse” Ajax bellowed, pissed off, this kid was pissing on his pride.

Zepp clearly didn’t flinch or pay that threat any mind and clearly spoke up, not a hint of nervousness or discourage in his voice, “Have any of you ever heard of Yuem?” he asked curiously, he reach into his robe and pulled out a unassuming stone tablet with the emblem of a snake coiled around a globe.

The prince and the elite guards were curious at first but as they saw him pull how the trashy stone tablet with the emblem on they were howling with laughter.

“Phahahaha! were you trying to make us scared by pulling out an emblem of a shitty group that no one has heard of!!” The prince snorted, he knew this was of a group because adventurers would use tablets to put their emblems on, it looked more official, however, you could easily tell the class of an adventurers group because the emblem’s tablet would be a certain material depending on the class, very strong and high class groups or teams used materials like gems or a precious metal, the tablet in front of him was only made of stone, the lowest class, this was the reason everyone was laughing.

Zepp sighed inwardly as he heard them laughing, ‘Malus was so proud of this tablet, If he heard them laughing at it.. god knows what he’d do’.

However, there was one member of the elite guards who wasn’t laughing, actually, he was the opposite, a surge of fear overwhelmed his whole body, his trained hands shook in fear and in his eyes he looked like he had seen a ghost, this man was Bowa, the archer.

Astuta, who was stood next to Bowa saw his reaction, and voiced his concern, “Hey, Hey! Bowa? what’s the matter?” he asked, Bowa’s reaction was highly unusual, Astuta, who had been with Bowa since childhood had never seen Bowa show much emotion but now he was looking like he had seen a ghost.

Bowa didn’t answer Astuta, Astuta was concerned and hurriedly consulted the others, “Prince, Guys, Bowa is acting weird!” he declared, voicing his speech loud enough for only the elite guards and the prince to hear, naturally Fen heard it too because she stood near the prince.

“Bowa’s actin’ weird?” Ajax and Ajux went over first to see what was up, they did the same and tried to talk to him but he was in a frozen state of extreme fear, Ajax and Ajux both looked at each other in confusion, they had no clue what was happening to make Bowa act this way.

Finally as the prince came over to see what was wrong Bowa stepped forwards without guidance, his legs were wobbly and his eyes were so wide you would think they were going to pop out of his skull.

Bowa staggered his way in front of the prince and then dropped to his knees in front of Zepp, Bowa’s whole body was still shivering in fear and his legs were like jelly, as he dropped to the floor a extremely terrified Bowa spoke up as he kneeled.

“L-L-Lord! Kind, Benevolent Lord! Forgive us! They-No, we failed to recognise that we were in the presence of your superior self! We deserve a hundred deaths! B-But please spare us, we were foolish, we’ll do anything, please!” he mumbled, his mouth not working properly due to the state he was in, however, everyone could understand what he was saying, the faces of the elite guards and the prince contorted into confusion, what the hell was Bowa saying?

Ajax was the first to approach Bowa who was obviously kneeling at the feet of the young man.

“Bowa! since when were you so fucking weak! kneeling to trash!!” Ajax roared, lifting Bowa from his kneeling position.

The fact that Bowa was acting this way hit the pride of all the members of the elite guard, after all they had all recognised eachothers power and were all equal peak A rank combatants.

“Yeah Bowa what the fuck are you doing!”

“Did someone mix drugs into his tea earlier?!”

The rest of the elite guard shouted, however, as Bowa was being lifted to his feet by Ajax, Bowa slapped the hands of Ajax away and his face was full of fury.

“Don’t you know what I am doing?! I’m saving all of our fucking lives! Prince, you don’t know who you are dealing with! You are fucking around with Gods!” he blurted, everyones faces in the room apart from Zepp and Fen’s were in the same confused manner, however the elite guards and the princes were contorted into much more than confusion.

Jonathan strode forward, “A God? I don’t remember upsetting any Gods, and if you are talking about him, if he’s a God i’m the fucking creator!” he chimed, completely and utterly dismissing Bowa’s obvious hallucinations and warnings.

“Tell us, what do you mean, Bowa?!?” Kettle yelled from behind, the rest nodded their heads, they wanted to know what Bowa was talking about.

“I-I do not know much about the subject but I have read some old scholar scrolls in my spare time, a couple years ago I came across a strange looking but extremely ancient scroll, it was clearly the oldest scroll I had ever seen and in it, it mentioned a group called ‘Yuem’, it told of how each member of this group were X rank combatants or above and there were only a few members, each were unaging and incomparably powerful on the whole of the Ein continent! They were worshipped and hailed as Gods! In this scroll it had the emblem of this group, the only proof left that they exist, a snake coiled around a globe!” Bowa explained.

The prince and the elite guards had expressions of disbelief, the prince spoke first.

“You actually believed an old decrepit scroll! X rank! bullshit! No one has ever broken through the S rank! X rank is just a myth, a legend!” he quipped back disbelievingly, the other members of the elite guard nodded their heads, he had said exactly what they were going to say, X rank was a complete myth, no one had, according to records, ever broken through to this mythical rank, and if they did, would they look like this trash in front of them? clearly nothing special about him apart from his well built body, but wasn’t Ajax and the others built like that too? This was bullshit.

“And even if he does have this emblem, couldn’t he have just made it because he saw the same type of scroll you did?” Astutus continued on, the others nodded, this was a valid point.

“Impossible!” Bowa argued, his voice still prevalent with traces of fear, “This emblem has been magically imbued by Yuem, If someone without the authority or permission of a member of Yuem tries to draw the emblem then it will be impossible, it doesn’t show up or it becomes disfigured!”

Disbelieving this the prince stormed to a nearby counter and found a pen and some paper, the paper and pen was usually used to write down orders so the chefs wouldn’t forget, he remembered the emblem and tried to draw it, as he finished the drawing of the snake coiled around a globe he noticed that the drawing didn’t match what he knew he had drawn, it was disfigured and looked odd, he tried again and again, the same result happened every single time, each time the drawing became disfigured or simply didn’t appear at all, seeing this the Prince’s heart dropped and he walked back over to his elite guards who stood in front of the table.

Listen to him and leave!” Sina spoke up from where she sat with the nervous Luu and Sena.

The Prince’s temper was in full flare at this moment so with a flick of his head he turned and stared with beast like eyes towards Sina, “Shut the fuck up slut, a woman should speak when spoken to!”.

Zepp finally spoke after asking the first question since a while ago, he turned his head to look at the Prince, “Little pathetic Prince and his puppet guards, I’ll give you a final chance to beg for mercy and grovel on the floor like the little bug that you are” he said in the a voice colder than ice, his mentality had changed since his initiation and Malus had noted how merciless and cold he could be towards his enemies, if one even looked closer they could see how red Zepp’s eyes had become.

The Prince flew off the handle at this and his temper finally clouded his judgement, he cursed out loud and swept his arm up in the air, “Ajax, I’ve had enough of this fucking worm, kill him in the worst way possible in front of everyone on the table, make sure you spill his blood on them, hahahahaaha!!” he demanded, instantly Ajax nodded and stepped forward with a look in his eyes like a sadistic predator.

“I’ll make sure to kill you in the slowest and most painful way possible!” Ajax smiled, instantly appearing in front of Zepp who just stood there, not reacting in the slightest, Ajax took this as him being afraid, after all, he had killed numerous people and some of them wouldn’t react even if he chopped off their heads, they were cowards who wanted a quick death.

Ajax drew his giant sword which was strapped across his back, this sword would have crushed a normal man, not even 10 trained warriors could lift it, it was made especially for him and his brute strength, anything that got in his way he would turn them into mince meat with his great sword.

Ajax’s steps were light even as his body was large, his moves were as swift as the wind and swung his sword with his right arm, everyone on the table, including the Prince only saw a blur as the sword came swinging down to smash into this young man.

The end result was certain and the Prince stood with a giant grin on his face, the other elite guards, apart from Bowa also stood with a grin, watching the arrogant trash in front of them being killed was pleasant, they had met some cocky adventurers and they had always met the same end, death or they begged and pleaded for their lives.

However, as the sword hit Zepp where his neck should of been cut from his body, no such end ever came, there wasn’t any noise, looking closer everyone could see that the sword had never touched his neck because he had stopped the blade with his hand.

Ajax was stunned when he didn’t feel his sword sinking into the flesh, he swung his sword as such that no one below A rank could defend themselves against, however, looking closely Ajax saw that this young man had the blade grasped in his hand.

Ajax snorted and tried to break free from the young man’s grip but no matter how much strength he put into trying to free his great sword his could never seem to even move it an inch, it was like his sword was stuck in an unbreakable rock.

Zepp was surprised at how feeble the sword strike was, he probably didn’t even need to dodge it or catch it with his hand, he knew this would not break his skin in the least, however, he wanted to show off a bit here.

“You were really that cocky with such a feeble and weak attack?” Zepp exclaimed, his voice carrying no hint of danger or alarm, Zepp simply let go of the blade and walked forward towards his attacker.

Instantly every alarm in Ajax’s body went off, like a primal instinct to run when there was no hope of fighting, however, before he could even react the young man was in front of him and with a blank expression his right arm moved upwards towards Ajax’s throat, Ajax couldn’t move, his body was frozen and he could not resist in the slightest.

Everyone looked on with horror as Zepp’s hand neared Ajax’s throat, no one knew why Ajax didn’t move but Zepp’s hands didn’t seem to register the skin and his fingers burrowed into Ajax’s throat, there was no hint of resistance at all, everyone was sickened and looked on in a trance like state, his hand wasn’t even moving that fast, it just went into the skin on Ajax’s throat when everyone saw that the hand stopped they breathed a sigh of relief, but the hand then moved outwards and with it carried the insides of Ajax’s throat, blood poured from Zepp’s hand.

Zepp ripped out Ajax’s throat with ease and then unclasped his hands so the part he ripped out fell to the floor, everyone watched with sickened wonder as Ajax fell to the floor as a lifeless corpse, no resistance or struggle was seen, the Prince and the elite guards shivered as they saw this scene, ‘What the fuck had just happened’ they all thought, the Prince even broke out into a cold sweat.

“Y-You!” he stuttered, staring at Zepp with eyes of horror and disgust, albeit the disgust was a different type of disgust than before.

“Ajax!” Ajux snapped, his mind clouded by anger he didn’t feel anything, he just wanted to kill this young man in front of him who had killed his twin brother, his only brother!, with swift movements he lunged forward to attack Zepp, he wielded two giant axes and they came swiftly towards Zepp’s neck, with strength even greater than his brothers he swung down, his power fueled by anger.

“Die you piece of shit!” he roared as the axes swung, just as the two unstoppable axes were about to meet flesh Zepp drew his hand back and then with a sweeping motion he swung his palm, it was like a back handed slap.

No one saw Zepp’s hand move due to the speed in which he did it at and with a graceful arc he struck the side of Ajux’s chest, slapping him away like a fly.

Not one person believed their eyes as they saw this scene, Ajux’s body went flying like a ragdoll, Zepp didn’t use much of his strength so Ajux didn’t fly far but as he came to a stop and landed on the floor everyone observed the outcome, Ajux’s chest was caved in and blood poured out of the collapsed chest and broken skin, Ajux’s eyes were as lifeless as his brothers, an audible gasp was heard from those watching, the Prince’s legs were shaking in fear and the other elite guards watched on in a stupor.

A few of the gasps were from the girls, ‘When had Zepp become so.. strong and fierce..’ they thought to themselves.

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Thanks for reading ;p since everyone didn't like the cliffhanger here is a very early release!