The moment Ren heard another person appearing, he was about ready to start a ma.s.sacre. Ren then looked at whoever arrived and saw a familiar face. "What are you doing here?" Ren who was about to pulverize whoever comes next was now frowning at the newcomer.
Kite who was still struggling under Ren"s pressure was delighted to see the person who came.
"My Nephew, tell your friend to stop doing whatever it is he"s doing." Kite looked at the newcomer Lance while sweating profusely.
"Master, what"s this all about?"
"Master!" Everyone present the Restetis, the Valiers, and even the surrounding people were surprised to hear what the patriarch of the Resteti family said. The average-looking young man that Kite thought was just a commoner and friend of Lance"s turns out to be his master.
"Was this young man the reason why Lance suddenly got so strong?" Kite started to think about Lance sudden change and increase in power, was the average-looking youth that had overwhelmed them involved? Kite wasn"t too sure, but he knew, either way, he was not going to get out of this situation unscathed.
Ren was really irritated by Lance"s interruption but he decided to explain to his disciple what happened. Once Ren was done with his explanation Lance knelt on the ground and pounded his head to the ground.
"Forgive me, master! I didn"t wish to interrupt you, I was just worried since your mana output suddenly rose and I thought you were fighting someone powerful. I just wanted to help... Still, no matter what the reason, what I did was wrong, master, I will accept any punishment you wish to give me."
"How about your uncle and his men, aren"t you going to defend them?" When Ren asked this, Kite looked at Lance a bit worried. If it was before, the gentle Lance would never leave his uncle in such a desperate situation. Yet the new Lance was a ruthless person and Kite could already predict his answer to Ren"s question.
"Based on what you said master, my uncle was the one in the wrong from protecting such trash. He deserves whatever punishment you will give him. Also, master, if you decided to annihilate my entire clan, even if I fight alongside my family and our men, the chances of winning were nonexistent. With that knowledge protecting my uncle from you is not possible." Lance without lifting his head from the ground answered.
"Aren"t you curious about why your uncle was protecting the young master of an opposing family?" Ren did want to kill Kite for obstructing him, but Lance"s nonchalance in allowing family members being killed was a bit weird for him.
If it was the past Ren, he wouldn"t even bat an eye as he would kill some of his children if they did something stupid. But now that he was human, he understood the complexity of the relations.h.i.+ps they had, especially the ones with their family.
Was Lance so nonchalant about it because he wasn"t really Lance Resteti but w.a.n.g Lin? That couldn"t be it since he was worried about the younger brother of Lance Resteti. Still, based on Ren"s understanding of w.a.n.g Lin he should"ve already killed someone like Kite a few days after he transmigrated but he didn"t, but now he"s allowing Ren to kill Kite. What kind of thoughts were flowing inside Lance"s mind Ren really wanted to know.
"I"m not really curious about that master, since it"s obvious what my uncle was planning to do. He should"ve already formed an oral agreement with the head of the Valiers, and promised to offer my sister"s hand in marriage to the Earl"s worthless son. My uncle must"ve thought that allying with the Valiers was the only option we had left to survive what"s to come. Obviously, he wouldn"t tell me any of this until the last moment. He must"ve thought to trick my sister into marrying that pig of the Valiers, telling her it"s all for the family"s best interest."
When Ren heard Lance"s explanation he looked at Kite"s reaction and saw the old man looking surprised. That must mean most of what Lance said was the truth. That would also mean that Lance knew of Kite"s dealing beforehand.
"If you knew why didn"t you stop it?" Ren who was irritated moments ago was now feeling a bit more curious about what was going in his new disciple"s mind.
"I had no choice... A powerful Duke of the kingdom was eyeing my territory, knowing how low the Restetis have fallen, and our relations.h.i.+p with the crown sullied, he thought that he could conquer my land. The royal family allows fighting between n.o.bles since they believe in strength above all else. Knowing that with my current military strength my whole family will be killed, I decided to see where my uncle"s plan would lead us to."
"Hmm, then are you alright with me killing the son of your allied family?"
"Like I said master, no matter what you want to do there is no way for me to stop it. So what else is there to say?" Throughout the conversation, Lance never lifted his head. Ren found his whole action to be over the top, but he kinda liked Lance"s sincerity.
"Alright then, lift your head. A disciple of mine should never bow their heads, not even to me."
When Lance heard what Ren said he enthusiastically stood up. "Yes, master!"
Ren then showed his back to Lance as he faced Simon, but before he continued he spoke to Lance. "Don"t worry I will help you deal with that Duke."
Lance wasn"t that surprised to hear that from Ren, since even though they only met a few days ago, Lance knew that his master was someone who loved to fight. He was more curious to see what kind of expression Ren was showing at this moment.
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After talking to Lance, Ren was finally able to give Simon his undivided attention. At this point due to feeling relieved and then feeling horrified again, made Simon unable to talk as he continued to cry.
Silika had already blocked the views of the people unrelated to the incident. The only people who will be witnessing the brutal scene were the Restetis and the Valiers.
Ren was finally able to sink his fingers into Simon"s eyes. The whole time Simon begged for mercy but Ren slowly pulled out the eyeball so that Simon can experience the most pain. Cedric watched as his only son had his eyes gouged out. Watching the scene only made him angrier at himself knowing how powerless he was.
Ren then pulled out Simon"s tongue and then took out a knife as he slowly cut the tongue. Blood was overflowing as Simon"s mouth became a fountain of blood.
Now it was finally the last part, even in his weakened state Simon struggled the best he could for Ren to stop. The men of the Restetis and Valiers didn"t want to watch the scene that was about to unfold and closed their eyes. The only ones who were watching were Cedric, Silika, and Lance.
Before Ren proceeded to cut off Simon"s genitalia he healed Simon"s body first since it looks like he would die from blood loss. After healing Simon Ren immediately tore off Simon"s genitalia. Unlike the first two times, he did this one quickly since Ren didn"t like holding another person"s genitalia.