Lord of Annihilation

Holding the ID in his hand, Lucius' mind started to rapidly draw a plan. Seeing the plan forming in Lucius' mind, Ka'lor'ah was stunned."This, will work?!", she asked in a disbelieving tone.

"Considering her personality, 100%", he calmly replied.

Hearing his confident reply, Ka'lor'ah gave him a sign of confirmation. Lucius then immediately started running back to his home. If this was going to work, he needed to work really fast. Once he made it back home, Lucius changed his clothes to an all black version. He then covered his head with a dark cloth, hiding his features save for for his eyes. Once he was done with the preparation, Lucius started heading to a location he had just shortly been to.

The Medical Facility.

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In the medical facility a group of teenagers were surrounding a bed. In the bed was an handsome, slender boy, who was seemingly asleep. His breath was even and his expression was serene, if not for the metal tubes that had been inserted into him, people would think he was just sleeping.

One boy among these teenagers stood out, he watched the boy in the bed with a furrowed expression, seemingly in deep thought.

He then turned his head and asked to one the boys near him, "What did the Medcare Bots say?"

The boy who was questioned, hurriedly replied, "It seems boss Luther had been injured pretty bad. The bots repaired his body, but his mind seems to have experienced heavy mental trauma. The bots aren't sure if and when boss might wake up."

Hearing this the boy remained silent. One the people next to him hesitantly asked, "Boss Keith, who could've done such a thing. Not only did this person injure Boss Luther heavily, two of our other brothers are in an even worse state."

"I don't know.", Keith replied.

This young man standing with a thoughtful expression was Keith Cline, the vice leader of Luther's gang, He was also the person, who sent the two intruders to interrogate Lucius after he learnt what happened to Luther.

Right now, Keith was thinking to himself.

'Luther and his two goons, went after that kid Lucius, after I 'slightly' instigated him to rough up the kid and get that project from him. Yet, somehow this fool got beaten up to such state while that kid is fine. What could have happened, who intervened?', Keith thought hard but couldn't come up with a concrete answer.

'Did that kid, Lucius do this?', Keith surprisingly even considered the possibility that Lucius might have attacked him. 'No but that's impossible. I've seen that kid myself, he doesn't have the ability to do something like this, unless he transformed into some kind of an expert all of a sudden', he concluded.

Little did Keith know, this random inexplicable guess of his was what actually happened.

While Keith was deeply in thought, something suddenly flew in through the window next to him. A small paper enclosing a metal object flew in Keith's direction. Seeing this from the corner of his eyes, Keith did not panic and calmly reacted. He slightly moved his feet and caught the object in his hands. He immediately opened the package and saw a message and an ID.

"You better give up on that kid. What he has belongs to me.", the letter stated. Keith then took a look at the ID and his pupils froze. A familiar name was written in the ID,Cole.

'Didn't I send this guy to interrogate Lucius?', Keith was deep in thought when a voice interrupted him. "Boss! Are you okay!", the voice was very panicked.

Keith took a deep breath and calmly answered, "I'm fine. Did anyone see who threw this?", he asked while looking at all the faces in the room. Hearing his question, everyone immediately shook their heads.

Keith then instructed the members, "4 of you go immediately and get that project from Lucius' hand. You must be quick and make sure to do it in a secluded spot."

4 members among them, immediately complied and took off. Keith then thought to himself, 'If I get it first, what can you do.' he sneered.

Meanwhile, the four of them immediately began on the job and started seeking Lucius. After interrogating some the people who lived near him, they got to know that he went in the direction of the cafeteria. Hearing this, the four of them immediately started heading in that direction.

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"That concludes the initial preparation. We can begin the next stage.", Lucius spoke to himself.

"You were quite close to that girl ,huh. To the point that you still remember where she used to have lunch and all.", a voice sounded from his pocket.

After throwing that paper at Keith, Lucius then made it back home, without anyone taking notice of him and changed his clothes again. He then started moving in the direction of the cafeteria to begin the next part of his plans.

Hearing that smug voice, Lucius immediately ignored her comments and continued walking. Seeing him not reply and voice got even more bold and continued, "Heh-heh, do you want to get close to her again. Is that why, you made this plan. Although seeing where you are coming from, your actions are completely reasonable. After all, who does not want their first love to succeed."

"Shut up.", as she was about to continue, Lucius interrupted her with a cold voice.

"You don't tell me when to shut up..", seeing Lucius reveal his killing intent ,she immediately became obedient. Currently they, had already arrived before the cafeteria. Lucius then retracted his killing intent and made his way towards the food counter. It was already lunch time and the cafeteria was quite packed. He spent some of his points at the counter and bought a basic meal.

Lucius, holding the tray in his hand, started walking towards the place where he was planning to confront the people, who were going to come after him. As see was walking, Lucius noticed a blonde hair girl walk past him. Seeing her, Lucius' mind suddenly became chaotic.

'Reyna,' a name popped up into his mind. Lucius paused his steps and did not continue. His mind was no longer calm and was abuzz with a thousands of thoughts. He wondered whether he should walk over to her, talk to her or perhaps explain himself to her. A strange thought began forming in his mind. For some reason, he wanted to walk over towards her and hug her.

As Lucius' mind was being flooded with chaotic thoughts. The reddish-black fog, which was usually calm, suddenly began stirring. A strange kind of energy started being radiated from it's center and started to purge Lucius' thoughts. As soon as this energy started spreading, Lucius' mind became utterly calm. After purging all chaotic thoughts, the cloud returned to it's previous state. His face regained it's emotionless look and his eyes became cold and deep.

'To think that, I would lose my calm from merely meeting an acquaintance from my previous life. How pathetic.', Lucius began brutally admonishing himself. 'Are you really going to mess up everything, after just reaching this point. I am disappointed in you, Lucius. A person like you, deserving a second chance to correct your wrongdoings, is already way over what someone like you deserves.' as his thoughts continued Lucius strangely started referring to himself in third person. It was as if the person thinking in his mind wasn't him but someone else.

Ka'lor'ah watched this internal conflict happen but did not do anything. She calmly watched the whole process with a cold stance. 'It's already this serious, huh. His state of mind is one of the most complicated ones I have ever seen. Fixing it is going to be very difficult.' As she thought upto here, she noticed 4 new people enter the cafeteria. Seeing them, she immediately informed Lucius.

"It seems the pawns you were waiting for have finally arrived.", hearing her voice, Lucius extracted himself from his thoughts and looked up.

Seeing them, Lucius spoke up, "Proceeding with the next stage."