Lord of Annihilation

In the house, the other intruder was searching for Lucius. He carefully searched every corner but found no one inside.

"Did he know we were going to come. and ran away.", the man thought out loud.

He turned a round and noticed that his partner had not followed him inside.

"Hey, quit lazing out there and look around. He's not in here!", the man shouted to instruct his partner. He waited for a few second but no reply was heard.

"What's happening?!", the man started panicking. An eerie feeling set in.

"He's not going to be able to answer.", a voice suddenly interjected. The was cold and almost mechanical. No emotion could be felt from that voice.

"Who-Who's there?!", the man completely lost his cool and started screaming and jumping.

"Who else could it be? Aren't you here for me.", the voice calmly replied.

Hearing his answer the man squinted his eyes and saw a handsome boy standing in front of him at a distance. He was hidden by the shadows and was calmly watching his every moment.

The intruder suddenly felt that his life wasn't in his hands anymore. Already feeling very scared the man couldn't maintain his state of mind anymore.

Lucius used this opportunity and infused a bit of his soul power in his eyes and his voice. The man who was looking at Lucius with a scared face, suddenly noticed a red in Lucius' eyes. He found himself unable to move his eyes away from Lucius. The look on the intruder's eyes became blank. His body relaxed and he looked similar to a puppet. His hands hanging limply and his face calm.

"Tell me, why are the both of you here?", Lucius spoke up, there was a irresistible charm in his mechanical voice.

The intruder mindlessly replied, "Boss Luther did not show up earlier today and we got to know that he was hospitalized. Vice-leader asked us both to come here and interrogate you at night."

"Oh and why is your vice leader interested in me?", Lucius continued to investigate.

"I am not sure but I overheard the Vice Leader talk to Boss about gifting the project you were working on to someone." the man replied.

"How did you get my ID?", Lucius asked.

"While you were leaving from the lab yesterday one of the students pickpocketed your card and gave it to vice leader." ,he replied.

"Final Question, who is your vice leader?" ,Lucius asked for the final time. By now he had gotten a general idea on what was happening.

"It's Young master Keith from the Cline family." the man replied.

'Keith Cline, huh.' Lucius closed his eyes and browsed his memories. He had no recollection of this name. 'Someone insignificant', Lucius concluded.

He then walked towards the intruder and slowly snapped his neck. The way he performed the action looked very natural, similar to how one would breathe. As he watched the man die, Lucius had no change in his expression or mental state, although his soul seemed to rejoice.

'I need to dispose of their bodies somewhere.' Lucius thought as he moved. He first tied the hands and legs of the guy and carried him outside. He then similarly tied the body of the other guy who was outside. Lucius then carried both of them over his shoulder and started travelling deeper into the dense forestry that was next to the residential area. Lucius took extra care to avoid the cameras and travelled in a quick manner.

Compared to the hellish Endurance test he had finished, this task seemed a lot easier. Plus he had mostly recovered his soul power by now and was putting it to good use.

The Earth Alliance Academy, in Earth is known throughout the Alliance for it's vast open spaces and dense forests. It was also the first academy established by the Alliance. No matter how many planets humans colonized, none of them had the same feeling as their home world. The mother planet felt inherently different.

These vast open spaces and dense forests became the perfect cover for Lucius to hide these bodies. Lucius travelled for around 30 minutes and then found a spot that was decent enough. It wasn't too obvious nor was it secretive. He in fact wanted the the academy to find these bodies and publicize the news. Lucius did not have the strength or backing to directly clash with Keith nor Luther. He wanted to use this opportunity to buy himself some time.

Lucius knew who his opponents were, but his enemies were clueless. This scenario was a perfect example of hiding in the darkness, while watching the light. Lucius wanted to make full use of this.

He then carelessly dug up a bit of the earth and buried the bodies in a hurriedly manner. He wanted to give the others a false impression on what really happened. After making sure the scene was perfect, Lucius wiped his hands and made his way back. halfway through Lucius got rid of the clothes he was wearing and buried them inside a tree trunk. This was a location where people would constantly look at, but wouldn't investigate as it was too obvious.

Lucius ran the rest of the way naked and finally made it into his house. He then changed his clothes and sat down cross legged.

'It's about time that I activate this.' Lucius thought to himself as he held the dark gold crystal in hands. He then closed his eyes and sunk into this consciousness. In there he saw the reddish-black cloud floating calmly.

Lucius neared the cloud and started drawing a part of it outside his body. As soon as he began doing this, a sharp pain struck his body. He felt his body being chopped into pieces and then further grinding the said pieces.

He grit his teeth and continued to draw a part of the cloud outside. The crystal which was sitting in his hands silently, suddenly started bouncing up and down after it realized what he was doing.

Lucius kept pulling the cloud and then finally directed it towards the crystal. The crystal after coming into contact with the cloud immediately started absorbing it in a furious manner.

Lucius opened his eyes and calmly stared at the crystal. It was rotating at high speeds while being covered with a reddish-black cloud. Faint rays of golden light was peeking through the gaps in the cloud. The cloud slowly started shrinking in size.

This process went on for 15 minutes, when the cloud completely vanished and the crystal abruptly dropped to the ground. There was no visible change in the size of the crystal. It still was the size of a palm and was shining a bit brighter than before.

Lucius stared at the crystal on the floor for a few minutes and then suddenly spoke up.

"Stop acting and wake up."