Chapter 180: Do You Understand?
The first person Alpha saw walking into the tent was the Radagan princess they had been looking for all this time, and Alpha felt anger fill her heart as she thought about killing the foolish girl right then. But Alpha’s attention was immediately stolen by the other person who entered.
He was a handsome man with a mana signature unlike anything Alpha had ever seen before. In her time as an assassin, Alpha had seen, fought, and killed many creatures and species from different worlds, but she had always been able to tell exactly what sort of creatures she was fighting just from sensing their mana signature! But the man in front of her now was like a combination of many different signatures that made no sense! His Essence was completely unreadable! He was barely human, barely a Moonlight Wolf, and he also had a percentage of the Dragonblood gene in him!
But there was a main mana signature he possessed that Alpha could not place her finger on. It was dominating and more intense than anything that Alpha had ever felt before!
"What in the world are you?"
Alpha’s eyes narrowed as she glared at Jason, but Jason frowned when he couldn’t understand a word she said. A system prompt immediately popped up.
[Foreign Language detected...]
[Analysing...]
[Analysing...]
[Analysing...]
[Analysing...]
[Foreign language has been identified as the [Demon] Language from the world of Raksha. Will the user like to assimilate this language? Yes/No?]
Jason immediately chose yes, and he felt a strange sensation travel across his tongue as the language was automatically registered in his brain. Jason ran his tongue across his teeth a few times to get rid of the tingling sensation before he finally spoke to Alpha in the Raksha tongue.
"Get up."
Raksha felt shock pass through her body when she saw a human speaking her tongue, and she eyed the monster standing at the side cautiously as she slowly stood up. Alpha could tell that both the monster and Jason were stronger than her, so she didn’t make any rash movements. Her shadow ability wasn’t allowing her to leave this tent for some reason, and she would have to come up with some other way to escape if she wanted to leave here alive.
"Do you know who I am, Alpha?"
Jason’s question put Alpha on edge, and she slowly shook her head in the negative. Jason nodded.
"Yes, I’m sure you wouldn’t know me. But you see, I know a lot about you. I know you’re willing to do anything to complete a mission. Killing children, assassinating fathers and mothers, eradicating entire towns and villages. Nothing is too low for you, and you complete all your missions with complete professionalism... But you see, you made a mistake, Alpha."
Jason reached into his Alternate Dimension and pulled out a dagger, and Alpha’s eyes narrowed when she saw that it was one of the poison daggers that her men use! Alpha immediately decided that she wasn’t interested in sticking around and finding out what Jason was going to do next and she activated her Shadow ability to fall into the shadow of the tent! But a single order from Jason sent the adamantine Ant into the shadows as well and Alpha was dragged out by her hair and thrown to the ground in shock!
’He can use the shadows as well!? What have I gotten myself into!?’
Alpha couldn’t understand what was going on! Her shadow ability was something that just anyone could learn! It was special to her! How in the world did he learn how to use it!? Jason kept his intense stare throughout Alpha’s escape attempt and Alpha grit her teeth desperately when she finally turned to him!
Jason continued talking like he had never been interrupted in the first place.
"You see, this knife was used by one of your men to kill the woman I love..."
Jason walked towards Alpha slowly as the pressure in the room began to increase in intensity, and Alpha slowly began calling on her mana. There were a few rings on Alpha’s left hand that were power-boosting artifacts, and the moment she felt Jason releasing mana, she sent mana towards her left hand to try and activate the ring’s properties!
ROARR!
A wolf suddenly appeared from behind Alpha and grabbed her left hand before she could activate the artifacts! The wolf bit down hard on her hand and Alpha bit her lip hard as she felt her left hand come off! Where the hell did the wolf come from!? She was sure there were no beasts behind her just a second ago!
Jason was still walking towards Alpha while ignoring the river of blood pouring out from her detached arm, and Jason lashed out and grabbed her by the neck once he was close enough.
"Your subordinates took this knife and ran it across her stomach without any thought..."
A hollow smile appeared on Jason’s face as he slowly ran the blade across Alpha’s midsection!
Slash!
"...Just like that."
Alpha gasped in shock at the action and she fell to her knees once Jason released her! She grabbed her stomach in pain as she felt the neurotoxin starting to take effect, and Jason crouched down and spoke to her as she struggled.
"Do you have any idea what it was like for me to see her struggling like that? Do you know what I had to do to make sure she didn’t leave me? No, you don’t know anything. You’ve probably never loved a thing in your life before. But don’t worry, I’m not a vindictive person. I won’t keep you alive and make you suffer forever because of what you did. Instead, I’m going to leave you here to die slow..."
Alpha clawed her way forward with a resolute look on her face and headed for a bag a few meters away from her. Jason gave a mental command to Fenrir, and the wolf came and grabbed the bag before taking it away. Alpha immediately deflated at that action and fell back to the ground.
Jason grabbed her hair and pulled her up so that she was looking at him. There was blood leaking from one side of her mouth, and the blood she had lost from her detached arm was staining the floor with red, but there was still an intense defiance in her gaze. Jason didn’t even react to it as he continued talking.
"...but you dying slow isn’t going to be enough for me to forget what you did. No, even after your death, I’m going to bring your soul back to life. I’ll personally make sure that you never make it to the Rivers of the Afterlife, and just like your followers carried out your every instruction without question, you will have no choice but to do my bidding. You will be my pet. My loyal, obedient pet that will starve for my attention. Everything that you are and everything that you’ve ever been will only exist to serve me for the rest of your undead life."
As Jason spoke, he watched Alpha’s face slowly morph from a look of defiance, to dread, and finally to mortification. Alpha finally understood how Jason was able to get all these monsters to obey him and how he killed so many of her men at once. He was a Necromancer!
This was bad! If there was one thing that Alpha would never wish on anyone, it was for them to be targeted by a Necromancer! She had heard the stories about how Necromancers could rewrite your soul and make you bound to the Necromancer forever! A small part of your soul would still be conscious enough to know that you weren’t meant to be obeying the Necromancer, but the larger parts of you would completely overwhelm that small part and you would be tied to the Necromancer for the rest of your undead life! Jason’s words were not just empty threats! They were real!
She needed to think of something! Anything that would help her get out of this! If she offered him money, he would still kill her! He blames her for killing his lover, so it would be nearly impossible for him to let her go!