Plundering In The Apocalypse

The Goddess of Death?

Author's Note:- Some parts of the chapter might be a little extreme for some readers. But I hope you'll bear with it and enjoy it. 

I've tried my best to make it as normal as possible. So I think you will probably enjoy it. 

Anyway, Happy Reading!!

____________________________________________________________________

"AAAHHHHHHHH"

A very loud scream echoed throughout the shelter hall.

*Chop!*

"ARGHHHH"

Sounds of painful screams were continuously heard inside the shelter. The bystanders could only watch and gulp in fear. As none of them dared to go against that girl.

One thing was clear. That girl was dangerous and from their talk, it was clear the man screaming in pain did something terrible and deserved it.

"Haah...Haah."

"Pl-Please let...me go."

"F-Forgive me." That man begged that girl to leave her.

"Huh? Forgive you? For what?"

"You did so many terrible things. I can't even count them properly."

"And you are asking me to forgive you."

"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?"

"We have just started. This much pain is nothing. My mom suffered much more than this. You will suffer as well."

"I'll not let you have an easy death." 

Alice said with a smile on her face. Brad shuddered in fear. He knew he was going to die today. 

Alice didn't show a shred of mercy while torturing Brad. She cut his fingers one by one. Whenever he gets unconscious from the unbearable pain. She wakes him up. His mind started to break when he lost all his fingers in both of his hands.

Brad thought his suffering might end if he faked death. But Alice showed a slight smile and took a hold of his hands.

"This is the hand which should have been my support from my childhood but alas, "

She shook her head and then she shouted with a fierce look. 

"Not only did you make our life full of sufferings. You used it to PUSH MY MOM TO HER DEATH."

"AAAAHHHHHHHH" Alice crushed his hand as she stomped on it. Brad shouted in pain. Even the people seeing this felt Brad's pain. They just shut their mouth and moved their eyes away.

"AAHHHHH-"

*Slap!*

Alice slapped him as he coughed up blood.

"If you don't stop shouting your tongue will be next," Alice said as she started to ponder something.

Hearing Alice's words Brad shut his mouth while bearing all that pain. He was crying in pain and just wanted to end this. People thought the torture might end soon as Brad already suffered too much. But the next words Alice muttered left everyone speechless.

She facepalmed as she said, "How can I be so stupid? If he dies so easily if I cut his tongue that would be problematic. I still haven't gouged out his eyes and even his legs are left."

She was too ruthless. 

Even though she was a very beautiful girl but now in the eyes of everyone, she looked more like a demon.

Drek and the others trembled in fear. How could they be so stupid that they got entranced by her beauty and picked on her?

 She was heartless. If she didn't show mercy even to her biological father. What would be their fate?

Brad felt miserable. He wanted to escape from there or at least get a swift death. His legs were still intact but with Alice here his chances of escaping were close to zero.

He felt hopeless.

But as if to get him out of his predicament. Monsters managed to break inside the shelter. People inside the shelter started panicking as the monsters started going on their rampage.

Amidst this chaos. Brad putting all his willpower stood on his legs and tried to escape from there. He knew that was his only chance in escaping. In a distance, different types of monsters were chasing anyone nearby.

Seeing Brad trying to escape Alice chased after him. From the group of monsters, a Corpse eater tried to attack Brad. He panicked for a second as from one direction a monster blocked his way and from another direction, his demon of a daughter is closing in on him. 

Both ways lead him to his certain death.

He tried to find a way of out this mess. He saw a kid crying not so far away from him. Soon his eyes landed on a woman approaching that kid hastily. 

He ran in that direction. That woman was about to get a hold of her kid when Brad kicked the kid who missed his mother's hand with a hair's breadth toward that Corpse eater.

That woman looked at her kid like she lost her soul.

Alice became even more furious at her father's actions. Suddenly her eye's color changed for a slight second as she quickly spoke

"Mom, please catch that kid, and Mr. Robin can you hold that monster for me."

Two human figures covered in white light appeared. As a book started floating in front of Alice.

The human figures flew after the kid. One of them got a hold of the kid and another one stopped the monster.

The people who saw this scene had their eyes popped out in shock. 

What the hell was happening?

Was that girl really a Goddess of death?

They looked at the girl and then traced their eyes at the kid who was safe in the embrace of a white figure who gave of a pleasant feeling. Like a mother embracing her child.

Many of them still had fear in their eyes. Who could blame them though? They just saw that same girl torturing someone.

But some had a look of admiration in their eyes.

They believed the girl in front of her can save them.

Unfornutaly for her the monsters inside took her power seriously. At that moment, Alice became the target of all the monsters who entered the shelter.

Brad took this chance to escape without alerting anyone. 

Alice wanted to chase after him. But she couldn't and if she were to do that. Everyone would die. She noticed the feelings comings from her mother and the resolution to help them came from Mr. Robin. As their feelings got transmitted to her due to their contract.

It seems even in her dark mode(her second persona in which she starts releasing a black aura) her mother's feeling calmed her mind.

"Guess you will live a little longer," Alice said with a calm look as she turned toward the monsters. She released white light from her hands and threw them toward the monsters. Within a few shots, she was able to kill some monsters. 

She dodged and jumped to the side while shooting them with the white light made of her mana. She tried to shape them into an arrow for easy use.

She had a feeling of something circulating inside her body as she kept on throwing these arrow-shaped white lights at those monsters. Even though she was killing them, she was also slowly getting tired. 

"It seems I can only use these skills with the amount of mana I have. Using them like an arrow is inefficient." 

Alice thought for a second as she dodged the attack from behind. She gather all her mana and tried to shape them into a scythe. The mana gathered was insufficient to make a proper scythe but its shape looked similar.

Alice was a little disappointed but she had to use it anyway. 

She used that scythe to attack the monsters. She started slicing them with all her might. Even though her strength was less so she can't do blunt damage. That skill was all the more effective on monsters.

She started getting more and more wounds as she kept on fighting monsters. Seeing her daughter in pain and Mr. Robin fighting monsters as not letting them surround Alice. Mia prayed for them and hoped she could do something to support her daughter. 

Suddenly a golden light fell on Alice as Mia prayed from the bottom of her heart.

[ Congratulations Pure Soul 1(Mia Kayden) has been upgraded to Tier 2.]

[ Pure soul 1(Mia Kayden) has acquired <Healing magic>]

[ Congratulations Pure Soul 2(Robin Woodland) has been upgraded to Tier 2.]

[ Pure Soul 2(Robin Woodland) has acquired <Body strengthening>]

"Wow, Mom and Mr. Robin became stronger."

Alice felt proud of them. She was a little bitter as they were not alive but at least they were with her. So she shook her head to remove unnecessary thoughts from her mind and focused her attention on those monsters.

An intense battle started and with the constant support of her mother's healing magic, Alice was able to fight with them.

 

Because of her inexperience, she had some troubles but Mr. Robin covered for her. As he was already strong before his death and now that he had acquired Body strengthening. He was able to pummel many monsters easily.

Soon both of them killed all the monsters in the facility. 

*"Fuueeh."*

Alice let out a deep breath. Her body was covered in dark blood. She had wounds all over her body. Even with her mother's magic, they weren't healing anymore. 

'Must be because that skill is still low leveled and I am too weak.'

'One's I get stronger Mom and Mr. Robin might get strong too.'

Soon a familiar screen popped in front of her.

There were some messages written on them.

[You have killed 5 Corpse eaters.]

[You have killed 4 Goblins.]

[You have killed 2 Velnora Dogs.]

'So those troublesome beasts were Velnora Dogs.' Alice thought after reading the messages. She had almost died while fighting them. Even though they are weak they are very fast. They had brown fur and were the size of a normal street dog. 

She was only able to kill them with the help of Mr. Robin. Just remembering the number of times her mother healed her because of them gave her a headache.

[Souls are available for capture.]

[Would you like to capture their souls?]

[Yes/No]

Alice looked at that message with a surprised expression.

But she didn't think much as she knew it was a necessary step.

"Yes."

Soon the <Soul Grimoire> started floating in front of her hand. 

The bodies of those monsters got covered in black purple light and they disappeared inside the book.

That scene looked like someone from hell came to reap the souls of those monsters.

Everyone had the same thought in mind. She was the 'Goddess of death'.

Even the people who had different opinions before started to believe it.

Alice didn't care about their opinion of her. As her mind was preoccupied with something different.

She looked outside the shelter. Her brows knit together in worry. She was worried about her Ex-father.

She was worried that might he escape from her hands and that she might not be able to torture him anymore. Their previous session was not enough to satisfy her hatred toward him. She still needs to gouge out his eyes, cut his tongue and burn him. 

Alice ran hoping to find him soon. She was too tired after all that fighting and using so much mana. Her body was covered in wounds. 

Luckily she found traces of her Ex-father. She found a blood hand mark without any fingers on the wall. She immediately knew it was him.

 

As she was the one who cut all his fingers.

Alice got excited as she ran with whatever stamina she had left. She was happy. This time she will exact her revenge properly. She made her way in the direction she assumed him to be.

Luckily she found him. But unluckily she was too late. He was already dead. Someone else got his hands-on Brad. It wasn't a person it was a monster holding onto Brad's body whilst chewing on other bodies beside him.

That monster looked terrifying.

( For a better understanding of the monster there's a picture in the paragraph comments and also in the chapter comments. Click on this para.)

The large humanoid monster stood crudely, its back bent over from the size of its head. It held the dead man with a tight-skinned arm and thick fingers, its muscles easily seen through the dried skin. 

It had bone spines clawing out of its back and head while its face was etched in mindless murder. Its eyes were unnervingly large and pure white, like lights luring prey. Its mouth was wide open with rows of small pointy teeth dripping with drool. 

It wore crude armor, chains, and skulls, animal and human. Its legs bent weirdly as the feets ended with bird-like claws. 

Skulls, most likely those of its victims, hung from its waist right next to a loin cloth that seemed to be the only article of clothing it possessed. 

Its body bulged with stringent muscle, yet possessed the vitality of rotting flesh, adding to its paradoxical looks. In its right hand, a body no less lifeless than itself was held with a humungous club in the opposite hand about the length of two men. 

Alice got the fright of her life. That monster wasn't anything like the monsters she had fought before. He was like their king or boss as there were many of them following him nearby. Collecting bodies for him to eat.

She was no match for him. She had to run fast or she might die if got caught. Alice ran in the south direction but after a few minutes of running she was out of stamina and her adrenaline wasn't able to hold her well. 

She stopped for a second to take a breath. But unfortunately for her just at that moment, a huge bird monster crashed into the building nearby and the debris fall on her. As she was too tired and full of wounds she couldn't dodge and got trapped inside the rubble.

"Am I going to die like this? Without doing anything. I can't protect my family. I can't exact revenge and now I am dying pathetically. Dying by that monster might not have been this shameful."

She had little to no strength left and her fatigue took over as she lost her consciousness.

'Seems like this is my end. I was only able to live for a few more hours mom. I don't think I can live anymore. I am sorry.'