Silence descended on the old temple; a generation genius died like that.
The moment the others saw Alex aiming the silver gun at Cecilia, they understood that she was good as dead, she would be forever gone, she could only herself to blame. In this universe, there are some people one should better not provoke for fear of dying.
Leon and the others were doing their best to get up when they heard Alex's voice.
''Do you have a death wish?"
Alex's tone was sinister and murderous!
A black chain flew out from his right hand and pierced through the air at dreadful speed.
Psh!
''Ahhhhhh!"
Leonardo howled and fell on the ground; the black chain had pierced through his thigh, his armor could not even protect him; it was as if the black chain ignored it and directly penetrated through his flesh, making him feel endless pain, he had never felt so much pain before, it was not only physical pain, but it reached his soul as well.
Leonardo had the feeling that if Alex could, his soul would have been tormented for eternity; just by imagining the amount of pain this would bring, Leonardo fell chill run down his spine. He was curious about the origin of this sinister chain, but at the moment, he was not in the mood because Alex was glaring at him with those emotionless eyes, which scared him more than anything; no one knows what the current Alex was capable of doing as he was unpredictable.
Finally, the others understood that Leonardo was trying to use what happened as an opportunity to escape, but Alex caught him. Like Leonardo, they were also curious about the black chain around Alex's wrist.
''Did I say you could leave?" Alex asked with an expressionless face.
Leonardo's face darkened, and he shouted.
''Fuck! If I want to leave, nobody can stop me!"
''Purgato-"
''Erase!"
Bang!
A silver bullet penetrated through Leonardo's chest, stopping him from using the purgatory mode when his body was lifted and got thrashed against the ground.
Bam!
''Gah!"
Leonardo's mouth fell open, and blood flowed out; Alex appeared before him and lifted him by the neck; he grabbed his neck so tightly that Leonardo felt like choking; the others frowned, not understanding why Alex became so violent.
Alex ignored the weird stares he was getting and locked eyes with Leonardo; time seemed to have stopped for the two; it was unknown why but at the moment, from the onlookers' point of view, the two seemed to be in their world talking.
Suddenly, the situation changed; lightning gathered in one of Leonardo's legs before it exploded. Because of his proximity with Alex, he was engulfed in a lightning explosion while Leonardo's body flew out of the lightning explosion, escaping from the temple; he floated in the air for a moment before disappearing his last words were.
''Alex, I'll get my revenge soon.''
Alex said nothing; he was completely unscathed because a black chain extended to form a shield before him; it was this shield that took the lightning explosion head on.
''What the hell?" Leon exclaimed, unable to comprehend what just happened; looking at the others beside him, most of them were confused as well. Only Maria, Artemia, and Kuina seemed to understand something; finally, Leon remembered something and chuckled.
'What great actors!' He thought but said nothing.
''I think you all must have recovered by now; let's leave. We will talk later. It's time to go back to our world.'' Alex, after his gaze, swept on everyone and noticed that most of their wounds had healed.
After helping them, the group left and returned to Dragone's City because most of the people, most of the big shots inside the city, were still under Kuina's control; the group easily entered the city as for the death of their king and prince none of them was aware of it because most of the survivors died, those that survived left the area afraid of another calamity coming, no they were afraid that another hydra would come down to avenge the one that died.
In the blink of an eye, three days had passed.
Morning, daybreak.
A ray of sunlight broke through the window and landed on a handsome face.
His black hair fell casually like a waterfall and swayed gently by itself. Alex's eyes snapped open, his green and blue eyes shone brightly, he stood up and strode toward the window, sunlight shone on his face making him appear more handsome. He was calm, but under this calmness was a raging tornado ready to be unleashed at any moment. He didn't lose his rationality upon Luna's kidnapping; the group had considered many situations. Naturally, situation like what happened was considered as well. It was why none of them panicked as they knew everything wasn't lost yet, people from the Holy Crux empire may think they have one, but it wouldn't be easy, the group was prepared, and as Luna had said, they made a terrible mistake, they shouldn't have done that.
Suddenly, there was the sound of someone knocking on the door.
''Enter!" Alex said without looking back, after becoming a Demi-God, his already sharp senses became sharper, his Divine Sense became sharper as well, it was always activated; naturally, he knew the identity of person knocking.
The door was pushed open, and someone entered; she immediately got her knee and greeted Alex.
''Master, I'm back. I managed to bring Lady Sakuya.''
''Welcome, prepare; we will depart soon. It seems that you didn't manage to encounter the rest of the team.'' Alex said with a sigh; it was a shame that Noire didn't manage to encounter Drei and the others, but at least she brought Sakuya back; the group was now ready to leave.
Noire bowed before leaving; immediately after she left, Sakuya appeared; her footsteps were light. If it weren't for his Divine Sense, Alex wouldn't have noticed her.
'Good! She became a lot stronger.'
''I'm back, honey; I miss you w don't worry; we will help you rescue Luna.'' Sakuya declared as she hugged Alex; he spun and embraced her, he missed her a lot.
''Don't worry, everything is under control.'' Alex declared, and Sakuya nodded; after cuddling for a while, they left for the grand hall where the others were waiting for them to depart.
''Let's leave.'' The moment he entered, Alex declared before stopping and adding.
''Don't worry, you will know more about my new weapon once we go back."
The others smiled, eager to go back.