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Absorption Chapter 2! So soon.

This one's a long one.

It was a very quiet room for a god slaying menace to be hiding in.

Aerie was almost surprised to see Voidcaller as an old man, maybe in his 60’s or so. He was the only man in the room.

Voidcaller had the power to go invisible. Right.

Aerie reached out with tendrils of air, trying to feel everything in the room.

Nothing, no one.

He checked behind him. The door was still as he had left it.

Aerie looked back to the old man squatting in the corner.

Wait.

Where was that old man?

Aerie felt something disturb the air. He created a bubble of air around it and popped it. That would kill anything within it.

Then his danger sense went off, and Aerie was almost forced – it was more like a guiding sense – to fly upwards, crushing the roof with a burst of air pressure.

The area blew up with a purple explosion.

A man lay in the crater. Alive.

He was alive. The air was moving in and out of his lungs. He wanted Aerie to believe he was dead.

Aerie walked right up to the coward. Most epics had a cool down on their powers, and couldn’t use them right after.

And he grabbed the Voidcaller – a 62 year old man with a sense of age on his face – by the neck, and used air pressure to rip open his chest.

It was painful for both of them. Aerie always hated blood and gore, but he had to make a public impression.

Aerie smiled as he brushed off the pieces of the Voidcaller’s chest cavity.

It felt good to kill. Sparks. It felt good.

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It wasn’t long before Recapture asked if the Voidcaller was truly dead.

Which he was.

Aerie was certain of it. He had scattered the pieces far enough that a healing epic couldn’t save him, and he heard no report of resurrecting old people roaming the streets.

Recapture was a coward. A true coward. One that hid behind the greater epics. Epics like himself.

Insolence was a blockade. Strength and Invincibility were Insolence’s powers. What either of those powers had to do with insolation was beyond Aerie’s imagination. But he was going to get in Aerie’s way. Insolence didn’t know any of Aerie’s plans, so he was not a high priority target.

Aerie’s low target enemy was adamant about Absorption being alive. He believed that Absorption is faking is death, and when he returns, those loyal to him will prosper.

That was, undoubtedly, false.

“We should be recruiting all the epics. Telling them to stay in line or else –“ Insolence motioned a cutthroat with his fingers, “Absorption will deal with them.”

Recapture was impartial to everything. Whether that scared Aerie or not was concerning, but that was not a problem.

The three of them: Aerie, Recapture, and Insolence were the tools of Absorption’s rule. They didn’t really get a choice about working for him. The way it would work was that you would receive a letter.

The letter that thousands of epics received. Only around half of them lived. You could hide, but you couldn’t run. Absorption could kill you from any distance.

The letter had a message from Absorption. Aerie’s letter had the message: I do not care where you are. You must come to Alensdale in five days, or I will kill you. And you cannot hide.

It still chilled Aerie. The words were so crude. Absorption didn’t need to care who you were. He won either way. He didn’t need to bother with persuasive language. He was in control.

“Well, then. I’ll make sure that people fall into line then.” Aerie responded.

He would make them all fall into line.

All of them. Just like how Absorption did it.

Everyone was following the rules.

And the rules would be made by Aerie.

He had waited a long time for this moment.

And he would savor it.

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And... That's It! Maybe I'll finish another chapter today. Just thought I would post this bonus one here.