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—SILENCE!! —Lord roared.
His voice thundered through the room, and a thick vein throbbed in his forehead. The simple fact of hearing those mortals babbling incessantly had exhausted his patience.The hall fell into a deathly silence.
Snap!
Lord snapped his fingers. *** vanished from his seat and instantly reappeared in the center of the stage, paralyzed, his arms pinned to his sides and his legs stiff. The teachers and security guards tried to stand up, alarmed, but Lord didn't even look at them: with a simple wave of his hand, he pinned them to their seats, unable to move.
—Don’t even breathe —he ordered coldly. Then his eyes, cold and bright, settled on ***, whose face had turned from hatred to pure terror. —I warned you. I said that if you tested my patience, you wouldn’t like what happened.
Without another word, Lord reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a massive hammer, absurdly large, like something out of a cartoon. The handle was made of black iron, and the hammerhead, the size of a human torso, gleamed with a cruel edge.
*** opened his mouth to scream, but only managed a choked groan.
The hammer rose.
For an eternal instant, the steel head hung suspended in the air, reflecting the hall's lights. Then it fell.
CRAAACCCKKK!
The impact was brutal, wet, and final.
***’s head didn’t explode: it was crushed. His skull collapsed like an eggshell under a hydraulic press. The bones pulverized instantly, and brain matter, eyes, and tongue were expelled outward in a violent eruption of gray matter, blood, and bone fragments. The hammer continued its merciless descent, tearing through the neck like wet paper and continuing down through the torso.
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And very soon…
- Chapter 10.5 "The Silence That Changed Us"
- Chapter 1 "Destiny Written"
