A CRAZY LOVE - Episode 177
The moment Markus landed on the ground, first thing he did was break the window to grandpa’s bedroom and throw a poison bomb inside.
The poison bomb was made by him while gaurding the poison garden grown by professor.
But its dual effect was the smoke it produced along with the poisonous gas. This made the men unable to see much while Markus entered easily, striking at them one after another.
He was precise enough to strike at their vital points, going for all one shot ki||s. One had to appreciate Markus’s ki||ing aura. It never mattered whether he was carrying a gun or blade, no one had ever managed to avoid his blow and stay alive.
The way Markus was already on his slaughter mode, slashing seven men within a minute, the rest of room could only imagine the amount of determination he had to ki|| them all.
Plus they were unable to decipher Markus’s ki||ing pattern, as shouts for help could be heard from all corners of the room.
“Protect Master!!” Someone shouted while others started moving on instinct towards the place grandpa was sitting.
Yet there was no drop in the amount of voices screaming for saving them. As Markus had decided, he wasn’t leaving anyone alive over here, no matter what price he had to pay.
He was done with thirteen men, and could see that eight more were remaining, encircling the grandpa.
In fact at one moment Markus had started feeling a little off as this seemed way too easy.
Of course his blows were no joke, yet ki||ing all thirteen men within two minutes without much resistance seemed impossible, given that these men were specially designated to protect grandpa all the time.
Just as he was about to strike the fourteenth man, finally a voice spoke.
“Left.” Was the only thing said as the man about to be ki||ed shifted a little to left, dodging Markus’s attack while striking back powerfully.
Thankfully Markus was already on high alert, saving himself from a deathly stab directly on his chest.
If anyone was to clearly observe the pattern in which Markus ki||ed, it wasn’t hard to make out that Markus was ki||ing in an alternate pattern from outside to inside.
And this exactly was caught on point by the person who gave orders.
Markus quickly changed his direction of attack and stabbed his chin from below while he heard the man again.
“Python.” The same voice called out while Markus felt someone approaching him from behind.
But while turning, he was slashed in the process, giving him a long cut running down his back from left shoulder to the right end.
Markus didn’t utter even a single sound, but just moved back a little, taking another step back while the man took two steps ahead, his blade cutting the air making ‘swoosh’ sound.
Just when the man thought that Markus was about to dodge his attack once again and swung his blade in front of Markus, Markus held his hand in a tight grip before giving three quick stabs on his chest in succession, ultimately throwing him away.
He instantly bent down a little, as another loud ‘swoosh’ was heard at the level where his neck was present moments ago.
He directly held that person’s leg, stabbing his knee in the process before getting up and twisting his hand in a weird angle, his bones making crackling noise before stabbing him in the neck, stopping him from breathing his last.
After taking down another man, he was now put in a difficult spot as he found himself being surrounded by four men from all four sides.
Dodging two attacks, from front and other from right, Markus wasn’t even given a chance to breathe as the man on left stabbed him on left forearm.
He pulled his hand back along with the knife, simultaneously stabbing the man’s right arm.
He removed the stabbed knife within a second before swinging the same behind his back, slashing the throat of the man standing behind.
He kept fighting with both his hands, ultimately ending the rest three. In total this time he took a total of one and half minutes to end the last eight men.
“Astounding! Never expected I would be alive to witness the conclusion of my finest men through your hands, that too in such a way.” The voice said, and finally Markus turned behind, finally to see the owner of the voice.
A man wearing a royal outfit, with white beard, massive body, studded with diamond royal jewellery while sitting on a throne came into view as the smoke from the bomb started dissipating.
“Glad you did, cause next is your turn.” Markus said in a low voice, not wanting to waste more time before rushing in grandpa’s direction.
Unfortunately he was fast enough to dodge his attack while still sitting on the throne. Of course he had been the king of this nation for some reason. If he could be ki||ed this easily, then the throne would have been passed onto someone else ages ago.
Plus he could even decipher Markus’s attacking tactics, then how can he not dodge them?
Thus after engaging in a fight for barely ten seconds, Markus knew what he was in for.
Instead of attacking, Markus was forced to take a defensive stature, as grandpa attacked him with blades which were poisonous.
Fumes could be seen evaporating from the blades, showing how fatal they were. Markus dodged the attack thrice before finally grandpa stabbed him on the same left forearm twice.
Next without giving him much time, he took out the blade and punched Markus with a lot of force, directly on his chest, breaking his ribs which was proved by the breaking noise.
Markus was sent crashing to the floor while grandpa instantly bent down, finishing his last strike with a deep stab of the poisonous blade directly on his chest, right above his heart.
Markus gritted his teeth but used the same opportunity to strike back at grandpa.
Grandpa, who had slowed down a little due to being a little relieved while partially due to being out of breath from old age, wasn’t expecting such a fast reflex attack.
His neck was directly split horizontally with blood gushing out of it, spraying on Markus’s face as well while he caught his breath after the super action four minutes of his life.
Even at the moment of death, grandpa’s eyes carried nothing but shock of dying this way under Markus’s knife.
Markus, knowing that he didn’t have much time, threw the old bones away, getting up while groaning a little.
Just as he was about to exit the room, he heard some slight noises from inside.
His brain worked at the speed of 400 miles per hour before coming up with his escape plan.
He climbed out of the same window he had broken in from. He was still looking around, searching for some rope or other support to climb up when he suddenly heard a voice.
“Here.” The voice said, low but firm.
Markus instantly turned to look above, where the Imperial doctor was standing, holding a rope that he had passed upto him.
“I am heavy. Tie the rope somewhere. I will climb.” Markus whispered while holding the rope tightly with both of his hands, warning the Imperial doctor.
“And I am stronger than your imagination.” The Imperial doctor said before pulling the rope, successfully managing to get Markus off his feet in one single pull.
“You should seriously tie the rope somewhere. I’ll climb.” Markus said slowly one more time.
“You can not climb with an injured arm.” The Imperial doctor replied before giving the rope another pull, lifting Markus above.
Once Markus just a meter lower than the Imperial doctor, he climbed the edges of the window he had jumped from, entering the deserted room in one swift motion.
“Thanks.” Markus said while catching his breath, directly lying on ground out of exhaustion as well as the slight effect of the poison.
But the Imperial doctor, without wasting another second, directly started opening Markus’s shirt buttons, knowing what came next.
“$h|t! This is bad.” Even the Imperial doctor couldn’t help but curse after watching Markus’s chest injury.
Markus kept quiet, letting the Imperial doctor examine his wounds properly. The Imperial doctor took out a vial from his robe and poured it half over his chest injury, which had started to turn greenish black. Next he tied a tourniquet around his left arm to stop the spread of poison from limbs to the body.
“The chest poison seems to be fresh so only pouring this medicine first will stop its spread. But the arm injuries are almost a minute old, they have already started spreading a little but we don’t have more time. We will have to leave this place quickly.” The Imperial Doctor said while Markus simply nodded, slowly getting up.
“I will support you, till then you apply this on your hand stabs. It’s the same poison as your chest.” The Imperial doctor said.
“That old man was no joke.” Markus said while taking the vial from the Imperial doctor.
“Yeah. He deserved this though. He has done a lot of black deeds, raising the Professor this way being the topmost.” The Imperial doctor said without masking his hatred for the grandpa.
“I decided to leave through gate 7, and take the sea route.” Markus said, knowing he didn’t have much time to escape, so he should let The Imperial doctor take him that same way.
“Maybe you will cross the gates, but he will easily catch you in the sea, especially now that dawn is beginning, it would be easier.” The Imperial doctor said while walking towards another door which was hidden behind a curtain.
“Let’s move now. Professor won’t need much time to find you if he visits this room.” The Imperial doctor said while pulling Markus along with him through the door.
As earlier, he kept taking various turns before ending up in front of a hidden tunnel, just that the tunnel was much bigger than the tunnel Markus had come through.
Both of them entered a little when the Imperial doctor stopped. There was pitch darkness inside and Markus had to turn his torch on to watch things around.
Once the torchlight was on, the Imperial doctor didn’t waste another minute to quickly take out more vials and powders.
He immediately applied two more on the chest injury, making Markus hiss from its burning sensation.
“This wound will take the longest to heal.” He said and then moved to his left forearm to apply the same.
“There is one more on the back.” Markus said.
The Imperial doctor instantly removed Markus’s shirt completely.
“Python.” He sighed.
“Yeah that old man called the same name before that man striked.” Markus answered.
The Imperial doctor took out a blade before he scraped the edges of cut wound as Markus didn’t say a single word but inhaled sharply.
“The poison ki||s surrounding tissue and spreads the same way, ki||ing nearby cells and tissue. Thus I am scraping the cut edges so that the dead cells are removed to stop its spread.” The Imperial doctor explained.
After applying two medicines over Markus’s back wound, he finally covered the shirt back on his body.
“Keep going through this tunnel till the end. Once you are out, you will find a forest. Keep following the Judas trees, they will lead you to a shorter sea route, which will be entering directly in country F. I need to go now or else the Professor would find out about this.” The Imperial doctor said.
Markus had wanted to speak a lot but alas he didn’t say all those things.
“Thank you.” Was the only thing he said before nodding when the Imperial doctor was to turn around, but suddenly called out Markus again.