New Eden: Live to Play, Play to Live

Chapter 816 A Proper Send Off

"Listen, young man. Can't we stop this charade?" Elder Bai pleaded, trying to back out of it.

"Finish the oath, old man," David replied, a grin on his face.

"This poem could hardly be called an oath," Bai Feng lied.

"I said finish it!" David snapped.

His shadow expanded again, swallowing the room, and the Death Knight appeared next to Bai Feng, halberd out and extended under his neck.

Bai Feng gulped.

He hadn't even felt the thing next to him appear; its Qi signature was utterly inexistent.

He was trapped.

And the young man beside him was still whispering to himself, his eyes closed.

'Shit…' the old man thought.

"Mr. Magnus, I think this is going too far…" Mr. Gu interjected.

"Shut up, Gu. I don't give a rat's ass about your opinion. I know who sicked the Zhong Kui on Alex. Don't think for a second you are out of the woods."

Mr. Gu swallowed nervously.

'When has he become so overbearing?' he wondered.

His aura was that of an emperor, not of a young adult. It felt like going against David's words would only end in death.

Mr. Gu didn't know when this change happened, but didn't like it. A man who could crush others with his aura alone was a danger to society.

But Alex intervened.

"Alright, enough. David, forget it. I don't care if he sends more people. I'll just kill them. We don't have time to be wasting terrorizing kids and old men. And I want to eat breakfast. These idiots attacked us so early, I haven't eaten yet."

David looked at him from the corner of his eye. Alex looked serious.

"Are you alright with them sending people after you over and over again?" he asked.

"Tch! If they send people after me again, I guess I'll borrow their address from you and remove them from the equation. Sounds reasonable, right?" Alex asked, looking at Bai Feng.

David looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

"You sound too much like me. Tone it down. But I don't disagree with this outcome either. Sadly, he will still have to see my face soon, as I will be going there to talk to their leaders. I can't leave the Zhong Kui as it is now. It's a burden on humanity."

Alex shrugged.

He didn't care about them. As long as they left him alone, he wouldn't go after them and tear them apart limb from limb.

That was as far as he was willing to compromise.

His gut was already telling him that going after them was a waste of time. They hadn't harmed Kary, and he was fully healed from their attacks.

And as David had said, he was holding back, trying not to kill them, toward the end.

Kary had been the one to fling one out the patio door. Not him.

During their fight, he felt something react inside him, and he figured out his demonic powers. But using them would assuredly result in people dying.

And deep down inside him, he still didn't want to kill people. Not if he could figure out another solution to whatever problem he faced.

Right now, David had given him an escape from this confrontation.

If the Zhong Kui didn't take this out, he would reluctantly go after them. But for now, the door was open to a peaceful outcome.

Elder Bai looked at Alexander and frowned.

'One minute, he threatens to decorate his home with my insides and drink my blood. The next minute, he wants us to go away and leave him alone… How much of the demon was speaking earlier? And how much of it is speaking now?' he wondered.

But this was his best option yet.

"We will leave if you allow us. And I will try to convince the leaders that you are not a threat. That the demon is under your control and not the other way around. As for you, Mr. Magnus, I hope you know stepping onto that mountain comes with its risks," Elder Bai stated.

David scoffed.

Seeing that his warning fell on deaf ears, Elder Bai decided it was useless to push more.

He got up, grabbed the young man's shoulder, and raised his hand. As he was about to chant his incantation to disappear, He felt something grab his shoulder.

"One last thing. A goodbye gift, if you will," Alex said, now next to him.

He grabbed the young man's collar and, with a twist, shot both of them out of the patio door and into the city sky.

"Have a safe trip home, you shits!" he shouted, as they both fell toward the city streets.

Elder Bai quickly reacted, diving toward the younger member under him, and latched onto him before chanting, "Yídòng!"

In a flash of blue, both he and Xue Wei disappeared from the air, reappearing somewhere safe as they gasped for air.

The adrenaline in their system took a few moments to simmer out as they realized he had almost killed them.

"Do kids nowadays have no respect for others?" Elder Bai cursed, holding his palpitating chest.

In the Penthouse, Mr. Gu was livid at what had just happened, and ran over to the balcony railing, hoping the elder had enough Qi left to carry them away. Otherwise, they would leave a big mess on the street below.

But when he saw nothing, he sighed in relief.

In the meantime, David had burst into laughter.

"What an exit! Bouahahaha! You just gave a new meaning to showing the door, I swear! Bouahahaha!"

Kary was looking at Alex with a smirk.

'They deserved that,' she thought, remembering the sword under her chin.

She got up, clapping her hands.

"Alright! Now that this is over. Who wants breakfast? I was thinking of crepes. Any takers?" she asked, smiling as if nothing had happened.

'Man, women switch gears so fast,' all three thought, with different facial expressions.