Free Web NovelChapter 30: Chapter 30. Legend of the Crimson Winged Warrior.
Aiden patiently waited.
By 8pm, a black sedan rolled to a stop before the house.
A middle-aged man in a hat stepped out.
"That’s the sheriff," Aiden thought, a knowing glint flashing through his crimson eyes.
The sheriff passed the pavement that led to his house. Then, he proceeded towards the door.
He rang the bell, a woman opened the door and gave him a passionate kiss with the sweetest smile.
"He’d never think she is having an affair," Aiden thought.
The couple entered the house.
Aiden observed them.
The woman served food, kissed the sheriff on his forehead, and headed upstairs to rest.
After eating, the Sheriff watched television for a while as he drank some beer.
Aiden was patient. He observed everything calmly.
Very soon, the man yawned, and stood up.
He did not head upstairs to join his wife.
Instead, he headed into the basement of his house.
He opened the door and entered the basement.
The place was completely decorated like some sort of office.
There was a couch, a table, and a chair.
A couple of murals also decorated the place, an indication that he was a fan of antiques.
"Must be his home office," Aiden thought.
Sheriffs usually had these kinds of offices from where they could work if they could not report into the office.
The man sat down, and did some boring paperwork.
A couple of minutes passed.
Then, he took a burner phone. Then he made a call.
"What has taken you fuckers so long?" The sheriff barked towards whoever was at the other end of the call, throwing his right hand all over the place.
"What? It’s been 6 shitty months since we did an operation. Do you think I enjoy being a sherrif of this fucking place?" he said.
"Hurry up and sell the people you sent to the market," he added.
"Oh, if that’s the case, then be here soon. We will be perming our last operation tonight."
The sheriff hung up the phone.
"Seriously, I need to quit this job after this last operation," he sighed. "I’ll settle on a remote campsite with my wife. I need to get a life."
Aiden smiled from his motel room.
"So he’s their boss huh. Just like I thought. It seems what kept them from performing an operation was because they were selling the last batch of women and children they captured from here on the human trafficking market," Aiden thought.
"They told him just now that they are done. He ordered them to return for their final operation in this town tonight. It seems this is something they’ve been going around doing. I should wait for the other criminals to arrive. Now, how do I handle them? These guys are all intermediate rank 1 warriors. Since my strength is at the level of a beginner rank 1 warrior, I can’t handle them on my own. I should use the Intermediate rank 1 powdered poisons I bought from the university shop to handle them when they are all together. The poisons of have a potency of 88 percent, so I’m sure they will be very effective."
Aiden waited.
A few hours later, a large van the size of about three buses pulled to a stop at the edge of town.
The town was very quiet. It was night time and the twin moons were out.
Everyone in the town was asleep.
The mayor manifested gales of wind beneath his feat. He was very fast. He arrived at the edge of town in a moment.
Several people stepped out of the van to meet him. Three men and three women.
The town was small. So Aiden could still utilize his scan to observe them from his motel room.
"Boss, you don’t feel like playing sheriff today?" One of them, a lady said.
"Heh. Tonight is our last operation. What does it matter if I blow my cover? We are gonna sell every single dweller of this town," the sheriff said.
So this was the reason for the large vehicle huh, Aiden thought.
"Awesome."
"I’m retiring after tonight’s operation."
The group celebrated.
"Where’s the madam?" one of them asked.
"I’m here you fuckers." The sheriff’s wife appeared and gave everyone a high five.
"Time to get this over with," Aiden thought.
Several blobs of blood appeared before him.
The blobs of blood transformed into two crimson humanoid hands before Aiden.
The powdered intermediate rank 1 poisons were in vials. They appeared before Aiden.
Under Aiden’s will, the two crimson hands grabbed the poisons.
The two crimson hands shot out of the motel, headed towards where the criminals were.
Eventually, the two crimson hands arrived before them.
One of them saw the crimson hands.
"What the fuck are those things?"
Everyone turned to look at the crimson hands.
The crimson hands crushed the vials.
The powdered poisons spread across the place.
"We under att—" The sheriff could not finish speaking.
The moment he inhaled in the poisons, his form bloated, and he burst into pieces, his innards spilling across the place.
The others, including the wife, wanted to escape. They were extremely terrified. Someone had been monitoring them. And this person had chosen to strike now.
However it was too late for them.
Bang... Bang... Bang... Bang...
All of them bloated and burst into pieces of flesh and blood the moment they inhaled the poisons.
They were all dead.
The crimson hands turned into blobs of blood and returned into Aiden.
He turned his blood into crimson wings which attached themselves on his back.
He flew out of the motel towards the edge of town.
When he arrived before the dead bodies in pools of blood, he absorbed their blood essence.
Something changed.
It wasn’t because the blood essence of the dead criminals alone were enough.
Rather, the countless fragments of blood essence Aiden had absorbed over time finally reached their limit.
The accumulated blood essence within him resonated. He felt his strength had exceeded that of a beginner rank 1 warrior.
Aiden clenched his fist.
"It seems my strength has exceeded that of a beginner rank 1 warrior after I absorbed the blood essence of the criminals. My strength is most likely at the level of an intermediate rank 1 warrior now. I should head to the Warriors Association Branch in the northern district when I get back to confirm my rank," Aiden decided. His crimson wings turned into blobs of blood and disappeared into him. His crimson eyes returned to their normal brown color.
Several townspeople who had houses at the edge of town had been drawn towards the explosive sounds.
When they came out, what they saw left them terrified.
A crimson winged fellow flew out of town.
The ground was also full of pieces of flesh and blood.
No one knew who the crimson winged fellow was.
However, someone stared at the face of one of the corpses.
"The criminals came back, and that crimson winged warrior dealt with them."
Hale Town would come to refer to this as the legend of the Crimson winged warrior. The hidden guardian of their town who dealt with the criminals that plauged them in the past.
As for Aiden, he naturally didn’t know anything about the imaginations of these people.
He came to complete a mission, and he had left after that.
He was currently standing by the roadside, lining the fenced forests, waiting for the cab he had ordered with his phone app to arrive.
The cab arrived. Aiden entered it.
"Where to sir?"
"Warriors Association, northern district of Derulo City please."
"Alright, sit tight," the driver replied. The cab bolted off.
